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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
First published in The Topeka State
Journal September 10, 1901
State OF Kansas


Executive Department.
PROCLAMATION OF REWARD.
1, w. r. Stubs. Governor of the State
of Kansas. do hereby offer reward or
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($20o.00) for
the arrest within ninety days from this
date and final conviction thereafter OF
Thomas Hicks who shCA and killed Mrs.
Robert Isley in Galena. Kansas, at about
$40 in the evening of September 3rd. 1909.
Said reward to be paid upon such final
conviction.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF have
hereunto subscribed my name
and caused to be affixed the
TSeal1 Great Seal of the State of Kan
sas. Done at Topeka, this
10th day of September. 1909.
w. r. STUBBS. Governor.
BY the Governor:
c. e. DENTON,
Secretary OF State.
By J. F. BOTKIN.
Assistant Secretary of State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
MACHINE SHOPS.

Lawn mowers sharpened. repaired. me
H. B. Howard Supply Co.. 10 K A. Tel SO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
real ESTATE TRANSFERS

W. S. Robinson and wife to W. A.
Sample, pit. res. Observation-Disclosures ,6OC
R L. Thomas to same. lots 414-16-IS
and 20 Jackson St. Ritchie's add. 385
Tax deeds to L. Schmid, lot 1e6 and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

WANTED-5G Duroc Jersey shoats, so lbs
to 125 lbs. Address Box 116. Topeka, Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

WANTED-To store your goods. Ather
ton Transfer Co. Both phones 1913.
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FRESH cut flowers for all occasions to
be found at Hayes flower store, 107 w.
sth- Ind. phone sU-
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FOR SALE-Comnercia1 hotel, containing
bed rooms and convenient parlor, close
to depot; only hotel in town; good reason
for selling. Price reasonable. Address
George Thornton, AthoI, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

WANTED-To exchange equity in room
modern home for cottage. Bell 1854.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
TRANSFERS AND STORAGE.

MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE
Co. packs, ships and stores household
goods Tel. 1S6. Clarence Skinner. 81
Quincy st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

WANTED-2nd hand physicians office
chair at once: must be in good shape;
describe and price. Address Xxx, care
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

<~~0-O~0~~~~~-~-~-~O-----
All kinds of keys made and locks II
paired a 215 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

WANTED-By young man, a position as
clerk in a grocery store; experience; gilt
edge references. Address I. IL. c., care
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

WANTED-To buy house to move on to
vacant lot. Is feet wide. Address o. j.
c., care Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

LANDSCAPE GARDENING.
J. NJ. GALLOWAY, Towering shrubs ant
perennials. Ind. 1872.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13


DIR. MARY E. ALSPACH r 41O Com
merce Bldg. Elevator service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
MONEY.

MONEY to loan on live stock, pianos. per-
sonal security. household goods. typewrit-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

THIrTY DAY NOTICE OF APPLTCA-
TION OF BUSINESS COLLDG ES TOR
A PERMIT TO CANVASS IN THE
STATE OF KANSAS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13
BUSINESS CHANCES.

FOR SATE@Movfng picture shows in diff
ferent towns money makers, hotels and
restaurants to sell and trade, grocery
stores pool and billiard hall for sale, good
location, houses, lots and farms for sa ie
and trade. Other business chances.
A. L. Furnan, 81 Kan ave, Topeka, Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-13

NOTICE-Anyone knowing the where
abouts of John Bern Warner please not
" Philip Becker at Meriden. Kansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
BY JAMES B. KEELING.

plans for the putting up of such plants m the rear future.
 Every resident of Birmingham knows just hat a large number of other indus tries, outside of the Tennessee company, were developed out of the construction of the steel plant at Ensley. These indus tries, however, were not absolutely de- pendent upon the steel plant. The steel plant increased the population, the city of Ensley resulting These other small in- dustries likewise increased the popula- tion. The construction of the steel plant gave them encouragement to start, and once started their operators found a spenCid field with golden opportunities of success before them.
 Even though the steel plant has been closed down at times, these small indus ties have found that they were not af- fecled by it; that they had built up a business which was entirely separate. In this was given an exemplifcation of the soldity of the Birmingham district It showed conclusively that a great variety of snal industries form a frmer back bone for city than a number of great plants.
 In Atlanta there cannot be found d plant upon which as much money has been spent as upon one of the small fur naces in the Birmingham district. But there will be found there multitudinous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Polar Sports.
n the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Interest in discovery soon gives place to the inquiry, ITO what end?" A practical era, absorbed for the mo ment with the solution of the polar rid dle, will not long trouble itself with adventures which reveal nothing new or useful.
 Early arctic exploration had for it's motive the discovery of a northwest passage to India. The modern world inherited this quest along with many others, and it has been pursued for centuries with as much seriousness as though there were no possible doubt of it's utility.
 The discovery of the north pole comes at a time when men are flying in the air in machines which can be controlled with precision, when ships cross the Atlantic in a little more than four days. when 40,000 men at work at Panama promise in five years to join the two great oceans, when electricity has girdled the earth with light and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

comes the nearest to the general average -S5.72. The average value in 1907 was s6 for the whole country.
 There was a decrease in the value of the common brick from 1907 of S14079.S47. or 23. .S5 per cent, and the quantity decreased 1884, ,052, 900. or POPS per cent. The only states showing increases in output of common brick from 1907 of s140e7,s47. or Montana, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington. and of these rates Washing ton showed a decrease in value.
 Vitrified paving brick is one of the only two products that showed an increase in 1908. This product increased from S76.245.- 900 in 1907 to 97S.122, 900 in 1908, a gain of 11.63 per cent. and in value from S9, ,654 2S9 in 1907 to s10, ,657,4 ,475 in 1908. a gain of 1O. s per cent Ohio is the leading state for Vitrified paving brick. reporting about one-third of the entire quantity and value
 Drain tile is the other product that re- ported gain In 1908, the increase being from s6,S64, 162 in 1907 to ss, 651, ,476 in 1908, or 261S per cent. This product finds the largest use in the middle west-Iowa, h. diana, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan report ing S9.S4 per cent of the total.
 Fire brick was reported in 1908 to the value of s10. ,216. compared with $14,906,- 045 in 1907 a decrease of 2S. .43 per cent. The quantity decreased from 783,017, GOO in 1907 to 552 366, 900 in 1908, a loss of 29 45 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

Announcement that the Tennessee com pany would start work immediately upon the construction of great impounding dam on Village creek is something to which the average man will give but casual notice, but to those who have thought for a moment of the possibilities it offers the successful future of Birming- ham unfolds in glttering array.
 It offers unlimited development for this district in the shape of immense plants by the Tennessee company. The starting of work upon it represents the careful study and work of years by scientific research, while the amount of money spent in securing the necessary data would be sufficient to capitalize large number of small industries.
 There have been months in each year in which the steel plant at Ensley could not be operated to it's full capacity on ac- count Of the inability to secure sufficient water. This condition will be relieved. Thel, the reservoir created by the build ing If the impounding dam will be of such capacity that a great number of im- menqe plants may be supplied by it. It is hardly possible that the Tennessee con- pany would spend such a large sum of money, nearly s5,000,OOO, in the build- iug of this reservoir if it did not have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
OUR CLAY PRODUCTS.
Ohio Leads With an Annual Output
 Worth $26,622, ,49o.

Washington Cor. New York Herald.
 The United States geological survey has published a large chart showing the sta- tistics of the clay working industry in 1908 by states and products with compar- ative totals for 1907.
 This chart shows that the clay products of the United States in 1908 were valued at s13s.197,762. compared with 15s942, S6s in 1907, a decrease of about one-slxth Every state and territory except Alaska is represented in this total, a fact which shows the widespread character of the clay working industries.
 Ohio is the leading clay working state, reporting products worth 6,622. 490, or 19.9 per cent of the total. Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Illinois, New York, Indiana, Missouri California, Iowa and West Vir- ginia are the next largest producing E states nj the order named. These ten states produced wares valued at 96.494.- 1O7 or nearly three-fourths of the value for the whole country.
 Every state reported common brick, the total quantity being 7S11 ,o16.O00, valued at S44, 765, ,614; this represents more than one third of the value of all clay products. Illinois is the leading producer of com mon brick, reporting 1. 1.119,224,000. valued at s4S94, ,e52, or $422 per 1000. New York is the second in quantity, but first in value. the figures being 1,055, ,006,000, valued at q. .o6s0S4, or s4.sO per 1000
 The average value per 1000 ranged from S4 ST in Kansas to s1o.33 in Wyoming, with . general average of s5.73. Tennessee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

is made Is another feature which must b considered. It can be fashioned of ash O hickory. as stated. but can also be GU or stamped out of celluloid and hard rub Der. Boomerangs are now being sold i two or three American cities. Several ex pert throwers in this country, however have fashioned their own boomerangs no only of celluloid but of heavy cardboard If the cardboard does not get wet, makes a serviceable missile. Strange q say, celluloid is excellent for the pun pose. because it is light, very hard t break and can be worked into the pecu liar curve and twist which are so neces sary to give the boomerang it's force an direction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Nu AIDE IN RIR MIN0H H M
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS SHOW
 NEED OF SMALL INDUSTRIES

array of industries manufacturing nearly every imaginable thing. Shop after shop, employing from 300 to 600 men, dot the Gate City, and nearly every concern has travelling men who advertise the city for all they are worth. Atlanta is a hustling place, full of pride and it is the variety of vertebrae in the shape of industries ins it's backbone that makes it such a place 10 brag about.
 Birmingham has host of small indus tries but there is unbounded room and de- mand for hundreds of others here. The Chamber of Commerce has seen the neces- sty for these plants and Is exerting ev- cry effort to establish them here.
 The suggestion of L. Sevier, general freight agent of the Alabama Great Southern railroad. to establish ZOO club has taken with this commercial or ganization and it is being pushed to conclusion. The proposition is for mem bers of the club to take S100 shares in fund to be used In the purchasing of stock in new plants the amount of such stock not to amount to more than S5000 or half the capital stock of the concern.
 Encouragement is offered to would-b be investors in manufacturing plants by the Tennessee company's announcement. If this company invests s5000,000 for the construction of reservoir alone is there any room for the small investor to feel shaky over the investment of a few hum dred or thousands? Study over the prop osition and you will find your thoughts travelling only in golden channels of great ness for Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
The American Hen.

From Leslle's Weekly.
 The American hen has demonstrated her right to cackle. Her total output is greater than the output of any oth-
 CT one class of products in the indus trial world. According to the last cen
 suS there are 233, ,59S ,005 chickens of
 laying age in the United States. Their
 aggregate value is S70000, 900, and if divided the eggs they lay would all, 203 eggs annually to each person in
 the country. The value of all the fowls about 5,000000-would entitle ev-
 cry person to S1 if the proceeds of sale were divided The weight of the eggs
 laid yearly tips 970,363 tons, while all the animal products exported-pork, tallow, beef, bacon, ham and sausage weigh only 6,S60 tons. Chicago is l the greatest egg center in the country.
 Seven hundred and twenty millions of eggs are stored there yearly. An av- craze of 1000 900 cases of eggs comes into Chicago every year. each case con taining 36O eggs. The greater part of these arrive in March, April and May, when about 10000 cases are received daily. During the remainder of the year about 5000 cases a day are re- 1 ceived. These eggs come from all states west to the Rocky mountains and south to and including Texas. Few states east of Chicago, that Is, Ken lucky, Tennessee and Alabama, send their surplus to its market Most of the eastern states supply New York and Boston. The value of the egg pro- duction in the United States for a single year is given at $145,000.000. Wool produced is valued at s45.750,- 900 poultry exceeds 1t by $91,000,0 900 and eggs by $99,00O,000. The Ameri- can hens lay in year is equal in value to 57 per cent of the entire in come realized by the export of all the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
PAINTING SIGN ON
 UNCLE SAM'S FORT

From Everybody's.
 T was going to get a sign on that wall somehow
 T went to a paint store and bought some black and white paint, which 1 mixed and carried to the sldff: then l borrowed a long ladder. Returning to my boarding house for supper, I got the land lady's big, overgroWn boy, Horace, to help me.
 Horace wasn't so very bright, and he stuttered. l asked him if that great sloping wall belonged to a warehouse, and he stuttered something I couldn't make out. While he held the ladder l went to work, making my letters 10 feet high. had finished four letters and was begin ming to slow down and cool off when noticed a peculiar tramping sound high up above my head Somebody was walk ing to and fro up there, with steady, even tread. I went down the ladder and | spoke to Horace.
 '' Is this a prison, Horace| I asked.
 'N-n-n-n-n-n-no Horace replied, his mouth foaming little with the paint he had caught 1-i-i-i-i-i-t-t-t-t-t ain't a prison, i-i-i-i-i-t-t-t-ts a fort He added that he had been trying to tell me that for four hours
 T was fabbergasted for moment. listened again to the tread of the sentry
 
 l was wavering as to whether l should yacoose or stick 1t out, when swiftly there leaped into my mind the stinging charge in my employers letter. l hadn't any nerve, ehl Well, here my chance. I'd show 'emi So I mounted the ladder again and started in on the fifth letter.
 ''rhe sentries up above changed guard, but l worked on in passionate haste. Now and then river boat came in pretty close, but the haze protected me. It took the rolling eye of drunken soldier crossing the bridge to pick me out. Gray streaks of dawn had opened up the haze and lighted my sign.
 'I was touching up the last letter, tired but happy, when a file of soldiers swooped round d corner of the wall and presented what looked like a million rifles at me. l dropped the rest of my paint Horace, who let go of the ladder and dived into the river. At the sharp command of an officer to come down the ladder and be d. quick about it, 1 came down without touching rung.
 They threw into the guardhouse and worked the wires to the war depart ] nent for full strength of the batteries. Also they set men at work to chisel out my sign, and the crowd that came to watch the chiseers almost broke down l the suspension bridge The more they 1 chiseled, though, the deeped they en- l graved my sign into the wall. It is there l to this day, great permanent feature | of advertising as I ever heard of. l T remained in the Fort Thomas guard 1 house while the secretary of war talked my ease over with President Hayes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Dilettante AIpinists.

D. A. Wiley in Putnam's Magazine.
 The real Alps are not civilized. Never can they be civilized True, highways have been built so that horse and motor can go where once only the guide led the way. The modern hotel is beside the clear blue lake, under the shadow of the snow clad mountain, sometimes high upon a spur 1t has thrown out. You can finger over your table d'hote listening to the orchestra, dance all the evening, take the baths, stroll on the promenades at the fashionable hour, and say you have "done" the Alps. Yet you may only have seen them miles above you, and have had not even a taste of the exhilaration, the joy of living, that comes only to the noun taineer. Then there is another way of saying you have been an Alplnist-a day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

bed of their terrors, and when surgery is working miracles.
 A partisan of one explorer, wishing to belittle the accomplishment of the other, said that 'it would take its place among sporting events" Is not this likely to be true of all arctic expe- ditions now and hereafter? They show forth splendid human qualities; they contend with the elements; they face awful perils, and they suffer even unto death; but is not the end as a race that is run and the prize as un- substantial as a pennant or cup?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
NOTICE.
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
 Company.

Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ala bama Great Southern Railroad company will be held at the office of the company in Birmingham, Ala, on Wednesday. Oc- tober 6, 1909, at 10 o'clock, a. n.. for cleo ton of directors and the transaction of such other business as .may be brought before the meeting
 R. D. IANKFORD, Secretary September 9. 1909 a-25-11t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

or so walking among the foothills on the lower slopes along the paths that have been trodden for centuries worn smooth by peasant feet. Looking from some viewpoint up on the valley a thousand feet below the visitor imagines that this is indeed mountaineering; but he does not know that he is merely going over the pathways where the home people have gone as their fathers and forefathers went from chalet to hamlet, to sell their cheese or eggs, or, in their Sunday dress to hear the goodman of the church-and forget it all in the neighborly gossip after service.
 Making a Boomerang.
 From St. Nicholas.
 The material of which the boomerang
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26

meat products. If to the eggs is added the value of the poultry, meat prod ucts are completely overbalanced Only once since the government has kept record-in 1900-haye the Amer ican mines been able to beat the rec ord of the American hen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Vain Search.
From Judge,

From Judge.
 Diogenes was looking for an honest man.
 'I want one who will tell a summer girl he is a ribbon clerk" he explained Herewith, none wondered at his failure.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-05
GIVEN AWAY FREE

with every GoCat purchased at this SALE How tickIed
baby is with Billy PossunNe week we give 10 every pu
TGh a Of GoCaft BlyPossun for the baby ABsO-
LUIELY FREE. You are not limited in your selection at
Denharn's. We carry complete line Of Go-Carts from
S175 to $500 Our same liberal terms in force. little
down and the rest when you care.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-28
FIRST OF BOXING MATCHES
AT ALOHA PARK TONIGHT
Charlie Reilly to Reappear in HonoIuIu---The
SpInterweight Battle to Be
a Feature.

worth seeing This is the first time
that two real splinterweights have. ap-
peared in Honolulu and the event will
be treat for the fans. This Kid
Nelson has been quite sassy for some
to any other kid at his weight-105
pounds.
His challenge has been taken up by
Harry Scholl, of the California. This
lad is very clever with his mitts and
is as quick as flash. He has had Lit.
tie experience in the professional ring
but he is out to make good and so is
his opponent This meeting is bound
to be hot one.
Kid Terry Is There.
Kid Terry is favorably known here
on account of the excellent showing he
has put up in all of his bouts. At 100
pounds he can make it hard for any
man, and this Mcdonald, of the Ten.
nessee, will certainly have to put up
some doings if he is to get the better
Of the Iroquois kid.
Three excellent bouts of the two.
minute, clean boxing variety. Tt looks
like an excellent show and one to be
patronized by the fans. Chalmers Ora
ham will act as master of ceremonies
and FL. NJ. Ayres as referee.
Plenty of Material.
All yesterday Fred Smith was be-
sieged by boxers and managers of box
ers from the fleet, all anxious for a go
He has no lack of good material and
will easily be able to put on good
show every night during the week.
The ring has been erected, electric
lights strung above it so that there will
be good light; and dressing room
arranged in one corner of the park
Everything has been arranged for a
series of very successful boxing
matches. q
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-28
Aloha Park Events Tonight.

Charlie Reilly VS.. McKarley of the
Tennessee; 10 rounds; 1873 pounds.
Kid Nelson of Honolulu VS.. Harry
Scholl, U. s. S. California; splinter
weight, los pounds; 10 rounds.
Kid Terry of U. S. Tug Iroquois VS..
Mcdonald of U. S. S. Tennessee; $50
pounds; 10 rounds.
Aloha Park Events Tomorrow Night.
Bugler sarconi of Camp Very VS..
John Larou, U. S. s. West Virginia;
10 rounds at $50 pounds.
Lawson, T.. S. s. Washington, VS..
Thqnderbolt Higgins, u. S. S. Wash
ington; 10 rounds at 142 pounds.
Burnam, West Virginia, VS.. George
Nelson of Camp Very; 10 rounds at
155 pounds.
AS already stated several times, Alo-
ha park is on Hotel street next door
to the human roulette wheel and di-
rectly opposite the Empire theater.
Fred Smith is manager and has ar
ranged series of bouts for every night
this week.
The three bouts for tonight look like
very good ones. Everybody in Honolu-
In knows Charlie Reilly and how he
has made himself the Honolulu favorite
in the pugilistic line. He has never
suffered defeat here and has come back
to Honolulu to see if any of the boys
from the fleet can argue with him.
McKarley, from the West Virginia, is
said to be very great man in the
lightweight limit. The men on his own
ship state that he is right up to the
Trinkle class and can certainly give
Reilly a hard go over ten round
distance.
Good Splinterweight.
The second preliminary will be well