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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-30
COOLEST PLACE FOUND.
Temperature of III Below Zero at
Height of $50 Feet.

New York Oct 30-That balloon ha:
reached. height of 1850 feet. and there
recorded temperature of III degrees pc
low zero. Fahrenheit. was one of the state
Hents made IN the course of an address
at the last days discussion of the aero
nautical congress here by Professor A
Lawrence Rotch of the Blue Hill observ-
atory, Boston.
Professor Rotch told of his long series
of experiments with miniature balloons
for the purpose of testing current and Sc
curing temperatures at high altitude. The
balloons are made of rubber and carry
special instruments for recording distance
travelled. altitude and temperatures which
are attached to a parachute. When at a
great height the hydrogen with which the
balloons are filled, expands to an extent
where the balloon itself explodes and the
parachutes carrying the Instruments and
the records made on the trip, float down
to earth.
During the course of his experiments
Professor Rotch has sent up some eighty
balloons, and a great number of the par
achutes have been returned to him. Prac-
tically all of the temperature balloons
have been sent up from st. Louis in the
past two years. When the balloons are
two hours and then remain nearly sta
tonary for another hour. After the eX-
quires about hour more The longest
flight of any one of the balloons was 15o
miles.
Professor Rotch said that his expert
ments also showed that a distance of
about eight miles from the earth surface
in the temperate zone the temDera ture
recorded which had been falling at the
rate Of about one degree for each 200 or
$40. began suddenly to rise again, proving
that there was a stratum of warm air
above where intense cold had been re-
corded. Similar strata had also been dis
covered by similar experiments in Europe,
he said. but at a lower altitude and at
about the same altitude in the Arctic reg
ions. At the equator balloons had been
sent up, but in the highest altitude reach
ed the warm stratum had not been found.
On Monday night at the rooms of the
Aero club the international cup Will be
presen ed to Oscar Erbsloeh. winner of
the st. Louis race. Mr. Erbsloeh has re-
ceived the following cablegram from the
emperor of Germany:
Many thanks for your greeting and
warmest congratulations on your fortu-
nate victory.-William, Emperor and
King
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-30
UP GO The RATES.
Steamers Are Crowded With Grain
Shipments to Europe.

Boston, Oct. 30:-As result of in
crease in grain exports all the steam
ship lines have advanced their rates
on future bookings. The grain rate to
Liverpool has jumped from cents to
cents for December and January
loading and to London it has jumped
from to cents. On all other COM
sharply.
Last week the bookings for space
on steamers scheduled to sail in No
vember, December and January ag-
gregated 100000 bushels and this
week has zstartedLwith numerous in
quiries for space.
So much grain has been booked
within the past few days that it is
probable that one or two tramp
steamers may be chartered for ship
ments to ports not reached by regular
liners from here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-30
STATE HAS THE CASH.
Will Pay All the State Employees DIS
Usual.

By carefully boarding all cash re-
in the big vault at the state house.
State Treasurer Mark Tully has man
aged to accumulate about $4,000 in
currency, and will be able to pay OF
the whole lot of state house employees
tomorrow. as usual. The aid of no
banks will be necessary to make this
transa ction. Ordinarily money for
paying the state house employees is Sc
cured from the Topeka banks.
The other bills of the state for the
warrants as usual. These warrants
will in the course of a week or ten days
be cleared through the Bank of To-
peka, and it is likely that they will all
be taken up in cash. In case of emer-
gency, the state could get about $1,000
in cash by drawing 500 from each OF
the state repositories. But this is not
likely to be restorted to.
Walter Payne, chief clerk in tho
state treasurer's office, said today:
we can handle the Octo Der pay
ments all right, but the trouble will be
about next month. unless conditions
are easier by that time. People will
continue to do business on paper about
SO long, but the time will come when
cash will have to be put up by some
body"
Governor Hoch has not yet returned
from Washington. His secretary,
Homer Hoch. states that there have
been very few letters received concern
ing the financial situation.
1--WE had one letter advising us to
declare a holiday or two he said,
but there seems to be no special need
for it,"
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ern preferred rs points and st. Paul IA
points. The 1 point declines included the
Hartman stocks. Northern Pacific, Great
sylvania Toledo, ST. Louis and Western
preferred American Smelling. The sell
ing orders were not on a large scale. but
the buying demand was insufficient to alb
sorb them except at the concessions.
An interval of dullness was without Sus-
tanning effect prices and the decline
was resumed The general western group
and the eastern trunk lines stocks were
the weak features Canadian Pacific lost
Az points Louisville and Nashville
points. Union Bag preferred and Southern
Railway preferred points, National Bis
cult 2as points Reading and Manhattan
21a points, Union Pacific, Pennsylvania
and Great Northern preferred PA points.
Northern Pacific, Peoples Gas and South
ern Pacific 2 points, National Lead,
Great Northern Ore certificates and In
ternational Mercantile preferred rs
points, Band o. and Atchison, American
There was further forced liquidation.
after which prices rallied. The declines
extended in Des Moines and Fort Dodge
to ~ points, Mackay Companies So
points, United States Rubber, first prefer
red AZ points. Pittsburg, c., G. and ST
L. points, Northwestern, st. Paul pre-
ferred. Manhattan. American Telephone
and New York Air Brake 3 to 3ss points,
Canadian Pacific rallied n points, Louis
Vile and Nashville points. Union Paci-
fic IL points and st. Paul, New York Cen
trail, Pennsylvania. Reading, Northern
Pacific and American Smelling 1 point.
Corn Products preferred rose Ia points.
Bonds were weak.
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SHE GAVE UP THE CHILD.
Woman Prisoner at Lansing Finally
Parts With Four Months Old Babe.

Warden Haskell of the state peniten-
tiary yesterday notified Attorney Gen
eral Jackson that the state CT Oklahoma
had sent to the Kansas prison a woman
named Mrs. Loughback, and that Mrs.
Loughback was accompanied by four
months-old baby. Warden Haskell said
that the mother refused to he separated
from the baby, in spite of the fact that
she was sent to prison for manslaugh-
ter, and would have long term to
serve there.
Attorney General Jackson decided to
advise Warden Haskell to take care of
the child for "a time at least, when he
was notified that Mrs. Loughback had
been persuaded to surrender possession
of the child.
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DIDN'T NET MUCH CASH.
But Athletic Benefit at High School
Proved an Excellent Entertainment

The athletic benefit at the Topeka
high school auditorium last night was
a disappointment in the way of at
tendance and profits for the athletic
association. However, those who at
tended were very delightfully."- enter
tanned by the recital of Mrs. Dorothy
Hoaglin-H Hayden in her rendition of
judith of Bethulia." The attendance
which should have been unusually
large on account of the popularity of
Mrs. Hayden at the high school
through her previous entertainments
was cut down to about two hundred on
account of the Indictment weather.
Consequently the financial returns for
the entertainment were not as large as
they might have been, but are sufficient
to put the athletic association little
ahead. The exact amount could not
be learned.
Mrs. Hayden gave a recital at the
high school two years ago which
proved very popular and had last night
been a good night there is no doubt
that much better attendance could
have been recorded.
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COLBY BILL SIGNED.
New Jersey VIII Make Nominations
by Direct Primary

Trenton, N. J.. Oct. 3O.-Governor
Stokes has signed Senator Colbys bill
providing for popular expression in
the selection of United States sena-
tors. Under the bill one thousand
voters may file a. petition with the sec
rotary of state endorsing member of
their political party for that Office.
Candidates for senator or assembly,
man in filing their acceptance of
nominations may then sign one of two
statements, the first pledging them to
vote for the candidate for United
States senator receiving the highest
number of votes in his county at the
party primaries, and the second
pledging him to vote for the candidate
receiving the highest number of votes
in the state at the party primaries
The governor also signed the direct
primary bill which provides for the
nomination of all candidates for Offices
except governor, congressman and
presidential electors by direct or pri-
mary vote instead of through dele
gates.
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IT'S j. r.. WALKER, SOCIALIST.
y Factory Study of Conditions Here
and in Europe Is His Plan.

Kansas City, Oct. 30.-John r.
Walker. a son of the former United
States district attorney OF Kansas City,
now dead, whom Senator William
Warner succeeded in the position. will
engage in social work. Mr.. Walker
is now in Norfolk, Va. He resigned
this week as secretary of the North
Carolina Pine association at salary
of $4,000 a year to apply social ideas.
His mother, Mrs. Alice B. Ewing
Walker, lives in Kansas City.
Mr.. Walker will devote five years in
this and European countries to the
study of social. economic and indus
trial conditions He will work at a
mechanical trade in each country he
visits. His wife is in sympathy with
him and they will toll together. He
will go to New York and work there
six months in the shops and then go
to Europe. Mrs. Walker will enter fac
tories and work.
Mr.. Walkers plan, when he returns
to the United States after five years
will be to establish some large bust
ness, in the lumber trade possibly, and
work for the benefits of all employed.
He will work out his idea in some city
or congested factory district.
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CAN'T BANKRUPT THE PEOPLE.
Not While They Continue to Have
Good Crops. SAYS Bryan.

Chicago. Oct. 30.-"There is no chance
for general financial deposition so
long as we continue to have good crops,
for you can't bankrupt the people when
they can sell their crops for good mon
ey" asserted William Jennings Bryan
last night during a hurried trip across
the loop district to catch train for
Evanston, where he was to speak.
The present trouble" he said is
largely due to the Investigations that
have disclosed exploitation of fictitious
valuations.
But L do not lay the blame upon the
administration. 1t has merely pointed
out an end. The wages OF sin is death
in business as in life
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PUBLIC IS BUYING.
CONTINUED from Page oneo

NOOHttHueQ IIOIn rage One.y
There is no great excitement and be-
yond great caution in all business trans
actions there is little evidence of un-
rest.
The banks. through their action in
adopting the certificate method of doing
business have precipitated a peculiar
situation. On Monday night, at the re-
quest of the bankers of Portland, Gov
ernor Chamberlain issued a proclama-
ton declaring a five day legal holiday
period. This resulted in the closing of
all courts at the offices of public record,
and today the banks are doing business,
but are unable to obtain court records
or to file and record legal documents.
Governor Chamberlain is consulting
the statutes to ascertain his powers in
the matter of revoking his holiday proc
lamation.
Business Undisturbed.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct 30.-Busi-
ness was apparently undisturbed today
by the adoption yesterday of the clear
ing house certificate plan. Large and
small depositors seemed to adopt the
plan the best means of safeguarding
the interests OF all concerned.
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MADE \ FINE SHOWING.
Quarterly Report of the Topeka
PostOficc.

A fine showing is made today by the
quarterly report returned by the To-
pella Dostoffice to the postmaster gen
eral.
For the three months ending with
September the increase of 1907 over
1906 is close to $4,000. $5.974.54. The
total business in postal sales for the
three months was s53,S41.91 as
against s47,S67.37 of the same period,
1906
The increase in the volume of bust
ness done in mone-- orders was $25,-
41S.S0. The total volume for the
quarter, 1907. amounted to S419,-
s79.2S, for 1906 $393,96O.4S. The do
mestic money orders paid was $146,-
1854. issued was $69,594.o6
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A Brilliant Paragraph.

Mark Twain, at a publishers dinner
in New York, talked of his reporting
days in Virginia City.
1--WE were trying a horse thief one
day." he said, land all of a sudden the
big, burly scoundrel pulled off his boot
and threw it at the judge. 1t was a
heavy boot, too. 1t was studded with
hobnails.
81 am still rather proud of the way 1
wrote up that little incident, doing it
neatly, and at the same time getting
back on a rival reporter whom I dis
liked. I got it all in one paragraph
something like this:
Suddenly the Jiackguardly thief,
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Kansas City, Oct. ~.
Open High Low Close Yes
Kansas CITY Live Stock.

Kansas City. Mo, Oct. 9o.-CATTLEmoo
Receipts today 5000 head, including 90
head of southerns. Market steady. Naive
steers, $S.00a6. 25; southern steers, $3.50
$50; southern cows $2O0@2. 80; native cows
and heifers. $1.75@4.25; stockers and feed
ers, s.. 75@4.40; bulls, $2.O0@3 30; calves, $40
$3.50; western steers. $S25a4.40; western
HOGs-Receipts today 5000 head. Mar
ket steady. Bulk of sales, $5.55@5-7O;
heavy, s.. 45G5. go; packers, $5.50@5.10; pigs
SHEEP-Receipts today 5000 head
Market steady. Muftons. 81. 1ed5. so; lambs
s550q6. go: range wethers, $45oqS.5O; fed
81 25m5 n
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BRADY IS FOUND.
He Says He Has Been in Kansas City
All the Time.

Kansas City. Mo-. Oct 3O.-J Ed
ward Brady, president of the Mer-
chants Refrigerator company, which
was placed in charge of a receiver fol-
lowing his mysterious disappearance
last Friday, was located here last
night by a newspaper reporter. He
made a general statement the burden
of which was that he had been in hid
ing in order that he might be able to
make arrangements to straighten out
his affairs. He said he expected to
satisfy all his creditors. He said he
had been here all the time except last
Saturday, when he was away raising
money.
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Kansas city Produce Market.

Kansas city, Oct. 3O-Close-WHEAT-
Receipts II cars. Market 11c lower. Dec
SO c; May, 991sc. Cash: No. hard, $50
921sc; No. hard, SSQS9c; No. 2 red, 91@
93c; No. 8 red. SSc.
5311c. Cash: No. . mixed, 5O15G52c; No 3
mixed. 50@51c; No. white, SIC: No. 8
white, 53Q5312c.
OATS-Lower. No. . white. ACC: No. 2
mixed, Zoe.
RYE-Steady, 6SGI2c-
HAY-Weak Choice timothy, s13.O0@1S. %;
choice prairie, s11.OG@1125.
BUTTER-Quiet. Creamery, 2sc; pack
EGGS-Firm. Extras. &c; firsts, zoe.
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LOSSES MADE HER INSANE.
Wichita Woman Who Gave a Man So
600 to Invest Taken to Sanitarium.

Wichita, Kan, Oct. 30-Brooding over
the loss of $4,000 which she entrusted
to Sylvester Harrison to invest in
Wichita property, Mrs. Katie Gathers
has been taken to the Lsnox sanitar-
ium here. She is delirious and her
condition is dangerous. She constantly
chatters about the loss OF her fortune.
Harrison is said to have defrauded
several banks here. He left Wichita
with a satchel in which was s2l, 000 He
has not been found.
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MUTINY AT vLADIvosToK.
One Is Reported by a Japanese News
paper at Toxic.

Toxic, Oct. 30-The Jill this afternoon
published a dispatch from Vladivostok
saying that the crews of two Russian
torpedo boats there mutinied and at
tackled the city from the sea. The SOL
diers garrisoning the fortress, it was
added, responded with a brisk fire
which resulted in one of the torpedo
boats being disabled. 1t was further
stated that great excitement prevailed
at Vladivostok and that the amount of
damage was not known Jill however.
does not vouch for the accuracy of this
report,
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New YORK Money Marker.

New York. Oct. O.-MONEY-Money on
call strong early in the day, later much
easier, 4@5 per cent, closing offered at 2
per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper nomi-
nally at 71aG10 per cent; sterling exchange
easier, with actual business in bankers
hills at 81 S272M4S5 for demand and ct
s4714@4. T71A for 80 day bills; commercial
bills nominal
Ron DS-Government bonds steady
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New York Produce Market.

irregular. Held creameries, first to spe-
Gals, 2512d271ac; process, common to spe-
Gals, 1S025c.
EGGS-Firm. State of Pennsylvania and
nearby, browns and mixed fancy. S4Q36c.
POULTRY-Alive firm. Western chick
ems 13c; fowls, i3c; turkeys, 15c. Dressed
easy. Western chickens, EG15c; turkeys,
16GD1Sc: fowls 10G12c
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Old wages TO BE restored.

Butte, Mont, Oct. 30.-The Miners
union and the SmeItermen'S union have
received notices from the Amalga-
mated Copper and other mining COM
panies that the old scale of wages, in
force before the agreement on the
sliding scale was made. will be re-
stored ON November i, in compliance
wife the contracts entered into by the
companies and the labor unions. OF
Butte H -=
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pulling off his boot, hurled it with all
his might straight at the judges head
This desperate act might have been at
tended with most disastrous conse-
quences, but, fortunately, the missile
only struck a reporter, so that no harm
was DONE -
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Hawaii's Largest Crop.

Honolulu. Oct. 30.-Hawaii's sugar
crop for 1907 is the largest in the his
tory of the islands. 1t amounts to 49,
600 tons Next years crop promises to
reach $3.50 tons. This large increase
Is due to the extension of acreage and
irrigation.
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Chicaeo Live Stock Market.

Chicago, Oct. 3O.-CATTLE-Receip to-
day about 10000 head. Market weak
Beeyes $S5o@6s5; COWS. 81 l5q4 80; cai y. 81
$3.50; stockers and feeders, 81. 30@450.
HOGS-Receipts about 1900 head Mar
ass; heavy, $5.30d6.20; rough. S.. 30G5.4o;
pigs. s4.5od5.eO; bulk of sales, $5.60q5;&.
SHEEP-Receipts about 5000 head Mar
ket steady to strong. Natives, $1,000 20;
western, 81. 5O05 Is: yearlings, SIS. 00Q5.75;
lambs 81. 2506.7 western, 81. 25Q6 IS.
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MORE LAND FOR UNITED STATES.
Strip 900 Feet Wide and Many Miles
Long in Alaska.

Ottawa, Ont, Oct. 30.-It is stated
here that a strip of land six hundred
feet wide and many miles in length
will be transferred from Canada to the
United States in Alaska as the work by
a survey in that country during the
past summer.
The line of demarkation between the
United States and Canada in the far
north is the 141 meridian, which starts
from the coast at Mount st. Elias and
crosses the Yukon river at a point
ninety miles below Dawson.
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago. Ill, Oct. 30.-CHEESE-Marke
easy. Daisies, 15c; Twins, 141Rc; Young
Americas, 15c.
POULTRY-Alive poultry steady. Tur-
keys he; chickens, Sc; springs, 1O1ac.
BUTTTER-Marl<et weak. Creamery, %
@251kc; dairy. 2o1@g231zc
EGGS-Market steady. At mar, cases
included, 1711G201zc.
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1.-THE following sales were made today at
the stock yards, Kansas City, Mo, and
telephoned to The Topeka State Journal
by Clay, Robinson & Co., live stock COM
mission merchants, with offices at all
markets.
kansas %City. Oct. 80.
CATTLE-Receipts today 5000 head
Market steady to strong.
HOGS-Receipts today 5000 head. Mar
ket strong. Bulk of sales, $5.55q5.70; top,
s.. So
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SETTLE WITH MIR. HUGHES.
Lawsuit Over Street Car-AutomobiIe
Accident Compromised.

2 E. W. Hughes suit against the To-
peka City Railway company for ST.
O54.29 damages for injuries to his au-
tomobile in a collision between it and
a street car in December last and on
Kansas avenue between Eighth ave-
nue. and Ninth street, was dismissed
on the consent of both sides by Judge
Dana in the district court today.
1t is understood that the railway
company made a settlement with Mr..
Hughes which was entirely satisfac-
tory.
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BRYAN ON A SPECIAL.
Begins Second Speaking Tour
Through Kentucky.

Cincinnati, Oct 3O.-William J.
Bryan started today on his second
swing through Kentucky in the inter-
est of the Democratic state ticket. He
is travelling on special train.
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New York stock Market.

Wall ST., New York. Oct. 3O.-STOCKS-
Opening prices of stocks showed sharp
declines throughout the list, many of the
prominent and active stocks falling as
much as a point and Canadian Pacific
3ss points. Reading 2 points. Great North
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New York sugar and Cofree

steady. Fair refining, 50 40; centrifugal e6
test, s.. 80; molasses sugar, $305. Refined
sugar quiet. Crushed, IS. 10; powdered
So 10; granulated, $500.
COFFEE-Steady. No. Rio, 6Hc; No.
Santos SC.
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Austrian Emperor Fakes a Walk

Vienna, Oct. 30.-Emperor Francis
Joseph took his first open air prom
enade since the beginning of his sick
ness in Schoenbrunn park today.
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Cotton Market.

Galveston. Tex. Oct. 3l-COITON-
Ni New York, Oct 3o-CoTToN-spo cot
ton closed steady and 10 points higher.
Middling uplands, 5000; middling gulf.
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Market Gossip.

FURNISHED by j. E. Gall. Commissions
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocks
office no West Sixth st. Phone 1861
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Were you much hurt in the auto acct
dent?"
Just the merest scratch"
I'm so sorry."-Cleve1and Plain Dealer
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Range of Price on STOCKS.

FURNISHED by ]. E. Gall, Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks
Office 10 West Sixth st. Phone 1851
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Liverpool opening cables: Wheat I'D
over; corn I'D lower.
Liverpool second cables: Wheat IA62d
lower; corn 1z@5sd lower.
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Topeka Market.


FURNISHED by Charles Wolff Packing c.
Yards close at noon Saturday. I