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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
LIVED IN WOODSHED.
After Giving His PalatiaI Home for a
Hospital.

Des Moines, Ia, April 1.-When
Abraham Simmer, Iowa's unique
philanthropist, gave his palatial home
at Waverly to the Catholic Sisters for
a hospital and himself retired to his
Woodshed to live he attracted consid-
cradle attention.
He is now said to be travelling over
the country incognito seeking oppor-
tunity to bestow wealth where he be-
lieves it will do good to humanity. Mr.
Simmer is a born Jew, but he does not
profess the Jewish or any other faith.
He has given hundreds of thousands of
dollars to hospitals, including those in
Chicago, Milwaukee, Dubuque, Omaha,
Cedar Rapids and other places.
He has strange conditions attached
to his gifts. He is a bachelor, largely
because he has little faith in women,
and he requires it written in the agee-
ment that the institutions to which he
gives shall have no women on the
board of directors. He also requires
that no person be debarred because of
their religious belief and further that
inmates of hospitals and old peoples
homes, to which he has donated large
ly, are not requested to attend serv-
ices. He says this should be left to
their own desires and that they should
not be placed in a position to go rather
than refuse when it would only annoy
them.
Mr.. Simmer come to Iowa a poor
man and made his money in timber
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
SPEAKS FOR NINE. GOULD
Mrs. Tyler Morse Says Engagement
Will Not He Announced Here.

New York, April Mrs. Tyler Morse
with whom Nine. Gould is stopping at
the st. Regis hotel, said today:
Il am authorized to say for Nine.
Gould that there will be no formal an
nouncement of her engagement made
in this city. The engagement win be
publicly made in France, according to
certain formalities that must be OBJ
served there, as Nine Gould is a citi-
zen of France. Nine. Gould should ar
rive in Paris before the end of the
month if her health permits as she in
tends to sail directly after Easter. I
can not say how soon Nine. Gould will
giver her answer to the prince, but 1t
will not be made public, know, in this
country"
An order authorizing George Gould
and Miss Helen Gould as receivers of
Nine. Gould's surplus income to reim-
burse George j. Gould in the sum Of
$4,000 which he had paid to Edmond
Kelly, the attorney in connection with
Nine. Gould's recent divorce action
against Count Boni de Castellane, was
signed today by Judge Lacomb in the
United States circuit court. The same
order provides also for the payment Of
$4,000 to Judge Dillon, chief counsel for
the Gould interests for services which
he rendered in connection with the di-
vorce action. The formal application
for the order of authorization was
made in person by Judge Dillon, who
presented a petition signed by Nine.
Gould asking that such an order be is
sued. Judge Lacomb's order author
ICES George ]. Gould and Helen M.
Gould as receivers of the surplus in
come Of Anna Gould to turn over to
George ]. Gould $4,000 in the recent
issue Of four per cent gold Missouri
Pacific bonds, belonging to the coun-
tess. The order of the court was made
in accordance with the trusteeship in
stituted in the suit originally brought
in 1901, when the creditors of Count
Boni were pressing him for settlement.
At that time a compromise was effect
ed by the appointment Of George ]. and
Helen Gould as receivers of their sis
ter,s income they to turn over $4OO, 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
MEET AT ALTOONA.
b. of l.. f. & e. Conclude Their Ses-
sion at Washington.

Washington, April Lone thou-
sand representatives of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
pinemen from thirty states, concluded
their union meeting here today and
decided to hold the next meeting at
Altoona, Pa, on the fifth Sunday in
May.
Resolutions favoring the passage by
congress of the Hemenway-Graf bill,
requiring the equipment OF locomo-
tives with self-dumping ash pans: The
LaFollette-S Sterling employers liability
bill. and such legislation as will pre-
vent the abuse OF the power Of in5unc-
ton in labor disputes. were adopted
This afternoon the delegates were
received by President Roosevelt at the
White House.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
CLEARS THE COMPLEXION
OVERNIGHT


1mpaes. Rash, Eruptions ETC.
Quickly Erad1cated by New
Skin Remedy.
Since its discovery one year AFRO.
posiam, the new skin remedy. has- in
US extraordinary accomplishments.
eHceeced the most sanguine expecta-
lions OF the eminent specialist who
gave 1t to the world 1t has cured
thousands OF cases OF eczema and
eraddcated facial and other disfieure-
ments of years standing. The ter
ribte itching attending eczema is
stopped with the first application 1fv-
ing proof of it's curative properties At
the very outset
In less serious skin affections. such
as p1mpies. rash. herpes, blackheads,
acne, BARRIERS itch, etc, results show
after an overnight application, only
email quantity being required to
effect cure. A muddy or sailow
cmplexion Is notsceably Improved by
a single application. Those who use
poslam for these minor skin troubles
can now avail themselves Of the spec-
al b0-cent package, recently adopted
to meet such needs. Both the 50-cent
package and the regular 81 jar may
now be obtained in Topeka at Fred A.
SHOWS and other leading drug stores.
Samples for experimental purposes
may be had free of charge by writ
Ing direct to the Emergency Lahoral
tories, 81 West Twentv-flfth Street
New York City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
Will Mr.. Hartman Retire From
Head of Union Pacific2
Renewed Rumors State That He
Will Soon Step Out.
MELLEN TO SUCCEED
Hartman Would Become Chair.
man of Segregated Boards.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

Reports were renewed yesterday
that negotiations were progressing
whereby Chas. S. Mellen, president Of
the New York. New Haven & Hart
ford railroad, is to succeed E. H. Har-
riman as president OF the Union Pa
cific railroad. Investigation shows
that there is at least an atom of ba-
sis for the report, but the elimination
of the negotiations, which had not
way ahead; and are not, it Is stated,
based upon the acquisition of the con-
troll of the Union Pacific by Mr.. Nor
gan Or other interests inimical to Mr..
Hartman.
Mr.. Hartman, It will be recalled,
to retire when he reached the age OF
sixty. This event occurred last
month. but he did not retire, and, ac-
cording to present plans does not in
tend to retire until the plan for re-
adjusting the affairs of the company
have been completed; and until the
financial and investment. department
of the entire Hartman system is d.
vorced from the transportation de-
partment.
When the reimbursement thus PLAN
ned has taken place it Is expected that
Mr.. Hartman will become chairman
| of all the boards Of directors the plan
Of adjustment may create.
The position of chairman of the
board is one that frequently ranks the
office of president. On the other
hand, in many instances it furnishes
| a graceful step down to superan-
| nuated presidents where new blood is
desired. Chauncey M. Depew, it will
be remembered, retired from active
railroad life by stepping out as presi-
| dent of the New York Central and be-
coming chairman Of the Vanderbilt
boards. Mr.. Harriman's greatest ri
val, James ]. Hill, retired from the
presidency of Great Northern in ia
vor of his son, but he is still the DOM
mating influence in the board, and as
a general proposition it may be ac-
| cepted in the instance of chairman of
the board it is the man that makes
the office.
| If he becomes president of the I'm
| ion Pacific Mr.. Mellen will have
| charge of the operation of the road
from a transportation standpoint. 1t
is understood that some Of the largest
interests in Union Pacific-among
whom are mentioned William Rookie
Teller, Henry H. Rogers, James Still
man and Henry c. Frick-believe
that Union Pacific would be in better
standing with the Investment commu-
spicuous as its dominating factor. and
his promotion to the advisory posi-
ton of chairman of the board for this
reason finds special favor. Mr.. Mel
len Is well equipped by practical exc
perience to take charge of the Union
Pacific, having occupied the presi-
dents chair in the Northern Pacific
for several years before the Northern
Pacific panic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
WOMAN RAILROAD PROMOTER.
Mrs. Alice Butler-MOore Is Believed tt
Be Only One in the Country.

Des Moines, Ia, April Mrs. Alice
Butler-Moore of st. Louis, Mo-. enjoys
the distinction of being the only Wo-
man railroad promoter in America.
She has successfully promoted the Des
Moines-Colfax interurban; the st.
Joseph, Stanberry & Northern in Mis-
souri,. and the Davenport & Ma
ouoketa out of Davenport.
Romance figured conspicuously in
her enterprising career. Recently she
was compelled to go into bankruptcy.
Her heaviest creditor was her chief
engineer, S. F. Moore, who had been
working for her several yeas. Shortly
after her bankruptcy proceedings she
secured a divorce from her husband,
Mr. Butler, at Davenport, and the next
dav was married to Mr.. Moore in st.
Louis. Her debt Of $1,000 to her en-
gineer was in this way Cancelled ana
the couple has announced that they
will continue in the work of promoting
interurbanS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
JUDGE McALLISTER DEAD.
He Was a Son of the Noted Society
Leader.

San Rafael, Cal. April Judge
ward McAllister, son of the famous
society leader of New York. died AT
$3.50 yesterday morning at a local
sanitarium from the effects Of an on
Grafton for appendicitis. For two years
he had been sufferer from PARALYSIS
and in his weakened condition he was
unable to survive long after the oper-
alton, which was performed last Sat
urday.
He was born in Newport, R. l., in
1856, and received his education al
Princeton university and the Albany
and Harvard law schools. He was
United States attorney in California
from 1882 to 1884, and then received a
presidential appointment as district
judge in Alaska
Judge McAllister was prominent in
club and social circles in San Fran
cisco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
Gomez Is Sent Back.
Gomez

Manila, April 1.-Senor Gomez
has been reelected to the assembly
from the First district of Manila to
fill the seat vacated by his recent ex-
pulsion from the house. The official
count of his election is not reported,
but the unofficial election board figures
gives 423 majority over Juso Lukban.
The campaign of Senior Gomez was un-
usually quiet, but determined. The
probable action of the assembly has
not been announced, but it is under
stood it will not receive the expelled
member. The members express regret
that Gomez presented himself as a
candidate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
FOUND IN KANSAS.
Bones of Sea Serpent Added to Chi
cago Collection.

Chicago, April 1.-The Universe
ty of Chicago added to its
collections the bones of a sea serpent.
1t was found in the bed of the Smoky
Hill river, near the western boundary
of Kansas. Scientists say it is the fin
est and most complete specimen of its
kind in existence.
Prof. Samuel w. Williston, of the
Paleontology department, discovered
the bones of the creature last sum-
mer. 1t measured 10 feet long, had
112 vertebrate and four paddle shaped
feet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01

the Pacific settlement of international
conflicts. This is an amendment of
the corresponding agreement of 1899
and makes material additions to that
convention. The committee also hearo
Mr. Roots views on the two treaties,
providing for the regulation of con-
tracts and establishment of prize
courts, but took no action on either of
them Contrary to expectation, the
Venezuelan question was not touched
upon either by the secretary or by the
members of the committee. 1t is I'M
derstood the committee members de-
sire time in which to inform them
selves before taking up this subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01

and later banking. He defies any
one penny dishonesty. But he says
the joy of life is giving and he will
never be happy till he is poor again.
He distributes his gifts among all
creeds, but he requires impartiality in
in his woodshed, he wears coarse
clothes, costing about SIS per suit, and
lives on the humblest fare. He espe-
cially favors kidness to old people. He
is genial and brilliant. But he says
wealth is a curse and is a burden to
the man who would enter heaven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01

Eddleman was released on a bond OF
S1,5OO and Nolan on bond of $4,000.
Neither of the arrested men nor the
bank examiner has made any state
ment regarding the cases. United
States District Attorney Alexander has
come from Phoenix on Geographic in
structions to handle the cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
Senator Jef Davis Fined.

Little Rock, Ark. April LIN police
court today Thomas Ke1m, deputy
prosecuting attorney who, yesterday,
assaulted United States Senator Jeffer-
son Davis O nthe street, was fined 80.
Senator Davis was fined $25 for disturb
ing the peace, having made threats OF
shscasrag his antagonist following the
assault
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
ROOT IS CALLED ON.
To Tell Senate Committee About
Arbitration Treaties.

Washington, April 1.-For an hour
and half today Secretary Root dis
cussed with the senate committee on
foreign relations the various arbitra-
ton treaties resulting from The
Hague conference, which are now be-
fore the senate with the result that
the committee decided to favorably
report the general treaty providing for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
YOUNG BRUTE ARRESTED

George Ayers. Reform School Gradu-
ate, Maltreats 14-Year-Old Girl.
George Ayers. who was paroled from
the reform school and is about seven
teen years old was arrested this after
noon for criminal assault on Neva
Snyder. fourteen year old girl who
lives on Central avenue near Soldier
creek The information charges that
Ayers threatened and choked the girl
in the commission Of the crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
Shot His Rival for a job.

Orange, N. J., April ALFRED Nc
Grath, 16 years old of Newark. is "
ing dangerously wounded in the me-
mortal hospital, and Ralph Marasco,
one year his junior is a prisoner, hav-
ing confessed to shooting the McGrath
boy because the latter got a Job he
wanted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
a conve.sent 1raan.

For Topeka people who desire fun
business day In Kansas City II the
Union Pacific No. 102 which leaves
Topeka every day at 7:06 q. M, ar
irving in Kansas city at $3.50 q. m.
You can get breakfast in the diner on
this train and dinner on No. 101 which
leaves Kansas City at >. m. roaeAr
Ing Topeka It 5:1e 4. n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
Held on Peonaee Charge.

Montgomery, Ala, April 1-W.
c. Reynolds, a farmer near here, is
held by the federal authorities on a
peonage charge. 1t is alleged that in
order to collect a debt owed him by
Pinkie Harris, an old negro woman.
he held the woman and her three sons
in Involuntary servitude for several
months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
pres;deot and Cashier Arrested.

Bisbee, Ariz.. April las a re-
suit of the closing of the First National
bank of this city, w. J. Eddleman,
president and j. H. Nolan. cashier,
have been arrested on charges of mis-
applying funds of the institution made
nv National Bank Examiner Marshall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01
No Strike in Texas

Fort Worth. Texas, April There will
be no strike of the miners and no suspen-
sion of coal mine operations in Texas for
at least ten days. Negotiations are still
in progress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01

a year to the creditors until the counts
debts had been paid. AS the debts have
not yet been paid in full, Nine. Gould's
income still is under control of the
federal court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-01

Remember the name-Doan's-an
- inyIcorafes STRENGTHENS and builds
M keeps YOU in condition. physical and
mentally. That's what HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea will do cents. Tea OF
Tablets. F. 7. Wa1keN:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-23
A WHOLESALE sLANpER.

Mrs. Mamie Curtis. who Is stumping the State of Tennessee. ostensibly in the interest of one of the candidates in the bitter fight now going on between Patterson and Carmack, but really for other purposes. recently made a public speech in Nashville. where. according to The American. she used this lam guage in speaking of an immigrant ship which she claims to have seen land at New York:
 T saw thousands and thousands of women get off that ship, nearly every one Of them with A drunken baby on other. and that's the crowd that goes to the polls and elects your officers"
 Is 1t possible that such vile sian der as this can help any cause or any candidate7 Would nt not te natural If the foreign born citizens of Tennes- see and their descendants should re- fuse to support the man in whose in- terest such false statements are made For that the statement was untrue is plain on it's face and 1t is untrue fin two ways. First. 1t is impossible that she could have seen "thousands upon thousands" of women of any class dis embark from one immigrant vessel; and second. no one will for a moment believe that each of these women--for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-23
Editing the PHatform.
New York Times.

New York Times.
 The changes made at Chicago in the platform sent on from Washington be- tray the presence in the Committee of competent editorial talent as we'll as the influence of some allied" criti- cism.
 In the revised version. the President was saved from the ridiculous claim that he had come to represent poltti- cal sovereignty" and from the still ua~ happier .pretense that American wo- manhood" had through him been lifted to 8 nobler sense of duty and obligation" The last element in the fourfold alliteration of "deld, forest, factory. and forge" was stricken out as too suggestive of fuss. Tn another sen terlce "supremest," a vile phrase, was changed to highest" and "econorni- eaP' lost It's last syllable; in stin an- other preservation" of resources was replaced by the more accurate word conservation" and there was turthsr correction of inelgAncies.
 In more serious matters, the revisers took out the reference to the latest currency act as temporary. refused to pledge the party to currency re deemable" in gold, omitted the state ment that the Child Labor act in the District of Columbia is model" as decidedly 1t is not, and omitted the reference to the efforts of the Presi- dent to secure equal accommodations on railroads for all citizens. wh ether white or black" The blue pencil of the committee was sparingly used, but some of it's effects were of consider able significance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-23

that is virtually what the charge mesns--icarried . drunken baby on one arm and bottle of whiskey on the other" as she asserts. No immigrant ship can bring over such numbers of women. and none would allow them to oestialize themselves and their ba- bies in the way this Mrs. Curtis says she saw them,
 Thi incident shows the wrong and the impropriety of putting an ili-bal- anced woman on the stump in a polit- ical campaign. We do not know what this one expects to gain by such a pub lie and wholesale islander on the for eigners who come to this country. for it is an attack on them as a class. Of course. we get immigrants who are a burden and a menace, but if Mrs. Cur tis ever saw any women of the class she describes. and, in the condition she statesla they got of an immigrant ship the number must have been few. The thousands upon thousands" existed only in badly trained imagination or in an evilly disposed heart. The man she is stumpins for would do we'll to call her of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-23
poLIrTIcs IN JEFrpRsoN.

As if the sweltering heat up there wss not enough, Birmingham Is warni- ing up and getting excited over a hot political fight. for the selection of the next Mayor. The campaign only en- phasizes the fact that Jefferson Coun- ty has more politics to the square inch than any other section of Alabama.
 Politics appear to be necessity for existence in Jefferson. There is al. ways e fight on. If 1t is not one race it is another. The people divide and get wrought up over fight for sher- if one month. Next month the whole county is torn up over an election of a Board of Revenue. If there Is nothing else to fight over. they will divide on the election of a Constable, or the See lection of Justice of the Peace, One campaign only ends for another to begin. !" @
 An interesting contest for the may orality is shaping in which there VIII pc tnfee Bood mehsi zap tain Frank P. oBrten. for- marly citizen of Montgomery; former Mayor W. M Dfennen ana Mayor George B. Ward.
 The fierce fight over prohibition in Jefferson County is yet fresh mem- ory. The echoes of 1t had not died away before the State primary was on. and, before the ballots were counted in that primary, Birmineham's rnu- nicipal fight was sprung and the sides were lining up.
 Jefferson County plainly has more than it's share of politics but if the people are determined to consider poll tiles necessity of life the rest of the state can look on tranduilly. as the fight goes on and applaud impartially.
 After all though, the inevitable ques. ton arises, what time. do the people of Jefferson County have to devote to their private business affairs?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-23
TUESDAY. JUNE as, 1908.

The York (Pa.). Dispatch tells us that @it Will be generations before the country will raise up a man so bold and so fitting for the place which Theodore Roosevelt now holds" It would be in- teresting to know what intelligent for- eigners think of the American people and press when they read in some of the newspapers such evidences of nau- seating sycophancy as the above. Will they not naturally believe that our boasts of independence and equality are all a sham? What we have quoted is fair specimen of the boot-licking expressions in various Republican newspapers. However. we go The Dis patch one better. and hope it will be generations before this country will be afiicted with another President like the present one.