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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-29
WHERE SHALL 1T BE.
Farce Comedy i'm One Act at the
Copeland.

Scene: Senator Dolley's room at
Stubs headquarters, Copeland coup-
ty.
Time: p. M Tuesday, July 2S
DRAMATIS PERSONALS:
w. Y. Morgan, manager for Chester
I. Long
Robert Stone, manager for Joseph
L. Bristow.
Hon. Nicodemus Chiles, editor of
the Topeka Plaindealer.
]. N. Dolley, in charge of Stubbs'
headquarters.
w. G. Tandy, member of Topeka
city council.
Statesmen. politicians. clerks, news
paper men, ETC., to the capacity of the
room.
(Enter everybody but Tandy.)
Morgan-s'Well, / suppose we have
met here on neutral ground to discuss
this joint debate between Long and
Bristow."
Stone-"That's my understanding"
Morgan-"I believe Mr.. Nick Chiles
has a Communication he desires to
make"
Nick-"Yessah. Use heah to state
that the cullud folks is going to have
an Emancipation day celebration at
Garfield park next Saturday, an we
is very desirous, as it were, to obtain
disyeah debate as one of our attrac-
tions on that occasion. By the way.
has any of you gemmen got cigar?"
Stone-"I supposed this was all
settled. Billy. I thought you had
agreed upon the auditorium
Morgan-''No. indeed, 1 didn't. Sen
ator Long wants to talk out of doors
We have conceded everything to you.
You ought to let us have our way
about this"
Stone-"You haven't conceded any
thing to us. We have conceded ev-
erything to you. We conceded the
~, >f 1o1
Morgan-"No sir, we conceded all
those things to you"
Stone-''No you didn't
Morgan-"well. that's simply a
question of rascality. or veracity, or
something. I am in favor of going to
audit torium would be hot-awful hot
Stone-"Mr. Bristow is willing to
speak in the auditorium. Mr.. Long
ought to be able to stand it If Bristow
cam
Morgan-'No,M Mr.. Long sweats easily.
Mr.. Bristow is so cold b1ooded he new
er sweats. You are trying to get us
into a trap, and PROSTATE Mr.. Long
by the heat"
Stone-"It is so far out to Garfield
park that we would't get any crowd.
People won't go way over there"
big crowd of colored people. Don't
your man consider colored people
worth talking TOT"
(Great applause by Nick.)
Stone-"There isn't any suitable
place at Garfield for the debate, eth
er. That little auditorium will only
hold four or five hundred people,"
Morgan-"How many will that hold
Nick-about 2,000?''
Nick-"Yessah, right around dat, I
should say. Has anybody got a ci-
gar?"
Morgan-"Dolley, give Mr.. Chiles a
cigar. These are your headquarters.
Be a sport"
] Dolley-"I haven't got any-except
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-29
Wichita Man Fails.

Wichita, July 29.-B. w. Daniels.
the owner of furniture store at $40
North Main street, has filed a petit
bankruptcy court. asking that he be
given the privilege of the United
States bankruptcy laws. as he has
debts which he is unable to pay. In
his petition he declares that he has
unsecured claims against him to the
amount of $1,37O.SO. and the total
amount of his assets Is S2.s12.
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MRS. BENSON IS HURT.
Wife of Justice Falls on Stairs and
Breaks Her Arm.

Mrs A. w. Benson. wife Of Justice
A w. Benson of the supreme court.
met with a serious accident at her
home in Ottawa yesterday. She fell
on the stairs, and broke her right arm
near the wrist.
The accident is a very painful one,
and will probably require long time
to heal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-29
Mckinley Succeeds sherman

Utica, July 29-James S. Sherman, Re
publican vice presidential candidate has
announced that he would be succeeded as
chairman of the congressional campaign
committee by Representative William B.
Mckinley of Illinois. who has heretofore
held the office of treasurer. The new
treasurer will be Charles G. Dawes, for
sergeant-at-arms of the house. will be as
sistant secretary, a position kat is now
nxaatAH
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Returns From Atchison After Citing
Jointists for Contempt.

Charles d. Shukers, assistant attor-
ney general. returned from Atchison
today. and while there had SIX Jointists
cited for contempt of court for violat-
ing injunctions. The judge fixed the
bond of each at $1,000 and set the
cases for hearing on August Is.
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WILL TRY IT AGAIN.
Government VIII Take Immediate
Action Against the Standard.

Lenox, Mass, July 29-The con-
ference or government prosecutors
has unanimously decided to take stems
Immediately for the retrial of the
criminal case against the Standard
OIL company. Attorney General
Bonaparte announced that he would
make statement in regard to the
conferences between and o'clock
this afternoon.
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Weather Indications.

Chicago, July 29.-Forecast for
Kansas: Local thunder storms to-
night or Thursday. Cooler THURSDAY.
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and prosecution to the full extent Of
the law of any person, corporation or
employee Of a corporation for the en-
croachment of the river embankment
by the construction of any structure,
for dumping or filling in or in any
way whatever interfering with the
free flow of the Kansas river within
the city limits. There are people who
have within the last thirty days been
trying to fill in on the river and build
out that way. I think 1t should be
stopped" +a r.
tItr would probably be cheaper to
buy the land and build an arch on, the
South side than to try to raise the
Mefan,'' said Mayor Green. 1.-THE rail-
road bridges can be raised without
great expense, but it is different with
the Melan
II believe the city has the power to
give aid to North Topeka. to vote
bonds or something of that kind. The
plans should be we'll shaped up how
ever before it is presented to the
council
John Rogers, city engineer, suggests
that flood canal be constructed from
the point west of North Topeka where
the river now breaks over the Union
Pacific tracks,, following the low
ground westward to Soldier creek,
crossing through the bed of the creek
Just west Of Central avenue bridge and
going in a northeasterly direction to
Indian creek about one-half mile east
of Kansas avenue. The width proposed
is 300 feet with bikes on the sides .
feet high BY diking all of North To-
peka and constructing the canal the
protection could be afforded at cost
not to exceed $780, 900.
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ates of the law schools want to take
the examinations as soon as they finish
their school work.
A man named Smith. living over in
North Topeka, has reported to Sheriff
wilkerson's office that the streeter
boys arrested by that official last Sat
urday while in a boat in the flooded
district on a charge of looting houses,
are not guilty. Smith says that he
had hired the boys to go to his house
and bring some bedding across the
river, and that earlier in the day they
had taken his family out Of the flood
in a boat One of the boys was re-
leased, but the other one is still con-
fined in the county Jail until the sher-
If can see Mr.. Smith personally about
the matter The sheriff arrested the
boys under suspicious circumstances in
a boat in the flooded district of North
Topeka.
County Assessor Haynes has not yet
footed up the totals on the census for
quired to be made by the assessors
this year. but he has gotten far
enough along with the Topeka census
to estimate the city's population at
$4,000. This Is a gain of nearly one
thousand over the figures returned by
the assessors last year. The assessors
have not taken a complete census of
the city's population by any means.
They were after property values and
In many cases overlooked the filling
out of their census blanks entirely At
least one thousand people on Kansas
avenue were left out entirely by the
assessor on that section of the city and
he had to go back and do his work
'
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F. NJ. SPENCER TO BUILD 1T.
Awarded Contract for New Central
Park School.

At a special meeting Of the board
OF education held last night, F. NJ
spencer was awarded the contract for
the erection of the new Central Park
school building. his bid being s41,574
or $l,072 less than the next lowest bid
der Ten bids were considered by the
members of the board of education
besides that of F. M. Spencer. The
unsuccessful bidders were: Cuthbert
q Sargent, c. Council, Leeper &
Smith, Blanchard & Company, c. F.
Anderson, Douglass & Evans, J. b.
Belts, Lungren & Carlson and Metz &
Hardness.
The contract for heating apparatus
was awarded to Lewis &. Kitchen of
Kansas City, their bid being $5,96S
Other bidders for this portion of the
contract were: The MacMahon COM
pany of Kansas City, The Dickson
company of Peoria, Illinois, and Louis
Van Dorp of Topeka. The contract
for plumbing was awarded to G. w.
Sutherin of Topeka whose bid was
S3,629. The other bidders were Mac
Mahon and company, of Kansas City
and Conklin & Pribble of Topeka.
The board of education considered the
bids in an executive session which
lasted for four hours
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SNAPS RsSiE:
g eSaESA$ssxs.ssEI.R'5

Horse cars are running through the
water in North Topeka. This is the
first service of this kind in many
years.
Nomination papers for candidates
for county offices must be filed not
the county clerk.
Tomorrow the last game of the
present series with Oklahoma City will
be played. Enid will come then for a
series of four games.
The state bar examination COM
mences today and several of WASH
burns graduates are among those who
are taking the "exam."
DIR. s. A. Beam Is at Stormont hos
pital where he will undergo an opera
ton which will keep him confined to
the hospital two or three weeks.
Twenty-six graduates will receive
diplomas from the Assumption
of which will take place tonight at the
Grand theater.
The Cosmopolitan Show company
has moved to the west side of Kansas
were flooded out of South Topeka, and
are afraid to go to North Topeka, and
the railroads won't haul them out OF
town. They are certainly having hard
luck.
When Eddie Goes the right fielder
OIL LIl- OhldAOIlt Nlly tCbhi lCAt L V
peka last winter after having served
a thirty day sentence the costs In the
case were still unpaid. Manager Nc
Cornell has been served with gar
nishee notice and Eddie will have to
give the county thirty-three dollars.
The ways and means committee of
the council will meet Wednesday even
ing at the city hall to consider the pro-
posed charge for inspecting milk bot
ties. The inspector Of weights and
measures will under the proposed ordi-
nance inspect all bottles to find wheth-
er they are of the right size and stamp
those that are. A fee will be charged.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. H. Bartle returned
to their home at 927 North Madison
street last night and found that while
their yard had been under water and
there was about an inch of water in
the house their flower garden was I'M
injured. They have some beautiful
roses and they survived both floods of
last week and are in splendid condi-
ton.
The West Side W. c. T. u. will give
a silver medal contest Wednesday ev-
ening at the Euclid Methodist church.
The class consists of seven girls and
the programme will be interspersed
with musical selections and Rotations
by Miss Ceora Lannan, who drilled the
class and Miss Laura Ramsey, who
won the medal at the contest held at
the Potwin church some months ago.
Mrs. N. G.. Bishop. an old woman, 80
years old, who was driven out of her
home in North Topeka by the water
is in need of some attention from those
who are interesting themselves in the
flood sufferers. Mrs. Bishop Is in a
room over the Aurora theater between
Eighth and Ninth on Kansas avenue
Her daughters are trying to take care
of her but additional help is needed.
All of the young men who graduated
from the law schools of the state this
year are taking examinations before
the Kansas board of law examiners
The examinations are conducted in the
senate chamber. There are 6S candi-
dates, some from eastern states who
intended to move to Kansas and begin
the practice of law The summer class
is always the largest as all the gradu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-16
HIS WIFE SHOT FIRST
Charles Ray Went Cunning for Her
and Was Killed.

Jasper. Mo. June 16.-Charles Ray.
a farmer living near Jasper. Mo-, was
shot and killed by his wife Fannie Ray
The fatal shot was fired from the sec
ond story window of the Ray home, q
shotgun heavily loaded with buckshot
being used. Ray was carrying snot-
gun himself at the time of the shooting.
Raw had left the field and was going
into the house yard. carrying double
barreled shotgun. Upon seeing his wife
at down stairs window he Is alleged
to have said:
Now I have got you"
Mrs. Ray rushed to second s1ory
window and fired the fatal shot.
Trouble had been brewing in the Kay
household for many months. and 1t is
stated that Mrs. Ray fired at her nus
band several weeks ago. :.
A divorce suit has been pending IN
the circuit court for months.
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BAD FIRE AT GAYLORD.
Passengers Report the Smith County
Town as Being Destroyed.

Downs. Kan, June 16.-Passengers on
the North branch Missouri Pacific
train reported that the town of Gay
lord was on fire. From the train 1t look
ed as if the entire north side of the
street was doomed. Fire has destroyed
the telephone office and the railroad
company has taken out its telegraph
instruments, hence the town cannot be
reached either by telegraph or tele-
phone. The town has no system of wa
terworks and no means for effective
fire fighting. A heavy northeast wind
was blowing.
Gaylord is village of 300 in Smith
county. 1t is near the Nebraska line
and about $50 miles from the Colorado
line,
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TALkOF new IAN
Proposed to Build One on South
End of Bridge.
Mayor Green Thinks Kansas
Avenue Structure Too Low.
TO DISCUSS PLANS.
Try to Evolve Scheme to Avoid
Flood Losses.
Complete System Of bikes Is
! Also Suggested.

Build another span at the south end
of the Melan bridge, vote $4,000 bonds
for a complete dixie system and arrest
all people who build and encroach on
the natural bed of the river.
=. These three antidotes for Kaw river
food troubles will be suggested to the
council when 1t meets Thursday even
ing .e
The mayor favors the lengthening of
the Meian bridge and forcing the re-
moval Of the wholesale houses and fac
tories over from the south bank of
the river. thereby giving additional
width to the river,
"Agitate it, get as many expressions
the sentiment for doing something"
said Mayor Vim. Green to Samuel Dol
man and Charles l.. Dolman of North
Topeka who urged that the city vote
bonds to construct bikes about North
Topeka
1--WE certainly must do something to
relieve the situation and give the peo-
pie feeling of security. The more it
is talked about and the more opinions
that are advanced the nearer of solu-
ton Will We be of this very grave stu
alton.
Personally, I think the city should
engage the services Of hydraulic en-
gineer Of wide and practical experience
to make a thorough examination OF the
situation and then give his recommen-
datiOnS to the city. Otherwise We might
start ahead and do something and do it
wrong and have it all to do over again.
The real trouble is the Melan bridge,
which is entirely too low. 1t was a
mistake to construct it as low. The
thing that could be done with it Is to
springs upward and then build higher
but that is entirely too costly. Another
arch might be built at the south ap-
proach."
A resolution has already been pre-
pared by Councilman H. B. Howard
calling on the city engineer to furnish
estimates for the construction of rs
foot span to the Melan bridge at the
south end. thus necessitating some OF
the wholesale houses to move their
buildings backward from the river.
"Be it resolved by the mayor and
council that the city engineer be and
Is hereby directed to furnish to the
council at an early date the approx
mate cost of building one additional
span to the south end. Of our Melan
cordingly and also erecting a dixie
from the bluffs at the Rock Island
railroad wye to the eastern city limits.
The dixie to be at least two feet above
the flood stage of 1903"
This resolution will be introduced
next Thursday evening at the council
meeting.
THAT is what is causing a lot of
this trouble. people have been filling
in on the Kansas river and building
out until the channel is too narrow"
said Mr.. Howard. 1.-The Wolff Packing
company and several others are too
far out. The old channel runs down
as far as Crane street. If we put in
another arch it will cut down the
heigh of the water fully foot. This
isn't all. I have another resolution
which is right along the same line.
Be it resolved that the chief of police
is hereby directed to cause the arrest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-16
ITCHING TORTURES
YIELDED TO CUTlCURA

"while I was doing missionary work
in the lower portion OF several cities
found it necessary to know a little Of
after while found that little knowl-
edge Of Cuticura. was about all I needed.
One Of the very bad cases had to deal
with was that Of a young woman who
had come to US not only broken in
physically. Our doctor examined her
and told us that she had scabies (the
itch). incipient .paresis, rheumatism.
etc., brought on from exposure and the
effects Of her ragged-edged life. Her
poor body was q mass Of sores from
retain solid food. We tried many things.
a good tonic was prescribed and baths
with rubbing Of lard and sulphur. We
worked hard for seven weeks and you
can imagine how discouraged we were
when. after all that time. we could see
so little improvement. One day hap
pened to see Cuticura advertisement
telling how a little baby had been
cured Of bad case of skin eruption,
and although I had but ninety-seven
cents with me, I bought a cake Of Cuti-
cura Soap and bottle Of Cuticura
Resolyent. When I reached home I
was like child with a new toy, and we
bathed our patient well and gave her a
full dose Of the Resolvent. She slept
that night better than she had since
she had been with us and the next day
located the price of box Of Cuticura
Ointment. I am not exaggerating
when say that in exactly five weeks
this young woman was able to look for
a position, being str ng enough to work
and full Of ambi tion. In another
month she left the home, and now has
a good position in a nice family where
she is respected and is strong and well.
You may refer any one you wish to me.
personally. Laura Jane Bates, IS
Fifth Ave-, New York, N. Y, Mar. IL,
1907"
Complete External and Internal Treatment for
Every Humor Of Infants. Children and Adults COM
Cuticura Ointment (56c) TO Heal the Skin and Cutf-
clra Resolvent (50c). Tor in the form OF Chocolate
Coated Pills. 25c per vial OF 6O) TO Purity the Blood.
Sold throughout the world: Potter Drug 4 Chem.
U Saled Free, Cusiculs BOOK % Skin Diseases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-16
AUTO INTO RIVER
Bounds From an Open Pier Drown
ing Four Persons.

New York. June 16.-Four persons
were drowned when an automobile
carrying a pleasure party of six be-
came unmanageable, shot at wild
speed down West Fifty-sixth street
and bounded from an open pier into
over in its plunge from the river, hold
ing the four victims against their
seats.
ADELINE BONDON, aged 10 years.
MRS ROSE COLEMAN, 23 years.
JOHN COLEMAN, 8 years.
VIRGINIA KNIGHT, 8 years.
John Bauer, the chauffeur, was
carried into the river with the ma
chine but managed to free himself
and swim to safety.
John Nolan. one Of the party,
jumped from the runaway machine as
it neared the end of the dock. Bauer
was taken into custody by the police.
After taking his employer home
Bauer invited his friends for pleas
ure ride. With the party he ran the
machine down Fifty-sixth street at
fair speed intending to go out on the
failed to work and the machine began
to skid. Down on the dock it flew
and Nolan leaped out just in time.
The four victims were carried down
into the water and though two young
men who were standing on the dock
at the time made repeated efforts to
rescue the drowning persons by diving
The body of Mrs. Coleman was re-
covered After swimming to the pier
Bauer went to the relatives of the
four drowned persons and notified
them of the accident. He then sur
rendered himself to the police.
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a dagger thrust The victim, it is said,
has a chance to recover. The stitches
two in number, were taken in the heart
of Susan Crane, a negress, who had
been stabbed by another woman, re-
ceiving three wounds, two in the breast
and a third in the back. One of the
thrusts was found to have entered the
heart, cutting cash in that organ an
inch long. The surgeons cut away the
exterior tissues and stitched up the cut.
Afterwards the woman was said to be
resting easy. Her assailant is under
arrest
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THEATER CASES DISMISSED.
Iwenty-eight Thrown Out of Court
and One Man Convicted.

Kansas City. Mo-, June 1s.-In the
criminal court here twenty EIGHT cases
or theater managers and empjoves
charged with violation of the Sunday
Iapor law of Missouri have been dis
missed because of lack of evidence. A
jury was impaneled to try Thomas
Iaa1e. ticket seller at the Century
After being out one hour the iurv
returned a verdict of guilty in the
case of Taafe and assessed his fine at
IL and the costs of the trial. This
was his second trial. the first resulting
In the jury's disagreeing- '-e
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HE TOOK OVER ALASKA
Eugene p. Murphy Is Dead at Age
of 63.

San Francisco, Cal, June 16.-Eugene
p, Murphy, who was the representative
sent to take possession OF Alaska IN
the name of the United States at the
time that country was purchased from
Russia, is dead at his residence. aged
63 years.
Mr.. Murphy was born in Albany, N
Y. and graduated from West Point in
1867. and the year after receiving MS
commission was sent on the mission 10
Alaska.
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Iowa Populists Endorse Cummins.

Des Moines. June 16.-The Iowa Pop
.ulists in state convention did an un-
usual thing-it endorsed the record of
a Republican governor, A. B. Cum
minis. The resolutions adopted include
a plank that is strong in praise of Gov
ernor Cummins and his fight for the 2
cent fare and other reforms in Iowa.
and 1T calls upon the people OF the state
to join them in--ssupport of him. D.
for governor.
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ONCE SHELTERED EDWARD VII
Everett House Built in 1883 Is to be
Torn Down.

New York, June 16.--The third OF
New York's old hotel to capitulate
within two months to the northward
march of the army of trade, the
Everett house at Fourth and Seven
teenth streets. closed it's doors at s
O'Clock last night.
The Everett house was built and
first occupied as a hotel in 1853. 1t
was named after Edward Everett,
then at the height of his fame.
The most notable person ever en-
tertained in the hotel was King Ed
ward VII, then Prince of Wales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-16
PATRICK LOSES
His Application For Writ of Habeas
Corpus Is Denied.

tion of Albert H. Patrick who is serv-
ing a life sentence in Sing Sing pris-
on for the murder of William Marsh
Rice, an aged Texan millionaire. for
a. writ of habeas corpus, was denied
bv Judge Lacombe in the United
States circuit court.
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Parcels Post Agreement s;pned

Washington, June ia parcels
post agreement between the United
states and France has been signed by
POSTMASTER General Meyer and Am
bassador Jusserand of France.