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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
ganizatlon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka,
The news is received in The Stste Jour
nal building over wires for this COLE pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Still it may not be necessary for the
Tigers to spend all of the coming win
ter in perusing that old and useful vol
ume entitled, How to Play Baseball"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
NO wIRELEss POLITICs

Now it Is promised that wireless
electric lightning will quickly follow
the wireless telephone, but politics
without. wirepulling is not yet in
sight.-F1orida Times-Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Leavenworth isn't the worst place in
the world, by any means. London has
just elected one of its big brewers as
mayor, and it is doubtful; If even Leav-
enworth would do that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
HOW THEY EVEN UP.

Doctors who plead guilty to Profess
sor Osler's charge that they smoke
too much may allege that they COM
pound for their own Indulgence by
forbidding it in their patients.-New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

1t is said that the London police have
been caught grating also. American
cities have no copyright on the practice
after ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

If Mr.. WhitIow, of Moran, had been
like Artist Earle, he would probably
have discovered that Miss Sapp was
his affinity and that he had made
mistake in his marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Wheat is even approaching the dollar
mark out M. the Kansas wheat belt.
And the farmer probably still owns the
big end of this years crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Government scientists have finally
come to the conclusion that hydropho-
bia is really a disease. Were they ever
troubled with the suspicion that it is a
joke?" asks the Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
SEEING THINGS

Those who see war in every move
ment of our fleets might see snakes if
our battleships were always anchored.
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Now that Chicago and Detroit have
had their turn, the country can give Its
undivided attention to the football field
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

1t keeps the public eye jumping
around a good deal to keep track of
Taft, Root and the Louisiana cane
brakes. all at the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
OBYIOus REASON.

A Boston preacher says there will be
no automobiles in heaven. And a fell
low close by says there will be no gas
oline machines in the other place, rea-
son obvious, so there you are.-Clay
Center Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
FROM OTHER PENS
SODA WAFER POISON sou


Is it perfectly fair that DR.. wiley's
new poison squad should consist of
young men? We-Aptertain the most
serious apprehensions for those youth,
and we hope that some humane So
ciety will interfere and save them
from their certain fate. We never
worried about the previous squads
who grew fat upon boracic acid, for
maldehyde and aniline dyes. Most
healthy men thrive spIendidly upon
these things, for they are a part of
the ordinary diet of civilization, but
what young man can be expected to
Withstand the ravages of months
Indulgence in ice cream soda, cKoco-
late sundaes, orange phosphates and
pop? A young man occasionally in
the heat of the summer may partake
of these soft drinks without injury to
his system, but the strictest temper
ance is necessary, and we have yet to
read of a centenarian who has con-
fessed to a fondness for the tsoda
fountain demon. OF what one of
these worthless has it been written:
Mr.. Blank says since he was thirteen
he has always chewed tobacco and
drunk eight ice cream sodas a day"
To put young men upon any such
perilous Patton as this is to show a
wanton Indifference to human life
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
GETTING BACK 10 TOWN.

The roads leading to the big cities
are now carrying unprecedentedly big
cargoes of tramps on the brakebeams
and in>box cars. They are as regular
in their migrations as the wild geese.
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

The. Parsons Sun does not see why so
much fuss is made because the wife of
a Chicago millionaire is caught steal
ing, when many a rich man is accused
of it daily without attracting much no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

The Tigers are not so fierce as they
have been advertised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
BY METER.

1.-THE druggists in Wichita made only
5000 liquor sales during September
Evidently" comments the Topeka
Journal, wichita druggists are not the
hustlers for business we have been led
to believe" But maybe they sell it by
meter measure in Wichita.-Leaven-
worth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
FOR THE MACHINE.

Not content with the. political ma
chinery it already has Sedgwick coun-
ty has decided to use voting machines
at its next decentralization News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
A PRINCIPI,E AT STAKE.

Three million dollars for the privi-
lege of participating in intercollegiate
sports certainly does look expensive
for Swarthmore college. Still a prin-
ciple is at stake, and eccentric women,
however wealthy, should recognize
the occasional powerlessness OF
noney-New York Commercial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

There is O. saloon in Cleveland Ohio,
for every forty families in the city.
What q drain it must be on the fnan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
rs GROWINGI q Han

Now that Judge Landlg recognizes the
immunity bath, Hartman feels just as
much vindicated as one of the other
undesirable citixens."-Newark1 Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
The Excuse.

Manager Hanlon of the Cincinnati
club, said the other day to a reporter:
ut is beautiful thing, the devotion
of some people to baseball. A business
man told me last night how he had oc-
casion recently to say to his office boy:
"Iook here, Harold, you have been
away three times this summer on ac-
count of the death of your grand
mother. Now you ask to get off a
fourth tie on the same excuse. What
do you mean by it
1.-THE boy answered respectfully:
's'I am Sorry to have to tell you. sir,
that grandfather was a bigamist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
KANSAS COlNNENT
UNFULFIILED vows

We suppose nearly eyrv school bow
Eas SEINE time or other made to himself
a solemn VOW that when he grew up he
would whip the schoolmaster but SO
rar as We know no sehoolmaster has
pupil. We knew rather a tough bad
soldier In the army who was frequent
~ punished, generally by order of his
captain. He was a big husky fellow
ana frequently threatened in the hear
ing OF other soldiers, that if he lived
70 get his discharge he would wipe up
the earth with that officer. Well he
iiVed to be discharged at the state cap
ltaI and few hours after he met the
captain on the street, he bid him good
bye in the most friendly manner and
insisted on the officer sending him his
photograph as soon as he had SOME
taken.-Holton Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
A NE INVERSION.

The boy stood on the burning deck,
The flames around him roared
While he their progress sought to cRecl1S
With water from a gourd.
In vain the people on the deck
ImpiOred him to skidoo,
But he. as firm as any rock.
Proposed to see 1t through.
Such scenes as this he smiling cried,
Are merely made to test us
l don't mind saying on the side,
My clothes are all asbestos
7-=as-1 ss-JacKsOnyii1e Tirnas-TIpfo0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
A WORD FOR LELAND.

The boom Tor Leland for governor
seems to be getting along very nicely.
1t would be a fitting cap sheaf for a
history of this state. Leland's ability
and honor are beyond question-and he
has the friendship of Stubs, who wants
to be senator and not governor.-Bur-
lingame Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
WON'T BEIIEvE THEM.

Vice President Archbold of the
Standard Oil company. warns the pub
lie against believing statements cir
culated throughout the country and ac-
credited to an officer of the Standard
OH company" Never fear, Archie.
Since your Indiana president fell down
SO completely in his effort to subStantf-
ate the wild statements made over his
signature in a recent pamphlet "gener-
ally circulated" there is little likelihood
OF the public taking such statements
seriously ereafter.-Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15
SPEAKING OF sCRAPg

Frank farrell observes that, although
Eugene NJ Ware Is moving to Kansas
City, Kansas. he will continue to write
verses ION the side" and the Topeka
Journal adds that he will also write
them on other things, as some Of his
best verses have been written on scraps
We recollect in particular the one he
wrote on the scrap between the foolish
bird pup and the cyclone.-Lawrence
World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

What very thin voice that girl hast
"Thini Whay, It's so thin she ought to
sing all her music in skeleton key
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Daughter-He writes me II letters a
week.
Father-But he gets only one pay enve-
lope.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Are your neighbors obliging?"
II should say so. They always let ma
use our telephone whenever / want to-
Milwaukee. Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

He-Suffrage or no suffrage. womans
| chief duty. after all, is to make fools OF
| US men.
| Shell quite agree. But you've no idea
how tiresome 1t is when nature has fore
stalled us.-B1ack and White.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

Joakley-You,re right: most people wor-
ry over what they haven't got but
know certain people who worry because
Of what they have.
Coakley-That so? What have they?
Misunderstanding Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

She-You call me beautiful now, but will
poY2 ~ -V.-.-,--.. .f i-.,-.....--
He-Oh, why picture tho dismal side OF
everything? You may be dead then
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

In the Surf.-He-Are>y you afraid?
She-Why, no. There's no danger, is
there2
He-No, but I didn't suppose that was
essential-September Lippincotts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

The knot or MeX1canS and half
breeds made way for Landon. Kate
drunken welcome from under the
mans, hat slouched over her frowsy
head.
"Grub's a-plenty an Texas Charles
hit the trail, leavin' his bunk behind"
and upon that assurance. Landen fol-
lowed her to cubby-hole back of the
saloon, where the aforesaid bunk was
located. Somewhere behind the thin
partition a jang1ing piano reeled and
shrieked, and chorus of discordant
voices beloved a medley of ribald
songs. He could hear the snap of cards
upon the tables, the clink of glasses,
and then q few minor chords were
forth in a border song of starry nights
and women's faces. Landon sprang to
his feet. He knew that voice, and he
pushed the door open.
Henderson,
The singer handsome haggard boy,
sprang from the piano and started for
the outside door, his eyes fixed on Lam
don's like those of a hunted animal at
bay. Landon caught his arm.
mo. you don't, Jack. / have not
come all this-distance to lose you now
Not man stirred to interfere. The
scene was too common in Umiltas. and
Landon and his quarry passed out to
the shelter Of clump of mesquite.
Then the boy faced him.
"See here, David Landon, If you have
come here thinking to take me backl
tell you now 1 won't go. I've reached |
my limit in a singing for bread in this |
hell-hole and I'll never go home |
alive"
Landon's gray eyes bored their !
steady. sane insistence into the desper-
ate brown ones.
"Shut up. Jack. You will go back
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
During a sever

During a severe wind and rain
storm, near Pierre, the family Of E.
M. Hetison were buried in the ruins
of their new house. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hetison and a nine-year-old daughter
we're killed. A little boy seven years
old, is the only surviving one.
The legislature of last winter, in
chapter twenty-four of the session
laws, makes clerks of courts ex-oficio
superintendent of vital statistics and
requires certain duties of them in
regard to the collection of such sta
~tistics, providing a scale of fees for
such services. In Lawrence county
Clerk of Courts Starr claimed these
fees as his own in addition to any
other salary, which contention on his
part was not admitted by the county
commissioners. The matter was sub
mitted to Attorney General Clark,
who holds that the duties are extra
official, and as such entities the of.
fetal called upon to perform them tc
the fees for the service in addition tc
any other pay he may receive. III
the Lawrence county case the fees
amounted to several hundrd dollars
and while in most counties of thu
state they will be small, each clerl
will find that they make an addition
to his former salary.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16

atty, and costs, and that the certii-
cate of sale thereof was duly issued
in Pennington county, South Dakota,
and that thereafter and on the list
day of August, 1907. said certificate
of sale was duly assigned and trans
ferred by said Pennington county to
the undersigned Hugh j. Mcmahon,
who is the holder and owner
thereof. That more than two years
have elapsed since said sale, and
the right of redemption from the
same, with all prior and subsequent
taxes paid, with interest, penalty
and costs allowed by law will eX-
pire, and deed for said land and
premises be made to the undersigned
after 600 days from the completed
service of this notice, unless redemp-
ton shall be made as provided by
law.
Hugh j.. Mcmahon,
Owner of Certificate.
First publication August 8, 1907.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
entirely crimes of Teutonic fashion,

entirely crimes of Teutonic fashion,
nd their intensity removes them from
Teutonic slowness, dullness, and the
difficulty of control becomes the
greater. But if our immigration laws
were as restricting east as we'll as
west, and were established and not
at the mercy of a new commercial
impulse, there would not be this diff
ficulty of an American police coping
with an immense foreign population
that is simply not comprehendable
by the average American.
And still the crime-wave can be
attributed to American sources, for
it is a little too much to expect
that foreigners, relieved of the heavy
hand of monarchic rule as it has been
felt for centuries in the old world,
and finding defiance of the law an
accepted belief if not an accepted
practice in America, should be be-
side themselves in their freedom so
that this degenerates into lawless-
ness. We do not realize what an
influence the contrast in condition
means to the foreigner. Nor do we
realize that the first literature he
reads, even if by proxy, is the liter
ature of the yellow press. 1t is our
own special variety Of crime, lack
of respect for law, which encourages
the outbreak of special racial vari-
ties when these immigrate. 1t is
a case of American heal thyself. We
are in no danger of destruction from
alien crime waves. The real danger,
to Americans and to aliens, is in our
own tendencies.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
h.lMA TOMPKINs,
Owner of Certificate.
First publication July 20.
Contest Notice.

Department Of the Interior, Land
Office, Rapid City s. D., July %,
1907.
"A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this Office by Walter H.
contestant, against Charley
Haney, entry No. 1O077, made Feb.
&c, 1906, for the southwest quarter
OF section 8, township 3 north, Of
range eleven east of B. H.
M, by Charley Haney, contestee, in
which 1t is alleged that said Charley
Haney has failed and neglected to
establish his residence on said land
or to improve and cultivate same in
any manner since the date of filing
thereof.
Said parties are hereby notified to
appear, respond and offer evidence
touching said allegation at 10 o'clock
a. m. IN September 10, 1907, before
the Register and Receiver at the
United States Land Office in RAPID
City, South Dakota.
The said contestant, having, il
proper afidavit, filed July %, 1907
set forth facts which show that afte
due diligence personal service o
this notice cannot be made, it
hereby ordered and directed tina
such notice be given by due an,
proper publication.
GEo.P BENNETT, Register.
First publication July ~.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
Notice for. Publication.


Department of the Interior, Land
Office at Rapid City, S. D., August /,
1907.
Notice is hereby given that Ida +.
Roland, of Piedmont, S. D., has filed
notice of his intention to make final
Communication proof in support of his
claim, viz: Homestead Entry No.
1O46G made April 1G, 1906, for the
east half of southwest quarter and
west half of southeast quarter, sec
tion SO, township 4 north, range
east, and that said proof will be
made before the register and receiver
at Rapid City, S. d., on September
ii, 1907.
lie names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
on and cultivation of the land, viz:
Eberhardt Johnson, of Piedmont
S. D., George Sevey, of Piedmont, S
d.. Charles Ashland, of Piedmont. S
D., George Mcfarland, of Piedmont
s. D.
Geo. P. Bennett, Register
First publication August 8.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
Alien or American.

The wave of crime which is sweep
ing over the country may be regarded
as a dispute of the assertion that the
bulk of lawlessness us not found
among the foreign born but among
American born citizens. The Stats
tics which the Chicago Tribune and
McClure's magazine were at some
pains to compile, and especially the
conclusion drawn from these, built
up a strong indictment against
American lawlessness, and exculpated
foreign lawlessness per Sc. Now the
turn has come, and the crime from
San Francisco to New York is almost
wholly crime of foreign manufacture,
perpetrators and victims belonging to
the alien element, to the most alien
element, Japanese, Aremenians, Mac
edonian, Italian, Greek, yet the wave
does not demonstrate that the ocean
of lawlessness is other than Ameri-
can. All of it which has any reason
any logic, which is not merely spas
modic crime that is traceable to moth
ing but individual passion, will be
found to be American in one way
or another.
1t is American in the first place
becausk of our immigration laws,
our lack of immigration regulations.
On the west coast we forbid the en-
try Of certain undesirable aliens, and
the antagonism which the coast feels
toward these orientals wants itself
against the members of the ace al
eady and rightfully there, and crimes
occur. While, on the eastern coast
the very opposite tactics, the free ad-
mission of any individual OF any
European nationality, provided they
have not individual disbarment, COM
plicates matters, makes it we'll nigh
impossible to properly police, to skill
fully transmute, these new Corners
into American citizens. It is true
that the crimes they commit and the
passions they are swayed by, whether
of preparation or Of revenge, are not
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
Mining.

The subject of hydraulic mining
has almost disappeared from public
attention since the decline of such
mining in California, due to the pas
sage of the Caminetti Act of 1898
This act was passed in the interest of
the agriculturists on account of the
great amount of debris being car
ried down into the rivers, thus en-
dangering their navigability and
flooding the lands adjacent to the
streams. 1t was claimed hat San
Francisco Bay was seriously affected
by this debris, but this claim was
probably overdrawn. The streams
were no doubt overburdened with
material, and there was some serious
loss to the agricultural interests.
Since 1893 the strict government
inspection of hydraulic properties has
practically prohibited the carrying
on of hydraulic operations as 1T Is
often impossible or impracticable to
build a dam large enough to effici-
emily settle and hold back the coarse
and fine materials washed down from
the properties. Many of the dams
that would be required would cost
upwards of a million dollars, so thai
only the largest companies or com
binations could possibly stand the
heavy expense involved.
When the Caminetti Act was passed
over 500, 100000 was invested II
actice hydraulic plants in California
and from $1O,OOO,000 to $4,000,
900 in gold was the annual produc
ton from this source alone. Stop
ping work in these hydraulic mines
was a great hardship to the people
of California, both directly and In
3 directly. since many of the mine
were small ones which could no
raise the capital necessary for build
! ing the required dams. The govern
ment acted in bad faith in selling
lands for hydraulic mining and the
prohibiting mdning of the same with
out awarding damages Only thos
mines having their watersheds ava
from the agricultural districts coul
k be worked and this restricted oper
atoms to Northern California. TIL
districts mainly affected were thos
the rivers Of which carried the DEF
ris to the Sacramento and San Joa
quin valleys.-From Mines and Mir
erals for August.
Union once for job printing.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
Denartment of Insurance.

Company's Certificate OF Authority.
Society of the United States, a corpora
ton organized under the laws Of New
statsment sxh thd ns,r its snS GGmait bsc. a g.
iianS confo.mable to the requirements OF
the laws OF this state regulating the bust
ness of insurance.; and,
Whereas, the said company has filed in
this office q duly e ceTtifi eS o Sopy Of its
in compliance with the requirements Of
the insurance law aforesaid;
Now. therefore, l, o. s. Basford, Com.
missioner Of Insurance Of the State Of
South Dakota, pursuant to the provisions
of said laws. do hereby certify that the
above named company is fully empow,
cred. through its authorized agents. n t t TO-
Insurance in this state, according to the
laws thereof, until the 31st day OF De-
cember. A. d. 1907.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and official seal at Pierre.
this Sd day OF April, a. D. 1907;
(Seal.) y. >.
Commissioner Of Insurance.
BY I. A. Schubert, Chief Clerk.