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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
BIG METEOR DROPS INTO SEA.
Comes With a Roar and Causes Waves
That Wash High Up.

Amagansett, l.. l., Aug. 21.-At 6
o'clock last evening an immense
meteor, apparently about 10 feet in
circumference, fell into the sea about
a mile off the Amagansett life saving
station. The arrival of the heavenly
visitor was announced by a strange
noise which seemed to come from a
point directly overhead.
When first heard there was nothing
visible, but an instant later a great
stream of fire seemed to belch down
from the clouds and plunge into the
sea in the wake of the meteor. The
slight noise which was heard at first
increased to a roar that was almost
deafening. and this ended with a noise
of a mighty boiler letting off steam
as the missile struck the water.
Great waves rolled in upon the
beach after the meteor struck the wa
ter. and the oldest resident of
Amagansett cannot remember a time
when any tide washed so far up the
sands as did the waves created by this
terrifying visitor from the skies.
Part of the bathing pavilion was
washed away, along with several fish
ermen's huts. Much damage was done
to property abutting the water front
Some persons thought the strange in
cident marked the end of the world,
and prayers were recited that would,
in the ordinary course of events, not
have been uttered, perhaps. for many
a day. Even the old fishermen, used
as they are to facing death at sea,
were terrified, and not for an hour or
more did the excitement quiet down.
Capt. George Green, who was in
command of a vessel in the harbor of
Martinique when Mont Pelee blew its
head off and destroyed that city. was
sitting on the water front when the
meteor fell He declared nothing had
ever frightened him so much except
the Mont Police disaster.
The meteor apparently fell vertical
w. From the time the noise was first
heard until it plunged into the sea was
probably quarters of a minute.
After the disturbance had subsidized
hundreds of dead fish were found
upon the shore. These were gathered
up by boys and peddled to the hotels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
MORE AUTUMN WEATHER.
Mercury Keeps in the Seventy Degree
Vicinity Today.

s.
me faI weather of the past two or
tnree DAYS was again in evidence this
morning and though the mercury has
gradually climbed upwards since that
time there is no complaint to be made
on the conditions. The weather of the
past three days has been remarka BILE
Tor this section OF the country. for the
mercury has hung about the 10 wark
and has been all that the most critical
could desire. -
Light rains have fallen over a GOOD
ly portion of the state and this has had
much to do with the reduction Of the
temperatures though the real cause
exists in the far north where the ner-
curry has dropped down about the cold
storage point and stayed there. That
particular portion of the skv located
over and about Topeka is draDed in
clouds of somber hue and every in
dication points to a shower this after
noon or evening and the weather de-
partment agrees with the fndications
and has issued a bulletin to that ef
feet.
If the showers come as anticipatea
there will undoubtedly be a rise in
the temperature within a few hours
is the feature of the forecast which
is not welcomed at this place at this
time. A heavy drizzle of rain fell over
the southwestern part of the state alt
day yesterday and a part of last night
though the precipitation amounted to
less than one-fourth of an inch in most
places.
The wind has been blowing from
the east most of the day at a velocity
of miles an hour. The temperatures
for the day which this section of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
CATTLE IN QUARANTINE.
Several Head of a Franklin County
Herd HayerDied.

Ottawa, Kan, Aug. 21.-The infected
cattle of N. Hawkins has been placed in
quarantine by State Live Stock Sanitary
Commissioner J. B. Baker.
1t was the intention of Sheriff Cody
and DR.. Wolf to give the infected cattle
a treatment with crude oil which it is
claimed will make them immune from
attack by fever ticks which will not at
tach themselves to an animal while the
scent of the oil is upon it.
1t il feared that Mr. Hawkins herd
of fourteen cows. will be exterminated
by the fever He had lost five prior to
Sunday and yesterday another died Tho
rest of the herd of so are steers and
probably will not die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
S. BARNUM WILL FILED.
Leaves His Entire Estate to the
Widow.

The will of the late Simon Barnun.
one of ToDeka's wealthy citizens who
died on July Is, was filed for probate
this afternoon with r. F. Hayden judge
of the probate court. With the petition
ing papers for the probate of the will no
estimate of the value of the estate was
given. The testament was drawn on
october IA, 1899, and was witnessed by
Herman A. Klauer and william r.
Hazen. Under its terms the entire
estate is left to Mr.. Barnums widow,
Mrs Emma Barf1urn, with few minor
exceptions To Samuel Barnum is left
the testator's gold watch and chain:
to Benjamin Barnum,.. his finger ring,
and to the Cleveland Hebrew orphan
asylum of Cleveland. o., 800. Mrs. Bar
mum is also directed to pay to sister,
Mrs. Nina Bacharach, of Philadelphia,
Pa, $25 each quarter of the year during
her life.
Samuel Barnum and Benjamin Bar
mum, sons of the deceased are named
as the executors of the estate TO serve
without bond and in addition to them
and the widow, the other heirs of the
estate are Mrs. Henry Cohen and Estella
Barnum daughters, and Isaac Barnum
and Alfred Barnum sons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
BELLO IN ASYLUM.
Insane Foreigner. Who Killed People
on Rock Island Train. Held Here.

James BeIlo, the italian who went
crazy on a Rock Island train in De-
catur county and killed two of the pas
sengers, was brought to the Topeka
asylum yesterday, and is now one of
the boarders at that institution. He
will be held until the authorities can
determine where he should be sent.
1t seems that Bello really had no res
idence when he went crazy. He had
been living with his family at Boston.
but had sold all his property with the
intention of moving to California. He
was on the way to California to select
a place to locate when he went crazy.
1t is likely that he will be sent back
10 Boston, as that seems to more near
" correspond with his home than any
place else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
MRS. THORPE is PLEASED.
Tells of Good Work at Atchison Or
phans' Home.

Mrs Thorpe has just returned from
state Orphans home at Atchison,
where she placed two children. This
morning she was enthusiastic in her
praises of the institution, saying that
she considers this the finest and best
equipped of the sixteen institutions of
various kinds she has visited in the
state
charities in the near future to send all
children over two years old to this
home using the smaller institutions
which are receiving state appropria-
tions. the one in Topeka being among
the number for the caring OF. baDles
and transientS.
In telling of the plan of the home
and the work carried on there Mrs
Thorpe said: ''Mr and Mrs. Willis of
Newton are in charge and are en-
thusia site over the work. Mr.. Willis
is ambitious to make the. home fulfill
its purpose to the utmost extent.
There are 100 happy and Well fed
children there and the Superintendent
says the house could comfortably sup
port twice as many more with It's
present help and equipment
1.-THE school, where five teachers
are employed, goes on all the. year,
sessions during the summer months
being held only in the morning. In
the afternoon the teachers take the
5Cn1lQren TO the WOODS TOT Two OF three
hours for outdoor studies and games.
The grades EN- brace all to the high
school work and some Instruction is
given in advanced studies and train
ing.
MRS. Reese is employed by the state
as an agent to look after. the children
who leave the institution for employ
ment or to go into other homes,
"Originally the home was founded
for the caring of the orphans of SOL
diers and sailors, but now admits any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
FAIRCHILD GIVES INFORMATION
Course of Study in Third Glass Cities
to Be Revised.

State Superintendent E. 7sT3 Fair
child has sent out circular letter
to the county superintendent an
nouncing that the common school
course of study will be ready for dis
tributfon on august 26. THE COM
mittee which arranged the course OF
study has also decided to prepare
questions for examination every two
months, which will be sent out free
to the county superintendent of the
state.
Mr.. Fairchild also says:
1T will. interest you to know, also,
that the state board of education has
decided to revise the course of study
for cities of the third class. 1 can
not state how soon it will be out or
press, but 1 hope by the middle of
September. In the meantime, it
would seem that the old books could
be used in every respect except as to
paging"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
TOWN so RICH IT I.EvIEs NO TAX
Profits From Light Plant and Interest
on Funds Run Municipality.

Wheeling. w. Va, Aug. 21.-Harris-
ville the county seat of Richie coun-
ty, will be without any municipal tax
alton this year for the first time in the
old towns history The announce
ment has just been made by the mayor.
Romeo H. Freer, a former attorney
general of the state. Harrisville owns
its own electric lighting plant. and the
profit from it's operation combined
with the interest on the towns money
in banks will afford ample revenue for
all estimated municipal expense. so
that no corporate tax will be laid. No
other town in West Virginia ever en-
loved this distinction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
Robbery Not ohicially Known

washington, Aug. 21.-The postofffce
department has received no official ad-
vices regarding the robbery of the three
registered mail pouches on the BurIing-
ton railroad between Denver and OY-
ford, Neb. 1t is pointed out that as no
declarations of value are made on reg
istered packages. as in the case of eS
press packages. the only way of approx
the senders 1t is stated at the 1enart-
ment that if both the postal clerks on
the train were asleep at the time of the
robbery that they were guilty of neglect
as one OF them is required to be awake
at all times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
Kniehts OF Khorassan Meet.

- Colorado Springs. Col, Aug. 21.-The
national convention of the knights of
Khorassan opened in this city with
more than 500 members of the order
from all parts of the United States In
Guiding about IT'S regular delegates in
attendance. Much interest is being
vened at 9 o'clock this morning at
which the new officers will be chosen
and the place for the meeting of the
Imperial Palace In 1909 will be selected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
Marriaee Lfcenses Issued.

Marriage licenses were issued in the
probate court today as follows:
Carl T. Robinson, twenty-six years
old, and Nellie c. Guffey, twenty years
old. both of Topeka.
Ira G. Beasore, thfrty-seven years
old, and Mrs. Nora Davis, twenty-nine
years old, both of Winchester, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
WORKING ON A CLUE.
The Chicago Police Have the Name
OF Man.

Chicago. Aug. 21.-The local police
are working on a clue in connection
with the mail robbery of $250,0O0 Sum
day night on the Burlington railroad.
A bulky package was mailed to Chi
cago from a point near Denver short
ly after the robbery. The police have
the name of the man to whom it was
addressed and say he is such q person
as would be chosen intermediary for
thieves. There is nothing definite as
yet in the story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21

Secretary Wilson is saying hard things
about the American pie" s'|
Does he include the pie OF the New
England pie belt"
mo. think rot. I believe he is hitting
the Washington pie"
''Then that isn't sportsmanlilke."
What isn't sDortsma mike -
ITO hit the pie below the belt.'-Cieve-
land Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
IN BARS SILK SOAP PR
THURSDAY ONLY w
FERD DREISBACH, 9I3 Kansas Ave. Phone 29L
or abused child.

dependent or abused child.
"Such good care has been taken of
the children and such fine equipment
provided for their care that only one
child has been in the hospital during
the whole summer and that little chap
had a burned foot.
1.-The children are kept scrupulously
neat and clean, work enough to learn
how and by the time they are ready
to leave have mastered some trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
OUT OF RECEIVERS HANDS.
James IngersoH Will Aid Uncle Sam
OIL Company $4,000 Worth.

Kansas City. Aug Thames IngersoH.
president of the Uncle Sam Oil company.
has arrived here to look after the inter
ests of the stockholders of the oil COM
pany. Mr.. Ingersoll is worth about 100000
and intends to back the company to the
fullest extent of his power. He has start
ed the good work by instituting a defense
fund to take the company out of the
hands of a receiver and has headed the
list with a contribution of $4,000. The
total Indebtedness of the company is ST.
COO. A meeting of the creditors of the IN
Gle Sam Oil company will be held on the
25th of this month. at which meeting a
trustee will be appointed and the business
of the company brought to a point of is
sue. A strong effort will be made to
have Mr. Ingersoll installed as a trustee
j. p. Morgan Home From Europc.
New York, Aug. al. Pierpont
Morgan arrived from Europe today on
the steamer Oceanic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Doris Helen Cockrill. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. F. VI. Cockrill, died this morn
ing of brain fever, aged 10 months. The
funeral will be held at the residence. 2O5
Buchanan street, tomorrow afternoon at
two o'clock and will be private. Burial
will be in Topeka cemetery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
900 M0ORS KILLED.
Sultan's Forces Again Victorious Over
the Tribcsmen.

Tangier. Aug. 21.-The sultan's
troops are reported to have again de-
l--->vd Il great force of Kmmass tribes
mon in whose territory Caid Sir Harry
Maclean has been held captive. Six
hundred Moors were killed and several
of their VILLAGES were burned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21

F. S. Fauerbach, twenty-one years
old, and Ethel La Gale, eighteen years
old. both of Maple Hill, were married
this afternoon by r. F. Hayden, the
probate Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21

But. Capt. Brace. why do they always
call e ship she ??
Lord, miss. you wouldn't ask that ef
you'd ever tried ter steer one-"-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. L. NJ Jones and children,
Mabel and Archie, are spending a
month with relatives near Perry,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21

Rev Griffith Baker (colored). died
yesterday at his residence 1913 Jefferson
street, of kidney trouble. aged 43 years.
church Thursday afternoon at 2 O'Clock
The deceased leaves a wife and six chill
dren.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

Fair faces, white hands, satin skin given
by Satin skin cream and powder. 25c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21

The funeral of Liddy Nichols was held
at 10 o'clock this morning at Stonestreet
& Hamiltons undertaking rooms. Burial
in Rochester cemetery.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25
THE WATER BOARD

Mayor Harper has had his own way
about the new appointments to the
water board, but the public will fail to
appreciate his logic in supplanting
Messrs. Elliott and Mead with two gen.
tlemen who-whatever their merits-are
totally unfamiliar with affairs of the
water department.
Gen. Mathews, whose appointment to
almost any office would meet with gen.
eral approval, is reported to have urged
this unfamiliarity upon the mayor and
recommended at least the reappoint-
ment of Mr.. Elliott.
But the mayor has remained firmly
fixed in his determination to make two
changes on the water board, and has
at last exercised his legal power and
right so to do.
The responsibility must rest upon his
shoulders.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25
CONCEALED WEAPONS

The crusade begun against the car
riers of concealed weapons will have
the support of every right-minded New
Yorker. The police force has been
stirred to unusual activity by the trag-
edy of Sunday afternoon, in which the
lives of two patrolmen were wantonly
sacrificed. They paid the penalty of a
mistaken laxity in dealing with a prac-
contributes to the encouragement of
the crimes of violence. Their deaths
and the wounding of civilian were
due in no sense to criminal aggressive
ness. Two Italians had had a scuffle
in a park, and one of them in fit of
irritation drew a pistol and shot the
other; Pursued by the two policemen
pistol fatally wounded his pursuers.
Without the pistol the whole affair
would have. terminated in a trivial
charge of disorderly conduct.
The murderer, 1T is said, understood
no English He was probably a cow
ard as well as handicapped by ignor-
ance, for in general only, towards arm
populated community. and it is this
combination of cowardice and tgnor-
ance which produces 10 per cent of the
homicides which crowd our criminal
court calendars. The man with the
concealed weapon uses it because he
imagines that all other men are as
fearful as he is and as ready to shoot or
stab on the first provocation or at the
first sign of danger. Such murderers
sign their own death warrants when
they first yield to the impulse to carry
in his pocket draws 1T on some one
daily in imagination, and sooner or
later he draws 1t in reality. 1t is only
suggestion. that the homicidal mania
can be checked, and 1t is only when a
man puts aside deadly weapons that he
acquires real courage and becomes
really free and tranquil-New York
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25
MISTAKE AT THE START

Whatever may be said in favor of
the personal character of the members
of the county highway commission, ap-
pointed yesterday it is certain that the
people are disappointed over the action
of the supervisors in completely ignor-
ing and setting aside the names sug-
gested by the Good Roads association,
by the chamber of commerce, by the
Merchants and Manufacturers associa-
ton and by the Municipal league.
The supervisors had every opportu-
nifty to appoint highway commission
that would be accepted as free from
partisan politics and free from the
blighting influences of the Republican
railroad machine. But they resolutely
declined the names suggested by the
commercial and civic bodies of Los
Angeles and went far afield to secure
a commission to suit themselves.
All this is hardly calculated to in
spire enthusiasm in favor of large
issue Of county bonds with which to
construct great boulevards. The first
element of success in that direction
must of necessity be concord, harmony
of purpose and unity of action. The
conduct of the supervisors has dis
turbed or destroyed this element and
left them open to the suspicion that
the Republican railroad machine in
terposed to prevent the selection of
commission on which the representa-
tive public could agree.
1t is just another illustration of the
folly INDUCED in by the people of Los
Angeles county when they allowed
Walter Parker to name their whole
county ticket and then voted for it be-
cause it was labeled Republican"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25

1t may easily be guessed by any one
who knows Fred Funston that the re-
ceipt by him of letters threatening his
life did not lead him to refuse to parade
government troops in San Francisco
on the Fourth. Fred isn't that sort.
But when it comes to slaughtering his
men willfully and needlessly neither is
he that sort. And he wisely refuses to
take the chance-especially as rioting
there Sunday night plainly demon
strated that the mob is by no means
whipped.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25
LUMINOUS LOCAL IDEA

|
A local amateur statesman. heretofore
unknown to fame, has solved the most
perplexing problem of the present time.
The problem is one that has caused, to
the legions of President Rooseveit's ad-
mirers, narrowing days and nights of
worry. 1t relates to a means of enab-
ling the president to break his solemnly
uttered and oft repeated word regarding
another executive term, without smash
ing his reputation for square dealing
and political honesty.
The local discoverer in question
blazons his proposition in print thus:
Suppose a monster petition, such as no
man has received in the history of this
nation, signed by as many voters as
would mean an overwhelming majority
at the next election, were presented,
asking Citizen Roosevelt to unsay what
he said in 1904. So loud call from the
nation to the president should sweep
away everything that would hinder his
acceptance in all honor"
Truly unique and ingenious idea. 1t
should cause the fame of it's author to
rattle over the United States like run
away over corduroy bridge.
But suppose we test this scheme for
splitting veracity wide open without
risk of splashing into honor. When
President Roosevelt pledged his sacred
word and honor" that he would never
again be candidate for the presidency
he virtually made a solemn compact
with all possible aspirants for the presi-
Dental succession. Rating "his word as
good as his bond" several aspirants
score are hoping for the lightning Of a
nomination to strike them.
Much more important, however, would
be the moral effect of broken word and
faith on the part of recognized ex-
emplar of the square deal' and per-
pendicular honesty in all things. No
such subterfuge as petition, however
voIuminous, could warrant the cancel
ing of an honorable promise in the
nature of an obligation.
But the discoverer of this plan for
evading the presidents declaration
seems to have a grossly exaggerated
idea of the backing it would receive in
case of trial. He assumes that "the
masses of Democrats, who are first
patriots and believe that what is good
for the nation cannot be bad for any
good party" would join in the move
ment.
Hardly! Democrats believe in square, |
toed political honesty and in the maxim,
False in one thing, false in ALL"
But aside from the involved question
of veracity there is nothing whatever in
the political situation calculated to
make Democrats desire the reelection
of the president. 1t is true that certain
features of his policy meet Democratic
but that is because those fea-
lures are we'll seasoned Democratic
principles which the president has
adopted.
There is way, however, by which the
popular lines of policy may
be carried out without resort to subter-
fuge in the attempt to get around both
the promise of 1904 and the precedent
third term. The Democra-
tic platform of next year will reiterate
the leading policies of former platforms
and thereby will incorporate the main
lines of policy on which President
popularity rests.
Support the Democratic ticket and
platform of 1908 and you will support
he essential features of policy that the
president latterly has been pursuing.