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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17
New Maine Postmaster.

Oyster Bay. n. Y. Sept 16.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today appointed the
following postmaster:
William I. Wood, Corinna, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Assistant Superintendent Clayton El
lis of the w. & o. is enjoying a few
days vacation at his home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17
PorerIeau- Greiner.

Charles Pomerleau and Flcchner
Greincr were united in marriage at st
Sebastian church Monday morning By
Rev. Father Silk. The church was
prettily decorated with asters and
sweet peas. The bride was gowned in
green silk. A large gathering Was
present
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Leroy Starrett has been visiting rel
ativcs and friends in Bangor and Orono
the past week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Thompson have gone to Kineo for
short time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Henry Bradford of Boston is the
guest Of his sister Mrs. Augusta Ellis
for time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17
Race Entries For
Readfield Fair.

Readfleld, Me, Sept. 15.-(SpeciaD.
following are the race entries for the
Kennebec county fair, which will open
Tuesday:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Miss Louise Goodell and A. A. Parker
of Cumberland Mills who We're the
guests Of Mrs. Myron Parker on Church
street recently, have returned to their
homes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Mrs. Gertrude West has returned to
her home in Portland, after visiting
relatives in town for the past few days
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Mace and son Ce-
Gil have gone on a carriage drive to
Albion and will be gone about a week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Oscar Crane visited his wife at Minot
a few days last week. Mrs. Cranes
health is very poor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Miss Fannie Stevens of Cumbelant
Mills is the guest of relatives in town
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Conductor Roscoe Holloway Of the W
& o. is enjoying 2 weeks vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Conductor William Penney has finish
ed work on the w. & o.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17
SOUTH CHINA.

Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Dudley passed a
few days last week with relatives in
Fairfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17
OAKLAND.

Joseph NJ. Owens is out Of town on a
two weeks vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17

Another future citizen arrived in
town Sunday night, in the family Of
Bickford Copp. a son.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-17
&c 7'"-Head. ScaIp Diseases Cured BY
1.-THE HOUSEHOLD SURGEON"

Druggists refund rroncv il nr. pnn-
fails. sc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13

this morning and short of money with
which to commence the days business
on account of being unable to get in
side the safe, and were compelled to
send across the river and the Central
National bank let US have all the mon
ey We will need. Mr.. Elmore, of the
Shawnee County bank, also offered us
any assistance that We might need
II was over on this side of the river
and in the bank Sunday evening, and it
must have been almost o'clock when
L lock the door of the bank and started
for home. At that time everything was
ali right, the vault locked and the com
bination had not been tampered with in
any way"
Everything Insured
Il cannot tell until 1 check UP Just
how much money there was in the
safe" said E. S. Gresser, the cashier,
but 1 know that the burglary insur-
ance we carry covers about $15, 900 more
than there was in the vault and the
Eank cannot lose anything if the safe
should prove to be empty.
I'VE feel that the attempt was mace
by inexperienced crooks and that they
tsiled to gain admission to the safe.
There was a small sum of money in a
basket just inside the vault door, pro-
bably not more than ten or fifteen dol
lars and the money on the vault floor
is probably part of this
If the safe containing the banks de-
posits has been robbed and then locked
1t is evident that the combination has
been worked and this is not probable
as it is one of the best time locks now
in use on bank safes. There are
number of deposit boxes on the inter-
Tor of the vault holding valuables of
the officers and patrons of the bank
but none of these have been disturbed
as far as the bank officials know.
Expert Can't Open Safe.
The expert who arrived from Kan
sas City at noon today to open the
safe in the Citizens National bank of
North Topeka has removed the dam
aged dial and worked the combination
from the outside. The time lock is
still on and it will be impossible to
open the safe until 1880 tomorrow
morning, for which time the clock is
set. The fact that the combination
has not been damaged and was work
ed by the expert, indicates that no
explosives were used in the attempt to
gain admission to the strong box.
There is about SIS, 900 in the safe in
currency and nearly double this
amount of burglary insurance is car
ried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
BREWERS HIT BACK.
Claimed They Were Not Properly
Served With Injunction.

At last the brewing concerns at
tempting to do business in Kansas
menced their fight against the work
of the receivers in taking possession
of all the brewery property in the
state.
The fight was opened this morning
by the Val Blatz Brewing company,
with a motion in the supreme court
to quash the service in the custer and
injunction suit. 1t Is contended that
the service of the papers was not
made on any authorized agent of the
The probability isLhat this is the
contention which win be made by
other brewery companies. 1t was the
one which the Anheuser- Busch COM
General jackson fastened the agency
to Theodore Schneider so tight that
not much is being said about that
matter now.
quash service, which was filed today
by Dawes & Rutherford. of Leaven-
worth, attorneys for the Val Blatz
Brewing company. F. B. Dawes was
Now comes the above named de-
fendant appearing specially for the
purposes of this motion only and
moves the court to quash and set
aside the summons and service there
of herein for the following reasons,
to wit:
"First-The said defendant, the Val
Blatz Brewing company, had at the
time such pretended service was made
no office or place of business within
the state of Kansas, nor was such
service made upon any officer or Of
fcers of such defendant corporation.
"Second-For the further reason
that none of the parties upon whom
said pretended service was made We're
agents or servants of the defendant,
the Val Blatz Brewing company, nor
were they connected with said de-
fendant company in any way or man
ner whatsoever.
"Afidavits and other evidence will
be used in support of this motion.
DAWES & RUTHERFORD,
"Att'vs for Defendant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
FAVORS CONTRACTORS.
U. S. Supreme Court Makes Ruling
ON the Eight Hour Law

washington May 13.@Justice
Holmes of the supreme court of the
United States today announced de-
cisiOn in seven cases involving the con-
struction of the law of 1892, by which
the employment of laborers and me-
chanics on public works is limited to
eight hours per day. The defendants
were all prosecuted criminally and
were all found guilty and fined by the
trial court. The suits were instituted
especially for the purpose of testing
the applicability of the law to laborers
and mechanics employed on dredges in
river and harbor improvements. but
other points also were necessarily in
volved. The court held the law to be
constitutional but held that it does not
apply to laborers and mechanics on
dredgeS and that men so employed can
not be held to be employed upon pub
lie works. All these cases came to the
supreme court on writS of error from
the federal court for the district of
Massac chusetts Justice Moody deliv-
cred dissenting opinion. The decis-
ion will have immediate bearing upon
the letting of contracts for the $S7.-
100000 worth of river and harbor
work authorized by the last session of
congress. Most of the contracts un-
der that law were held up by the war
department pending the settlement of
these cases.
Justice Holmes opinion that men
employed in dredges in river and har-
Dor improvements are not laborers or
mechanics was based on the ground
that in effect such men are seamen. He
said that all other employment is Incl
dental to the work of the men on the
dredges and to their services as sea-
men and that therefore they must be
classified as seamen.
Justice Moody held a diametrically
opposite view, declaring that the du-
ties of the men in handling the dredges
are incidental to their work as labor
ers. Their principal duty was that of
digging and removing dirt and the fact
that they are employed on a vessel
does not alter the case. The court, he
said, had nothing to do with the policy
of congress in enacting the law.
justices Harlan and Day concurred
in the dissenting opinion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
1T IS WARMER TO-DAY.
Mercury on the Up Grade-Wind
Drops to is Miles an Hour.

There has been but little said of late
about THE good old summer time.''
in fact there has been but little to re-
mind a resident of Topeka of any such
a season. For several weeks past the
mercury has been flirting with the
frost nearly every night and the
change would be a welcome one if an
accurate guess could be made as to
the proper wearing apparel
At o'clock today the mercury
reached 80, or just two degrees lower
than Sunday, and the wind is travel
ing at the seemingly slow pace of Is
miles an hour. when compared with
the 35-mile-an-h our-wind which pre-
vailed Sunday over practically the en-
tire state.
The weather map today indicates
as it has for a week past the possibility
of local showers at any time, though
Topeka has been spared for several
successive days. There will be a drop
in the temperature tonight which will
prevail during the succeeding "a hours
if the assignment of weather is up to
the advance notices.
The hourly temperatures today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
PEART TOOK ACID.
Young Man Sick Takes His Own
Life.

Rex H. Peart, young man who has
been in the employ of George H.
Palmer the undertaken for some time
as an apprentice, died at the home of
his mother, Mrs. w. H. Peart, 1876 Gar
field avenue, some time between II
o'clock Saturday night and Sunday af-
ternoon at 5 o'clock as the result of
drinking cerbolic acid with suicidal in
tent There is no reason given for the
deed as he had said nothing to any one
of contemplating such a thing and left
no explanations.
He had been suffering for some time
from consumption and his mother and
sister think that he may have become
respondent from brooding over his con-
dition and ended his life for this season.
His mother and sister went to the coun-
last seen of the young man was by
Thomas Fortune with whom he worked
He was at Mr.. Palmer'S eSta bliShment
about 10 o'clock Saturday night and
contemplated spending the night with
his friend but finally decided to go to
the home of his mother.
He had removed all of his clothing be-
fore retiring and when the body was
found by his mother and sister Sunday
afternoon about five o'clock a lamp in
the room was burning, though Coroner
Kieth said that the condition of the
body Indicated that the young man had
died some time Saturday night.
Mr. Pearl left the employ of Mr..
Palmer Saturday night of his own ac-
cord with a view of going to Kansas
City, hoping that he would advance fas-
a member of the A. o. U. w. in which
he carried a policy for the benefit of
his mother. The funeral was held at
two o'clock this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
BIG FIRE AT LEBAN N.
One-fourth of Business Section De-
stroyed-LOss $4,000.

Lebanon. Kan, May 13.-Fully one
fourth of the business section of Le-
banon, Kan, was destroyed by fire this
morning from 1:3O to o'clock. All that
position of the city from the Lebanon
State bank north to the Argus office
on the west side of the street was con-
sumed. The loss is about $4,000.
Those completely burned out were:
j. E. Brodmarkle, hardware; Adams
Bros, merchants; w. S. Arbuthnot,
druggist; Drs. J. B. and H. A. Dykes;
r. H. Skillen. furniture; ]. Falkenburg.
grocery; ]. n. Peters, clothing; j. c.
McCorkle, merchant; W. w. Johnson.
restaurant; Roy-Nichols, jewellery; Geo.
S. H. Shook. harness; Mrs. S. Peek,
vacant store: L. NJ. Linton. Twelve
business buildings in all. The Doctor
Dkes owning two of them and are the
heaviest losers. Adams Bros, r. P.
Skillin and Mrs. Peek carried no in
surance and many others only light in
surance. The fire was we'll under way
when 1t was discovered in the rear of
the restaurant and it its origin is some
thing of a mystery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13

spite the efforts of two fire boats and
all the shore apparatus that could
work on the burning ship, destroyed
everything inflammable on the craft.
Tons of water were poured into the
hull, which now lies at the Orleans
street dock partially submerged. The
two watchmen on the steamer got
ashore safely and no one was injured.
The City of Cleveland was launched
at Wyandotte, January 5, and was to
have been turned over to the Detroit
and Cleveland Navigation company
about June 80. She is 444 feet long
and is designed to carry 4,50O passen-
gers, with sleeping accommodations
for 1900. The interior woodwork and
fittings were practically completed and
the machinery and boilers were in
stalled. She was intended to be the
finest side wheel steamer on fresh
water and her interior woodwork. all
of which is destroyed. was unusually
beautiful and lavish. Her whole cost
would have reached $1,250.000.
The shipbuilding company announce
that they will rebuild the boat. 1t
will be impossible to get her ready for
service before next season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
MUCH Time SAVED.
Mail for South America Goes by Way
of Europe.

New York. May 13.-The White Star
liner Majestic. which sails for Queens
town and Liverpool on Wednesday,
will take the first consignment of
American mail under the new system
of transporting it by way of Europe to
South Brazil. Argentina, Uruguay and
Paraguay. The mail will be transfer
red to a swift liner bound from Eng
land for South American ports and
will get to it's destination several days
sooner than it would if sent directly
from this port by slow and irregular
steamships. The French liner La
Touraine which sails for Havre on
Thursday will also take a batch of
South American mail and the Amerf-
can liner st. Louis off on Saturday for
Southampton will do likewise. Ship
pers expect to save from five to seven
days by sending their mail by way of
England and France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
SWEPT BY FIRE.
New Steamer Nearly Destroyed Be-
fore Being Completed.

Detroit, Mich, May 13.-The magni-
ficent new passenger steamer City of
Cleveland, under construction at the
plant of the Detroit Shipbuilding COM
pany for the Detroit and Cleveland
Navigation company and designed to
run between Detroit and Cleveland
was swep. by fire early today and is a
total loss except for her hull and ma
chinery. How much they have been
damaged can not be determined until
the hull is pumped out and careful
examination made. The loss, which
falls upon the Detroit Shipbuilding
company, a branch of the American
Shipbuilding company. is about $780,
600 and is fairly well covered by in
surance.
The fire broke out just before day
light in some mysterious manner. An
incendiary is suspected. The officials
of the shipyards are at loss to ex-
plain the fire as there were two watch
men on the steamer and another at
the gate to the shipyard.
The flames had secured a good start
before they were discovered and de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
FATAL WRECK ON R. |.
Two Men Are Killed in a Headon
Collision.

Oklahoma City. May 13.-Two men
were killed. one fatally injured and four
seriously injured in a head-on collision
at about midnight last night between
two Rock Island freight trains a few
miles west of Lima Okla.
Engineer Curry was smothered TO
death by being pinned between two cars
and a negro who was shoveling coal
for Fireman Lineman was instantly
killed. Lineman jumped but received
injuries from which he may die.
Two tramps stealing a ride and a
brakeman were badly injured. The other
trainmen saved themselves by jumping
Engineer Wallen assumes the blame for
the collision.
He had received orders to sidetrack at
McAllester and Lima but failed to do
so at the latter place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
BURNED TWO BLOCKS.
Fire Destroys Business Section of
Carnegie, Okla.

Oklahoma City. Okla, May ia
special to the Times-Journal from Car
negie, Okla, states that fire visiaed
that city this morning which wiped out
two business blocks. entailing a loss of
$4,000. insurance 81 ,O0O.
The buildings burned were on opposite
sides of the street and were as follows
Fred Regrill, hardware store; Citizens
bank, Andrews hotel two furniture
stores. Carnegie Mercantile company,
Dan Perry.s real estate office. two sa-
looms. two barber shops, one drug store.
one restaurant and bowling alley The
main business section of the town is
destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
Supreme Court Orders the Case
Dismissed.
HAS BEEN EXPENSIVE.
Cost to the State Will Be About
$4,000.
Testimony Filled Twenty Large
Typewriter Volumes.
Purpose Was to Conserve
Waters of the Arkansas.

Washington, May 13.-The somewhat
famous case of the state of Kansas
against the state of Colorado. by which
the former wishes to have the latter
enjoined from diverting the waters OF
the Arkansas river for irrigation pur-
poses. or permitting its citizens to do
so, was dismissed by the supreme court
of the United States today. The an
nouncement of the courts decision was
made by Justice Brewer who said that
the dismissal was without prejudice to
the right of Kansas to serve its petit
ton whenever it can be shown that
that state is being substantially injur-
ed.
The intervening petition of the Uni
ted States also was dismissed.
The above case, which has now been
decided against the state of Kansas.
was probably one of the most lucrative
gratis ever put through the Kansas leg
islature under the name of legitimate
expense. From first to last. it has cost
the state at least $4,000 to find out
that it has not been injured.
The attorneys who were the benefi-
ciaries of this lawsuit were Fred Du-
mont Smith, n. II. Loomis and s. g..
Ashbaugh. Smith and Loomis assisted
in the work of preparing the briefs but
s. s. Ashbaugh did nearly all the work
of taking testimony. The testimony in
the case, of which an abstract was
printed for the supreme court, consist
ed of 20 huge typewriter volumes. The
abstract was CONDENSED into two
huge printed volumes, each one as big
as a Journal of the Kansas house of
representatives.
Kansas will have all the expenses
in the case to pay, now that it has
been decided against her.
The legislature of 1905 appro-
priated $4,000 which was all used in
paying expenses and the three law
yerS- This was looked upon with
much suspicion by many people in the
state. but when the legislature of 1907
for each of the lawyers in the case, 1t
was by everybody regarded as
doubtful transaction, and by many of
the members of the legislature was
publicly declared to be a graft
The object of the suit was to COM
pei the state of Colorado to cease
using water of the Arkansas river for
irrigation purposes until the irrigation
bitches of prior construction in the
state of Kansas are supplied. 1t is
claimed that the Colorado irrigation
projects consume so much water that
there is none left for Kansas
The supreme court holds that KAN
sas has not shown that it was injured
by the action of Colorado If the
state can show, at some future time,
that it has been injured, it can again
start the suit.
1t probably would have been better
dismissed the case with prejudice to
the future action, for that would have
shut off the possibility of further ap-
preparations for reOpening the case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
FOURTEEN DEAD.
Premature Explosion at a Railroad
Camp in North Carolina.

Charlotte, n. c., May 13.-As the
result of a premature explosion at
camp 211a on the South and Western
railway near Marion. N. c., Saturday
evening, IA men are dead, bodies
have been recovered. Foreman Kidd g
body was badly mangled.
At the same camp Sunday afternoon
Walking Boss Kidd and Charles Hale
went to quiet Jim and William An
derson, who are said to have been
drinking when Anderson fired and
killed Kidd. Following this Hale kill
ed Anderson. Hale and five others
are under arrest at Marion charged
with murder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
THEY NEED MORE ROOM.
Topeka Furniture Factory Will Erect
q Good Sized Addition.

The Southwestern Furniture Manu-
featuring company has grown so rap
idly that 1t is forced to erect an addf-
ton so by so feet and three stories
high to cost $4,000. This will more
than triple their capacity for manu-
featuring show cases and bank fur
niture. The business has grown phe-
nomenally. having betn established
less than two years From twelve to
fifteen more men will be added to the
pay rolls as soon as the new addition
is completed. The new structure will
be Of brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
SHUT IN BURNING Mine.
Ninety Men Are Believed to Have Lost
Their Lives.

City of Mexico, May 13.-Ninety
men are supposed to have lost their
lives in a fire which started in the
Tenaries copper mines at Velserdena,
in the state of Durango, last Friday
night. The fire is still raging and is
said to be beyond control.
Thirty-five bodies have been recoV-
cred up to this time.
Seventeen miners are known to have
escaped.
This information has been conveyed
IN a dispatch to the Associated Press
office in Mexico City.
The burning mine belongs to the
GuggenheimS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
BIGHAM GIVES UP.
Has No Hope of Getting Back Into
Consular Service.

". R. Bigham of White City. Kan,
former United States consul to Cape
Town. S. A, is in Topeka today. Mr..
Bigham has about given up the idea
of getting back into the consular SER
vice. He says
was one of the Burton appointees,
and there is no show for me as long
as Roosevelt is president. No one who
ever had anything to do with Burton
can get anything from Roosevelt
MI Bigham is in town to attend the
Burton lecture this evening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-13
SNOW IN WYOMING.
Attains a Depth of a Foot in Some
Localities.

Laramie, Wyo., May 13.-Snow has
been falling all the forenoon in the reg
ion between Cheyenne to Rawlins, but
is melting rapidly and is causing no
trouble. On Laramie range east of this
city ten inches fell. At Holmes in Medi-
cines Bow mountains. a foot of snow
has fallen in the past "a hours. At Raw
Inns about eight inches has fallen but
it settled to more than four inches. The
snow is beneficial rather than harmful