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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
Complies With New Maximum
Freight Law.
SCOPE is ENLARGED.
Companies Add Items Not In
cluded in the Law.
Penalty for Failure to Comply
With Law In Severe.

Copies of the new grain rate tariff,
which will go into effect in Kansas on
May have been fled with the state
board of railroad commissioners.
This tariff is issued by the roads in
compliance with the maximum freight
rate law enacted at the recent session
of the legislature. 1t fixes the rates on
grain and grain products at IS per cent
of the present tariffs.
While the original bill required the
railroads to reduce rates only on wheat.
corn, rye, oats, millet seed kafir corn
and their products and alfalfa seed, the
railroads have gone further, and an
nounce the following classifications:
Wheat rates will apply on buckwheat
flour, chicken feed (made of grain and
seeds only cracked wheat, crushed
wheat, farina, pancake -four, pearl bar
ley, prepared flour. rolled wheat, rye
flour, wheat chops and wheat flour.
The rates on corn and other grains
will apply to the following:
Barley, bran, brewers cerealine, brew
er's meal, chopped feed, gluten meal.
grain screenings, grits, hominy, hominy
feed, kaf1r corn, maizea, middlings, oats,
oat dust, oat flake, oat groats. oat hullss
oatmeal, rolled oats, rolled rye, rye,
shorts, speltz.
On cereal products, cooked or PARTIAL
ly cooked, the present classification and
rates will be applied
The railroads have added several 9TH
and under this head the railroads re-
duce rates on the following: Alfalfa
cake cottonseed cake, cottonseed hulls.
cottonseed meal, linseed cake, linseed
meal sorghum seed, wild mustard seed.
A special class for fiaxseed is made,
under which the following items are in
cluded: Broom corn seed, castor beans,
faxseed, hempseed, Hungarian seed,
pop corn.
All these rates are quoted on car
load lot shipments. The tariff quotes
rates on shipments in barrels, boxes or
cloth sacks of the following in less
than car load lots: Flour, corn meal
bran shorts, grain screenings. chop
ped feed, ground feed, oat hulls, oat
dust, hominy and grits
Penalty Is Provided.
= The maximurnr freight rate law on
grains and grain products passed at
the last session of the legislature pro-
vided a penalty of from $500 to So
900 for any railroad company which
failed to prepare and file tariffs in
with the law within 80
days from the taking effect of the act
The act was published on April in
the official state paper. By putting
the new tariffs into effect on May 2.
the railroads are complying exactly
with the law, without a day to spare.
The law also provides that when the
Is per cent cut makes a reduction of
less than one-fourth of a cent, it shall
be dropped: when between one-fourth
and three-fourths. both inclusive. it
shall count as lone-half cent, and
where more than three-fourth of a
cent it shall count as one cent.
Following are some of the rates
actually provided in the new tariff,
n cents per 100 pounds:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
CRUMMER TO RESIGN.
Calls Meeting of Republican State Con-
mittee for May 16.

S. c. drummer will call a meeting of
the Republican state central commit
tee in Topeka on May 16 for the pur-
pose of handing in his resignation as
chairman of the committee, and hav-
ing the committee elect a successor.
The man who is chosen for chair
man will have no campaign to man.
age, for the Republicans will choose a
new central committee before the
next campaign. and the committee for
the place, however, as it will be an
honor and give the recipient consid-
era BILE prestige for election to the
Craftsmanship for another term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
The Corbett Administrators.

James B. Corbett and Bradford Mill
Ter were named this morning by r. F.
Hayden, the probate judge, as admins
traitors of the estate of William E. Cor
bett, who died recently at his farm
near Elevation. Mr.. Corbett did not
leave a will. His estate is valued at
$4,000 in personal property and $1O,-
900 in real estate. There are four
heirs to the estate, William Corbett,
Zella Corbett. Hannah Corbett and
Mrs Margaret Reed of Granville, all
of whom are children of the deceased.
The administrators qualified by filing
a bond for SIG, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
WICHITA WILL GET REVENUE.
e. B. Jewett Says the City Win Find
Some Other Way to Survive.

Leavenworth, Kan. April 24.-E. B.
Jewett of Wichita, former warden of
the state penItentiary, is in Leaven-
worth He said he came to get a
drink. but like Senator Stillings he
was only joshing.
They're closed tight as CLAIMS in
Wichita said Mr.. Jewett, when ask
ed 20 describe the saloon situation in
that city. He said Wichita always de-
rived considerable revenue from the
saloons, but added that the city had
never found such revenue absolutely
necessary. I'VE have limitleSs ways of
getting revenue down there" Mr.. Jew
EFT said. land we will not suffer as
result of the present agitation,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
round Dead in an Alley.

Fort Dodge, Ia. April go. H.
McCafferry, general agent of the
Independent Life Insurance
company. was found dead in an alley
in the center of the city this morning
The body was lying face downward
with the head half buried in a pile of
ashes. McCaffefry's head had a dozen
abrasicns and the skull had been bad
ly fractured. There was no money in
the dead mans pocket and it is sur
missed that robbery was the motive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
FOUND DEAD IN \ DITCH.
Body OF John Veroda of Republic
County Under . Brush Pile

Concordia Kan, April 24-The
body of John Veroda, a single man
who lived on farm in Republic coun-
ty, about eighteen miles north of this
city. was found covered with brush in
a ditch near his home Yesterday. His
head was crushed.
A 16-year-old boy named Svojgr,
employed by Veroda, was missing, to-
gether with a team and buggy He
was caught in the afternoon near
Munden. and refused to talk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
ST. MARYs MAN ARRESTED.
William Hoy Is Wanted in Kansas City
on Grand Larceny Charge.

William Hoy a young man from St.
Marys. who is a member of a family
in high standing, was arrested by Chief
Eaton and Sergeant Ross this morn
ing as the result of a letter from Chief
Hayes of Kansas City. The letter
stated that Hoy is wanted there for
grand larceny, but did not specify the
nature of the crime. Hoy says he
knows nothing about the charge, and
has telephoned relatives in st. Marys
to come here before he is taken back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
ON SlX-YEAR CRUISE.
Jack London to Sail Around World in
Forty-Five-F Foot Boat.

San Francisco, April 24.-Jack Lon
dons sailboat, the Shark, has started
for Honolulu, the first port to be
touched on a six years cruise around
the world.
The vessel is forty-five feet long,
ketch rugged, and it's occupants, be-
sides London and his wife, are Herbert
s. StoltZ, Stanford graduate and ath-
johnson, cook. and Hileshisa Tochigi,
90 hin how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
WILL SPY OUT THE LAND
Taft VIII Make No Statement Before
His Ohio Trip.

Washington, April 24.-In answer
to a specific question as to whether he
Intended to make any announcement
in the near future. regarding his D0-
litical purposes, Secretary Taft today
said that he certainly would make no
such statement before his Ohi1. trip
which begins Friday. and he was not
prepared to state whether he woul 1
have anything to say after that trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
Johnston Appoints Secretary.

James A. Mcclure. a student at the
Washburn law school. and formerly
carrier for the State Journal. has
heen appointed by Chief Justice
Johnston as his clerk and stenog-
rapher. succeeding F. r. Simon. who
resigned to become judge of the court
nf Tnnalra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
stepped in Front of the Engine

Merriam. Kan, April 24-Cone
Shotswell, y years Old a section hand
employed by the St. Louis & San
Francisco railway. was killed near
mere yesterday He stepped aside to
avoid one train and stepped in front
of another The body was taken to
the home in Merriam. Shotswell was
unmarried and was a son of William
Shotswen of Merriam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
Pioneer Chicago Merchant Dies.

Chicago, April 24.-John K. Har-
mon, a pioneer merchant of Chicago.
but of late years largely interested in
California mining property, died here
today aged II years. Among relatives
who survive the decedent is Mrs. Chas.
L. Oughbridge, a daughter living in
Denver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
ViIott Bro,,ght Back

James Vilott who left town on
April while under a bond of $500
pending his sentence in the district
court on convictions for violating the
prohfbitory law in the conduct of the
notorious Joint called the Owl restau-
rant is locked up in the county JAIL
much to the relief of Clarence Young
who was on his bond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
SWEPT OVER FALLS.
Four Men Drowned in the Cape Fear
River.

Raleigh. y. c., April 24.-Swept
over the falls, four men were drowned
in Cape Fear river today at Buck Horn
Falls, Chatham county, 80 miles from
Raleigh.
The Dead:
HANS THORSON of st. Paul, Mimi.
general foreman of a construction
company erecting a power plant.
z. B. BRADY of Moncures assistant
for man.
TWO NEGRO LABORERS.
The men were coming down the
river in a naphtha launch which was
caught in the current and carried over
the falls Thorson was to have been
married here Sunday and his fiancee.
Miss Thelma Lindgren, was to have
left St Paul today to join him here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
The seafchlfrllt Is Missing.

Harbor Beach. Mich. April 24.@The
fishing tug SearchGght of this port is
missing and is believed to have sunk
in Lake Huron last night with her
crew of six men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24

Weather indications.

Chicago. April 24.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Partly cloudy and colder tonight
and Thursday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-24
Won't Pay the Fine.

A fine that was assessed by the sta te
of Illinois against the late G. ]. Devlin
because he was found guilty of a vIo-
lation of the state. anti-monopoly laws
will not be paid by the trustees of the
Devlin estate.
The claim is a novel one. 1t was
presented to the trustees with the rep
resentation that should be allowed as
a preferred claim. The fine assessed
amounted to $500 and was imposed in
1903 for conspiracy to do an illegal
act injurious to public trade. 1t sim
ply amounted to a charge that G. j.
Devlin was conn bining with other oper-
ators to maintain prices for coal and
curtail production to a certain stated
amount.
c. J. Devlin died before the fine was
paid and the attorney general of IL
linois attempted to collect $513-16
from the estate. n. H. Loomis in
holding against the claim said that it
was not provable. and ruled that it
should not be paid.
The decision cited: "It is contended
by claimant that the fine which prior
to the adjudication had become a judg-
ment against the bankrupt is prov
able debt against it's estate under sec
tion So of the bankruptcy act of 1898.
1t was further contended by the claim-
ants attorney at the time the claim
was filed that the claim was entitled to
preference"
The claim of John Fl. Miller which
amounted to about $4,000 was dis
Miller had a contract with
Devlin involving the manufacture of
lumber. Miller got wind of the bank
ruptcy proceedings and sold off all the
lumber and applied the money on his
claims. Later he attempted to pre-
sent claim for the balance due him.
The lumber should have been turned
over to the trustees and statement
filed of Miller's Indebtedness was the
ruling of Mr. LoOmiS.
The trustees announce the saae of
some Illinois land. the bids for which
were opened on the second of April
All of the property was located in
Putnam county and consisted of coal
rights.
240 acres to H c. Mills for $1.7oo.
who held a mortgage of $1.644 on
same.
$50 acres to Casper Weber for
$1,000 subject to mortgage of $1,460
held by Weber
. Forty acres and certain other prop
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15
BIGGEST FISH LIE-MAYBE
Story of Trout That Made Record
and Came to Be Worth Money.
baltimore SUM

We were camping in northern Wiscon-
sin and one evening after our supper of
black bass and bacon we lay under the
pine trees smoking and telling fish sto-
ries in which it was always the bigger
bass that got away, says a writer in
the Chicago Tribune. Our guide listened
with the gravity of a man who knew all
about fish stories, and finally he knocked
the ashes from his pipe and told US a
story.
"Once, long ago." he said, there was
a terrible big trout up in Smiths pool.
Every fellow who had fished in the pool
had hooked him one time or other. but
he always got away, bit off the snood or
something.
81 tried TO catch him myself a dozen
times. One day L was sitting by the pool,
when splash, young robin fluttered out
of the nest above the pool into the wa
ter. In a minute there was a CLEAN of
yellow and the old trout had thrown him
self clear out of the water and had sWal-
lowed the young robin whole.
What did 1 do? Well, l climbed that
tree in short order, got another one of
those young robins, baited my hook with
it and threw it in just as lightly as
could. In q minute there was another
rush, another CLEAN of yellow and again
ter as he swallowed the robin and a min
ute more and had him hooked
1t vas lucky l wasn't fishing with
any Of this new tangled rigging these
boys use, and that / wasn't bothered with
a reel to look after or 1 would have lost
him sure. As it was, it took me a devil
of a time to get him out
Good to eat? Great Scott; we dodn't
try to eat him. He was so full of hooks
we sold him for old iron, you know"
That ended our fish stories for that
night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15
PARTISAN W0MEH'S
RENOWNED BEAUTY
Mainly Consists of Beautiful Com.
plexions.-Specialist Gives
Splendid Formula.

In recent interview DR.. Jean VaIlier,
the eminent dermitologist, made some
very interesting statements concerning the
beauty of the fair sex. He claimed the
highest type of features aud those that
approach nearest to the old Greek stand
ards are to be found in America AL
though the French ladies are world re-
nowned for their beauty, they lack the
classical mould of face. But this defect
is evidently counterbalanced by their
matchless compilations. To this they give
the most rigid care in the matter of diet
and daily messages.
DR.. Waller gave the formula for a skin
food which he said had worked wonders
for the society ladies of Paris and which,
though simple mixture. is probably the
most effective known to science for re-
storing the normal rosy complexion and
building up the undeveloped parts of the
face, neck and bust. The formula is as
follows: two ounces of Rose Water one
ounce Cologne Spirits and four ounces
Sartoin tcrystalized).
The Sartoin is to be dissolved in a pint
of hot water mot boiling), then when
cooled to be strained through a fine
cloth and the Rose Water and Cologne
Spirits added. This is to be used twice
a day and massaged well into the skim
and If persisted in there will be no further
need for powders or rouge. 1t is not ex-
pensive, the ingredients being obtaina Bile
from any druggist, and coming from such
high authority is well worth a thorough
trial.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.
SALT LAKES NEW MAYOR.

~
After a good deal of jockeying and
a number of false starts, the Amer
leans" have finally succeeded in per
suading John Bransford of this citv
20 accept the vacancy in the MAYORS
Office left by the resignation of Ezra
Thompson and stand for election to
the tribulatiOn that goes with the I'M
expired term ending January 1 next
1t was supposed the nominee for the
place now would be the nominee of the
Americans" at the election this fall
but the new mayor seems inclined to
shy at such a suggestion, and it is
unlikely he viii want the place after
he has tried it for a few months.
John Bransford is regarded we'll by
the community. He is undoubtedly
honest. ne has handled his own BUSH
ness affairs judiciously and is inclined
TO be conservative in his attitude
toward questions of public policy. Ur-
bane in his relations with others, it
remains to be seen whether his URBAN
ity is of the easy-gOing kind or whether
1t conceals the firmness of purpose and
quickness of judgment needed i'm O.
mayor who has the syndicate MEM
bers of the American" council to deal
with. A casual acquaintance justifies
the impression that he may be a little
slow to act but that he Will follow his
judgment without much regard TO what
the council may demand or suggest.
So long as some one identified with
the American" party had to be mayor,
the choice of Mr.. Bransford ought TO
suit the Democrats as we'll as any
American" could. The new mayor is
a Democrat in national politics and in
sists on the fact. He held office as
a Democrat in California, and his in
herited political tendencies came from
the school of old Missouri, which of
itself is guarantee that he is not like
ly to forget his party allegiance in any
national issue.
Very properly the Democratic MEM
bers of the council have declared their
intention of supporting the new mayor
as far as possible in his effort to give
the city good, clean administration.
His task will be most difficult at the
best because he has A. ]. Davis, Black,
Mulvey, Martin and Crabtree TO deal
with as the real leaders of the party
He is confronted with the certainty
of a deficit in the treasury at the
close of his administration and an
equal certainty that the council men,
bers of his party will want to con-
tinue their eXtravagant expenditures.
He has Jake Raleigh for head of the
street department, q disorganized pO-
lice force, a muddled law department
and the minor officers of the admins
tratiOn are not in sympathy with the
policy that compelled his election by
the council The department of pub
lie works, one of the most important
branches of the public service, is
headed by a man who is unequal to
his task, either in character or ability
and the relations between this depart
ment and the engineering department
need attention.
If ever a mayor needed to pray for
guidance and for deliverance from his
party, John Bransford is that mayor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15
AS TO NEWS GETTING.

The Herald-the only one of the local
newspa pers of this city that is opposed
TO the American" party and which let
no occasion pass to lambast Americans
for every act that does not meet with the
approval of the OppOsition-had the tie
merity and indecency to detail a repre-
sentative to attend the caucus of the
American" party councilmen and voters
at the city hall yesterday.
No other newspaper, excepting the
American newspapers. did this Even
the Smoot Mouth" which is unfair in
everything il opposes, and the News re-
spected the situation and depended on
getting the proceedings of the meeting
from such sources as are legitimate.
X x
There is no place under the sun where
opposition newspapers are invited to such
a conference. In fact, no seif-respeetfng
newspaper would have the gall to expect
a representative to be permitted to sit
with those whom, in the very nature of
things, that paper feels called on to OPP
pose
The man who wrote the above ex-
cerpt from an editorial in one of the
news column of the American" organ
must certainly contain within his per-
son the least desirable characteristics
of the skunk. The representative OF
The Herald was invited to the amer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15

lean" caucus by men who had a bet
ter right to invite him than anybody
who has an official connection with
the American" organ. And during
the caucus, after the manager of the
American organ had protested
against the presence of what he called
hostile newspaper men, several men,
bers Of the caucus declared their will
ingness to have The Herald representa-
tive remain, on the theory that they
intended to do nothing of which they
might be ashamed or concerning which
they were unwilling to have the pub
lie given the fullest information.
There could have been no fairer way
for The Herald to get the news. 1t
certainly was more legitimate than
listening at keyholes; it was more legi-
innate than hunting I'D some dis
gruntled member of the caucus and
securing from him a biased report of
the proceedings. And heaven knows it
was more legitimate than accepting as
truth any report the American" or
gan might care to make.
1t is not surprising that the Amer
lean" organ should give forth noxious
and vexatious odors after the fright
full mess the brilliant politician who
directs it's destinies made of the Hal
loran caucus. But we marvel that
newspaper that has been guilty of as
many deliberate Misrepresentation as
has the American" organ dares to ac-
cuse any of its contemporaries of a
to misrepresent anything or
anybody.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Frank Whelan, Cherr
Creek, New.
Matte L. Kell, Cherry Creek, New,
411-James r. Stewart, Bingham.
Mary Z. Mitchell, Bingham.
4712-Martin McGlynn Salt Lake.
Jessie Johns. Salt Lake
4713-George Roxburgh, Salt Lake.
Mary w. Steward, Salt Lake
Bringhurst, Murray.
Olga Gustafson, Murray.
Hogan, Salt Lake.
Cecil Cowden Salt Lake.
4716-Emil PEPPER, Salt Lake.
Anna Rich, Salt Lake.
J. Grandin, Ogden.
Edith NJ. Larson, Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-15
HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE.
august Lippincott's. }

There was once man from Toledo O..
who, while having a ''good time in the
tenderloin district, was, according to Sim
con Ford, held up" by an individual who
suddenly darted out from a dark corner
and presented pistol at the head of the
westerner.
Give me your money, or I'll blow out
your brainsi' observed the footpad
Without flinching the Toledo man calm
away" said he I'D rather be without
brains in New York than without
money!
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