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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
Gives HIS FIGURES
Hitchcock Estimates Piuralities
in Taft States.
Based on Returns From Chair
men and Committeeman.

New York. Nov. Frank H. Hitchcock,
chairman of the Republican national COM
mittee. had long conference over the
long distance telephone yesterday with
Mr.. Taft in Buffalo. 1t was said at local
headquarters here today that Mr.. Hitch
cock gave Mr.. Taft his assurance that his
announced forecast of 325 votes in the cleo
toral college for the Republican candidate
was very conservative. Estimates of the
result of the election in various states
as made by members of the national com
mitteemen for those states or by state
chairmen were made PUBLIC today. by
that these estimates differed somewhat
from those he had already made, especial
cock said that the Republicans expect to
carry the state of New York by 1OU,01o for
Taft and that Hughes would not be far
behind. Estimates of plurallties for Taft
in other states as given out by Hitchcock
follow:
Indiana. 10000; Ohio. 1900; Wisconsin,
O,OOO: Minnesota. 100000; Nebraska not
less than 1900: Kansas. 1900; West Vir-
ginia. lS.0o0,to 10000; New Jersey. &c, 500;
necticut. 5000: Pennsylvania not less
than 5000: California. 5000; Montana,
gon. 5000: Washington. 10000: Colorado.
20.00: Rhode Island. 5000 to 1000; Maine,
State Chairman Humphreys of Nevada
THE state will be close but we expect
to give Taft plurality of from 1000 to
National Committeeman Marshall of
Montana wired: I'VE will carry the state
for Taft by 5000 plurality and may be
more"
Chairman Hitchcock added that he had
received information from leaders in
Maryland, which warranted him in pre-
dieting that the Republican plurality in
that state would not be less than 5000
Some leaders asserted, said Chairman
Hitchcock that it would be as high as
5000. Chairman Dicl<ey of Missouri wired
that they expected to carry the state for
Taft. 1t will be close, he said, but they
were confident.
From Republican standpoint" said
Herbert Parsons. chairman of the Repub-
lican county committee, the situation to-
day in this city and county is satisfac-
tory. / make the statement after a study
of all the factors in the campaign. 1t IL
for the state committee to proclaim the
situation in the remainder of the state
but taking their estimate with that which
we have made in this city l an fully con-
fident that Taft's plurality in the state
will be satisfactory and / believe that
Hughes will follow him so closely that
the result will be a surprise"
Asked If he believed that Taft and
Hughes will carry Greater New York as
was predicted Saturday. Mr.. Parsons said
1T think that the Democratic plurality
in Greater New York will be greatly re-
duced -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
MAKE YOUR GUESS
Some Interesting Election Fig
ures of the Past.
Popular and Electoral Vote on
President Since 1860.
HOW KANSAS VOTES.
Two Years Ago Hoch Had Only
1900 Plurality.
Detailed Vote as Cast in Shaw
nee County.

This is the time when every citizen
of the country has an inalienable
right to make his election guess. 1t is
free. You can guess as many times as
you like
In order that everybody may guess
right, and there may be no difference
of opinion as to the probable out
come, the State Journal herewith
prints some guides to good guessers.
BY studying these figures carefully.
thinking accurately, and using little
superhuman foresight, you can easily
arrive at the correct answer to the
election puzzle.
The first lesson relates to the
electoral and popular vote cast for the
two leading candidates for president
in each presidential campaign from
the time of Abraham Lincoln down to
date:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
LOCAL MENTION.

DR.. s. Temple. Osreopath. 7s5 Kansas
ave. Ind. 1912 Res. STA. Bell 1885.
The Santa Fe shops will close at
noon tomorrow in order to allow the
employees a chance to vote.
There is no 10 cent cigar you can Sc
cure that can equal in any way the
quality of Eagles new premier shaped
silver Statue. All first-class cigar
stores and druggists sell it.
Atty Wilson and George Siekmyer,
two former Western association base
ball players, were visiting in Topeka
today.
Ask your dealer for the Big Tromp s
cent cigar.
Word has been received that Rev.
Milton NJ. Boles. field superintendent
of Christian and missionary alliance,
will be here with Rev. A. E. Gam
moge. During the ten days meeting.
beginning at 8 o'clock this afternoon.
meeting at O'Clock and 1880 every
day. ztls
An interesting half hour may be
spent in the new Topeka Independent
telephone exchange. To subscribers
of this company, who have never seen
the inside workings of a telephone
exchange. it will indeed be novel
and instructive sight.
The next washburn football game
will be played with the K u. team at
burn team survived the Drake game
without any serious accidents and the
week will be devoted to good hard
practice.
The Topeka Daily Capital will make
some remarka BILE improvements in its
mechanical department when it gets
into the new building. 1t win have Q
new press, exactly like the one the
state Journal has owned and used for
the past four years
Mrs j. r. Burrow, who Is very low
with pneumonia at the family home
in Highland Park, is reported to be
holding her own this afternoon though
her condition is most serious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02

At a recent melting of scientists in
Dublin Prof. G. Elliott Smith, the
Egyptologist. said that the earliest
known human remains found in the
Nile valley, when compared with those
of later times. demonstrated the fact
that at a very remote period Egypt and
Nubia were inhabited by the same race
which had persisted in Egypt with lit
tie or no change in physical character
istics throughout the intervening 5000
years until the present day. They had
been, and still were, a small people,
the average height of the men being
about feet inches at every period
of their history.
Their hair was very dark brown or
black, unusually wavy, but not woolly''
or in any sense negroid: their heads
were long and narrow. usually ovoid
or penagonoid or coffin shaped" as
the result of frequent pressure of a
proturbed occiput. On the whole
they shared those charteristics which
distinguishes the majority of the peo-
pies fringing the Mediterranean
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
HUNTERS ARE ARRESTED
Were Shooting Quail-One Stands on
Game Warden.

William Jones, a partner of S. F.
Hughes in the Lilac dairy, four miles
west of Topeka on the Topeka avenue
road, has filed complaint on ACCOUNT
of the treatment he alleges to have
received from Sheriff Wilkerson of
Shawnee county, Sunday evening, at
the county Jail.
Mr.. Jones was deputized as game
warden in Topeka township and yes
terday he spent most of the day
watching his farm. Early in the after
noon five young hunters of Topeka
were caught shooting quail on the
Lilac dairy farm. Mr.. Jones put them
under arrest at once and while taking
them to the house preparatory TO re-
porting to Sheriff Wilkerson >in To-
peka, Mr.. Jones heard another shot
down in the woods below the house.
Leaving the five young men in charge
of neighbor. Jones ran quickly to
the woods and found a cOlored man
armed with a shotgun and attempting
to shoot quail. Mr.. Jones approached
him with the intention of putting him
under arrest when the coiored hunter
put the. shotgun to his shoulder 81
pointing 1t at the game warden told
him to stand aside and allow him to
continue on his way. Mr.. Jones saw
the situation and OBTAINING the hunter
he motioned for a neighbor who was
with him at the time to come up be-
hind the hunter and capture him in
this way. The negro saw the situation
at once and with jerk he pulled out
q big six shooter and covered the
neighbor. He threatened to shoot the
two farmers If they moved an inch
and realizing their situation they left
him and returned to the house. They
telephoned to Sheriff Wilkerson at
once but could get no help. Then
hastily hitching their horses they came
to the city, bringin- the five prisoners
with them. They arrived at the coun-
ty jail and after having the hunters
booked they told the sheriff their ex-
perience with the negro hunter who
pulled his guns on them.
Mr.. Jones also made other charges
against Wflkerson..
When interviewed on the matter,
Jailer Bayless of the county Jail de-
MED the story told by the farmers. He
said: at did not come in when the
farmers arrived at the Jail but later
entered the office of the sheriff and
he was talking to the farmers about
the matter. He informed them that it
would be necessary to get out war
rant for the arrest of the hunter"
Mr.. Schenck, the county attorney.
SAYS that Sheriff Wilkerson and the
game warden telephoned to him con-
corning a warrant last evening and he
said that he would issue one this
morning, as it was too late to do any
thing in the evening.
The five boys arrested were Elmer
King, Turner Nance. Vernon Brooks,
Allen Jones and Melan Miller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
MRS. NATION ABROAD.
She VIII Sail for Scotland on Novem-
Der 21st.

Carrie Nation will sail November
81 via the Anchor line from New York
city to Scotland where she has been
invited by the new Scottish Prohib-
ition party to conduct a campaign in
the interest of the temperance move
ment. This Is the announcement made
by the Scottish Prohibitionist, the Of
fetal Scotch paper printed at Dundee.
The Scotch publication. in referring
to Mrs. Nations acceptance of the
invitation to come to Scotland, says
Carrie A. Nation, the able. enthu-
siastic and enterprising prohibitionist
of America. and Kansas woman of
Ratchet welding propensities, has
consented to come here" etc. Sounds
like the Scotch were we'll up on ad-
vance notices, doesn't it?
Mrs. Nation will open the campaign
in the land of William Wallace with
a speech at the s. p. p. bazaar at Dun
dee, thence she goes to Aberdeen, Glas-
Cow, Edinburg and finishes up in Lon
don.
Mrs Nation spent Sunday in To-
peka and stated that she would make
the trip to Scotland alone. expecting
to be gone about three months. She
has bought a piece of residence prop
erty in Alpena Pass, Ark. where she
expects to reside upon her return to
America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
HE INTRODUCED BRYAN.
Chairman Martin Says Kansas City
Meeting Was Great Ovation.

Chairman Henderson Martin of the
state Democratic committee who intro
duced Mr.. Bryan at the meeting which he
held at Kansas City, Kansas, at $50 this
morning passed through Topeka on No.
on the Santa Fe about noon today on
ms way to his home in Marion THE
oYatloh which was rendered Mr.. Bryan
L ever witnessed" said Mr. Martini "He
SPOKE at Huron park and there was an
acre OF races and those on the edge of the
CROWD could not have possibly heard what
The automobile in which we rode from
Ine union depot to the park where Mr..
BRYAN spoke was loaded with flowers and
NE demonstration along the line was the
greatest ever witnessed in Kansas City.
thousands upon thousands of people
turned out at the early hour of $50 to
biles in the parade to say nothing of the
wards
When the party reached the state line
hundreds of whistles and bells were turn
90 loose and the din was deafening while
tne AIR was filled with the shouts of well
come come which greeted Mr.. Bryan. He is
which Is with him at all times assures
those about him OF his sincerity in the be-
Lsi tnat on next Tuesday he will be elect
90 ~ me nlRhest of1ice In the gift of the
people or the United States.
p AS We were being driven to Huron park
l. asked Mr.. Bryan about the Rockefeller
sr,eINIeW IN which he says that he will
support Mr.. Taft and calls upon his fol-
lowers to do likewise
II. wen. replied Mr.. Bryan, the Repub-
leans nave been beckoning to Mr. Rookie
teller TO come into their camp ever since
the campaign opened He came. but the
nspuolcans were expecting him to come
aItsr dark and not right out in the open
a a,Iu 1ne visit mas caused an unusual
ers'" " Inc ieao-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02

(Dem.) 127,SS1; WEIGH, (Soc.) 1912:
Martin, lPro) 4.64S; Hauserman.
(Pop.) 1929.
On some of the other important
state officers the vote was as follows:
Attorney general-Jackson, (Rep.)
161.OO7; Overmyer. (Dem.) 133,7S7.
State printer-McNeal, (Rep) 1861
S51; FEEDER. (Dem) 125,222
State authorization. (Rep.) 1851
S26; Bowen. (Dem.) 12S,394.
The congressional vote was as fol-
lows:
First district-Curtis, (Rep.) a.
100; Webb, (Dem.) 1925.
Second districr-Scott- (Rep.) a.
SIG: Peters. (Dem.) 1868.
Third .district-Campbell. (Rep.)
1860; Brady. (Dem.) 19.SOT.
Fourth district-Miller. (Rep.) H.
393; Moore, 6Dem.) 1873.
Fifth Observation-Disclosures (Rep.)
1918 Alexander, (Dem.) 1876.
Sixth district-Reeder. (Rep.) 21.-
212; Rea. (Dem.) 17.116.
Seventh Decentralization. (Rep.)
21.5s0: Truman. (Dem.) 1858.
Eighth Observation-Disclosures (Rep.)
1925; Lawrance. (Dem.) 10.427.
In Shawnee county the vote by election
precincts two years ago on governor and
secretary of state was as follows:
Shawnee County by Precincts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
Voters Urged to Work and Vote on
Election Day.

All law and order, and good govern
ment citizens, are most strenuously
urged, to give part. or all of their time
on election day, November 8. to see
ing that every vote that favors con-
tinuance of law and order. as faith
fully enforced by our present efficient
and uncompromising officers. John j.
Schenck, county attorney. and John
M. Wflkerson, sheriff, is cast for them.
1t is of the highest Importance that
this be done, as the lawless element
and their sympathizers are. and will
be vfgilant and alert. with slush con-
tribution from the law violators. to
defeat these splendid officials. Eter-
nal vigilance is the price of righteous
ness
s. G. STEWART, Chairman Com
mittee 200
Attest: SOLOMON c. watkins.
Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
HIS PARTING SHOT
Chairman Henderson Martin
Replies to Chairman DOlley.
Accuses Him Of Adopting Que
tiOnable Campaign Methods.

Chairman Henderson Martin of the
state Democratic committee was in
Topeka today while Santa Fe train
No. 5 waited for % minutes during
the noon hour. He was shown the
statement made by Chairman ]. n.
Dolley of the Republican state COM
mittee where he charges that the
Democratic committee worked all day
Sunday in sending out reports to the
dry counties that Botkin is all right
and to the wet counties the same kind
of q report.
Mr.. Dolley has boosted that he has
conducted a clean campaign" said
Mr.. Martin, land yet this report is
without the slightest ground for a
foundation. There was not a MEM
Der of the state central committee at
state headquarters Sunday. 1 spoke
at Usage City Saturday night and was
not at headquarters in Topeka during
Sunday and did not leave my room at
the hotel until nearly noon. Mr.. Pep
perell is in Concordia where he has
been since the later part Of last week
and J. NJ. Lewis is at his home in
Kinsley where he has been since Fri
day.
cratic headquarters Sunday excepting
one of the stenographers, who spent
the day there for the purpose of an
swering long distance telephone calls
and receiving kilograms. These stor-
les which Mr.. Dolley imagine were
sent out from Democratic headquart-
ers are Pigments of his imaginations or
the result OF bad dreams caused by
the near approach of election and the
prospective results. Mr.. Dolley knew
that I was not at headquarters and
that no work was being done there, or
at any rate he could have satisfied
himself on this point by calling over
the telephone.
THE attack on Mr.. Botkin is I'M
fair. uncalled for and an injustice
which Mr.. Dolley has made late in the
campaign and could have been made
but for the one purpose. The report
relative to his position on the prohibit
ton question is false. malicious and
not in keeping with the clean cam
paign about which Mr.. Dolley has
boosted so much during the past few
weeks.
Estate Democratic headquarters has
been practically closed since Friday,
our work was done on time and we
are now awaiting the news of victory.
We had no eleventh hour sensations to
send out as 1 am not believer in that
class OF campaign material. There
was plenty that could have been used
ii we had believed in 1t and no one
knows better than Mr.. Dolley that the
Democratic committee has conducted
clean campaign when the oppor-
tunities offered are considered.
mot one report was sent out from
Democratic headquarters Sunday
good, bad or otherwise as Mr.. Dolley
has charged and from a chairman
who is conducting a mice, clean
campaign the statement published in
the morning paper comes with pool
grace, especially as it lacks any of the
elements OF truth.
"Mr. Dolley has charged In thi.
eleventh hour that statements which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
A Ghost Clubs Test.

The London "Ghost Club" a scien-
tific organization with a shivery name.
is about to PROFOUND a test that ought
to go far toward determining whether
the dead can communicate with
friends on earth. These students of
the spiritual world have a secret dia-
ry kept by one of their members, re-
Gently deceased, and the imam on the
other side" will be questioned as to it's
contents The book was sealed by its
owner before his death and will not
be opened until the club has assembled
in solemn conclave to prosecute its in
quiry. The names of many of the in
vestigators ought to be guarantee Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Word has been received in Topeka of
the death of Mrs. J. f. Sloan at her. home
in Los Angeles, California She was the
mother of Mrs. w. U. Sheafor and the
sister of Mrs. j. S. Langston of this city
The body will be taken to the old family
home at Pleasant Hill, Ohio. for inter
ment.
John A. Luck 70 years of age died at
his residence, 1919 Monroe street, Sunday
and the funeral services were held at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
Mrs W. j. Gerard of Blue Rapids died
at one of the city hospitals in Topeka
Sunday where she has been for number
of months for treatment. The body will
be taken to Iowa for interment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
Kansas Figures.

Kansas Figures.
Two years ago the vote for COVER
nor in Kansas was as follows:
Hoch, (RepD 1914: Harris. (Dem.)
15O,O24; Gilman, (Soc.) 1921; Cook,
(Pro) 4.453; Keefer, (Pop) 1,131-
The small majority for Hoch was
due TO the certain unusual conditions,
and the normal Republican strength
was shown better on the vote for
secretary. of state, which was as fol-
lows:
Denton, (Rep) 1851; Ahlborn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02

The second lesson is like unto it,
and shows the popular vote in each
state cast for Roosevelt and Parker in
1904 1t might be mentioned in
dadition that the following were also
rams 90 Il
Swallow, Prohibitionist, 258,550;
Debs, Socialist, 402,159: aaCorrigan,
Socialist Labor, 33,622; Watson, Pop
ulist, 1929.
On Roosevelt and-Parker the vote
by states follows; -<vS. 49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02

the good faith of the investigation. II
the slightest loophole be left open for
trickery. the tests will be to leave
the vital question exactly where 1t has
remained since the days of the Fox
Sisters and the Davenport Brothers.
Julius Chambers in the Brooklyn Ea-
gle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02

Ma. why don't YOU keen ont of the
pI pa innings are running along smooth
now. You amt engaged yet daugh-
~ ~, ana Your ma knows from experience
ning toe smoothly Is apt to get bored and
ou1. -Louisville Courier-Journal
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-28

Tsii hss been On con nference with
IRE arans monfs committee Tor the
noilneatlon ceremonies.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-28
WILLAMETTE THE
GREATEST DAIRY SEXTON

A letter 10 the Baker City Herald
show the opinion OF stranger OF
our valley
Oregon a not excelled by any
other state In the union In the quail
ity o. her dairy products and In the
fne dairy cattle. Il Is doubtful u
any other state Is our equal In this
respect. regard dalrylng a the
backbone OF the state industries.
- have just returned from trip
up the Willamette valley aud I am.
firmly convinced that Il 4 the great
est dairy section IN the wor'd. There
Is no lalk of hard times up that WAY,
The farmers are ralsinE a humper
hay crop this year, one that far ex-
ceeds The average yield, aud they
are feudlng the hay TO market IN
ihelf milk cans They realize that
~ the present hirh prices for but
ter. milk and choose that they can
snake much more by feeding their
blooded stock than hy hauling or
shipping 10 Portland
"a believe that Oregon 4 destined
% be- tho premier dairy state Of th'
ronntry Within very few years. W,
already have some ~ the chnices'
taifs cattle n the world ON ouI
hreedlne farms aud che fsrmc-s pr'
bunding up thrt hords every year
Tho quality ot ihe huttcr fot pro
dueed bf sae lh nawr am.
is pr nh0y ia average fnr ih
United sinie.
"uootm Air h.mE
Ntd cHenfyA lh l1 ni b,
D dfNN wiilo m ihe oWy kHi
eon iaefoi by he dalvmsu uf thl
Stare. nhn eys fanfr pr.cee for h'
ia'n hora. bui sola back ha moaa
Nih ulclcH hy thO ingreu d 1888
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-28

Mr.. Nepple says there is consider
able activity in mining circles at
Camp Carron. The Indiana COM
pany has about S5 men on their pay
roll and the mine and mill Is operat-
ing in a most satisfactory manner
and with bright prospects for the
future.
other mines are being worked
with developing forces and looks
well.
The old Camp Carson .placers are
operating and with good results.
La Grande people are attempting
to build a road into the camp to
divert the trade from Baker City but
they win hardly succeed since a
good road built by the Indiana peo-
p,, leads to Baker City and this Is
the much nearer point.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-28
NARI,ATTE SUGGESTED
FOR SUPERINTENDENT
Eugene Register.)

tEugene heBlSleIsl
Superintendent l.. r. Alderman Is
receiving the congratulations OF his
many friend on being elected to the
facfulty of the University OF Oregon
though many regret his having been
taken from the superintendency OF
the city SCHOOL,, which position he
held. to the absolute satisfaction OF
the board and every patron.
His elevation will cause a vacancy
ana slready the board is casting
about TO find a worthy successor.
Among those who have been under
consideration are Prof. l.. II. Traver
Of the Monmouth normal, Prof. Mar
lette principal OF the Salem high
-chool. A. G. Briggs. president oi
the Drain normal. and several other
prominent educators In the east
They will have to take action al
once 80 as to get the new man 10
harness before school commences.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-28
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