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The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
MUST JOURNEY TO NEW YORK.
George HI. Benefits Trouble in Bring
ing English Brothers to Topeka.

George H. Bennett. an apprentice
in the employ of the blacksmith de-
partment Of the Santa Fe shops, is in
dire distress over an unexpected con-
dition with which he is confronted.
He is one of a family of three Eng
lish orphans and left his home across
the sea three years ago when he was
but 1S years of age and came directly
to Topeka.
He has labored industriousIy since
that time and has accumulated enough
funds to secure the passage of his
brothers, Ernest Alfred, aged 15, and
Alfred Edward, aged 13, from England
to Topeka, where he expects to assist
them in making home for them
selves The money for the transporta-
ton charges has been sent to the
brothers in England and they will
sail for this country next Saturday.
All this is well; but the trouble
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
CARRIES s9,971,625.
Emergency River and Harbors Bill Is
Reported.

Washington, Feb 19.-Chairman Bur
ton, of the house committee, on rivers
and harbors today introduced the emer-
gency and maintenance bill for water
ways improvements, which reaches
total appropriation of $9,971 ,625.
The bill provides for a national wa
terways commission of five senators
and seven members of the house. For
the expenses of the commission which
is empowered to employ expert aid to
investigate waterways in this country
and Europe $50, 900 is provided.
Provision is also made for a survey
for a 35 foot channel in the Delaware
river from Philadelphia to the sea and
for the purchase of the property of
the power company at Saulte Ste Marie
on St. Mary's river, which has been the
cause of dispute in settling the water
boundary between the United States
and Canada.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
MUNSON FUND GROWS.
Now Amounts to Over Six Hundred
Dollars.

The subscription to the Munson fund
now aggregates considerably over $500
which is remarkable indication of
the charity of the people of the city as
no subscription papers have been cir
culated and the greater portion of the
money in the fund has been brought to
the Prudential bank by the donors. A
number Of contributions to the fund
have come from distant parts of the
state through the mails and few from
residents of other states.
Chief of Police Eaton has granted the
request of his officers to sell tickets for
the performance which will be given at
the Majestic theater Sunday The huS-
band and father who met death under
the falling walls of the Parkhurst-
Davis building was a prime favorite
with the force He met many of the
men while they were on duty at night
as he was night watchman at the gas
company's plant and showed them
many little courtesies which made him
a prime favorite with the force.
If you want to help the fund by the
purchase of a, ticket the benefit per-
formance Sunday you can get it Of the
first policeman you meet or at the
Prudential bank at the corner of Kan
sas avenue and Seventh street. If you
desire to contribute to the fund directly
you can do so by leaving the donation
at the bank or remitting by mail.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
WOMEN SENT TO JAIL.
Ten Suffragettes Given Terms of One
Month to Six Weeks.

London, Feb. 19.-Sixteen suf-
fragettes, who were arrested during
the disorders yesterday. came up for
trial today in the Bow street police
court. Ten of them were sentenced
to terms of Imprisonment varying
from one month to six weeks after
having refused to give security for
their good behavior for six months.
Two of the prisoners gave the re-
quired sureties and the other four
were discharged.
Mrs. Despard, Joseph Clayton, editor
of The New Age, and the others arrest
ed in the house of commons last night
were in the Bow street police court later
ia the day, Mrs. Despard and several
of the other women secured an adjourn
ment of their trial for a week in order
to prepare a defense. Mr.. Clayton was
remanded for a week. A Russian wo-
man. Madame Borovikovski, was sent to
prison for a month on her refusal to be
bound over to keep the peace.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
COMMITTEE OF 15."
Called for Tomorrow on Parhhurst-
Davis Business.

The Parkhurst-Davis company
wholesale grocers, are doing business
at their temporary location, Second
and Kansas avenue. Large quantities
of goods are arriving and it is taxing
the store to take care of the merchan-
disc
The Committee of Fifteen has
been called by S. E. Lux, chairman of
the committee, to meet at the Nc
Cord Kistler building Saturday at 8
o'clock sharp. The committee will
endeavor to assist the Parkhurst-
Davis company to additional room i'm
peratively demanded by the business
The Parkhurst-Davis people are do
ing as well as could be expected under
their handicap. They are receiving
wonderfully fine letters from their old
customers all over Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

which has arisen is over a clause in
the immigration laws which makes 1t
necessary for him to journey to New
York to meet them, as they are
minors, so he is informed by the
agent for the steamship line which
will bring them to America Arrange
ments have been completed for an
uncle. w. p. Wilson, who is a Santa
Fe engineer and a resident of To-
peka, to meet them in Chicago, but it
now seems that some one must meet
them in New York city.
Efforts are being made to straighten
out the tangle and possibly they will
be successful and the trip to New York
avoided. Mr.. Bennett has secured a
promise of places in the Santa Fe
shops for his brothers as soon as they
arrive in Topeka and he is looking
forward to the reunfting of all that re-
mains of his family
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
LOCAL MENTION.

No better evidence of the public's
loyal support of a home business can
be cited than the patronage given the
Independent Telephone Company as
evidenced by their new supplement to
the City Directory just issued.
Smokers who appreciate a saving
on their cigar bills. will profit by
buying Eagles Rose Tint cigars by the
box. In this way you can secure them
In a fresh condition, at considerable
saving.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
UNIFORM SYSTEM.
Plan of Fire Marshal for Record Gas
Cut-OffS.

To have a uniform system of gas cut
offs is the plan of the fire marshal and
tage to the property owners as we'll as
the fire department. The fire depart
ment does not have a record of any
kind showing the location of the gas
cutoff boxes and when a fire breaks
out 1t is necessary for search to be
made before the valve can be found.
At the P.-D. fire a captain and a lieu
tenant under the first orders of the fire
chief hunted all over and through the
cellar of the building, including a hunt
around the curbing for the valve to cut
off the gas supply. But 1t was not to
be found and the building chemist as
well as Mr.. Davis himself knew moth
ing of the whereabouts of the cutoff
box. 1t was found at last by a man
who lost his life in the search. In many
of the business buildings in the city
the cutoffs are down in the cellar-a
most dangerous place to roam during
the progress of fire. Sometimes it
can be found under a platform or a
porch of some kind. There is no uni
the valve and this is what the fire
marshal would like to see. Two good
rules to follow when the house gets on
fire is to first telephone and then run
to the cellar and shut off the gas-if it
is possible to do the latter Many times
it takes strong man and a wrench or
key of some kind to turn the cutoff.
But the gas company does not care as
long as the gas flows through the
meter.
The roof of the city hall will be COW
cred this week with a new prepara-
tion invented by the street commits
sioner, Frank Snyder This preparation
is a mixture of pitch and asphalt and
will make a solid covering a quarter of
an inch thick. The roof has been leak
ing continually lately and paint and
tar have had little effect upon the
downpours. Yesterday the plastering
all fell in the city attorneys Office and
it was necessary to remove the furni-
ture and books. The new Snyder pre-
paration will not run. melt, evaporate,
wearout or decay. 1t is a marvel.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

Kind friend, 1 am a miner, and a true
one too, But crippled as you can see, 1
now ask aid of you. In buying this
poem of me, You help not me alone,
But an invalid wife and child, In an
humble miners home. Please give what
you can
The poem proved to be a cats eye,
opal, or other unlucky jewel for James
was taken to the station by Officer Fri
bance and was fined $25. The poor min
er could get around remarkably well
and even reached the shop district
where he went to the home of a laborer
and told the wife that he must have
money. She told him that she had
none, but he retorted that the day be-
fore had been pay day and he knew she
had, whereupon she fled to a neighbor's
house and then summoned the patrol
man.
1t is the opinion of Judge Urmy that
this kind of beggar is an extreme
nuisance, loose. and S25 will serve to
illustrate his point to the miner and his
poem.
Carl johnson. who was reported to
have been most cruelty set upon by
Island bridge, hit upon the head and
beaten to insensibility before being res
cued by a strange white man, has been
convicted of a different story
Some one had carried Johnson into
a lower avenue drug store and summon
ed DR.. Keith to come and sew him up.
Six stitches were taken in the wound on
his head and Carl fixed up his story,
or some one fixed it up for him, that
he had been slugged in an attempt to
rob him.
The police were notified but could
find no suspicious characters and had
the failure to detect the criminals
charged up to their lost account. Now
the true story has been learned which
is to the effect that Carl, recent ar
rival from Wyoming and a worker in
the tie treating plant of the Union Pa
kicked out of the Swedish club on West
First street but was afraid to say where
he received his drubbing fearing the
stringency with which the clubs are
controlled would lead to trouble for his
countrymen. He had been drinking
got into some argument with others
present which resulted in split head,
bruised body, and dumping into the
street He lay in the snow insensi-
BILE for an hour or more when he came
to and went to the drug store to have
his head sewed up.
Justin Kilroy, runaway boy from
Poseyville, Posey county, Ind, has been
returned to his home upon advice of his
father who is a lawyer there. Justin
had started out for hike about
month ago with three other boys. When
they reached Topeka the first of the
week Justin deserted while the others
went on to Texas. He then wrote home
for some more money which his father
sent but before the letter got here the
police had been notified by that same
parent to hold the boy. He was taken
in and his father informed. Money
and the boy, about II years old, was
seen onto this train for his home
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
She Poisoned Herself.

Chicago, Feb. 19.--Mrs. V. c. Boak
Fenner, who recently was fined for an
alleged attempt to extort money from
Rev. PerIey Powers and who accused
him before the trustees of his church.
the Adams Street Methodist Episcopal
of making affectionate advances tow
ard her, died at the hospital today of
poison elf-administered.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
MADE QUICK WORK.
Officers Wrecked a Bank Ten Days
After 1t Started.

Chicago, Feb. 19.-Former Circuit
Judge Abner Smith and Gustave f.
Sorrow, under a decision of the su-
preme court at Springfield today, must
go to the penitentiary. They were
convicted of wrecking the Bank of
America ten days after it had been
opened for business, the stockholders
losing S175.000
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
Yerkes Case COMES Up.

Chicago, Feb. 19.-Hearing of the
suit of Mrs. Adelaide Yerkes. widow
of the late Charles T. Yerkes, to have
Louis S. Osley removed as an executor
of the late traction magnate's estates,
was begun today before Judge Cut
ting In the probate court.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
Resigns AMOR Eleven years

Thomas d. Nichols today resigned as
president of district No. l. United Mine
Workers of America, an office he has
filled for IL years. Ill health is given as
the reason.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

of paralysis The funeral will be held
Sunday afternoon at o'clock from the Mt.
Olive. NJ. E. church. corner of Twelfth |
and Buchanan streets.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs William Smith, mother of Charles
Blood Smith. w, A. Smith and Mrs. w. A.
Morton died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. w. A. Morton. $40 West Tenth street
today of old age. The funeral will be held
from the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Morton, $40 West Tenth avenue Sunday
afternoon at 2:3O.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
Respite for Condemned Man.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 19.-R. Mead
Shumway, under sentence of death,
was granted a respite until March 5,
by Governor ShalIenberger today.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

John A. Smith, 72 years of age. died at
clock this morning of Bright'S disease
at his home. 1927 Kansas avenue. The
funeral announcement will be made later.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

Joseph weldy. an old soldier, died a
the home of c. p King, 9O6 Madison street
where he has lived for the past ten years
last night at the age of 73 years o.
uraemic poison. The funeral will be helt
from the Barkley undertaking parlors Sat
urday afternoon at 2:30.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

The funeral of Mrs. Cremer, mother OF
G. Z. Cremer of 1907 North Van Burer
street will be held from her former home
$40 East Tenth avenue at o'clock Sun
day.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

The funeral of Dudley Arthur who died
at 904 Kansas avenue was held from the
undertaking parlors of Stonestreet & Ham
| ilton this afternoon. at 3 O'clock.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

Mrs Laura Williamson, II years of age,
died at her home on Lane street Thursday
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

The exquisite little bit of verse fol-
lowing was carried about with the
hopes that it was a jewel by a miner
named James Davis from Denver:
New-York tribune., 1909-12-12
OTHER LIVESTOCK MARKETS.

steady; beeves. Sass IS; Texas steers. Sc s0g
81 so: Western steers. 81 25dsT: stockers and
feeders. So 10dS5 %: cows and heifers. s2 log
8 e5 calves ssass 90 HSGSRsesipss y 900 ,s
IS IS: heavy. ss 25dss 20: rough. IS 25qss 40;
good to choice heavy. IS 40ass 10; pigs. s6 e5en
81 90: bulk Of sales. IS 4odss 6n. SHEEP-Re-
ceiptS. 5000: steady: native. S. 5oqs5 so; West
ern. So 1886 50: yearlings. Sc 25qsI oS; native
ZOO including 500 Southerns: steady: receipts
for the week, co. 1O0 choice export and dressed
beef steers. IS 25dSs 80: fair 10 good. S5n<6;
Western steers. So aoas6 80. stockers and fsed-
srs 81 2ags5 2S sos,hern steers S. sog 8 90 80
IS; native heifers. So S5dsT; bulls So 251sf SO:
calves Sass so. HoGs-Receipts. 5000: Sc
higher; receipts for the week so 200; TOP. S. SO;
s. 35; pigs. s6 75qs7 rs. sHEEP-Rsceipts. 800;
steady: receipts for the week IS. 500: lambs.
Sc 25aSs IS: yearlngs. IS T5GS1: wethers. 81 5oa7
So; ewes. Sass 40. stockers and feeders. 50 80
as %
CINCINNATI. Dec. i.-CATTI.F;--Receipts s45.
mon. 81 T5qSi 5o. IIOGS-Receipts 2,IoS: easy;
sc lower; butchers and shippers. IS 5odSs 5S;
common. So 50@SS 10 SHEEF-Receipts. SIS;
steady; 81 5oqsf73. LAMBS-Strons; ssqse
$50: steady. VEALS-Receipts. $50; active and
25c lower: s6as1O .. HoGs-Reeeipts. 5000
SLOW aud mostly 10c lower: heavy. s. T0GSs -,
mixed. IS s5dSs 20; Workers. IS todss ~: nigs.
SSGss 80: roughs. 81 I5nss. stags 50 TSnST -
dairies IS 4sfIsS so. SHEEP AND LANES -
wethers steady: others a5c lower: lambs 10a i5c
lower. at 81 25GsS so a few IS %: yearlines.
So 5OdSz. wethers. 81 254S5 IS: ewes. S5@S5 2S
mixed sheep. S2gS5 -: canada lambs. SsaSs %
New-York tribune., 1909-12-12
LIVESTOCK MARKET.
Nav Work. Dscrmhar II

New York. December IL. 1909
BEEyES-Reeeipts, so cars. or l.GlS head.
all for slaughterers and exporters No demand
for the stale cattle. Nominally steady for all
sorts and grades There was a moderate de-
msnd for dressed beet al last quotations,
quarters the Minnehahs TO London; 1.49s
quarters in the New York 70 Southampton
and T34 quarters in the Arabic TO Liverpool
CALyES-Receipts. 40 head. including SC
Indiana calves for the market. Steady feeling
for all grades and sorts Fair Indiana veais
sold at so so per 100 ID: throw-outs At SIS 80.
Dressed calves quiet. but full steady<at lO6
nc for city dressed veals; 9T14c for coun-
try dressed; and TQec for dressed barnyard
calves
Salss-Rerns Commission Company: % In
diana veals. 15S ID average. 50 so per 100 ID:
13 throw-outs. 154 III, S6 so.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts. IS cars. or
2.9T1 head. including one car for the market.
No prime very good stock offered Feeling
firm for both shssp and lambs Fairly good
sheep sold at 81 IS per 100 Ii; culls at So;
medium lambs at 81 T5; eulls at SIS. Dressed
mutton steady az sis q loc. with choice wethsr
strong at 1ii d1Sc. with hog dressed lamb,
selling up 20 14c: country dressed hothouse
lambs steady at IS SI2 90 per carcass.
Sales-Herrs Commission Company. 12 In
diana lambs. IS 10 average. 81 rs per 100 III:
23 culls 81 Ii. s6; i5 sheep. l0S 10. 81 75. Is
cuTls. 92 II. So . goats. so ID. So so
HOGS-Receipts. 1s cars. or S.25S head. all
for slaushtersrs. Nominally steady at Sc 50
per 100 ID; country dressed hogs full steady
sales date yesterdayl-S. Sanders; Is state
hogs 22T Ii average. s. rs per 100 III: -.
13T 10. Ss 81. rough, $50 Ii. 81 50; boar.
go 10. 81.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-12
HALF A MILLION KILLED.

II those grim castle walls could talk,
what tale of terror and torture, hloodshed
ana anguish they would unfold, A cursory
calculation. based upon the number OF
times smyrna has been taken and lost,
has shown 20 me that within those walls
alone three 10 hvs hundred thousand
human beings must have violently per
ished: within the city below four or five
millions by the sword and as many again
BY earthquake and pestilenoe.
II is meet that in so old a town the
leEends-and smyrna has hundreds OF leg
ends-should partske Of the quality OF
age OF such is the story Of the Wander
ing Jew. In Christ's time there lived In
Jerusalem q cobhler. whose two names
commenced with sleph. beth Ghe a. b Of
the Hebrew alphsbetl-so. At least. says
the Anstolian version of the story. On
His way 20 Calvary. carrying the cross.
Christ rested on his doorstep. and he
drove Him away with curses Christ,
turning on him. ssid. Thou hast forbid
den Ne 10 rest. thou shalt not rest"
Since then he is a homeless. curse-laden
Wsnderer. and he cannot die
lie was seen and spoken 10 in Germany
several times. In the fifteenth. sixteenth
ana seventeenth centuries. when the Ger
Ahss Ber. afterwsTd corrupted 10 Ahas-
.-erus or Ahssuerus. Once I'm every hun
dred yesrs he visits the sacred places OF
.he Esst-Jerusalem. Bethlehem. the Lake
Of Galilec. Mount Carmel. Damascus. the
seven Churches OF Asia tamong them
Fphesus and Smyrns). In each place he
leaves on some wall or building that was
in existence in his time his mark: the
iritials A. y. in three languages.
Descending from Mount Pagus. we go
cut OF our way. and after an hours search
in a maze of alleys We ind the arched
gateway which We have seen from above.
We search for the Wandering Jews mark.
on q smooth corner stone there are-rude-
lv carved as ~ with blunt chisel. per-
hans sixty or eighty years sgo-three
sets OF two single letters. one above the
other, the Hebrew aleph. BETH the Greek
slpha. beta; the Arabic elf. be.-Captain
j.. W. Won Herbert, in Chamberss Jour
IsL
New-York tribune., 1909-12-12
EXPORTS.
CASH QUOTATIONS.
Kew York. December n.

New York December II. 1909.
AIN-WHEAT-Little animation I'm the
market although other cereals were strong and
active Prices carly in the day were somewhat
frmer in the absence Of offerings and on mod
crate commission house buying. Liverpool show ed
4 poor response 10 fTmness Of Friday. and
foreign operators As rule. apparently attach
Argentina Continental markets were firm, how
ever and 81 Berlin prices were @c higher with
reports OF good buying "a a result OF strength ia
the outside markets. The New York market al
4 D m was quoted at 81 n = for December, 81 10
for Nav and 81 O5a for July. No red here
cbossd az 81 38is elevator. domestic and 81 20
q n anoat: No I Northern Duluth. 81 2lHs, and
No . hard winter 81 22ss o afioat. all nom
iual CORN-Strong and active with heavy
buving by commission houses, and prices sd
xanced 10 new high records for the season, rep
resentlng gains OF almost &c "A bush for the
week The advance brought about largely
by an oveFsold market as many traders had sold
heavily IN anticipation Of sharp increase In
an O'Clock we're: December. lOi.e bid; May,
5Il.c bid. Cash corn was steady; No quoted
zoe elevator domestic, T2isc delivered and &c
a b anoat all nominal. oATS-Active and
arm advancing In sympathy with corn and on
sn Increased speculative demand. Cash oats
go rrm with MIXED. 20 TO - 10. asa i6c.
ns,,srai white 20 10 32 10. 46. gs9c, and clipped
~,iite' "A 90 ~ NJ s7,sq5isc, RYE-ffrm; No
:, western s3Ac, nominal, b New York.
RARLEY-steady: feeding. o3aaoe New
York. xo..y ,,,,rs
wheat; opsn. HiEh. Lew. SIe,s d.y
New-York tribune., 1909-12-12
UNDERGROUND PASSAGES.

That black hole-walled up by the Turks
FIVE hundred years ago. but reopened re-
Gently by the curiosity of explorers-leads
TO a complete system of underground pas
sases, by means of which the castle on
the hill and the city on the seashore were
connected in Roman times. Its examination
is at present impossible, for the stairs
have long since cr7Imbled away. one
opening in the town was discovered when
the railway station at Caravan Bridge
was built. forty years ago; but the vaults
were decrepit, the Greek woramen timid
and supersutious, and the opening was
bricked up. On it's site stands a goods
shed.
Popular tradition and the examination
OF old local records moved me TO seek
another opening beneath a modern dwell
ing house i'm a turning off the Rue Frank
/ interviewed The occupier, an educated
Leyantine. who is also the owner and was
The original builder. but my first words
caused him 10 start with terror. and he
begged nc. with every symptom OF trem-
ling fear anG anxiety. never 10 mention
that accursed passage have not learned
the reason Of his fright.
Enough daylight is admitted by the hole
in the wall 10 allow one standing on its
dangerous threshold TO examine the
masonry. which seems 20 extend into
the bowels of the earth. Here the his
tory Of Smyrna prior 20 Cr9sus is writ
ten I'm stone; Greeks of various kinds
DOMAIN. Eolian). Ph1nicians twho were
tho first systematic eolonizsrs Of Asia
Minor. Utilities Cmentioned I'm the Old
Testsrnenp. and below the very founda-
lions laid by the original inhabitants
tCsrians or Lelegians) six thoussnd years
or more ago Sixty centuries, The In
habitants of the British Isles were half
beasts then. Two hundred generations
have lived and died since then; every
trace OF those builders. in languszeh phys
iosnomv. faith and hlstcry. has disap-
peared. but their stones remain. and have
served as foundations 10 the superim-
posed stones of twenty different nations.
rising. hourishing. and d.csying. one after
the other