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PERSONAL

ITBERAL reward will be paid for infor
 nation about demented Italian who left his home; unable to talk P. Perolio, Pratt City. 2-lO-it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06

Supply for X. N. G. Ready by
April 1.

Major John J. Dooley, of the ma
tional guard of the state of Maine
was in Topeka today visiting Adjutant
General ] w. f. Hughes. Mr.. Dooley
had with him one of the new Spring.
field rifles which has been adopted for
use in the United States army
1.-THE federal government will be
ready" said Mr.. Dooley, "to supply all
the national guard troops in the
United States with this modern gun
by April 1, and this, you can say for
me, is official. This will be in time
for the national guard troops to prac-
tice with the new gun for the national
rifle match. The national guard does
not get out for work much before
May.
This new rife is wonderful arm.
1t viii shoot three and one-half miles
It's range is just about mile fur
Their than the best rifles of any for
eign government. It shoots a pointed
bullet of steel. This gun was built
three times in order to reach the state
of perfection which it has now at
tained.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
FITZPATRICK WILL MOVE.
Leader of Senate Majority Goes to
independence.
HOFF

Senator Fitzpatrick, the organizer
of the senate lodge and president of
the senate, will within a few months
move from his present home in Sc
dan, Chautauqua county to Indepen-
dence. Montgomery county. for the
purpose of devoting his entire time to
the duties of attorney for the Kansas
branch of the Standard Oil company
known as the Prairie Oil & Gas Co.
He will be associated in this job
with J. B. F. Gates, the present attor-
ney for the Prairie
In this connection the announce
ment is made that w. S. EIstun of
Elk county, will be a candidate for
the state senate to succeed Mr. Fitz-
patrick. Mr.. Elstun has been a
member of the house for two ses-
sions, and is lined up solidIy with the
Fitzpatrick crowd. The chances are
good for his election.
Senator Fitzpatrick is one of the
hardest fighters and cleverest strate-
gists in the political arena of Kansas
at the present time. He maintained
his grip on the majority of the senate
by some of the most adroit political
work ever done in the state, and in
the face of a public clamor which
would have withered up a less skill
full and powerful political organiza-
ton, Though driven back on the
primary election issue. he fought ey-
cry inch OF the way, and even In the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
A RECORD BREAKING LEMON
Tom McNeal Gets One Raised in Kan.
sas That Weighs Over Two Pounds.

State Printer T. A. McNeal received
a lemon this morning of no mean
proportions and although the citrus
fruit comes from Medicine Lodge,
Senator Chester I. Longs home town,
he attaches no political significance
to that fact. The lemon was raised
in the hot-house owned by Colonel
John L. Brady, the Burbank of Kan
sas, and weighs So ounces or two
pounds, four ounces with diameter
of 18 inches at the largest point and
16 Il inches at the smallest.
The lemon is almost perfect as to
shape and color and is as fragrant as
one of its kind of the commercial
size and smaller ones from the same
tree indicate that it has all of the
properties of the ordinary lemon.
This is not the first prize winner of
the vegetable and fruit kingdom that
Colonel Brady has produced as only
last year he had a number of rasp-
berries on exhibition which averaged
two inches in diameter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
JACKSON is AT HOME.
Returns From His Investigation Tour
In Texas.

Attorney General Jackson returned
Thursday from his three weeks trip
to Texas, where he went to work with
Attorney General Hadley of Missouri
and Attorney General Davidson of
Texas on the evidence In certain anti
trust cases.
1--WE spent most of the time" said
Mr.. jackson con the lumber case.
stayed few days more and worked
on the evidence which had been taken
in the waters-Pierce oil case, which
proved to be of great interest and i'm
portance
cat present I can not discuss what
action it is proposed to take. We will
act together in this matter, and 1t
would not be proper to disclose our
plans"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
DRAINAGE CASE is ARGUED.
Presented TO the Supreme Court by
Attorneys Today.

The Shunganunga drainage district
case was argued this morning in the
supreme court.
The plaintiffs, Sara E. Roby, wife
of DR.. H. w. Roby, and other people
who own property on the bluff south
of Shunganunga creek, and much
above the high water mark of the
creek, were included in and taxed as
part of the drainage district created
to protect the Shunganunga bottoms
through Topeka from overflow. They
claimed that they did not need any
protection from such overflow, and
asked the district court for an in
junction against the county clerk, the
drainage officials and others to pre-
vent the collection of the tax. Judge
Dana refused to allow the injunction.
The validity of the drainage law
enacted at the last session of the
legislature is challenged, and the case
has attracted considerab BILE attention
from points where drainage districts
have been formed under this law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
= p. Parks In Topeka

]. F. Parks of Wichita has arrived In
Topeka and has taken his position as
depot manager for the United States
Express company with his office at the
Rock Island depot He takes the place
of George e. McKibbin who has been
transferred to Clay Center where he
will act as manager Of the city and
depot offices Mr. Parks was connected
with the United States Express COM
pany at Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06

Everybody reads The STATE journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
I. S. LLOYD RESIGNS.
Rock Island Superintendent of Motive
Power Leaves.

T. S. Lloyd, general superintendent of
motive power on the Rock Island with
headquarters in Chicago, has resigned
to take similar position on the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western. News
to this effect was received in Topeka
today. He will assume his new duties
on March Is. The appointment of a
successor has not been announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06

final surrender, his friends claim that
he extracted important concessions
from Stubs in the manner of NOM
mating the United States senator,
much to the benefit of Senator Long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
q - - RIDS THE SYSTEM
- - -. OF CKTARRH

Even its early stages Ca distressing alnent caused by
difficult breathing continual hawking but the
disease becomes serious and often disorder Then the bro
bladder diseased
affected by constant OF blood through
the blood which be the use
and Their use alone should be depended on to the disease
down and attacks the disease its head in the circulation and
rich purified blood carried to all parts of the system the symptoms grad
Special
bee 30 all who write THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
a Convenient Train.

For Topeka people who desire a full
business day In Kansas Guy is the
Union Pacific No. 102 which leaves
Topeka every day at 7:o5 a. M, ar
irving in Kansas City at $3.50 a. m.
You can get breakfast in the diner on
this train AID dinner on No. 101 which
leaves Kansas City at p. M. reach
ing Topeka at 7:35 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
Tomorrow's Special Valves at paxton's
know this big
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT

&c Embroidery, 31ac-If you
have tried to buy embroidery re-
Gently at SC per yard, you know
how scarce it is. We will sell both
edge and insertion Ola
Saturday O2C
35c Corset Cover Embroidery,
25c These are edges that we have
sold at 35c per yard and they were
good values at that price, but en-
broidery is getting cheaper, and we
lead the procession in price MAX
ing. Saturday. Or
10c Linen Lace, Genuine
linen torchon .laces, both fine and
coarse mesh; the very best trim
ming for tub garments known;
there are edges and insertions to
match; worth 1Oc per yard kn
Saturday. .............. "
$1.0O Hardanger, 49c There are
scarfs, center pieces and squares in
this lot; they are made of a heavy,
round thread cream colored scrim,
and are worked with mercerized
threads in dark red and green;
worth $1.0O; Saturday 400
each. fOV
15c A. F. G. Bingham, 1211ac-It
is too bad if you have to buy on
credit, but you that can borrow the
money at 6 per cent can make 20
per cent out Of it if you are need
ing Bingham. Other stores get 15c
for this same quality-our price
every day in the week, 1914
per yard. 49,. = CIV
$500 Covert Jackets, 1895
Ladies' short covert jackets, have
velvet collar and are Saline lined;
stitched cuffs; worth DO or
$500; Saturday each. .pO.UO
Doc Long Lisle Gloves, soc We
have these in black only; they
have stitched backs and are elbow
lengths; only 10 dozen of Q0n
them for Saturday, per pr. OUU
TIC Cotton Crash, 3Ac-Full
bleached cotton crash; red
border; twilled; 18 in. wide; QAn
worth 711ac per yard; Sat. U4V
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
Kansas

A good safe investment. Kansas
municipal bonds. not subject to taxa
ton For sale by the Prudential Trust
company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
Boys Suits

With or Without Knickerbocker Pants,
$1.5O to $4.95
The little fellows must always
have something nice. They also
must have something strong.
Our suits are built both for dress
and strength. See the newest and
best things in boys clothing, $1.50
to $4.05.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06

A SIS gold piece will be baked in a
bun and given away In a DC sandwich
Saturday, March Z. 1908, at Transfer
Lunch room, 10s West Eighth. Geo.
Harris, proprietor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
Youths $3.50 to $40 Suits

Nobby patterns, strictly guaran-
teed pure worsted cloth, cut with
the 1908 Spring styles. We have
carefully selected these especially
for the young men. You not only
get the best of everything in these
suits, but you save on the price,
$3.50 to $40.
With or without Knickerbocker
pants-$1. 80 to .95.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06
2Hc

Tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock we place
on sale in our chinaware department.,
fresh cut Carnations at 2ac each, or 3Oc
Dozen
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-06
What 1t Costs to Fight Graft

Francisco in the year 1905 went OF
crate design of suppressing The Bull
letin was treated by the administra
ton as an outlaw.
While The Bulletin was thus undel
fire it received much whispered com
mendation, but not many new sub
scribers and not much advertising
business. The Bulletins cash outlay
for defense against the rioters exceed
ed $4,000, and there is no way OF
estimating closely the great loss sus
taired by the paper in diminished
business. In this fight The Bulletin
had the public sympathy, but that
was about all.
The "strike' having failed to drive
! The Bulletin to the wall, Ruef tried
| another and even more dangerous
method of attack. Through P. H. Nc
Carthy, head of the building trades
unions, and a close political ally of
the administration, The Bulletin was
declared "unfair" by unions repre-
senting fifty or sixty thousand me-
chanies, and a fine of five dollars was
imposed on any member of those
unions who should be caught reading
zeal departments were a "closed
shop" and every man employed in
them was a member of his trade union.
The typographical and all other me-
chanical departments denounced this
Infamous boycott which had been de-
claFed bYsA1sans none of whose mem
bers was employed by The Bulletin,
but they were unable to stop it. Ne
Carthy IS boycott was declared express
" as a punishment for The Bulletin IS
editorial policy, and not on account of
any dispute over conditions of employ
ment Mccarthy stated that any paper
which opposed the t'Union Labor
administration of the city was hostile
to trades unionism and unfit to be read
by union men.
This boycott lasted for many months
and was vigilantly kept up. Restau-
rants, barroOms and other places fire.
quented by union men were cOerced
into stopping their subscriptions. The
Bulletin was struck from every direc-
ton and suffered a considerable net
loss of circulation. While the boycott
was on many timid advertisers, afraid
of inviting McCarthy's thunderbolts
on their business, went out of The
Bulletin. They came back after the
battle.
Z The Bulletin, during all this while,
had to employ, at high wages, fifteen
courageous union men to 60 wherever
union men eongregated and defend
The Bulletin against Mccarthy s
charge that the paper was fighting
uniOnism when it was merely exposing
the false politicians who were wear
ing the livery of unionism and selling
out the very union men by whose votes
they had been elected.
Probably 100000 would not cover
the direct and indirect loss which The
Bulletin suffered by reason of Me-
Carthy's boycott. Many well-mean-
ing union men were led to believe
sincerely that The Bulletin was en-
deavoring to break up the unions This
feeling lasted long after the boycott
had died out. The boycott never was
formally declared at an end.
While the Bulletin was IN the thick
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-06

ing editor, was forcibly kidnapped on
| Van Ness avenue by gang of men,
| headed by two of Patrick Calhoun s
lesser lawyers, was thrown into an
| automobile, conveyed to Redwood City
! thirty miles from San Francisco, and
| there taken aboard a southbound train
and locked in a drawing room. The
| plan was to take him to Los Angeles
and there put him in Jail on trump
| ed-up charge, but it was frustrated
/ by the activity of his friends, who
rescued him, with the help of writ
of habeas corpus and the police, at
Santa Barbara, 400 miles from San
Francisco. The kidnapers have been
indicted.
When the home of Gallagher, the
pivotal witness for the Prosecution,
was blown up in an endeavor to MUIR
der him. The Bulletin offered a reward
of $1,000 for evidence leading to the
detection of the dynamiters. Anony-
nous letters were sent to The Bulletin
Office threatening that the building
would be blown up unless the offer
of a reward were withdrawn. When
at last the Claudianos brothers were
caught and confessed they said that
they had been hired also to kill Mr..
Older, and that they had actually
placed dynamite under a little cottage
adjoining one which he sometimes oc-
eupies. They had failed, however, to
find favorable opportunity to kill
him before the Gallagher outrage COM
PEELED them to flee from San Francisco.
From the beginning of this long
fight The Bulletin Office has been the
center of the battle. Other papers
and other forces have come into the
fight, but the fercest attacks are still
made against The Bulletin, because
the grafters, high and low, regard The
Bulletin as the cause Of all the trouble.
They hate The Bulletin because they
believe that The Bulletin started the
fight, and kept it up in the years when
it might otherwise have been suppress
ed. They hate The Bulletin because
The Bulletin has never trimmed its
sails in stormy times and has never
run before the wind, but has kept a
straight course in all sorts of weather;
and, they know, will keep that course
to the end. That is why the attempt
was made to murder Mr.. Crothers.
That is why The Bulletin was driven
off the streets by violence and was
treated as an outlaw by the Police De-
partment. That is why the paper, a
union shop, was boycotted in violation
of the fundamental principles of
trades unionism That is why Bonn
helm and Anderson directed their
energies against The Bulletin. That is
why Mr. Older was kidnapped, why the
dynamite was planted under cot
tage adjoining his, why he and Mr..
Crothers were harassed by Ruef with
libel actions. And that, let us be-
lieve, is the reason why The Bulletin
today stands out in this community
as a paper of character, a paper whose
word has weight with the public, a
paper which, if intensely hated, is also
intensely admired, a paper which can
not be killed by all the associated
villainies of the town, paper which,
in spite of all its losses, is on sound
footing financially; paper which
PAYS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-06

Indeed, for a while, it seemed thai
1 there would be no trouble about con
/ victing the guilty. But no sooner die
/ Spreckels, Heney and Burns make il
| clear that they intended to prosecute
! the wealthy and eminent bribegivers
as well as the unfortunate weaklings
whom these predatory gentlemen had
! debauched, than the ardor for the Pros
cution in certain quarters died away
/ Murmurs were heard that the Prosecu
tion was injuring the good name OF
the city and ''hurting business.
Hints were conveyed to The Bulletin
that milder course would be APPROX
ed. The old talk about the Incorporate
character of The Bulletin s utterances
again came to the fore.
The Bulletin refusing to heed these
hints, and persisting in its demand
that guilty men be punished, no mat
ter how much money they had or how
high their social position, an organized
attack was made on the financial re-
sources of the paper. Frank Ander-
son, employee of the Bank of California,
called upon Frank johnson, of the
Johnson-Lock Mercantile Company,
who are the Pacific Coast agents Tor
many advertised lines of Eastern
goods, and asked him to organize the
Eastern concerns to go out of The Bull
letin. This Mr.. johnson fatty refused
to do. Then Mr.. Bonnheim, of the
firm of Weinstock, Lubin & Co., pre-
sided over a meeting of the local ad-
vertisers, cited The Bulletin to appear
and defend the position it had taken.
Certain banks brought pressure to
bear on retail firms to force them to
stop advertising in The Bulletin.
Although these eTTorts to drive The
Bulletin to the wall utterly failed,
they caused large loss of advertising
business to this paper. Many mer-
chants who would not be bullied into
down their space in The Bulletin lest
they appear too aggressive In their
support of this paper. Although the
amount cannot be accurately estimat-
ed, no doubt through these attacks
this papers income from this source
has been cut down 100000.
Failing to cripple The Bulletin by
an advertisers boycott, the indicted
corporation men, through their friends,
entered upon a more elaborate cam
palgn. They hnanclal and started
new evening newspaper with the avow-
ed purpose of forcing The Bulletin out
of the field. For many weeks they
maintained force of 265 canvassers
in San Francisco soliciting subscrip-
lions for the new paper and pulling
subscribers away from The Bulletin.
To meet this competition The Bulletin,
of course, was compelled to spend a
large amount of money. The Compel
ing paper, however, fell fiat, and is
now, apparently, on it's last legs, while
The Bulletin s circulation today is
larger, and of more permanent char
acter. than it has ever been.
Victories, however, cost money.
Happily, The Bulletin has been able to
pay for its victories and gain ground
at the same time. But, from strict
" commercial point of view a war
against intrenched graft is not a prof
liable business adventure for a news
paper.
In the course of this long fight for
honesty The Bulletin has been
harassed in other ways besides the at |
tacks on it's business. A little more
than a wear ago Mr. Older, the manag- |
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CONTINUED from Page Nine.)

against the paper by the crooks. Blu
IL was not only the crooks who de
nouneed The Bulletin. There were
many polite and timid souls who pro
tested that The Bulletin was Gin
temperate because it insisted OF
ealing boOdlers by that name. There
were many lukewaTm spirits who
found fault with The Bulletin fol
publishing the truth bluntly; many
Who declared that they were for re-
form, but deprecated sensational
ism," by which they meant publica-
ton of the facts, and "hysteria," by
which they meant The Bulletin s in
sistent outeries against dishonesty.
Then advertisers began to COM
plain. The Bulletin, they murmured,
WAS stirring up turmoil and thereby
hurting business. They limited that a
more ladylike policy would please them
better. OF course, it was well to ex-
pose graft, but why not do it quietiy2
Why not be less aggressive, less clam
orousf
This was the situation, and this the
state of the public mind, when, at
the beginning of the summer of 1905,
Ruef and Schmitz, with the fall cam
paign in mind, resolved to break The
Bulletin 5 back. They gave out the
word that The Bulletin should no long
er be distributed in San Francisco;
that the administration proposed to
suppress it.
Ruef employed FIVE or six newsboys
padrones, the chief of whom was pro-
prietor of a protected "crapn game,
= hot "a
Newsboys' Union.' This "union"
was not connected with any other
labor organization. 1t was composed
of thirty or forty desperate DULLES and
eutthroats, few of whom had ever sold
newspapers. The "union,' in short,
was merely cloak for Ruef s DELHI
crate design of suppressing The Bull
letin by violence.
Without making any demands, and
without giving any warning, this
"uniOn,'' on the very night it was
organized, declared strike
against The Bulletin.
That was the signal. On the next
day and for weeks thereafter riot fill |
ed the town. Gangs of desperadoes
attacked The Bulletin carriers on their
routes, beat them, broke their carts,
and stole their papers. The Bulletin
Office was stoned. Persons who dared
appear on the streets with Bulletin |
in their hands were assailed. Even
women were struck. In the houses of
subscribers windows were broken.
Employees of the paper were forced to
60 armed.
Although these acts of violence were
committed on the principal streets of
the city, the police looked on and
laughed. Many persons, especially
those who had been beaten, were in
dignant. but there was no public up
rising. The Bulletin, IN the end, had
to employ force of men to patrol the
city, many of them mounted, for the
protection of its carriers and sub
seribers. These men fought Ruef s
gangsters with their own weapons, and
the rioting was stopped by the simple
process of mauling the rioters. This
private warfare in the streets of San
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A reward is at this office for the re-
turn of gold bracelet lost Friday
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TO The PUBLIC.

Tho weekly issue of the''FREIE
PREssE FJER TEXAS has po-
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Of all German papers published
in the State of Texas. 1t is
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1t clrculates from Galveston
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the thickly populated central
and southwestern parts OF the
state. as also in Mexico.
I've tlavellng men and oul
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tinuously adding new sub
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In consideration of these facts
the ''FREIE PREssE FUER TEXAS
claims to be the best adver.
Using medium IN the State oil
Texas, when 1t is the object to
reach the German reading pc
pulatlOn.