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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
ESKIMOS DYING OUT.
White Men Bring Disease and
Famine.

| A problem of growing seriousness
| Tor Canada is that of maintaining her
| Eskimo wards alive in her territory
OF UngaVa. This cOmprehends all the
| peninsula of Labrador, save the east
ern seaboard, which is administrative
| ly attached to Newfoundland The
aboriginal population under Canadian
control occupies the south coast of
Hudson strait and the east coast of
Hudson bay, and numbers a scant
| few thousand souls
The gradual determination of the
whales, grampuses, waIruses and seals
| in these waters by generations of
white men, and the increased destruc-
ton of the caribou by the natives since
firearms were introduced, have re-
suited in depriving the region very
largely OF the creatures on which hu-
man beings maintain life, and conse-
quently, as no alternative has been
provided, the hapless beings are grad
ually expiring of hunger or disease
peculiarly appalling instance of this
has just been reported by the Rev.
s. M. Stewart, an Anglican missionary
from the diocese of Newfoundland,
who has been laboring among the ma
tfves of Ungava Bay for the past four
years. His report is that last winter,
owing to scarcity of deer and the Sc
we're weather, many of the natives per-
ished of starvation. and in some in
stances the survivors had to maintain
life by feeding on the corpses of the
DEAD. what Is believed to be evil
dence of this is embodied in the ac-
count of a Newfoundland vessel fish
ing for cod in Ungava bay, whose
crew while ashore one Sunday in the
past summer came upon some eighty
unburied skeletons, with guns and
other articles lying by them. AT first
it was thought that these were the
victims of tribal warfare, and that an
encounter had but recently occurred
An inquiry was ordered, which dis
closed that no such occurrence had
taken place. But the fact was learn
ed that scores of Eskimos had starved
to death and that others had lived on
the dead bodies, the skeletons seen in
mains of some of the victims.
+ Such appalling accompaniments to
winter life are not unusual among the
natives of western Labrador The Es-
kimos under the Jurisdiction of the
Newfoundland government are COM
paratively civilized and fairly well
supplied with the worlds goods the
Moravian missionaries having main
tanned stations among them for nearly
40 years; but those of the western
section have had no such beneficent in
huences at work on their behalf, and
still exist in the direst poverty and
Pagan, and without any morals accord
ing to civilized ideas, and the Canadian
government does nothing whatever to
help them. Indeed, Canada's indiffer-
pletion of the little communities, so
that the Eskimo will ere long be an ex-
tinct race. Even about the Moravian
stations they have made no numerical
progress for the past so years; else
where they exhibit a positive decline
The few explorers and others who !
have voyaged along the Ungava sea-
board represent the lot of the natives
as indescribable, the filth and poverty |
amid which they live rendering any 4
other conditions Impossible. Their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
BURNS NEARLY A BLOCK
Fire Again Visits San Francisco's Fac
tory District.

San Francisco, Dec. 26.-Fire de-
stroyed nearly the entire block bound
ed by Mission, Jessie, First and Second
streets early this morning. Several
factories and stores were burned out
and the loss will amount to more than
100000 Most of the buildings de-
stroyed were only temporary affairs,
SO that the loss was principally in
stocks carried by the firms involved.
The Revere Rubber company suffered
heavily and it is believed will prove a
total loss. The factory of Mangum
and other dealers in tiles and mantels
was destroyed with the stock.
Wooden & Little, implement deal
ers. lost building and stock, and SO did
the Eccles Smith company and JUS
tain, Cairo & Co, both hardware con-
Germs Quick work by the fire depart
ment saved large section of the fac
tory district. which at one time was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
TURNS HIS BACK ON BOOZE.
A Man Is Walking 1000 Miles to Els
cape the Demon.

Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 26.-Assistant
Superintendent Of Police John Glenn
today entertained Anthony Brady
of New York, who is walking the 1000
miles from New York to Chicago, and
further, if necessary in the belief that
the long walk will cure him of the
liquor habit. He is trying to escape
the Nemesis of drink that has pur-
sued him for fifteen years.
Superintendent Glenn admits that
Brady is not the mans correct
name, and also admits that the young
man is well known to ~ucrety people of
New York and has an abundance of
money.
''His is the most remarkable case I
ever came in contact with declared
Glenn. ga man of refinement and
education, he drank steadily for years,
until the habit had such a hold on
him that he could not shake it off. He
has used all the various cures but
none of them seem ed to do him any
good.
Finally. in his despair, he decided to
leave his home and walk until the demon
without penny, and has depended for
food on what he could beg from door to
door. He has never accepted money from
any one. and does not want 1T, because he
the nearest saloon. For more than three
months he has been walking. and will
keep it up until he reaches Chicago at
least. If he still has the desire for drink
he will go further
seBrady's' feet were frozen while cross
ing the mountains and he limDed into AL
in bad shape. He was picked up
by policeman and taken to Central sta
his correct name and learned from him his
story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
RAD MEN TO LEAyENwoRTH.
Long Term Prisoners of Different In
situations to Be Sent to Kansas.

Leavenworth, Dec 26.-The federal
prison within the next year will prob
ably contain a greater number OF the
desperately bad men of the country
than any other penal institution In the
United States.
If the present plans of the depart
ment of Justice are carried out, the
long term men in the national prisons
will be concentrated at the Leaven-
worth institution.
There are now nearly 100 convicts at
in tails at Columbus, Ohio, and Detroit,
Michigan. The long term conv1cts
among these men will in all probability
be transferred to the prison here
The population of the federal prison
is now about SIS, considerably below
the present capacity of the institution
The admission of Oklahoma to the
union has cut off a steady influx or
prisoners mostly short term men The
influence of this change will not be so
arLed for several months.
There are now 112 men in the PRISON
under life sentences. This number is
over one-half of all the life men IN
tha national prisons. The move under
consideration will considerably increase
this percentage 49,.
The concentration or the long term
nrisoners will give a certain per-
paanence and stability to the ever
changing population OF the prlsoil-
There are many advantages in the plan.
lrhe prison here is conceded by all au-
thorities to be the strongest IN the
vor1d none excepted. The central 10
cstion of the prison makes it equally
eocassibIa from all parts of the con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

contact with the white man, in the
shape of whaling crews, has innocu-
lated them with all the white man 8
vices and some of his most loathsome
diseases, while their gradual utiliza-
ton of his weapons and implements has
caused disuse of their own native ac-
| ceSsories in these directions. AS a con-
sequence the Eskimos have degenera-
ted into mere hangers on of the whal-
Ing or trading stations, and when these
are withdrawn the natives perish mis-
erabIy.
Prof A. P. Low of the Canadian
exploring expedition of 1904, in the
steamer Neptune, describes the ex-
t1nct1on of a tribe of Eskimos on
southampton Island, at the mouth. of
Hudsons bay, in a single winter. They
numbered one hundred souls and
made shift to live with fair success
without employing civilized impIe
isolated from any neigh bors. But in
1900 Scotch whaling firm establish
ed station there and manned it with
party of Eskimos from one of its
repeating rifle successfully. These
recklessly slaughtered the musk-oxen
and the deer of the region, for the
sake of the hide. which they sold to
their whaling employers, and as a re-
suit the whole of the original tribe
persisted Of starvation during the sec
ond winter, while the others, who
We're morally responsible for their
vived through the aid of the provisions
furnished to them by their employers.
Two years later the whaling station
was abandoned again and now this
large island is absolutely unpeopled.
The same story is to be told of other
whaling stations, whittier the natives
were attracted when they were estab-
lished, and where they are located as
mere serfs of the whalemen, satisfied
to do anything in return for the odds
AMI ends of food, raiment and domes-
tic utensils vouchsafed to them
Now, on the contrary, when whaling is
at an end, these tribes are slowly but
surely perishing. and Canada is now
sending annual expeditions to the re-
gion to release them and cope with
this problem as best it may. One of
the first steps to this end. which was
taken by Major Moody of the north
west police, now governor of Hudson
Bay, was to forbid the export of musk
OK skins so that the natives should not
extermfnate these animals for tn
sake of the hides, and so destroy their
own chief food supply of the future
St. Johns On. F.) Dispatch to Man
chester Guardian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
MORE THAN A MILLION.
Joined in Purchasing the Betsy Ross
House for Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Dec. 26.-The Betsy
Ross house at 239 Arch street, Phila-
delphia, in which the first American
flag was designed and sold, has just
been presented to the city of Philadel-
phia by the American Flag House and
Betsy Ross Memorial association.
Philadelphia councils had previously
passed an ordinance providing for the
acceptance of the property, which has
been maintained intact since it was
occupied by the first f1agmaker. The
gift represents the sentiment of l.
O46,270 men. women and children
throughout the world. These mem
bers purchased certificates of mem
berShip in the Memorial association
and it was this money which was
applied on the purchase of the build
ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
fElTE UlIS
lS~ SS-s;z (6SEss
SIDE notes.
Items for the East Topeka column may
be telephoned to Ind. phone GIL

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L. Horn of
Kansas City spent Christmas with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs G A Horn,
and Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Hart here. MI.
Horn returned home today but Mrs.
Horn will remain until Sunday.
Mrs. o. Clarke of 1929 Lawrence
spent Tuesday in Meriden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Denton Crockett of
to spend Christmas with Mrs. Crock
ett's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hart.
Miss Maude Clarke of 1929 Law
renee street left Monday for Braman,
Okla. to visit Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. LIE
Mari and Blackwell, Okla, to visit
friends for three or four weeks.
Mrs. Dan Sexton and daughter
Miss Mary Sexton OF Dunlap Ran
124 North Lake street. Miss Sexton
is here attending the teachers fnsti-
tute. Mrs. Stamm and Mrs; sexton
have not seen each other Tor 70 y years ssiIf
mas with their brother and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. Clarke of 1913 East sixth
street.
Mr.. Raymond Reser and father took
dinner yesterday with his brother. Mr.
Perry Reser, and family of Oakland
Mr.. H. G. Wilson returned to his
home in Lawrence today after spend-
ing Christmas with relatives here.
given at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
81. Bosler, SIT Lake street. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. A. M.
Bosler. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Peck and
Mrs Mary Drennon of Kansas City
Mr. L. B. Pechner went to Part
ridge Tuesday night to spend Christ
mas, returning home Friday evening,
December 27.
Mr.. Preston Sawyer and Mr.. Chas.
Stitt spent Christmas in Halifax, Kan.
Mrs Reser and two children, OTIS
and Fife, will return home from ST.
George Saturday, the 28th. from
visiting relatives
Mrs Mary Drennon will return
home Friday after spending Christmas
with her daughter, Mrs. w. E. Bosler,
of SIT Lake street. Mrs. w E. Bosler
Will accompany her home to spend
week, visiting friends and relatives:
A very pretty quiet home wedding
took place last evening at the home
of the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs
c. Irish of 704 Lawrence street. when
their daughter Mabel was married to
Noah f. FOUGHT. The brides gown
was of white silk trimmed with val
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
Off TO PINE KNOT.
President and Family Leave Washing
ton for Virginia Place.

Washington. Dec. 26. President
Roosevelt and his family left Wash
ington at IL a. m. today for Pine Knot,
Va. the country home of Mrs Roose-
welt, where they will remain until Mon
day afternoon next The trip was made
in the special car Twilight, attached to
the regular train on the Southern rail-
way. The nearest station to Pine Knot
is North Garden, few miles below
Charlottesville, which will be reached
about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon The
drive of 10 miles will then take the party
to the homestead at Pine Knot. Miss
Carow, sister of Mrs. Roosevelt, accom-
panied the party.
Cars stop at Prices drug store, in the
center of the big block
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
How's This =?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
o,,red nv Halls Catarrh Cure
r J CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
we the undersigned, have known F. J.
cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
Si,, nyerfectlv honorable in all business
transa ctions and financially able to carry
ont any obligations made by his firm.
wAIDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
wholesale Druggists. Toledo. O.
Halls Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price Toe per bottle Sold by all
u Tafe Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
Los Angeles. California.

Every day at 11:50 noon a Pullman
tourist sleeping car leaves Topeka for
Los Angeles. Cal, without change via
the Union Pacific r. r. This car stays
In Salt Lake City through the day
light hours of one day, giving the tour
lst an opportunity to visit the many
points of interest in the city by the
great inland sea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
Deratled by Light Engine.

train No 228 on the Jefferson and
Franklin branch of the Lake Shore
road collided with light engine two
miles north of Franklin, Pa, today. The
messenger train was derailed and both
engines were demolished. Fireman
William + Day was killed. Conductor
William Miles and Engineer I. H. c.
srombes and T. z. Evans were injured
MANY passengers were slightly hurt.
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|NORTH 1WEkA NW

Items zof the North .'o.eka column my
/ store $50 North Kan sais avenue. Or call
the North SIDE reuUrrsr az her iome.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nystrom and
little daughter of Kansas City arrived
mere last night to spend few days
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Nystrom of 1919 Jackson street.
MI. and Mrs. A. E. Robinson of 314
East Laurent street have named their
little daughter Doris Aileen.
Mr.. George Hetzel of Roosevelt,
Okla, principal of a school in Roose-
Welt is here visiting with his parents
north of the city and attending the
teachers institute.
Miss Maude Keller of Storm Lake
Ia, arrived here to spend the HOLIDAYS
with her parents at 1901 North Jack
son street. She will remain until the
middle of January.
Mr.. Henry Bolz of st. Joe, Mo-. is
the guest of his brother-fn-law, Mr..
VIM. r. Meyer, 126 West Laurent
street.
Mr.; Arthur Bradley returned this
morning from Kansas City where he
spent yesterday with relatives
Mr.. II. W. Rice of Silver Lake was
in town today.
Mr.. j. H. FOUGHT and son. Proctor.
spent yesterday in Junction City. Kan.
Nathaniel Paisley will leave this
evening for Parsons, Kan, where he
will remain permanently.
Mr.. j. L. HOLSTER or Silver Lake
was in town today
Miss Meta Cornell of Big SPRINGS.
Kan, was q North Side visitor today.
MISS Matte May Of Grover. Kan.
visited here yesterday.
Miss Marie Ansel spent yesterday In
Beatrice, Neb.
Miss Callie Anderson of Amarillo.
Tex, arrived here Tuesday to spend
two weeks with relatives here
Mrs. Anna Lutman of Denver Colo.
stopped on here today to visit rela-
tives for short time while on her vvav
to Kansas City to spend New Years
with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cramer LEFT to-
day for Emporia, Kan, where Mr..
Cramer has accepted a position with
the Santa Fe and will remain.
Ben Spear left today for Chicago AZ
Ter spending Christmas with friends
Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Stephens of
Holman street are visiting relatives
near Sibleyville and in Lawranca
They Will return home Friday
Misses Rosa Sechrist and Mabel Wal
ford returned home today from Law
renee where they spent Christmas 1vtft
Miss Scientists parents
/, Mr.. Fred Fred Deppe, 1925 Western ave-
grandchildren at his home yesterday
over "a in number were present
Misses Mabel and Bertha Murnhv
vent to Lawrence Tuesday to snend
Christmas with relatives. They viii 90
On to st. Louis and spend a few weeks
ana return to Kansas City and remain
Mr.. Ray Garner of Willard. Kan
spent yesterday here visiting his mofh
ar.
Mrs. C. L. Mitchell is spending a few
weeks with her daughter in Gufbrie
d.
Mr. Mervin Jobpso, ...o.
with friends in Hoyt. Kan
Mr.. Raymond Fisher and Miss Neftta
castings were married yesterday noon
~ the Rev. j. Barrett at the home Of
he minister Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher nil
i've with Mrs. Fishers mother Mrs
Hastings, on the corner of Laurent ana
Jackson streets.
Lost-Gold bracelet, 2-o7 engraved
inside Return to 1910 North Va
buren, fo- reward. O."
10 per cent below cost on clocks ~
ilverware until Tuesday 31st, on thot
lay we quit business in Topeka A NJ
ross. S27 Kansas avenue. -
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Trolley collision Injuries Seventeen.

Denver, Dec. 26.-Seventeen per-
sons were injured, none of them fatal
ly, in a collision between two trolley
cars on the Denver Tramway COM
pany's line about midnight last night
at the corner of west Twenty ninth
avenue and Decatur street One of
but failed to do so and the two cars
crashed together headon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

Items 1oI the North .'oseka column my
DC ieft at the Petro g. 4%oodfo;d drug
store, $50 North Kan sas avenue, or call
the North Side repLrrer So her lome.
Ind phone CPL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

lace Rev. Mallory performed the
ceremony. Only relatives and Mrs.
Foucht's young lady friends We're
present Mr.. and Mrs. FOUGHT will
leave Sunday for Ohio, where they will
spend few weeks the guests of rela-
tiVaS
New-York tribune., 1907-08-17
LITERATURE.

vI1L.ANrs CHRONICLE Being Selections from u! the
vanni viilani. Translated by Rose E. selfe and
edited By Philip n Hls~sts9a; S.o III A. l4ao Pp-
4 translation certain passages from the first nine
hooks of Chronicles, selected TO serve aiI
IN the study of Dante.
noNTAIGNE,: THE: ESSAYS Translated by John Flo
rio I6o3 Selected and edited by Adolph Cohn With
photogravrre frontspiece. syo, XVI. 36i &C. p.
Putnams Sonsb
In Classics fer English Readers.'' edited
bv Adolph Cohu and Curtis Hidden Page.
CAROII.A SANCTI EApMUNDl: The Garland OF ST.
ES5n,und King Martyr Edited, with a preface.
by Lord Francis Hervey Illustrated svo. pp. lxiii
2. DuttOn & Coz
A collection old English manuscripts dating from
the eighth century
I'M A NOOK WITH BOOK. BY Frederic W. Macdonald
" famo pp vi. 222. Imported by Charles Scribner's
Sons)
collection Of essays. including Memories OF Mid
Victorian The Former Owners Ger
,ain BOOKS ''Fen J0nsons Bible 'Old Book-Shops
and Bool-H Hunting.
A SHORT HISTORY OF JEWISH LITERATURE From
the Fail the Temple (1o c. ID to the Era OF
Emancipation uIS6 c: - BY Israel Abrahanls
NJ A.. 12mo. pp- XVI. 1T0- Imported by Charles
Scribner's
New-York tribune., 1907-08-17

pendently. AS many students are forced to
drop their cultural studies at every stage be-
tween the grammar school and the university
sheepskin, there should be schools ready TO re-
ceive such persons whenever the latter pass
over into the business world. Collateral with
the high school, Professor Person would nave
both day and evening schools for all branches
of mechanical and managerial industry that can
be prohtably studied by persons Of high schooi
age; there should be similar system coIialefai
with the traditional college course, ana, hhaliy'
the whole system will be capped by graduate
schools for the professions and all the higher
Industrial persuits. such finance admins
tration public service consular and ciplonatic)'
and SO on. We believe that, while nobody now
fessor Persons elaborate and exhaustive schooi
system. this system will slowly be reailzed' III
spite OF the opposition of some labor leaders ana
peda gogues. AS the writer remarks, SUCH d
system allows all students to pursue a general
education as long as possible, thereby developing
the human nature side before building the ar
tisan and specialist; for. with perfectly elastic
system of schools parallel to the cultural
courses nobody need drop the latter until al
most ready to step full aedged into the economic
whirl of life. Brief as Professor Persons sketch
of a future American Industrial training 49, IL
is full Of interesting suggestions and cr1ticisffs'
New-York tribune., 1907-08-17
IMPROVEMENTS ON THE SOUND.
Rye and Mamaroneek Preparing to Make
Bids es Homes for Commuters.

After having sIumbered peacefully for several
generations Ma-narOnecS and Rye on the Sound
have awakened to their possibilities as suburbs OF
New York. and the citizens have decided 90 spend
about half a million dollars for public improve
nents. When completed these improvements VIII
but these places equal footing with Mount
Vernon, New Rochelle and Port Chester as homs
for commuters. In Mamaroneck the village has
lust completed a sewer system for sl75.eoo. and Is
now engaged in paving the main avenues leading
White Plains. New Rochelle and Rye. at a cost
of $4,000 The village has also just closed a con-
tract for the purchase of Harbor Island for S0coo
The island Will be used public park and WIN
be laid out with driveways. which VIII improve the
appearance of the waterfront- There will be many
other improvements. such schools nov
bridges. an italian church and new Sound steam
boat, carrying passengers from Mamaroneck to
New York The n1croveE,enss viii be completoo
next spring