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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-07
IN LOVE WITH MEXICO.
Concordia Man Has Only Good Words
for That Territory.

Concordia Man Has Only Good Words
for That Territory.
w. E. Hibner arrived home from Old
Mexico yesterday, where he had been
on a trip to see the country, with a
view to investing in some of the rich
land down there. He called at the
Blade and Empire office this afternoon
and talked enthusiastically about his
trip and the beautiful country that he
has just visited. We asked him If in
his opinion it was good investment to
put money in Mexican land. He replied
that undoubtedly it was the best in
vestment in the world, and that he and
his brother would likely buy a large
tract of the land. He says it is as rich
as land car be, and that markets are
close at hand for many products. Mr..
Hibner says the climate is simply de-
lightful in the sub-tropics just like
May and June in Kansas. He thinks
land will increase many times in value
with each succeeding year, and adj
vises all who want good investment
not to hesitate to put money into Mex
lean land.-Concordia Blade.
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STILL AFTER TOPEKA.
O'Nen OF the Western League Gives
Herman a Swan Song

Feb. President Nor
ris O'Neil of the Western league has
had a personal interview with Presi-
dent Garry Hermann of the National
commission in regard to getting To-
peka, Kan, into his league. President
Hermann is inclined to take favorable
action in regard to Mr. O'NeiI's re-
quest and will bring the matter up for
further consideration. 1t would not
be surprising to see a break in the
National Association of Minor leagues
as a result of some of the doings at
the recent meeting in New York.
President Norris O'Neil of the West
ern league is authority for the state
ment that trouble is brewing.
1.-THE trouble is that these little
minor 1eaguers have as much to say
as to what is to take place in the Ma
tional association as have the owners
of clubs who have tens of thousands
of dollars invested said O'NeiI after
a talk with Chairman Hermann Of the
National commission.
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An Excfting Day at Ascot.

Los Angeles, Feb. livery race was
an exciting one at Ascot. There were
three head, one nose and two half
length finishes, and, naturally, all were
driving. Three favorites, one second
choice and two as good as 10 to l di-
vided the purses. The third race fur
nished the closest contest. Three horses
went under the wire Tapped in the dis
lance of half length. Orilene, the 10
to 10 favorite, saved the race by a short
nose, with Mandarin, Is to 8, second,
half length in front of Standover, the
16 to second choice. The fourth was
almost as holly fought, but was won
by Edwin T. Fryer, against whose
chances as good as 10 to could be had
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only One Favorite suocessful.

San Francisco, Feb. Proper won
the Sarg handicap at Oakland from
Tony Faust and Voladay- The big son
&C Prestopans took the lead at the
start and outran the classy field be-
A1nd him, winning cIeverly by a
length. The seven starters acted very
unruly at the post, Tony Faust un-
seated Miller twice and Logistilla
kicked Rubric and spoiled the latter's
chances. Proper refused to face the
barrier and the others played their
part. delaying the start twenty min
utes. Walter Miller got in trouble
again for rough riding in the closing
race. Coming fast Into the stretch
with Grace G., Miller bumped Sandy
on Ocean Shore, the pacemaker, and
spoiled the latter's chances. AS there
seemed to be no excuse for Miller's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-07
THE MEIHoDIsTs AT EMPoRIA.
The Annual Conference of the South
| east District March 81.

A conference of $50 Methodist
preachers from southeastern Kansas
will be held in Emporia March II TIC
81 inclusive.
This is to be an annual conference
of the southeastern Kansas district
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and it is at this annual occurrence OF
the pastors that the appointments are
made. Bishop David H. Moore of
Portland. Ore., will preside through
out the conference. Tuesday evening,
March 26, DIR. Matt S. Hughes, pastor
of the Independence avenue church,
of Kansas City. Mo, will talk on
Christian Science;" Wednesday even
ing Rev. J. t. Mcfarland, of New
York will deliver an address; H. K.
Carol, of New York, will talk Thurs
day evening on Foreign Missions; -
speak Friday evening on Church Elk
tension and Home Missions" Rev. E.
NJ. Randle, of Chicago, will discuss on
Saturday evening 1.-THE Epworth
League and Work of the Church.
Sunday morning. Bishop Moore will
during the conference, and on Sunday
evening, Rev w. F. Stewart, of De-
troit Mich, will conduct evangelistic
services.
With Bishop Moore and the four
presiding elders of this district sit
ting in executive session, the appoint
ments will be made as wen as the
character and the work of each
preacher examined. The presiding ell
ders in this district are Rev. w. H.
Mulvaney, of the Emporia district;
Rev. Bernard Kelly, of ottawa Rev.
c. S. Nusbaum, of Independence; Rev.
John McLain, of Fort Scott.
AT all of the meetings when confer
ence is not in session the services viii
be open for general attendance.
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or Interest to Auto Owners.

A well known manufacturing COM
pany has secured site at New Castle,
IND, which will permit of the erec-
ton of factory with an annual ca
pacity of 10000 cars.
The Massachusetts Automobile
Owners Protective association will
ask the legislature to make it a crime
for chauffeur to use his employers
car without permission.
A feature of the Boston show will
be an exhibit of war automobiles
fitted with rapid fire guns, armor, am
munition chests. etc. A fully equipped
ambulance will be included.
The New York state authorities
have learned that a factory in New
York city. has within the past year
issued at least 10000 counterfeit
for cars.
American manufa cturers who have
returned from the Paris shows admit
that the foreigners are far ahead in
metal work, but claim Americans are
a very close second on designing.
American machinery is being used
to a large extent in French factories.
In one of the largest 100000 worth
was recently installed and another
maker has given a 100000 order.
The kaiser has declared war on in
ternational automobile Technology
and has decreed that only German
words shall be used in his land. A
chauffeur hereafter will be known as
a "wagenfeuhrer.'
AT the Madison Square garden show,
for the first time in the history of the
electric vehicle industry, there was
shown an electric that to all outward
appearances resembled an up-to-date
gasoline car.
The builders of a car with eight
cylinders exhibited at the Madison
Square garden show, claim the weight
of the motor has been reduced to 2.3
pounds per horse power, and that the
motor is SO well balanced that no fly
wheel is required.
Joe Tracy, the noted racing driver,
who has been experime is not
enthusiastic over denatured alcohol as
a fuel During recent run over bad
roads it required nearly three times
as much alcohol as gasoline under
similar conditions.
High tension magnetos in particular
should be we'll protected from wet. A
good waterproof cover is both cheap
and easily fitted, and may avoid
much trouble. A length of rubber
hose of good quality makes an excel
lent conduit for wires.
An eastern commercial traveller,
who is covering his country territory
in a. runabout, fitted behind the driving
seat to carry his sample cases, finds
he covered more ground, sells more
goods and saves a. great deal of time
since he laid aside the railroad
method.
Motorists who intend cleaning out
lime and grease from radiators with
caustic soda should be very careful not
to put their hands in the preparation.
Should, accidentally, any of it get on
the flesh. it should be Immediately
washed off in a copious flow of water
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A NOVEL AUTO CONTEST.
Speed Trial Proposed to Eliminate the
Freak Machines.

Paris, Feb. THE Marquis de Dion,
of the Automobile Club de France, Is
endeavoring to organize an 1nternation-
al touring and speed contest. The
touring part is to come first.
The machines will be sent off on a
lengthy run around southwestern
France toward the end of July and will
finish up by a run at high speed over
a circuit in the neighborhoOd of Trou-
vile in early September.
Machines which have failed to main
tain an average of 40 to 45 Kilometres
an hour in the touring event will not
be permitted to compete in the final
speed test, by which the classification
will alone be decided. Thus it is nee
essary for the constructor to build a
machine capable of doing fairly high
speed over the main road for a week
or more and then to cover 400 kilome-
tres at a still higher speed when the
first section is finished.
The very idea of the race 7precludes
the entrance of freaks" and If any
maker had an idea of entering such
machines he would be instantly de-
barred by the fact that the rules re-
quire a minimum weight of 1,250 kilo-
grammes.
Thus 1t is probable that the public
ordinary stock machines are entered.
One will be able to compare the per-
formances of various makes and draw
legitimate conclusions. He will watch
them day by day and in the final 400
kilometre rush he VIII see the good
sorted from the bad or merely indif-
ferent.
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sCHNECK BREAKS DOWN.
Centropolis Prisoner Weeps Bitterly
During Burial of His Family.

| Centropolis Kan, Feb. THE lit
| tie church of the Christian denomina-
| ton was the center Wednesday after
noon of the largest gathering ever wit
messed in Centropolis, for the funeral
of Mrs. Frank SchnecK and her two
children, who were found dead with
their Threats horribly cut in the bed
room ofstheir home Monday
Rev. Isaac Hoover pastor of the
Progressive Dunkard church. preached
the funeral sermon from the text,
Thou Shalt Not KILL
The bodies were buried in one grave,
the mothers in the center.
Frank Schneck, the husband and
father, who is held in Jail here for IN
vestigation, broke down in his cell.
When taken to view the bloody scene
in his house Schneck's attitude was al
most defiant in its stolidity, but last
evening he cried bitterly.
81 don't see how this could have
happened" he said.
Schneck's alibi is strong The Ste
warts, at whose home in Ottawa
Schneck was on Sunday night, tell a
story of his actions and the position In
which his clothes were placed on Sun
day night and early Monday morning
which leaves nothing out. Schneck
himself called up the sheriff's office
before starting for Centropolis
The marvel is that whoever commit
ted the murder covered the tracks IN
the house so successfully. No blood
stains are anywhere except in the bed
room-none on doors or windows.
There is no sign to indicate where
the murderer washed his hands. Yet
across the foreheads of the children,
where tho murderer, with some
strange touch of sentimentality, reach
ed his fingers to close down the little
eyelids, is the print of a hand-not
plain, but in broad, bloody smudge.
Did the murderer quail before those
wide-open eyes of his little victims,
who, by all indications, died as they
lay with but little struggle?
The officers searched the Stewart
house and the house formerly occu-
pied by the Schnecks in Ottawa, and
brought away all of Schneck's CLOTH
ing.
Died of BTfght's Disease.
WELLINGTON Kan, Feb. John w
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time, he says, the Webster refinery at
Humboldt shipped a hundred barrels
of crude oil day to st. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, where it was converted into gas
by the st. Joseph gas plant, and used
to supply st. Joseph. A great deal of
the crude oil is also shipped to New
Mexico where it is being used for a
similar purpose. The small cost Of
producing gas in this. way is said to
De astonishing. Those who are in a
position to know say it can be pro-
duced for few cents a thousand cubic
rect and that the gas is as good as the
natural gas in every particular.
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BIRTH RATE WAS HIGH.
Was Eight Above the Average in
Leavenwortl in January.

Leavenworth, Feb. 7-Forty-three
births were reported to the secretary
of the board of health, DR.. J. F. Wal
lace. in January. Anyone familiar
with the usual run of births in the city
will see that these figures are seldom
reached, the number of births keeping
close to thirty-dve in nearly every
month.
On the other hand. the death rate
for the past month is somewhat be-
low the average. the number being
twenty-five This extraordinary health
full condition is attributed to the good
wea Their in January.
The births are classified as follows:
White, males, twenty; white fe.
males, twenty; colored, males, one;
colored, females, two.
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HOT ADVICE FOR BARNEY.
Clarke Tells Pirate Manager to Drop
Dead Ones and Get Ewing.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. Fired Clarke,
of Winfield, Kan, who has undertaken
to run the Pittsburg team without any
advice or suggestion from Barney
Dreyfus or his kitchen cabinet today
threw a bomb into the home Office by
sending Barney list of % players that
to get rid of the remainder, which will
be about II. In part Clarke wrote:
ST shall not be able to handle more
than p men and I wish you would
either trade or sell or release all the
others at once. We must not be crowd
ed at West Baden or Hot Springs, and
I think it would be better to drop the
surplus talent now
The manager instructs Dreyfus to
get out after Pitcher Bob Ewing, of
Cincinnati, at once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-07
JACK JOHNSON DOES BETTER
In a Return Match With Harris the
CoIored Fighter Holds His Own.


Jack johnson. TopeKa's heavyweight
colored prize fighter, few nights ago
fought return match with Morris
Harris, by whom he was knocked out
in the second round of a fight a cou-
pie of weeks ago. The result of the
second fight between the two pugilists
shows that Johnson's knockout in the
first fight was more the result of a
chance blow than superior work on
the part of Harris as in the second
fight neither man won-the fight going
six rounds to a draw. However, john
son had his opponent in very close
proximity to a knockout in a couple of
| instances.
Morris Harris, Johnson's opponent,
mas somewhat OF a reputation in the
east as a fighter, having twice fought
to standstill. Johnson's good show
ing in his second fight with Harris
gives his friends renewed confidence in
his ability as a fighter and they hope
to hear from him again in the future
in regard to his fights with more ia
vorable results.
Here is what the Philadelphia News
says of the second fight which occurred
few nights ago:
AL Johnson. of Kansas City, who was
knocked out by Morris Harris last
week, met his conqueror again at the
Broadway Athletic club last night, and
after six rounds of hard fighting earned
draw. Knockdowns were frequent,
and both men narrowly escaped knock
outs.
Shortly after the first round opened
johnson sent his opponent to the floor
with right hook to the jaw, where
he remained for the count of nine.
Hardly had Harris struggled to his feet
when johnson again f1oored him with
stiff left to the face.
Near the close of the second session
Harris scored a knockdown over John
son with right swing to the chin. The
western colored fighter was in bad
condition. but the bell came to his res
cue. The third round was peppery,
with neither man in the lead.
johnson had Harris groggy in the
fourth round from the effects of many
face and body blows, but was unable
to finish him. The fifth and sixth
rounds were drawn, both men vainly
trying for a knockout.
Billy Clark and Eddie Chambers
fought six fast rounds, with honors
slightly in favor of the former Kid
Locke and Billy Kolb made merry for
six rounds, with the advantage favor
ing the former.
Tommy O'Keefe, Billy Reynolds
coming champion, easily outpofnted
Battling Singer, despite a handicap in
weight, and Jimmy Livingstone and
Tommy Logan went six fast rounds to
a draw. Twelve husky colored men
met in battle royal of four rounds.
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A Soldier Charged With Murder.

Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. Frank
MARROW, a negro soldier of Troop H.
Ninth cavalry, was arrested Wednes-
day afternoon charged with the muir
der of Isaac johnson, a negro. Mar
low and johnson had a fight at John
sons home in North Leavenworth last
Friday night, when NARROW struck
Johnson on the head with a billiard
cue, inf1icting an injury from which
Johnson died Tuesday. A daughter Of
johnson cut NARROW in the back Of
the neck with a razor. infiicting q
SLIGHT wound.
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Nearly Smothered by Gas.

O1athe, Kan, Feb. Mr.. and Mrs.
George White, their son, Charles, and
the latter's wife were almost asphy-
xiated by the fumes of natural gas at
the White residence wednesday. The
fiue in the bedroom in which they
were sleeping and in which a gas fire
was burning, became stopped up, the
poisonous vapor accommodating in the
room in sufficient quantity to almost
render them unconscious. They were
revived by physicians who were sum-
moned by the son.
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Durham to coach Baker.

Wichita, Kan. Feb. Jimmie Dur
ham, star twirler for the Kansas City
Blooz, left yesterday for Baker uni
versfty, where he is to coach the base
ball team. Durham has been doing
newspaper work in this city for the
last month. Jimmie" who resides in
Douglass, where he has acted In the ca
pacity of school teacher prior to this
year, during the winter months, will
remain at Baker university until-tine
for the league schedules to open. lie
will then resume his work with the
Blooz.
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NO MORE STRAW BONDS.
lola Jointists Hereafter Give a Kind
That Can Be Collected.

lola, Kan, Feb. George East
wood, who was committed to Jail a
day or two ago, in default of a $500
peace bond. has given bond in that
sum and has been released. Eastwood
has the, distinction of being the first
company bond. The one given by him
is from one of the leading. surety COM
panies in the country and is as good as
gold. From straw bonds, such as have
been accepted here, to a surety bond
is a long step and is brought about by
County Attorney Peterson's refusal to
accept bonds which could never be
collected
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Fine Barton County Orchard

Probably the best orchard in this
part of the county is owned by Amos
Johnson. Several years ago he rented
his farm and moved to Colorado, later
returning to this city. Since that time
the orchard has not received the care
which he would give it personally, but
at the same time, his share of the crop,
one-half, has netted more than most
farmers get from rented wheat land.
Up to November of last year it paid
him over 500. Handled properly it
would doubtless bring a gross income
of nearly $4,000.-Great Bend Tribune
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Bookmakers Nor NTolested

Hot Springs, Ark, Feb. 9.-The book
makers operated without moIestation
at OaklaWn- The bets were laid in the
usual manner and no arrests were
made. The books were hard hit by the
victories of Ralbert and Suzanne Roca-
mora Ralbert receded in the betting
from to to to and Suzanne Roca-
mora from to 1 to 31s to 1. Both won
easily.
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I.akin,s Big Reservoir.

L. J. Pettijohn and H. F. MiIlikan
were in Lakin Sunday, and while there
drove out to where reservoir is being
made which will water the entire eoun-
try in that vicinity. This reservoir has
a. natural basement, and immense en-
bankments of earth are being built
from this. When finished the reservoir
will be seven miles long three and one
half miles wide, and will be thirty feet
deep. This is an immense undertak-
ing, and is very interesting to see.-
Dodge City Republican.
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Chapman, former probate judge OF
this county, died at his home here Of
Bright's disease, aged SO years. He
had been a resident of this county
since 1882, coming from Marion coun-
ty, Illinois. During the war he was
drum major of the Fortieth Illinois
volunteers
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IN A RUSH TO MARRY.
Horton Man Couldn't Wait for Pay
Day-Minister Trusted Him.

Horton, Kan, Feb. John McClel-
Ian, an employee in the Rock Island
shops here, wanted to get married. but
as pay day was distant he was short
of money. Marriage licenses have to
be secured at the office of the probate
judge in Hiawatha, IA miles north of
here. Mcclellan walked to Hiawatha,
secured his license and walked back,
making the round trip of nearly eight
hours. The minister who performed
the ceremony in Horton, knew the
groom's circumstances and refused to
charge him a fee.
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ARE BURNING WOOD.
East lola Is Suffering From a Low
Gas Pressure.

lola, Kan, Feb. East lola is suf-
fering from exceptionally low gas
pressure. Several of the stores burned
wood or coal all day yesterday and to-
day. Many residence homes on South
Vermont, East and Tennessee streets.
have practically no gas whatever,
while many have barely enough to
keep them warm. The low pressure is
attributed TO water accommodating in
the pipes and then freezing, blocking
the passage of the gas.
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BURIED WITH MARVIN.
In Necktie Was Diamond Pin From
Nail of Sunols Shoe.

Lexington, KY, Feb. I'm compli-
ance with the last request of Charles
Marvin, the great trainer and driver of
trotting horses, a diamond-set stickpin
made from a nail from a shoe worn by
the famous mare Sunol when she low
cred the worlds record to a high-whee1
sulky was placed in his favorite- neck
tie and buried with him at Meadville,
Pa
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a meal and when informed that he
was not feeding the public at present,
the negroes attempted to grab him but
Mr.. Cochran, a man of pretty good
stature, quickly grabbed one of the fell
lows by the coat collar and threw him
against the other negro. He then turn
ed and ran down Ninth street toward
his home.-CoffeyYille Record.
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GAS FROM ALLEN COUNTY OIL.
Hundreds of Barrels Are Being Ship
Ded Prom Humboldt

lola, Kan, Feb. THE utilization
of crude oil for fuel seems to have al
ready assumed practical form, ac-
cording to the statement of a man who
was in lola today from Humboldt.
This man says that for many months
hundreds of barrels of Humboldt oil
have been shipped to various points,
where it has been converted into gas
and used for heat and lighting. For a
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tactics. the judges promptly gave the
G. second. St. Elmwood, the favorite,
was third. Nine Spot was played for
a killing in the second and won easily
from one of the lukewarm choice,
Ray. Only one favorite was success
full, Abba, in the 2-year-old race.
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Buys F,irestone for $40. 600

Los Angeles, Feb. Tom Will
liams, president CT the California
Jockey club, has purchased Firestone,
the most promising 2-year-old uncov-
cred this season, formerly the property
of Sam Hildreth, for $4,000.
F1restone has only started three
times this season, and each time has
made his field look cheap, winning all
the way in gallon