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The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
COOLEY IS FINED AGAIN.
Notified That President 1Shively Has
Assessed Another.

At o'clock this afternoon Umpire
Alloway, who is working in the Tope-
ka-Oklahoma City series received or
ders from President D. M. Shively of
the Western Association to keep Coo
ley out of the game this afternoon,
unless he paid fine of $40 which has
just been assessed against him.
This is the first notification Cooley
had received of the fine and he is at a
loss to account for Shively's action.
While the Topeka team was in Hutch
inson Cooley had the privilege of
watching game from boxcar in the
vicinity Of the ball park This was not
a very grave offense but it was suffi-
cient for fine and three days sus-
pension. Cooley paid both and yester-
day was his first appearance in a game
for several days. Nothing that he did
yesterday was Unable"
Cooley has his ire aroused by these
frequent fines and suspensions which
are not merited and this afternoon
tried to talk to Shively over the long
distance phone. Shive1y could not be
located.
President Shively's action toward
Cooley is rapidly assuming the
character of persecution. 1t certainly
has a bad look but it isn't the first
time he has shown disposition to
give the Topeka management the
worst of it.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16

Company Organized to Push Inde-
pendent Connection with Southwest.

Incorporation papers were filed this
morning with the secretary of state by
the Home Telephone and Telegraph
company which proposes to buy, con-
ntruct, build, own, maintain and OPP
Brate local and long distance compet-
Ing telephone and telegraph plants In
Kansas" The capital stock is placed
at $4,000 and the incorporators are w.
e. Burns. Hutchinson; w r. Hemp
hill, Topeka; c. L. Brown, Apiiene; =.
J. Myers, Kansas City, and A. 7. Rog-
srs of Beloit.
The incorporators of the new COM
pany are all Kansas men and owners
or managers OF telephone exchanges IN
the state. The purpose or tine new
company is to construct toll lines GOV,
ering the central and south central
norton of the state, giving this section
direct connections with all other por-
lions of the state over the lines OF tne
Independent telephone company ex-
changes.
The independent companies in other
portions of the state are handicapped
In reaching kindred exchanges In the
southern and south central portion OIL
the state. The company proposes 10 at
nnce commence work on the construc-
tion of full metallic copper lines CON
Meeting Topeka with vienna: Mc Hansas
son. Hutchinson and other: Kansas
points in this territory as well as
points in Oklahoma.
The Independent companies are
strong in the central and southern por-
tion of Kansas and Oklahoma but nave
heen handicapped in reaching eastern
noints. The line which 1t is proposed
70 build will give these companies an
nntlet and connections. with thouSanus
Of phones in other parts OF Kansas.
The Independent exchange at wien
ita has over 1900 phones, Hutchinson
2 600 and Mcpherson 1900 more and at
unable to rGdCn
this norton of the Stateso soverzthelr own
lines All of the stock in the company
has been subscribed and work Will pe
commenced as soon as material can oe
secured which will be question OF put
q few weeks.
uill compose the board of directors
though a meeting for the purpose OF
electing officers will not be helo uhli.
after the charter board takes actlon OF
The request for a charter which VIII De
"wednesday afternoon. The headquar-
ters NJ the company has not been de-
cided upon but 1t is more than nKeiy
that it will be at Abilene.
This will be great thing 1or tne
independent Telephone companies OF
kansas" said w. P. Hemphill, general
manager of the Independent Telephone
handicapped in getting connections
with the south central portion OF the
state ever since we organized but this
line will let us in on that territory over
full metallic copper lines. 1t Will also
rive ms a chance to connect with the
Independent lines in Oklahoma and
there is lots of business in the new
state which we have been compelled 10
pass up on account of the lack OF IA
cilities for handling 1t.
",The new company has all of the
necessary money back of it to carry
out the proposed plans and it is
question of but few months when we
will be In on the ground floor In the
wichita territory for business. Thls
toll line will make from fifty to one
hundred thousand telephones accessl-
HE TO the independent telephone ex-
changes in southern Kansas -, A.. +
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16

eff you were awakened by a fire in the
middle of the night what would you think
of saving first?"
MY treosers.ssClevelandi Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
HARD TO GET IN.
Even Those With Tickets Experienced
Much Difficulty.

Convention Hall, Chicago, June 16.-
outside the hall it required something
besides knock on the door to enter
the big coliseum and see the Republi-
can party in convention assembled to-
DAY. In the first place one had to run
the gauntlet of hawkers, and vendors
of all sots of articles, who waylaid the
badge decorated delegates.
Ihen there was a vast army of po-
licemen all looking as if they suspect
ed each approaching person that
passed.
By the time the six spaciaus en-
| frances had been reached the real
trouble began unless you were properly
equipped. If you had long green
ticket which looked like a bank note
ana bore the stee1-engraved picture of
Abraham Lincoln and said that it was
only for the first day, the stoney-faced
doorkeepers might consider your ap-
pllcat1on for admission, and eventually
you were permitted to pass through the
portals and enter the vast auditorium.
AS the crowd grew in size the vendors
worked harder, the policemen were not
SO critical and the doorkeepers passed
the ticket bearers with more speed.
Those who attended the Chicago
| convention for the first time were not
particularly impressed with the out
side surroundings Or the exterior as
pect of the coliseum. Wabash ave-
nue., in the vicinity of the building is
not its most inviting part. About all
the nearby buildings looked as if they
had survived the fire of 1871. At II
O'Clock the martial music of ap-
preaching marching clubs could be
heard and during the next hour, there
was continuous moving professions
toward the hall. Traffic on the ave-
nue. stopped completely and the three
blocks on each side of the coliseum
became choked with delegates, spec
tators, newspaper men, photograph
ers, convention spectators and outside
sight seers.
The United States senators, mem
bers Of committees, governors and ma
tional committeeman had to find the
side doors. They were not permitted
to enter through admiring crowds,
but hurrying round to the south side
they found a door which led to a dark
and not very inviting corridor under
the stage.
An hour before the convention be-
gan work there were 10000 people
gathered about the coliseum and ev-
| cry moment the crowd increased un-
| til it was difficult to even reach the
entrances.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
Fruit Crop Report.

Hereafter Kansas will have fruit
crop reports the same as the agricul-
burn, secretary of the board of agri-
culture. Walter Wellhouse, secretary
of the state agricultural society, has
sent out blanks for the informal ton
about the Kansas fruits. He wants to
know how much the crop was dam
aged by frosts, wet weather, insects
or tree diseases and what the PROS
poets for a crop really are. Mr.. Well
house has arranged long list of fruit
growers scattered throughout the
state and the requests fro information
has been sent to these men. Each one
will report the conditions In his own
section and the statistics will then be
compiled in the office heer.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
JOE WATERS TO SPEAK.
Will Deliver Address at Assumption
School Graduation.

The commencement exercises of the AS
sumption school of this city will be held
Wednesday night at the Grand Opera
house An elaborate musical and literary
program has been arranged, composed or
instrumental and vocal solos, quartettes'
recitations. drills and dances. An orches-
ira will furnish music during the intermis-
sions.
Captain Joseph Waters will deliver the
address of the evening. All the pupils or
Assumption school will take part in the
exercises, and Rev. Francis NJ. Hayden.
pastor of the Church of the Assumption,
will award the medals to those entitled
to class honors. The graduating class OF
1905 which is the largest in the history OF
the school, is as follows:
Edward B. Dyer, Andrew c. OByrne,
Edward F. Dougherty, Hubert l.. Dolan.
Louis L. Bressette. James l.. O'Byrne, VIII
liam d. Connors, Clarence j. Costello,
Thomas p Flynn, Joseph o. Marshall.
Gerald J. Wall, Marie M. Mcmahon, Ethel
J. Berger Marie NJ. Sands, Louise =.
Ruthven, Geraldine B. Kreipe, Mary Q
FLYNN, Henrietta c. Sullivan, Helen M
Foy, Helen Z. Pope, Catherine M. Dwy-
er, Mary M. Chatham, Helen J. Murphy,
Mary A Valcoure. Lucy c. McKiernan,
Ethel E. Johnston.
Farewell Song-"Class Ode"
Accompanist-Mary Zercher.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
WHITE AT CHICAGO.
The Versatile Kansas Writer REPORT
ing the Convention.

Chicago June 16.-William Alien
White, student Of politics, writer OF I'M
mitable character studies and sketches
and experienced and virile newspaper
man, is reporting today's Republican
national convention for the Chicago
Record Herald
Mr.. White as writer of high inter-
ary standing no longer needs an IN
PRODUCTION to the readers of neWSpa-
pers or magazines. Twelve years ago
he "came up from Kansas" to natlonal
fame over night as the writer OF an
editorial that is as indubitably assocl-
ated with his name and fame as Ihe
Jumping Frog with that of Marx
Twain or Soldiers Three" with that OF
Kipling.
But it was nat a meteoric flash from
a man of one great moment. The spon,
taneous wrathful and satirical Jenc1l
scrawl of the harried Kansas editor
was merely the outpouring OF a man
who had been keeping pace with the
affairs and interests of his state. since
that day his horizon has broadened anu
his residence no longer is Emporia'
Kan. but the United States of Amer
lea. Mr.. White is in as close touch
with men and things, his pen is as
keen and his expression even more
wholesome, attractive and refreshing
than in his first great story. .,,
the editorial printed in an obscure
country newspaper, was brought to
the attention of Mark Hanna, chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee, and paper or writer no longer
were obscure. 1t was printed as
tract by the Republican committee
and by the million the leaflets were
scattered over the country. After the
first laugh the readers paused and
read again. Beneath the satire the
truth and tragedy of the situation
were not even yelled by the man who
had written from his heart of the
plight of his native state.
Kansas swung into the Republican
column and in the homes of ite en-
bryonic statesmen and national pre-
serves, copies of the editorial took the
place of populistic literature and sta
tistics proving the imminent collapse
of the nation.
In a few Succinct sentences Mr.
White presented his case.
Whites Famous Editorial.
To-day the Kansas department of
agriculture sent out statement he
wrote. (which indicates that Kansas
has gained less than 5000 people in
the last year. There are 225, 900 fam
lilies in the state and there were about
10000 babies born in Kansas last
year, yet so many people have left the
state that the natural increase is cut
down to less than 1000 net
The editorial concluded:
"Oh, yes; Kansas is great state
Here are people fleeing from 1t by the
score every day, capital going out of
the state by the hundreds of dollars,
every industry except farming para
lyzed and that crippled because the
products have to go across the ocean
before they can find a laborfng man at
work who can afford to buy them
Lets don't stop this year. Let's
drive all the decent, self respecting
men out of the state. Let's keep the
old clodhoppers, who know it all.
Let's encourage the man who is post
ed He can falkland what we need
is not mill hands to eat our meat or
factory hands to eat our wheat or
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
State Letting a Contract.

This afternoon the boar dof control
is letting the contracts for furnishing
the dry goods to the Kansas charitable
institutions. The board probably will
not hurry the letting on account of
many of the bidders being unable to
reach Topeka in time. The advertise
ments for the contracts specified that
the bids would be opened saturday,
but the bids were not opened until
Yesterday. as many of them did not
reach Topeka in time. All were held
up until 1t was certain that every bid
der's envelope had arrived. The board
received kilograms Saturday and yes
terday asking whether the bids had
arrived. The representatives of many
big manufacturing and jobbing houses
started for Topeka Saturday to be
present at the letting but only a few
have reached Topeka. some OF the
sInerintendents of the board were de-
layed many hours in reaching TINS
city - -.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16

cities to oppress the farmer by con-
Stunning his butter, eggs, chickens or
produce What. Kansas needs is men
VINO can talk; who have large leisure
to argue the currency question while
their wives wait at home for their
nlckeIs worth of blueing.
WHAT'S the matter with Kansas
Nothing under the shining sun. She
IS losing wealth, population and stand
ing. She has got her statesmen and
the money power is afraid of her.
Kansas is all right. She mas started
IN to raise Cain, as Mrs. Lease ad-
vised her, and she seems to have an
overproduction.'
Written in a Hnrrv
The article that brought fame to
Mr.. White is not one that he is proud
est of. AS he explains the writing he
declares 1t was done in haste and ir-
ritatfon-dashed off to fill a demand
for copy and in haste to catch a train
to the bedside of his sick wife.
He had been stopped outside the
office by one of the numerous Popu-
list statesmen of the day. The
"editor-chap" had been assai1ed with
statlstlcs as he vainly tried to edge
away from the man who had button
holed him.
His monosyllabic replies and re-
fusal to argue were accepted by the
enthusiastic crowd of assistant states
hiCh dS uenOtlnS MS lSHOTdHco. anu
complete discontinue. They cheered
the arguments of the bore and jeered
the retreat of the editor
When the demand for "copy" came
the pencil of White dashed off the
brief editorial, and in fifteen minutes
he was on the train he almost missed.
Only on his arrival at his office three
days later did he realize that his out
burst had struck a popular note. Let
ters were piled in heaps on his table,
marked exchanges containing editorial
approval of the article poured in, and
in few weeks the national committee
had adopted it as one of the cam
paign documents and William Allen
White had arrived
Had Been Well Trained
The newspaper training of Mr.. White,
before he assumed charge of the Emporia
Gazette. was a thorough one. He was
porn at Empor1a. Kan, grew up and went
to the State University at Lawrence. and
graduated there. After a year or two in
cOllege he learned the printers trade,
working at odd times during his schooling
and becoming a professional newspaper
writer while attending the university. He
was an editorial writer on Kansas
newspapers, did politics. for the Jour-
nal, covered" the big assignments of the
state and accumulated enough money to
buy the Gazette in Emporia in 1895.
His studies of Croker, Platt, Roosevelt
and Taft have been pronounced master
pieces of short character depletion, strik-
ing in form, full of sound sense, sober
wisdom and business prudence. presented
in concrete and novel form. His review
of political happenings have been the
theme of many political consultations.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
INJUNCTION PLANK.
Promises to Be the Most Bitterl,
Fought Over Part of Platform.

Chicago, June 16.-The injunction
plank of the tentative Republican
platform looms up today as the sub
ject of the big fight of the convention.
The preparation for the dbntest has
been going on Off two days and nights
and the lines are now rapidly closing
up for the supreme test of strength.
Those who favor the plank are more
and more convinced of the supreme
necessity for its Incorporation in the
platform, while those who oppose it
are making every preparation to carry
the struggle -to,the floor of the conven-
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
Answers in Trickett Custer Suits.

The answers. of the Kansas City,
Kan, police officers in the custer suits
filed by C. w. Trickett, assistant at
torney general, and Fred S. Jackson,
attorney general. have not appeared
in the supreme court. Today is the
last day in which the answers may be
filed under the law. The suits were
filed May 6 and the law requires the
answers to be filed within thirty days.
According to information received to-
day the answers were mailed yester-
day but on account of delays in the
no official action has been taken 1t is
expected that if the answers arrive by
tomorrow, no question will be raised
by the supreme court as the high
water and the delays in the mails are
circumstances which woulG De taken
were thrown out of the court.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
DEMOCRATS LOOK IN.
The National Committee Is in Session
in Chicago.

Chicago, June 16.-Members of the
Democratic national committee on ar
rangements for the Denver conven-
ton met today in the Democratic
state headquarters to pass upon final
plans for the convention. The next
session of the subcommittee will be
held in Denver about June 25. The
details of the Denver meeting were
said to be practically completed. The
members of the subcommittee visited
the first session of the Republican
convention at the Coliseum today.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
POINTS WITH PRIDE.

The State Journal points with
pride" to its very complete report Of
the Chicago convention today taking
1t up right to the adjournment this
afternoon till noon tomorrow. The
great report is made possible through
the State Journals superb Associated
Press leased wire news service.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16
New York Money Market.

New York June 6-MONEY-Money on
call easy, 1A@1H per cent; ruling rate 11s;
closing bid IA and offered at ~. Time
loans dull and easy. Sixty days, 1A@2
per cent; 80 days. 2@2A per cent;6 months.
3k per cent
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 31zG4
per cent; sterling exchange firm with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at $4S10
for demand and at 4.S511 for 60 day bills;
commercial bills, $4.S5.
SILVER-Bar silver, $3.50; Mexican dol
lars. 4?c.
BONDS-Government bonds strong.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-09
The Child the Hope Of tho Race.

There is nothing in the world 80
important as children, nothing 80 in.
teresting. II you ever wish to go in
for some philanthropy, IL you ever
wish to be CT any real use In the
world, do something for children. II
you. ever yearn to be truly wise,
study children. We can dress the
sore, bandage The wou-'sd, imprison
tho criminal, heal the sick and bury
the dead; but there is always a
chance that we can save a child. II
the great army Of pbilanthropists ever
exterminate sin and pestilence, ever
work out our races salvation, it will
be because little child has led them.
David starr Jordan.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-09
sardonle Humor In VIII.

Jasper Mayne, who died in 1920,
must have been person Of humor.
He left his servant an old valise, stat.
ing that It contained something that
would enable him to drink. When the
valise was opened 1t was found to
contain only red herring.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-09
Don't be Hopeless

about yourself when you're crippled
with rheumatism or stiff ioints-of
course you've tried lots Of things and
they failed. Try Ballard's Snow
Lniment-it will drive away all
aches, pains and stiffness and leave
you as well rs you ever were. Sold
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-09
Suspicious Self.contro,.

u admire patience and selfcon.
troll" said Uncle Eben, "but when I
sees man dat 'kin keep on smilin'
after he done bruise his thumb VIII
hammer, cant help bein' spicious
Of his capacity foh deceit"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-09
A Dangerous Operation

is the removal of the appendix by u
surgeon. No one who takes DR..
Kings New Life Pills Is ever subject
ed to this frightful ordeal They
work 40 quietly you don't feel them.
They cure constipation, headache,
biliousDess and malaria. 25c. at ElkO
Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-12-09

-. .NO r"CE''
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27

To
less disease it Kentucky
errorizng
1t seemed
But the of
spread Of the
directly instead
States Of
which has existed
war 1t is thus institution though
q
progeno Kuzux Khan Now
the KlkuX Kan
these have denied that lawe
organization
W ignorant white element of the whites
organization
Years later
ganizaon The
OF the hian
SOUTH an organization for errorizng black
presence or whose dongs had offended the kun of
Some Of their
ons of ignorant
sure all
0 the law.
And of and
methods
be asked Wy call them
fixed to these
eo the development
which like the
and Kentucky have firmly themselves.
This difference
economic motive The
by the single idea of making cotton posting
gins and the threats ginning
desire Of certain wess
nter
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27

mortgage note, confessed to having OBJ
tanned through forged deeds and notes
more than 100000 and that for a
period of twenty years he had been
obtaining money through the sale Of
forged documents. 1t afterward devel-
oped that his forgeries reached more
than double the amount which he con-
fessed. In forging notes he used n
unique device. He placed the sigma
lures to be counterfeited on a plate
glass desk with an electric light be
meath This enabled him to trace the
signatures upon any kind of a docu-
ment he wished to draw up.
When arrested on the technical
charge made against him he readily
confessed his criminality and exoner-
ated all others from any participation
In his crookedness. One hour and forty
five minutes after his arrest the grand
Jury had indicted him and within three
hours and half from the time he was
taken into custody in his own real es-
tate office sentence was pronounced on
him. Fifteen minutes later he was
locked up in the county Jail prepara-
tory to his transfer to Joliet, where he
is now serving sentence.
Van Vlissingen when arraigned
showed by his broken appearance that
remorse was at work in his conscience
He begged to be sentenced quickly so
that he might enter upon his punish
ment and he got his request.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27

these desired properties, the pearl must
be OF good size to be of much value.
A perfect pearl weighing one grain is
| worth from 81 to So, one of two grains
weight is worth So, one of three grains
$lS and so on in like proportion. Pearls
| weighing less than a grain are common
and worth only few cents.
The conditions most favorable for
| pearl formation exist where the CLANS
live on q sandy or gravelly bottom in
swift running water.
In times of high water particles of
| dirt or gravel are washed into the shell
with such force as to become imbedded
in the flesh of the clam. causing great
| irritation. The clam thus afflicted i'm
medtately begins to coat the material
| with secretion which, hardening
| forms the pearl
The writer has opened hundreds Of
| clans taken from ponds without find
| ing a single pearl, while in shells from
| running water it is hard to examine
ten without finding one. Ninety-nine
pearls out of a hundred have no yaII1e
| however.
A majority Of pearls found will be of
| undesirable shape or color or too small
| to be of value. To obtain two nearIs
worth between SO and SIS in the ac-
gregate the writer opened two barrels
Of clans, with the assistance of two
companions, and the time taken in
opening and examining them was about
sixteen hours.
In the West the shells of certain spe-
| cies are used by the manufacturers of
pearl buttons. For this purpose the
shells must be Of a good pearly color
inside and quite thick, and are bought
| for from 81 to So d barrel