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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
Watcrworks for Cottonwood Falls.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan, Aug. a.
City Mayor r. o. Miner has received
official notice from the state school
fund commission that the commission
has purchased the bonds of the city
of Cottonwood Falls for the construc-
ton of the waterworks system. This
means that the very last shadow OF
doubt of the water system here be-
coming q reality has been removed.
The bids for the construction OF the
system will be opened by the city
council August rs. and 1t is believed
that there will be many bidders a
there have already been parties from
a distance here looking over the speci-
fications. One of the Items of the
specifications is that the actual work
has to be commenced within two weeks
after the bids are opened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

of the conference is to hear a report
by ]. B. O'Brien, manager of the Har-
riman lines in the northwest, who has
just made trip through central Ore
gon with Governor Chamberlain, upon
the character of the country north of
here, and that Mr.. Hartman and his
officials will consider the advisabilty OF
an extension of the road from this
city through to Natron, making it the
main line of the Southern Pacific be-
tween Portland and Sacramento. The
officials are expected here at any time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
FARMERS CAN'T HARVEST ALI.
Crops So Large That Some of the Pro-
ducts Are Wasted.

Abilene, Kan, Aug. 24.-The full
ness OF the farmers year is only half
appreciated without getting first hand
views on the farms themselves. Not
in years. II ever, in the history of the
middle west has there been 50 much
OF everything and at such high prices
as at this time.
A banker went in his motor car the
other day sixteen miles from town and
among other farmers similarly sit
uated, came to one who, with his three
grown sons. Is farming 800 acres of
land In the yard were apple trees
fairly loaded with fruit going to waste
and other small fruit showed sad neg
lect. why do you neglect your fruit ?"
he asked.
TOO much to do saving other
things" was the reply. 1--WE have
ninety acres of alfalfa and have cut 1t
three times; our corn has needed work
all the time: the wheat was good and
had to be cut and now must be thresh-
ed. There is hay to cut and cows to
milk-our creamery check is SIS a
month-and with it all we don't get to
bed until II o'clock as it Is. We can't
keep hired help and so something has
to Slide
He was telling the truth and his
rich acres were all producing abund-
antly.
A Kansas City minister has a farm
in the north part of this county. $50
acres. He rents 1t. This week he
came up to collect the rent. calculat-
ed on one-third the crop and pocketed
check for $1,000. That meant an
income Of $4,000 from the farm this
year, more than the whole farm would
have sold for eight years ago. This is
not alone because of large yields of
wheat and corn, but because there is
so much Of everything produced and
the total amounts to a most satisfac-
tory return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
A Factory for Great Bend.

Great Bend, Kan, Aug. Eff the
plans for a straw board factory. US
presented at the Commercial club 60
through, the farmers Of Barton coun-
ty instead of burning their straw
stacks will be in a position to realize
some good returns from the straw.
capital stock, and the same will be
raised, mostly by home people. The
factory would be capable Of manufac-
turing twenty-five tons Of strawboard
daily and would use forty tons OF
straw each day. paying at least - a
ton for the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
HARTMAN CHIEFS SUMMONED.
Extension OF Line Through Central
Oregon to Be Discussed.

klamath Falls, Ore, Aug. 24.-E.
H. Hartman. who is spending his va
cation at his summer lodge, has sum-
moned to Pelican Bay for a confer
ence Julius Kruttschnitt, his chief as
sistant in all his railroad business: r.
f. Calvin. vice president of the South
ern Pacific company. and William
Rood chief engineer of that system. a |,
well IS number of other prominent
railroad officials connected with the
Hartman lines. 1t is said the object
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

here on the charge of beating his
mother. Neighbors who heard the
woman screaming claim to have found
her on the floor with her son beating
her with his fists. Dell is alleged to
have beaten his mother because she
would not give him money which she
had saved to pay house rent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

on the first two days, big attendance
on the last three days has made the
meet success. Seven thousand five
hundred people were here Thursday.
1900 Friday and the attendance Sat-
urday was little short of Fridays rec
ord breaking crowd. The races Satur-
day, as on the previous days. were ell
fast and hard fought.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
HE DRANK CARBOLIC ACID.
A Prisoner in the Jail at Pratt Grew
Weary of Life.

Pratt, Kan, Aug. pa. r. Meyers.
a prisoner in the county jail here on the
charge of forgery, committed suicide
Saturday night by drinking carbolic
acid.
1t is reported that Meyers came here
Friday in company with another mans
wife and Saturday he was arrested by
request Of the sheriff of Ford county.
The body was embalmed and ship
ped to Dodge City at the expense Of
Ford county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
Plnyed Checkers Until Death.

Salina, Kan. Aug. 24-Nathaniel
Wilson, who settled on a claim in this
county in the early '70s and the father
of J. o. Wilson. president of the Salina
Telephone company, died suddenly at
his home In this city Saturday night
at the age Of 81 years. He was the
champion checker player Of central
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

You get small can Of Van Camps for ten cents.
And that one can will tell you than ads tell
Perhaps you are baking your beans at home That
will tell you what mistake you making.
Perhaps You using other brands That will
tell you the remarkable difference.
Won't you spend ten cents to know, for all time the
best beans that ever were bakedf
Why do you suppose that millions Van
Campsi We can scarcely find enough BEANS of our
grade, to supply them.
They once baked beans at home perhaps They
used other brands Why are they coming by millions,
to swell the enormous demand for Van Camp'si
A single will tell you.
There myriads of brands of beans Some of them
cost the grocer only half as much Van Camps Some
makers give to grocers free in FIVE
Yet-with all these factors against us-Van Camps
have by far the largest sale in the world Don't you
want to know the beans that have done that
Some think of beans homely dsh-a simple dish
dish that every housewife knows.
Please let US change that idea. Homebaked beans
nothing like Van Camps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
Kansas City Troopers o. X.

Junction City, Kan. Aug. A.-Battery
b of the Missouri national guard, from
Kansas City, is the envy of the army
maneuvers camp. In the field athletic
events at the camp Saturday this bat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

Have you ever been cross-examined
before?" inquired barrister of wit
ness WHO was occupying his attention.
Have ~ exclaimed the man. Didn't 1
just tell you am married?-Stray
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

terry captured pretty nearly everything
in sight 1t competed with all of the
national guard and regular organiza-
lions in the camp, and succeeded in
getting 70 Of the possible So points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
Big Crowd and Fast Races.

Eureka, Kan, Aug. 24.-The fifth
Fair association closed here Saturday.
Despite the fact that rain prevented
the carrying out Of the programmes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
NEWSPAPER DEAL.

Kansas and engaged in a game 30 min
utes before his death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24
To Destroy 500 Barrels of Beer.

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. "a
deputy internal revenue collector has
left here for Oklahoma City, where
he will destroy 500 barrels Of beer
owned by the Moss Brewing company
which was in storage when the pro-
hibition law went into effect A Ques-
ton about paying the revenue tax
came up and on the brewery's refusal
to pay the beer was ordered destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-24

Accused OF Beating Mother.
Salina, Kan, Aug. 24.-Andrew
Dell. aged 16 years, is under arrest
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07

ls.t fks1 t ss
when the Supreme court stood asa
protector Of southern rights. !.
| 1T is usually possible to discern
the prevailing drift of legislation. by
the number and unanimity of the
courts decisions upon particular
line, like question Of state rights a
generation ago, and now Of freedom
of contract. The presidents school
of public men, however, believe that
some Of these latest decisions are not
likely to stand with any permanency,
because of the inevitable movement
Of modern opinion. 1t is rather note
worthy that, in recent decision in
which the court stood six to- three
against what would have been the
Roosevelt policy, the minority i'm
cluded the two Massachusetts, judges,
both his appointees, and both coming
from supposedly the most conserva-
tive corner of the country"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
GROWTH IMPLIES CHANGE,

Nn~Ny SF!SpSNS6s
New times demand new measures and
new men;
The world advances, and in time OUT
-. grows =
The laws that in our fathers days
were best;
And, doubtless, after us, some purer
scheme
Will be shaped out by wiser men than
Made wise: by the steady growth OF
truth.
We cannot bring Utopia at once;
But better almost be at work in sin
Than in brute inaction browse and
sleep.
No man is born into the world whose
work
Is not born with him; there is always
work,
And tools to work withal, for those
who will;
And blessed are the horny hands OF
toll!
The busy world shoves angrily aside
The man who stands with arms akim=
DO set,
Until occasion tells him what to do;
And he who waits to have his task
marked out
Shall die and leave his errand unful-
filled.
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for
change;
Then let it come; I have no dread Of
what
Is called for by the instinct Of man
kind.
Nor think I that Gods world would
fall apart
Because we tear a parchment more or
Truth is eternal, but her effluence,
With endless change, is fitted to the
hour;
Her mirror is turned forward, to re-
fleet
The promise of the future, not the
past
I do not fear to follow out the truth,
Albeit along the precipice's edge.
Let US speak plain: there is mere
force in names -: .-- -.
Than most men dream of; and a lie
may keep So.
Its throne a whole age longer, If it
skulk
Behind the shield of some fair SEEM
ing name. r-,> 49,.
Let u scall tyrants. and maintain
That only freedom comes by grace Of
3. God, $50 . ...-'4s. e.
And all that comes not by His grace
must fall; 4 = .
For men in earnest have no time to
waste #s..h3
In patching fig-leaves for the naked
Z; ~ truth. A. IN .
H. : = lanes Russell Lowell.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
VERY STRANGE THING.

1t seems to us that it is about
time those lawyers in the house and
in the senate began to study the
constitution of the United States. It
is strange that such experts in law
should write bills that conflict with
the constitution and not realize
their error until the supreme court
speaks. It is strange, too, that four
justices should declare measure to
be constitutional while five others
declare it to be unconstitutional, all
basing their opinion on the same
constitution. Yet the law is sup
posed to be so plain that ignorance
is no excuse for non-observance or
violation of it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
OUR MERCHANTS.

The merchants Of this city have as
yet taken no active part on behalf Of
the toilers in the present war upon
organized labor.
1t seems to us that were they to
consider the economics of the stu
alton, tney would help to bury the
non-union shop advocates under SO
deep an avalanche of Indignation, that
we would not hear Of their "open-
shop fallacies again no more forever.
Cut the wages of workmen. and the
merchants windows full of the art
icles that the workman and his family
need, but cannot buy, will be silent
protest against the wage reduction.
The moment our wage earning
classes are reduced to the lowest pos
sible existence point, the merchant
and in fact every line Of business will
suffer tnerefrom.
Our Duluth merchants and other
businessmen have already felt the in
furious effect of the present clock
OUT" and If persisted in. which is prac-
tically what prolonging Of the nom
union shop contention means, the con-
sequences must necessarily be disas-
trous, and the sooner we all realize
the fact the better for the CONNER
cial prosperity of our city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS.

A few days ago a shocking trag-
edy occurred in Denver, Colorado. A
priest murdered at the altar, while
engaged in administering the holy
sacrament, the fatal bullet fired by
enc of the kneeling communicates
such crimes as that represent a NOR
bid ferocity concentrating the vio-
lence and the impiety of a certain
class of people who are pouring into
the United States by the thousands,
bringing with them their undesirable
habits and customs from undesirable
countries, and all because of immigra-
ton laws that not only swing open
the gates to all, whether desirable or
undesirable, but which seem to en-
courage the entrance of peoples who
never should be allowed to set foot
on American soil.
II anything were needed to demon
trate the absolute necessity for re-
formation Of the immigration laws,
SO that while the desirable elements
could come in the undesirable ele-
ments would be kept out rigidly and
permanently, the Philadelphia riots
under the leadership Of Voltaraine de
Cleyre and the shockingly frightfui
murder of Father Leo at the very
altar rail, and while engaged in adj
ministering the sacrament to his
people, ought to supply the needed
showing. Absolutely incapable Of
approaching liberty, absolutely hat
ing law and order, organized society
and religion, there Is a very large
class of undesirable immigrants in
the United States and where the
next blow at their bloody hands may
fall no man, knows and no man can
forsee.
Whether the Denver assassin be-
longed to an organized band of as
sassins, or whether his act was all
his own, is not Of material in1port-
ance. If law is to prevail, organized
society to continue and liberty to
overcome license. there must be an
end made to the incoming hordes OF
Southern Europe and to anarchists
from any country.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
IN THE INTEREST OF LABOR.

Representative William Sulzer of
New York has introduced a bill in
congress providing for the establish
ment of another department of the
government, the head of which shall
have a seat in the presidents cab
iret. The new department is to be
known as the Department of Labor
and it's head as the Secretary of
Labor.
The head of the department will be
appointive by the president, the same
as other members of the cabinet,
with $4,000 a year as compensation.
The bill provides for six assistant
secretaries at $4,000; the first secre-
tary to supervise matters of manu-
facture, one for agricultural indus
try, another to look after transporter
ton, another mining, another the
building industry, and another the
mercantile industry.
One section of the bill provides
that it shall be the duty of the De-
partment of Labor to promote such
improvements in the social, political
and economic conditions Of the wealth
producing laborers of the United
States as shall tend to secure to them
their natural rights to the opportun-
ity to labor and to security in the
possession and enjoyment of the full
fruits of their work.
A bureau Of statistics IS provided
for a monthly bulletin showing the
| number of unemployed, the total pro-
duction of wealth and the proportion
received by labor. It is proposed by
the bill that the present bureau
known as the Department of Labor
and Bureau of immigration be trans
ferred to the proposed new depart
| ment and that the office of Com
missioner of Labor be abolished.
One solicitor at $4,000 for the head
Of the department, and six assistant
| solicitors, one for each Of the assist
! ant secretaries, at $4,000. The Secre-
| tary of the department is vested with
| powers to appoint boards of arbitra-
| ton.
| The bill has met with the unani-
raous endorsement of the Central
Labor Union Of Washington, with its
80 affiliated bodies and $4,000 mem
bers, and has the hearty endorsement
Of national and international labor
| leaders at the capital.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
MAIL ORDER MENACE.

The most serious problem confront
ing the retail merchants of the coun-
try to-day and the one this is giving
them the most concern is that Of the
eo-called mail-order systematic re-
tail catalog house trade.
trusts, both financial, industrial, and
commercial. But the most menacing
trust in the wrold today is the COM
mercial combination that tends to de-
stroy the retail business Of the coun-
try by diverting the trade from it's
natural channels to the great money
centers.
Not satisfied with the mercantile
fields. these commercial trusts are
also seeking to become the financial
depesitaries for the rural districts by
opening bank departments, and as an
inducement offering six per cent on
deposits.
If the retail trade is to hold it's
ground against the competition Of
the catalog houses, they must meet
them on the broad field of advertise
ing and publicity, as well as on the
field of prices. And this must be
done through the local press.
Some Of the local merchants have
advertised literally in the local press.
but a much larger number have ut
terly failed to keep up with the pro-
cession. The people often do not
know what the local merchant has in
his store-neither do they know the
prices, but they do know what the
catalog house has to sell. and the
price is always before the eye.
The Retail Merchants Association
of Newcastle, Ind, has placed the ban
on all advertising schemes, and will
have nothing to do with programs
so-called business directories, and
other devices devised to separate a
, merchant from his cash. Newspaper
advertising Is recognized as the
only profitable publicity method, and
will be strictly adhered to in the flu
ture. II all the country merchants
will use space in their local papers
], little more freely and change their
ads often, If they can quote prices,
: describe goods in stock or to arrive
at q certain date, they will soon find
h themselves profiting by tin well
h coming trade now going to the large
Y n1ail-order houses Of Chicage-whteh
they. have secured wholly by advertise
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
LAsoR's H,aHEaT + salnEALs.

As labor becomes more intelligent
and it's responsibilities increase, its
ideals are higher and what it aspires
to do is greater with greatness In
creaslng as its Intelligence widens,
1t realizes that its higher ideals can
only be gained by work and not by
incantation or invocation, so it labors
industriously unto the end aimed at
by its most. advanced idealists.
When it enters upon struggle for
improved conditions either for an in
of labor, or anything else equally
beneficial, it does not demand that
the organized should be alone at
fected, but that ALL organized and I'M
organized shall benefit by the i'm
provements sought.
1t realizes it's responsibility for the
the welfare of all, and the higher it's
intelligence is developed the greater
and wider are the responsibilities it
assumes. At all times whether in
periods of great prosperity, or Of dis
tress and Unemployment, organized
labor is continually battling for bet
ter opportunities and more chances OF
employment.
In doing this it shows feeling OF
class responsibility, for it is well
known that the percentage of trade
unionists out of work is nothing
when compared with the percentage
of men out Of work in the ranks Of
unorganized.
The organized worker fights the
poverty Of his unorganized brother
and in doing so teaches him in a
practical way the benefits to be de-
rived from self-help and intelligent
cooperation and helps to usher in
that happy time when
Man to man the world DER
"Shall brothers be for a. that"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07

@e448oSG F0te6i1auHe Gale. -
tae s 1 Il The i az. e ts e.
date 81 this notice upon ma mnortsags
liam Krue ex ana amb hsaezfbb tu mil.
mortgagors, to New Duluth Land Conn
panx e. GeFreraaon, MORTGAGE. dated
office Of the Register Of Deeds for the
County Of st. Louis and State ef MINI
nesota, on May 4th. 1921, at 3 o'clock
Pm. In Book % pf Mortgages On Page
Notice is hereby given that the said
Of the premises therein described viz:
Commencing at the southeast corner Of
lot s, block 3, New Duluth, First Div
ision and running north eiEhtssn feet
and nine inches, thence west one hun,
sdred ana forty fsst, 70 the west line
s e sf hnae f nd sesa a e e s
ner of said lot, thence east one hun-
dred and forty feet to place OF begin
ming, being the Aouth three- fourths Of
said Let six, block three in New pu-
pla} IN ST. e Go sh:
County, State Of Minnesota, which sale
Will BE- made hx the Sheriff Of said
st. Louis County at the front door Of
the County Court House. in the City OF
pz ns,, tn s sas GoHnty and STATE on on
far Cash. e lay the deps seeured a 81
allowed by law
R ss% E BoEtr 4i.h Lz 4 3, co 9s2s
:. By +. r. Hudson, President.
Alfred JasHas a4ts sssfstary'
Labor b Worla-Feb. 70, MAJ. ?, is, q,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
THE HAPPiEST MEN.

''Take as whole, the happiest class
of men on the face Of the earth are
those comprising the mighty trade
unions scattered broadcast throughout
the breadth and length Of this CONT
nent. And this is as it should be.
What can be more honorable than
earning ones bread by the sweat of
on's brow? And what can give more
real JOY and honest, self satisfaction
than the knowledge that in earning
ones bread one has given a fair days
labor and general satisfaction to the
employer"