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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
RARE PAINTINGS IN MEXICO.
Churches Have Works of Spanish
Masters

1t is impossible for art lovers in
the United States if they have never
visited Mexico to believe that this new
old neighbor is a treasure house of
art. The existence of old masters in
Mexico has been more tabled than
real in our minds, and many have
smiled at the credulity of the I'M
learned masses of this embryonic re-
public. 1t is true that the unquestion-
ing majority know nothing and think
nothing of picture except what the
padre tells them, but it must be re-
membered that the men who rule the
destinies of Mexico are educated.
travelled, cultured in the schools and
universities of the Old World and are
eminently capable Of approaching the
fine arts. Furthermore, they are all
Catholics, and hence are imbued with
the traditional reverence for religious
art that we cannot wholly compre-
bend. 1t might be said that this very
reverence would incapacitate them as
impartial critics Of this art, but be
this as 1t may, it has served a pur-
pose invaluable to the student of to-
day.
The church was very rich in the
seventeenth century and amply able
to send works of art of great value to
Mexico and other colonies. It was
also the period when art fiourfshed at
Its best in Spain--when Murillo lived
and Seville was a great art center.
The missionary priests in Mexico
soon discovered that the Indians were
not able to comprehend the spirit Of
the Christian religion and that thew
must substitute pictures and imaees
of the Christ for the heather gods
and idols they were trying to sup
plant. Churches. converts and chap
els were multiplied rapidly after the
conquest, and 1t became a pious duty,
often emphasized by an order of Cor
tez, to bring paintings and statues of
saints to the New World
From about the year 1900 there
lived in Mexico for forty years two
artists who were skilled copyists and
1mitators. These were Baltasar
Echave and his wife, known as La
Sumnaya. They painted in both the
Italian and Dutch styles. and Behave
often initiated Titan fairly vel, OH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

served as a guard and helpers. The
community would have number OF
head of cattle and some tools and
seeds, and with this humble equip
ment those in charge were expected
to conquer the wilderness and its
savage inhabitants.
The missions were established at
about a days journey apart on the
natural route of travel along the
coast, and they were the usual stop
ping places for travellers. Whenever
one of these sojourners arrived he
was welcomed with the hospitality OF
the Bible patriarchs. First of all his
horse was led away to the stables ana
the man escorted to a bath. After
ward he was given plentiful meal
and comfortable bed, and he was at
liberty to stay as long as he chose
The maximum of missions prosper
;tv vas attained in the first quarter
of the nineteenth century. The friars
and their neophytes owned countless
herds Of cattle, horses, sheep, goats
and swine. ana produced from the
Yround Ill Their simptA needs requar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

ed. At each mission were enclosed
gardens and orchards. where grew q
considera BILE variety of vegetab les ana
many fruits, including figs, oranges
olives and grapes. But meanwhile
settlers were increasing, and contact
with the tended to corrupt the In
dams and to make them less easily
controlled. The greed of the new
corners was aroused by the wealth or
the missions in lands and herds, and
in 1893 they Influenced the Mexican
congress to pass a law secularizfng
the missions and turning over their
property to public purposes. except
for some small allowances to MAIN
tain the churches. This enabled the
politicians of the period to plumber
the missions very thoroughly, and the
administrators who were appointed
wasted no time in getting the tan
chile property into the hands or
themselves and their friends
So serious was the desolatior
wrought and so evil were the effects
on the Indians that the law was re-
scinded, and the maestons wese nos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

er Spanish artists who emigrated to
this country and lived and painted
here throughout the seventeenth CEN
fury esta blished what is known as the
old Mexican school and left many
good works-many so good that it is
not easy to establish their identity and
distinguish them from the Old World
work.
The Mexican school Of art, now call
ed the San Carlos Academy,was estab->
lished by the royal order of Charles III
of Spain in 1778 and has survived
throughout many svfcissitudes. 1t con-
tains a fine collection of paintings of
the old Mexican school and a number
of originals FROM European painters.
Among the latter there is a st. sebas-
tian," by Van pyke: 1.-The Seven vir-
tues" by De vincf; 1.-THE Fall OF Man."
by Michelangelo; ! st Catherine" by
Guido; portrait Of MuriIlo, by Velas-
quez; ',Burial of Christ by Rubens
(unfinished; "St. John the Baptist"
Murillo; Olympic, Plays" by vernet,
and many fine copies. OF the modern
school there are many meritorious
Mexican painters illustrative OF impor-
tant historical scenes.
In the Cathedral. of Mexico City there
is a Holy Family by Murillo, hung
in the choir concerning whose anthem
ITCHY there seems to be no question
The mother and child are about three
quarter size and the prevailing color
is a luminous cream, with punches Of
gold and brown.
In the dark sacristy the visitor is
shown three Raphaels under glass and
on the walls two immense but atroc-
| iously mutilated pictures attributed to
Velasquez.
One of the most interesting stories
always current in Mexico art circles
concerns the famous Titan at the vii
lage of Tzintzuntzan. Many attempts
! have been made to purchase this pic
ture, but all have been unsuccessful.
The Cathedral of Mexico would give a
| large sum for it. and SO, of course,
would the San Carlos Academy. but
! the priests of the dilapidated church
where it hangs in poorly lighted
| room guard it jealously. Moreover, it
| is supposed that their lives would not be
| safe from the wrath Of the Indian
worshipers should they permit the
| painting to disappear.
The painting is sixteen feet long by
| seven high and represents the entomb-
| ing of Christ. In: the upper left-hand
| corner is the characteristic bit of Ital-
| ian sky and landscape. There is no
] proof that Titan painted this picture
| except it's own beauty and rare excel
| lence and the tradition which has never
wavered in the 300 years and more that
| it has hung in the old church at
is about thirty by twenty feet, and has
but one outside opening. an unglazed
| window. protected by triple iron
grating on the outside and double
wooden shutters on the inside. Every
time these are opened the fresh air
has ingress to the room, and this fact
| may have much to do with the preser-
walton of the painting, for the old.
| tightly closed churches Of Mexico are
| always damp and moldy.-Modern
Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08

able to recuperate. The ruin wa.
completed by the American conquest.
and the few remaining Indians were
driven or enticed away. That they
and their ancestors had been cultf-
waiting the land for three-uuarters Of
a century made no difference. The
Americans wishing to pre-empt
claims did not regard the presence Of
Indian families or communities a.
any more deterrent than they would
have SO many coyotes. What cared
the rude frontiersmen for missionary
friars or civilized Indians? They came
to squat on public Lands, and they
not only took such tracts az pleased
mission structures were demolfsheS
for the sake of the timber. tiles ana
other building materials that were in
them.-The Village.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
LOCAL MENTION.

Cases of diphtheria have been re-
ported from a family by the name of
Thorpe at 1885 Harrison and a family
by the name of Pinkerton at 1876 Clay
street.
Here's a tip to the ladies'. If you
would keep your husband home even
ings, buy him a box Of Eagles Silver
Statue 10 cent cigars.
They all say the ]. K. ]. paint is the
best so will you.
The following reports of births were
made today: Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ready,
SIG Branner street. girl; Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM O'Brien, 1896 Woodward avenue,
girl.
The new Premier size Silver Statue
10 cent cigar has caught on. Ask your
dealer for it.
We are paint manufacturers. We sell
to the consumer. The J. X. Jones Paint
Co.
Mrs. G. H. Pash of Parsons is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. r. E. Mcfarland
on East Seward avenue.
We sell Red Cross butter Warning
& Co, 14th and Western avenue.
For his birthday get box of Big
Tromps-at all dealers.
The Air Dome will open for the sum-
mer season on Sunday with the Males
down the boards there for a weeks en-
gagement.
You can buy Eagles Silver Statue 10
cent cigar from almost every dealer
who sells cigars Ask for them.
Fine wall paper. The J. K Jones
Paint Co.
David Lakin who recently sold his
real estate business to Maxwell & Co.,
10S West Eighth street, has accepted
the position of treasurer of the new
Century Life Insurance company with
Loffices h Stormont building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

It's true. common skin becomes safin
s,<in uslnG ekstn Gllfn Usam md 6oS7SSs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
AWARDED $4,000.
Senators Owen and Butler and Wylie
Cox in Luck.

of the district supreme court ordered
that Senator Owen (Okla.) former
Senator Butler Is. c. and Wylie o.
Cox of Kansas City, are entitled to a
fee of SIS, 900 payment of which from
the United States treasury had been
enjoined on complaint of the law firm
of Shelly & Martin, of this city, on a
charge of fraud in a $5,000,000 claim
of the Cherokee Indians, against the
government. Justice Gould held that
no fraud had been shown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
BOOM IN GRAIN PRICES.
Wheat and Corn Take Big Jumps In
New York.

New York, May S.-The government
crop report today upset all calcula-
tons in the local wheat market, caus-
ing a rush of shorts to buy to protect
their contracts. Prices jumped about
cents bushel in the last hour and
exporters bought everything in sight,
taking nearly million bushels on the
fear of a small crop of winter wheat.
Owing to light stock here May corn
advanced to S3 cents a bushel, a gain
of cents over last nights closing and
a new high record for the present
crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs. Julius Hanley, 1903 North To-
oeka avenue, died at 2:10 o'clock this
afternoon atzher home. She was So
treaxs old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
STROLL IN THE WOODS.
The President and John Burroughs
Take q Walk.

Charlottesville. Va. May S.-De-
spite the rain which fell during the
night, President Roosevelt and Prof.
Burroughs went for long stroll
through the woods near Pine Knot
early today. accompanied by Joseph
Wilmer. Mrs. Roosevelt went for
ri
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19
DIR. CABELL WHITEHEAD.

The news comes from Nome that the sudden death last Monday of Dr. Whitehead, the foremost capitalist of Nome was due to railroad wreck on the Seward Peninsula Railway of which he was president. Pressed un- der the wrecked car in shallow water for some time he was found in a dy- ing condition and passed away after being taken to his home, at three o'clock.
 Dr. Whitehead's death is great loss to Nome and Alaska. While only forty-five years ot age, he had risen rapidly to leading position among the.prominent men of affairs in the north. An assay expert. metallurgist, mine owner capitalist and railroad builder, he stood high among the solid business, linen of Alaska.
 He was born in Virginia during the civil war, and graduated from Lehigh university in 1885 and afterwards from the Columbian University in Wash. ington. Entering the employ of the government as an assay expert, he rapidly rose in position till at the age of twenty-five he was chief assayer oi the mint at Washington. Coming to Alaska in 1S9S he saw its possibilities and resigned his government position, organized the Alaska Banking and Safety Depiost Company and entered the field of development at Nome | The Topokuk Ditch Company with its large operations, the Seward Pen. insula Railway and many important enterprises, testify both to his faith in Alaska, and his great ability. | In character, he is said to be mar of high honor, energy, courage ant thoroug hmanhood.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19
OB BSTACLES TO ALASKA'S DE
 VELOPMENT.
By Charles K. Littlemeer

By Charles R. Littlemeer.
 The money from northern mines which has been sent elsewhere, if re- invested, would have multiplied the returns to the owners and the south ern supply houses and the owners and the land would have been leagues ahead of its present stage. Commer- cial clubs, legislators and others in cities welded to the north cannot from even selfish interests work more proftably than for northern invest ment.
 Akin to the defect of. f.non-investment s,.the migration of people from this land after making fortunes here. The successful homestake seeker nearly always-leaves the land. The white population has nearly doubled or trebled since the first rush to the Klondike, which marked a new era of decade ago. Most of those who get large stakes leave chiefly because of desire to be amid outside pleas- nrss. and to have the home and high CT educational advantages for their families, ard to make their wealth in the meantime go the farthest pos sible in land of Inexpensive exist
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

making the rate of speed required by the government, of forty miles an hour, it will mean daily mail from Seattle, leaving there in the morning and delivered in Ketchikan in the evening. It will mean daily travel between this city and every mining point in the Ketchikan district, no matter whether the straits are rough or not. The rans-continental trains at Prince Rupert will be brought within two hours of us. The postal problem and transportation to distant points in the interior will be solved and the most trying question in Alas ka, that of nter-communication will be settled. The age of the airship will revolutionize the world.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

north of Duluth, and 450 miles beyond the nearest Canadian Pacific spur, yet the Canadian Commons this year voted to open Hudson Bay with railway to Fort Churchill, to give Canada new route to Europe and open the country surrounding Hudson Bay. But stel more on the opposite side Of the con- tinent and Dawson and the Gulf ol llaska would be reached, and little
 eyond 3ering Strait would be touch
 Il. and a short submarine tunnel
 oud lead to Asia. .-Alaska- ukor Magazine.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19
THANKS TO SKACWAY.

The Miner appreciates the comment on its recent editorial on the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition, by the Daily Alaskan of Skagway and wishes to thank that journal for giving this ap- peal to Alaska further publicity. The Alaskan introduced the Miners editoriai. with these words:
 ''The wisest and sanest thing that has been written about the Alaska Yukon P Paciac exposition up to this time in or out of Alaska, from the Alaskan standpoint, which has come under the eye of this newspaper is this that follows, taken from The Ketchikan Miner. Alaska's responsi- bility in her own behalf. in securing to herself the full benefit of great opportunity and Seattle's responsibil- fly toward Alaska on the premises, ,- in the use of her name-are both seen and pointed out.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19
THE MISSION OF JUDGE REID

It is to be hoped that Judge Reid will carry out to the full extent hls intention declared yesterday in Seat tie, as he sailed for Valdez, of probing to tho utmost the charges of fraud in the recent election for delegate. It is freely reported that the extraordi- nary heavy vote at Cordoya for Cor son, the only point beside Treadwell which did not give strong vote for Wicksrsham, was larger than the en- sire legal vote of the precinct, that s,e vote was cast by the laborers on the Copper River railroad who were brought enmasse on . special train by Manager Honey and voted by him wholesale, regardless ss to whether they were legal voters, in the inter- ests of tho Guggenheims and that the officer detailed to supervise the cleo ton and prevent fraud was marooned on ship board by . supposed accident until the polls closed, landing too late at Cordovs to prevent any illegal vot- ing. The Cordova Alaskan indignant iy repels the charges and claims that Commissioner Van Slyke and Marshall Dolsy certify to the good order and legality of the election and that close friends of Mir. Wickersham who were present at the polls acknowledge the almost unanimous vote for Corson was alone due to the popularity of M. J.
 Hspsy among his men who naturally voted for his party and his candidate.
 Either the Valdez Prospsctor or ths Cordovs Alaskan is correct, which
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

What is. believed to be the oldest newspaper in the world, is preserved as the University of Heidelberg. It is . brochure of twelve pages bearing tho date 1909. The announceme signed blythe editor, Johann Carolus, declares tho journal has been publish cd for several years. The collection of 1909, which constitutes. . volume of Ills leaves, and which lacks only No. 34. contains weekly letters from sev- enteen cities, notably Frankfort, Am sserdan, Brussels, The Hague. Lyons, Rome, Venice Vienna and Prague.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

Judge Loving, the slayer of Theo- dore Estes, in whose memory a monu- ment was unveiled by Virginia wo men recently, has resigned as m an- ager of tho Virginia estates of Thomas F. Ryan, and will remove with his daughter to . distant state.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

David Rankin, the noted Missouri corn grower, will be eighty-three years old this month, He was so poor when boy that he went barefooted a great part of each summer until he was twenty eight years old. He paid his last dollar to the preacher who married him ID 1850, but now he owns s5, 900 acres of good land and last year raised more than l, 900, 900 bushels of corn. He is worth over 8, 900, 900. and made it all by farming and cattle dealing.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

.;"But the greatest of these is char ity, ',,-sq says the Old Book and the truth oi'it'is well known shown by the story which has recently aroused the enthusiasm of the press of the whole coast. The story is this: A young carpenter out of work in Portland, hearing that men were needed in Fairbanks, went north, leaving a young wife and babe to look for bis return. Hopeful letters came for a time, and then stopped, and the young mother Tn trust began to look worried and anxious. Up in Tanana sickness seized the far away father and the miners found him dead in his lonely cabin. He was practically stranger. they kney little of him. But among bis effects they found tiny baby stocking that told more to those rough miners and which touched their heart strings and purse strings, and they telegraphed to Portland for the mayor to ind that baby and when the little stocking vent home to this orphan baby it carried g. 484, % with it.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-19

The government school teacher in Northern Alaska is a missionary. A salary of from s65 to sl2o month con- taips no financial allurements to induce . person to go to the borders of civ iIization and live and labor among the Eskimo, in an effort to teach the young "ish eater" the three r's. Frequent ly the new teacher in an Eskimo vil- lage is compelled to construct his own schoolhouse. He is deprived of the society of his fellow white man and compelled to live most of the time among the natives. It is apparent from this that the teacher of the na- t,ves in the far Northland is animated by some other desire than that of sor- did gain.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-04-09

Sether with Il call for IL convention
OF delegates OF at least Indiana,
Ohio and western Pennsylvania
| miners.
The absence of the Illinois oper-
ators from the conference caused
the Illinois .mineiS 10 refuse to vote
on the motion fer and interstate
joint conference, and in the call it
is said that the cali is not binding
on the miners and operators of llli-
nois, but the ''hope' is expressed
that they viii decide to be repre-
Sentcd.
The motion fer the joint confer
ence was presented by II. l.. Chap.
man, spokesman OF the OHIO AID
western Pennsylvania operators,
and it was favoiably voted on by
the miners and operators of those
states and also of Indiana. who,
consistent with their stand from
the first conference last October
favoring recst;blishment of inter
state relations, acquieSccd III these
plans looking TO that end, though
narrowed by the uonconcuirencr
thus far OF Illinois operators.
Tue selection OF Toledo for the
joint meeting was on the vote of
Ohio and western Pennsylvania
operators and miners, the Indiana
miners and operators favoring IN
dianapolis. Detroit was also pro
posed, but it was dropped on the
first ballot.
In the meeting Tuesday morning
the miners and operators of In.
diana, Ohio and western penuSyi-
vania adopted u resolution which
provide that III districts where the
mines are now in operation by
agreement, pending Il huaE settle
ment, that they shall be continued
in operation. The question of re
opening the mines in Ohio and
western Pennsylvania and their.
operation pending settlemant was
left for the consideration of the
joint wage conference at Toledo
and is to be the first thing consid-
cred. Operation probably Will be
resumed April l6 or shortly there
after.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-04-09
MINERS AND
OPERATORS
Of Ohio, Indiana and Western
Pennsylvania to Meet at Toledo
on Next tuesday.

President I l.. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, though prob
ably effectively blocked by the Ill
inois operators in his effort to re
habilitate the old interstate joint
relations between the Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and western PennSyl-
vani coal operators and miners,
has laid the foundation for joint
interstate relations between the
operators and miners of Indiana,
Ohio and western Pennsylvania
says the Indianapolis News OF
yesterday.
His plans, and those of the west
ern Pennsylvania and Ohio oper-
atnrS, to force an interstate wage
conference of some kind, and to
put the mines of Ohio and western
Pennsylvania into operation, re,
suited in an agreement for call
for joint wage conference in 10
ledo o., beginning Tuesday y
formal call was issued Tuesday to,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-04-09
GOVERNOR FOLK
SHOWS MISSOURI
Executive Declares Country Folk
Should Build Up Towns By Spend
ing Their Money at Home.

Coy Joseph w Folk, address
ing the retail merchants Of Missouri
in convention. spoke against the
mai iorder business and favored ad-
vertising III the town papers.
I'VE are proud OF our splendid
cities, said MI Folk. and we
want them to increase in wealth
and population; We also want our
country towns to grow We wish
the city merchants TO build up, but
we also desire the country mer-
chants to prosper l do not be
iieye in the mail order. citizen. If
a place is good enough to live in
and TO make his money III it is
good enough for him TO spend
money in.
mo merchant ciln succeed with
out advertising in one way or an
other. Patronize your town pa
pers, build them up, and they will
build the town up and build you
up increased trade and greater OPP
portunities.
'.Do not be afraid that business
is going to be hurt by the recent
exposures OF wrongdoing in the
commercial world. No man who
IS doing an honest business can be
injured by the light. All business
will be better for the cleansing
process it Is going through and for
the stamping cut of evil