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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
LIBEL CASES CALLED.
indianapolis News Men Resist Re-
movaI to District Columbia.

Indianapolis, Ind, June 1.-Charg-
ed with having committed criminal
libel in publishing articles charging
that there was corruption in the pur-
chase of the Panama canal by the
United States, Delevan Smith and
Charles r. Williams, owners of the
Indianapolis News appeared before
Judge Anderson, in the United States
district court today resisting the eff
fort of the federal government to re-
move them for trial to the District of
Columbia, the grand jury of which
found the indictments against them
and the proprietors of the New York
World in the same matter.
Stuart Mcnamara, assistant United
States attorney for the District of
Columbia, made the government s
opening statement. He said the de-
PENDANTS had published in their news
paper charges that a syndicate COM
posed of G. P. Taft, Douglas Robin
son, William Nelson Cromwell, j.
Pierpont Morgan and other bought
from the old Panama canal company
its securities for about $12,000,000
and by use of their influence in the
high places of the government, were
enabled to unload the Panama prop
SAC, 100000 thus wrongfully taking an
enormous profit. Mr.. Mcnamara ask
ed that Judge Anderson, sitting as a
committing magistrate, make an order
removing MeSSrS. Smith ana W1n1anS
to the District of Columbia for trial.
Ferdinand Winter for the defense,
maintained that the indictment was
defective on it's face; that the offense
alleged was not one in which defen-
dants could be removed from their
own United States district to another
for trial. He called the first witness
Ernest L. Lewis, a staff correspondent
for the Indianapolis News to examine
him as to instructions given to him
for the writing of certain articles, but
objection was raised by United States
Attorney Miller for this district.
The court ruled that he would hear
the evidence. Mr.. Lewis proceeded to
testify that he was about the national
Republican, and Democratic head
quarters in Chicago in October 1908,
and that there was gossip of the con-
ditions of the transfer of the Panama
canal zone to the United States, but
he took no notice of the matter in his
dispatches to his newspaper until af-
ter. the publication in a Chicago news
paper of a cable from Paris bearing
on the subject and that he had no in
structions from the defendants as to
his course in reporting these rumors
and ALLEGATIONS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
1T IS UNPRECEDENTED.
Arraignment at Bar of Q. S. Supreme
Court for Contempt.

Washington June In the cases
of former Sheriff Shipp and others
of Chattanooga, charged with con-
tempt of the supreme court of the
United States, the court today post
poned the passing of sentence to per-
nit the prisoners to file petitions for
a rehearing. The cases therefore go
over until next term. the prisoners
remaining out on bond
The arraignment OF SIX men pc
fore the bar of the supreme court
was an unprecedented spectacle in
this, the highest tribunal in the ma
ton. The prisoners consisted of for
mer Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp of
Hamilton county, Tennessee, and his
jailer deputy, Jeremiah Gotson and
Luther Williams, Nick Nolan, Henry
Padgett and w. NJ. Maise, all of
Chattanooga. They are the men who
court on the charge of contempt in
permitting and participating IN the
lynching in 1905 of negro named
Ed Johnson, after the supreme court
had granted permission to MIN 10
bring his case to the supreme court
on appeal. He had been found guilty
of criminal assault and was under
sentence to be hanged.
The granting of the appeal acted
as a writ of supersedeas. and when
the fact of this action became known
in Chattanooga, where johnson was
in Jail, and when they found that 1t
would cause postponement of the
execution if indeed it might not en-
tirely prevent it. dawned upon the
people of that city. there was con
siderable excitement which cul-
minated during the night following IN
a mob taking Johnson from the jail
and hanging him.
The act was resented by the court
as one of the fragrant contempt. and
Immediately complaint was made to
President Roosevelt with the result
that he placed the matter IN the
hands of the department of justice
who took immediate steps to ascer-
tain the names of the participants In
the lynching.
Proceedings were then instituted
against the sheriff and number or
his deputies, as well as against
about twenty citizens of Chattanooga.
The inquiry which was subsequently
made on behalf of the court reduced
this number to nine and the courts $
own intervention eliminated three
others. leaving six to be taken be-
fore the tribunal. The Offenders
came into court today in a body
They were accompanied by officers
of the law. and by their attorneys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01

Preceding the unveiling of the
monument John s. Strange made a
few remarks on the completion of the
monument and what it commemor-
ates. He is one of the early settlers
of Lincoln county. His son was kill
ed by the Indians, in the raid through
Lincoln county.
The monument stands in the court
house yard, at the front entrance. 1t
is built of dark Quincy granite, IA
feet high above the ground and rests
upon five foot concrete foundation.
The work was done by H. Sahlmann,
of Lincoln. The monument associa-
tion is out of debt having paid all
obligations by free subscriptions.
The first subscription to the fund
was made in October last, and since
then other contributions aggregating
about $500 have been paid into the
monument building committee, of
which c. Bernhardt was chairman. To
him has fallen the task of collecting
the money, and he has made a sue
cess of the undertaking. On the 9Th
of May the Masonic lodge of Lincoln
laid the foundation stone, and on the
31st of May the monument was COM
pleted and dedicated.
Inscriptions Tell the Story.
The inscriptions on the monument
are as follows: Front view, facing
south: Erected by free gifts in mem
ory of those massacred or captured by
Indians in what is now Lincoln coun-
ty. Dedicated May 80, 1909" And
this sentence follows: Remember the
days of old.''
On the west side is this inscription:
'Massacred May 80, 1869, between
Trail and Beaver Creeks, E. Lauvrit-
zen, o. Peterson, F. Meigherhoff, G.
Weichell. F. Al1erdice, years old,
J. Daley, Z years old, A Allerdice.
months old, ]. II. Strange, IA, years
old, A. Schmutz, IA years old.''
On the north side: Captured May
80, 1869, Mrs. Allerdice, Mrs. WEIGH
ell; Mrs. Allerdice killed by Sioux
chief during battle with u. S. Cavalry
July IL, 1859 on south fork of Platte
river in Colorado territory; Mrs.
Weicheu wounded and rescued in the
same battle.
"Massacred August s, 1864. on Beaver
Creek, J. L. Moffitt, T. Moffitt, ]. w.
Houston, - Tyler. -----..---.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
TAVERN HELD UP.
Colorado Resort Hotel Guests Robbed
of SO, 900 Cash and Jewels.

Denver. Col, June -Four masked
highwaymen held up crowd of 80
merrymakers at the Tavern, a resort
at Petersburg, about 10 miles from
Denver. last night and made away
with more than $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and 5000 in cash. They es-
capped on horseback and avoided the
pursuit of the sheriff, who with a
posse set out in chase.
The frivolity of the Tavern was at
its height, when four men 1ounged in
at as many doors and presented
brace of revoivers each. All hands
went skyward and the leader of the
gang took up a collection of jewels
and money and with his companions
clattered away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
Shaft Erected in Memory of Set.
tiers Slain by Indians.
Memorial Day Selected as Ap.
pirate Time for dwelling.
STANDSIN COURTYARD
Inscriptions Tell Of Deaths of
Lincoln County Pioneers.
Aged, Youth and Children Alike
Victims of Cruel Savages.

Lincoln, June 1.-The monument
erected by the people of Lincoln
county in memory of the settlers who
were killed by the Indians in the
raids through Lincoln county in the
sixties was dedicated in the presence
of large number of people, Monday,
May 81. The monument was un-
veiled by Mrs. Mary Edwards, of Syl-
van Grove, niece of Mrs.Allerdice, who
was killed by the Indians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
FLIGHT is RESUMED.
Count Zeppelin Goes AIoft for Return
to Friedrichshafen.

Goeppingen, June 1.-The Zeppelin
airship that came down here yesterday
on it's return from Bitterfield and sus-
tanned injuries in the maneuver, went
aloft at 3:20 this afternoon and head
ed in the direction of F'riedrichshafen.
Temporary repairs to permit of the re-
turn trip had been effected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
HER SECOND TRIAL.
Mrs. Kaufman Again Arraigned on
Charge of Murder.

Flandreau, S. D., June 1.-The sef
ond trial of Mrs. Emma Kaufman, wife
of a wealthy brewer of this city. on the
charge of having killed her servant,
Agnes Polreis, about two years ago,
began here today. Mrs. Kaufman was
once convicted of manslaughter after a
long trial full of sensational testimony.
She is charged with having beaten the
girl and of having burned her with hot
water, causing her death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
CHARGED WITH TAX DoDGING.
Wealthy Fort Scott Man Failed to List
Property Valued at SIS, 1000.

Fort Scott, Kan, June L-James Hart.
who has property valued at s100 900,
was arrested on a state warrant charg-
ing tax lodging. Mr.. Hart is charged
with failing to turn in $4,000 worth of
personal property.
He furnished bond in the sum of ST.
500 and will fight the case when it is
called in the district court at the ap-
preaching term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
HAVE TOO MANY CARS.
New Problem Presents Itself to Amer
ican Roads.

Chicago, June 1.-The American Rail-
way association is wrestling with the
problem of the enormous loss OCCASION
ed by the tremendous car surplus in
the hope of discovering some method
of decreasing it. That the problem has
become a serious one is shown by the
statement that the railroads now have
a sufficient number of idle cars to
carry between four and five billion
tons of freight one mile each daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
Wheater Is pleasant

Slight showers in the western central
part of the state have raised the Kaw
river six-tenths of a foot at Topeka
but it is still over a foot below normal
Last nights attempt at rain in this
locality was dismal failure, and dust
still prevails.
This afternoon the wind is blowing
10 miles an hour from the south. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
Weather Indications.

Chicago, June Forecast for
Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday; cooler tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01

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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22
]. PIERPoNr MORGAN IR.

j. Perpont Morgan Jr. has taken
over a great share of the financial
responsibilities his father has piled
up, and the time cannot be far dis
tant when he will be the head of
the house of Morgan & Co. The
younger Morgan is Al years old and,
like John D. RockefellerBJr is a
Shining example to those rich mems
sons who are active chiefly In dissi-
'pating the wealth they did not earn.
The younger Morgan began rs a
clerk in his fathers office immediate
ly after his graduation from college.
He obeyed the same rules as s. the
others and displayed great capac-
lty for hard work and an intuitiye,
grasp of the complexities of higher
finance. He was shifted from one
department to another as soon as
he had mastered its details, and.
upon the death of Walter Burns who
mad long been the head of the Lon
don house of ]. P. Morgan & Co., was
transferred there. He has since ,ad.
vanced steadily and surely in the fl
nancial world. He has directed some
of the biggest financial deals in re-
cent years and has won the respect
OF the greatest financiers in both
Europe and America.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22
THE DEADLY lcE-Box.

DIR. Harvey w. Wiley says that
the average household refrigerator is
n charnel-house.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22

they voluntarily leave it then other
people have a right to settle on it,
Nothing can be sold but such things
as can be carried away.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22

My reason teaches me that land
cannot be sold. The Great Spirit
gave it to his children to live upon
and cultivate as far as necessary for
their subsistence. and so long as
they occupy and cultivate it they
have the right to the soil, but IT
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22
FRIENDSHIP

"TheTe is no folly equal to that
of throwing away friendship in a
world where friendship is so e."-
Edward Bulwer.
A friend is a rare book of which
but one copy is made. We read a
page of it every day until some
woman snatches it from our hands,
who sometimes peruses' it, but more
frequently tears it.
l wonder if there is anything in
this world as beautiful as good
strong friendship between two men.
They do not kiss each other every
time they meet, in fact they. never
do kiss each other, unless one is ly.
ing cold in death. They may never
have made any professio Of love or
friendship for the other, but each one
knows that the other is always go.
ing to stand by him and they feel
that no matter what happens, each
can rely ON the other.
People who have warm friends, are
healthier and happier than those
who have none. A single real friend
is treasure; worth more than gold
or precious stones. Money can buy
many things. good and evil, but all
the wealth of the world could no,
buy you friend or pay you for the
loss of one.
The best definition of friend thai
we know is the following: The frs
person who comes in when the whole
world has gone out. A bank of cred
1t on which we can draw supplies o
confidence, counsel, sympathy
health and love. One who combine.
for you alike, the pleasures and ben
efits of society and solitude. A jewe
whose hstre the strong acids of pov
erty and misfortune cannot dim. On
who multiplies joys, divides grief
and whose honesty is inviolable. +.
The link in life's chain that bear
the greatest strain.
The harbor of refuge from tn
waves of adversely.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22
ELASTICITY oE cLAYs.

An explanation of what appears to
be a satisfactory method by which
workers In clay can accurately ascer-
tain the Elasticity of any given clay
has just been published by the Geo
logical Survey in bulletin CNo. 1881
prepared by H. E. Ashley.
Heretofore an accurate judgment
as to the qualities of particular
clay could be formed only after long
and costly experiments. Clays, ap-
parently similar in nearly all re-
$spects' were found in actual manu-.
featuring to give results very differ
ent from those expected; and of late
years it has become increasingly i'm
portant to devise some test by which
their qualities could be quickly and
easily determined in advance of ex.
pensive installations.
Mr.. Ashley, acting for the Geolog-
ical Survey, under an appropriation
Congress for the investigation oftthe
structural materials of the United
States, has discovered that the de-
gree to which certain dyes, OF which
malachite green seems to be the
most satisfactory, are absorbed by a
given clay furnishes very satisfac-
tory index of it's Elasticity, which, of
course, is the most important of all
its qualities.
Absorption is the property by
which dyes and other substances are
extracted from solution and incorpor-
ated into the thing dyed. 1t differs
from absorption, which is incorpora-
tion of a liquid as it stands. ire
spective of what it holds in solution.
Absorption is especially characters.
tic of the peculiar substances known
as colloids, which form the bulk of
clays, and on which their Elasticity
is believed to depend. The amount
of dye, therefore, which given
amount of clay will absorb from a
standard dye solution indicates pret-
ty accurately the proportion of col
loids that the clay contains.
il Tests by Mr.. Ashley of most of the
well-known commercial clays with a
standard malachite green solution
have shown that their absorption OF
the coloring of the dye, corresponds
very closely indeed with their actual
known plasticities. AS tests witt
malachite green give expected re
suits whef the Elasticity is alread,
known, 1t is inferred that they viii
prove equally accurate in determin
) ing the Elasticity where this has no
: yet been ascertained.
Bulletin 3SS, which is entitled 9Th,
colloid matter of clay and its meas
urement," can be had free by apply
ing to the Director of the Unite,
States Geological Survey at Wash
/ ington. D. c. Its naturejis highl
t technical.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22

We can only judge of what is
proper and right by your standard
of what is right and wrong, which
differs widely from the whites, if
have been correctly informed. The
whites may do wrong all their lives,
and If they are sorry for 1t when
about to die, all is well, but with
us it is different. If we have corn
and meat, and know of a family that
have none, we divide with them. II
we have more blankets than we alb
solutely need, and others have moi
enough. we must give those who
are in want.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22
JUST KEEP ON kEEPlN' ON.

If the day looks kinder gloomy.
An your chances kinder slim,
If the situations puzzlin',
An the prospects awful grim,
An perpleXities keep pressin'
Till all hope is nearly gone.
Jus bristle UP an grit your teeth,
And keep on keepin' on.
Fumin' never wins a fight,
An frettin' never pays;
There amt no good of broodin' in
These pessimistic ways
Smile just kinder cheerfully,
When hope is nearly gone,
An bristle UP. an grit your teeth.
An keep on keepin' on.
There amt no use in growlin'
An grumblin' all the time
When music's ringin' everywhere
An everything's rhyme
JUS keep on smilin' cheerfully,
If hope is nearly gone.
An bristle up an grit your teeth,
An keep on keepin' on.
New Orleans Times4Democrat
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22

P -. ! I \
And Little child shall lead
them" was demonstrated recently at
Pittsburgh, Pa. The story is told
iDy the Associated Press in this way:
Although it sprang at the child lust
as 1t did when it killed three men
and one woman, COMA the most
dangerous and savage lion in captiy.
tty. only playfully and effectionately
hcked and paved the hand of three
year-old Lena Neck, when she placed
her arm within the beasts cage in
the Highlan Park ZOO. While the
mother and nearly all others watch.
ing the lions had turned thier at
tention to Hans Wagner who was
roaring, little Lena crawled under
the bars and in an instant had her
little white arm in the cage; waving
her hand in welcome to the big lion.
Coma, his eyes still fiery with an
ger and jaws wide open, sprang at
the child. striking against. the big
bars with great force. My child,
cried Mrs. Meek. This was followed
by a series of frantic screams from
others-and even men turned their
backs, expecting that the big beast
would tear off the childs arm. For
at least five seconds the lion licked
the child's hand playfully, while she
stood there motionless and smiling
The big lion seemed to have forgot
ten the quarrel with his next door
enemy and to be consoled with the
knowledge that he had found a
friend in the fearless little girl
Guard O'Neil was at the hyena cage.
He heard Mrs. Meck's cries, ran to
the cage and grabbed the child, lift
ing her over the bars. Little Lena
manifested much surprise that thu
people about her should be so fright
ened and wondered Why"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22


charnel-house.
Since careless housewives are akin
To Borgia's sister dear.
Who put her rough-on-rats within
A foes Italian beer,
The modern husband says, 81 ain't
Ambitious to become saint"
And thereupon he makes the plant
That is repeated here:
Nay, Mabel, do not putt the fish
Adjacent to the steak;
They form combination dish
OF which l won't partake.
I hear, in scientific terms,
That If you mix those deadly germs
Some of the undertaking firms :
Will bless my stomaeh-ache."
"Say, Gladys. if we needs must
keep
An ice-boX in our house,
Why mingle CLAIMS with. chops of
sheep
Or partridge pie with scouse?
colonies, my dear,
May bring me to an early bier.
All. you'll be sorry when. you hear
The clergyman say, 'Raus.'
THAT salad, Georgiana dear,
Tastes like an oyster rare.
Have they been married, lying near
Upon your bill of fare?
Nay, Is it hygiene, my sweet,
If yesterdays left over meat
Is thrust within the box to greet
The aged Camembert?'
Once my refrigerator seemed
A place of daily glee;
l ate from it by day and dreamed
At night of joys to be.
But now 1t gives me no delight.
Because do not think it right
To let those bad bacilli fight
Their battles out in me.
John O'Keefe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-09-22
70 END The COMPANY.


A Chicago man who once permitted
himself to be persuaded to back a
theatrical company was seated in his
office one day when he received a
telegram from the manager of the
show. The troupe was somewhere in
Missouri and the telegram read thus:
Train wrecked this morning and
all scenery and baggage destroyed
No member of company injured. What
shall do?''
The answer sent back by the Chi
cago man was as follows:
TRY another wreck and have tn.
company ride in the baggage car
Chicago Record-Herald.