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DISTRICT WATER SUPPLY.
Major Cosby, in Charge, Submits Re-
port for January.

In a report to the War Department. Maj.
Cosby, the engineer officer In charge Of
the District water supply system. says
there occurred during January a wave Of
upueually high turbidity in the river
water, accompanied by very high bac-
terial content. and he adds that the re-
marks re garding both the regular and the
e1perime ntal filters in the report for that
month applied with equal force to existing
conditions. The cost for operation was
higher than for any month since August.
1906 when it was A61 per million gal
lcrs. That unusual cost was due. he says.
not only to the large amount of sand
washed and replaced in the filters, but to
the payment OF a number of bills for sup
plies required for the balance Of the fiscal
year
Mai Cosby reports the completion OF
the suction dredge and accessories for the
removal of sediment from the Dalecarlia
or receiving reservoir above Georgetown
and says that dredging operations Will be
as soon as weather conditions
permit A quarry has been opened on the
reservati ton and a plant installed for quar-
rying and Transporting the stone to he
used In riprapping the sides of the Dale
carlia reservoir.
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Maj. McDowell's Belief.

Il think 1t is a good thing" said he
yesterday in discussing the proposed
measure. For myself. In fact, l would
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agement of the road What a revery and
dream this is. How is Ii possible FOR a
trustee, acting for his wards in chancery,
or Off any one else, to conduct an investi-
CATION into the management Of the great
trunk line systems of the United States.
The diagnosis of the President is perfect
ly correct, but in most OF the instances he
cites his remedies are either unlawful or
impractical. From the violent fervor OF
his utterances there is an idea running
through the public mind that he has come
to the conclusion that every man engaged
in a large business enterprise is a male
factor, and that every good citizen Of the
land ought to spend at least one term in
the penitentiary.'
Mr. Rayner closed with a declaration
that the financial question should not be
regarded as party issue.
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business they will not curtail the nego-
tiation OF notes, etc. When the people
know that the banks can supply every
demand there will be no grand rush for
funds and no boarding Of gold.
II believe there would never be "A re-
quest for the issuance OF one penny of all
this $500 900 of currency. 1t is only
the knowledge that II is there, subject to
call, that is needed to prevent the recur-
renee Of the conditions which obtained
two. three and four months ago. One OF
the strongest features OF the Aldrich bill
is the provision for interest OF one-half
Of / ner cent a month. which is per cent
a year. on this additional circulation.
This will secure its prompt return for
redemption as soon as the emergency
which has called 1t into being has
passed"
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APPROVE AlDRICH BILL
CHIEF CLERK McDOWELL'S
OPINION OF MEASURE.
He Has Been a Banker for Over
Twenty-Five Years and Gives
Some Experiences.

With the Alirich bill now in the lime
light. and the entire financial scheme Of
the country the subject of analyses too
numerous to count (much less to schedule
in point Of meriO at the hands Of ex-
perts and near-experts, every phase Of
the discussion relative to the proposed
injection of a medium of elasticity into
the tried and found wanting currency
system has its quota of interest. Bank
ers there are who have come into the
open to give hearty support to any meas
ure which would hold forth promise of
relief from the dangers which were SO
wildly illustrated during the recent panic.
and these men have not been slow to en-
list themselves beneath the banner Of the
senator from Rhode Island since Mr.. AL
drich presented before the upper body
Of Congress the concrete form of a pro-
posed law calculated to secure the de-
sired mobility of the circulating medium.
Than Maj Alexander Mcdowell, chief
clerk of the House of Representatives,
probably no banker In the country 10
better qualified to discuss the inpend
ing measure. Not only Is he close to the
seats of the mighty" and consequently
in touch with the makers Of the laws.
but in his home town (Sharon. Pa) Mai.
Mcdowell is banker, with the expert.
ence OF twoscore years behind him. And
Mai. Mcdowell is enthusiastically in
favor OF the Aldrich bill.
Maj. McDowells Belief.
Il think 1t is a good thing said he
yesterday in discussing the proposed
measure. For myself. In fact l would
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say we might go still further along the
same lines with perfect safety. 1t is my
idea that the banks should be given au-
thority to issue the new circulating notes
by the deposit OF any form Of bonds. In
other words I would not restrict the ap-
proved securities to simply railroad and
municipal bonds.
Every one realizes now. I am sure, that
we must have currency legislation. The
panic. whose traces are yet with US, taught
that. Clearing house certificates and other
emergency measures may have been all
right in the time of stress. and without
them there must have been terrific
crumbling of values But another time we
must have the actual money. The Aldrich
bill. as 1t nok stands. or possibly with
slight amendments as to minor points,
think will meet with the approval Of
Congress- There is no other bill on the
horizon and none in prospect which would
or could SO completely meet the exigen-
cies of the situation.
"In a word confidence is what we need.
and the Aldrich bill spells confidence in
every line. / think the whole proposition
was well illustrated in my home town up
in Pennsylvania last October Clearing
house certificates and other promises
to pay in lieu Of real money were making
| their appearance. when along In close
succession came the pay days foor the
public school teachers. the employees in our
big steel mills. and the street repair gangs.
All Of them wondered whether the money
would be forthcoming. and there was con-
siderable anxiety. l have known all OF
the peopIe for years and I remember one
old Irishman in particular who came to
my window with the query:
The Irishman's Query.
".Well say. major. are We goin' t
get any money today
bring around your order and we'll
see told him. When the line moved up
and Pat saw that the panic was really not
to affect his little share in the wealth OF
the world he lost all desire for immediate
possession OF the money. The same thing
could be said OF hundreds Of other work.
men and women and people in all walks
of life in Sharon, and I speak advisedly
when / say that the bank deposits were
larger by many thousands OF dollars after
the panic than they were before.
IF tho hanks know that there il always
an unlimited supply OF money to carry on
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DOES NOT KNOW HIM.
DR.. Hale Repudiates Statement Of
Bureau Of Genealogy" Agent.

Some one i'm Chicago is trying to collect
large sums of money from wealthy widows
by representing that he is an agent OF
1.-THE bureau OF genealogy OF Washing
ton. d. c. of which. says the agent"
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale. chaplain
OF the United States Senate. is secretary.
This information is contained in a letter
from an information bureau TO a Chi
cago newspaper and forwarded by the
newspaper TO Dr. Hale.
DR.. Hale says he knows nothing OF
a Mr.. Bislop. referred 10 in the letter as
the agent of the genealogical bureau.
and that he never heard OF such bureau
here. and that. OF course. he was never
the secretary OF any such bureau.
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Why not-games are cheap

Parchesi. a set. .1ac
FIT. .HC
w o n d ergraph. a
game of skill, and in
structive also. 800
Diabolo. the hit of
this country and
Europe, at a range of
prices from 25c to
1898.
Brist. a set. $3.50
Booinerangs. extra
ones for Brist set.
at. .25c, 35c and SOC
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Nirvana or SwaStika
Board. .SSc
G ayt wn Rail-
Way..............
Tiddledy W n k 8,
usual 15c kind.
Tor. ................lOC
Mothers Help-for
rainy days. .@c
Anagrams. a set 25c,
&c and 49c.
COnundrums. .49c
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AFTER MANY YEARS
OHIO MANS DREAM ABOUT TO
BE REALIZED.

CADIZ. Ohio, February I'D. 4. HoI-
lingsworth OF Cadiz was nominated for
Congress by the republicans of the
sixteenth district at yesterdays direct
primary.
Behind the above brief announcement
is a story of a hearts long deferred
dream-a story of many defeats and
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HEADACHES.

WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE.
From October TO May. Colds are The most fire.
queut cause of Headache. LAXATIVE PROMO
QUININE removes cause E.W .Grove sox. 25c.
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disappointments. but of an abiding faith
in the ultimate outcome. For thirty six
years Mr.. Hollingsworth has had but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-13

houn, Daniel Webster and Bulfnch.
The bell of this church, which was af-
forwards removed to the new edifice
at Fourteenth and L streets, and still
summons tardy devotees to prayer,
was cast by Paul Revere in 1921, and
bears his name. For years it was the
only large bell in Washington, and was
used to announce weddings, deaths,
births and other festivals to say moth
ing of acting as a general fire alarm.
Ever since the bell was first placed
in position it has joyously toIled in the
election of president and when,
through sickness or assassination. a
president has passed away, the tolling
of this same bell has announced the
passing.
Mr.. Taft is one of the most regular
attendants of the church, and is a pew
renter. Both his father and mother
were of the Unitarian faith and his
grandfather was one of the pioneers
in that religion in Connecticut.
At Murray bay, Canada. where for
the last 16 years Mr.. Taft has spent
his three months vacation, he has
been an ardent worker at the union
chapel of the Presbyterian and Epis-
copal churches and is keen1y interest
ed in the welfare of the little church.
Mrs. Taft and her daughter, Helen,
as we'll as Charlie Taft attend st.
Johns Episcopal church and Miss Taft
was confirmed in that edifice about a
year ago.
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MRS. STEWART GUILTY.
A First Degree of Murder Returned In
the Ottawa Case.

Ottawa, Kan, July 13.-Mrs. Mollie
Stewart was found guilty of murder in
teh first degree aSturday evening on
the second count of the information as
charged, in the murder OF Jane
Schneck The prisoner maintained
the "gameness" that has characterized
her conduct since her arrest. She sat
tanning herself and watching the jury
as the verdict was read. The jury
reported at 4:10 O'Clock after having
been out for five hours. Division was
only on the degree of the. crime.
On the first ballot on the question of
guilty only, the verdict was unani-
nous. Six ballots were taken in all
before the verdict of first degree was
agreed upon.
The conviction follows that of Frank
Schneck for the some crime and
marks the end of the prosecution for
one of the most brutal murders ever
committed in Kansas. 1t is the state's
theory that Frank Schneck and Mrs.
Stewart drove from Ottawa to Cen
tropolis and that Schneck there cut
the Threats of his wife and two little
children as they lay asleep.
The motive is alleged to have been
Schneck's fondness for Mrs. Stewart
and the fear that Mrs Schneck would
reveal her knowledge of thefts COM
mitted by the pair. The conviction
was wholly upon circumstantial evil
dence
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MATTERS OF STATE.
Under Discussion at Oyster Bay a
Great Part of Sunday.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, July 13-President
Roosevelt conferred Sunday afternoon
with Secretary of State Elihu Root and
Assistant and Acting Secretary of State
Robert Bacon at the presidents home
on Sycamore Hill for almost four hours
The exact nature of their deliberations
could not be learned. 1t is presumed
however, that state affairs of an i'm
portant nature were the subject of their
discussion. 1t is thought likely that the
foremost subject was the situation at
present existing between the United
States and Venezuela Secretary Root
who completed a course Saturday at
Muldoon's farm at White Plains, N. Y,
came across Long Island sound in the
government yacht, "Sylph,' which had
been sent over for him. Acting Secre-
tary Bacon was at his home in West
bury, L. l., and came to Sycamore Hill
1 o'clock. Mr.. Bacon, who has been in
charge, of affairs at Washington,
brought with him the latest informa-
ton of the state department. The
president and the two secretaries con-
suited until o'clock, when all sat down
to dinner with the presidents family.
After dinner the conference was re-
sumed and 1t last until a quarter to
five, when Acting Secretary Bacon de-
parted in an automobile for his home
in Westbury.
Secretary Root and the president, ac-
companied by two of the PRESIDENT
sons, were seen later going towards the
beach in Cold Springs harbor, where
the president goes bathing. Some of the
party carried towels and it is pre-
sumed that all were bound for a cool
ing dip in the bay.
Secretary Loeb was not at the con-
ference, having gone to visit Repre-
sentative Cocks. The staff of the ex-
ecutive officers was on duty all after
noon awaiting some business from the
president. When seen the president S
secretary said the business at Sycamore
Hill was connected with affairs in the
state department. He said that Secre-
tary Root had been invited by the pres
ident to spend Sunday with him. The
secretary remained at Sycamore Hill
last night as the presidents guest.
This excessively hot day was not too
warm to keep President Roosevelt from
attending church. With Mrs. Roosevelt
he drove down from Sycamore Hill to
and listened to sermon on the ''Math-
ematics of Life and Character" Fully
a hundred boys, who are church at
tendants in Astoria, Flushing and ia
maica, and are camping near Oyster
Bay, were at the church to see the
president, as well as a large number
of summer visitors. When the presi-
dent entered the church he raised his
hat to the assembled people and spying
a couple of old men whom he had
known for many years, said with en-
phasis to them: IT am glad to see you"
oyster Bays Democratic leader tele-
graphed William ]. Bryan that he could
rely upon President Roosevelt's home
town for a majority. The Democratic
nominee replied that he was glad to
hear of the support of the town where
the Republican president lived. A fur
rier from the East Side came to Oyster
Bay and informed people that he had
been commanded to see the president.
He failed in his mission. however.
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liam Howard Taft, Republican nomi-
nee for president of the United States,
is regular church member and be-
lever or an atheist. This discussion
was caused by the statement some
time ago, from a source which was
thought to be reliable, that Mr.. Taft
was a non-believer.
William Howard Taft is a regular
attendant at All Souls Unitarian
church. This beautiful church is To-
Gated on the southeast corner of Four
teenth and L streets. 1t is red brick
building, and Is draped from steeple
to steps in ivy.
The present edifice is only little
over 90 years old and before it's con-
struction the congregation worshiped
in a building that later became the
district court. This building was erect
ed in 1921, and numbered among it's
members such illustrious men as Cal
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FRISCO MAN PROMOTED.
c. F.. Carson Gets Good Position at
Tampico.

c. f. Carson, the recently appointed
superintendent of terminals of the
Mexican Central at Tampico, Mexico.
was born in 1867. He began railroad
work as a switchman in 1885 on the
Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis,
now part of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco. He was made assistant yard
master in 1856 and became chief clerk
in the superintendent office in 1888.
From 1891 to June 1898. he was con-
ductor and general yardmaster.
From June. 1898 to 1897, he was
chef clerk to the superintendent of
the Terminal Railroad association of
st. Louis. In 1897 he was made sup
erintendent of the Missouri Pacific at
Kansas City Mo, and in 1902 was
transferred az superintendent to st.
Louis On December 1, 1903. he was
appointed superintendent of the Colo
RADIO & Southern at Denver. Colo.
Three years later he went back to the
Missouri Pacific as superintendent at
Kansas City. which position he held
until his recent appointment.
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Fields in Central Kansas Are in
Splendid Shape.
The May and June Rains Not
Detrimental to Crops.
HAS A LARGE ACREAGE
In the Territory Around Reno
Most of 1t Laid By"
An Occasional July and August
Shower Will Fill Cribs.

Hutchinson, July 13.-Reno county
corn fields are a mass of waving green
these days. In most instances corn is
looking well and 1t is growing very
rapidly. Some fields were wet a long
time and it was impossible to get into
them with cultivators, but they have
been worked out pretty well since the
wet weather is over. The fields on the
high land have been looking good from
the beginning of the corn season.
To be sure, July and August are the
two months upon which the corn far
mer has to depend to mature his crop.
Upon the weather conditions of those
two months depend to a large extent
the yield for the field. This is when
moisture is needed. The right amount
usually comes but there have been
times in the past when the weather
has been too dry in those months to
make a good crop.
There was an unusually large amount
of moisture in the ground in May and
June this year but this is not sufficient
to carry a corn crop through the fol-
lowing months when rain is needed. :
But things look all right now. A
drive through the country will show
this With half chance corn VIII
grow in this part of the west There's
no trouble about it at all. Lots Of the
fields have been laid by" and the last
cultivation is being done in many 9TH
ers.
There is a large acreage of corn this
wear in and around Hutchinson. There
always are many corn farmers here
but the country looks like 1t was near
ly all corn, since the wheat has been
harvested.
With occasional rains during TINS
month and next there should be a nne
chance for the Kansas corn crop this
year. Farmers believe that the season
has been the best so far and are hop
ing that it will continue so until the
fail of the year. II the conditions are
fair from this time on central Kansas
will raise a bumper crop.
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Business Outlook Frightening
in the Northwest.
May Earnings Of G. & n. W.
Show Increase.
CUTS In EXPENSES,
Cheaper Operation Swells Net
Profits of Road.
Other Items of Interest i'm
Railway Circles.

From the May statement of earn
ings of the Chicago & Northwestern
road. as filed with the Interstate Com
merce commission, II appears that
May was considerably better month
than April In fact. with the single
exception of March. it was the best
bonth thus far in the current calendar
year. At that time. gross earnings
in May this year were some $1.364,-
900 behind those of the same month
last year.
The expenses of the month were so
cut down that the loss in net earnings
ing expenses were 66.2 per cent of
gross earnings, as compared with
6S.S5 per cent last year. most of the
savings 1t Is presumed, coming out of
reductions in expenditures for main
tenance.
For eleven months ended May 81.
this road shows a decrease of nearly
$5.000.000 in its gross earnings. This
loss has been cut down by more than
half in net earnings. Taxes increased
by $4,000. however, so that the to-
tai decrease in net earnings for the
eleven months will amount to about
$2.470.00O. For hte eleven months
the ratio of operating expenses to
gross earnings was $685. per cent, a
little less than the May ratio. but a
little higher than Tor the correspond
ing period last year, when the ratio
was 65.1 per cent.
During the eleven months the road
spent for maintenance of way and
structure an average of $665,000 a
month. and about s5S0.00O a month
for maintenance Of equipment. Ex-
penses connected directly with cost
of conducting transportation averaged
about $2.000,000 a month. All these
items were considerably below those
OF the previous year. In the aggre-
gate that for maintenance of way and
structure was almost $1,000 900 less
than in the previous year; that for
maintenance of equipment was over
$1,000 900 less, and that for conduct
ing transportation $1.400,000 less
Estimating earnings for June 1t
would appear that the income of the
road for the year applicable to divi-
dends was about 1850 per cent on
the capital stock. both preferred and
common. so that there is hardly like
ly to be any change for the present
at least in the established rates of
per cent nthe preferred and 7 per
cent on the common.
1t is altogether likely that the earn
ings of the new fiscal year will be
equal to those of taht which has now
run its course. The promise of
abundant crops throughout northwest
territory was never brighter
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MAYOR TURNS MONK.
He Shuts Himself Up in a Trappist
Monastery.

Chicago. July ia dispatch to the
Tribune from Dubuque. Ia. says:
Mayor H. A. Schunk, who disappeared
recently was yesterday found in the
Trappist Monastery, IS miles from
here.
Troubles in legal and political affairs
are assigned as the cause for the Off
Gals desire to shun the world.
1t is stated he is following out the
rigid discipline of the monks. and at
tending strictly to devotions prescribed
by the order. There was much spec
ulation as to the whereabouts of the
mayor. When the fact he had gone to
the monastery became known 1t was
recalled he has been complaining Of ill
health of late.
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to catch a train. Six miles from Hor-
ton the motor car got stuck in a mud
hole. Governor Johnson and the others
in the party had to get out and dig the
mud away with their hands. The gov
ernor then took hold of a plank and
helped pry the machine from the mud.
He arrived at Horton just in time to
catch his train. Ex-Mayor Beardsley
of Kansas City talked to over 5000 peo-
pie at the Chautauqua Sunday evening
The meeting was free. Today Senator
Charles Curtis is here and Wednesday
Dr. F. w. Gunsaulus and William Allen
White will be the attractions.
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FOUND A DEAD BODY.
An italian Scissors Grinder With Sew
eral Hundred Dollars on His Person.

Humboldt, Kan, July 13.-The body
of an Italian scissors grinder named
Antonio Morallo was found under a
trestle on the Santa Fe six miles south
of Humboldt. The man had been dead
for several days and the body was
badly decomposed- Four hundred
ffty-six dollars and sixty cents was
found on his person. Part OF this
money was in twenty-dollar gold
pieces sewed in a piece of cloth so as
to fold easily. Papers found on the
body indicate that he lived or had
relatives in Laurina, Italy. The man
had been travelling in this part of the
country for some time and was known
by sight to many.
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and test over so lbs. Messrs. Lewis
and Miller are paying seventy-five
cents for new and eighty-five for old
milling wheat.
This, however, is near the center of
this years limited Kansas wheat area
The Farmers and Merchants bank
today opened for business. 1t is own
ed and managed by strong local capi-
talists and gives the community. two
banks. The Lindas Lumber and Inn
plement Co. is erecting a deep. sixty
feet front building. and half a doz-
en- fine homes are building.