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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
BACK TO HOT SPRINGS.
Judge Taft Starts on Return Trip
From White Sulphur.

White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
Aug. 1O.-Mr. Taft and party left
here early today for Hot Springs, Va
Not being familiar with all of the de-
tails of the arrangement by which
Elmer Doves takes the secretaryshir
of the advisory committee of the Re-
publican national committee and
William Hayward, of Nebraska, the
secretaryship of the full committee
Mr.. Taft said he had no statement to
make at present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
SENT TO BONAPARTE.
Governments Petition i'm Standard Oil
Case Oompleteo.

Chicago. Aug. 10.-The government 5
petition for a rehearing by the United
States court of appeals of the govern
ment's case against the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, in which the ap
pellate court reversed Judge Landis'
fine of SIS. 9.240,000. has been completed.
United States Attorney Edwin w.
Sims today forwarded the document to
Attorney General Bonaparte at Lenox.
Mass. The petition Will be filed here on
August 81,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
EigI,t Fishermen Drowned.

Halifax. Aug. 1O.-The Gloucester,
Mass, fishing schooner Maggie and
May. Captain Erick McCathran, was
run down and sunk by the German
schoolship Freya, Captain Hans, sixty
miles southeast of Halifax. and Cap
tain McCathran and eight of the crew
were drowned. Four men were
rescued. At the time of the collision
dense fog prevailed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
FUNSTON STARTS HOME.
The General Leaves San Francisco for
Fort Leavenworth.

San Francisco, Aug. 1o.-General
Frederick Funston will leave for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. today. the COM
mand of the department of California
having passed to Colonel NJ. p. Maus,
Twenty-second infantry. General
Funston's family will remain here
temporarily at least
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
Weather Indicatio

Chicago, Aug. 10.-Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday with somewhat
higher temperature Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10

The county and state levies are
based on a total valuation of s72.-
052.067. while the board of education
and the city levies are based on
valuation of s44.344,49S. that of the
city only, exclusive of the county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10

The 1908 levy in these two particu-
lars II can be seen has been brought
down about three-fourths. on par
to the greater amount of property la
BILE for taxation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
TROOPS ARE Sent
TO FRONTIER
PRESIC ENTRO OSEVELTACTS ON
REPRESENTATIONS OF MEX
ICAN GOVERNMENT.
lean Resident IF the Diaz Country
Says the Revolt is Real. Soldiers
Take Field.

Washington, June 30.-By direction
of President Roosevelt, Secretary of
War Taft has issued orders to the
commanding general of the depart
| ment of Texas, at San Antonio, to
send sufficient number of troops to
Del Rio Ell Paso and other points in
| Texas to aid the civil authorities in
preserving order.
This action was decided upon as a
result of request from the Mexican
government that the United States
do its utmost to prevent any viola
ton of the neutrality laws.
The request of the Mexican govern
ment was referred to the attorney
general by the department of state,
and the governor of Texas in the
meantime was asked to aid in COM
polling obedience to the law. The
order of the president sending troops
to the border is understood to have
been made upon the recommendation
of the attorney general.
Dallas, Tex, June 20. - Sam p.
| Harrison, for the last five years d
resident of Blanco, small town
about thirty miles from Cuidad Por-
ferio Daiz, arrived in Dallas today
with his family, enroute east to visit
relatives. Mr.. Harrison said regard
ing the disturbances in Mexico:
''That is not fake revolution. 1t
| is a dead earnest affair. l am in
clined to think that the soldiers of
the president are aiding and abetting
the revolutionists. personally know
that the president is greatly worried.
1t is my opinion that the Mexican
army is honeycombed with revolu-
tionists."
Asked his opinion of the ability Of
President Diaz to cope with the stu
alton, Mr.. Harrison replied that he
believed the present president would
manage the affair.
| Gen. Villar of the third military
zone is in command of the troops in
the field. The war department has
left it entirely to his discretion to
conduct the campaign.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

wrong, and offends against the laws Of
health. Almost all the reports
from jails record the dull, mononton-
Gus, maddening tramp of prisoners
walking aimlessly up and down the
corridor. 1t is the path of lunacy.
Why not have walled yards in the
open air, partly sheltered from rain,
covered over with steel wire to pre-
vent escape? But this plan is rarely
thought Of. Card playing is the
universal resource for passing the dull
and anxious waking hours"
Many examples are given of exces-
sive oyercroWding.
"In Birmingham, Ala, 240 men in 72
cells; 25 women in ten cells. . !.
The inmates Of iails are chiefly of two
classes-those awaiting trial and con-
victed misdemeanants. The ordi-
nary term of convicted misdemean-
| ants, Migrants and inebriates is too
short for any sort of industrial train
ing or systematic production. A care
full study of the situation in all parts
Of the land has long ago driven many
district labor colonies or warehouses;
for those convicted of offenses, and
that the term of degenerates must be
at least two years, if we really intend
to fit them for useful lives"
III HE committee plainly shows that
4 under present conditions and laws
the county Jail must provide for males
and females; children, youth and
adults; first offenders, habitual crimi-
nails, vagabonds, prostitutes; wit
nesses held for their testimony; poor
debtors whose crime is their poverty;
idiots, imbeciles, insane, epileptics,
persons arrested on suspicion, and
apoplectics whom the sapient police
man could not distinguish from drunk
ards All these, says the report, are
| often under one roof and management,
in building SO built that cries and
whispers travel along a corridor with
! cages open at the side.
Now, what chance is there in the
average jail for the reformation of the
! imprisoned vagrant? We may think
that Jack London draws the long bow
! in his picturesque descriptions of life
on the road, but in his tale of impris-
onment in the Erie county Jail he
never wrote of such horrifying condi-
tons as are described by the report
of the committee, of which Prof.
Charles r. Henderson of the Univer-
sity of Chicago was chairman. What
chance, above all, has the detained
witness or suspect, held in the Jail for
his testimony, and innocent before the
law until he is proven guilty? What
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
LuNArIcs SHOW MUCH CUNNING.
Some of Their Work Known to Have
a Scientific Value.

Some of the inventions of the in
sane are of scientific value. A patient
at Villejuif invented a "panification
machine" by combining a bottle, Q
plank and small metallic tubes, TO
which he had fitted faucets. Having
set up his machine, he produced
loaves of bread the size of mans
head. The bread was good-so good
that it was decided to make the ma
chine known. One day when it was
in action the doctor suggested taking
a photograph of it. The inventor
watched him as if petrified for a mo-
ment; then he fell upon the machine,
wrenched it apart and trampled it I'M
der foot. The invention-an exceed
ingly useful one-was lost, because no
one had seen him make it, and no one
dares speak of it to him. To allude
to it is to bring on furious attack.
Most lunatics, no matter how content.
ed they may be, generally cherish a
furtive longing to escape. They col
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

lect wax from the polished floors, take
the impression of locks and make
keys from empty sardine boxes, spoon
handles or anything to be found. DR..
Marie's museum includes a collection
or knives of strange and unheard-of
shapes. Some of them have blades
made from pieces of glass or slate and
set in handles of corset steels. OBJ
Jects harmless in themselves become
dangerous weapons through the in
genuity of madmen.
Insane sculptors are as common as
insane painters. The insane SCULPTOR
hews out coarse statuetteS, fantastic
animals, ferocious little horned and
grimacing devils. An ex-mechanic
carves all his soup bones. That his
old trade is still in his memory is
shown by the little screws that he
makes out of the smaller pieces of
bone He works all day at his sense
less and ridiculous task Another lu-
natic, who believes he is the incarna.
ton of the soul of Beelzebub, passes
his time carving toy men out of
wood Each pair of his creations are
joined together, now at the necks, now
at the noulders.-Harper's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

BUT when Belgium does commit a
ID yagrant. then woe to the liberty of
that vagrant for long period! Con.
viction is to a depot de mendicite for
from two to seven years. The depot
de mendicite is at Merxplas. a great
industrial cctony with accommodations
for about 5000 prisoners. Here there
occurs a classification, the worst ele-
ments being at night placed in soli-
tary confinement and otherwise placed
under strict discipline. Intensive la
Dor is carried on, the work being
graded according to the physical abii-
ty of the individual inmates.
The Belgian treatment of Migrants
brings out prominently several facts.
In the first place, Belgium believes in
getting Migrants off the streets and
highways Some years ago the minis
ter of Justice declared that there was
no vagabondage in Belgium. This
statement needs interpreting. There
is probably fairly little vagrancy
along the highways, because every
vagrant must be apprehended and
made to show cause through his pa
pers, or by the absence of a record at
Brussels, why he should not be sent to
the depot de mendicite. The fact that
Merxplas contains about 5000 in
mates, and that the average period of
detention is 10 months, and that the
majority of the inmates are returned
to Merxplas for succeeding offenses
of vagrancy, shows that vagrancy in
Belgium is not eradicated from the So
cial body, but removed as much as
much as possible from society.
THE Swiss colony of Witzwyl, which
]. Mr. Edmond Kelly has recently de-
scribed in detail in his book on THE
Elimination of the Tramp shows that
in certain proportion of cases the
inmates committed to a compulsory
labor colony 90 not reform and rejoin
the ranks of the industrial army. A
trained English investigator stated
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
FURY OF TORNADO
Pukwana, S. D., Is Nearly Wiped Out
and Crops Are Ruined.

Mitchell, S. D., June 3O.-The little
town of Pukwana in Brule county,
about fifty miles west of Mitchell
on the @. M. & st. P. road, was near
ly wiped out of existence Sunday
night by tornado, which covered a
territory about quarter of mile
wide and did damage that will take a
long time to repair.
The storm struck the place about
II o'clock, when the town was sound
asleep. 1t came with terrific force,
lasting about five minutes, but the
damage was awful. The tornado
came from the northwest, leveling
houses in it's pathway.
Between twelve and fifteen stores
and residences were absolutely de-
stroyed, and there is not house in
the town that was not wrecked to
some extent. People rushed from
their homes in a panic, but they had
no place to go, and the darkness
made the disaster seem more severe
then it was.
Two large elevators were blown
down across the track, covering a
freight car. The depot was practical
ly wrecked and the main track of the
road was closed to traffic for the day.
Several houses which were just
completed in the town were f1attened
to the ground and the lumber was
scattered in every direction. A four
by four timber was driven through
one of the houses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
DOWN TO DEATH
High Diver at Fargo Fails Before a
Large Audience.

Fargo, N. D., June 27.-Henry
Hemphill was drowned he last night
while giving high diving exhibition
from one of the bridges across the
Red river. He was a steeple-jack and
four or five weeks ago gained some
notoriety by falling from a high
smoke stack, striking some wires and
escaping uninjured.
Recently he has been out of en-
ployment and without funds. He Sc
cured permission from the chief of
police to make a public exhibition
and there was a large crowd on the
river banks. After making a dive he
arose to the surface, swan a short
distance, and then sank before the
boat could reach him. He is said to
have been intoxicated at the time of
the exhibition. Hemphill is thought
to have come here from St. Louis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
BIG FIRE RACES IN ocoNTo.
Half Million Cedar Poles, and Shin
giles and Posts Destroyed.

Oconto.-One of the fiercest fires
that has visited Oconto in many years
broke out in the Pendleton & Gilkey
cedar yard. The fire started east of
the pickle factory and, famed by the
high wind. soon spread through the
entire yard. 1t is estimated that about
100000 poles, besides large number
of cedar shingles and posts, have been
destroyed. together with two box cars
and one flat car standing on the side
track. The supposition is that the fire
started from spark from the mill,
which started up in the morning to
saw posts. The two mills belonging
to the firm, one of which is almost
in the path of the fire, were saved by
hard work. The entire yard was burn
ing. The strong wind made it diff
cult for the firemen to work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

| recently, regarding Witzwyl, that
there is no doubt that the fact of hav-
ing worked hard for a year or 10
months makes man apt to get into
the habit of working, and this is be-
| lieVed to be the actual result in
| Switzerland.
What, then, shall we say regarding
| the treatment of vagrancy in the Uni
| ted States? First, that at present it
is thoroughly inadequate. AS Stats
tics and the accompanying diagrams
show, 67 per cent. of the commitments
to penal institutions are to county
jails and warehouses in which the
conditions are often exceptionally
bad. Drunkenness, vagrancy and dis
orderly conduct were responsible for
more than half the commitments dur
ing 1904 to penal institutions in the
United States. For these three of
lenses the county jails and work
houses, to which the large majority Of
offenders are committed, offer prac-
tically no reformative influences. For
more serious crimes, such as burglary,
| robbery, assault, forgery, ETC., there
are reformatories and state prisons, in
which latter institutions some reform
/ atory influence is felt.
This brief resume of the present
conditions inevitably points to the
necessity of a material change in our
system Of combating vagrancy. In
this connection it is of special inter
est that within recent months bill
has been drafted in New York state
providing for the establishment of a
farm colony upon lines very similar
! to that Of the Swiss compulsory colo
ny, Witzwyl This bill, which has the
approval of the leading charitable So
cieties of New York city and of sew
eral trunk lines terminating in New
York, and which will be introduced
into the next legislature, provides for
the establishment in New York state
of compulsory labor colony, with in
determinate sentence, regular labor,
reformatory influences and classified
ton of prisoners.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
For overworked Muscles.

After having done an unusually hard
days work or undergone some unac.
customed strain such as is likely to
leave the muscles sore and stiff, mix
Is drops of tincture of arnica thor.
oughly in one-half glass Of water and
take one teaspoonful of the mixture
every hour until relieved. This will
give much quicker relief than when
applied externally. 1t is also une of
the best remedies to promote absorb
tion, remove soreness and prevent IN
flammation in any wound or bruise of
the soft parts of the body.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
ENGINEER SAVES BOY IN RIVER
Fishing From Bridge, Falls Into Stream
When Train Approaches.

Fond du Lac. A. lyman, engi-
neer of the Wisconsin Central, who
resides at North Fond du Lac, is a
hero. When the locomotive with Ty-
nam at the throttle was drawing near
a bridge that spans Mud Greek, near
Hilbert Junction, a boy was seen on
the middle of the bridge fishing. Con-
fused by the roar of the train the
little fellow became panic stricken
and jumped or fell from the bridge
into the river. Engineer lyman
stopped his engine, leaped into the
river and after struggle brought the
lad to the bank lyman, when he
reached North Fond du Lac was in
clined to make light of the occurrence,
but members of the train crew were
enthusiastic in praise of him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

deter and reform? Shall we, know
ing Jail conditions, allow him to roam
ct large? But the vagrant habit is fos.
tered by idleness, mendicancy and the
absence of prosecution. Even as it is,
the unwillingness of many police Off
Gals or magistrates to prosecute
tramps is well known. When the
vagrant is told to ''get out of town or
be run in" he of course decamps, and
the town finances are spared, while
the neighboring community receives
the shifted burden. Yet if the con-
victed vagrant is sent to Jail he be-
comes a source of contamination to
other inmates, and in addition he is
often glad to hibernate or spend few
weeks where warmth, food, idleness
and the company of vicious fellows is
assured. Are we not often, by admin
istering the law, condemning the vag-
rant to further depths of degeneracy
What do the reports of chiefs of po-
lice show? The writer recently re-
ceiyed extended reports from SO
chiefs, representing as many different
cities, representative of large and
small municipalities. The letters
showed that in most instances vag-
rants are committed to jails, less fire.
quently to warehouses;. and in a few
instances to the penitentiary. Boston,
Lowell and other Massachusetts towns
report sending some Migrants to the
state farm where there is a nine
months sentence. In these jails and
warehouses the labor required, when
there is any, consists generally OF
breaking stone in quarry or in Jail
yard, roadmaking, chaiIcaning, chair
making and farm work. This work is
ION paper" There is little or no eff
fort made to bring reformative infu
ences to bear on those serving short
sentences or to teach trade. Even
at the Massachusetts state farm
where the workhouse conditions are
far better than in most correctional
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02
NO PLEASURE IN THIS WORK
Spectacle PeddIing Evidently Employ
ment to Be Evaded.

THE meanest job of my lean days"
said a millionaire, was spectacle ped
ding. 1 still see the sad and scornful
looks, still hear the reproachful
oaths which that work brought down
on me-
1T was at the seashore. I had a
case of spectacles for every age from
As up. / paced the beach and the
board walk
Once 1 walked up to a lady and
gentleman seated close together on
the sand.
Sir and madam I said, would
these interest you? The best and
cheapest brand of old-age spectacles
on the market This pair would be
your size, sir-49 years. Lady, will
you try these 54-year ones?'
They redeemed and the man told
me with an oath to move on. I re-
membered, as / moved, that he had
been holding her hand. A seaside
Irritation. OF course they hadn't liked
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-02

HTEW YORK.-The course of the
"a Migrants life is in vicious cir
Ia Gle. Street, park bench, cheap
lodging house, court, Jail, street,
brake beam, court, jail, etc; so it
goes, from month to month, from hand
TO mouth, from city to city. More ac-
curately stated, the Migrants course
Is spiral and downward, with accel-
Grated momentum toward demoraliza-
ton, disease and death. Along his
road are certain rescue stations
charitable societies, missions, curb
stone breadines, industrial homes,
personal visitations in alcoholic wards.
These are efforts to extend the nelp-
ing hand, to switch the vagrant from
the circular track to the straight
ahead line" But generally the mo
mentum is too great. Failures are re-
corded far in excess of even imagined
successes writes o. f. Lewis Of the
Charity Organization society in the
New York Times.
When we seek, by imprisonment, to
deal with the Individual 'vag," what
do we find? Generally ineffective, in
adequate unjust methods of punish
ment, SO futile as to be ridiculous,
were they not so tragic. We find cor
rectional methods in jail that, instead
of correcting, debase, methods as
vagrant as are the prisoners. We be-
lieve that each man who is able
should contribute his sh are Of the
days work Nature abh0rs a vacuum
and the community in general abhors
the constitutional idler II the drOne
work not, neither shall he eat. We
believe that crime should he punished
Vagrancy is a crime under the law
Punishment is generally AMI neces
sarily effected by the rest 'aint of lib
erty, within a penal institution. Vag
rants are imprisoned generally in jails
or warehouses;
But how?
What are the conditions Of Amer
can jails?
Do they check vagrancy2
Do they punish justly?
Do they reform?
A N ANSWER !. has recently been
"A made public which rs q scathing
arraignment of conditions in a great
majority of American county jails, ali
the more scathing and staggering be
cause made after a careful investiga
tion by a committee of the National
Prison Congress, which does not seek
sensationalism. The following para
graphs are almost random quotations
from the report:
IF the only or chief purpose of jails
were to keep wild beasts in cages
most of the jails are well enough
adapted for this purpose. The