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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

The Democrats are doubtless re-
heved to find that they will not have
to draft anyone to run for president.
If no one else will accept the nomina-
ton, Jesse Grant will offer himself as
a sacrifice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

Colonel Milt Amrine. of the Council
Grove Guard. rises to nominate Sena-
tor H. B. Miller of Usage county, for
governor. who, he asserts, will have
the Fourth district solidly, the minute
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

1t is said that a bear will fight back
when attacked. That Michigan preach
er who is jumping on the Teddy bear
better look a little out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

Query; When Sehmitz runs for may
or again, as he says he will, will he run
on reform" platform, the same as
heretofore?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

Boise is going to feel mighty lone
some after the Haywood trial is over
and when it no longer appears in the
date lines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

Japan is going to keep COOL" says
Ambassador Aoki. Japan should go
further and keep the coolies" sug-
gests the Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
ACCURATELY SIZED UP.

If Mr.; Roosevelt really did succeed
in "bottling up" Mr.. John TempIe
Graves at Norfolk, it simply demon
strates the correctness of Mr.. Graves
idea that the president is a corker-
Washington Herlad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

President Roosevelt rested some
more at Sycamore Hill last week by
going out and pitching hay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

Experts say that in case of war with
Japan We would get the island of For
mosa. This is another powerful reas-
on why war should be avoided. Have
MT we too many islands over there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
A OITESTION OF FOOLS.

The completion, of an irrigation
projeo. has made it possible to re-
claim 10000 acres of fine land in New
Mexico. People who live from hand
to mouth in the overcrowded districts
Of great cities will wonder where
fools enough to occupy as much land
as that can ever be found.-Chicago
RecOrd-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
JESTER.

A thousand years ago an English king
with Mark Twain at his garden party
would have conceived the brilliant idea
of cornering his hunor and making him
the court Jester.-Springfeld Republi-
can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

From now on the corn crop should
be saved" at least once a week. The
rural correspondents should take due
notice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
KANSAS COMNENT
NO GRIEVANCE.


Railroads" screams the Denver
Post, are holding Colorado by the
throat, and dare anybody to come to
the rescue" The grievance of the pa
per is that Colorado is being discrin-
mated against in every possible man
ner; that the railroads are giving Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri a
passenger rate of cents a mile, while
Colorado has to pay 8 cents. Colo
RADIO ought to. be the last state in the
union to make a "holler' on the rail-
roads. Year after year they have been
dragging people from all parts of the
country to the summer resorts of the
mountain state. Lower rates have
been made from the Missouri river,
to Denver and return, than to points
two-thirds of the way across the state
OF Kansas The railroads have hauled
people to Colorado against their
screams, and are still doing it. How
different in eastern Kansas! The rail-
roads won't let anybody stop here if
they can help it. This is a producing
state; it must produce something to
be hauled away. and its people must
go to Colorado or the Pacific or At
iantic coast for INSTRUMENTATION
Globe,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

= The lady in the Runyan case should
read up on the history of one Cassie
Chadwick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
TROUBLE AHEAD.

Senator LaFoilette is speaking
through Kansas again. telling what the
last session of congress failed to do,
and is getting big audiences. 's He will
can make more trouble in an evenings
talk than all the politicians in Kansas
can smooth over in three weeks.-Bur-
lingame Chroniole.' t 71
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
The Lazy Man,

At the Jamestown exposition Mark
Twain talked about laziness at a din
per.
1--WE are all lazy" he said, "but some
of US fight it down. Some of us, again
don't. I knew a nOncombatant of this
class when 1 was a boy in Hannibal
His name was Jim Black, and one fine
summer morning I found him lying
under a tree beside the river. listening
to the birds, and watching the steam
boats glide up and down the great
stream.
Well, what are you here for?' I
said.
I'm here said Jim, for to pile
them bales onto the wharf
"'Oh,' said I. And now you are
resting, are you?
mo said Jim. I amt resting, be-
cause I amt tired. I'm just waiting
for the sun to sink down behind that
there hill, SOS can knock on work. :"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
CLIMBING THE STEPS.

The first step towards freedom was
issuing the declaration of independ-
ence. The next step was knocking
Hail Columbia" out of the British
The next step was that Uncle Sam had
to spank some of his own children be-
cause they were naughty and rebel
lious. Well, we are climbing the steps
toward freedom slowly and will reach
there If we are loyal to truth and
practice self control.-AlIna Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
NOT so FIJNNY. EITHER,

Funny proposition. isn't it? The la
dies go around clad in cool f1lmy lace
and a winning smile. showing round,
dimpled arms while poor dilatory man
is shooed out in the dining room if he
has not on his coat.-Minneapolis Better
Way. N"f ifrs afsts s.-1 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
BLAMEs THE NINE OWNERS.

IT the newspapers reflect public sem
timent at all, there has been a radical
change of feeling toward the three Of
f1cers of the Western Federation of
Miners on trial at Boise. Before the
trial opened, Meyer, Haywood and Pet
tibone were distinctly in disfavor, but
since the hearing of the case has be-
gun and the public is in possession OF
the evidence the feeling is gaining that
the western miners haven't been get
ting a square eda1 from the mine own
ers and that the responsibility for the
riot and bloodshed ultimately rests up
on the latter.-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
The Boss Character.

There is a story about q company
promoter who advertised for an office
boy He received 100 replies. Out of
100 he selected ten. and with the
writers of these ten replies he had a
personal interview. His final choice
fell upon a bright youth. to whom he
said: "My boy, / like your appear
ance and your manner very much. I
think you may do for the place. Did
you bring a character" No. sir
said the boy, "I can go home and get
it, VERY we'll; come back tomor-
row morning with it, and IL 1t is salts
factory / dare say / shall engage
YOU" Late that same afternoon the
financier was surprised by the return
of the candidate. WELL he said
cheerily, "have you got your charac-
ter?'' mo" answered the boy, but
I've got yours-an' 1 amt coming.''-
Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
WHY HE DIDN'T.

AccOrdfng to Topeka dispatches, J.
H. Richards. attorney for the Missouri
Pacific, declared that If Jake Shep-
pard, secretary of the National Track
mems union, wanted to go with the
state board of railroad commissioners
on its tour OF. inspection of the tracks
of the Missouri Pacific he would have
to ride las an ordinary passenger"
The Ordinary passengers who have
ridden over the road In question now
know why Mr.. Sheppard didn't ac-
company the railroad commissioners.
-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
How Fireworks Are Made.

1.-THE most solitary person in the
world, during working hours" says
Rene Baehe, in the July Technical
World Magazine, lis the maker of
roman candles. He occupies an iso-
lated cell, somewhat like that of an
old-time hermit, save that it's pre-
cincts are more contracted. and no.
body comes near him while he is en-
gagged in his patient toll. The wages
he gets are high, but not by reason of
the loneliness to which he is con-
demned; he is paid for the risks he is
obliged to take.
1.-The quarters occupied by this
erenite artisan are a tiny house,
which might almost be called a hut,
with a floor space not more than six
feet square. Standing by itself, at
least sixty yards from any other
structure, the little building is of
wood. of the simplest imaginable
architecture. If 1t were to be blown
UP. the financial loss would be almost
mia point of some importance inas-
much as it's diurnal tenant is obliged
to use considerable quantities of ex-
plosives in the business which engages
his attention. For a roman candle is
a sort of maya zine, or repeating gun,
with a paper tube for a barrel and
balls of fire for projectiles.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

He lifted who were fallen fallen down?
In glad hosannaS to the LORD,
Beyond the Gates of Paradise,
He has not won a rich rewardf
Express.
This Wide World.
Spain's royal baby, the prince of the
Asturias, was born too late to enjoy
the distinction of being heir to the
throne of the richest country in the
world. The Carthaginians and the
Tyrians regarded Spain as Ell Dorado.
1t is but a poor country today, but
potential wealth lies in it's rock-bound
hills. just as In the days of the an
clients. When those aequisitiVe
mariners, the Phoenicians, first set
foot in the country of King Alfonso
they exchanged their commodities,
quantities of silver that their ships
could neither contain nor sustain the
load, though they used it for ballast
and made their anchors and other i'm
was the country then that the people
are said to have made their common
est domestic utensils of the metal.
and even their managers. The Romans
found that their greedy fererunners
had sadly diminished the precious
store, yet enough was left to satisfy
not few proconsuls. Today the
queen of Spain alone can afford a
silver cradle.
High prices prevailing In Yukon
territory continue to prevent many
tourists from visiting that country.
writes: TN one instance a party of
some two dozen tourists from the
eastern states arrived here in the
morning and. after hasty trip up the
creeks left on the steamer the same
evening. A visitor from the outside,
particularly from the extreme east of
the United States, is astonished to find
that the smallest coin in circulation
Is rs cents, that the article which costs
cents at home will cost from over
two to five times that much, and that
IS cents is paid for scent cigar or
an ordinary local newspaper. that a
charge of 81 to $3.50 is made for de-
iiVering a single piece of baggage to
blocks, and everything else in proper
ton"
California has centenarian, now
living, whose father was born in 1878.
This record is equaled by the remark
able case of a farmer named James
Bolton, England. in 1914 at the age
of 100. His father. William HorFocks.
was born in 1857 and at the age of "a
married his second wife. whose age
was IS. James Horroc ks was the
child of this marriage and, living in
the reign of Queen Victoria, he may
have boosted that his father was born
In the time of Oliver Cromwell
Every working day of the year
there is printed at Washington an
average of more than 100000 of
new paper money. Every day there is
destroyed practically the same
The machines in the minis
at Philadelphia, New Orleans and San
Francisco daily stamp into form about
100000 of shining coin. There is
fol nF f100 f100
money created every day at the money
work shops of the government
Chicago News.
How Fireworks Are Made.
1.-THE most solitary person in the
Il
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-12-09
Congress- Power.

The congress has the power to char
ter corporations to engage in interstate
and foreign commerce, and general
law can be enacted under the proyi-
sions of which existing corporations
could take out federal charters and
new federal corporations could be Gre
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-12-09
To Tax Nonresidents Higher.

The tax should if possible be made
to bear more heavily upon those resid-
ing without the country than within it.
A heavy progressive tax upon very
large fortune is in no way such a tax
upon thrift or industry as a like tax
would be on a small fortune. No adj
vantage comes either TO the country
as a whole or TO the individuals inner
iting the money by permitting the
transmission in their entirety of the
enormous fortunes which would be af
fected by such a tax. and as an Incl
dent to its function of revenue raising
such a tax would help to preserve a
measurable equality of opportunity for
the people of the generations growing
to manhood.
We have not the slightest sympathy
with that socialistic idea which would
try to PIT laziness. thriftlessness and
ineficiency on a par with industry.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03

That two persons should be today
lying in jail at st. Peter, the home of
Gov. Johnson, on account of an over
mastering belief in Witchcrait, which
belief led them to acts sdbversive of
law and good citizenship, is a sad
commentary on the alleged superior
ity OF that ancient burg over alIother
Minnesota towns as center of light
and learning. Come to think of it.,
however, SO many remarkable trans
formations have occurred at st. Peter,
unexpl ainabls on any other theory
than that of witchcraft, that one can
hardly blame the two Petersons, now
suffering martyrdom, for their belief.
The st. Peter habit of Transforming
quiet, ordinary citizens into COVER
'nors, congressman, supreme court
judges and Observation-Disclosures of all
sorts, savors strongly of the occult.
Somebody. from ST. Peter must GER
tainly have ridden abroad on broom
stick on the eve of the last two cleo
lions, especially.-Pioneer Press.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03
SOME ELECTION SURPRISES
Nagel Carries First Ward by Small
Plurality over Beecher.
Wicherski Wins Out by Narrow
Margin of One.
In the Third Pfaender Gets Two
TO Meyers One.
St. Peter Takes the Lid Off by
Electing Philip Dick.

The vote in all of the wards yester.-
day was fairly large, but little, if any,
excitement marked the events of the
day.
In the First ward, where the hottest
fight of the campaign was waged,
Nagel made good his claims and won
out by majority of eleven over
Beecher. Flor could hardly be said
to have been in the running. The vote
of the ward was as follows: Nagel,
129; Beecher, l18; Flor, 80.
The Second ward contest proved q
surprise on account of it's closeness,
Wicherski defeating his opponent
Buenger by only one vote. Wicher-
ski received 1852 and Buenger l6l.
The Third ward result may have been
a surprise to some, but not to the close
observer. There were those who
Thoughts Pfaender could be beaten, but
they were poor guessers. He beat his
opponent, Meyer, by vote of 24l to
lzO.
The results leave the council! the
same as at present with one exception
Flor giving way to the old veteran
of the ward, Hermann Nagel.
st. Peter decided to take Off the lid
and elected Philip Dick over Rounse-
vile by . majority Of nearly 200.
Tracy went dry. The majority in
favor of the lid was only 13, however.
Chicago went Republican. Busse
defeated the present mayor by sl8, 600:
In Mankato DR.. Andrews triumphed
over the present administration and
beat Taylor by 233 votes.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03

st. Peter capitalists have received
an offer from the Commercial Artificial
Fuel company of Toledo, Ohio, which
may result in the development of the
peat bogsin sOshawa township. The
eastern men I'VE agreed to erect a
plant, costing 900, for the. manu-
facture of peat bs1cks if the st. Peter
investors will purchase a tract of
land having the same value as the
plant, and the proposition is now
being considered by ST. Peter men
who are interesting themselves in the
project.
The house has passed the county
agricultural school bill, the vote being
68 to 43. When the roll was called
several members explained that they
understood that the bill could not
pass the senate in its present form,
but would be amended to leave only
two or three schools, and with that
understanding they would vote for it.
Several city members explained that
they voted no because they did not
want to force on the country some
thing that apparently the country does
not want. The bill permits any county
to established an agricultural school
and gives some state aid for mainten-
ance, but the special feature is the
appropriation of 10000 to the eight
towns, Brecke nridge, Austin, Will
mar, Madison, Marshall, Morris,
Slayton and Wadena.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03
FIRES BULLET INTO BRAIN
Former Nicollet County Official
Seeks to End His Own Life.
Death is Not Instantaneous but
Must Surely Result. @ss
Dread of the Outcome of Approach
ing Trial Regarded as the
Motive.

G. A. Blomberg Jr., former clerk
of the district court in N1collet county,
is dying at his home in ST. Peter as
the result of self-infiicted wound.
Blomberg is under Indictment for
alleged misuse of public funds and
fearing the outcome of his approaching
trial he took favorable opportunity
Monday afternoon and fired revolver
bullet into his brain. The wound is
sure to prove fatal.
Until few years ago Mr.. Blomberg
was regarded as one of st. PETERS
leading citizens. In 1904, after he had
held the Office of clerk of the court for
thirteen years, he was defeated in the
primary campaign, and subsequently
a number of alleged Irregularities
were discovered in his accounts. An
accountant from the offise of the public
examiner made an investigation OF his
Office and found a shortage of upwards
of $500. This was paid in full by the
former clerk, but the Nicollet county
grand jury at the term of court last
June indicted him ON four separate
counts. His arrest in Montana fol-
lowed and after short confinement he
was released on bail.
Monday afternoon he and his wife
sat talking at their home. She was
called away for afew minutes and when
she returned she found her husband
lying across bed in pool of blood.
He had placed revolver against his
right ear and fired the contents into
his head. IL
After the tragedy he retained the use
of his faculties long enough to make a
statement to his wife and doctor, but
early in the evening he became uncon-
scious, and his death is only matter
OF hours
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03

Congressman MeCleary entered up
master general last Thursday. During
the present month Mr.. McCleary will
spend sometime in Minnesota, after
which he will visit number of the
large cities of the country for the pur-
pose of getting in touch with the pos
tai service in the field.
Harvey Hampton, construction fore
man Of the Nicollet County Telephone
company, has invented compact tele-
phone cabinet that seems to offer great
possibilities. The Hampton model is
fully six inches shorter than the ordi-
nary cabinet, and does not project SO
far from the wall as those commonly
in use. It has compartments for dry
batteries, the receiver hook and lnduc-
ton coils, and utilities the space under
the shelf for the generator. The cabi-
net can be manufactured much cheaper
than those on the market at present,
and Mr.. Hampton has received good
offer for his invention from tele-
phone supply house
It will interest local members of the
National Guard to know that Capt. A.
E. Clark, recently promoted from the
rank of first ieuten ant, has just
gradu ated from the garrison school
for officers at Fort Smelling and has
received his diploma after three
years course of study in the higher
branches Of military work. He is the
only militia officer in the Northwest
to have completed this work, and only
three or four militia officers in the
United States have received the honor.
Capt. Clark has been in the national
guard six years. He has been on the
state rifle team every year and has
gone to Sea Girt, N j., with the team
both years it attended the national
matches. Next fall he will go to Fort
Leayenworth, Kan, to take another
years work at the infantry and caval-
ry school.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03
LOTUS BECOMES Communicative
Consents to Tell a Few Things at
Thursdays Investigation.

s The. Peterson committee, having in
charge the investigation of the Mime
sofa Shippers and Receivers associa-
tion,. resumed the inquiry Thursday
afternoon with George LOTUS on the
stand. George Armstrong, an attorney,
conducted the examination for the
comnittee.
The. hearing was devoid of some of
the personal TEXTURES that have char
acterized those held to date and quite
q lot st informa alton was obtained. Mr..
LOTUS, too, was more, liberal in his
answers. .s,.s.. I'd. 4..: -
Mr.. Lotus practically told the COM
mittee that hewas pretty much the as
ISOLATION, receiving the dues 1of the
members, paying the. billssand direct
Ing the work of the association gener-
ally. The associationhad a treasurer,
but Mr.. Lotus said he received and
expended the money instead. It was
also brought out that the bylaws were
little observed by the association in
the election of officers.
Thes committee at the close con-
sidered it the best hearing on the mat
ter yet held.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03
HUNGARIAN BOYS BAND COMING
Fine Musical Organization to be
Heard next Saturday and
Sunday evenings.

The celebrated Schilzonyi Hungari-
an Boys band, now making a tour of
America, has been secured by the
management of the Turner Theatre for
concert at that playhouse next Satur-
day and Sunday evenings, April 9th
and 7th.
The band is composed of 35 boys
and has everywhere proved a popular
attraction. The papers of the Twin
Cities, where the band has just com
pieted two weeks engagement, speak
in the highest terms of praise of its
work as a concert organization.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-03
FROGS BLOCK RAILROAD TRAINS
Leaving Winter Quarters They Make
Trouble for the Omaha
Near MankatO.

A Mankato special to the Pioneer
Press reads as follows:
Frogs are delaying traffic on the
Omaha road. They have come out of
their winter quarters by thousands as
a result OF the warm weather, and in
crossing the railway track have been
ground under the wheels of passing
trains until the rails have become so
slippery that trains have been stopped.
A night or so ago a passenger train
was stopped near Mankato and the
next morning another train had a
similarexperience near Bingham Lake.