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The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
LEAGUE OF JUSTICE.
Organization Planned to Redeem
Cities From Grafters.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 24.-Plans are
being perfected for an organization to
be called the National league of JUS
tice." Under the direction of Rev. DR..
William H. Rades of the Calvary
Presbyterian church, San Francisco,
the matter will be brought to the at
'tention of the Presbyterian brother
hood of America now in national con-
Vention here.
The graft exposures of San Fran
cisco and Pittsburg are responsible for
the National league of Justice. the
purpose of which is the redemption OF
all large cities of the United States
from dishonest hands.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
Card of Thanks.

We desire to express our sincere
thanks to the many friends who were
so kind to US in our bereavement in
the loss of our dear mother; also the
minister. Rev. Mr.. Young and for the
floral tributes from the Horns Planning
mill. Santa Fe store department and
brass foundry, Mrs. Hollcraft. Mrs
Gill and daughter. and the friends that
sent flowers
MISS ALICE CREMER
BROTHERS AND SISTERS g.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

William Manear, 40 years OF age, died
at his home, 1882 Buchanan street
Tuesday, from stomach trouble.
The funeral of John c. Payne. who
died at his home Tuesday morning of
pneumonia, will be held from the fami-
iv residence, 1854 Fillmore street, FRI
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Short ser-
vices will be conducted at the home
by the Scottish rite bodies followed
Sloan lodge A. F. & A. NJ. No. 225.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
LIQUOR IS CONTRABAND.
Express Company Not Liable When 1t
Is Destroyed in Kansas.

Washington, Feb. 24.-The supreme
court has reversed the decision of the
Kentucky court. which held the Amer
lean Express company liable for the
loss to consignees in Kansas to whom
dealer in liquors had sent through
the company whisky in gallon packages
seized and destroyed under the Kan
sas prohibition law.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
PARKER CASE DISMISSED
Suit for $4,000 Against Santa F'e
Dropped.

After two days had been consumed
in the trial of the case and numerous
witnesses examined A. A. Graham at
torney for Clarence Parker, who is
suing the Santa Fe railroad for $4,000
damages, asked that the case be dis
missed without prejudice this morning.
The case is one which grew out of the
shooting of Clarence Parker by the
night clerk at the Santa Fe junction
last June.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
THE WHITE RESOLUTION.
Freight Rate Measure Is Adopted in
the House Today.

About the most important piece of
legislation transacted in the house
this session was the passage today of
the concurrent resolution by White of
Ottawa, comforting powers on the rail-
road commission to get just and better
through freight rates for Kansas. The
resolution was discussed at length in
the State Journal at the time it was
introduced early last week.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
DRIVEN OUT INTO COLD WORLD
Rosovena May Wolff Now Sues for a
Divorce.

Rosovena May Wolff has fled suit
in the district court asking for a di-
vorce from her husband, Harry G..
Wolff, who she claims has driven her
away from home and out into an un-
charitable world. In her petition she
states that last Monday he drove her
away from their home and packed up
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
war Scare Afrects Securities.

St. Petersburg, Feb. 24.-Exchange
fell and all government securities and
industrial were weak on the market
today on account of the Austro-
Servian situation. The new loan
dropped one point to 81 and Russian
fours and Russian fives dropped 1s
each to 76 II and 81 respectively
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24

the household goods and stored them
in granary at the home of her faith
er-in-law.
The couple has one child, a little girl
four years of age, and the mother
wants the court to grant her tho
custody OF this child, her household
goods and alimony
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
FOR SUNDAY BASEBALL.
Bill to Legalize 1t for Indiana Ready
for Governor.

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 24.-The
Brolley bill legalizing the playing of
baseball on Sunday passed the senate
today. 80 to IS. 1t has already
passed the house and now goes to the
governor.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
LONGBOAT WON'T RUN.
Dorando Will Substitute for Indian
Against Shrubb.

Buffalo, n. Y, Feb. 24-Tom Long
boat. the Marathon champion, has
finally declined to meet Shrubb here
tomorrow night in a 15-mile race. and
it is announced that Dorando will be
substituted for him
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
STAYS AT $4,000.
Increase of Presidents Salary Is De-
feated in the House.

Washington, Feb. 24.-The house to-
day rejected the senate provision in
creasing to 100000 the salary of the
president
In a lively debate in the house com
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24
TRAIN OVER A CLIFF.
1t Dropped 100 Feet, Killing Twenty
Five Passengers.

Guayaquil Ecuador, Feb. PA pas
senger train on the main line. bound
north. was today thrown over a cliff
100 feet high at a point near Rio Bamba
and crashed to the bottom OF the
ravine. Twenty-Five persons were killed
and 40 injured.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-24

When in need of anything in lumber
or building material see ]. B. Whelan
& Co, 4th and S. F. tracks, opposite
r. r. Y. NJ. c. A. Phones S65
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
BINGHAM NOTES.

Bingham, June 1.-THE Bingham Cen
tral school building was the scene of
bold robbery a few days ago. supplies
furnished by the Jordan school district
for the education Of the Bingham youth
being looted with reckless abandon. The
school authorities discovered that an en-
trance had been effected by false keys
OF otherwise, and that several gross OF
lead pencils, boxes Of pens, note books,
cOl0red and white craNOn. aggregating
many dollars in value. had disappeared.
They kept their own counsel. but stated
the case to Police Officer Phil CulletOn
who proved TO be a Verita bic Sherlock
Holmes in the case. having recovered
fully twO-thiTds of the stolen property
The CuipTit proved 20 be a boy not more
than or 10 years of age. who after eff
fecting an entrance. must have made
several trips to the building. caching his
booty in q neighbOring tunnel. Officer
Culleton unraveled the mystery link by
link, and the school authorities are now
in possession of the great bulk of the
property. His generosity to some of his
playmates led to his undoing. On ac-
count of the little fellows extreme youth
il was deemed best by the town authori-
ties and probation officer not to divuge
his name or to push the matter, aside
from giving him a good scare.
Cashier c. ". BuckhOlz of the Bingham
State bank on receiving a telegram that
his father was dangerously ILL., left imme-
diately for the state of Michigan.
A new saloon has been built on the
Kupheldt property at Lark. Louis Peter
son has charge of the new venture.
Elias Make and Meneno Pire were ar
rested for fast driving last evening and
put up SO each to appear before Frank
II. Celloentra, justice of the peace, Sat
urday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

times the fly trap has been a means.
but a poor one at best.
Improvements on that primitive method
have been numerous. The latest and one
of the most effective instruments is
called the fly killer. tt is after the fash
ion of a whisk broom and flies may be
slain with it without soIling the most
delicate fabrics It is said that the flys
wings are paTalyzed by this killer and
that crushing, with its consequent blood
stain, is avoided Other fly traps have
been perfected to the degree that they
are examples Of high art along this line
Fly paper of various kinds If popular
The TanglefoOt TO be seen on every side
in fly time holds first place. although
some of the poisonous papers are still
used in spite of the danger which lies
in them. particularly where children are
members of the household.
The following is a fly-killing recipe that
is being promulgated by the Kansas
board of health:
Take two pounds of resin and one pint
Of castor oil, boil together until it is
well mixed pour off in an Opeu-mouth
bucket. take an ordinary paint brush and
smear while hot on any kind of paper
an old newspaper is goOd-and place sew
eral about the room. a dozen of these
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
PERSISTENT WAR ON
Fly IS NECESSARY
FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

pupae mature earliest in fivd 10 seven
days. The adult fly requires, therefore,
at least ten days from the time of egg
LAYING TO mature.
Our relation to the pest Of flies is best
exemplified by the answer TO the ques-
ton, What are flies for2 This question
we should always try to answer when
we are endeavoring 10 destroy some spe-
cies, for it frequently contains a solu-
ton of our difficulties besides putting
us on the right track toward further in
quiries PTOfes 5or COmst0ck answers this
question as follows:
Although the habits of these creatures
which reVel in all kinds of filth, are very
disgusting. we cannot help admring that
arrangement by which a mass of filth,
instead of being left to poison the at
mOsphere. is transformed into myriads of
living beings whose swift flight and deli
cate forms lend life and beauty to the
landscape"
There are various methods of combating
the lily, once he and his family gain
access to a dwelling From the earliest
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
A Fortune in
Your Nerves
A Healthy Nervous System Brings
Success.
How You Can Prove It Free.

How You Can Prove II Free.
A small man or woman with strong.
steady nerves will meet with greater sue
cess in life than a large person with
weak debilitated. rundown nervous sys-
TEN. Many men and women, among your
own acquaintance, perhaps look as
though they hated the world and every
thing in it. These people are on the verge
OF Nervous Prostitution. or have Brain
Fag. Kidney or Liver Trouble, Rheums-
tism. OF some other nervous disorder
caused by the impure or sluggish condi-
ton of their blood If they would take a
few boxes of Make-Man Tablets they soon
would be transformed into new beings
Their health. strength and vitality would
be restored in surprisingly short time
and in a rational way. so that living
would again become a pleasure. Millions
of boxes of Make-M Tablets sold annt-
ally. and every box guaranteed to give
satisfactory results or money refunded
For sale by all leading druggists at soc
a box. or six for $50; or viii be sent di-
rect by mail on receipt of price.
r CUT OUT FREE COUPON -,
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

To keep our health from a decline,
Our bodies in repair
Its good repUte is vanished now.
We call the fly by proper terms.
And know that clear from stern TO prov,
laden pathOlogic sc0w,
It's chOCk-a- block with germs.
There's fever lodged betwixt its toes.
Grim rheUms are shaken from its wing
And all its buzzing sounds are those
Made BY a demon that we'll knows
The woe it's glad 1t brings.
We sought to check the fly by screen,
We placed for il d poison plate,
But. none the less. with joyful mien,
The fly appeared upon the scene,
But never never ate.
The stickp paper it abjured.
On safer footing wisely bent
BemaTknK. Il am not insured,
Nor vet to muCilage Injured
So gaily on it went.
Get off the earth. and do il now" says
Science TO the fly;
We like to hear il talk that way, for
maybe by and by.
The fly will take the hint and go to
trouble us no more.
But even then We fear twill light on
distant mystic shore.
And wait for us and welcome US with
bill and buzz of yOTe.
Henry James in Philadelphia Ledger.
Directly there will be millions of flies
IN Salt Lake. They are now in the
Matching. Already the vanguard of this
horde OF pestilence-spre aiding pests has
made It's appearance, and the time is AT
land lot determined action on the part
Of the hOuseholders OF this city,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
Good i bye, Fly.

Get off the earth and do II now" says
Science to the fly.
You pestilentiai nuisance, il is time for
you 10 die"
The fly has filed no answer yet, but
fingers with us still,
And with the confidence Of old presents
its little bill
Persistency's his habit, and he's marked
by strength of Will
The fly has always been a pest.
That loved to scale the hairless dome
At ev'ry feast, unwelcOme guest,
With soup as an especial quest,
in butter, quite al home.
II loves to spoil a nap al morn,
To hover o or the slceper'S bed.
Ana buzz and buzz in ri5aid scOrn.
Til droWsy wish themselves unborn,
Or else that they were dead.
Yet once we thought this fly was fine
\ scavenger that cleared the air,
Provided By plan benign,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

may be put i'm one room at a cost of
cent. It never loses its strength does
not deteriOrate and can be kept in an
ordinary fruit jar on Open-mouth bucket
and heated when needed
1t is for the people themselves to put
forth extra effort for the destruction of
the fly pest, lest the fly pest destroy
them. There should be harmonious
cooperation between the residents of
Salt Lake and the health officers This
is the time TO screen your homes; this Is
the time to cover your garbage cans;
this is the time to clean the barn. By
so doing, scores of lives may be saved.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
A Type of Fly Trap.

With the flies will come hundreds Of
cases of typhoid fever. Children will
sicken and die, and adults with be strick-
en- with this terrible malady. And il
Will be because the people have been
careless. because they have hesitated i'm
beginning the warfare against the fly
pest
Throughout the length and breadth Of
the land relentless battle IS being waged.
Tn many states-New York, Pcnnsylva-
mia. Kansas. Nebraska Ohio and many
others-boards Of health. backed by leg
islative enactment and local laws. are on
the offensive a we'll as the defensive
In some OF these states laws have been
PASSED making il compulsory for resi-
dents to provide their dwellings with
screens; the destruction of filth is de-
manded and secured.
There is no longer question that flies
carry disease germs. One foot of an or
binary house fly-the government now
aptly calls them typhoid flies-carrles a
hundred thousand germs. These they de-
Doslt IN milk food, water and other pro
ducts for human consumption When II
IS realized that the swarm Of flies mounts
into the billions the menace becomes ap-
pslling.
1t has been demonstrated beyond ones
ton that screens are the only effective
safeguard against flies. Hospital records
snow that screens almost wholly stop
the spread of typhoid.
Flies are rarely migratory. They are
10 be found near their breeding places
and their food supply. The breeding
places may he-and often are-cracks and
creVlces behind doors under sinks and
other out-of-the way places where soap
ana water have not touched Their food
supply is the food supply of human be-
inSs. In addition. flies breed in barns
and feast on filth and refuse
It seems reasonable. therefore. to saw
that the first thing TO do is to destroy
the breeding places: the second TO pro-
tect the flood. supply and the third 10
eSiermina-e flies as fast as they ap-
pear.
single house fly lays I20 to 40 eggs
each about One-sixteenth inch long The
iaTVa Tor maSgOts. as they are common
iN calledl leave the egg earliest eight
hours after laying. They mature in five
% eiehl DAYS. and lhen nInafa Che
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

To keep our health from a decline,
Our bodies in repair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

The very best slippers in our store
for children; Is different styles.
5 to s, standard $1.75 values, at
SLAB; 8 to II, S2.25 values,
$1.65; IL to 2, values, $3.50, at
$1.s5
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
HAWAII ISLAND NOTES.

3. H. Kelekolio is editing Ka Hoka
| during the absence of Rev. S. L. De-
sha in Honolulu.
Clay NJ. Hudson, formerly with the
| Hilo Mercantile Company, intends TO
go to Singapore or Peru. He is in
| terested in some rubber concerns.
Ernest Austin will make a trip round
the Horn on the ship John Ena to Del
aware Breakwater, then probably to
the Orient, and back to these Islands
in about a years time.
Jack Easton says that neither
Wright, Mckay nor Ross of the Citi-
zens Committee knows what he is
talking about when discussing bad
roads: Easton says there are no bad
roads; in fact, there are no roads at
all.
w. G. Walker of ookala came up by
the Mauna Kea on her last trip, land
ing at Laupahoehoe, to complete har-
vesting the present crop. after which
the property viii be turned over to
Theo. H. Davies & Co. He was ac-
companied by H. W. Mist.
There is a pipe travelling round the
world on railway mail service pass.
1t reached Hilo last week and on the
tag is written: IF you don't stop me,
I'll get there. Am broke, but not
looking for a cent. I'm not blind nor
crippled. Hit me and pass me on"
Wlfen the pipe arrived here the tag
had twenty-seven railway postoffice
stamps on it, got another one and was
dropped into pouch for Honolulu
Bishop Libert confirmed three hun
bred people at the Catholic church on
Sunday, April Is, but there were more
applicants who were confirmed last
Wednesday. On Tuesday the Bishop
conducted confirmation service in
Puma, also visiting the churches in
that district. He leaves for Honolulu
next week on the Mauna Kea, but ex-
poets to return to Hilo early in June,
when he will go round the island
Bishop Libert had not been on Hawaii
for three years until the occasion of
his present visit.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
KAuA1,s WORKING DELEGATION.


will be
delegation The
the bills
tight
distinct the other islands.
the House the Fourth District this delegation
the Fifth
The
in in
Good which
majority
really
Of the bills
Some day the will good Legislature
dvoune
able they
that time is yet
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

Of curious prayers a writer says:
Il have heard a layman utter this pc
tition during his prayer: % Lord, be
Thou with US in our upsittings and
our downrisings'-a variant of the text
in the Psalms, Thou knowest my
downsitting and mine uprising A
minister occasionally introduced a
Latin sentence into his prayer, and
forthwith proceeded to translate it.
Another minister in his early days ex-
perienced considerable difficulty with
the long prayer before the sermon
In nonconformist churches this usual
ly occupies quarter of an hour, but
long before this period had been reach
ed he was wound up. On one ocRa-
sion, while, in this dilemma, he startled
his hearers with the. words, And now
o Lord, I will relate unto The a little
anecdotei''
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
TAKING NO CHANCES

Said the editor to the new reporter:
You must learn never to state a
thing as fact until it has been
proved fact. You are apt to get us
into libel suits. Do not say, The CASH
Ter stole the funds: say, The cashier
who is alleged to have stolen the
funds That's ALL Oh, get something
about that First Ward social tonight. -
And this is the report turned in by
the young man who needed the ed
itor's warning:
Tt is rumored that a card party
was given last evening to a number
of reputed ladies of the First Ward
Mrs. Smith, gossip says, was the
hostess, and the festivities are report
ed to have continued until 1880 in the
evening. The alleged hostess is be-
lieved to be the wife of John Smith,
the so-ealled high-priced grocer"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
AUTOMOBILE scoRcHERs.

trouble themselves
of weeks,
in
public
would fill
are
speed through the main
of especially fool
Too machines plunge
through streets with guiding
Willis to automobile
automobile
apparently prevent machines endangng
the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

As yet there has been great glad from the Hawaii
keaawaas right
public
member that it
should
stand English well and he might
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
IMPORTANT. IF TRUE.

alleged policies
revolutionary. n
White luncheon apple
phase of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

Congressman Fitzgerald New
visiting the Islands
his chief William
the defeated presidential
democracy If
the way
not have to be asked' the New Workers. rotor
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

blow to Hlio published
the effect that that had
Hloes
vigorously knocking Afterwards
probably
the
be
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
~
Very Few People Obtain Comfort

By using the ordinary spherical lenses;
but when only such are required they
should be of the highest grade-per-
fectly centered.
The kind that are sold in "bulk'' are
always the discarded seconds and thirds,
and cost almost nothing.
They magnify of course, and some
very strong eyes, whose vision has be-
come impaired through age alone, de-
rive some benefit; but oh, the difference
when pair of perfectly central lenses
of the same strength are used. It is
always better to have your eyes exam
ined by specialist in whom you have
confidence Our well conducted optical
department offers you the services of
such a one.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

Will be all
citizens during present
ainor
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

of his
Constitutional in
Peha the old have fighting yet
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he powder
If which
be induced substitute
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

Inc New York Herald welcome
Admiral
That leaned
power
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

hoped al
from
destined to hear his rifle shot, evidently
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26
VICTOR
Talking Machine-Come Hear IT
BERGSTROM MUSIC CO.. Ltd
FOR SALE

Two Latrlnes; seat in good order:
suitable for school or plantation use
One two part slate Urinal Stall
French Ranges, brick set, 4 to 10 feet
long. Solar Water Heaters. 80 to 1o0
gallons capacity. Sheet Metal Work
and Plumbing.
EMMELUTH & CO., LTD.
Telephone I'll las kim St
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-26

has This viii funny
chance to say tina long got toe fesh.