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Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Figures on Southern Districts

Washington, Aug. 29-Chairmau Hitchcock of the republican national committee is planning a campaign to try to capture congressman from dis tricts in the south heretofore demo- cratic.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Tries To Make $2, ,0oo Touch

Bordeaux, Ang. 29-Camille Mar quette, serving in the French military ambulance corps, is accused of send Ing to President Roosevelt black hand letter demanding $2 2,OOO.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Legal Blanks for Sale at the prospector.

A land slide in the cemetery at Nomo exposed the collins and loft some of the oorpaes with their feet sticking out.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03

Superintendent Bennett says thet the HadIey smelter will etart up sep2 tembef |.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03

Playing cards were invented in f30O, to divert Charles IV., king of France, who had fallen into melan. choiy mood
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Infantry Team Wine rrophy

Camp Ferry, O., Aug. 29--The Uni ted States infantry rife team won the national trophy offered by congress for craftsmanship.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03

Loving Cups For All The Tafts
 Hot Springs, Ark, Aug. 29--Three hundred and fifty hotel guests today presented loving cups to all the members of Judge Tafps family.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03

The Keystone Bath House has nice Large Rooms and Fine Beds only $2.6 60 per week including bath
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Rx.taovernor eemple plea

San Diego, Gal, Aug. 2e-- Former Governor Eugene semple of Wash ington died here yesterday. His homo was iu Seattle.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
CALIFORNIA
It's Two Points Worth Knowing WatSOnVilIe and Pajaro Valley

Watsonville, the metropolis and shipping center of the Pa jaro Valley, is just 100 miles from San Francisco on the Southern Pacific Railway, five miles from the ocean. Its fruits have won the plaudits of the world. Strawberriesfrom April to November. It is distinctive ly fruit belt, with amaximum yield of all varieties.
 One years cultivation of 10 acres produces a living income.
 FulI information write
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
VICTIMS SAY BANDIT
 IS S29,00O AHEAD

Livingston, Mont, Aug. 27.-rho majority of those who were hold mp and robbed by Q lone bandit in Vel lowstone park arrived here last night on their way east. They report that the highwayman obtained $2g, ,0OO as the reward of his eIforte and that in all sixty stages were hold up.
 The victims state that the stage company and the park officials arc trying to koep tl'e details of the affair from the public and that the reports so far giyon out havc as much as possible minimi2ed the robbery.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Secretary of Chamber of Commerce, Watsonvil1e, Cal.

Equitable building, in Now York, io to have sixty-two stories and height of 900 feet
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03
Slate Creek Boosts wiolscreiiam

Slate creek voted s7 for Wicker. sham, for coron, for Ronan. This makes tbe total received as follows: Wickersham S01s; coIsoD io58; Ghii- borg 2iO5; Roman org; Cum 9fs.
Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-09-03

A Japaheao wedding ceremony in- cludes burning the discarded toys of the bride.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
HYKAWKER JOTS

1t cost six young men, residents of
Anness, $1,000 for the privilege of des-
troying property Of an alleged jointist
In that city.
Havana, in Montgomery county, is
not very large, but it is big enough to
contain a man who Is referred to as
merchant prince"
Edith McClelland, of lola, teaches her
school right along with broken arm
That must be g. picnic for the pupils
She got it skating.
A cow that hid in a pasture for the
purpose Of mothering three good sized
shoats, belongs to Joseph McCarty who
lives near Edgerton. Does this story
put Mr.. McCarty among the nature
takers?
T. L. Wells, the mail clerk at the
Atchison union depot, has dog which
he considers the smartest one in the
country. This dog will sit up on its
hind feet and dance while Mr.. Wells
whistles tune.
A white man obtained a license to
marry negro woman in Pratt county
this week, and the Pratt Union de-
nounces them in strong terms. 1t might
be said that this Is one time when the
Union dissents from the union.
Edmund Baughman Chapman, man
aging editor of the Salina Journal, has
risen to the rank of COLONEL in the
he cannot put a regiment through it's
PAGES unless it might be one of dead
soldiers"
In Newton, where almost everybody
works for the Santa Fe railroad, they
tell that while a crew was switching in
the yards the fireman said to the engi-
neer: Uncle John says slack her ahead
a little, grandpa, Cousin Bill has hia
hand fast"
The common "pee-pur' of Columbus
are rising in their might and passing
resolutions against the machine; pot
the political machine this time but the
voting machine, purchased in wholesale
quantities by the county commissioners
at $500 each.
1.-THE source of real, undisputed au-
thority in this country announces w.
D. Greason after scanning copy of the
new postal ruling in the Miami Repub-
lican office ''is in the postal depart
ment. 1t can say whatever 1t pleases,
and whatever 1t says goes"
An aged couple in Salina have been
turned out of their home by a son-in-
law after their daughters death. They
made the mistake of deciding their
property away before they were through
with it. and it will take a lawsuit to
keep them out Of the poorhouse.
J. Mack Love, who was chairman of
the Democratic state committee for six
or eight years, has quit trying to save
the country and is now devotfng his ef-
forts to trying to save Arkansas City.
He was reelected recently to the pres
idency of the Arkansas City CONNER
cial club.
SaIina always has something to be
puffed I'D about. Now it Is because
Padere wsh is to give concert there
tonight and this is the only town In
kansas that he will play in this year.
There may be lots of glory in an affair
of this kind but surely not for the pro
uootara Of the concert Those behind it
in salina promised Paderewski q $2,5oo
guarantees and the sale of tickets for the
SHOW amounts to several hundred dol
lars below this figure, which many Will
look on as an exorbitant one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES


A wireless telegraph company GER
tafnly has snap in securing a right
of way.
y = -
Generally speaking, the girl who has
everything her own way is the ser
want girl.
80
When a thief swallows a precious
stone 1t Is case OF a diamond in
the rough.
n y
One reason why women do. not get
as cranky and disagreeable as men is
that they do not have wives to bother
them.
= y
A woman who can sew. but who
has an impeachment in her speech, is
not eligible to membership in a sew
ing circle.
= 4
1t does not necessarily mean that
a girl can see in the dark when she
accuses a man in an unlighted parlor
of not having shaved recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Do people who travel ineog all have
wheels?
It doesn't pay to be too polite to get
what's coming to you.
Speaking OF Indians, would a
PAINTED Sioux be Sioux veneer?
Speech may also. be means OF
conceaIing what we really think.
There are 4s.e27 ways of separating
a fool and his money. and then some.
It takes more than minute to get
to Sixty-second street. Think it over.
There are people who have some
good in them but it takes lot OF
coaxing to bring it out.
It's a good thing for Noah that he
wasn't as skeptical about the weather
prophets as we are today.
Wigg-"I know a girl who doesn't
care who knows her age" Wagg-
"rll make a bet she isn't over 49,"
First Crook--"Yes; I'm making good
money now" Second Crook-'tWhat
att" First Accommodating"
"A good man never blows his own
horn" remarked the Wise Guy. mo;
q coed man Ii generally too poor to
own ons," asssoted the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

Yet the bunko mans little game Is
only skin deep.
A rural melodrama should at least
have grass plot.
The man who pays his coal bills al
ways has money to burn.
Once in a great while a man actuallv
heeds his wife's advice
Some men wear good clothes becausa
they can't afford not to-
The female matchmaker usualtv ~o.
about disguised as a chaperon.
A woman is seldom Jealous If her
husbands first love after meetinr her
Women who cheaper themse1ve. ,o,~.
learn that men do not care for barrsin.
Even q pessimist can soe NOV. -:
In the world than the world car see 4,
him. Al
There may be hypocrites in the
church-but think of the vast number
outside of it. - ooi
If the charity that begins at bon. :.
the real thing 1t soon contracts the
travel habit. ene
Even some thirsty men are mt A.
ious for an opportunity to line nm IN
front OF the bar OF justice. -
In order to win success a man r,,,.4
get busy today. Yesterday was 8, reaI;'
ty. but tomorrow is fictitious.
The girl who becomes engaged e.
young man who doesn't know hon
KISS has cause to congratulate hersa,t
The successful man not oplv t.,..
advantage of the opportunitia. 49,
come his way but he manufa<fv-ss-.aa e
few for himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
HUNOR or THE DAY

Father-Is that young man here again!
Daughter-No. pa, it's all the same call.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The novice-what's buEaboo for this
The veteran-Bugaboo? You mean bo-
: The nov;ee-oh. yes; but what's the
odds? knew 1t was something to do with
soaring children.-Puck.
What made that man in your. fishing
party turn pale and give such Jump OF
re1 i his hook for him?'
president? ''-Baltimore American.
ct begin to realize said young Mr.. Kali
low, that am no longer mere youth.
now that I've got little hair on my
YES" said Miss Pert. land suppose in
a month or so you'll have another one"
Philadelphia Press.
After taking anti-fat treatment for
week, an obese person received bin.
But. doctor" he protested. II haven't
''The bin" the doctor informed him.
curtly. sis part Of the treatment. "-Phila-
Now, mother dear. don't be angry with
me for falling in love with her. Besides.
weren't 1T You poor yourself when you first
Yes. my dear son.. But 50 was your
father. And I married him because I
knew he would succeed
well mother, and she Is going to mar
~ me because he did-don't you seer
Life.
Hard luck - the mother of success
Luck is only a relative.
PatiencsEHow did the report Of Pegsy's
whispered 1t to a soul
Patrice--No, she didn't: she used a meg
aphone.-Yonkers Statesman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

Governor Hughes, of New York, who
Is being doomed by New Workers. for
the Republican nomination for presi-
dent, has finally announced his views
on questions of national moment. He
gave strong endorsement to the poll
cies of President Roosevelt He ex-
pressed unqualified opposition to gov
eminent ownership but insisted that
stringent regulation of interstate COM
lnerce was essential to protect the peo-
pie from unjust discrimination. His
firm and vigorous stand on all national
issues will no doubt greatly enhance
his candidacy He could run on the
same platform with Taft all right, In
fact the position would make him an
admirable running mate, for vice presi-
dent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
THE BUSINESS SITUATION

Reviewing the business situation
Bradstreet's says that trade and in
dustry are still quiet, commodity prices
have quite generally moved downward,
collections are backward, an increased
quantity of railroad equipment is re-
ported idle, less satisfactory reports as
to demand come from the iron and steel
and coal industries, and an increased
disposition is noted to discuss wage re-
auctions as an offset to restricting pro-
ductfon. Travellers on the road report
buying to be of a flling-in character,
sufficient merely to replace broken
stocks and a slow and late opening of
spring trade is looked for.
r. q. Dun & Co. report that more
manufacturing plants have resumed
and money is abundant at easy terms.
but business feels the weakened pur-
chasing power of the thousands still
unemployed. AS it becomes possible to
make commercial loans at per cent
there is a disposition to extend opera
lions, many mills are now producing
for distribution next fall and winter.
Industrial news is slightly more en-
couraging on the whole. but there is
much idle machinery. and the coal out
PUT has peSn CuTIall6Q on that account
together with the hardness of winter.
In his weekly financial review. Henry
Clews, the New York banker, says that
everything points to continued easy
rates in the American money markets;
not only on account of lessened demand.
but also because of the extraordinary
expansion which has recently taken
place in the circulation. In financial
circles there has been a decided revival
OF confidence. The panic there has
done its worst, and is now working
itself off in commercial and industrial
affairs. The depression in business q
spreading more rapidly than Is geneexs-
ly supposed; commodity prices are al
ready declining and the process OF re-
adjustment in the Industrial aAd com-
mercial world is now wen szndar way.
But there are reasons ~ Anpsow that
the era e Auaiaeae AeNssaGun win be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
THE FoURFLUsH.

The dailypoet gnawed his pen
And ran his fingers through his hair,
And thought and tugged and gnawed
again,
And swore a frightful swear.
He slammed his papers, spilled his ink
And worked himself up into quite
"A rage. because he couldn't think
OF anything to write.
And life was his, and friends and love,
And faith, and hope, and charity,
And duty, and the markings" of
Good cigarettes. And he
Could see the sunrise. feel the rain,
And all the beauty of the earth;
And knew ambition, joy and pain,
And Christening sorrows' worth,
And pretty girls he knew. and thought
Them sweet-thefr frown, their smile,
their pout-
And yet he kicked that there was naught
For him to write about
o poetry unwritteni o
Earth's beauty, never praised enough!
o dailypoet! Don't y know,
L think you are a bluff
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.1

Are YOU able to work by the day
without being watched?
Don't knock on people smarter than
YOU are: learn from them.
There are some queer people in the
world: some of them actually enjoy
quarreling.
The "stories" on people are never
more than half true. when there is
any truth In them at all.
The women are itching for the new
spring goods to arrive at the stores;
the women want to paw them over.
and see what they are like.
A man can take a lame excuse and
prop it up and strengthen 1t in such
O way that 1t will pass as a good one
to every ono on earth but his wife.
When a man Is holding the baby.
he wouldn't be surprised at any mo-
ment to have a band march y his
home and play in honor Of A Really
Good Man.
Subject for discussion at the next
meeting Of the Lancaster Literary So
ciety: Is a widow or widower bothered
as much with marrying jokes as an
old maid or an old bachelor?
A young man hates to acknowledge
that an older man knows more than
he does. Occasionally 1t happens that
the older man doesn't know any more
than the younger man. but he should
A mean man may disguise his mean
ness for a month or two after moving
to a new town. but, in a few months,
he will have the same reputation he
had in the town he came from.
You hear many strange things told
of life. Many of them are exagger-
atel; many are untrue. There isn't
a great deal in life that is really
strange. It's the same old story, and
only wonderful to the young.
They tell of a farmer who once
|eisited Atchison, and ran across a fakir
,, r11l &1
dollar each. The fakir claimed that
IN each package there was a five dol
lar bill The farmer bought twenty
six belts. OF course there was no
money in the packages. Instead of
complaining to the police, the farmer
bought 50-cent rawhide, and. going
into the barn on his return home. gave
himself good whipping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

blew him an audacious kiss from the
tips of her fingers
1t gave Jack thrill that somehow,
for little thing, upset the equili-
brtum OF his work-a-day world to
most remarkable degree. Neverthe-
less, on the following day, for reasons
best known to herself. Anne chose to
be- naughty. She neglected to bring
him his cream for his coffee and the
syrup for his waffles. He was oblig-
ed to ring for her several times. Each
time she was laughter than the last,
and once. through that same trans
parent go-between. he distinctly saw
her make up face at him. 1t was
nearly laughed outright. But he
checked himself and decided to try q
course OF discipline instead.
Anne" he said, and his voice
sounded almost stern, II want you to
dust the piano keys. You may do 1t
now. They were so dusty last night
1t was agony to play on them"
Anne stared at him a moment in
unconcealed establishment, then
founced into the kitchen. The next
tentatiously Tapping a dust cloth.
At the first awful discordant crash
that followed upon her disappearance
Jack gritted his teeth and held on to
and walked determinedly into the liv-
ing room.
IF you could be a little more care
full" he suggested icily.
Anne shot him an inscrutable look
from the corner of her eye, sat down
after flourish of the piano stool.
and began to dash off Chopin waltz
with brilliancy of touch that left
Jack speeches. with establishment
After she had struck the last for
tissimo chord she remained motion
less, her hands resting on the keys.
Jack came toward her, until he
stood looking down upon her.
who are you?" he asked finally.
"girl or witch or goddess?"
with her hands.
Jack tried to take them down
again, but she would not let him.
at makes no difference who you
are, Anne" he said at length, huskily.
You need not tell me. All that mat
ters is that I love you, and all that
want to know is. do you
But Anne had run away from him.
She ran straight into Norah, who was
coming down the hall.
why, Anne Morrisi" Norah ex-
claimed what is the nlatter?"
For answer Anne pulled OF her
miniature headgear and her ruffled
apron, and said laconically. Intro
duce me-"
Anne's hand in a tight little squeeze,
went back with her to the living
room.
"Mr. Cabot" she began dramatical-
1y, forgetting to say good morning, II
want you to know my dear friend,
Anne Morris. Anne, this is Mr.. Jack
Cabot, a bachelor friend Of my hus-
bands. Oh" she added, stopping
just long enough to note the mingled
CONSERVATION and Joy upon Jacks
countenance, 81 just must go and tell
Bob"
"Tell him what ?" flashed Anne, but
Norah had disappeared.
Cant you guess?" pleaded Jack.
holding out his arms to her. isn't
it going to be true-what Norah tells
Bob?"
Anne let his arm close about her.
"Tm awfully afraid I've spoiled you"
whispered Anne roguishly.
Don't you worry about that"
laughed Jack "But this time I'm go
ing to get the kiss that I saw in the
mirror"
Anne protested-but he got it
copyrighted 1908, by Jesse Morgan.C
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

If you want to find a lot of gentle
men who are real "sore'' just walk UP
and down Kansas avenue and pick
out the candidates for Republican
nominations for county offices who
have been spending money literally
and carrying on an active campaign
in anticipation of picking the plums
at the county primaries which were
soon to be held. The state primary
law has put these primaries on the
shelf and the many candidates have
put in a lot of work that will go for
naught for the people are short
minded when it comes to politics and
will have soon forgotten who were
running until the campaign starts up
again in the late summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

Aristide BRAND, the French minis
ter of justice and worship, has rather
startled even the people of France
by practically coming out in favor of
trial marriages NJ. BRAND indorses
the idea of the doctrine of divorce
until the point is reached where a
marriage may be contracted for a
specified period under legal safe
guards protecting the interests of both
parties. The minister declares 1t is
impossible for those about to enter
upon this relation to know the true
character of their partners, and that
it is unnatural and intolerable to ex-
pect an illmated pair to drag out a
miserable existence because they
Numbered in entering upon the most
vital relation of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

Edward Payson Ripley, president of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee Rail-
way company, has been added to the
galaxy that Eliminates the National
Ananias club. Mr.. Ripley declares that
he is not entitled to the honor which
has been thrust upon him by the or
ganizer of this exclusive organization.
There are lots Of people, however, who
would gloat over an opportunity to
travel with the distinguished company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

available until next winter They
should go ahead and fix the levy, how
ever, and those promoting the fair
should not have any trouble in Dor
rowing the money to help things along
until the county money is availa ble
Let's have real big county fair by
all means this fall It will be a. great
start toward the esta bHshment of a
state fair in Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

Having prohibited the smoking Of
cigarettes in public places by women,
the members of the New York board
of aldermen have turned their at
tention to curbing the wicked breezes
at certain points along the subway.
These horrid blasts have a habit of
disarranging the clothing of women
to such an extent as to embarrass
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

A New York legislator comes to
the front with a bill proposing a tax
of twenty per cent upon all dowries
or marriage settlements given by a
female residing in the state to men
residing in foreign countries. 1t
might be pertinent to inquire how it
Is proposed to find out the amount Of
these dowries and marriage settle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

A great possibility is furnished by
the new primary law for those who de-
light in fame. Any Individual has the
proud privilege Of announcing that he
Is a candidate for a United States sem
atorship. And the announcement can
be written In his biography for the de-
location of his descendants that he
was at one time a candidate for a high
and an exalted Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

shorter than usual. owing to- the strong
financial condition Of the farmers and
manufacturers. and the fact that the
country is not suffering from overpro-
duction. There will be, however, more
or less curtailment in consumption, be-
cause OF the enforced idleness Of many
hands and the economics necessitated
by changed business conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03

Those who think the life Of a fire.
man is one of luxurious ease would
have found out differently if they had
been compelled to fight the fire in the
Rock Island depot with the tempera-
$ure down near the zero point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

There is likely some truth in the re-
port that Caruso's great voice broke
when he heard of the suspension of
. bank in which he had $4,000 de-
noSited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-03
JEFF DAVIS, SLIP

When Jeff Davis said that no man
could make a million dollars honestly
he cut orr all communication with a
cabinet Office in case of Mr.. Bryan's
election.-Wichita Eagle.