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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

To be one of eighteen cities to re-
ceive a $1,000 granite drinking foun-
tain as gift of the National Humane
alliance is the distinction accorded to
Topeka
No strings attach to the gift. The
only thing asked is that the city set
water supply and a suitable, accessible
site. The society will present the
fountain and pay all shipping charges
from New York to Topeka in addition.
"a Nrs, u brn,5aa
the fountain is specially pleasing and
attractive.
Hermon Lee Ensign, who was born
in Carbonate, Pa. June 80 1S49, a
humanitarian, is the man who makes
possible the magnificent gift. Mr.. En-
sign was a telegrapher during the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
BABY BADLY sCALDED.
Little Child at DeerfeId Pulled Boiling
Water on Itself.

Deerf1eld, kan, April 13-The 2-year-
old son of G. Glarz of DeerfieId narrow
ly escaped being fatally injured by be-
ing scalded.
Mrs. CLAM had been heating some
water and had left the kitchen where
the child was playing for a few mo-
ments when she was attracted by the
screams of the child. Hurriedly she
returned to the kitchen to find the
baby convulsed with pain, rolling On
the floor.
The handle of the pan of boiling wa
ter had been grasred by the little boy
while the mother was out of the room
and the hot water was precipitated on
him.
The baby's back and limbs were fear
fully injured but medical aid relieved
the sufferer somewhat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

johnson, who managed the team last
season, is playing with the Chicago
Union Giants ard will probably play
season will be played at Fort Riley
next week with the Ninth cavalry team
at the post. The lineup of the team
will be much the SAME as last year.
Sam Strothers will work behind tbs: bat
and captain the team. The other mem
bers of the team will be: Tony McAdoo.
first base; B:ngo Moss, second base;
Jim Norman, third base; Guinea Rob-
inson short stop. Dave Williams, left
field; James Mcthell. center field: Dick
Harris, light field Will Norman and
Rucker, pitchers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

early part of his life. Later he de-
eide dto enter the ministry and with
that in view he attended Phillips
academy, but i'll health made it i'm
possible to continue his studies and he
had to forego this ambition. He went
to Chicago and later became manager
of the Alliance, a weekly journal of
religious and humanitarian tendencies.
Later he entered the advertising field
in which he made considerable success
and amassed a fortune He died in
New York in 1899. The National HUI
his fortune went to that body
The fountain will probably be placed
on Quincy street just below Sixth
avenue. The total weight is five tons,
and diameter of bowl of six feet. The
upper bowl is for horses and the lower
for dogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
TO LIVE AT LEAvENwoRTH.
War Department Grants the Request
of General Hall.

Leavenworth, April 13.-Brigadier
General c. B. Hall, promoted from
colonel, yesterday, has elected to re-
main at Fort Leavenworth during his
active service as a general officer. In
accordance with the usual custom of
the war department of asking a new
ly promoted general officer to desig-
nate the department or place he de-
sires to command, General Hall re-
ceived a message of this kind last
evening. He replied that he wished
to remain at Fort Leavenworth, and
a reply has been received saying that
he is assigned here. GeneraI Hall re-
tires a year hence on the age limit.
General Hall has selected Lieuten-
ant W. L. Patterson, Eighteenth in
fantry. as aid-de-camp on his person
al staff. The other aid will be selected
later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

High School Senior Glass to Try Class
icaI Comedy.

1.-THE Rivals" Sheridan's famous
comedy, will be played at the high
school auditorium next Friday even
ing, by the Senior Dramatic club Miss
Nellie Lincoln is coaching the play.
The cast includes:
"Sir Anthony Absolute" Theodore
Zercher
Captain Absolute w. Fred Gill
luly.
"Faulkland' Ed Mooney
Acres" Bart Bonebrake
"Sir Lucius O'TrIgger," Ernest
Beine
Flag" Earl Brown
David" Thomas" (coachman)
Merle Morthland.
Mrs. Malaprop," Helen Morrow.
Lydia Languish." Anna Butterfly
Julia" Cora Trimmer
Lucy" Mildred Smith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

of the season. Some of the teams have
certain Sunday dates set aside on
which they are to divide with the
weaker teams. but Topeka gets all the
receipts on the home grounds and is
made the beneficiary of no other club
nor has any other club to divide up
with.
The mileage of the different teams
will all be pooled so that the team
that has the greatest amount of rail-
road mileage to go over in order to
play the schedule will have no more
to pay than the team that covers the
least amount of railroad mileage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13
To See the Great White Father.

Aberdeen, Wash. April 13.-Three
representative QLinault Indians will
leave the reservation on Monday next
for Washington to protest to President
including the Quinault reservation in
Olympia forest reserve. Reports have
been current for some time that it is
proposed by the government to put the
reservation in a forest reserve and
that there is much opposition to it
among the members of the tribe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-13

Harris to Manage Johnson's Giants
Johnsoas Giants, the team of color
ed Topeka baseball players which is
one Of the fastest semiprofessional
teams IN the whole state, will be man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
JUNGLE JOE" MOVED AROUND.

From the Washington Herald
 While the House was in committee of the whole house on the state of the union yesterday Speaker Cannon, his half-smoked cigar a-fume, moved around among the boys passing the time of day and allowing that the session was near. ing its close without having done any, thing to which the people could object. He reminded numerous of them that it was fine thing for the ambitious young statesman not to have to be on the de- fensive, not to have to explain to the people why he cast his vote for this meas- ure or that. The people, he told them. nearly always knew what they wanted and were certain to reward those of their servants who served them right 'IJncle Joes' little lecture was repeated from lip to lip on the republican side of the chamber. and it was not long before two or three statesmen who had been con- fidently counted for the ship-subsidy bill were on their feet clamoring for an op- portunity to speak against it.
 The speaker looks well after his boys and 1t is becoming a popular belief. or superstition, in the House that those who follow his advice fare well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Industrial Developmen

C. P, Perrin of New York, chairman of the Southern Steel company, and con sultng engineer of the Birmingham Iron company. is registered at the Hotel Hill man. When asked last night if the two companies here with which he is connect- ed would be merged, he replied in the negative. No, there is no movement on foot to consolidated the Southern Steel and the Birmingham Iron com panies," said MT. Perrin. "The latter con- cern Is owned. as Is well known, by the same interests that own the Atlanta, Brunswick and Atlanta railroad. The Birmingham Iron company is building an additional blast furnace at Vanderbilt, but its energies will be directed chiefly to the development of it's extensive coal properties.
 The Birmingham district is going beyond any doubt. Birmingham will be greater city than even it's prophets have foretold. The need of technical training here is more pressing every year and while young men are found in Alabama thoroughly equipped to take hold of large industri propositions, the demand is much greater than the supply. The es- pecial talent needed in the Birmingham district commands large pay, and the youth of the south should not let the op- portunity slip"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
POLICE RAID NEST
 OF REYOLUTIONISTS

St. Petersburg, March S--A body of loo0 picked policemen from every quarter or the city surrounded the Polytechnic in stitute at o'clock this morning and was engaged in a search until o'clock this afternoon of three blocks of student quar- ters. in the course of which twelve in fernal machines, score of hand grenades, a quantity of repeating rifles, 200 pounds of proxyin and 400 pounds of dynamite were seized.
 The descent upon the Polytechnic, which long had been suspected to be nest of social revolutionists was due to the in- formation received that a series of out rages on important personages had been planned for March To- The beseging force was prepared for all eventuaties, being armed with loaded rifles and wearing cuirasses and helmets. Two police cap tains were in command.
 On the arrival of the force in the yard a bomb was thrown from an upper window, but did not explode. Led by Prince Ga garin, director of the institute the search CTS went through all of the thousand rooms of the dormitory and seized besides the arms and ammunition several wagon loa.ls ofmproclamations and thousands of copies of the new organ of the revolution ary party for circulation in the army. Among those arrested were two members of the parliament from Ufa, who had re- mained oyer night In the buildings with conferences witlf members of the Group of Toll and social revolutionsts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Speaker Martins Death

The death of William L. Martin, speaker of the House of Representa- tives of the Alabama legislature, which occurred at his home in Montgomery last night, after a short illness, will be profoundly lamented. MT. Martin was distinguished for ability, high charac- ter and devotion to his friends. He was a well equipped lawyer and his wide knowledge of men and public questions affecting Alabama made his services as speaker of especial value at this time. He had filled most cred itably the office of attorney general and it was he who compiled the pres ent code. The task of codifying the laws required patience as well as capacity, but when the work was com pleted the thoroughness with which it was done added notably to MT. Mar tins reputation already won.
 Besides his civic and domestic yir- tues the deceased was esteemed far and wide for his good comradeship Few men in Alabama were so engaging in manner or so generally popular Such a citizen can i'll be spared and MT. Martins untimely end will be de plored as a loss to the entire state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
HELEN TAYLOR.
3 Chicago Public.

From the CHicdSo ubiis'
 To many Americans still living, Helen Taylor's name is more than name. They remember her as the stepdaughter Of John Stuart Mill. who assisted him in the prepara tion of his book on the 'Subjection of Women" and of whom he wrote after the death of her mother; Surely no one ever before was so fortunate as, after such a loss as mine, to draw another prize in the lottery of life" Upon her step fathers death Miss Taylor threw herself into active political work, for which wom- ans suffrage in school-voting afforded her an opportunity. From 1876 until 1885 She was a member by election of the London school board, and in 1885 she became parlia mentary candidate, but was refused recoeniton by the election officials be- cause of her sex She was intensely democrat, and from the democratic point of view she advocated woman suffrage and land standardization and sympathized with socialism. She was ardent sup porter of Henry Georges work in Great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Good Fishing.

'l am afraid to tell the story of the fishing trip from which l have just re- turned" said Maj. Frank Y. Anderson, yesterday because l am a fisherman. and people do not often believe a fsber- mans story to the letter, but if anyone doubts me they can go to Major Tut wiler, Mrs. Tutwier or Mrs Anderson, for we were all on the same trip.
 'I never saw such fishing as we found at Naples, Fla, which is way down on the west coast. We had the finest sport | have ever enjoyed in my life. and have been to all the fishing points in the south.
 We caught a devil fish which weighed 20O0 pounds and was fourteen and one hals feet wide. It was monster, the largest of the kind 1 have ever seen. In addition to that we got shark that was nine feet long and which weighed over 5oJ pounds. Ask Major Tutwiler he measured them.
 As soon as we reached Naples we chartered launch and tlshed all the time. In one day we caught 100 pounds of fish-groupier tlsh-and Mrs Tutwiler led us all in ability to catch members of the finny tribe.
 T have never seen a hotel kept bet ter or a better table fare furnished than we had at Naples, and 1t was one of the most enjoyable trips l have ever taken. v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04

Indian Territory 3,270,473 bales. These figures do not include cotton grown in Oklahoma The final full figures from Texas and the Indian Territory will go we'll towards 100000 bales, thus constituting a remarkable record in the territory infested by boil weevils. Never before did those dis tricts grow so much cotton in single year
 On February l more cotton by 1,S42,- 919 had been brought into sight than there had been in the corresponding period of the previous year. The crop of the previous year was ll,3l9,S60 bales. If we add to this sum the in crease of the present year we have as a result 13,162,779 bales. This may be accepted as the minimum of the crop of the present cotton year. The max mum may be put at 100000 bales more. It is plain that the crop of 1904-05 will continue to stand as Amer ica's record crop-13, ,556,S41 bales
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Iron Prices Maintained

The pig iron market remains firm at prices established last fall and the buying movement is unabated. A few weeks ago large consumers seemed to feel that prices would be lowered. Nineteen dollars for pig metal to he delivered in the last quarter of the year, was they said too high and could not be maintained indefinitely. They thought, or said they thought, that fur mace companies would be willing to sell at lower figures before March, But the wish was father to the thought.
 The demand for the finished prod uct is as brisk now as it was during the winter, which means, of course that the demand for pig iron will not flag. Within the past few days eager inquiries for all grades of iron have been in evidence. Indeed, not since November has there been such actiy- ity as now. Everything points, there fore, to higher instead of lower prices for iron.
 The cost of labor is much higher than it was six months ago and the cost of making iron is greater today than it has been in many years. The Birmingham district has a decided advantage over any other mineral sec tion of the country in the economy of production, and when a period ol depression comes iron will be made here at minimum cost. But so long as the country at large remains prosper ous wages will continue on high level, and the district will be the gainer because of the greater volume of money distributed through the channels of trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Bad System of Marking Trains.

About one-half of the time the bulle- tin board which is kept at the union passenger station for the convenience of the public Is the greatest farce in town ' said man at the station. "The board is supposed to be for the purpose of mark ing up the arrival and departure of pas senger trains, and to be so marked that the public can get accurate information.
 q am at the station frequently, in fact several times every day, and fully 50 per cent of the markings on the board are in- correct They are misleading and the pub lie has to suffer. The board is carelessly marked the railroads do not report their trains correctly and the entire matter is conducted in a slovenly manner
 q was at the station waiting for the northbound Louisville and Nashville train Friday night. It was first reported on i time, and I went to the station at 9:25 o'clock to meet 1t. I found the train marked 15 minutes late. I waited 40 min utes, 9 minutes over the time, and then 1 the train was marked 50 minutes late, which mark remained until the train ar rived about 1 hour and 10 minutes late. "It is useless to tell me that the dis patcher's office of the Louisville and Nashville did not know that the train would be more than 15 minutes late to begin with, and further that 1t did not know later that it would be more than 50 minutes late. Railroads do not operate trains in that way. They know exactly | how late train is running, for they get reports at every station it passes.
 The station employees show great care | lessness by leaving the marks on the
 board even after a train is long overdue. | This train was marked 15 minutes late on the board, when it was already 40 min
 utes late. It is an injustice to the public and something that could be prevented l It occurs all the time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Measure is Sent to Conference For the
 Third Time.

Washington, March 3.-'rhe second con- ference report on the sundry civil bill was presented in the House today by MT. Tawney and agreed to, Six items were reported still in disagreement and by decisive votes the House instructed the conferees to further insist upon their disagreement to the Senate amendments. These related to the construction of c, new building at Denver, purchase of q Washington, an appropriation of $l25 O0C to carry silver dollars to and from the treasury, the purchase of ground for ad- ditonal parks in Washington, the in- vestigation of women and child labor, and the consolidation of purchases of mis- cellaneous supplies for the executive de- partments.
 During the discussion of the report 1t developed that Senator Clark of Montana is part owner of the ground in Anacosta, D. C., which some people desire for a public park and Mir Clark of Florida charged that the realty company with which the senator from Montana does business Ifs In the habit of buying value less pieces of land then unloading them on the government"
 MT. Tawney of Minnesota said in reply that Senator Clark knew nothing of the contemplated purchase until he read of it in the record, and that he had then said to the conferees that in view of his con nection with the property the item should properly go out.
 Let us make it unanimous" replied MT. Clark of Florida, amid laughter. The bill was then sent to conference for a third time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
LEADING UP TO IT.

From the Chicago Tribune
 Beg pardon sir said the man in the suit of faded black. but are you carrying all the life insurance you want?"
 Yes. sir" answered the man at the desk. ''I am"
 Could interest you in a morocco bound edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackery?''
 You could not
 Don't you need a germ proof filter at your house?''
 q do not"
 Would you invest in a good second hand typewriter if you could get it cheap?"
 q have no use for typewriter"
 "Just so. Would an offer to supply you with first class imported Havana cigars at $lO a hundred appeal to you?" Not a cents worth.'
 How would a proposition to sell you Century dictionary, slightly shelf worn for only $40, strike you?'
 Tt wouldn't come within forty miles of hitting me-
 That being the case said the caller Would you be willing to buy 10 cent box of shoe polish, just to get rid of me?''
 Great Scott, yes,
 Thanks Good day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
An Open Warrior Assured

Mr. Bankhead was a member of the conference committee to which the rivers and harbors bill was referred, and he took precious good care that no Alabama appropriation in the bill was eliminated or cut down. The bill has gone to the President, and it has been or doubtless soon will be signed. Thus MT. Bankhead's crowning effort for the Warrior will become law, and the money will be in hand to open the river to the very heart of the district.
 But it will be difficult to get further appropriations for the Warrior unless we begin in this district to use the river-to show our appreciation of the navigation already provided, Chairman Burton in particular desires to be shown. There are many mines that can easily be connected with the river at Squaw Shoals, and the work of linking them to the river should go on sim ultaneously with the putting in of the new locks and dams.
 Congress will open the river to the railroad bridges and even to this city if it can see that it will be utilized, that it is needed. The people of this district will throw away a great op- portunity if they neglect to use the cheap water transportation that the government offers them without eX- pense It would be suicidal to refuse to use what Pittsburg and the entire Mississippi valley is begging for and The Age Herald does not believe any such folly will be recorded against this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Adjournment Without Revision

At high noon today the Fifty-ninth Congress will come to an end, and it seems to be settled that there is to be no special session of even the Sen ate, for the Santo Domingo treaty has been confirmed, and the immigration bill has been passed
 But it is also settled that the two houses will adjourn with no action taken towards a revision of the tariff. Even a slight modification of it for the benefit of the impoverished Fili- pinos has been desired. The rule of the favored rich is still unchecked in Congress. The standpatter stands by his campaign contributions and de- mands a continuance of the goods. He has no doubt promised to roll up a campaign fund in 1908 that cannot be wfthstood if the republicans will let the sacred system alone. And the re- publicans have so decided. Even the President 1uails before the oligarchs of the tariff When Massachusetts asked him to consider tariff revision he replied in a colorless non n-committal letter that recalls the back number days of the republic. He was not him self He was all concealment and evasion, without any frankness and straightforwardness whatever
 The issue goes over to 1908, and an unheard-of slush fund will be rolled up by the tariff benefciaries to secure a Dingley victory. All depends upon the intelligence of the people who are taxed at every turn by the benefciaries of the tariff. If they are intelligent enough to know what is going on the tariff will be voted down in 190S- otherwise it will be indefinitely con tinued, and millionaires will run the government, and the republic will lapse into plutocracy based on the robbery of the many by the few