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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30
REAL ESTATE.

" ItEAL ESIAIE. ~ n q.
JOIN US IN A TRIP to Texas on the
evening of January 5th or the 10th.
Either to Armarillia or the Gulf
Coast. Great bargains to home
seekers.
J. w. CLARK g CO.,
ia Court street.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30

Evelyn Thaw can repeat her
story, but it is a safe prediction
that it will not attract as gmuch
attention from the newspapers and
general public as it did whenf first
told.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30

A Chicago man committed suicide
by the gas route. Alderman or sena-
tor?
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30

While Secretary William IL Taft on his tour around the world he will
ton and his candidacy for the presidency When he is not otherwise occupied
Charlie him
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30
WAsT,E pNpER

We pay 30c cwt. for boolss, maga-
zines and folded newspapers. VIII
call any place in city. Telephone
in. MAdIO.
2S2-292 Farming Street.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-30
PETITIONS
FOR DIVORCE
Filed in the Common Pleas
Court.
HUBBY INUNDATED Her
Says Mrs. Emma F. Rice
and was Uncledn.
United States telephone Company
Files Reply % Stating That
Injunction was Violated.

Emma +. Rice filed petition Mon
day in the common pleas court ask
ing for a divorce from her husband,
Jonathan Rice The plaintiff claims
that at and after the time of her mar
riage to the defendant, he was suff-
ering from an unclean disease which
was brought to her knowledge by a
physician. That she was unable TO
live with him and that the condition
of her husband humiliated her among
her friends and associates, are the
principal aiiegations made by tie
plaintiff, who prays for divorce and
restoration to her maiden name,
Emma f. Goodrich that she may
more easily earn her own living. She
states that her husband Is a station-
ary engineer, earning good wages.
and asks the court to grant her rcas-
enable alimony
The plaintiff is represented by L.
Il. Myers.
The plaintiff in the case of the
United States Telephone company.
against the Marion County Telephone
company and the Central Union Tel
lephone company, filed q reply TO the
answer and an answer to the cross
petition of the defendant, the Marion
County Telephone company, Monday
AFTERNOON In the common pleas court
1he plaintiff states that the con-
tract entered into by he Marion Conn
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
BEL0IT CASHIER SHORT,
H. A. Phelps Had Taken Money to Aid
a Spendthrift Son.

Beloit, Dec. 27.-H. A. Phelps, cashier
of the First National bank Of Beloit,
is short $4,000 on his accounts. He has
turned over all his property to the
bank and it is believed that it is enough
TO entirely protect the bank from loss.
Mr.. Phelps is one of the most prominent
business men in this part of the state
and very highly regarded. The an
nouncement came as bolt from a clear
sky. The First National bank is very
strong institution and not in the least
effected by the trouble with it's cashier,
for whom general sympathy is ex-
pressed.
That the defalcations have not been
discovered sooner can be accounted for
from the fact that the funds that have
been thus wrongly manipulated were
trust funds placed in Mr.. Phelps hands
and over which he had almost entire
school fund amounting to $4,000 which
was placed in the hands of Mr.. Phelps
as treasurer; and $4,000 belonging to
Mrs. G. W. Post, whose confidence he
possessed and whose business he look
ed after. and others of a like nature.
Mr. Phelps was president of the
ScottSville State bank, and it is to the
mismanagement. of that institution
and the general reckless expenditure
and bad investment made by his son,
H. w. Phelps, it's former cashier, that
all the trouble in the Phelps family
has been brought about. The funds
misappro priated have been used to
bolster up the affairs of the Scots
Vile bank which has long been in
state of ENHANCEMENT, and whose
doors would have been closed years
ago but for the wrongful course which
the father pursued in order to main
tain the reputation of a spendthrift
son.
The directors of the First National
bank have replaced the money that
has been nisa ppropriated and Mr..
Phelps long connection with the bank
has been brought to a painful close.
The bank at Scottsville has been
closed and is in the hands of State
Bank Commissioner John Q. Royce.
It's affairs will be settled up as quickly
as possible, and it is thought that
there will be sufficient available funds
to pay all its deposftors in full. 1t has
never had any Connection with the
First National bank of this city. and
most of it's capital stock is held by
members of the Phelps family
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
ROYALTY.IN A. FUSS.
Gipsy Queen Procures Arrest of a
King and His Tribe

New York, Dee. 27.-An Z entire
gypsy camp is under arrest from the
king down, on the complaint of the
queen of another camp, who accuses
those under arrest Of having robbed
here of $S,216 Dora Pearse is queen
of a band of Hungarian gypsies camp
ed on the edge of the city, in the
Bronx. Gus Stanley is king Of a band
Of English gypsies camped nearby.
Queen Dora's daughter and King
Gus's son have long been in love with
each other and it was finally agreed
should be married, Queen Dora pay
ing to King Gus $500 to bind the
bargain. So last night King Gus gave
a party in celebration of the betroth-
al and invited all of Queen Dora's fol-
lowers to his camp. One girl was left
to watch the Hungarian camp. Dur
ing the evening man and woman
called at the camp to have their for
tunes told and while the girl was busy
reading their palms, some one slit the
tent behind her and made way with
the royal treasury, bag containing
Queen Dora's savings of Is years.
When Queen Dora returned and dis
covered her loss complaint was i'm
mediately made to the police who
raided the English camp and locked up
all the inmates, men, women and chill
dren. They deny any knowledge of
the Whereabouts of Queen Dora's
money. $40
According to her statement the bag
contained $3,100 in English gold; $2,-
500 in United States money; $116 in
French money; $3.50 in Mexican silver,
the balance of the $S,216 being in
coins of various other countries in
which the gypsy band has Travelled.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
SPENT $500, 600, 900.
What the Railroads Paid For New
Rolling Stock This Year.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-Railroads of this
country and Canada have spent ap-
proximately half a billion dollars for
rolling stock this year. This covers
only the cost of products of car build
ing concerns and does not include
cars and locomotives constructed in
the railroad shops.
According to the Railroad Gazette,
the effect of the financial slump will
be felt by the car builders next year
Orders for new equipment to be de-
livered during 1908 have fallen off
greatly.
The total number of cars built in
the United States and Canada this
year is 2S9,645. against 243,67O in
1905. OF those built this year 2S4,1SS
were freight cars and 5,457 passenger
coaches. The output of locomotives
was 1862, against 6,932 in 1906
Freight cars cost an average of S1,10O
an increase of 500; passengers cars
$500. an increase of $500; locomo-
tives $4,000, an increase of from $500
to $1,000. Taking these figures as a
basis, the total expenditures for roll
ing stock was AT million dollars, an
increase of 25 per cent over last year.
The mileage added this year was
5,220, against 5,623 in 1906
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
GETS IN ON A TROLLEY.
Wells Fargo Capture Big Bunch of
Pittsburg Business and Start Trouble.

P1ttsburg, Pa, Dec. 27.-Local exec
utive officers. of express companies, op-
Grating in Pittsburg, have been sum
moned to a meeting in New York next
week TO consider. a situation growing
out OF the Wells Fargo, Express COM
pany gaining entrance to Pittsburg via
trolley line. A long standing agree
ment among express companies re-
quires that freight or packages taken
into one Of1ce for delivery to another
company which alone reached the point
OF destination must be delivered to the
company at its nearest Office. The
second company which delivers the
package to its destination in this way
usually gets the larger share of the
freight charges
The Wells Fargo company is the only
transcontinental express company and
an immense exchange of freight has
always taken place between that com
pany and others. It's business from
Pittsburg has been enormous and most
of this has come from the Adams,
United States and American express
companies, which had the. carrying of
the freight to points along the Erie
railroad over the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore & Ohio railways securing a
liberal share of the charges for it.
with the Bessemer G. Lake Erie rail
way and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie
Electric railroad, secured entrance to
Pittsburg and the present holiday sea-
son developed that the local companies
lost heavily in business because they
were obliged to turn over transconti-
mental freight here and also all that
came to Pittsburg from the east along
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore &
Ohio railways.
The losing companies contend that
the Pittsburg Office of the Wells Fargo
should not be regarded as a transfer
station on the ground that it is not on
the. Wells Fargo line of railroads. Ex-
"a %1,@r Tcf
be hauled to Aetna, a suburb, thence
taken by trolley car to Butler and there
loaded on Bessemer & Lake Erie train
for Shenango Junction, point on the
Erie railroad. which the complaining
companies aver is the actual line of
the Wells Fargo for the Pittsburg dis
trict. An attempt will be made to ad-
Just matters at next weeks meeting
and If it fails there are likely, it is said,
to be some interesting developments in
express business.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
NATIONALS BARRED.
Ridgely Thinks They Can't Come
Under Guarantee Banking Law.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Comptroller OF
the Currency Ridgely is of the opinion
that the national banks of Oklahoma
can not take part in the scheme to
guarantee deposits under the state law
just enacted there. However, he will
rely upon an opinion from the depart
ment of justice on any official action he
takes. He referred the question to the
attorney general and expects an opln-
ion within a few days.
The comptroller has made personal
investigation of the national banking
act and finds two provisions which he
believes effectually bars national banks
from joining state banks in the Okla
ho1na deposit guarantee scheme. One
provides that the officers of a national
bank can not faSten any indebtedness
upon their stockholders, except as set
forth in the law. The guarantee depos-
it is not mentioned in this clause. An
other provision is that a national bank
shall have no preferred creditors. The
Oklahoma law makes the state guaran-
tee fund preferred creditor.
Seeking Way Out.
Guthrie, Ok, Dec. 27.-The refusal of
the comptroller of the currency to al
low national banks in Oklahoma to
subject themselves to the assessment
of l per cent on daily average deposits
in order to have their deposits guaran-
teed along with the state banks has
caused some of the national banks,
which were planning to take advantage
of the Oklahoma law, to cast about for
a way out of the dilemma. The ma
tionaI banks did not oppose the pro-
posed law, because they had confidence
that they would be given equal protec-
ton. The law was framed with that
end inview and it seemed that every
thing would work out smoothly.
President Blake, of the Oklahoma
Bankers association, conferred here
with local members of the association,
o,d If was decided that national banks
in Oklahoma will not make any effort
to. take advantage of the Oklahoma
law, but will remain as they are. hop
ing for national legislation along the
same line The national bankers be-
Iieve that a national law would not
levy a tax of more than one-fourth of
1 per cent, which would let them off
easier than under the state law.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
THEY ARE KNOWN
TO BE FUTILE

4
You probably do not know that
physicians do not now prescribe for
kidney trouble the diuretics found in
the ordinary patent kidney medicines
that you have been using. AS shown
by the tremendous census deaths the
old-fashioned dfuretics have little or
no effect or become chronic. Result.
physicians do not attack the kidneys
but treat symptoms as they appear.
There was no specific for the Lingering
chronic forms of kidney disease till
very recently. AS the line is faint
one between the mild form and the
fatal aspect, is it not your simple duty
to yourself and your family to take at
once the only thing known that will
reach it If serious.
If you have kidney trouble start
right with the only successful treat
ment for the stubborn forms. We
sent a long way for IT ror you. 1t is
the only thing in the world that cites
no cases except in the heretofore fatal
forms of kidney disease. Full infor-
nation for the asking. Rex Phar-
macy. Tenth and Kansas avenues. To-
peka.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
NOT WELL ENFORCED.
Plumbing Inspector Isn't Bearing
Down Hard.

Though the city administration is
endeavoring to bring plumbers and
corporations to time in the matter of
forcing them to properly repair ex-
cavations in the pavements, it is
claimed at the city hall that John
Sheahan, city plumbing inspector, is
partially blocking the game by a fail
ure to carry out the orders given him
by John Rogers. city engineer.
Recently the council adopted two
resolutions. The one provided that
beginning with December II further
excavation permits would be withheld
by the city to those who had failed to
obey orders to make proper repairs
and the second provided that with
January first all repairs that had been
neglected would be done by the city
and the cost charged up to the plum
Der or corporation responsible.
The time for the going into effect of
the first resolution has passed while
the second has not come yet.
The first resolution is being partial
ly enforced but the failure to rigidly
enforce it is laid to the door of the
city plumbing inspector, who, it Is
claimed has not made returns to the
Office of the city engineer. Under his
instruction Sheahan was to check up
all of the recalcitrant plumbers and
corporations and make a report to the
city engineers office so that the latter
might know the parties who should
be refused excavation permits These
reports or returns as they are tech
nically called have not been made by
the plum bing inspector. Whenever he
is asked about them he replies that
the plumbers are "acting good" and
that the repairs will be made by them.
Its up to the plumbing inspector
now" said John Rogers, city engineer.
He has never made any returns to me
yet"
1t is rumored that one of the rea-
sons that has caused Sheahan to de-
given him is that he intends to resign
his office in the spring
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
THEY'RE COMING IN FAST.
NIidwinter Exhibitors Are Entering
Names on Honor List.

Midwinter days are coming. The
real Midwinter that is usually
ushered in with sort of an incipient
blizzard that makes the people real
ize that the glorious Kansas climate
has its periods when it lapses into the
kind of weather that many less IA
vored sections have to put up with as
regular thing. Topeka's winter event
will open on January goth and all
indications point to another success.
For three months past, the work of
preparing for this big show has been
going forward, Notwithstanding finan-
cial f1urries, withthe result that large
proportion of the booth space has been
sold, more than four-fifths of it in
fact, and there is no question but what
every space will have been assigned
before the show opens. A partial list
of exhibitors follows:
Berry Maybrun Co, Chicago, Ill.
Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile Co., To-
peka, Kan.
Worcester Salt Co., New York
f. P. Jordan. Topeka, Kan.
Horlicks Matted Milk Co., st.
Joseph, Mo.
The Topeka Pure Milk Co., Topeka,
Kan.
Mayer Co.. Milwaukee, Wis.
The Wilson Office Supply Co., To-
peka, Kan.
Crosby Bros, Topeka, Kan.
Genesee Pure Food Co.. LIE Roy,
n. Y.
w. w. Gavitt Co.. Topeka, Kan.
Mrs. M e. HolIcraft, Topeka, Kan.
Douglas Candy Co., st. Joseph, Mo-
Lukens Brothers, Topeka, Kan.
Loose-Wiles Cracker & Candy Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.
H B. Howard, Topeka, Kan.
United States Gypsum, Co., Minnea-
polls, MINI.
Bell Brothers Piano Co., Lawrence,
Kan.
Mccormick Rug Factory, Topeka
Kan.
A. M. Ramer & Co.. Winona, Mimi
Wolcott Photo Supply Co., Topeka,
Kan.
The Western Electric Co., Kansas
City, Mo.
D. V. Kern, Kansas City, Mo.
U. S. Kennedy, New York.
1t is believed that the two cent rail-
road rate will prove an advantage, and
result in an increased attendance from
towns over the state. In past years,
the Midwinter has been granted a
rate that really amounted to a fare
and a third for the round trip, but it
always carried with it a limit on the
return portion of the ticket that
proved an inconvenience. The two |
cent rate makes quite as cheap a fare
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
END OF WATER OYSTERS
Express Companies Will Refuse to
Ship That Kind to Kansas.

In his campaign for waterless oys-
ters. DIR. S. J. Crumbine, state pure
food inspector of Kansas, has received
a valuable ally in the form of the ex-
press companies. Henceforth 1T is ex-
pected that the express companies, as
soon as the necessary orders can be is
sued, will refuse to ship into Kansas
any except the kind of oysters known
as "solid pack which are kept in
tanks packed in ice, instead of being
shipped in a tub containing a block of
ice.
DR. Crurnbine has received a letter
from w H. Walker, superintendent of
the Pacific Express company, informing
him that he is about to issue orders to
his agents at oyster shipping points to
accept no more watered oysters for
Kansas. The reason for this action Is
that express agents often have oyster
shipments left uncalled for on their
hands, 1t is the practise to sell such
sf1ipments, and the law prohibits the
sale of shipments containing water.
For that reason the express companies
will aid in enforcing the law against
water.
The pure food officials are delighted
with the success of their antiwater
campaign. DIR. Crumbine said today:
1--WE expected to have fight on this
oyster proposition for year to secure
its enforcement. but am glad to say
that it is already being enforced very
we'll throughout the state. oysters
containing water have been driven of
the market. The price of oysters has
risen very little If at all, and people
are getting third more oysters In
quart than they used to get. The oys-
ters now come properly packed. and
retain their flavor. They are not con-
taminated with all sorts of dirty wa
ter. ard they are packed in such way
that their condition is much better"
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
COLLISION IN THE AIR.
Three Killed and Number Injured
on Elevated Tracks.

| Camden, N J., Dec. 27.-Three per-
| sons were killed and more than a doz-
en- others were injured in rear END
| collision on the elevated tracks OF the
| Pennsylvania today, a short distance
| from the station in this city. The cars
| were badly smashed and it Will be sew
eral hours before the exact number of
persons caught in the wreck will be
known. Fire added to the difficulties
of the work of rescue.
The trains in collision were the ex-
press from Atlantic City and the Penn
berton accommO Odation train. These
trains are due in the Camden station
at S:31. There was very thick fog,
when the accident occurred, and it is
believed that this condition was the
primary cause of the collision. The
express train was made up of two bag
gage cars, one parlor car and three
coaches and the accommodation train
consisted of a combination car and
four coaches. Both trains, it is said,
were running cautiously as they ap-
preached the station. The Atlantic
City train was due to arrive first and
it was stopped just as it was about to
enter the station. The engineer of the
Pemberton train, because of the fog,
did not see the Atlantic City train, it
is said, until he was close upon it. He
jammed brakes down but it was too
late. The trains came together with
considerable force. The tender of the
car of its train, killing three persons
and injuring at least four. The rear
car of the Atlantic train was wrecked
but not so badly as the Erst car on the
Pemberton train. So far as known no
one was killed on the Atlantic City,
but a half dozen persons were in
tured.
The wreckage Immediately took
fire from the hot Goals of the Pember-
ton locomotive and the police and fire
departments of Camden, were called
into service. The fact that the collis-
sion occurred on the elevated .struc-
ture, made the work of rescue difficult.
The rescuers could not reach the
structure from the street, but had to
go to the wreckage from the station
at the foot of Market street. All avail
able help from the station and men
from the railroad yards and shops
were pressed into service and the in
jured were quickly taken from under
the mass of wreckage and conveyed to-
the Cooper hospital and the West Jer-
sey hospital. The fire was extin-
guished before it reached any of the
victims pinned under the wreckage.
One of the dead was identified as T.
L. Webster of Merchantville, N. J.
None of the cars left the elevated
structure.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
HE WENT HOME DRUNK,
Started a Row and His Brother-in-
Law Shot Him.

Portland. Ore, Dec. 27-A special
to the Oregonian from Enterprise
Ore, says: Frank Raymond, a well
known Snake river cattIeman, WIS
shot and instantly killed by his 19-
year-old brother-in-law,H Howard Whit
tier, at the Whittier home, 60 miles
east of Enterprise. Raymond, it is
alleged came to the Whittier home
intoxicated and. began abusing his
bride of three weeks, his mother-in-
law and young Whittier.
Young Whittier seized a Winchester
rifle and shot him through the head.
A cOroner's inquest was held. The
death from a gunshot wound inflicted
by Howard Whittier. He was brought
to Enterprise.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
ONE ENGINE is GOING.
Kansas City to Get Partial Relief
From the ScipiO Station.

Ottawa Kan, Dec. 27.-One Of the
three large pumps to be put in opera
ton at the new pumping station at
Scipio was put in operation yesterday.
Next week it is planned the second
pump will be going. which will con-
siderabl relieve things about here.
The one pump set going yesterday al
ready has its effect for the better at
Kansas City, but does not better con-
ditions at Topeka.
Manager Baker of the local COM
pany has been in Oklah oma on busi-
ness for several days. Keeper E. J.
Doherty of the station northeast of
town, has received word to be pre-
pared to move to Scipio next Tuesday.
VIII ere he will get a position.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
Charge of Keeping Rates Hidden.

San Francisco, Dec. 27.-Before in
terstate Commerce COMMISSIONS er
Franklin K. Lane today the charges
of Illegal rate making made against
the Wells-Fargo Express company by
the California Commerce association
will be heard. The commerce asso-
citation, composed of prominent dry
goods houses in the city, claims that
the express company has violated the
interstate commerce law of 1908 in
charging more than published rates
and that 1t has kept the rates filed
with the commission hidden from the
public contrary to the law.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
Minor washington Items.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Rural route
No. 4 has been ordered established
March at Se1den, Sheridan county,
Kansas, serving 400 persons and
eighty-three families. These post
masters have been appointed: Kansas
-Athol Smith county, Mary c.. Cum
mings, vice F. R. Fleming, resigned.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
The Last Train.

morning is the Unon Pacfic No. 106 at
8:15 a. m. arriving in Kansas City at
1915 a. m The afternoon train return
ing is the earliest train into Topeka at
6:15 p. m.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27
i. M. PENWELL
Undertaken and Embdlmer
slI Quincy Street.
Both Phones 10s

and one comes and goes as best quits
their wishes.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-27

VIM. P. Crump of Phoenix. Ariz.,
has sold Topeka's leading grocerymen
a car load of sweet Arizona navel
oranges.