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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
MANY STUDENTS ENROLLING.
State University Is Promised Record
Breaking Attendance.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 3.-George O..
Foster. registrar of the university. re-
breaking enrolment were never better
in the university. From all over the
state hundreds of letters are pouring
into the registrars Office making in
quiries about the opening of school.
The advance guard of new students
has begun to arrive and the Office of
the registrar is a veritable reception
room where new students are given
their first Introduction to college life.
The employment bureau at the univer-
sity is getting in working order and
requests from students who wish to
earn part of their way through school
are coming in fast.
All the best known student rooming
houses already report that their rooms
have already been engaged and re-
quests for rooms continue to pour into
the university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
INSANE PATIENT CAPTURED.
Had Made His Escape From Asylum
at Dunning, Illinois.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 3.-Sheriff
Banning has received letter from the
officials of the asylum at Dunning, ILL.,,
stating that Alfred Swanson, who is
now confined in the county jail, is an
escaped inmate from the Cook county
insane asylum. The Illinois authori-
ties will be asked to take him back to
that state where he can be cared for.
His home is said to be in New Mexico.
Swanson was taken in charge by the
officers in Lawrence some time ago.
He was working on the street car line
when he began to act strangely and
he was arrested and taken into pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
HT7NTTNG FOR TYPHOID BACIILI.
Health Officers at Ottawa Will Search
CITY Water supply.

Ottawa, Kan, Sept. "a still hunt
for typhoid fever and cholera germs
ing-with the belief uppermost in the
minds of the hunters that their search
the city pure and lacking in bacilli.
The Investigation will be made by
W. B. Wilson of the biological de-
partment of ottawa university. They
will collect twenty-five samples of
drinking water from wells In different
narts of the city, and then the hunt
intn the Jungle of germs will be on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
FARMER WAS his OWN OFFICER.
George Coffman Arrested Thief Who
Stole His Horse

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 3.-George
German, who lives two miles north of
clinton, turned officer and after hold
ing up a man who had stolen his horse
delivered him to justice
Mr.. Coffman went to Tonganoxie
where he spent the night at the Pierce
nome, from which place his horse was
stolen. Later, while at his brothers.
MI Coffman heard of a man trying to
sell horse at very low figure and
a1ter investigating discovered that the
horse in question was his own.
He took a shotgun and after hold
ing up the man made him confess that
ne had taken he horse. Coffman then
turned the man over to the officers at
TOnganoxie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
FARMERS INSTITUTES 'o9-'1O.
Two Series Planned by State AgricuI-
turaI College.

Manhattan, Kan, Sept. 3.-Thanks to
wise legislature. Kansas is to have
a great farmers institute campaign
this coming year, in fact. three or four
campaigns. The institute department
is to have seven regular assistants now
in addition to considerable help from
the experiment station. There are 245
Institutes in Kansas. and it is the ex-
pectation to help each one hold a meet
ing More than 80 were missed last
year. Then, the superintendent of in
stitutes wants to organize at least 55
more Institutes during the year.
The early institute campaign will be-
gin September 20 and continue for four
weeks. These meetings will continue
for one day only, with possibly a few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

brick. There will be four large rooms,
two on the first floor and two on the
second
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
AN OLD X. q. STUDENT DIES.
yever Recovered From Fall From
Lawrence Stand Pipe.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. Sword has
reached the city of the death in Ecua-
dor, South America, of Norman Nc
Calvary. a former we'll known stu
dent in the university. McGillivary
was the student who fell from the
stand tower on the hill in 1905, when
he climbed to the top to paint the
numerals of the class above those of
all other classes.
He never entirely recovered from
the injuries he suffered in this fall.
He has been in South America for
some time on engineering work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
KANSAS WILL HAVE AERoPLANI
G. w. Parker of Abilene Leaves for
New York to Make Purchase

Abilene, Kan, Sept. SC w. Par
ker leaves for New York city to place
a contract for an aeroplane for his
shows next year. He will visit the
Wright brothers and other makers of
flying machines and place an order for
the best he can FIND.
He expects to be able to get one for
$4,000 or less. and it will be the first
one in the west. That is the kind of a
citizen to keep in town. No wonder
Leavenworth wants him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
PRIVATE TELEPHONE FOR PEN
New System VIII Connect Various De-
narfments of Institution

Leavenworth, Kan, Sept. 3.-Upon
the recommendation of Warden Cod
ding, the board of directors decided
to construct a telephone system con-
Meeting the towers and various de-
partments inside the state prison walls.
The central office will be located in
the deputy warden's Office
Only two members, w. I. Biddle and
T. B. Ballinger, were present at the
board of directors meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
laurence Horse WON sd GOO Purse.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. IA Law
renee horse, Silver H. belonging to o.
L. Cox of this city, won a $1,000
won the heat in 2:12A Mr. Cox also
owns her sister, Silver c., who has
been breakingfseveral records recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
ZINC ORE DROPPED A DOLLAR
General Cut in Price Indicated at
Market Opening.

Galena, Kan, Sept. 3.-The opening
of the zinc ore market in the Missouri
Kansas mining district was marked by
cut of 81 per ton in general price.
While a few choice lots sold on last
weeks basis of $50 per ton of so per
cent mineral, practically all companies
bid today $40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
Jail Breakers TraiIed Into Oklahoma

Coffeyville, Kan, Sept. Swat Folk
and Gregg House. who secured their
freedom from the county jail by over
towering Jailer King late Wednesday
night, have been traced across the state
line into Oklahoma The two men, it
is claimed, stole two horses east of the
city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
Tyro Gets $4,000 school Building.

Tyro, Kan, Sept 9.-This little city
is soon to have a new $4,000 school
buildinA and 1t is expected that the
building will be ready for occupancy
by the holidays. Already the first
floor is about completed. The building
is to be two stories and of pressed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

bate court where he was declared in
sane.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
SUN THE CROOKS.

The old ways of doing things were
not all bad ways. Some of them
were the very best. You remember
how carefully your mother used to
sun her milk crooks on the farm?
She was a true scientist without
knowing that fact. She did not know
about bacteria and bacteriology, but
she did know that summing the crooks
kept the milk pure and sweet.
Sunshine is death to all kinds of
germs or bacteria. Every milk YES
sci should have all the sunshine it
can get. The churn and the churn-
ing cloths and butter cloths should
be summed regularly. Without sun
ming and scalding they become un-
speakably filthy and spoil the milk
and butter-Our Dairy.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
HUMUs AND HOW TO GET TT.

We had letter the other day from
readers how to raise corn. His pre-
scription was short and simple: Put
corn stalks or green pine boughs in
furrow. bed on this furrow and plant
the corn.
Now, this man had really found
out one important fact-that his soil
sadly needs humus; but he had not
found out how to get that humus.
Imagine man putting pine boughs
or corn stalks along all the rows in
a twenty-acre corn field, and think
ing that he was doing profitable
work! 1t is just such wasteful and
laborious "fiddling'' about and "mak-
ing believe" at farming that ails the
South today What that man wants
to do is to SOW his corn land in cow
peas and then put in some winter
growing crop. Then the next sea-
son he can grow peas or soy beans,
or peanuts or even sweet potatoes on
it. SOW it in crimson clover, pillow the
clover under and thereby add more
humus and more nitrogen to his soil
in two years than he would get in
lifetime of monkeying with corn
stalks and pine boughs.-Progressive
Farmer.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
What Our FarmersAre Saying and Doing

to be helpful to the tree otherwise.
The recipe and how to apply:
Four cans of potash (10-cent cans)
diluted in two quarts of boiling wa
ter. One-half gallon of kerosene.
One-half peck of unslacked lime. One
gill of powdered bluestone. One gill
of copperas. Thoroughly mix, let
stand several days.
Take hoe and carefully draw the
earth away from the tree. Pour.
water on the tree and wash off the
dirt below the crown of the root, or
just where the root and tree bark
meet. Apply the mixture (Which
should be of the consistency of paint,
if it is not, add hot water to make it
500 with paint brush, painting it
around the crown and for two feet
above. Do this as soon as the leaves
fall and again in March. You will
have good fruit, and no borers and
healthy trees. After the last appli-
cation draw the earth back to the
tree, taking care not to cover the
bark of the tree. Leave the ground
level. Do not pile it up around the
tree. In sandy soil I put red clay to
the roots of my trees, and in low,
damp places, where the ground is
rich, I put sand and leaf loan around
the roots. Coal cinders are good to
drain trees in wet places; will also
fertilize them
MRS. BEULAH JOHNSTON.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16

quently the name of the plum. This
plum is extremely peculiar in growth
In high, dry, sandy, poor soil, it is
large, and of beautiful, transparent
color, of yellow and red blended. 1t
is of delicious flavor, but on rich
limestone land it is not worth plant
ing. 1t always bears entirely too
full, and the fruit is of a dull red
color On it's favorite soil it will
yield larger profits than the early
peach-Southern Fruit Grower
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
HOW TO GET RID OF RATS.

Tell me how to exterminate rats
by safe method. w. G.
Marion Co., Miss.
Editorial Answer: There are nu-
merous means suggested, but no
easy and certain method of keeping
the farm free of rats. BY keeping a
few good cats, by the constant use of
traps, by resort to poison when ne
cessary, and some forethought in
constructing farm buildings, protec-
ton from great loss or annoyance is
obtained. ~
For poisoning, strycnine is COM
monty used, but it is so rapid in it's
effect that the rats die in their run
ways, and doors resulting from their
decay are very Objectionable. Prob
ably barium carbonate is the best
farm poison for rats and mice. It is
cheap, fairly effective, and readily
eaten on bait because it is practi-
cally without taste Or smell. 1t is
slow in it's action and consequently
the rats are likely to leave their
usual quarters to find water, which
makes it a good poison for use
around the house
In quantities sufficient to kill rats
it is practically harmless to larger
farm animals. One part of barium
carbonate, or barytes, to five or six
of dough made from corn meal, or
bread on which barytes and butter
are spread, forms good bait.-Wood-
bury Georgian.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
THE WILD GOOSE PLUM.

The first tree of this fruit grew
where the carcass of a wild goose
had decayed. 1t was generally con-
coded that the seed was in that
goose's crop, but no person ever
knew, or ever will know, just where
the seed of that tree did grow.
The goose was killed in the fall
season, as she was migrating south
ward to spend the winter, conse-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
JEFFERSON ON FARMING.

The wealth acquired by speculation
and plumber is fugacious in it's ma
ture, and fills society with the spirit
of gambling. The moderate and sure
income of husbandry begets perma-
nent improvement, quiet life and or
derby conduct, both public and pri-
vate.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
SEEDING TREES.

1t is not often one sees the old
fashioned Seeding peach trees now
adays, for people are too fast for
the bygone age. l, for one, am ex-
tremely fond of o1d-time things, and
especially trees. In my grandmother's
orchard stood some apple trees and
l have not seen any like them in
twenty years, although I have search
ed catalog after catalog to find a de-
scription of them, but to no avail.
They were planted from scions taken
from other trees and she never
knew the name, but she called them
the "Streaked June 1t had the
most delicious flavor, and / have so
often wished l had one of those
trees. Those trees are all dead now,
and as I think of them it seems [
have never tasted an apple half so
good since. One gentleman once
called them the Dane. Much has
been said in praise of the alberta
pSC1SAA, eAhO III u1J ~ 40 a. OCouIILu III
peach and fine shipper, but the taste
is equal to dose of quinine and
alum mixed to me. [ have them in
my orchard for those who like them,
but never eat them myself. I have
a taste for the white English, Blount
and FINLEY. These grow from the
To I'M fish +1oAn
Is years old, a friend of mine has
Finley trees rs and 80 years old,
and the peaches grow as large as any
Elberta l ever saw. l have friend
who has an Indian Blood tree, con-
slant bearer, 80 years old. There is
also the old Chinese-cling, much low
ed by large number of people who
do not remember the pretty Blont,
rich buff in color and sweet and
juicy, and one of the best seedlings
to be had. There are the honey
peaches that are most desirable, with
only one fault, and that is they some
times rot in wet seasons I have
seeding trees that bore full crop
this year, and at this writing I have
two trees bending under their loads
of fruit. They are October peaches,
and are white, clear seed. When
all the other fruits have said good
bye they put on their pink dresses
and say, Here | am Am I not
good?" l have always been fond of
plants, of shrubs, and trees, espe-
cially those that grow from the seed.
| have planted lot of peach seeds
this season and when l transplant
them | will watch each one with
much interest. l have trees that do
not fail to bear each year. | prune
them myself. I get a stepladder and
climb up on it and take my knife and
pruning shears and cut back all the
wood l do not want. Generally when
| get down some smart Alex comes
to look at my work and invariably
says, "You have ruined that tree"
The next year when he comes to
stand under it and eat the good
fruit he makes a different remark,
such as this, "How is it you have so
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16

Do not allow a person who has
a cow.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16

Wells should be protected so that
no surface water can drain or seep
into them.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
PAGE TEN
You Have
Cdtdrrh!

If You Continually K'hawk and Spit,
If There Is Constant Dripping
From the Nose Into the Throat,
If You have Foul Sickening
Breath, that is Catarrh and
Can Cure 1t.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16
DR.. B. N. WOOLEY co., Atlanta, Ga.

If you believe in reform, join JEFF
fersonian Club.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10

MEET O|Al At I'll PASO
President will Fr, Go ia Seattle and
Then SWING Around Through
SoulhIaud-io Rest fev
DAYS on Ranch

Washington. July President
Tart yesterday. while en- route to
Washington. gave an outliuc Of the
tentative plans for his western and
southern "Trip this fail The presidert
has abandoned all idea of visiting
Alaska this year. owing to the fact
thar Mrs TAFT will not bee able TO go
with him. A. soon as the tariff bills
have received the action OF the pres
ident Mr. Taft will leave Washington
for Beverly He will remain there
until September -, his fifty-second
birthday when he hopes, ii Mrs.
Taft continues to improve, to begin
his western journey.
The president will head direct
from Beverly TO Seattle. After visit
ing the exposition there the presi-
dout will swing down to the south
west, stopping for time at Port
land and proceeding thence to San
Francisco. Leaving San Francisco
the president win go direct to Los
Angeles. where he viii stop for sew
eral days with his sister.
From Los Angeles he will go TO
San Diego. and then go into Arizona
and New Mexico. the last remaining
territories which soon are to be ad
mitted to the union, according to the
administration program.
Coming out of New Mexico the
president will stop for a time at El
Paso where he expects to meet
President Diaz OF Mexico. Mr.. Diaz
and President Taft have never met.
The Mexican president wrote recent
ly to the White House suggesting a
conference at El Paso, and President
Taft replied today that he would be
delighted TO meet the Mexican exec
utive about October 15, the meeting
depending upon the presidents abil-
ity to make the western trip.
After his stop at Eel Paso the pres
ident will visit San Antonio, where
he will inspect Fort Sam Houston
Mr.. Taft, while secretary Of war,
was deeply impressed with this post
and was instrumental in building it
up to its present Importance.
After visiting Austin and Dallas
the president expects to spend sew
eral days on the ranch owned by his
brother. Charles z, Taft near Cor
pus Christi.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10
PIONEER VISITS DLp UONr.
Member of First Commissioners
Court Returns Home

Uncle johnny Gibbons. q pioneer
of Ellis county. but now resident
of Brown county is visiting friends
and relatives i'm Waxahachip and
Ellis county Mr. Gibbons is ma
tive of East Tennessee. lived twenty
five years in Missouri and has been
resident of Texas a half century.
During the. first tweuty-eisht years
OF his residence i'm Texas he made
his home in Ellis county.
Mr. Gibbons was an interesting
visitor at this office Saturday morn
ing He is now 93 years old aud is
quite active for person of that age
He talked entertaiuiusly of the early
times in Ellis county He was a
member OF the first commissioners
court and in that early period of tn"
county's history he knew the initials
of every man in the county Mr. Glib
bous served as commissioner dur
ing the civil war. Among his seVera
duties as an official it developed OF
him to visit all sections OF the coun,
ty and ascertain if the wives of the
men who were in the army were in
need of assistance. One year he said
the county purchased 1900 bushels
of wheat. clothing, quilts and wood
for the comfort of the women and
children.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10
Try Russian Leader.

81! Petersburg July 10.--Dr. Du-
BROWN. formerly head of the League
oi Russian Feorl the reactionary
throw CoHSrmtloral government in
Russia was placed on trial today,
charged with having iustigated the
murder of Professor NJ. Y. Hertzen-
stein, the socialist member Of the
douma who was assassinated in
August, 1906 The actual murderer,
a thug alleged to have been hired
to commit the crime, was recently
sentenced to six years in prison.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10
~IIol 10 ATu
A'Cidcutsi bt~oharg" of Gnu kilrd
Henry Van Ll,adt

Roanoke Texas. July 10 Hcury
Van Zandt aged g3. was instantly
killed b.ry Thursday when "a shot
gun Nes accidentally discharged.
slowing tbe top of hi. head off.
Van Zaudt had iu-. returned from
q hunting expedition and rested the
gun ON the gate. which he iarred as
he was opening &c. The gun iell to
the ground and was discharged tho
load Of shot tearing away the uD-
per pau ot his head and tacc
He had been married only four
weeks and was well known.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10

We rent goods for the Chautau-
qua K. +. Moore Furniture Co tt
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10
Foreign Missionary society.

The Foreign Missionary Society Of
the Methodist Episcopal church will
meet q the church at 3 p. M Non
day Your presence is requested. The
following program viii be rendered:
Topic, Brazil
DevotioGal, Mrs Neal
Eight clear streams in Brazil, Mrs.
Harriott
Advancement Of work IA Brazil
Mrs. r r Moore
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-10
Water Notice.

Water rents for the quarter end
ing June 30. are now due and aro
payable at The office of the superin-
tendeEt of water works and If not
paid ON or before before the 10th.
The water will be cut off and n
charge Of one dollar Will be made for
cutting on
81 P. II. DEVENPORT, Supt