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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-04-03
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO.
Annual Catalogue Shows Large In
crease In Attendance.

Bouider.-The 1908 catalogue OF the
Colorado university was issued Tues
day. II shows q total attendance for
the college year OF SCI regularly matri-
culsted students. an Increase OF l3l
over that OF last year. while the total
attendance. counting the summer
school students. was l.0tt. The teach
Ing stan consists Of lel professors and
instructors. During the past year two
new buildings have been added TO the
equipment OF the university. The new
shop building. which WAS opened TO
the students last Monday. gives Colo
RADIO university the best shops be-
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast.
The other building Is the home for hos
pitai nurses.
Three thousand volumes have been
added to the library since last year.
there being at present 4. 900 bound vol
umes. besides several thousand un'
bound pamphlets. the largest college
library in the West.
Tn. university comprises four col
ieses. tho graduate school. and the
schools Of Law and medicine. In add
iion to the summer school. The col
iege Of liberal arts. the oldest depart
ment Of the university. gives aii the
t'khtbT sob'rtatN HAbAt'"s e"'s'"
eighteen distinct branches. and oncr
ing a total OF $50 subjects.
By system OF doubling. the medical
cours. and the college work both car
b. completed In six years. two years
credit being given for the nrst two
years In the medical school. This will
bo mad. compulsory In the fall OF 1903
after which no student can enter the
medical school without two years pre-
paratory work In college work.
Requirements for admission have
been lowered one unit since last year
fifteen units bcin. all that will be- T.
quircd In the future. A unit In "a coura,
Of study weeks for iiy- days u week
with foriy.covcrins the school yca'
OF thiriy.biS iivcminutc period. Al
students from accredited high school
presenting these units are admi,tct
without examination. There arc forty
nine such high schools Mt present.
From the announcement In tho cata
io.uc the regents have taken thcii
first step toward placing commence
mcnt week further In June by havins
school open on September ltth. or :
week later than this year. This vii
civ. better weather In June for tbs
class day exercises.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-04-03
American Car on Ocean.

Ogden, Utah.-The week end in the
New York to Paris race finds the 1tal-
ian automobile at Goldneld, Nevada,
the French car nearing Cobre, Nevada,
and the German car on board freight
train coming to Ogden for repairs from
Rock Springs, Wyoming. The Amer
tts(h machine Is travelling by steamer
from San Francisco to Seattle.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-04-03
Fort LOGAN Bill Favored.

Washington.-The Senate military
affairs committee has authorized Sen
ator Warren to report favorably SEN
ator Guggenheim's bill appropriating
500 900 for the purchase of water
rights and land SO as to maintain an
adequate water supply for Fort Logan.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-04-03
Railroad wfthdraws Engineers.

Ell Paso, Tex.--The Ell Paso & South
western railroad, which has announced
its Intention of building from Dawson,
New Mexico. to Trinidad, Colorado,
and has had engineers surveying Gar
several months, pulled them Off Thurs.
day. The work is indefinitely suspend
ed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
THEY WERE NOT S1lNGY.
Kansas School Boards Have Evidently
Been Liberal in Assessments.

indications are that a good many of
the school districts of the state are GO
Ing to have more money on hand this
year, as a result of their levy under
the new tax law, than they know what
to do with.
The school district boards, in making
up their levies, have, it appears from
returns. which are being received by
the state auditor failed to make proper
allowance for the big increase in vail
uations. They have not liked to ''split
mills" in making their levy, and so
have slapped in levy of one mill, or
two mills, or whatever they believed
would be plenty. The result is that
all parts of the state show that there
is a big increase in the school district
taxes. Nearly every county shows an
increase in the school tax. This in
crease is due, it is believed, to the dis
like OF school boards to levy less than
a mill. They have not realized what
big thing levy of mill is under the
new assessment.
In many counties of the state a mill
levy this year was as big as a one per
cent levy would have been a year ago.
Whether the district boards of the
state will be able to keep from suuan-
derfng the money which they have on
hand remains to be seen. When a dis
tr1ct board finds that it has $500 or 81
600 more on hand than it was expecting
TO nave, the temptation to blow in the
surplus is pretty strong, and no doubt
many district boards, will yield to the
temptation.
The reports which have come in
showing the total amount of tax to be
collected from various sources show
that there is decrease in the amount
collected for state tax all along the
line. The state tax commission this
year tried to set an example to the
other levying boards of the state by
making very low levy for state pur-
poses. They figured that they could
cut off about 100000 from the amount
which the legislature authorized them
to raise, and still have enough money
in the treasury to pay all the bills
This big cut in the amount to be raised
for state purposes has enabled every
county to make "a saving in the
amount to be raised for state taxes
There seems to have been a general
tendency to increase the city tax, due
to the extensive Improvement work
which the cities of the state have been
doing.
The county tax, it, appears, Will re-
main about the same as last year, some
counties being higher and some lower.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
REAL AMERICAN LORD.
Virginia Mans Right to the Title Is
Confirmed.

London, Nov. 1.-THE committee on
privileges of the house of lords today
declared the right of Albert Kirby
Fairfax, who is native of Virginia
and who has been described as the
only American bearing an English title,
to the rank and title of Lord Fairfax
of Cameron in the Scottish peerage.
The committe heard evidence on this
matter for two hours. j. A. Barrett.
Lord Fairfax's attorney, presented the
Fairfax family Bible and much docu-
mentary evidence to prove his clients
descent. The attorney general for the
government and the lord advocate of
Scotland declared themselves as salts
fed regarding the validity of the claim
and Lord Alverstone, lord chief justice,
pronounced the decision of the court
This decision does not give Lord Fair
fax a seat in the house of lords. Only
limited number of Scottish peers,
elected by the lords, sit in the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
OPENED WITH A JIMMY.
Entrance to Vault of Mercantile
Finance Company Is Erected.

Chicago, Nov. 17.-With a drill and a
jimmy. an expert craftsman en-
ployed by Receiver Francis A. Peabody
opened the vault of the Mercantile Fin
ance company. which has been under
guard for four weeks. Securities which
are expected to satisfy claims amount
ing to 100000 were taken from the
vault by the receiver.
The receivership was forced upon the
Mercantile Finance company, a concern
incorporated in New Jersey, because of
the refusal of Thomas Rhodus to give
up the combination in compliance with
an order of the court. The Mercantile
Finance company acted as agent for the
Central Life Securities company and
the Mercantile Securities company, the
latter two concerns now being in
charge of Receiver John G. F'etzer.
Birch F. Thomas and Edward 7.
Rhodus are under Indictment in the
federal court for alleged use of the
mails to defraud. The indictments grew
out of the transactions carried on
through these companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
ECZEMA 80 YEARS;
SIMPLE OIL CURES
Wintergreen Compound Stopped Itch
at Once-Disease Soon DISAPPEARED.

After dosing the stomach for years
and trying all kinds of alleged cures for
eczema, Mr.. M T. F'irmin, of Wichita,
Kansas reports a perfect cure. He
simply washed the skin with an oil OF
wintergreen compound, mixed Will
thymol. glycerine, etc.
Mr.. NJ T. Firmin, for the last 20 years
in the employ of the c. S. Daniels Fur
niture Co, of Wichita, Kans., in the
ginson Drug Co., made the following
statement:
Eczema first appeared on my body
when I was a child years of age. For
over thirty years I scratched ana
scratched and doctored. About the only
relief 1 got was from scratching. The
itching was so intense it simply drove
me wild.
about one year ago, the disease COW
my toes. My doctor and my friends all
gave me up as incurable.
Then I commenced using D. D. ID.
Remedy for eczema. The first appnca-
ton stopped the horrible itching and
gave me a nights sleep. 1t gave me
strength and new hope. 1 continued
growing better every day. My whole
bodv being affected, I would sometimes
use the contents of one whole bottle IN
a day.
Il kept up the treatment for months,
the eczema gradually leaving my body
and am now entirely cured excepting
little roughness of the skin on my left
ankle"
The long experience of the best drug
gists with this tried and proven remedy
have given US all great confidence IN
D. D. D. Prescription.
Geo. w. Stans1eld, druggist, 6S2 Kan
sas ave. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING.
VIII Be Held to Approve ProfiIes of
Southwestern Railway.

There will be a special meeting of
the council tonight for the purpose of
maps and profiles of the route of the
proposed Topeka & Southwestern
railway through this city. The street
and walks committee of the council
and the managers of the street rail-
way and promoters of the Southwest
ern got together at a meeting last
week and agreed on grades and who
should bear the expenses of the raise
in grade of three feet at the point
where the Southwestern tracks cross
those of the street railway at Clay and
third streets. These difficulties
have been ironed out and it is expect
ed that the ordinance will pass the
council at tonight's meeting without
ODDOSitiOQ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
|. & 7. FILES REPORT.
One Line That Is Being Operated at
a Loss.

The annual report of the Leaven-
worth & Topeka railroad, that ''inde-
pendent" company around which the
freight rate fight is at present center
ing, was filed today with the state rail-
road commission.
The report shows that there are 500
shares of stock, of which the Santa
Fe railway owns 246 shares, the Union
Pacific owns 247 shares, and the seven
directors own one share each. The road
is operated by the Santa Fee and was
bought and is held by the Union Pa
c1tc and Santa Fe for the purpose of
keeping the Rock Island or some other
line getting a road from Kansas City
to Topeka.
The report shows that the road is
being operated at a loss, which is not
strange, as the through traffic is d.
verified to the main lines and the road
depends entirely upon local business.
The operating revenue last year were
$55,979, the operating expenses were
$59,504 Counting in taxes the operating
loss was $11,295. The gross corporate
loss was $8,707 and the net corporate
loss was $21, 21O The operating revenue
includes these items: Freight revenue,
$25, 216; passenger revenue, $14, 595; mail
revenue, $2,275; express revenue, $500;
excess baggage revenue. SIP; switching
revenue, $11, 565. The road employs SO
people, and pays them $29,2S8, an aver
age of $3.50 per day..
The road has So miles of main track
in Kansas, and the average amount per
mile which each passenger paid during
the year was 2127 cents.
In the freight rate litigation, the rail
road companies are making the first
test case on the new rates as applied
to the Leavenworth & Topeka, for the
purpose of showing that any reduction
in freight revenue would cause a still
bigger deficit in the operating expenses
of the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
WILL FIGHT AFTER ALL.
KetcheI and Papke to Settle Their
Differences Thanksgiving.

San Francisco, Nov 17-Stanley
Ketche1 and Billy Papke, whose match
for the night of November rs before
Jack Gleason's club, was declared off
last week, have been matched by
James Coffroth to fight 20 rounds on
the afternoon of THANKSGIVING day,
November 26. The men are to make
15S pounds at 1870 a. m. on the day of
the contest. Jack Welsh has been Sc
lected referee, but the terms of the con-
tract, as regards the financial division
are not made public. Gleason, who is
dissatisfied with the course of the
fighters, threatens a suit against the
rival promoter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
The Swine or the EIowar7

hh mel saw huge and IOathsome sly,
Wherein drove of wallowing swine
were barred,
Whose banquet shocked the nostr1 and
the eye;
Then spoke voice, 'Behold the source
of lard!"
1 fed, and saw field that seemed at first
One glistening mass of roses pure and
white,
With dewy buds mid dark green foliage
nursed;
And, as fingered DER the lovely sight,
The summer breeze, that cooled that
Southern scene,
Whispered, Z" Behold the source of
COTTOLENE!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
TWO LEGISLATIVE CHANGES
One Republican and One Democrat
Supposed to Have Been Defeated.

Official returns have resulted in
making two changes necessary in the
list of members of the house of rep
resentatives which was printed in the
State Journal last Thursday
In Sedgwick county it turns out
that Nick Gensman, the Republican
candidate in the 73rd district, finally
beat George Rodgers. Democrat, by 8
votes. This district was given to Rod
gers.
In the One Hundred and Twenty
fifth district composed of Morton and
Stevens counties. Richard BroiIlier,
the Republican. was beaten by J. s.
Stout, Democrat, by votes. These
changes do not alter the relative
standing of the Republican and Dem
ocFats in the house. The Republicans
have IS and the Democrats SO. There
are two independents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
KATY FILES IT'S REPORT.
Shows That Money Was Made Last
Year by Railroad.

The annual report of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway filed with the
railroad commissioners shows that the
company paid $546,0OO out of its in
come for additions and betterments;
paid $4,000 in dividends and car
loss account. The operating revenues
of the entire line were % millions;
the net operating revenue, $6,S51, 900.
The bonds and stock outstanding
amount to $69,521 per mile. During
the fiscal year the company expended
S36OS, 900 in improvements, of which
about $3,OO0,000 was charged to
capital account.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
END OF A RED NOSE
New Flesh CoIored Product That
Heals and Hides Skin Imperfec-


A peculiar feature of poslam, a new
skin discovery, is that it is naturally
f1esh-colored and contains no grease,
so that when used on the face for the
complexion. or for pimples, red noses,
or any other inf1ammations, blemishes
or discolorations, its presence can not
be detected. 1t can thus be applied
in the daytime, the natural color of
the skin being immediai ely restored
and the actual healing and curing pro-
cess accomplished in few days. 1t
can be had of any pharma cist who
sells pure drugs. Fred A. Snow makes
a specially of it. Fifty cents worth
will answer either for the troubles
mentioned or in curing ordinarily cases
of eczema. Itching stops at once
The Emergency Laboratories. No. 80
West Twenty-fifth street, New York,
are the sole dispensing agents for
poslaln in the United States, and will
send an experimental quantity free by
mail in plain wrapper to all who write
for it. This will show results after an
overnight application.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
GAS EXPLOSION KILLS TWO.
Six Others Injured and Building PART
Iy Wrecked.

Kansas City. Mo-, Nov. 1.-Two
persons were killed and six others in
jured as a result of an explosion of gas
in the basement Of a commission
house here in North Walnut street to-
day The dead:
ANTONIO PECAN, 1aborer.
MICHEAL -O'BRIEN, a boy.
The building, a three story struc-
ture occupied by the Kellogg & Phil
ipps Commission company, was partly
wrecked.
The injured are expected to recover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
VALUE OF UNTAxED PROPERTY.
State Tax Commission VIII Collect
Data in Kansas.

The state tax commission has
called upon the county clerks of the
state to make an estimate on the val
ue of all untaxed property in their
respective counties The untaxed
property includes state, city, county
and township property. school prop
erty, fraternal property. and certain
charitable property.
The state tax commission wants to
find out how much untaxed property
there is in the state, and IL is esti-
mated that the value will reach
over $2OO,OOO.OOO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
CUT HEAD IN TWO.
Clarence Thrush Falls Into a, Saw
Near Wakefield. 1877

Wakefield, Kan, Nov. 17.-Clarence
stantly killed Monday while saving
wood for a neighbor.
He stumbled and fell while feeding
the saw, SO that his head struck the
revolving blade, cutting into the
brain.
He was the eldest son of Samuel
Trush, we'll to do farmer, living
five miles west of town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
Cor Wants a Denot.

The mayor and councilmen of Golf,
Nemaha county, Kan, have sent to
the railroad commission a demand that
the Missouri Pacific be required to re-
place the depot which was destroyed
by fire there last February. Since
that time, Goff has been obliged to get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS.
Filed Against Wells Produce Co., of
Arkansas City.

Wichita, Kan, Nov. lin
voluntary bankruptcy proceedings
against the Wells Produce. company
with headquarters at Arkansas City,
Kan, and branches at Enid, Okla,
and Tulsa, Okla, have been filed in
the federal court here by the Cream
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17

along with three old decrepit box cars
in lieu of depot. The town has eight
passenger trains and l 8 freight trains
a day, and thinks that its business
warrants it in demanding that the
company give it a depot. The rail-
road commission Will investigate the
case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17

cry Packing company of Kansas City.
1t involves 100000 and is result of
the failure of the Farmers and Citi-
zens' State bank of Arkansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17
ohio State Treasurer Dies

Cleveland, Nov. 17.-William S.
Kinnon, state treasurer, died at his
home in Ashtabula, O., early today.
McKinnon was 56 years of age. He
had been in i'll health for more than
a year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-17

Thomas Thornton. II years old, was
arrested last night by Sergeant Ross
and officer Fribance for trying to hang
his hat on the sides of the buildings
along Kansas avenue. He had exceeded
his LIQUOR capacity.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-07-30
NHWS OF THE ORANGES.

Comet Grange, Swanville. is taking va
cation through haying and until August
18th.
1t is distinct pleasure to find from speak
ers and lecturers from other sections of the
country, who have Travelled in Maine, that
there is a general recognition of the excel
lence and superiority of the grange halls of
the State A recent utterance from E.
Cyrus Miller, the Massachusetts orchard
ist, which will be read with interest is as
folbws: "In no other place in New Eng
land have found such fine grange halls as
in Maine. To my mind this is ample evi-
dence that Maine farmers are in prosper
GUS condition. You have every reason to
congratulate yourselves that this condition
of affairs exists"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-07-30
New Feature at Northport campground.


A Manysided Divine From Jerusalem will
Hold an Open Parliament on the Life of
Christ in the Camp Meetings.
The District Superintendents, Rey's. Il. b.
| Haskell and John w. Hatch, and Rev. A. E.
Luce, have succeeded in securing the SER
vices of Rev. John b. Kaloria, who was
| born and raised in the Holy City Of Jeru-
salem and has a Methodist pastorate in
Vermont. He will be at the LittletOn,
| Northport and Jacksonville Campgrounds
and conduct Bible conferences on some
important incidents in the Life of Christ,
which is his speciality. Mr.. kalorla has
been called 'the living polyglot," as he is
conversant with a good many languages !;
''the living Bible concordance and cyclic
peda'' because he is not only familiar with
the Old and New TestamentS but quotes
scriptures in the original Hebrew and
Greek. Among his distinguished students
in languages, etc., he has had priests, min
listers, principals of High schools, physi-
clans and artists. Besides his eruditon in
international literature he has gathered
considerable information on his journeys
in many countries on both hemispheres,
afoOt and in all sorts of cOnveyanceS. His
sermons, lectures and literary productions
have been written in different tongues and
he has delivered edifying, instructive and
entertaining lectures in many churches of
different denominations in the eastern, west
ern and northwestern States His Bible con-
ferences are an open parliament, where
everybody is invited to ask questions on the
subject under discussion. In these spirited
debates one is reminded uf the scholarly
discussions in the ancient halls of learning
within the Temple precincts in Jerusalem.
In his exposition of Scriptures Mr.. kal0rla
acquants his audience with Hebrew and
Mohammedan social and religious life in
Palestine, as we'll as with the Catholic,
Lutheran, Reformed and Anglican theology,
which he has studied to a great extent. lie
has been gifted with the rare ability. OF
presenting the Bible truths and historical
facts not only in vivid manner, but makes
them practical for the present day. HIS
methods and tactics are SO that the chair
men in his Bible conferences gladly extend
the time of his expositions. Come with
your friends and enjoy rare treat III these
Bible conferences.