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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Fur Garments

26-inch Jacket of Sable Coney, wide notch COL
lar, Skinner guaranteed satin lining $3.50.
38-inch Coat of Sable Coney, shawl collar Skin
guaranteed lining, exceptional value at $500.
24-inch Fancy Coat of Pony Skin. fancy collar.
turn back cuffs, guaranteed satin lining; sale
price, $500.
45-inch Coat of Sable Coney, large shawl collar,
Skinner satin lining closed with fancy metal but
tons; special value at $500.
Electric Seal Blouse, trimmed with Sable Squir-
REL silk grdle lined with Skinner guaranteed lin
ing very special at $500.
24-inch Pony Jacket of Brook Mink, fancy col
lar, brocaded satin lining, excellent value at $35.
3 50-inch Coat of Sable Coney wide shawl collar,
Skinner guaranteed satin lining cannot be dupli-
Gated at the price, $3.50.
3S-inch Coat of Sable Coney wide shawl collar,
Skinner guaranteed satin lining cannot be dupli-
Gated at the price, $3.50.
Pony Skin Coat, % inches long, shawl collar,
Skinner satin lined. closed and ornamented with
large fancy metal buttons $500.
52-inch Coat of Pony Skim shawl collar, turn
back cuffs, guaranteed satin lining, closed with
large crochet buttons with fur centers, only SIS.
Coats Brook Mink, shawl collar, guaranteed
lining, inches long, $3.50; 80 inches long, $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
WANTS HIS CHILD
Wichita Father Has Appealed
to Supreme Court.
District Court Took Little One
Away From Him.
HE WAS POOR THEN.
But Now Has Comfortable Home
On Farm.
Grandmother Has Child and
Resists Parting.

The supreme court order to Mrs.
Jessie Oyler of Wichita to produce in
court on the morning of December 6,
the little 8-year-old Mildred Williams,
is the answer to the writ of habeas
corpus applied for the other Gay by
James Williams. father of the child.
Mrs. Oyler is the little ones grand
mother.
Behind this formal court order lies
a story of the human interest kind
upon which some of Dickens greatest
models were constructed.
Child Given to Grandmother.
Six years ago when Mildred S
mother died the district court of
Sedgwick issued an order awarding
the custody of the little girl to her
grandmother, Mrs. Oyler. At that time
the child's father. James Williams,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17

was in unfortunate circumstances. He
had no money, nor work. nor home
and was therefore not in position to
care for the girl properly. Mrs.
and so there was no fight made against
her taking the girl.
But the wheels of life turn rapidly
round the circle and in six years OF
time there are fortunes lost and for
tunes mended. According to Mr.. Will
liams' petition in his application to the
supreme court for a writ of habeas
corpus to regain possession of his little
daughter Mrs. Oyler is not now in posi-
ton to properly care for the child while
on his part he is amply able to do SO.
He alleges that the moral atmosphere
of the Oyler home is not of the kind in
which a girl should be raised. That the
house is located between railroad
tracks and danger threatens the child
all the time. That the little one is not
being sent to school
Lost Case in District Court.
Mr.. Williams narrates further that he
has appealed to the district court to re-
store his child and there presented
evidence to support his claims to being
in a financial condition to now properly
care for his daughter and he further
brought forward proof of his mora
standing in the community in contrast
with that of Mrs. Oyler.
But the district judge after having
taken the child from her father did not
see fit to reverse himself and make Il
restoration. He thought the matter be-
yond his Jurisdiction and advised a Il
appeal to the supreme court.
So here the father has come and
prays the court to give him the
daughter taken away from him six
years ago by the district court.
Father Comfortably Fixed.
Mr.. Williams is now living On his
own farm near Wichita and has a
comfortable home. AS for Mrs. Oyler,
her husband is i'll with consumption
and adversely presses about her
household. But she wants to keep
the child and refused all efforts of
the father to take Mildred away. 1t
| is said that she contemplates taking
the girl to Colorado away from the
Jurisdiction of the Kansas courts.
But the summons issued by the SUI
preme court commands the presence
| of the child. the grandmother and the
| father in its chambers at $3.50 a. m,
December 6 and at this time the
skein will be untangled and Mildred
| future settled.
| VIII Jim Williams good fortune of
the past few years continue and will
| he be able to take his little girl to the
home he won after he rose out of his
poverty? And will Mrs. Oyler's run of
bad luck of the past few years pur-
sue her to Topeka and compel her to
give up her granddaughter she has
raised and appears to care for as her
| own child?
| The justices will have to decide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
PROVING HER INSANE.
Witnesses Testify to Mrs. Reads
Erratic Actions.

Denver, Nov. 1.-THE defense to-
day continued its efforts to prove that
Mrs. Allen F. Read, on trial for the.
: tempted extortion of 100000 from
Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps, was
insane at the time of the attempt. DR..
Anna Ovitt, who accompanied Mrs.
Abby Marshall to the jail to visit Mrs.
Read shortly after the latter's arrival
there, testified that Mrs. Read was
very violent and attempted to strike
Mrs Marshall. Miss Jessie Campbell,
Mrs. Reads sister. testified to Mrs.
east attending her fathers funeral
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
ONLY THREE DAYS.
Y. w. G. A. Must Raise $4,000 i'm
That Time.

Three days yet remain in which to
raise the needed $4,000 for the Y w. c.
A. building fund, and today the cam
paign of solicitation goes on with un-
abated vigor. At noon s45, 1879 had beef.
raised, leaving little more than $29, 0O1
for which amount the workers are
securing the municipality.
During the past "a hours only 81, 167
has been raised but during the after
noon it is expected to raise the amount
materially. Subscriptions in their re.
spective amounts during the past "a
hOrrS are as follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Out of Prison to Testify.

Pittsburg. Pa, Nov. lit is stated
today that William Montgomery, for
-1erly cashier of the defunct Allegheny
National bank of this city, now serv-
ing a sentence of 1 5 years in the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth. Kan, will
he brought to Pittsburg within few
Gays to testify in a suit to recover
100000 which has been entered by
the receiver of the institution against
Murray A. Werner, a we'll known poll
tleian and street railway magnate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Stackhouse to Quit Steel.

Philadelphia, Nov. 7.-Announce-
ment was made here today that Powell
tackhouse, president of the Cambria
steel company, would retire from the
presidency of that corporation at the
EXPIRATION of his term of office, and
that Charles S. Price, vice president
and general manager, would be elect
ed to his place at the next annual
meeting. Mr.. Stackhouse will remain
president of the Cambria Iron COM
pany.
Miss Wabash-How delightfully."- your
sister plays?
man in the back parlor tuning the piano
Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Mgr. McAndrew Dies.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Nov. 17.-Mgr.
Richard A. McAndrew, aged So, pastor
of st. Mary's Catholic church, this
city, and one of the best known clergy
men in the state, died suddenly today
f heart trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
WOULD Avoid a Trade war.

Washington Nov. 17.-John T. Mach.
president of the Associated Ohio Dahl
les, an organization of 116 Ohio news
papers, has sent to President Taft and
to members of the tariff board letter
asking for such action on print paper
duty as will avoid trade war with
Canada.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Here Are Some of the
Colored Dress Goods
i'm This Sale at
Reduced Prices

o. I'd. Something like two
OOC dozen pieces of plain, fan
cy and striped suitings-34 to A
inches wide-the regular values up
to soc.
Enc yd. At this price you'll find
wv serges, panamas, mohairs,
ETC., in a fair assortment of color
ings-cloths 40 to 6 inches wide
values up to 75c.
c. For serges, mohairs, her
O0( ringbone stripes, etc., A to
SO inches wide-values up to 81.
TX yd. One lot suitings, voiles.
~ mohairs and broadcloths, IS
to SO inches wide-valueS up to 81.
OF. yd. An assortment of broad
ON cloths, voiles, serge stripes
and fancies. As to So inches wide,
regular values $1.25.
or. yd. A nice lot of poplins,
OOC broadcloths, voiles. fancy
suitings, ETC., As to 81 inches wide
values up to $3.50.
e. Or yd. You can buy plain
y sAO and stripe suitings, "A
to 54 inches wide, in coed colors,
though not complete lines, ma
terials that have been $3.50 and
$1.75.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Dowagcr of Manchester Ill.

London, Nov. 17.-The dowager
duchess of Manchester, formerly Miss
Conseulo Yznaga of New York, who
las been seriously ill. is today in
critical condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Fur Garments

50-nch Coat of Baltic Seal, wide shawl collar,
wide pointed turn back cuffs, Skinner guaranteed
satin lining fancy shaped crocheted buttons front
and back, an exceedingly handsome garment, only
$500.
34-inch Sable Squirrel Jacket, shawl collar, turn
back cuffs, brocade satin lined; unusual value at
$500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17

stretched. He regaiued consciousness
after a minute, retained it for two
hours, and then lost it internationally
for two days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Fancy Neck Pieces, Cravats, Throws,
Shawls and Stoles

Mnk-s12.5o, $500, $3.50, s22.5o $500, ss5
and $3.50 each.
Jap Mink-ss.5O. 1898, $500, $3.50, $40, s12.5o
$1,000 $3.50. s1s.52 $22.5e. $500, $500.
Sable squirrel-s22 $500, ss2.5o and ss5
each.
Black NORTHUMBERLAND $500, $3.50. $3.50
and $3.50 EACH
Black Fox-s15.oo. s22.5o. $3.50 and $500
each.
Hungarian Lynx-$25.OO each.
Isabella Foxv$15.00, s16.50 and $500 each.
Isabella Opossum-$19.50 each.
Isabella Fox Scarf-$5.0O, $3.50, $1,000, $3.50,
$4,000 to $3.50.
Brook Mink-s1.ss, $780, s2.ss. $3.50. $500.
S5.95, $3.50 to $1,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
lp-Oint.

Hobart s Jap-Oint instant
ly relieves and rapidly cures
Headache, Neuralgia, Ca
tarrh, Hay Fever, Sore
Throat, Group, Cold Sores,
Burns, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, etc, etc. It is
also admirably adapted for
inflammation of the skin and
muscles.
Large Jars 25c
GTHu<oGnzE
Both Phones 49, Free Delivery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
A Special Line Of Silk Waists

Consisting of taetas, messalines and nets that
and up-to-date, both trimmed and tailored gar
ruffle trimmed effects, plain. fancy stripes
and plain colors, such black, brown blue peacock
wisteria, etc. Very unusual values CO or
ior ~ SsOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17
Buy Your Furs During This Thanks
giving Sale and Save Money

Mnketo the world. Iondonare
winter And dby
o Bay Company andC
the prices
il Sprmt the
of
ev
Of
MEN hprem the "
ian paying cash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17

IOtal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81. 16
When this years contracts are
finished there will be over so miles
of paving in the city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17

tic improvements in Topeka the last
fiscal year have amounted to $176,-
e41.47. The cost of running the Office
CT the city engineer amounted to
s9,048. The cost of the work done
during the year amounted to $140,246.
The paving cost alone amounted to
$102,572. The grading. $7,154; curb
ing, $19,222- rolling, $11,297. The
total cost of the seweres amounted to
$33,S91. The new sidewalks reached
he amount of $2,S03. There were
1855 square feet of sidewalk laid,
T7,771 square yards of paving. 31.751
meal feet of curbing, 1s,50S cubic
yards of grading and 20,S13 Iineal feet
of sewer in district 80: 1898 in dis
trict 2S; 1926 lineal feet in Polk street
relief sewer.
This fiscal year there are So miles
NJ paving completed in Topeka. Last
year at the same time A miles was all
The city could claim. Compared with
"A miles of sewer las year there are So
miles this year costing $706,903. The
total area of the city is 8.1875 square
miles.
The complete pavement tables are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17

Fur Sets
These sets consist of either a throw or shawl
effect neck piece and pillow rug muf
Sable Coney-S2.9S to $3.50.
Black Coney-$7.50 to $500.
Black Hare-$10.0O.
Black Opossum-$1O00.
Black Australian Lynx-$25.O0
Black Fox-$29.50 to $500 set.
Black Wolf-$25.00 $3.50.
Baum Martin Fox-$35 90 to $4,000
Russian Sable SquirreI-$5O.OO.
China Sable-S25.OO.
Russian Mink-$17.50
Blue Fox-$5.O0 to $500.
Natural Lynx and Natural Wolf-S35.0O.
Muffs
Note-We can match any of the above neck
pieces with muff, giving you choice sets at al
most any price.
Sable Coney-$1.5o, s1.s5, 1895 and $500.
Black Hare-$7.50.
Black Coney-$3.95 and $500.
Brown Oppossum-$5.95.
Cat Lynx-$15.00 and $3.50.
Isabella Fox-$7.50, $1,000, $3.50, SIS, 1880
Jap Mink-s1o.o0 $500, $1,000 $3.50, s22.50.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
COUNTRY DRIVE IN RUSSIA.
Speed Proportionate to Price Paid
Through Village" Roads.

The Russian popular idea of driving
horses is to fog them along mile after
mile without a moments breathing
space. The speed is proportionate,
within limits, to the price paid, but
the horses are never at any speed al
lowed to slacken.
The high road to Ruza runs in
series of ups and downs like an end.
less 'switchback," yet the "jamshik"
(driverl never once allowed his horses
to rush the last of deciivity to carry
them up the next rise, but kept the
pace steady up hill or down, regular
rate of one verst in five minutes. We
insisted several times on giving the
poor brutes few yards at walk, but
at last had to acquiesce in the custom
OF the country, with the result that at
Ruza it seemed better to take an.
other team for the remaining four
miles across country.
The way now lay over what are
called through village" roads. These
are simply tract of mother earth
bounded on one, sometimes on both
sides by rough ditch, and only other.
wise differentiated from the surround
ing arabic land by the surface being
cut up by wheels instead of plows-
and the Russian plow hardly cuts a
deeper furrow in the fields than
wheeled traffic on such a road"
In order properly to understand
some of the conditions of rural life in
Russia it is necessary to travel in the
simplest manner of the native, our i'm
pressions of the same road when we
returned behind pair of fine horses
in a properly balanced carriage with a
suficiency of springs were wholly mis-
leading, if more enjoyable
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10

the saddle on, and climbed into it, and
then the trouble began.
The giraffe didn't have any bride
on, and no name to hold on to, and he
was built so that the saddle slipped
Gown by his rump, and when the ami
NAL turned around and saw he had
the cowboy where he wanted him,
he started off towards. the forest
on a hop, skip and a jump, kicking
up his heels like a bucking broncho,
and the last we saw of the expedition
the giraffe was jumping over wire
fence and took to the woods, with
the cowboy dangling by one stirrup,
swearing in the Wyoming dialect.
Then we went back to the house to
play golf, and the Michigan man sent
some servants into the woods with
Il stretcher to bring in the remains of
the cowboy.
AS we dismounted at the veranda Pa
lit cigarette and said to the man:
You certainly have all the comforts
of home here, and all the facilities for
enjoyment that anybody has outside
Of travelling menagerie, except draw
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
TRAVEL In NORWAY
PARTS WHICH THE TOURIST
DOES NOT OFTEN SEE.
Beautiful Scenery Which Is to Be
Found Far Remote from the
Fjords Where Travellers
Usually Land.

People who go to Norway for the
fjords of that country can hardly be
said to have seen Norway, because
the most beautiful parts of that coun-
try are far removed from any fjords
These may be visited without undue
fatigue, and ample means of communi-
cation for travellers have been pro-
vided by government or private en-
terprise.
The most modern conveyance is the
carriole, drawn by a single horse.
These are built to carry one passen
ger, and the driver, usually a youth
who sits perched behind.
The modern carrioles have springs
but the older ones have no springs.
and as result one feels tired after
a 40-mile drive. One or more can
be hired at every Skyds-station. The
Stolkjyrre is drawn by one horse. and
holds two persons and the driver be-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10

shot into the hind hams of a lion
hurry, and the lion turned on us, and
Pa told the chauffeur to stop, and he
would settle with the lion.
Pa got out with horse whip and
started for the lion. which gave a roar
like distant thunder, and as l looked
at Pa with the frock coat and silk hat,
walking towards the lion, | thought
that was the last of Pa, and l begged
him to come back, but he said: Never
you mind about me; have seen lions
before" and Pa walked up to the lion
and gave him a cut with the whip.
and yelled: Get back into the jungle,
you tom cat
Well, really, that lion ought to have
turned and put his tail between his
legs and galloped for the woods, but
Pa had made mistake in his lion, for
the animal went up to Pa and took a
mouthful of his pants, and shook him
like a dog would shake a rat, and
Pa yelled for them to take away their
lion if they didn't want the animal
injured.
The animal rolled Pa over on the
ground in the dust, chewed his silk
hat, and Pa got loose and made a rush
for the auto and crawled under it to
fix something, and just then the cow
boy came along on pony and threw
his lariat over the lions head and
pulled him away across the track, and
Pa came out from under the machine
and took big monkey wrench and
started again for the lion, bare-head-
ed, and so mad he fairly frothed at the
mouth, after he saw that the lion was
choked nearly to death, and then
Pa mauled the apparently dead lion
until the cowboy dismounted from the
pony and got his lariat rope back.
Pa gave the lion couple of kicks,
and got back into the auto, and the
Michigan man patted him on the back
and said: 'Old man, you are a king
OF beasts, sure enough" and Pa said:
20, l don't know; l never did like a
cowardly lion, no how
We chased some more animals
around the track, and the Michigan
man said he hoped the toothless old
lion would not die, as he was saving
him for Roosevelt to practice on when
he came to the ranch after the 4th of
March.
The cowboy went across the field
where tame giraffe was grazing in a
tree top and took the saddle of his
pony and put it on the giraffe. and
We run up to where he was and the
Michigan man asked him what he was
going to do, and he said he was going
to ride the giraffe, as he had ridden
almost everything that walked on four
legs except a giraffe
The Michigan man told him he had
better leave the giraffe out of his
repertoire, because a giraffe was
mighty uncertain, but the cowboy got
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10

that the law is more honored in the
breach than the observance.
The British government, watching
the Chinese experiment with some
suspicion, but willing to cooperate in
any honest effort at reformation, prom
ised to restrict by one-tenth each year
for three years the amount of opium
exported from India. If at the end Of
that time it appears that the Chinese
are making genuine efforts to stamp
out the curse then the British au-
thorities promise still further restric-
lions on the expectation. If these two
producing nations play fairly with
each other and are sincere in their
determination to root out the evil,
then ten years should be the limit to
the time when the opium imp will be
at liberty to rampage around and de-
stroy men and women.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
A Terrible Loss.

AS is the case with all occurrences
where tragedy is uppermost, the col
lision between the Republic and the
Florida brought out some amusing in
cidents. Here Is one:
When the Republic passengers were
brought OH board the Baltic many Of
them had saved practically none Of
their belongings. One lady, arrayed
in a night-gown and fur coat, all she
had brought with her from the sinking
ship, climbed over the side of the Bal
tic, and spied sort Of bulletin board.
on which notices of interest to the pas
sengers were posted. The following
caught that lady's eye:
'Lost-One gold button: Finder
please return to -"
The possessor of one nightgown and
one fur coat looked long and solemnly
at that notice.
'TLost-one gold BUTTON" she muir
INJURED, dreamily. Think of it-one
button-lost!"
Then she went into Mysteries.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-10
REACHING OUT TO ENsLAvE THE
WHITE RACES OF WORLD.
Victims of the Seductive Drug Not
Alone Found in the FIowery
kingdom-An Alarming
Condition.

While China is endeavoring to rid
herself of the curse of opium, the
white races of the other parts of the
world are falling under its seductive
spell. Figures prove this and those
who are in close touch with the Chi
nese populations of our cities know it
by observation. The Chinaman smokes
less opium than he used to do and
the population of the Chinese quarters
is dwindling so that there are fewsr
yellow men to convert into pungent
smoke the product of the poppy. One
hundred and fifty thousand pounds of
smoking opium were imported into
the United States last year and the
small Chinese population in this coun-
try consumed nothing like that
amount. Where did it go?
The only possible answer to that
question is that the white men and
women who are becoming addicted
to this terrible habit consumed the
drug, and the realization of this fact
is the reason for this country combin-
ing with the countries of the world
to discuss ways and means of stamp
ing out an evil that threatens dire
consequences to the nation.
The important question will be dis
cussed at Shanghai, China, the repre-
sentatives from this country being
Bishop Brent, DR.. Hamilton Wright,
an authority on tropical diseases, and
DR.. c. d. Tennoy, the Interpreter of
the American legation at Picking, the
Chinese capital.
Originally the intention was to dis
cuss some means of regulating the
importation of this drug because of
its generally evil effects. 1t was not
realized at that time that the very
life of the nation was being affected
by the growing popularity of opium.
When the figures were brought to
light by the Americans appointed to
meet the foreign delegates at Shang-
hal and it was seen that this was not
a yellow, but white peril, the meet
Ing that was planned as a sort of
friendly conference assumed very diff.
ferent proportions andn now some steps
will be taken to strike at the root OF
the deadly poppy plant and keep il