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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
SWANS AND WILD DUCKS
Placed in Central Park Lakes by
Superintendent Reiniscl.

The pair of white mute swans and
the two mallard ducks, ordered for
Central park, arrived today and were
placed in the lakes at the park by Sup
erintendent Reinisch. Before being
placed in the water they were "pinion-
ed" that is to say their wings were
clipped at the first joint. The swans
dfsdainfully refused to associate with
the ducks or the wild mudhens that
already had their home in the lake, and
climbed out Of the central into the
lower lake SO that they could be by
themselves. The ducks, on the con-
trary, took right up with the mudhens
in the first lake and they gathered in
a bunch and became friends at once.
The park officials state that they have
had some trouble in protecting the wild
animals and birds in the park from the
vandalism of certain boys who enter
the place for the purpose of hunting
and killing members of this collection
gathered at so much expense and trou-
Bile. Close watch will be kept on the
new additions to the lakes and certain
bows will find themselves in serious
trouble If they continue their unlawful
and unsportsmanlke practice. Mr.
johnson, who is in charge of the park,
has full authority to arrest any one
who molests the ducks or swans.
Mr.. Reinisch, also, placed two swans
and two pintail ducks in Gage park
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
MAY HELP THE FAIR.
Commissioners Have Plan to Extend
Promised Aid.

In an interview with the county
commissioners this morning the State
Journal learns that Messrs. Sterne,
Harrison and Simms are heartily in
the state fair project. They will, if
possible, contribute $4,000 for the
purpose of erecting a temporary
exhibition building on the state fair
grounds this summer. The recent de-
cision of County Attorney Schenck
and Auditor Cav has set aside any
thought for the present of making a
levy for the proposed $4,000 building
The proposition will be placed before
the voters of the county next fall and
after it has carried, as it will beyond
a doubt then work will begun early
next spring on a fine and permanent
structure for the state fair in 1909.
Commissioner Sterne, in speaking
of the fair for this year, said that he
is strongly in favor of making a levy
or voting money at once for a tenn
porary wooden structure to be used
could be torn down after the fair was
over" he said, land the material
used to good advantage for the
smaller and less important buildings
which will be used as permanent
structures'S He was willing to give
at least $4,000 for this purpose. Com
missioner Harrison, who is also a
member of the state fair board, is
heartily in favor Of this plan, and
Commissioner Simms, too, thought 1t
the proper thing to do. At this time
County Auditor CAV entered the COM
missioners' room and the matter was
at once proposed to him. The board
of county commissioners cannot act
in matters of this kind without the
o. K. of the auditor. Both the audi
tor and county attorney are bound
hard and fast to the law in making
their decisions or giving opinions in
a case of this kind. They cannot fol-
low out their personal desires or
judgment in the matter. Mr.. Cav
would not commit himself on the
question today. He wanted time in
which to consider it further. He was
in hopes that this plan of aid for the
fair could be legally followed out.
He would not say that it could not be
done.
1t is expected that County Attorney
Schenck will this week file a friendly
suit in the supreme court to test the
constitutionality of the law that gives
the commissioners the right to make
the proposed $4,000 levy without
submitting the matter to vote of
the people. The proposition in this
particular case is rather different
from other cases decided recently
where the validity of the law was
brought into question. The commits
sioners in this case want to build a
permanent county building for fair
purposes on ground owned by the
county.
In the meantime plans for the state
fair are going right ahead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
VAUDEVILLE AT Y. Nj. O. A.
Will Include Illustrated Songs and
COntOrtiOn Feats.

Vaudeville at the Y. M. c. A! Who'd
a thought it?
But here it is-the whole menu
all the same as the vaudeville houses
contortionist stunts, illustrated songs
moving pictures and a comedy feat
ure.
This is the modest announcement
sent out by the promoters of the la
test theatrical venture:
The social committee of the Y. M.
c. A. have arranged an interesting
vaudeville entertainment for the ben
eft of the members of the association
and their friends, both ladies and
gentlemen. 1t will be held in Gem
nell hall on Saturday evening at 8
o'clock. The program is as follows:
Selection by the Mandolin club.
Contortionist feats by Eugene Tink-
er.
Exhibition of the black art.
Illustrated songs by members of
the Y. w. G. A.
Jack and Jill, comic dialogue.
Selection by the Y. w. G. A.
illustrated songs by A. Morton.
Moving pictures by Y. M. c. A.
moving picture machine.
The young ladies' of the Y. w. c. A.
will assist the social committee in this
entertainment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
DIDN'T STEAL HIS CHILD
B. l.. Swarens Says He Got Her by
Regular Process Through Courts.

B. L. Swarens. the Reno county man
whose IA year old daughter, Opal, has
brought habeas corpus proceedings
against her father in the Kansas SUI
preme court to secure her return to
the custody of her grandparents with
whom she has lived ever since she was
year old, declares in a letter to the
State Journal that he did not steal his
daughter from her grandparents, but
that he secured possession of the child
through the regular procedure of the
courts.
the order that he was entitled to Gus
tody of the child on April T. that on
April Is an execution was placed in
the hands Of the sheriff, and the sher-
If took the child from its grandpar-
ents, F. M. Swarens and Isabelle
Swarens, and delivered her to B. L.
Swarens, her father.
The habeas corpus petition on file
In the supreme court in re Opal
Swarens says nothing about any order
of the probate court, but sets forth the
situation as follows:
THAT on or about the day of
April, 1908, the said B. l.. Swarens il
legally and wrongfully took the Gus
tody of said Opal and took her away
from her home and illegally and
wrongfully took the custody of said
Opal and kept her away from her home
and has illegally and wrongfully. since
that date restrained her from return
ing to her home with her grandmother
and her grandfather and threatens and
intends to continue the said restraint
Of said Opal and keep her away from
her said home and her grandfather
and grandmother, with the purpose and
intent of permanently continuing the
custody and control and maintenance
Of said Opal in the said b. L. Swarens
and his wife,, Nellie Swarens, and per-
manently preventing the said Isabelle
Swarens and her husband from having
the care, custody and control of said
child.
THAT said child, by reason of said
conduct on the part of B. L. Swarens,
is greatly grieved and distressed That
for more than two weeks the said B.
L. Swarens has so unlawfully kept and
restrained said child at his home three
and one-haf miles from the city of
Nickerson- That he took said child
away from school. and failed to return
her to school, except on the last day
of the term.
THAT the said B. L. Swarens and
Nellie Swarens are not suitable and
proper persons to have the care, con-
troll and custody of said child. That
the said Nellie Swarens has never been
had the care and custody of a small
child. That she is revengeful and
spiteful toward the said Isabelle
Swarens, whom the child greatly loves
and that 1t is her purpose and inten-
ton to train said child to hate and
despise said grandparents.
And that the said B. L. Swarens
and Nellie Swarens both make light Of
religion and religious people and re.
ligious services and are opposed to the
said Opal Swarens attending church
services and Sunday school services .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
Cotton Market.

New York, May S.-COTTON-Spot cot
ton closed quiet. Middling uplands, $10tb;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
MIR. HURUEY,s OLD TIME CARD.
He Has Secured One for the Year
1871.

To the many interesting relics Of
early Santa Fe days which he has In
his collection, General Manager !. Il.
Hurley has recently added another
which has attracted great deal OF at
tention. An old time card, one OF the
earliest in use on the Santa Fe, is Mr..
Hurley's latest addition ana II Is now
office. The time card is small piece
of cardboard about the size of a postal
card and bears the following an
nouncement at the top of the card:
s"This road is now completed and is
running two daily passenger trains to
and from North Topeka and Newton:
kan, as per time table printed below"
dated August Z, 1919
Under this schedule mail train left
Topeka at 30 p. M and reached
Newton at $3.50 y. m. and on the re-
turn trip left Newton at 5:05 a. M,
reaching North Topeka at 1895 p. m.
An accommodation train was the only
other train run at that time ana lea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

North Topeka. at 46:10 a. M, reaching
Newton at HAS D. M, and returning
left Newton at 800 p. m, reaching
Topeka at 1895 p. m. These trains
REQUIRED seven hours and a half to
make the trip to Newton. which IS
distance of 135 miles. The Santa Fe
now covers the same distance IN tnree
homrs and twenty minutes, just about
one-half the time.
The little time card prints the time
If arrival Of trains at every station be-
tween Topeka and Newton ana there
are some stations with names iong
Srranton: Arvonia, changed to Bar
ciay; Horton, now Lang; COTTONWOOD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

hehtetne ratonno % J daughter of American
ambassador GraBr H Fart Of ne nu
fu btrto his po
ddg wi ph a HON
Ward is hrte aneuenn Worcester shire pery
wReM beautiful anmadeer
fmeum whhgr hue sbown and d onpexn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
ONT

ordinary routine. 1t is found in a
telegram which he received from the
home of his wife's parents in Seattle.
Wash. last evening informing him that
he is the father of twins. two bouncing
baby boys: two of them. count them,
and then forget anything like slip
that NAV occur in his part of the pro-
eramme this evening. After reading
the message he gasped, THANK heaven.
it's no worse: 1t might have been
tripletts and I thousand miles from
home"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

ing of lots within the corporate limits
He went away in 1883 and the property
was taken for taxes, sold by the sheriff.
church, and the church sold it to the
city to be used as a street. When the
property had been converted to street,
Jones came back, and tried to re-estab
fish his title to the land. He was
beaten in the lower court and now
wants the supreme court to take
guess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
LOOK OUT FOR MIR. IRWIN.
illustrated Song Singer at the Novelty
Father OF Twins.

If few wild discordant notes
should escape from N. r. Irwin, the
singer of illustrated songs at the
Novelty theater this evening, forget ali
about it. Or if he should bubble over
in a wild delirium of Joy while render
ing the words of his song, don't be
surprised. There Is q reason and a
GOOD one Tor any deviation from the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
Hostutler Pleads Not Guilty.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 8Glenn Hos
tutler, cashier of the First National
bank of Excelsior Springs, Mo-, and
a well known banker of this section
of the southwest, appeared in the fed
eral court here today and pleaded not
guilty to an indictment returned last
week against him. The indictment,
which was not made public until today
charged misStatements in reports to
the comptroller of currency and false
entries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
". T. JERoME, NEW YoRK's DISTRICT ATToRNE1


DMrtt Attorney OF
had ~ in b
Hughes also admits vide o
p insurance F. " b
gas asrd y phl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

where strong City now stands Hunts,
known at the present day as Clements;
Cedar Grove, now Cedar Point, and
whitewater, which is now known as
Walton, are few of the changes.
T. j. Peter has his signature at the
bottom of the card as generaI manager
and M l.. Sargent as general freight
and ticket agent. Mr.. Sargent has
since been identified with the old Kan
sas City. Fort Scott & Memphis which
was absorbed v the Frisco few
wears ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
New York Money Market.

New York, May .-MONEY-Money on
call easy, 1N@2 per cent; ruling rate IL.
closing bid IL, offered at 1A. Time loans
firm and dull. Sixty days. 21zQ2H per
cent; 80 days, per cent; months, 81 per
cent
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 3%@A<
per cent; sterling exchange firm. with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at MS5b0
1870 for demand and at A.S466Q4S470 Tor
60 day bills; commercial bills, AS3H
sILvER-Bar silver, 52ssc; Mexican dol
la RoNDs-oovernmsnt bonds ssssn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
BUFFALO JONES CASE APPEALED
The Suit Over Garden City Propertv
Reaches Supreme Court.

The case of c. J. Jones against the
city of Garden City was appealed to
the supreme court today. Jones once
owned property in Garden City consist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

mimddling gulf, 1880 Sales 2.1oo bales.
Galveston. Tex, May S.-COTTON-
Market higher, 10Ac.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
HARDIN WINS
GREAT VICTORY
Superior Court Of German
Empire Grants Rehearing
FORMER TRIAL WAS UNFAIR
cRITIcIzING EDITOR is ORDERED
RELEASED FROM PRISON
ON BONDS.

LEIPSIC. May 23.-Editor Maximil-
ian Harden, whose exposure of the inn
moralities of the knights of the round
table and Emperor Williams Kitchen
cabinet" resulted in his Imprisonment
for libel. secured a great victory today
when the supreme court of the German
empire passed down a decision declar-
ing that his trial and sentence were
unfair and granting him a rehearing
Harden was sentenced for accusing
Count Won Moltke of unspeakable
practices. Prince Zeulenberg, Won
Moltke's best friend and at one time
Emperor Williams trusted advisor. is
under arrest charged with giving per-
jured testimony in the Harden trial
The decision is a crushing condemna-
ton of the metnocs use1 in Harden's
trial. The reversal is expected to quiet
public clamOr against the injustice done
the editor.
The court ordered the editors release
from prison on bond.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
JOHN ". WOODS
HUMANE OFFICER

A special meeting of the Walla Walla
Humane society was held May p at
the residence of Mrs. H. P. Isaacs, Boy
er avenue, at which DR. J. w Woods
was appointed humane officer by the
board of trustees.
This society, which has recently been
organized according to the state laws,
fills a long felt want in this county. 1t
already has membership of thirty
and at each meeting new names are
being added The purposes for which
the society is formed are: To more
effectually prevent cruelty to animals,
and to encourage and assist in the
prosecution of all violations of all the
laws of the state of Washington rela-
tive thereto; to encourage a spirit of
kindness and humanity to all animals
and to mankind. The dues of this socie-
ty are 81 year. The next meeting will
be held in two weeks.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23

Mitchin, proprietor of the FL Paso
o. PASO, Tex, May 81. II.
Nitchin prof. rietor Of the FL PasO
Evening News. was yesterday after
noon indicted by the grand jury in
special session for the murder of NJ. M.
Harrell, who was shot to death We'd
nesday night. Mitchin waived a pre-
hearing and Immediately in
stituted habeas corpus proceedings in
an effort to obtain liberty under bond.
1t is claimed freely that Harrell was
killed as the result Of political feud-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
STRAHORN VIEWS
NORTH COAST ROUTE
RUMORS THAT ACTIVE CON-
STRUCTION WORK IS TO
BE RESUMED.

Activity in North Coast railroad CIR
Giles is evidenced by the fact that We'd
neSday of this week Robt. E. Strahorn.
president of the road F.. l.. Pitman
chief engineer and c. E. Wood, general
right of way agent, were in Kenn--
wick investigating conditions and look
ing over the route, says the Kennewick
Reporter.
AS is customary with these Off
Gals they had nothing to say but went
quietly about their business leaving
the citizens to surmise as to their
mission. Wednesday morning they
took team and drove over the route
toward Kiona and have not been seen
in Kennewick since
Although these officials would give
out nothing for publication it is known
that there has been activity in all de-
partments of the road since the return
Of President Strahorn from California.
Right of way agent Wood was here sew
eral weeks ago when it was announced
that there probably would be further
developments when President Strahorn
returned and this week the officials
were inspecting the route in this vi
entity.
BY railroad men it is believed that
actual construction work will begin
within a few weeks and that the next
year will see some startling develop
ments in this section. For a time it
was believed that things would be
rather dormant until after the presi-
Dental election but with the result of
the election practically foregone con-
clusion it is now the belief that the
work will be rapidly pushed to copE.-
pletion.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
TELLS Of
LAND FRAUDS
Book Written in Jail is
Just Issued
A NOTABLE MANUSCRIPT
LAND FRAUDER GIVES GRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION OF HIS ARREST
IN BOSTON.

PORTLAND, May 23.-"Don't shoot
Steve, for Gods sake, don't shoot"
This is the way that the noted detec-
tive w. j. Burns plead with S. A. D.
Puter when Puter covered him with
a revolver at the time of Puter's ar
rest in Boston, according to the noted
land frauder's book The Looting of
the Public Domain" which is just off
the press.
Puter wrote the book while in Jail
in Portland serving a sentence for land
fraud conspiracy.
Puter's account of his arrest by
Burns in Boston, his escape and his re-
arrest in Oakland Calf, differ ma
terially from the story told by other
writer's on this subject.
Puter's book reveals a number of
sensational incidents in relation to the
land fraud game in the Pacific north
west. A number of these alleged grabs
took place in Idaho and Washington as
we'll as Oregon Names are mentioned
in every instance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
BAPTISTS REFLECT
HUGHES PRESIDENT

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, May 20
The Northern BAPTIST Convention, rep
resenting 100000 Baptists, held its
first annual meeting here yesterday.
Nearly 500 delegates and a thousand
visitors crowded the White Temple
Vice President Harry Pratt Judson,
president of the Chicago University,
presided.
Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New
York, president of the convention, sent
from Albany a message expressing his
regret that pressure of executive work
made it impossible for him to be pres
emit
The convention effected permanent
with Governor Hughes re-
elected as president, Harry Pratt Jud-
son, first vice president; DR.. w. c. Bit
ting, St Louis, secretary.
The new organization unifies the
Baptist denomination and viii give IT
means of expressing itself on impOr-
tant public questions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
RIG EXCURSI n TO
PEKDlET0N TOMORROW
MANY FANS WILL ACCOMPANY
LEAGUE TEAM FOR FlRSI
GAME OF SEASON.

For the opening game of the oase-
world in this city, the Walla Walia
league team will go to Pendleton TO-
morrow morning, accompanied by a
bi, contingent of rooters, to do oattle
with the Pendleton league aggregation
The O. R. & n. road has maze
e,acial round trip rate of $40 for the
occasion. and several hundred enthu-
elastic fans are expected to accom-
many the team to the Oregon town a
return game will probably be piaveo
in this city a week from tomorro" loi
which a special train is to be run.
The game tomorrow. although II Is
.bo FIRST of the season for the nome
team. is attracting no little amount OF
o+tention and that the victory VIII DC
hard-earned one, is predicted pS
those who have seen both teams WORK
ing out
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
FOR
GOVERNOR
DISGRACED CONGRESSMAN MAY
YET TURN DEFEAT INTO
VICTORY.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-The prob
abilities are that Representative
George Lilley, recently critized by the
congressional committee which investi-
gated his charges against the Electric
Boat company, may be elected COVER
nor of Connecticut next November
This phase OF the situation may result
in a delay IN the contemplated action
looking towards his expulsion from the
house.
John Sharp Williams is said to have
drafted a resolution looking toward
Lilly's expulsion but it is believed he
will be protected by his republican col
leagues.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
COMMITTEE IS
: NOW DISRUPTED
3
q
Frs IDS OF HAROLD FITCH AN
~ NICE RESERVATIONS AT
= STANFORD. -

STANFORD, Cal, May 23.-Rather
than to continue to bear the criticism
of the students for the acts of the stu
dents affairs committee and be placed
in position Of having approved of the
course of the committee, Prof. A. NJ.
Catchart of the law department. and r.
E. Swain of the chemical department,
have announced that they were unwill-
ing to continue on the committee ana
handed in their designations. The res
ignatiOns from the committee will take
effect June /.
1t is believed that the action of the
committee in refusing to allow Harold
Fitch, editor of the Daily Palo Alto, the
student daily, his degree from the law
the students in the present difficulty,
brought about the crisis. The minority
fighting the methods of Chairman
Clarke and the majority of the mem
bers on the committee.
Fitch's offense consisted in editorially
condemning the radical action of
the student affairs committee. His
course was acknowledged to have been
very conservative, however, and the
action of the committee in his case was
a great surprise. 1t was openly OPP
posed by Professor Catchart.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23

weight of five motors caused the bag
to burst The men in the lower sec
ton of the ship fell about IS feet while
those in the upper section fell about
200 feet
The injured are: c. A. Morrellu in
VentOr, leg broken, badly cut; c. Tip
pie. engineer. crushed by engines: JUS
tin barber, photographer, ribs broken:
W. Tyson. cut and bruised; E. c. WAL
len, newspaper man. bruised and CUT:
P. H. Goodfriend Fish, engineer.
Herst Miller, valve, tender, bruised:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-23
IOSES LIFE IN AN ATTEMPT
TO SAVE SCHOOL CHILDREN

FRESNO, May 2S.-Attempting to
save a crowd of small children from
oelhg trampled to death by a runaway
iacehorse which was attached to a sui
KY at the race track this afternoon.
Frlhclpal M. p. Holmes was dashed to
the ground. his skull was FRACTURED
and he will probably die. 1t was the
occasion OF the school field meet and a
number of school children were on the
track
Maud c, a local race horse. which
was exercising, broke away from the
ur'ver and ran away. When Holmes
saw the frenzied animal bearing down
on the children, he dashed out and at
tempted to hold the horse.