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The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
SHIPS $4,000 POUNDS CABBAGE
An Atchison Farmer Is Doing His
Own Commission Business.

Atchison Kan, July 14."Conrad
Voelker, the cabbage king, and w. H
Tucker the commission man, shipped
a car load of cabbage to southern
Kansas. The cabbage was piled in
the car and not Grated. Crates were
put through to let the air in. and 1t
will keep all right. Conrad Voelker
was offered 80 cents a hundred
pounds for about 10000 pounds, but
thought that he might make the
profit and is going into the commits
sion business himself The farmers
are offered 80 cents a hundred
pounds wholesale. The consumer
pays $50 q hundred. Mr.. Voelker
wants to make that $1.20 extra.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

to make steady gains from this time
forward. The beginning of the crop
movement will be attended with an
increase in other directions.
A car shortage is reported already
from Texas. 1t is the first that has
occurred there in a year. The short
age is noted especially in what are
known as miscellaneous cars. 1t is
not a severe famine by any means.
and will be of short duration, but its
occurrence Is the cause of con-
graduation among operating officials.
who for the last nine months have
not known what to do with their
surplus cars. The new crops already
have begun to move freely in Texas,
especially fruit, vegetables and wheat.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
AS BRYAN SEES IT.
The Democrat Candidates Conception
of the Presidency.

New York, July Nv. ]. Bryan, the
Democratic nominee for president, has
written an article, entitled MY Con-
ception of the Presidency" for the July
Is issue of Golfers Weekly.
Mr.. Bryan says: The president 8
power for good or harm is often over
estimated. This government is gov
ernment Of checks and balances; pow
er is distributed among different de-
partments and each one works in CO.
operation with the others. The max
ing of laws, for the instance, the presi-
dent joins with the senate and house;
he may recommend, but he is power
less to legislate, except as a majority
of the senate and house concur with
him. The. senate and the house also
are independent of each other, each
having a veto over the other; and the
president has a veto over both; ex-
cept that the senate and the house
can by two-thirds vote, override the
presidents veto. The influence of the
president over legislation is therefore
limited. He shares responsibility with
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
HE GOES TO PRUSSIA.
Kansas University Assigns Prof
Campbell to a European School.


Lawrence, July 14.-Under an ar
rangement which is being made
through the Carnegie Foundation In
stitute. Prof. James A. Campbell of
the German department of K. u. has
been assigned to position in a
Prussian university. and it is fully ex-
pected that a German professor will
be sent from Prussia to Kansas uni
versity to take his place.
An exchange of teachers between
Russia and the United States is to go
into operation In September. 1t is
being managed by the Prussian Minis
ter of Public instruction and the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching. The Carnegie foun-
dation received a very great number
of applications, and a distinguished
committee of scholars finally selected
twelve teachers to represent the Unit
ed States. One of these selected was
James A. Campbell. A. NJ. assistant
professor of German in the University
OF Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

aid of intelligent, conscientious and
faithful advisers. The law provides
these to a certain extent, in giving him
a cabinet, and the vice president ought
to be made & member of the cabinet.
ex-officio; first, In order that the pres
ident may have the benefit Of his wis
dom and knowledge of affairs. and
second, that the vice president may be
better prepared to take UP the work
Of tho president in case of a vacancy
in the presidential office. There ought
to be cordial relations also between
the president and those who occupy
positions of influence in the co-ordin-
ate branches of the government. for
our government is not a man govern
ment, but a government In which the
chosen representatives OF the people
labor together to give expression to
the will Of the voters.
"But the presidency is the highest
position in the world, and its occupant
is an important factor in all national
matters If he. is a devout believer in
our theory of government. recognises
the constitutional distribution OF
powers, trusts thoroughly in the peo-
pie and fully sympathizes with them
in their aspirations and hopes. he has
an opportunity to do splendid work;
he occupies a vantage ground from
which he can exert a wholesome In
fiuence in favor of each forward move
ment.
"The responsibilities of the office
are SO great that the occupant ought to
be relieved of every personal ambition.
save the ambition to prove worthy
of the confidence of his countrymen:
for this reason he ought to enter the
position without thought or prospect
Of a second term.
while the burdens OF such an office
are heavy, and while the labors of the
office are exacting and exhausting. the
field OF service is large, and measuring
it's greatness by service. president, by
consecrating himself to the public
veal, can make himself secure in the
affections Of his fellow citizens while
he lives and creates for himself a per-
manent place in the nations history"
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
FREAK OF NATURE IN GRAY co
Big bitches Appear in an Alfalfa
| Field of S. l.. Kelly.

Cimarron. Kan. July 14.-Some
kind of freak of nature has made
itself apparent in the alfalfa patch of
S. l.. Kelly. who lives ten miles
straight south Of Cimarron. There
are two large cracks extending nearly
the length of his field, about six feet
deep in places and in some places wide
enough that a person could throw in
a large Newfoundland dog. The
cause of the formation of these
cracks is a mystery. The ground
was disked and narrowed last spring
and at that time there was no sign
of any cracks. so they have come
within three or four months.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

Grand Junction, Col. July 1.-THE
defense has rested in the case of Steve
Adams, charged with the murder of
Walter Collins, mine superintendent,
after producing eight witnesses who
testified that Adams was playing cards
at Mrs Mennan's boarding house in
Ophire on the November night in 1902.
when Collins was shot in Telluride and
was still there when a man brought
news Of the murder. Jack Griffith
gave particulars of the card game and
his testimony was not shaken on cross
examination. The case will probably
go to the jury Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
ANOTHER CAR SHORTAGE.
Is Expected by President of Nationa
Car Service Association.

Chicago. July 14@J. o. Klapp,
president of the National Association
of Car Service. is of opinion that
November 1 next will see another car
shortage. 1t may not be SO severe as
that of last year, but it will be severe
enough to be felt all over the coun-
try in the hampering of shippers. Mr..
Klapp asserts that business is
gradually picking up in all parts of
the country, and the coming great
crop movement will make large in
roads into the available supplies of
cars. Business now, he says, is 10
per cent more active than it was a
month ago. and II is almost certain
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

We refer case to anyone who ever used Van
Camps.
Ask any man woman boy girl who knows them.
Ask how Van Camps compare with home baked beans
compare with other brands
There are millions of people who know this, and some
of them live next door. Ask and they'll tell you why
Van Camps command such enormous SALE
Or learn for yourself-learn from ten-cent See
if you go back to beans after trying
Van Camps.
Those not yet using Van Camps Beans simply don't
know what they miss.
Perhaps they cinging to home baked beans
mushy and broken. Beans that crisped the top
and half baked in the middle.
Perhaps they eating very few BEANS because such
beans not appealing Or, perhaps they realize that
such beans don't digest That's why they ferment and
form gas.
Those people losing of the best foods in the
world-and of the cheapest-simply because they
don't know how good baked beans can be-
One of Van Camps will to alter their whole
idea of baked beans.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
SHOWS BIG INCREASE.
Valuation of Crawford County Is Four
Times Greater Than in 1907.

Girard. Kan, July 14.-County
Clerk Fred A. Gerken gave out the
transcript of the assessed valuation of
Crawford county. This was ready
some time ago. but the action of the
county board of equalization in or
dering a general reduction in the
assessment required a complete re-
construction of the transcript
The transcript shows that the total
assessed valuation of Crawford coun-
ty is s34.123,926, as compared with
$,535,13S one year ago. an increase
Of four and one-half times
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

Leslie Briggs, Young Married Farm
er, Takes His Life

Hutchinson, Kan, July 14.-Leslie
Briggs, a young farmer living three
miles east of Nickerson, shothimself at
his home. He used shotgun and the
load went into his breast, killing him
instantly. In a note to his wife he
said goodbye and said he was going
crazy. Coroner Schoor went out to the
scene of the tragedy but no inquest will
be held. Mr.. Briggs was married last
February. He was well-to-do having
his ownfarm and having money on de-
posit. He was 90 years old.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
MORE GRIEF FOR WHITLOW.
lola Man Has Been Arrested on the
Charge of Perjury

lola. Kan, July 14.-Samuel F. Whit
low, recently acquitted of the murder
ofMaySapp, who was killed in September.
1907. was arrested here last evening on
a warrant sworn to by John Sapp, the
girls father, charging him with per-
jury. The warrant charged that Whit
low at the coroner's inquest stated that
he know nothing of the murder of
Miss Sapp. While at the trial he testi-
fed that he was in the yard at her home
when she killed herself Whitlow was
released on a $500 bond signed by FL
mer RemsberS.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
HEATHEN CH|NEE.
Struggled Over Mexican Border
in a Sealed Car.
Discovered at Abilene in Hall
Starved Condition.
AHALFDOZEN OFTHEM.
Placed in County Jail and Will
Shortly Be Sent Back.
Ore Was From a Mex can Mine
Billed For Argentine.

Herington, Kan, July 14.-Six
Cinnamon were discovered here late
Monday in a car loaded with ore from
a Mexican mine for Argentine. Ihe
car had been sealed, and so passed
across the border. The men are helo
by officers, and will be placed in the
county Jail at Abilene until the gov
ernment authorities can investigate
and arrange for their return. The men
were in a half starved condition.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
SUIT FOR DAMAGES.
Santa Fe Defendant and Young Lady
Is Plaintiff

Las Vegas. N. M. July 14.-Miss
Florence Kellison, through her attor-
neys. Block and Owen, has filed a suit
against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway at Albuquerque asking
damages to the amount of $1,000 to-
gether with the costs of the suit. The
defendant is alleged to have forced
Miss Kellison to leave a Santa Fe
train at Trinidad, Colo, on March 9Th,
last.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
FOR FOREST PRESERVATION.
Two Days for This Work to Be Added
to the Transmississippi Convention.

Abilene. Kan, July IA two day
conference on natural resources with
especial attention to forest preservation
will be added to the Transmississippi
Commercial congress session at San
Francisco next fall. President J. B.
Case. of Abilene. has sent this sugges-
tion to all members of the congress.
The official call will be issued within
few days.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
Heat Causes Miners Death.

Pittsburg, Kan, July 14.-Joseph
Fell, aged 65 years and a veteran min
er of this district, was found dead
Monday alongside of a hedge IL miles
north of here.
There were no marks of violence and
the physician called in on the case and
the coroner decided that death was
theheat possibly.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
Cleveland Votes for San. Fourth.

Cleveland July 14.-By a vote of 21
to Z the city council has passed an
ordinance decreeing that henceforth
no private celebration of the Fourth
of July by the use of fireworks or fire.
arms shall occur. The council, how
ever, reserved the right to permit the
city to give an official display" in the
public parks If it SO desires. The ordi-
nance was the result of the deaths of
ten persons in this years independence
day celebration.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

Leavenworth, Kan, July 14.-Chris
Ehart cashed a s45 check for a man
named L. J. Barnett who claimed to
be working at the Broadway planning
MILL Ehart sent the check to his
bank and ii was turned down as the
man who wrote the check had no de-
posit at the First National bank on
which the check was drawn. When
he was arrested later he had several
checks in his pocket which he evil
IDENTIFY intended passing.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
Mrs. Stewards Hearing July 81.

Ottawa, Kan, July 14.-Judge Smart
has set July 81 as the date for the
hearing for a new trial in the case of
the state against Mollie Stewart for
completely with Frank Schnec in the
murder of Jane Schneck and two chill
dren. Attorneys are preparing to take
both cases to the supreme court If a
new trial is refused Mollie Stewart.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
AGED. BLIND AND DEAF.
S. c. Thompson of the Wichita Ma
sonic Home Killed by Car.

Wichita, Kan, July 14.-Samuel c.
Thompson. so years old, was killed here
Monday by a street car near the Ma
sonic Home in this city. Thompson was
an inmate at the home. He was a
member of the Masonic lodge in Leav-
enworth. Thompson was practically
blind and deaf
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
A Woman for County C1erl..

Troy. Kan, July 14.-When ii be-
came known that Hiss Margaret
Schletzbaum would be candidate
for the Republican nomination for
county clerk of Doniphan county all
other Republican candidates with
drew from the race. The Democrats
will not nominate candidate in the
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

primaries, but they have Joined with
the Independents in announcing a
mass meeting to be held about the
middle of August at which an In
dependence candidate will be named
to run against Miss Schletzbaum.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

They will find that beans be baked until they are
meay, yet remain nutty because they are whole
They will find that the tomato baked into the
beans gives and delicious blend
And they will find that beans, when rightly baked are
easy to digest Then beans becomeas they should be-
almost daily DISH
These some of the differences:
We bake in live steam-you bake in dry heat. We
bake the beans until they mealy without crispng or
breaking them. You cannot do this.
Our heated to 245 degrees. Then we bake in
small parcels that the heat goes through Thus the
atoms separated the digestive juices can get to
them
Scarcely half much heat get to the center Of
your baking dish The result is, heavy food, hard to
digest.
Not home in the world has the facilities bake beans
as we bake ours. Why bother to try iti Why waste
the time and the fuelf
Please serve Van Camps tomorrow. See what it
means to you and yours to have such meals ready
cooked.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
Ask the Folks Next Door

Ask neighbor she thinks Van Camps Pork
Then do just she advises about using them yourself
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07
This Stock Contains Shoes
for Men, Women and
Children
Los Angeles Greatest
Shoe Sale

The stock of the Spencer Shoe
company, consisting of the high
est grades of shoes of all descrip-
tions, is now being turned into
cash at the store room, 3OS South
Spring street. Mems shoes as
we'll as women's shoes will be
sold for $1.O0 pair that are worth
as much as $3.50 a pair. Over
1000 pairs of good durable boys
shoes are offered for $1.00 pair.
Children's shoes for SOC pair,
and the finest mems and women's
shoes made, worth up to $500 a
pair, will be sold for $500 pair.
Avail yourself of this opportunity
and be on hand tomorrow and
supply yourself with shoes at
fraction of the regular price.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

HORRORS OF CRUISER DISASTER
DESCRIBED BY A SURVIVOR
FIREMAN ABOARD THE TENNEs SEE RELATES STORY OF THE
EXPLOSION
White Hot Steam Burst from Aperture and Enveoped Men in
Seething, Scalding Vapor They Staggered
About Seeking Exits

nose and mouth, and even into my
clothing, until | was blacker than tar.
We were all coated for quarter or an
inch with the SCOT and cinders from the
furnace blowout, which the hot steam
cooked into us until we could not be
recognized by our friends. 1t was an
experience we will not forget
''I tried to do what could to save
my companions, but like others was
too dazed to realize fully what had
happened, although 1 staggered around
trying to locate the trouble, after l re-
allied it was a tube explosion.
when released from the blazing fur
mace the steam and water burst
through our compartment in every con-
ceviable direction, filing every crack
and crevice with a force inconceivable.
I have a vague recollection that six
doors of the furnace flew open, with a
great crash. 1 had a glimpse of the
great white flames leaping out, like
deadly tongues; then in second 1t
was dark, and the awful volcano of
steam burst out on US, followed by the
cinders, Goals, ashes and clouds of line
SCOT 1t blinded, choked, dazed us.
Some. stricken almost to death by the
inhalation of the boiling vapor, tried
to crawl in the bunkers, or to get to
the adjoining fireroom; but 1t was like
walking through wall to penetrate the
density of that dirt and vapor.
Falls to Floor Dead
"Reinhold was oiling the engine when
the steam rushed upon him. He drew
but one breath and fell to the floor
dead. his lungs scared and dried by
the awful blast.
sThey found him dead in the engine
room with the oil can clutched tightly
in his hand.
Meek and Boggs, who were firing up
at the moment of the explosion, died
They fell dead In their tracks, the
steam cooking their lungs at the first
inhalation. l think 1t was Maxfield, /
am not certain, but some place In that
awful hell-hole l ran into one of my
companions. 1 will never know which
one.
both of us were blind. His voice
was SO hoarse from the terrible FUMES
and dirt which had filled his throat
and lungs that I could not tell what
he said, at first, but he cried out some-
thing as he lunged against me.
HE fell at my feet and l staggered
over him. Then 1 reached down to
grab him and try to pull him out. for
instinctively I felt that his condition
was worse than mine. When 1 reacned
down he was gone, and I heard him
exclaim. huskily, someplace back of
me, Great God! Burns Burns!'
'.The next moment / seemed to be
falling-just as though the ship was
the next I remember
somebody had hold of me and pulled
me out. I don't know who 1t was.
THAT is all can tell you"
Corns was visibly affected while tell
ing his story and was in such pain
full condition from his injuries he could
hardly move. His condition, however
was not considered serious enough to
justify his being brought to Los An
reles. and he was left in the sick bay,
or ships hospital, where he is receiv-
ing every attention possible.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07
MUNICIPAL AFEA|RSkIa = = ! ! !
FUMIGATORS ARE
BEHIND IN WORK
FINANCE committee HAS CUT
FORCE
Health Department Phones Loaded
with Complaints Over Delays In
Releasing Cured Patients
Because of Short Help

When the finance committee of the
council decided last week that the
health department would have to get
along with one fumigator it paved the
way for much trouble.
The department fumigates nowadays
for all cases of measles, chicken pox,
mumps, scarlet fever, diphtheria. tu-
berculosis and other ailments. and for
several months George Hooser and A.
McGonigle have had all the work they
could do Sundays included.
An expert Is able at best to fumigate
only six places in a day, provided they
are not too far distant from each other.
At the rate sickness has been reported
recently the department is weeks De-
hind in its work.
Children In houses where any of these
ailments exist cannot to TO the
public schools unless they have cards.
and these cards cannot be obtained
unless the premises are fumigated.
Therefore there are scores of children
prisoners at home till the fumigator
gets around to them. No public library
books are issued to any places where
any of these cases exist.
There are cases on the books now
where for over two weeks patients have
been cured, yet the occupants are prac-
tically prisoners until the official release
cards are distributed to inmates by the
department.
DIR L. M. Powers is now considering
detailing several of his overworked SAN
itarv inspectors to do fumigating, as
the department phones are busy all day
and night with complaints from per-
sons calling for fumigators.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

ITO NO MAN is credit more due for
the promotion and upbuilding OF
Il the city of Los Angeles or of en-
tire Southern California than Mr.. e.
P. Clark, president of the Los Angeles
Pacific Electric Railway company.
Mr.. Clark, together with his partner,
Gen. M. H. Sherman, are the pioneers
of electric street railway building IN
this city. In 1891, when Los Angeles
was little more than a struggling VII
lage, these two men, placing unlimited
confidence in the future of the city ana
backing that confidence with every cent
of their capital, began the construction
of the present street railways, now
owned by the Huntington interests.
The equipment and construction that
Mr., Clark and Gen. Sherman put INTO
the street railways of this city were
the best that had ever been put into
street railway building, with the result
that the system founded by these men
has given Los Angeles the reputation
of having the best electrical street rail-
ways in the world.
Mr.. Clark's and Gen. Shermans pres
ent electric railway interests and hold.
ings comprise a system of over zV