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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
AUCITONEERS ADJOURN.
Twelfth Annual Meeting Will Be Held
at Larned

Abilene, kan. Dec. S0.-The Kan
journed after a two days session.
Fifty Colonies were present and the
crying sales. A resolution of regret
was adopted concerning the death of
Colonel G. Post, the veteran auctioneer
of Salina, who died suddenly last week.
Officers elected are: President, c.
NJ. Crews, Topeka; vice president, ].
P. Mccormick, Mt. Hope; secretary. H.
E. Walter. Haven; treasurer, J. S.
Winget, Albert; chaplain. J. H. Koch,
Berington: sergeant-at-arms, W. H.
Fisher, White City. Next years ses-
sion will be held at Larned.
The program was devoted to prac-
teal talks and one session was given
up to auctioneer's schools, the opinion
being that they are good thing for
the younger men. Fifteen new mem
bers were admitted to the association
which now has ninety-two members
out of the SEQ in the state This was
the list of subjects discussed and those
taking part:
'Auctioneering in the Short Grass
Country Beaver. Curtis. Webb, Ma
son. Ford.
what Breeders Expect of Live
Stock Auctioneers"-Brad Albright,
Burger, Fife.
THE Auctioneer's wife"-Gordon,
Parks, Currie.
Morality an Asset in Auctioneering'
Koch. Fife, West.
Making Public Sale"-Curphey.
Breaking in Young Auctioneers''-
Boehme, Wingct, Given
1.-The Auctioneer as a Mixer and His
Associates Murray, Tenn
pie. Freeman.
"Sdelights on Farm Sales"-Dennis,
Tjaden, Scofield.
''Ten Years in Auctioneers' Conven-
tions''-Burton Kent, Mccormick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

Munyon's Paw Paw Pills ,oax the
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They do not scour, grippe or weaken They
are a tonic to the stomach. liver and
nerves; invigorate instead of weaken.
They enrich the blood and enable the
stomach to get all the nourishment from
food that is put nto it. These pills con-
tain no calomel; they are soothing, heal
ing and stimulating. For sale by all drug
gists in 1Oc and 25c sizes. If you need
medical advice, write Munyon's Doctors.
They will advise to the best of
their ability absolutely free of Charge.
MUNYON'S, SD and Jefferson Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
Rich Mems Gifts Are Poor

beside this: 1 want to go on record as
saying that 1 regard Electric Bitters as
made to woman. writes Mrs. o. Rhine
vault of Vestal Center, N. Y, 'I can
never forget what it has done for me-
This glorious medicine gives a woman
buoyant spirits. vigor of body and jubi-
liant health. 1t quickly cures Nervous
ness Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Head
ache, Backache, Painting and Dizzy
Spells; soon builds up the weak, ailing
Drug Co
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
ATTACKED BY WILD STEERS.
A Chauffeur Has to Fight for His Life
on the Desert.

Bakersfield, Cal, Dec. 30-Charles
Moyn a chauffeur, of Los Angeles, had
a thrilling experience on the road from
that city to Bakersfield Tuesday. He
had to fight for his life with wild steers
and was rescued by two other automn-
bilists after having lain down in the
snow to die. His rescuers themselves
were lost in the snow covered hills.
Moyn had barely strength enough left
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS.
Mailing Clerk Disappointed at Failure
to Be Made Postmaster.

Taylorsville, ILL.,. Dec. 30.-W. E.
Virden, for ten years mailing clerk in
the local postottice, blew out his brains
at his home because of disappointment
at not being appointed postmaster.
Through an agreement with J. B.
Smith, the retiring postmaster, Virden
was to have received the appointment.
When Virden was informed w. D.
Hardy had peen appointed. he left the
postoffice without a word, and killed
himself some minutes later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

New York, Dec. 30.-A strike of
New York plumbers and steam filters
is threatened with the beginning of the
new year. The two unions have sub
mitted demands to their employers
asking an Increase in pay to Sc day
with no WORK on Saturdays The
plumbers helpers also seek raise
and unless they get 81 a day and Sat
urdays off, they too will go on strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

West Hampton, n. Y, Dec. 30-A
we'll which has been driven to a depth
of 54 feet is yielding water of a tenn
perature of 80 degrees. Continued
pumping does not lower the tempera-
ture. The well was driven near an ice
plant and the water was to have been
used in making ice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

when found to direct his rescuers back
to the road. His machine was left on
the desert with a broken crankshaft.
pumps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
They Ask Sc a Day.

gree being no longer a capital offense,
it is bailable ttby sufficient securities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
For the larger boys

We have a line of stout, sturdy
Shoes made of box and velour
calf and vici kid-double stitched
all the way through and with
extra heavy soles. Shoes that
will withstand all kinds of rough
and tumble wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
For the larger girls

We have a splendid line of vici
kid with patent tips and gun
metal Shoes, with low heels and
heavy, we.ted soles. AS trim and
neat as any Miss could wish for
and as serviceable as any par
ent could possibly want.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
And He Suffered,

Little Willie, suffering from an at
tack of toothache, had paid his first
visit to the dentist, accompanied by
his mother. Father on his return
from the office that evening" was nat
urally much interested.
Didn't 1t hurt?" asked father.
Sure, 1t hurt" replied Willie.
weren't you scared when the dent
list put you in that big chair and
started all those zizz-zizz-zizz things?"
"Oh, not so much"
THAT was brave boy. But, surely,
you suffered?"
"Of course l suffered. But I Just
kept repeating over and over the
golden text we had in Sunday school
last Sunday"
"The golden text? What was it?"
"Why, suffer little children to come
unto me- replied Willie, glibly. "T
kept saying that over and over to my
self, and the first thing l knew it didn't
hurt any more"
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
MISSISSIPPI RIVER KxEL60AT I'M 1909

steamboat in 1917, 1t had more than doubled its
population of 1910 in 1920. From 1000 in 1890.
two decades of steamboating gave it 6469 In 1910.
About that time 1t began its great transcontnental
work with the prairie schooner" reinforcing the
steamboat in overland transit With the trans
continental overland movement, to Oregon as we'll
as California growing in 1850 1t had 1880 people
and was beginning its work the first pioneer OF
railroads to the Pacific. After bringing the first
locomotive west of the Mississippi in 1852, 1t more
than doubled its population in that decade, reach
ing 1S5,5S7 in 1860 With the foundations of the
states west Of the river, already laid along its
first trade routes in 1861 it advanced in the next
two decades to 35O,552 people. Chicago was pass
ing it in population then, without being able to
take from it its historical place the FIRST great
city of the west" the pioneer and founder of the
west of the present. Since 1880 it has doubled its
population once more, advancing from 350,000 to
over 7000 900. At it's present rate of increase,
sponsive to that of the Mississippi valley ST. Louis
Is doubling business in little 10 years. Its
bank clearings increased from $292,OO0OOO in 1859
to $3,O74, 900 in 1908 Its tonnage of merchan-
disc received and forwarded was 2O,16200O tons
for the first six months of this year Its bank
resources reported June 49, 1909 at 1885,, 1881, ,OO0
more than double the total of the tenth year back
Such figures illustrate much than local
progress. They are mid-continenta before they
become local, in the sense that the people Of the
whole area between the Allegheny and Rocky
mountains now exerting energies and util-
izing new forces of growth, unforeseen even as
late 10 years ago. AS the percentages Of this
growth are of course greatest west of. the Msss-
sipp river, ST. Louis has almost made itself over
in Is years in growing up to the growth Of
the country. Since it began work for the worlds
fair, celebrating the Louisiana purchase, 1t has
learned to look back itself In the last decade of
the nineteenth century as "od st. Louis" In
looking back to the older st. Louis of 1909, 1t
boast that frontier outpost it led the progress
of the continental United States. In looking for
ward, in its centennial year, 1t see that the
greatest results of the history 1t has made only
the beginnings of greater results. which belong to
the immediate future of the continental United
States, whose progress makes the frontier town OF
1909 the mdcontinental city of 1909.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

1t still had his companion explorer, William
Clark to stand for the spirit of the American and
French makers of destiny" who thought little
more of starting a thousand miles into the
known west from st. Louis than the average St.
Louisan now thinks of starting for the Pacific
coast in sleeping car.
From village of 900 inhabitants to the fourth
city in the United States with population of
three-quarters of million, is wonderful
achievement but it sinks into insignifcance when
compared with the giant strides of the past GEN.
tury in the world of science, commerce. the arts
and every field of endeavor which makes for a
higher and better civilization.
1t is strain on the imagination to at
tempt to bridge over the gap between the mean
ing of an airshp crossing the Mississippi river
at st. Louis this year and what the ancient keel
boats Of 1909 meant, they landed at the foot
of Walnut street, where the town founded in
1884 by the pioneers who had padded and
delled their bateaux painfully up the river from
New Orleans under Laclede as he advanced in
the bold attempt to control the fur trade of half
a continent with his handful of men.
The keeboat then was more out of date
than the airship is now. 1t was the best modern
boat in 1909 which could be equipped by the capi-
tai Nof st. Louis of New Orleans of Philadel-
phia. Because of it Philadelphia and st. Louis
commanded the east and west movement of busi-
ness as that north and south was commanded by
New Orleans and St. Louis, as soon as their first
fleets of keelboats were regularly organized. It
helped to make great history even If 1t did have
TO be pulled up stream by a rope dragged by men
on the bank
This distance in point OF change in the way
things are done is almost impassabe for the
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

prandfathers not only navigated the river In
keeboats but lay fat behind the goods the boats
were loaded with while they were being shot at
by Indians along the banks.
It is almost If not quite as hard now 10 mag
inc what the world meant before the age OF
steam as 1t is TO think out what will be It's mean
ing in the age of the perfected airship and aero
plane. Every contrast possible in the ST. Louis
centennial week of pageants Is challenge to
look backward and forward in the attempt to
find out what hundred years already mean, as
the first in the attempt to find what 1t Is
to mean shortly, for this generation and for the
grandchildren of this generation in 20O9.
The makers of the centennial week program
keenly alive to the opportunities for spec
tacular effect suggested by the most striking
events of the worlds progress. The aeronautic
events such as balloon races, aeroplane and dri-
gibe balloon contests, suggest the future possi-
bilities of transportation in contrast with those
of 1909. For comparison with automobiles and
aeroplanes the bateau of Lacedes day, with it's
stumpy mast, its cordelle and its sweeps, Is an
educational feature of the water pageant, which
includes crafts Of all the kinds which now ply the
waters of the Mississippi. The Yelled Prophets
pageant, unique and picturesque, is another fea-
ture which is full of romantic interest. The edu-
cational parade, the parade representing 5000 Of
st. Louis industries, the procession of thou
sand mayors and the other events which find a
place on the program all suggest that great
week for st. Louis its centennial week Is still
greater. 1t belongs to a hundred years of his
tory-mak:ng for the continental United States.
The city Of St. Louis was founded by Pierre
Leclede Lieuest in 1854 The territory west OF
the Mississippi river was then in possession OF
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
METHOD OF INDUCING SLEEP
self-suggestlon Plays a Great PART
Worry 10 tho Main Thing
to BE Avoided.

The next point to bear in mind Is
that self-suggestion plays great part
In the production of sleep, writes DR.,
s. McComb in Harper's Bazaar. Ordi'
narily we do not sleep by accident or
haphazard. We resolve to sleep. We
go through a variety OF actions all
suggestive Of change from our nor.
NAL waking condition. We undress,
we place ourselves In comfortable
position, we close our eyes. We be.
lieve and expect that we are going to
sleep, and the result is--sleep. One
OF the great preventatives Of sleep Is
the fear of not sleeping. Once this
rear Is broken down, we sleep. The
insomniac worries about his insomnia,
and this very worry deepens the mis-
chief. Hence the sufferer should sug-
gest to himself again and again: "If
L sleep, well; IL / don't sleep will at
least gain rest by keeping my mind
calm and my body relaxed" In a
word, our chances of getting sleep In
crease If we assume the external
physical attitude which corresponds
to sleep, If we relax every muscle and
let 1t stay relaxed, If we breathe light
ly and regularly, If we call up the
imaginations of a sleeping person, and
talk and think sleep to ourselves, re-
peating silently and in a quiet dreamy
fashion such formula as this:
There is no reason why I should not
sleep. My mind is at peace. Sleep is
coming. I am getting sleepy. I am
about to sleep am asleep"
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
Girl Fights a Cougar with a Hatpin.

Girl Fights Cougar with Hatpin.
Miss Isola Kennedy, daughter of
John Kennedy of Morgan Hill, near
San Jose, was attacked and terribly
mangled by California lion near
Glen Willis, on the Coyote creek,
while she was on an outing with two
young men. The lion first sprang on
one of the boys and then attacked
Miss Kennedy, who fought him as
best she could with long hatpin.
The boys ran to the camp of the
Bay Cities Water Company near by
and gave the alarm, and two men,
John Conlon and Mr.. Fletcher, hast
ened to the girls aid. The former
fired four times at the animal with a
shotgun, and Fletcher fired three
shots with a rifle into the animal be-
fore 1t succumbed.
The girls left arm was terribly
mangled and her body lacerated. The
neck of one of the boys was clawed
and one of his ears split open.-San
Francisco Bulletin.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
Social Economy,

Certain of the members of fash
ionable Washington club collaborated
in very practical joke at the expense
of a member long chaffed for his
tightfistedness.
This member suffered some slight
injury to finger while tinkering with
his motor car. To save the price of
consulting his own physician he had
a fellow-member look at the finger.
The latter gravely prescribed a rem
edy, and, to the surprise of the in
jured one, promptly sent him bill
for So. This fee seemed trifle high,
so the tight-fisted member showed the
bill to another clubman, lawyer, and
asked his advice. The attorney i'm
mediately advised payment, and the
next day sent his friend bill for $40
for advice given.
By this time the victim was in de-
spair and bitterly complained of the
matter to several ether clubmen who,
being in the joke, fastened to report
him to the proper committee for fail
ing to meet his obligations and ulti-
mately the committee in all solemnity
fined him one case of champagne.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
Antics of Meat In a Car.

Packing house products are rather
risky commodity to haul, because
fresh meats hung from hooks in a re-
frigerator car may get to swinging vio-
lently when the train is moving rapid
ly and throw cars from the tracks,
Railroad Age Gazette.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

scores of other western cities and in actual thou
sands of other Incorporated towns, which, if they
are not already great, are not unduly modest in
their expectations of becoming The inv
tation to thousand mayors of American cities
to participate in the festivities shows that st.
Louis fully appreciates its position the pioneer
city of the great west
AS there were less than 200 houses, including
outhouses and barns in the ST. Louis which incor-
porated in 1909, it could not have had much
300 people. The town already the chief seat
of the western fur trade, with it's trading stations
pushed to the headwaters of the Arkansas and far
towards the sources of the Missouri and the Vel
lowstone Doing business wholly by barter with
almost no money in hand in sight in circula-
ton, with resources represented almost wholly by
the spirit of its 900 people; with the and rifle
and blacksmith's sledge its implements, with
the one-horse cart the keelboat and canoe as it's
transportation facilities, the little town, when it
incorporated, already looked it's work as that
of opening up the United States of the future to
the Rocky mountains and beyond them to the Pa
'cihc In 1903 it had lost Meriweather Lewis but
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
GRAFT FOWL BONE ON JAW.

An unusual surgical operation was performed at
st. Joseph's hospital, In Omaha, recently. A por
tion of the jawbone Of Lucretia Norris was re-
moved and piece of chicken bone inserted In the
place of aediseased section
The girl IL six years old. and was born with a
malformed jaw. It was to remedy this that q bone
from a freshly killed chicken was inserted.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist Just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; 1t will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and 1t will be positive pleasure to
use Starch that does not stick to the
iron
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
Moderation.

Do nothing that you know will hurt
you and when you do what is benefi-
cial do 1t in moderation. Euripides
declared: Moderation is the noblest
gift of heaven"
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
Summer Conuuests.

Are these all photographs of fell
lows you have been engaged to?"
mo. They're the fellows who didn't
propose"
what in the world do you want of
them?"
why; l am saving them to make
a rogues' gallery"
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

Many true word has been spoken
regardless of grammar.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
TRE FDLLYDLiYC or
SZLULIIS 4YLHcLEDE.
BY SPEciHL 2ER/7y5 ShOH F8oH
the PHInT1hG 5yEL. ST0D0FRo

mind. In point of
fact in st. Louis it
is only a matter of
the third generation
between keelboat
and aeroplane. In
1907 the first air
ship on record as
crossing the Missis-
sippi river crossed
it at st. Louis dur
ing the internation-
al contests Of that
year. 1t is something
to remember now as
part of the record to
which belongs the his
tory of the first loco
motive crossing the
Mississippi at st. Louis
in 1852 to complete
the work of the st.
Louis argonauts of
1S49, crossing to the
Pacific in their "prai-
rie schooners."
If we suppose aero
planes and airships
circling in the air
above the st. Louis
keelboat landing Of a
hundred years ago we
may imagine, if we
can, how they appear
to the men whose
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

Lewis Single Binder made of extra quail.
ity tobacco, costs more than other DC
cigars. Tell the dealer you want them.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

Constipation causes and seriously aggravates
many Diseases II is thoroughly cured by Dr.
Pierce's Pellets Tiny sugar coated granules.
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
THE MARKETS.
LIVE STOCK.

NATIONAL STOCK Yards, I'LL.
7so; cows and heifers, sooSsS5; stock.
ss5 Texas steers Tesss
sna saaehers nssera 775@sse OO good seaxy ssS@
SsS roSgh 72SST76s sh SssSSss
Sheep and muttons. s.5o@6.6o; lambs.
KANSAS. CITY. Cattle Native 4 Y
4.60; southern cows, 5oQ3.75; native cow
srs s.2595.5O; bulls, s.50@s.75; calves.
western cows S.75@4oo, Hogs-Buik' 7.7s
Sssehers @ A1 T1sSSsioS;V XiIsht. e 7.bcSs,Se; PIGS
lambs. s.5o0s.75; wethers. and yesriinss..
<00@5.25; range ewes 3.25@5.00.
CHICAGO - Cattle Beeves, 4.10
seo s;y stoseers seas and feesers si5@ss5 cows cows
is RSss@nisht nelsa .@s Es@sSsSsi S Mixed s,ssS
sorEers. york rG' sio@ssS ,iss. stSS7SS gSeep
lambs. 425S7.s6; western t5o@7,sS.
GRAIN.
1.2o@1.22s; No. 8, 1.16.@120; No. 4. 1.o5
@1.15; No. white 1.06@1.11; No. 8, 1.o4
1iS Sd g dS SS; Ns sSglS3 %Sts eofaNS esSs p sl
slM /; No. 4. 81; No. . yellow. eiM GssM
No. 8, 60@61. Oats--No. 2, 39p39K; No.
8. SO; No. 4. 3S; No. 2 white. 41@41M: No.
3. 41@4115; No. 3, 39@40A; No. 4, 3Sh %
| 39A.
CHICAGO. = Wheat = No. red,
Lit; No. 3. 1.09@1.16; No. 2 hard, 1850
| i.lo; No. 3, l;oo@1.osi No, spring. 1.ooQ
| e4A No. yellow. s2H D6S; No, 8 yellow
| 62A @62h; No. 2 white, 62h @62%; No. 8
| e2N Oats.No. 8, a9@4o.; No. 4, s7'@ss;
4 Iut ~.
KANSAS cITY.--wheat - No. 2
| red. 1.20; No. 8, LIS. No, 4, 1.03Qp1. OF;
No. 8, hard, 100@i.04; No, 4, 94@99. Corn
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
.WR1G1YT AER0RANE> >CARRWYG oRNzLE,

France. Laclede landed at the foot Of what Is
Market street, organized the village and
resided there for Ia years. He named the new
site St. Louis in honor of Louis XIV. the reigning
sovereign of France The territory trans
ferred by France to Spain by secret treaty In
1852, but it was not announced in the new village
until October 1764. In 1903 Spain retroceded the
sovereignty to France and April 80, 1903,
France sold all the territory west of the Missis-
sippi river, known as the Louisiana purchase, to
the United States for $15,0000 900, Napoleon
marking: This accession of territory strengthens
forever the power of the United States"
With less than thousand inhabitants when
the whole country had not quite seven and
quarter million in 1909, st. Louis emerged from
the era Of the keeboat and pirogue to pioneer the
steamboat western rivers. Loading it's first
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

Some men never do anything on
time except quit work
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
THE DIAGNOSIS

Anything really serious with my
eye, Doc?"
mo, no-simply q pig-sty."
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08
\ |Y\ /
lg@!ES7|
- :.

half routes OF
transportation between Rio Gande and the Canadian border and be-
established the first
mouth of the Missouri
transportation between
both sides that
establishing of trade The whole west
founding the tansMissspp west the pioneers
The Montgomery tribune., 1909-10-08

He MIGHTY activities and marvellous progress the
world has seen in the past 100 years strikngly
illustrated in the centennial celebration of the ncor
poration of st. Louis. Picturesque pageants with
everything in the way Of the spectacular which is
most likely to stir the imagination of the spectator
into appreciating the work of the past through con-
trasts with the present feature the weeks program
The greater part of the history OF early St. Louis
is really more fit for the unwritten American epic
poem than it is for prose. Its work as frontier
town in the first half of the nineteenth century made
1t the midcontnenal city the United in the