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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
Facsimile of Label Printed in ColOrs
Which Appears on Box Cover.

And that's the chief character of the
game of Indoor Baseball which has
been invented by a Topeka boy and
which has just been placed on the
market. Joe Booth is the lucky fellow
to have perfected it. Almost everybody
raised here and is the son of the we'll
known Kansas pioneer, James Booth
of Potwin Place, who has been a resi-
dent Of Topeka continuously for forty
years. OF course, the fact that~-tIlis
new game was framed up by a Topekan
makes it particularly interesting to the
people of this city, but if it had been
devised by some utter stranger in the
far off Doodad land, wherever that may
be, it would have been just as popular
in Topeka after it had been on sale q
while and the people had become ac-
quainted with it. For it is the merits
of the game that is going to make it a
great success and not the personality
of it's inventor.
number Of indoor or parlor baseball
games put on the market, but the most
of them were so intricate and so unlike
the original game that their lives have
been short and few If any of them have
been seen on the store counters during
the past few years. But unless all the
people who have played Joe Booths
game are mistaken-and their number
is not small-a different history is to be
written about it. Like all the things
that make a hit with the American
public, which is eager for entertain
ment of every sort, the game is sim Tic
to a degree Any one who has srnat-
ball can play it after nothing more than
a cursory glance at the few brief rules
which go with it and which are neces-
sary for a modification of some of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
A Startling
Statement
New York Medical Authorities
Claim Dyspepsia to be a Pre-
Disposing Cause of Com

The post mortem statistics Of the
big New York hospitals show that
some cases of consumption are due,
at least indirectly, to unchecked dys-
was prediSpOSed to tuberculosis.
Dyspepsia wears out the body and
brain. The weakened, irritable stom-
ach being unable to digest food. the
body does not receive the required
nourishment, and the victim becomes
Thin, weak and haggard. As result,
the body becomes a fertile field in
which the germs of disease may lodge
and flourish.
Therefore, the person who permits
dyspepsia to progress unhindered is
guilty of contributing toward the
development of one of the most in
sidious and fatal diseases known to
mankind.
Dyspepsia may be completely Grad
icated if properly treated. We sell a
remedy that we positively guarantee
will completely relieve indigestion or
dyspepsia, or the medicine used dur
ing the trial will cost the user Moth
ing.
This remedy has been named Rexall
Dyspepsia Tablets. Certainly no offer
could be more fair, and our offer
should be proof positive that Rexa1l
Dyspepsia Tablets are a dependable
remedy.
Inasmuch as the medicine will cost
you nothing if it does not benefit you.
we urge you who are suffering with
Indigestion or dyspepsia to try Rexa1l
Dyspepsia Tablets A 25-cent box
contains enough medicine for fifteen
days treatment For chronic cases
we have two larger sizes. so cents and
$1.00- Remember you can obtain
Rexau Remedies in Topeka only at
our store,-The Rexali Store. The
Rosser Drug Co. 523 Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
EUREKA CAN DO TT AGAIN.
Gives Facts to Prove 1t Has Better
Football Team Than Lawrence,

Gives Facts to Prove 1t Has a Better
Football Team Than Lawrence.
To the Sporting Editor of the State
Journal:
The complaint of the Lawrence
High school about the football game
in Eureka contains so many mis-
statements and positive faIsehoods
Mr.. Coleman, the Lawrence coach and
whose brother was a member of that
team, was the referee of the entire
game and If any errors were conn.,
mitted by him the blame cannot be
attached to the Eureka team The
game was played. according to agree
ment, under the Eureka conference
rules and Eureka did not violate any
OF them. Every player on the Eureka
team was eligible under those rules,
had been in school the required length
of time. was carrying three studies
and had made his grades In
penalizations Eureka got the worst of
1T in yards at least. The record shows
that on questions where there could
be any judgment exercised by a
referee Eureka was penalized IS
yards and Lawrence Is yards. Law
renee was penalized 80 additional
yards for incompleted forward passes,
put the rules were mandatory on
these plays and there would arise no
question about them. The statement
that the Eureka coach told them that
he had to help his team is absolute
~ without foundation in fact Eureka
, never needed any help during the
game as it was seen from the very
start that it was ready money. Law
renee never had a look in during the
game. The wind blew a gale at times
during the game and Eureka played
with 1t against them. Lawrence had
| the wind in their favor and as a re-
| suit thought their play was a kicking
game. This they tried time and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
INDOOR BASEBALL.
Topeka Man Inyents Method for
Playing the Game.

In the history of all time there is n ,
record Of any one game or sport at
tracing the attention of a whole peo-
pie to the extent that baseball does in
the United States today. 1t is, indeed
the national game which is played by
thousands, witnessed by millions and
followed by millions more during eacn
summer season. AS each year rolls
around the interest in the sport con-
tinues to grow, rather than diminish.
1t is popular with the young and old
alike. with boys and girls and men and
women. Perhaps much of the fascina-
ton for the game is due to the fact that
the elements of chance enter into it to
great extent, from the public stand
point, in that no one can tell just what
is going to happen next. In this way
intrest is always maintained in it at al
exci+ino nifch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
Hitched Own Daughter to q
PlOw With Horse.
Treated Young Woman Like
Beast OF Burden.
LIVES NEAR SYLVIA.
Girls Mother Is Dead and Pro.
bate Court Took Hand.
Inhuman Parent Must Support
Child or Pay Fine of ST. 900.

Hutchinson, Kan. Nov. Ism. S.
Rothrick, a Sylvia township farmer,
must show cause, on November %, in
probate court, why he should not be
compelled to pay fine of $1,000 which
had been assessed in the probate court
over a year ago, against him for cru
city to his 13-year-old daughter. Roth
rick had beaten and abused his daugh-
ter, forced her to work like Il slave,
even hitched her UP with one of his
horses and worked her on plows and
farming implements in the field.
Girls Mother Is Dead.
The girls mother was dead. and it is
claimed the treatment she was sub
jected to by her father was brutal in
the extreme. Complaint finally was
made by neighbors, the probate court
stepped in on behalf of the abused
child, and she was taken away from
Rothrick, and put in another family,
to be cared for.
Probate Judge J. M. Jordan fined the
brutal father $1,000 but suspended the
a month, to be paid every three Honths
in advance. toward the support of the
child, the money to be paid through
the probate court.
Refused to Support Daughter.
HE has made but three payments,
and those nave Deen cOllecteo Dy only
the hardest kind of work. stated Judge
Jordan today. Now he must show
cause why the fine should not be col
lected. The last payment was due in
October. 1t has not been paid and he
refuses to answer our letters or pay
any attention to our demands. Now
the sheriff has been given a citation
ordering him to appear and explain on
November 22.''
A similar citation is issued on E. E
Hagerty, who Is Jointly responsible
with him for the payment of the 81 ,00t
fine.
Rothrick has a farm and if the court
finds against him. and he refuses to
pay the old fine, a judgment will be
taken against the farm and an execu-
ton made. The citations were put in
the hand of the sheriff to serve on
Rothrick and Hagerty, and he went to
Sylvia to serve them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
X. U. is COSMOPOLITAN.
Thirteen States Represented in This
Years Enrolment.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 18.-Thirteen
states and territories contribute to the
enrolment at Kansas University this
year. One hundred and lightweight
students are registered from outside
Of Kansas, Missouri contributes 1877
of these. Kansas City sent lis. The
second state in the. number of stu
dents is Oklahoma, with thirty-four.
Canada has one representative this
year, and Russia one.
There are only ten counties in
Kansas without students in the uni
versity this year, and they are, with
out exception, the sparsely settled
counties on the Colorado line. Doug
las county heads the list with 422
students; Wyandotte has eighty
eight, sixty-three of whom are from
Kansas City, Kan; Dickinson county
fifty, and Shawnee forty-eight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18

more intricate situations which develop
on the baseball field. But such modi-
ncatlons do not mar the game in the
The paraphernalia needed to play
II is cardboard representing that
portlon OF the diamond on which are
SITUATED the home plate and the three
passes. -Four little dummies to take
the places of possible men on bases
and the batter are in the kit. and
slsts OF about one hundred and fifty
cardboard disks of a uniform circular
size little larger than that of
quarter. On one side of each disk is
printed one of the variety of plays
that occurs in baseball. These are all
shuffled together and the player start
ing the game draws them out one at
time, moving his dummies to CORES
pond to the plays drawn and scoring
the runs that they make. or chalking
up goose egg if three outs come
along before run is scored.
IL can be seen at a glance, even
from this brief description of the
method of play, that the element Of
chance which makes baseball SO con-
tinuously exciting, is the basis on
Whlch Mr.. Booth has built his game.
So ingeniously proportional are the
plays that the game runs along for all
! the world just like a real baseball
game. There's little more hitting in
1t than that which prevails in the
| baseball games of today. That only
stimulates the interest in 1t. But the
outs are always coming along in a
| most unexpected fashion just as they
do in the regular game, and the final
| scores are not generally large. They
run along in this indoor game just
| about the way they do in the actual
| one. In fact Joe Booths Indoor Base
ball game is thriller in each and
every one of it's details from the time
the imaginary umpire calls play BALI
until the last out has been made in
the last half of the ninth inning.
Sometimes, just as in a real game,
the score is tied at the end of the
ninth and then additional innings
: have to be played. 1t is safe to
prophesy that this indoor baseball
| game will soon become quite as much
of rage as is the real thing when its
season is on. An appropriate and de-
scriptive cover design for the boxes
in which the game is packed is the
work of Mr.. Carl Bo1mar, Topeka
artist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
BELOIT CATHOLICS BUILD.
Are to Spend $4,000 for Sister House
and DOrmitory.

Are to Spend $4,000 for Sister House
and Dormitory.
Beloit, Kan. Nov 1S.-A new
$4,000 edifice will be added TO the
Catholic property on East Main street.
1t will supplant the school house and
sisters house.
Stone has been hauled and work
started on the new building. 1t will
be of double thickness stone and
60x40 feet and three stories high.
The plans are quite elaborate. In
addition to the sisters residence and
school room, there will be dormitories
that will accommodate between
twenty-five and thirty persons. pre-
pared for the school children who live
at too great distance to go and come
daily.
At present there are 125 children in
the Catholic school, and they are
crowded for room. The new edifice
will be equipped for a much larger
class of pupils than the capacity of the
present school.
1t Is only year since the new $751;
900 church was dedicated. The build
ing of the new ediflce illustrates the
healthy condition of the church,
financially and otherwise and the
Catholics are to be congratulated on
being able to add so substantial an
improvement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
HIGH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREPs
They Will Play Football on Washburn
Field SATURDAY.

Topeka high school and the Wash
burn academy will play football on
Washburn field Friday afternoon. This
is the last home game of the season for
both the Acadany and the High school
and the teams are up in tip top form
for the contest. Rivalry between the
college "preps" and the high school is
always fierce and the game is their
annual battle.
In speaking Of the work of the high
school this season and the game Mi
day, Ward Green, manager of the high
school team, said:
Those who witness this game will
find the high school team In much bet
ter condition than in any previous
game of the season. They have an I'M
known quantity to contend with in
facing the .Washburn academy team for
the reason that the academy has not
played any games that would compare
them with the highs. However the
husky players and they have all had
more or less experience. Two of them,
Stahl and Franklin, have played on the
Washburn college second team. Being
under the protecting wing of the col
lege they have had the best of coaching
and organization.
THE high school team has had a
checkered career this year. The boys
have played the Washburn first team
and the Ottawa, st. Joseph and Law
renee high schools. They won from OF
game was stolen. The team is anxious
to show what it can do and will fight
hard against the academy tomorrow.
We expect to win"
The lineup of the two teams as fol-
lows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
"IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?'
Nine Dissatisfied RawIins County
CounIes Have Asked for Divorces.

Atwood, Kan, Nov. 1s.-The ques-
zion has been frequently asked rs
marriage a failure in RawIins coun-
typ The reason this question has
heen asked at this time is on account
Of district court being in session for
the last two weeks. and in the court
docket one will see no less than nine
divorce cases. Judge w. H. Pratt Of
the Seventeenth district, and his
stenographer, Miss Cora Shirley, who
las served in this capacity for the last
hree years, have had their hands full
IF work.
In this connection it is good to say
that Atwood is the home of Miss Shir-
ley, having lived here from childhood.
She has just completed a beautiful
modern house here, besides she Is the
wner Of a good quarter section of
Pawlins county land which is bringing
in good rental results
The court is well up with it's work
n the Seventeenth district. Rawlins
county had a two weeks term, and
he docket was nearly cleared. Judge
Pratt has many friends in this county.
The same can be said of him in every
county in his district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
SHOT DID NOT STOP BOY.
Continued to Hunt After Receiving
Part of Charge From Gun.

Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. 1S.-Ed-
die Pohl of Richardson, rabbit
hunter, holds the long distance en-
durance record in that he killed
twenty-five rabbits after his father,
Carl Pohl had put eleven No. shot
in his right side and one in his chin.
And not only that but Eddie did not
go to the doctor to get the shot picked
out until day later. when he felt
kinda" sore in the left side and con-
,cluded that he'd better get the shot
removed so he could get some ammu-
milton for the next hunting trip.
Father and son were hunting rab-
bits in the vicinity of Ettenson station
on the K. C. w. line and Eddie, in
some way jumped in front of the
fathers gun, or came up, over hill
just as father was drawing a bead on
the rabbit He let go and Eddie was
shot instead of the abbit.
After p f1asty examination he found
that not sufficient amount of shot
had entered his side to make him
too heavy for walking, SO he contin-
ued to hunt, bringing back twenty
two rabbits after he had been shot
himself for rabbit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
L. M. Penwell
Undertaken and Embalmep
6ll Quincy Street
Goth Phones ~
Forced Into Exile.

VIM. Upchurch of Glen Oak, Okla, was
an exile from home. Mountain air, he
thought. would cure frightful lung
racking cough that had defied all REM
edies for two years. After six months he
returned. death logging his steps Then
cry" he writes. land after taking six bot
ties am as well as ever" 1t saves thou
sands yearly from desperate lung dis
eases. Infallible for Coughs and Colds il
dispels Hoarseness and Sore Throat Cures
Grip. Bronchitis, Hemorrhages, Asthma
Group, Whooping Cough. Soc and 500.
trial bottle Free guaranteed by Campbell
Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
WILL PUBLISH SCHOOL BOOKS.
Empoffa Capitalists to Organize a
$4,000 Company.

Ernporia, Kan. Nov. 1s.-The ar
rangements will soon be completed for
organizing corporation to be known
as the Inland Publishing company,
with headquarters at Emporia. The
urpose of this company is to do a
general publishing business, and be-
SHINING will be made with the pur-
chase Of Payne's Elementary Arithme-
TIC and Payne's Practical Arithmetic.
From this small beginning the COM
rany will branch out as rapidly as pos
sible and endeavor to build up a large
publishing extraordinarily in school
books.
The company will have a capital
. took of $4,000, which will be divided
into shares of 800 each. The officers
of the company will be Will Wayman,
president; Z. T. Bang, vice president;
E. L. Payne, secretary; Fremont Mil
Ter, treasurer. The directors will be
charles A. Hancock, S. S. Long, John
D. Graham, w. E. Haynes and E. L.
Payne. The company will not put in
& printing plant, as it is more profitable
to hire the publishing done than to
equip and conduct a printing shop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
PREACHER FIsHED ON SUNDAY.
Said He Set Hooks Night Before and
Police Judge Paroled Him.

independence, Kan, Nov. 1S.-After
thinking the matter over two days
Judge Flanne1ly released from Gus
tody, under paro.e the Rev. J. B.
Anderson. colored, of Coffeyville, who
was convicted of trespass. the tres
pass being fishing in stream on an
other mans land.
The fishing was also done on Sun
day, which made it all the worse. The
preacher claimed that he set his hook
on Saturday night and Sunday went
to get it. Finding a fish attached he
assumed that it was his and carried it
home. About that time the irate
owner OF the fishing preserve ap-
peared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
MAKE MORE LAMP CHIMNEYs.
Cauey Plant VIII Be Enlarged to
Eight Times Present Capacity.

Caney, Kan, Nov. 1S.-A big deal
involving the enlargement of the lamp
chimney plant of this city to eight
times the present capacity, the inn
mediate addition of large number of
men to the pay roll and ultimately the
joining of the Mount Valley glass
plant to the Caney plant, has been
closed
F. w. Graham bought out the in
terests of his partner. I. w Collins.
The consideration has not yet been
made public. The new organization is
to be known as the Caney Flint Glass
company.
Work on the enlargement of the
present plant, is now in progress
Eighty additional men will be put to
work as soon as the plant is COM
pleted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
ROLLER AND TOPEKA JOHNSON.
hey May Meet in Boxing Contest in
Kansas City.

Kansas City, Nov. 1s.-Dr. B. F.
Roller, who was defeated by Frank
fotch in Convention hall Monday
light in wrestling match, will not
tave to go outside of Kansas City to
anxious to try himself out and see If
he is real fighter. There is a color
d fighter in this city known as TO
peka jack Johnson, who believes he
an beat Roller and says he can get
$1,000 to bet on his chances with the
Seattle physician. Johnson travelled
with the negro champion for short
ime and is fair fighter. He is as
J ig as the champion and has re-enter-
Cd the fight game after making a sue
ess of baseball. The local heavy
weight says he is willing to meet Ro1-
Ter any time and at any reasona BILE
terms. He also thinks if Roller can
Leaf him he stands chance with the
lest heavyweights in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
ENfPORIA HAS BAD FIRE.
Caslket Company DESTROYED by Mys-
terious Blaze.

Emporia, Kan. Nov. 1S.-The plant
Of the Rex Fluid company was totally
destroyed by fire. A few uprights that
were a part of the front wall are all
that is left standing of the building.
while the machinery is ruined and the
, Their contents totally destroyed.
Considerable stock, consisting of
finished caskets and the mi1led parts
Ct caskets, was in the building. The
loss is estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000, partially covered by in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
PRISON GUARDS MUST GO.

Recent Investigation at Federal In
stitution Furnished Cause.
Leavenworth, Kan. Nov. 1s.-Sev-
eral guards at the federal peniten-
tiary here will be released as a result
of the recent investigation by the de-
partment of justice. Major H. w.
McClaughrey has returned from
Washington after being in conference
with officers of the department of JUS
tice for several days.
Attorney General Wickersham is
expected to visit the federal prison
and fort here Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
NO MORE CHILD ACTORS THERE
Kansas City. Kan, Bars Youngsters
From Cheap Theaters.

Kansas City, Kan, Nov. 18.-Child
actors and actresses have been barred
from the stages of the scent theaters
in this city. The order was issued by
w. w. Lacey. probation officer, who
visited each of the dozen theaters and
notified the management that the
child singers, dancers and acrobats,
would be taken in charge by the court
if they attempted to appear again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
TIES FROM KANSAS TIMBER.
Union Traction Company Would Hire
25 Professional LOggers.

Independence, Kan, Nov 1S.-The
Union Traction Co. wants 25 loggers
to work up the timber near its mill
into ties and other structural wood
on the Cherryvale interurban.
The company having been delayed
by the nen-arrival of ties, has tired of
the delay and decided to saw up the
walnut and oak trees along the
Verdigris. These woods make good
ties and the company will work up all
it can get.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
HARPER TO HAVE ICE PLANT
Vinegar Mill Will Be Installed by
Same COmDany

Harper, Kan, Nov. 1S.-Harper is
TO have much needed ice plant and
vinegar mill The site has been Sc
iected on the Orient railroad, and work
will be pushed rapidly.
The enterprise Will be financed by
Messrs. Weaver and Hostetter, two
Well-to-do Germans, and means much
10 this county, which produces a great
surplus OF apples and has heretofore
been compelled to ship it's ice from
Hutchinson and Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
CoNCoRDIA MARSHAL FINED
Sheriff Complained That He Had Dis
turbed the Peace.

Concordia, Kan. Nov. 1S.-City
Marshal Bentley appeared before
Judge Sexsmith and pleaded guilty of
the complaint made by Sheriff
Dunluck. charging Bentley with dis
turbing the peace and offering to fight.
AS this was the first offense of the
marshal the usual fine of five dollars
and costs were imposed which were
paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
TOBACCO TAGS FOR AN ARM.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Come to SWitchman,s Aid

Leavenworth, Kan, Nov. 1S.-The
members of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen of the St Joseph
division of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad are collecting 10000
coupons from packages of tobacco.
They will be used for the purpose
of getting an artificial arm for J. A
Rice of st. Joseph, Burlington
switchman who lost his right arm
several weeks ago.