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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
Republicans Gather to Celebrate
the Occasion.
Big Banquet in Capitol Rotunda
Tonight.
FOUR HUNDR'D GUESTS
That Is the Number the OffI-
GERS Expect.
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska
Guest Of Honor.
Attorney General Jackson Will
Talk Of the Octopus.

The Kansas Day club banquet Will
begin al 6 o'clock this evening in the
basement of the rotunda of the state
capitol
1t is expected that about three or
four hundred guests will attend this
big annual dinner of the Republican
party of Kansas. The attendance viii
doubtless be somewhat cut down by
the fact that there are no railroad
passes. In past years. hundreds OF
people have been brought to Topeka
on free transportation furnished
through candidates for office. Every
state officer has sent out free railroad
transportation to all his friends who
wanted to come to Topeka, and many
of the state officers or candidates for
Office have also furnished free tickets
to the banquet to their particular
friends. These tickets cost 81 apiece.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
TWO KANSAS GEMS.
One Written by ingalls, of the State
and Her Day.

ingalls, wrote many beautiful para
graphs about Kansas. One of them
referring to this Kansas Day was in
corporated by Ewing Herbert in
speech made several years ago, a gem
Within a gem, as follows:
Kansas is always heard from. It is
a continuous story in the newspapers.
1t has had more abuse with less injury
and more praise with benefit than any
other state.
1T has tasted all the bitterness of
failure and disappointment. Her peo-
pie have known drouth and grasshop-
pers, cyclones and calamity. But in
spite Of every drawback those who have
had the grit to stay have won. They
have paid mountains of debt and have
lifted up their heads through Difficult
ties to the stars. Kansas has been first
in cranks and whiskers as well as first
in corn and wheat. And now it Is
among the first in the pursuit OF cul-
ture and happiness.
There was a time when Kansans
were so unhappy that they gloried in
unhappiness. We advertised to the world
that we were so poor that our property
wasn't worth the mortgage value. We
even cheered this sentiment-we were
So unhappy and so poor. We had picnics
with ragmuffin parades and lung
speeches lasting all day, con-
cluding with resolutions calcu-
lated to make the rich feel
ashamed. But our precious poverty is
gone and we've come out of our night
mare strengthened by the courage Of
success. The eternal years Of God are
ours, and we are limited only by the
judgment day. In every Kansas home
tonight there's a signal light cleaning
from the window that all is well. Once
a Kansan always a Kansan. 1t was our
own ingalls, who immortalized the best
Kansas spirit when he wrote: The
Arabs say that he who drinks of the
Nile must ever thirst-no other waters
will quench or satisfy. So those who
have done homage and taken the oath
of fealty to Kansas can never be alien
ated or forsworn. The love Of the peo-
pie for their state is more than sent1-
ment-it is Unsuitable passion. The an
niversary of its admission is observed
as festival and a holiday with COM
memoratfve exercises.
".Days are sat apart in the spring by
executive proclamation to decorate the
hills and roadsides with trees as lover
adorns his bride with Jewels The de-
fects of climate and the disasters OF
husbandry are indulgently explained
and excused as the foibles of a friend
from whom better things are to be an
ticipated hereafter. The wanderers
whom caprice or misfortune may tenn
porarily Danish. are recalled by an 1r-
resistible solicitation as they remem Der
the bright aspect of the Kansas sky,
which is like a smile. and the soft touch
of the atmosphere. which is like a
caress.
1.-The cross which Coronado reared
at the verge of his wanderings has
moulded and the ashes of the adven-
turer have slept for ages in the ances-
trail sepulchre in Spain. He found
neither Quivera's phantom towers, not
CiboIa's gems and gold; but fairer
capital than that he sought to despoll
has risen like an exhalation from the
solitude he trod and richer treasure
than he craved has rewarded the toilers
of an alien race"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

Attorney General F. S. Jackson comes
OF sturdy pioneer stock, his father
having been associated with John
Brown in early Kansas history His
home is Eureka, Greenwood county
where he was for number of years
engaged in the practice of law. Mr..
Jackson was active in local politics. and
his friends decided he would be a good
man for attorney general of the state.
Without making any pledges to any,
BODY, jackson went before the con-
vention as an 'anti-sIate" candidate
and was triumphantly nominated.
jackson was classmate in law
school of Attorney General Hadley of
Missouri, and he decided to follow the
same plan in Kansas that Hadlev had
followed in Missouri. He proceefied to
enforce the laws as he found them on
the statute books, and the result is
that he has made Kansas a drier state
than 1t ever was before, besides keen
ing the Standard OIL harvester and
other trusts on the griddle ever since
he took office. His address tonight ha 9
a suggestive title. 1t is "The serpent.
, the octopus and the elephant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
DOWN TO EIGHT DEGREES
This Morning Almost the CoIdest of
Season.

The cold snap came to Topeka just as
advertised. The first pangs of the ap
preaching cold weather were felt last
night along with a liberal supply of
wind. The coolest weather was just
few minutes before eight o'clock this
morning when the mercury reached 8
degrees This is the coolest weather
of tho season with but one exception.
d. r 10 the mercury rached a point
rs We zero, just a fraction lower
tha. lis morning. Today it has been
warming up considerably. This is slat-
ed to be the program for several days
until the weather reaches normal
state. There may be a few clouds to-
night and tomorrow with a few furries
of snow but the weather Will be
warmer
The wind today has been blowing at
the rate of six miles an hour from the
northeast The temperatures for to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

This year, however, the attorney gen
erals department is accorded this
honor. In addition to Mr.. Dawson,
president of the club, one of the ora
tors this evening is Mr.. Dawson's chief
Attorney General Fred Schuyler Jack
son, the man who came into the office
a year ago as an unknown country law
yer. and has leaped to the front rank
of prominence because he has dared to
enforce the laws of the state against
joints, brewers corporations and trusts
without fear or favor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

rs peculiar construction to this let
.er or more than 25 years ago, writ
ten In the mothers own hand. writ
Ten IN no confounding phrase of a
lawyer, written at a time when there
was no peril, but the peril of her
eolly- L appeal from that affidavit
20 TINS testimony, which comes hut-
.eriilg across a span of 25 years from
the hands of a tottering old man of
seventy, like a benediction out of the
past to interpose itself to save this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

John S. Dawson, president of the
Kansas Day club. who will make
speech tonight, is a big-boned, big
hearted Scotchman. who has lived in
Kansas a good while but not long
enough to wear the burr off his tongue.
Mr.. Dawson's home is Hill City,
Graham county, where he taught school
and practiced law before accepting a
position in the office of Attorney Gen
eral c. c. Coleman as special assistant
in charge of the school bond litiga-
ton
Dawson has now been in Topeka for
six or eight years, and is first assist
ant in the office of Attorney General
Jackson. Indications are that if Mr..
Dawson desires to get into the game,
he can have the Republican nomination
for attorney general when Mr.. Jackson
is through with the job. Mr.. Dawson
is a good lawyer. a tireless worker, a
scholar and an orator. Mr.. Dawson's
speech tonight will be full of Republi-
'canism and it may also contain a few
jolts for the octopus.
1t is rather unusual for one Office at
the state house to furnish two orators
for the Kansas Day club programme.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
BURNED ALL NIGHT.
| Oil Tank Fire Did Not Result in the
| Damage Expected.

San Luis Obispo. Cal, Jan. ze.-The fire
which was started in an oil tank belong
ing to the Union Oil company at Port
ali night, consuming, with their contents,
the tank which was first set on fire and
three others belonging to the Standard
oil company No other damage was DONE
although it was thought at one time that
nothing could save the Marie hotel. the
port Hartford wharf and several cottages
belonging to workmen around the oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
BANK TO REOPEN.
The Commerce OF Kansas City Will
Resume Business.

Kansas City. Jan. 29.-The suspended
National Bank of Commerce of this
city will be reorganized and soon be
open for business, one of the directors
of the bank said. Every dollar neces-
sary to meet the reorganization plan
submitted by Comptroller Ridgeley has
been pledged, and the only remaining
question to be decided is who the Off
GERS and directors are to be. The bank
was formerly the largest in the United
States west of St. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
Too,. All the Cash and LEFT

Alva, Okla. Jan. 2s.-The Alva
Bank of Commerce. with $4,000
capital stock, is closed and Cashier
Lou Westfall is missing. He is
CHARGED with Iooting the institution
of practically all its deposits The
depositors will lose nothing. the direc-
tors declare 1t was said that the
banks total loss is s4,700.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
day are as I
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE.
Mrs. W. w. KimbaH Receivers Her
Diamond Hair Ornament

Chicago. Jan. 29.-An advertisement in a
newspaper yesterday brought BACK a val
W. Kinball and incidentally brought 500
to a maid in the employ of Mrs. John l..
ShortalL
Mrs Kimball was among the guests at
Mrs Marshall Fields dinner in honor of
F. Hopkinson Smith on Sunday evening
and lost the ornament when returning to
her home short distance away. Long
search failed until Mrs. Shortalrs maid
sidewalk near Mrs Fields residence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

Haskins was supposed to represent
the "anti-stubbs" crowd. and Getty
fight is not as sharply drawn as II
was last year when Brandon and More-
house were the candidates. If was
more like a fight between the house
and the senate.
William Vernon, the secretary of the
club, who has held the office two terms
will likely be reelected, as he has
handled the affairs of the club in a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
First Cousins to Utah.

Arkansas City, Kan, Jan 29.-Har-
rv Beck and Miss Millie Ray. both of
this city, have gone to Utah to be mar
ried. Under the Kansas law they could
not marry here. being first cousins.
They are quite prominent here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
salina, street Railway Sold.

Salina. Kan, JAN 29.-The Salfna
Street and Interurban railway has been
sold to Robert A. Handy, Denver
broker. who will at once improve the
line and increase the number of cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
Weather Indications.

Chicago. Jan. 29.-Forecast for KAN
sas: Probably snow f1urries tonight or
Thursday; rising temperature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

manner satisfactory to the members.
Mr.. Vernon lives in Topeka. and is
private secretary of Justice Henry F.
Mason of the supreme court.
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Continued on Page Two.)
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
Witnessed Highly Salts
factory Trial Run of
Cumberland Section of
COncentrdtOr

W b. Thompson. George T.. Gum,
Charles Hayden, l.. Gardiner and s.
W. Eecles left last night on the Ne
vada Northern private car for New
York. The start was made from
McGill. where the. gentlemen spent
the day inspecting eoncentrator and
smelling plants.
In the morning the Cumberland
Ely section of the first unit of the
concentrator was set going and OPP
Grated through the day on Cumber-
land Ely ore. The run was exceed
ingly satisfactory in every way. The
machinery moved without hitch, its
performance being as smooth as
could possibly be asked. The trial
demonstrated the entire readiness of
the section for the steady operation
which will begin next week.
During the day the visitors inspect
ed every division of the Steptoe
plants, going carefully over the prop
critics in company with Managing Di-
rector Yeatman and Manager Lake.
nan They found splendid headway
being made on all sides. Headway
with work to date, upon which was
based announcement of dates during
the week for the beginning of opera
ton of certain units, to the end of
bullion production the middle of
June, has been gone over previously
this week and affords nothing new
at this time for publication.
Mr.. Eccles arrived late Thursday
night from his trip to the coast. He
did not leave his car except at Nc
Gill. where he Joined Mr.. Thompson
and party in the inspection which
was carried on. En- route east 1t Is
probable that there will be compari
son of notes and conference on such
subjects as may be under considera-
ton.
All OF the gentlemen before de-
parture for the east last evening
gave expression to enthusiastic views
with regard to the situation in the
district. II is considered to be en-
cellent from every viewpoint. Mr..
Thompson not only felt good over
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
BILL TO REGULATE
CHILD LABOR PASSED
senate PASSES Stringent Measure
That Relates Only tn District
of Columbia.

WASHINGTON. May S.=The SEN
ate today passed bill prohibiting
the employment within certain hours
of children under 4 years of age In
the District OF Columbia in any fac
tory. workshop, telegraph office. res
taurant. hotel. apartment house. sa-
loon. pool or billiard room. bowling
alley or in transportation or distribu-
tion or transmission of merchandise
or messages. No such child Is per-
mitted to work at any employment
for wages during school hours nor
before 6 a. m. nor after O'Clock
p. IN.
The senate also adopted a resolu-
tion offered by Mr.. Foraker of Ohio,
directing the interstate commerce
commission to inform the senate
whether the commodity clause of the
interstate commerce act had been
complied with since May |. 1908,
and If not, whether the non-compli-
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
BLAINE GAINS
ORE VALUES
Body of Pay Stuff Grows
Larger.-Nill do Better
Than $50. a Ton

Although assays from the recently
encountered vein in the Blaine tun-
mel are lacking, paintings of the ore
indicate that It will run better than
$50 to the ton on the average. As a
result the claim owners of the dis
trict are carrying forward work with
renewed activity. Nearly three feet
of the vein has been driven through
without the foot wall being eneoun-
tered.
The presence of ore at the yerti-
cal depth of $50 in the tunnel has
given greater impetus To mining In
the Granite district than any other
thing possibly could. That the ore
improves with depth Is proven by
the free gold paintings which have
been made while the vein gives every
indication of improving also in width
as well. In the 900 foot shaft II is
3 Y feet wide, while In the tunnel
there is every indication that the
same or better average width will be
maintained
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
SECOND BODY IS FOUND IN
THE C|ROUx'S ALPHA SHAFT
STEEL MEN TO TALK PRICES.
Conference to Begin May II
In New York, Ending With
Dinner May II.

PITTSBURGH. May S.=All the
iron and steel men of the Pittsburgh
district have received invitations
from Judge e. II. Gary, chairman of
the board of directors of the United
States Steel Corporation, to attend a
series of meetings in New York to
eliminate In dinner to be given
there on the night of May 81.
The meeting will be held for four
days In advance of this date, and 1t
is understood that IL then will be
decided whether or not prices of iron
and steel products will be reduced
for the balance of the year. Accord
ing to information CLEANED here there
are many In the steel business who
favor an immediate cut In prices, but
that no scale shall be settled for
more than 80 days, 1t being the be-
lief that the decisions of the na-
tional conventions at Chicago and
Denver may have something to do
with changing the aspect of business
in iron and steel.
There also are those who favor the
making of new prices to hold
until Dec. 81. which would carry all
past the presidential election period.
This will be thrashed thoroughly out
at the New York conference.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
POOR BOY CHARMS CARUso.
Former Bootbiack's Voice May Rival
That of Famous Tenor.

PITTSBURG, May S.-A lad with
voice which promises to be that of
second Caruso has been found in
Pittsburgh, and Is possessed by a
former bootblaek, larry Sakolsky. a
Russian lad. less than 10 years old.
The great Curuso himself gave the
lad an audience yesterday afternoon,
and so eHtranced was the Italian
tenor with the lads rendition of the
aria from "GiaeondaH and La Donna
Mobile from "Rigolette" that he in
sisted on having Eugene Dufriche.
who has been with operas for So
years, also hear Salkosky. Dufriche
was so pleased that he announced ne
would take the boy under his own
care and train him.
Sakolsky Is the only support of his
widowed mother and four little
sisters. Four years since a Pittsburg
business man heard him sing on the
street and at once took him up. Civ
ing him lessons.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
PLEADED NOT GUILTY.
Ranch Hand Arraigned for Dynamite
ing Burlington Train.

BUTTE. Mont, May S.-Lewis
Ferris, aged 23, ranch hand. was ar
raigned In a local court today. charg-
ed with the murder of Engineer Al
bert G. Bussey, OF Missoula, who was
killed when the Burlington eastbound
train was dynamited here last Fri
day night. Ferris, who confessed to
the crime to the county attorney
yesterday, waived preliminary exam
ination and was remanded without
bail. He will face two other murder
charges growing out of the same case
for the deaths of Fireman George
Eble ard of Carl Ming, the tramp
who was killed.
Ferris denied, when arraigned In
court todav. ary knowledge of the at
tempted holdup of the North Coast
Limited pear Butte last Thursday
night, about "a hours before the Bur-
lington outrage.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09

ance by the railroads has been due
to any agreement, arrangement or
understanding between the railroad
companies and the authorities. An
amendment by Mr.. Cudberson,
agreed to. called on the commission
to state its reasons for recommend
ing an extension of two years in the
time given the railroads to comply
with the commodity clause.
The conference report on the army
appropriation bill, carrying an aggre-
gate of $95,377,246. was adopted.
This amount was s3,463, 900 less
than the bill carried when first pass
ed by the senate.
Senator Warner of Missouri, con-
cluded his speech on the Browns
vile affair. his closing remarks call
ing forth a statement from Senator
Foraker that a western paper had
announced that the president recently
wrote to Senator Smith, of Michigan
to the effect that he had not changed
his mind as to the guilt of the negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth regiment
Mr.. Foraker suggested that the intro
duction of that letter In the record
would be interesting. but Mr.. Smith
said he had not made II public and
could not do so.
The senate. at 5:55 o'clock, ad-
journed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
FORMER NEVaDAN
TAKES Ills LIFE
business Reyerses Believed Cause of
Act of John Gates.

CARSON. May S.-Word was re-
eeived In this city yesterday that
John Gates, formerly resident of
Carson City, had committed suicide
at his Office in the Pacific building,
in San Francisco. by swallowing cy-
anide of potassium.
When Gates left this city he told
"A number of friends he had made
here that he had made and lost three
fortunes and that he was going to
make one more attempt to make good
and that If he failed he would take
his life. He went to San Francisco
and entered the real estate business.
Later he opened a brokerage office
and was at the head of that at the
time of his death.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
That of Turner Lies Ten
Feet Below Point Of
First RecOvery--Sink-
ing is Going Slowly

The body of J. p. Turner, aged
about 40 years, who was killed at the
Alpha shaft of the Giroux by the ter
rible fall of earth on the morning
of December 4, 1907, was yesterday
partially uncovered about ten feet be-
low the point where the body OF Her
cules CONSTANT, the young Greek
miner who was working with Turner,
was found. Coroner Cartwright was
summoned by telephone and will go
TO the scene this morning to hold an
inquest over the remains.
AS In the case of CONSTANT, the
body of Turner lies in such position
that II is evident that he was en-
deavoring to reach the 1000 level
and safety when he was knocked
from the ladder and killed.
The position of the two bodies en-
tirely precludes the surmise at first
made by the people working at the
shaft and the general public, that
the men were killed instantly by the
first fall. IL would seem probable.
however, that both the men must
have been injured to some extent,
rendering them less active than
who were engaged In cutting a sta
tion on the level and were to some
extent protected from falling debris
by the shaft timbers. 1t Is probable
that after recovering from the stun
ming effects of the first shower of
small stones and other debris, Tur-
ner and CONSTANT started up the lad
der and had almost reached the ha-
ven of safety when they were knock
ed down to the top of the rapidly
growing pile of muck.
The body of Turner, as was that
of CONSTANT, IL terribly deeomposed.
IL was at first reported that Con
stanti was nothing more than skel-
eton but IL was found upon com
pletely exhiming the body that only
the arms as far down as the elbows
were bare OF flesh, the conclusion be-
ing that the man threw up both
arms to protect himself from falling
debris and was killed while in this
position. stones cutting away the
flesh.
Turner was Seotehman and un-
married. So far as Is known he had
no relatives In this country. He was
we'll liked throughout the district,
having worked here for some time
previous to meeting his death.
Progress in the work of clearing
the shaft Is less than had been ex-
pected Little more than week
ago the body of CONSTANT was found
between so and 60 feet from the bot
tom of the shaft. while that of Tur-
ner was discovered slightly more
than 10 feet lower. The slow rate
of progress Is accounted for by the
fact that the muck now encountered.
while practically all disintegrated
material. is harder to handle than
was expected, being practically liquid
mud This latter condition is at
tributable to inflow of water TO the
shaft
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-09
CHINA HAS NEW NAVAL PLAN.
Proposes to Build Three Squadrons.
Each Headed by Battleship.

SHANGHAI. May S.-The board
of war has framed a scheme which
will strengthen China's navy greatly
II proposes the formation of three
new sqnadrons. each to consist of one
battleship, two first-class, four or
five seeond-class. and five or six third
class cruisers. several gunboats, de-
stroyers, torpedo boats, one or two
submarines and transports.
II is intended TO build and main
tain the navy with revenue from the
coast provinces.