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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-02
LOCAL MENTION.

A ladies' hunting case gold watch
and chain has been lost with the words
from Grandma and Grandpa to Dale
Date 1901 engraved on the inside of the
case. Return to 500 Topeka avenue and
receive a reward.
H. L. Miller, principal of the Topeka
high school, accompanied by Mrs Mil
Ter, left for Los Angeles this morning
to attend a meeting of the National
Educational association.
E. T. Fairchild, state superintendent
of instruction, will leave this evening
for the Pacific coast for a short visit
and while in that part of the world
will attend the meeting of the National
Educa tional association.
Jennie Bass. aged 46 of Topeka, and
William Link. aged 40, of Shawnee,
secured a marriage license in Kansas
City Monday.
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BUD HIGGINS HIT ON HEAD.
Police Use Club and Cause Excitement
at Circus Grounds.

Bud Higgins, a negro with a police
court record, and who poses as a bad
man." was arrested at the fair grounds
last evening by Officers Walker and
Keller, after Higgins had created a dis
turbance among the crowd which was
unloading from the cars on the way to
the circus. Higgins resisted arrest
struggling to get away from the officers,
and walker landed on his head with a
club.
Several women among the crowd of
spectators thought the negro was sure
ly killed, but he was not by a large
majority. The top of the skull, which
was gagged to fit the occasion, might
have unsettled the average citizen, but
the policeman knew Higgins of old. AL
though the use of. club looked unnec-
essary to many of the spectators, it had
no serious effect on Higgins, and didn't
even straighten a hair in his head. He
will be tried for his misconduct this af-
terrOon.
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YES. HE'S GONE AGAIN.
pic Jordan Again Dissatisfied With
Affairs ut City Prison.

Pie Jordan is again at large. Cap
tured last Thursday and thrown into
the dungeon in the basement of the
city Jail, he contrived to be free again
by Monday Some accomplices crawl
ed into the basement and handed him
a section of iron pipe, with which he
pried oft the door of the 'bull pen"
a steel cage used only for bad ones
and walked away.
Chief Eaton went hunting for pie, -
and discovered afterwards that the
game was hiding in a clump of weeds
less than a rod from the point where
the trail was lost.
"Pie" has 65 days coming to him,
but it is doubtful if he ever serves out
the same. He is an expert on the
getaway and has escaped five times
in the past two weeks. One time he
jumped out of the rock shed. ran into
the patrol wagon barn, and up into
the hayloft. Thinking that he had
chased through the barn and into the
alley officers searched the town for
him, while he lay secure until dark.
Another time he pounded the paddock
from his shackles while the guard
thought he was pounding rock. The
police would be glad to let "Pie" alone
If he would leave town, but he will
not and Is invariably recaptured. af-
ter committing another petit theft.
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Sep

Burke, secretary. Burlingame; Sep
TENDER 3-6.
Reno county-Central Kansas Fair
association: A. L. Sponsler, secretary,
Hutchinson; September 1921
Republic County Agricultural asso-
citation: w. r. Wells, secretary, Belle
Vile; September 1913.
Rice County Agricultural and Live
Stock association: F. L. Goodson, sec
rotary, Sterling; September 1914.
Riley County Agricultural Society
Aug. 20 to %. w. B. Craig( secretary,
Riley.
Saline County Agricultural, Horti-
cultural and Mechanical association:
B. B. Stimmel, jr., secretary. Salina
Sept. 24-27.
Shawnee county-Kansas EXPOSE
ton company: r. T. Kreipe, secretary.
Topeka: September ola.
Sheridan County Agricultural asso-
citation: Miles Gray, secretary, Hoxie;
September 3-6.
Smith County Fair association H.
C. Smith, secretary, Smith Center;
August 1923.
Stafford County Fair association:
6. w. Grandy, secretary, st. John;
August $3.50.
Wilson county-Fredonia Agricul-
tural association: V. L. Poison, secre-
tary, Fredonia; August 60.
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THEY FIX 1T ALL UP.
County Commissioners Adjust Treas
urcr-County Clerk Controversy.

After giving the matter a great deal
of consideration and after lengthy
controversy with ]. ]. Schenck, the
county attorney, the members of the
board of county commissioners issued
a statement Monday afternoon con-
corning the controversy started by S.
G.. Zimmerman. the county clerk, to
the effect that F. c. Bowen, the county
treasurer was withholding certain fees
that properly belonged to the county.
The members of the board declare
in their statement that certain fees
were given to the treasurer by them
as pay for extra work AMI say that in
order to avoid further complications
he shall turn the fees over to the
county fund in the regular way and
they will formally appropriate a sum
of money, of the exact amount of the
fees which have been retained, to pay
him for the extra work
Mr.. Zimmerman contends that the
treasurer has no right to accept mon
ey other than his salary for the work
performed. This leaves room for
another chapter in the controversy.
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ROGERS RESIGNS HIS PLACE.
BookI1ecper in State Auditors Office
Takes Position in Treasury.

Joseph S. Rogers, bookkeeper in the
office of State Auditor James Nation,
resigned his position today and went to
State Treasurer Mark Tulley, succeed
h-g Ben Johnson in Mr.. Tulley's office.
Mr.. Rogers successor in Mr.. Nations
office has not been appointed.
The above changes are of not a little
political significance for they mark the
parting of the ways for Seth Wells,
former state auditor, and James Nation,
who was his assistant for four years,
and who succeeded him as state auditor.
Wells and Nation both are from Erie,
Kansas, and have been friends for years,
but they have disagreed completely
since Mr.. Nation became states auditor.
The trouble arose when Mr. Nation
appointed Mrs. Maudie Gilyeat his spec
ial assistant, instead of appointing J. S.
Rogers, who is related to Mr.. Wells.
Both Mrs. Gilyeat and Mr. Rogers were
old employees of the office, but Mr.. Ma
ton preferred Mrs. Gilyeat for the place.
Mr.. Wells claimed that Mr.. Nation had
promised to give the place of special
assistant to Mr.. Rogers, and Mr.. Ma
ton denied that he had made such an
agreement. This was what led to the
falling out.
Mr.. Wells came to Topeka a few days
ago while Mr.. Nation was at Erie and
fixed things up with Treasurer Tulley so
that Mr.. Rogers would be taken care of
in place of Ben Johnson, who has been
in the treasurer's office for a number of
years.
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KEPT IN OFFICE.
Meyer and Haywood Continue at Head
of Western Federation.

Denver, Colo, July 2.-Charles H.
Meyer was retained as president and
William D. Haywood as secretary-treas-
urer of the Western Federation of Min
ers by the federation convention today
although they are imprisoned in Idaho
on the charge of completely in the muir
der of former Governor Frank Steunen-
berg AS the constitution of the fed
Grafton forbids the election to these
positions of members not in attendance
at the convention the election of pres1-
dent and secretary-treasurer was pass
ed by general consent, no nominations
being made for these offices, and under
the constitution the incumbents will hold
over until their successors are chosen
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SHE WANTED TO PREACH
Instead Mrs. Rosa ID. Ala Is Sent to the
Asylum.

Mrs. Rosa d. Ala. twenty-five years
old, was declared insane today in the
probate court by commission con-
sisting of Drs. Ryder and HaysIlp, Win
DR.. Hammel as examining physician
She will be committed to the asylum
and her six-year-old daughter, Mar
guerite, will be sent to the orphans
home for the time being until 1 me1
relatives or father can be located Inc
doctors found that Mrs. Ala was SUI
fering from delusional insanity Sne
has a mania on religion ana ndu an
idea that she was being examined IN
the probate court for the purpose OF
qualifying for a certificate 10 preach
the gospel in the Wesleyan MethouisI
church. She asked Judge Hayden Ior
such a certificate at the conclusion %
the inquiry into her sanity ana III Or
der that she could be returned 70 jan
without any trouble the Judge sald ne
would fix one up and send 1t 10 her.
Mrs. Ala and her husband nave peeh
working for DR. Metty, VIII ose home is
on Polk street near Thirteenth street:
Her husband left her a couple OF
weeks ago and it is believed tnat ne
went to the wheat fields. Dr. Metly
caused the woman's arrest on an IN
sanity charge on Sunday When she
was searched in jail a hair nlleu poItle
of carbolic acid was found on her- Sne
said that she had been taking II IN
twelve drop doses at the direction OF
DR. Metty Mrs. Alas maiden name
was Schultz and she said she tnougnI
her father could be found at Rich alll;
Mo She said that she had nVeo
around in Topeka for seven months
and for seventeen years before that
had lived at Leavenwortn- She was
Iminary examination who her nearest
relative was and replied GOD Al
mighty" Then she added that she
had a mother living but she did not
know her whereabouts.
She was asked if she had any pro
perty or money and replied: mo, I'm
poor. I haven't got cent. :! am as
poor as a bedbug but 1 am rich In the
want me here. He wants me to preach
the gospel in the Wesley Metnoolst
church and If you don't give me a
certificate to do so why God Will send
me one. He has told me so"
A little later on in her examination
she declared that she had been to |
heaven once and was going there again |
when God called her ana on TINS sec
ond trip she was going to take a LeaV- |
enworth man with her. She showed
photo of the back of the mans neao
which she had pasted on the back OF
a large carnival button InaL Va, mas
She said this was picture OF the
lucky individual she was going to take
to heaven with her
When inquiry was mace INTO nel AloA
ried life she said:
Il have been married for seven years
and that is long enough for anyone 10
i've with the devil.
Mrs Ala insisted that she had never
,ad anv fits or spasms. She afterwards
Omitted that she often felt fits coming
IN but she was able to talk herself out
# them by holding hour conversations
With God and then having gOod cry
During another part of the inquiry she
announced that she had been living an
,ngodly life with her husband for seven
ears and that it was her desire 10 GO
,ack to I,eavenworth where she could
get right with God"
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Frank O. Black, n years of age, died
Monday afternoon at his home, 712 East
Fourth street, as the result of a surgi-
cal operation. Friends may view the
remains at the home today, after which
they will be taken to Auburn where the
funeral will be held in the First Metho-
dist church tomorrow afternoon at one
o'clock, Mr. Black was one of the earli II
settlers in Shawnee county and for
great many years lived on a farm near
Auburn.
John c. Brown, colored, died yester-
day at his home S35 Morris avenue of
heart failure. The funeral will be held
tomorrow from the ST. Johns A. NJ. E.
church.
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PRICE is TOO HIGH.
School Board VIII Therefore Condemn
Needed Lots.

| Condemnation proceedings will be in
| stituted by the board of education TO
secure title to the two lots at the
southwest corner of Fifteenth and Blu
chanan streets which are needed to
complete the site for the proposed new
Euclid school. With these two lots the
board will have the entire block, bound
ed by Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Buchanan
and Lincoln streets for the school site.
All of the lots on this block with the
exception Of the two in question nave
already been purchased by the Doaro
and the total price paid for the pro-
perty in hand was $3.50 The two lots
that the board proposes to condemn are
owned and occupied by John Wear; he
has fixed a price of $4,000 for these
two lots which is nearly as much as the
other IA lots cost The members of
the board thought that the price set by
Mr.. Wear is trifie exorbitant and the
committee on buildings was directed 10
take the necessary steps to condemn
the property in question.
E. E. Roudebush sprung something. of
a surprise at the meeting by moving
the appointment of a committee OF
members of the board to investigate
certain rumors that the selection or
text books by the state text book COM
mission had been Influenced by bribery.
There was considerable discussion as TO
the propriety of such action and finally
an amendment proposed by Judge
Carver was adopted. 1t provided that
the president of the board appoint a
committee of three, including Mr.
Roudebush, to ask the attorney general
to make such an investigation. Mr.
Jordan and Mr.. Nicholson were ap-
pointed as the other members of the
committee.
Chris Roof representing the East
Side Improvement society, appeared be-
fore the board again last night and re-
newed the request that the board buy
fencing with which to enclose the
ground around the old Parkdale school
house, some rooms of which are now
used as the meeting place of the I'm
society. Mr.. Roof declared
that if these grounds were fenced In
the society would go ahead and spend
a lot of money in identifying them,
Transforming them into sort of a little
park The board acted favorably on
the request made by Mr.. Roof and d.
rected the building committee to pur-
chase the required amount of fence.
J. A. Ramsey, who succeeds S. G:
next month as member OF
the board from the Sixth ward. was |
present at the meeting last night for the |
purpose of seeing how the board trans |
acts it's business.
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Mrs. Tfppin Courts Death.

Mrs Lottie Tippin was taken into
custody today on an insanity charge
preferred by her husband, l.. d. Tip
hin. to whom she was married only a
short time ago. They have been run
ming the old Gallagher restaurant on
West Sixth avenue for the past few
months. Mrs. Tippin has developed a
mania for self destruction. Her nus
band insists that she tried to commit
suicide by drinking carbolic acid on
Sunday night and that he caught her
this morning trying to strangle herself.
Mrs. Tippin is a woman about forty
oil
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BOARD Of Health in Session

The annual meeting of the state board
of health is in progress today at the
board rooms at the state house. All the
members are present except DIR. E. E.
Locke of Holton. This morning the prin-
cipal feature was the report of Secretary
S. ]. Crun1bine, in which he reviewed the
work of the past year, and told of the en-
forcement of the new pure food and
drainage laws. The reports of special
committees on the sanitary inspection of
state institutions and on water and sew
age were also given. This afternoon the
board will elect a president. vice presi-
dent, bacteriologist and advisory board.
The secretary holds over.
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LISTS OF THE KANSAS FAIRS


| Allen County Agricultural society;
Frank E. Smith, secretary. lola; Aug
ust 27-30.
Barton County Fair association: w.
P. FEEDER, secretary. Great Bend; Sep
| TENDER 1913.
Brown county-The Hiawatha Fair
association: J. D. Weltmer. secretary,
Hiawatha, September So.
Butler County Fair association: W.
F. Benson, secretary, Ell Dorado; Aug
ust 27-31.
Butler county-Douglass Agricul-
tural society; C. r. Alger. secretary,
Douglass; September 1914.
ChautauQua county-HewinS Park
and Fair association: w. M. Jones, sec
rotary. Cedar Vale.
Clay county Fair association: Walter
Puckey, secretary, Clay Center; Sep
Clay county-wakefeld AgricuItur-
al society: Eugene EIkins. secretary.
Wakefield; October "a.
Cloud County Fair association: w.
L. McCarty, secretary. Concordia;
September 24-27.
Corey County Agricultural Fair as
ISOLATION: S. D. Weaver, secretary.
Burlington; September 9-13.
Cowley County Agricultural and
Live Stock associations: Frank W.
Sidle, secretary, Winfield: October IA.
Cowley county-Eastern Cowley
County fair: w. A. Bowden, secretary
Burden; September.
Dickinson County Fair association:
H. C. Wann, secretary. Abilene; Oc-
tober "a.
Elk County Agricultural Fair asso-
citation: E. B. Place. secretary. Gren-
ola; September 1921.
Finney County Agricultural society:
A. H. Warner, secretary. Garden City.
Ford County Agricultural society:
Nicholas Mayrath, secretary, Dodge
City; September Al.
Franklin County Agricultural So
ciety: Carey NJ. Porter. secretary. Of
- o
Greenwood County Fair association:
C. H Weiser. secretary, Eureka; Aug
ust 20-23.
Harper county-Anthony Fair as
ISOLATION: L. G. Jennings, secretary,
Anthony; August SO.
Harvey County Agricultural society:
J. c. Mack, secretary, Newton; Sep
TENDER 24-27.
Frank Leach, secretary, Oskaloosa.
Linn County Fair association: P. S. |
Thorne. secretary. Mound City; Oc-
tober Ia.
Marshall County Fair association:
r. w. Hemphill, secretary. Marys !
vile; October IA.
Mcpherson County Agricultural Fair
associa ton: H. A. Rowland. secretary, |
Mcpherson: September 2-7.
Miami County Agricultural and Me-
chanical Fair association: Gee. r. |
Reynolds. secretary. Paola; October |
IA.
Mitchell County Agricultural asso- |
citation: Ira N. Tice, secretary, Beloit; |
October 2-5.
Montgomery county-Coffeyvill |
Fair and Park association: A. 3. Hol-
loway, secretary, ConeyViIIe; August |
1916.
Nemaha County Fair association: |
Chas. H. Herold, secretary, Seneca;
September lib.
Neosho county-Chanute Fair and
association: A. E. Tim |
pan, secretary, Chanute; August 20-24. |
Rocks County Fafr-At Stockton.
Sept. 10 to IS.
Ness County Agricultural associa-
ton: Thos. Rineley, secretary. Ness
City; September 11-13.
Ness county-Ctica Fair and Agri- |
cultural association: r. {. Webster, /
jr., secretary, Utica.
Norton county Agricultural asso-
citation: NJ. F. Clarity, secretary. Nor
ton: August 27-30.
Usage County Fair association: F. e.
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Lucas Sells a Farm.

A. T. Lucas this morning disposed OF
his 10 acre tract south of the city known
as the "Bill' George farm to E. M. Lar
sen of Pueblo, Col, the consideration
being $500. The tract takes it's name
from William George, a local horse
sheer who lived on it during the Stahl
regime and who has a fondness for
dogs and chickens.
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through the state free employment
bureau, are sending their agents out
in search of men. and are distributing
handbills offering employment to men.
There is not any greater shortage
of harvest hands this year than usual,
but the demand has been Increased re-
Gently by favora BILE weather for wheat.
Many men are unable to go to the
harvest fields because of the regula-
ton which has been in effect requir-
ing that men go in parties of 5 or
more. 1t is this regulation which
Governor Hoch is trying to have abol-
ished.
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SANTA FE MAKES A RATE.
Harvest Hands in Parties of Five May
Travel for Cent n Mile.

In response to request from Gov.
Hoch the Santa Fe has put in a rate
of a cent a mile for harvest hands.
available for five or more, from the
Missouri river to the harvest fields
The governor requested that the rate
be made from the Mississippi river,
which would include Chicago and St
Louis. and addressed his letter to both
the Western Passenger association and
to W. j. Black The Santa Fe is the
only road to come back with an i'm
mediate concession.
The people out in the wheat country
unable to get much satisfaction
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Choice of Jobs

well" said the uncertain citizen,
at failed on that examination to get
in the government service-turned
me down on geography, an spellin'.
an 'rithmetic, an now don't know
whether to go to teachin' school, or
practisin' law. or edith of a news
paper. I jest can't decide which one
O. the three to tackle. Atlanta Con-
stitutiOn
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INDIAN WOMAN LAWYER LOSES
Huron Cemetery at Kansas City VIII
Be Abandoned and Sold.

Huron cemetery at Kansas City. Kan.
formerly the principal burial grounds of
the Wyandottes, will be sold and the bod
les removed to Quindaro, Kan.
LYDIA B. Conley, the woman attorney of
Wyandotte extraction. lost in her fight
to restrin the government from disposing
of the cemetery grounds and removing
the bodies.
circuit court had no jurisdiction in the
bill which Miss Conley filed.
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New York, July -MONEY-Money on
sail strong, 5d10 per cent; ruling rate ~,
closing bid 91z. offered at 10 per cent.
41IG4% per cent nominal; 50 days, AZ per
cent; months, So per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. 5hG6
per cent; sterling exchange stronger, with
actual business in bankers bill at A.ST0
4S7O5 for demand and at 81. $1,000 S3S5 for
60 day bills; posted rates, 81. S41z and Sass;
commercial bills. 81 .S31k04. S35s.
SILVER-Bar silver, 67Ssc; Mexican dol
lars, 52kc.
BONDS Government bonds steady.
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r r Kemp seeks Divorce.

Benjamin F. Kemp has filed a petit
ton with the clerk of the district court
for an absolute divorce from his WIFE
Willie May Kemp. The petition is a
brief one. 1t merely states that the
couple were married on November 8,
1905. and then alleges that Mrs
Kemp deserted her husband during
March, 1906. and has refused to live
with him since that time. 1t is for this
reason that Mr.. Kemp wants a divorce
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Miss HazeIrigg In Cofrey county

Miss Mildred Hazelrigg, supervisor
of music for the Topeka schools, be-
gan her work as instructor in the Cof-
fey county Institute at Burlington yes
terday. Miss Hazelrigg spent the
month of June studying Pipe Organ
with Dean Skilton of Kansas Univer-
sity. She will teach four of the
branches in the Burlington normal in
July and Will conduct the music for
a revival meeting at Red Cloud. Neb.,
in August
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MADISON case Is ARGUED.

The Madison branch case was argued
in the supreme court this afternoon
Bale p. Waggener and J. H. Richards
appeared for the Missouri Pacific and
Attorney General Jackson, S. S. Ash
baugh, and A. E. Helm for the state
This is the case in which Mr.. Waggener
is attacking the validity of the board
of railroad commissioners and hopes to
knock out the law creating the state
board of railroad commissioners.
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Cochrane Let on With Light Fine.

Alfred Cochrane pleaded guilty. III
the city court today to a charge OF as
sault. He was fined IS and costs by
Judge Simon, which he paid. G. G.
Carter was the complainant against
Cochrane. They were parties to a
"crap game over in North Topeka
some days ago and the assault was the
result of an argument between Coch-
rane and Carter.
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Names Humphreys Successor,

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 2.-President
Roosevelt today appointed General
James B. Aldshire to be quartermaster
general of the army with the rank Of
brigadier general, to succeed Charles z.
Humphreys who will retire.
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Trackmen,s Union case.

The Missouri Pacific attorneys will this
afternoon present to the state board OF
railroad commissioners their pleadings IN
the case started by the trackmen's union,
in which it is claimed that the Missouri
Pacific tracks are in an unsafe condition.
The case is being handled by ]. H. Rich
ards of Fort Scott.