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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
OLDEST HOUSE IN STATE BURNS.
Erected in 1880 and Used as a Baptist
Mission.

Paola. Kan, May 3.-The oldest
house in Miami county. and probably
the oldest in the state, was burned last
week. This house was situated one
mile east of Paola, and was formerly
the old Baptist mission house. If vas
built about 1880, and Edward Ijykins,
who is now living at Miami. Okla. the
first white child born in Miami county
was born in this house, March ). 1880
His mother Mrs. David Lykins, died
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
DOG CAUSE OF woMAN's DEATH.
Knocked Mistress Down Stairs and
Her Neck Was Broken.

Atchison, Kan, May 3.-Mrs. Ar
menta H Weane, who was spending
the evening with her sister, Mrs. Mar
that Best, who conducts a rooming
house over a store. started to the
kitchen to get her dog a drink. The
dog jumped against her, she fell down
stairs and broke her neck, and died
in a few minutes without regaining
consciousness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
LEFT HER MONEY TO CHURCH.
Will Be Used to Educate Young Men
for the Pulpit.

Beloit. Kan. May 3.-The will of
Mrs. Celia Berkey, who died in this
city April IT last, has been admitted
to probate, and the announcement is
made that she left handsome for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
WITH SANTA FE 80 YEARS.
Engineer Archibald of Albuquerque
Has Unique Record.

Las Vegas, N. NJ, May 3.-The return
trip from Albuquerque to Las Vegas
today of Passenger Engineer Barney
Archibald, employed on the New Mex
leo division Of the Santa Fe railroad,
marks the close of thirty years of his
life in continuous service of the A. T.
& S. F. r. r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

pound q u T l n g
change of life. My
doctor told me it
was good, and since
taking it l feel SO
much better that l
can do all my work
again. 1 t b in k
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Y e ge t a BILE Com
pound a fine remedy
for all woman's
troubles, and I
never forget to tell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
TELEPHONE SYSTEM Is SOLD.
John j. Cline of Beloit Has Been
Selected as Local Manager.

Stafford. Kan, May 3.-The local
telephone system, which has been re-
ported as sold a number of times dur
ing the past two years, has at last
been sold The transfer of the prop
erty took place on May /.
The purchasers are DR.. H. E. Lin
das of Great Bend and John J. Cline
of Beloit, both experienced telephone
men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
BREAKS ALL RECORDS.
Santa F'e Handles Largest Shipments
of Oranges.

San Bernardino. May 3.-All previous
records have been broken by the Santa
of oranges to the east. During the
month 1884 cars passed through this
city, destined to the east. Each car
contained 384 boxes and with about
IT'S oranges to the box. makes a total
of 26S, 000, 900 oranges. The value of the
months shipments Were about s.. 900 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
Four Great
Entertainments
d Or Course Tickets
PAsA0 for the four en-
tertainments, including re-
served seats for the even
ing above great attractions.

q 80 -
That is for the first 1900 tickets
sold. After the first 1000 course
tickets are sold with their reserved
seats, the remaining tickets will be
on sale at the following prices:
Monday afternoon, Harry
Barnhart, of New York city,
tenor, in song recital and lee
lure ..-.'-....... ..-..-.... zoe
Monday evening chorus of
700 voices seventh and eighth
grade Topeka school children
who for months have been I'M
der the training of Miss Hazel
rfgg, instructor of music, pre-
senting popular numbers from
The Laurel Wreath accom-
paniment by pianists and pipe
organ also the famous con-
tralto. Esther May Plumb,
and the I6ted violinist. Rich
ard Czerwonky .............5 SOC
Tuesday afternoon, the great
Minneapolis Symphony Or
chestra of so pieces. This or
chestra is maintained by the
City of Minneapolis which
guarantees $4,000 above and
beyond receipts from festival
tours before the Minneapolis
summer season of music be-
gins. These people are the fin
est performers in this country
and Europe and Is one OF the
foremost musical organizations
in the world under the re-
markable conductor, Emil
Oberhoffer ............... 800
Tuesday Evening, the great
Minneapolis symphony Or
chestra assisted by its i've
soloists, will form part one of
the program, part 2 being the
washburn chorus of 20 voices
under the dictatorship of
Prof. Penny and Mr.. K1ingen-
berg, pianist, singing the can
tata 1.-THE Rose Maiden" ac-
companied by the full orchestra 75c
Total ............... 80 $500
The entire net proceeds of this
entertainment go to apply on the
great pipe organ which this COM
mittee has undertaken to pay for
and turn over free to the city, clear
of all incumbrance. There will be
no free tickets; the advertising is
donated by the Topeka newspapers
Special invitations are extended
to all lovers of music throughout
the state. This is planned as the
first of a great series of musical
festivals to be given in Topeka an
nuaIly. Special inducements for
all visitors will be made by the To-
peka merchants.
This grand musical festival Is
given under the auspices of the fol-
lowing named gentlemen who have
guaranteed $4,000 expense neces-
sary to put on the productions
w. W. Mills. F. p. MacLennan.
Crane e. Co. J. w. Robinson.
w. F. Roehr. +. NJ. Bonebrake.
A. Fassler- Geo. w. Parkhurst.
w. H. Davis. Mrs. J. w. Going.
Crosby Bros. Mrs. G. G.. Foster.
Elon g. Clark. Joab Mulvane.
John E. Frost. Scott Hopkins.
Horace L Hall. Charles Wolff.
Thomas Page. Lizzie G Norton.
j. r. Mulvane. H. A. Auerbach.
David L. Lakin. Manager.
For the Committee Of Twenty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
Baseball Phone.

The State Journal has a special
baseball telephone. For all baseball
information. scores. etc. call In
dependent phone No. SIS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

there in 1852, and was buried in the
mission cemetery, near where the
house stood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
HER
PHYSICIAN
ADVISED
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Columbus, Ohio. -"I have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
Grand May
Festival
of Music
Nothing like this ever
presented in Topeka.

The Minneapolis Famous
Symphony Orchestra.
Chorus of Seven Hundred
Topeka Voices.
Grand Musical Recital in
Song and Lecture by the Fa-
nous New York Tenor, Harry
Barnhart.
Washburn Chorus of Seven
ty Voices.
PIPE ORGAN NUMBERS
Richard Czerwonky, the
Noted Violinist.
Esther May Plumb, the
New York Contralto.
Carlo Fischer, CeIlist.
Miss Plumb surpassed in ability
and grace of execution any one
who has before visited our city,
Toronto, Canada. Globe.
Garnett Hedge was delightfully."-
pleasing in the singing of his nun
bers. His tone production Is almost
perfect.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Miss Ormsby's singing Requiem
is of exquisite and haunting beau
ty.-Philip Hale. Boston Herald.
Arthur Middleton has a voice
second to none in Chicago.-Fine
Arts Journal, Chicago.
The grandest, most varied
and unique Festival of Music
ever presented to a Kansas
audience.
Monday Afternoon, May 3
Monday Evening, May 3
Tuesday Afternoon, May A
Tuesday Evening, May A
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
CAPTAIN FREMONT'S SPLENDID
ANSWER.

Clarion Ledger.
That was a splendid answer which
Commander John ]. Fremont, of the
batleship Mississippi, made to the
Charleston paper which asked him by
wire what he and his officers and men
thought of the portrait of jefferson
Davis being on the silver service about
to be presented, over which such a
rumpus has been started by narrow
minded, Ohio Congressman and G. A.
R. post. Captain Fremont said: THE
navy is without sectional prejudice,
and its patriotism knows no bounds
save those of the great country at
large" Captain Fremont is the son of
the celebrated John C. Fremont, the
first man to run for President on the
Republican ticket.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
FULL TEST Of
PROHIBITION
Ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle
andEx-Covernor Black Re-
tanned By Disdllers.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May Tt is
authoritatively stated that James G.
Ray, the LaFollette distiller, who re-
sides at Jonesville, N c., and who will
test the constitutionality of the So
called manufacturers bill, which pro.
hibits the manufacturing of intoxicants
in Tennessee after January l, next, is
being backed by all whiskey interests
of this and other states.
Mr.. Ray will be represented by At
torneys John ]. Vertrees of Nashville,
John G. Carlisle, former secretary Of
the treasurer, and F. S. Black, former
governor of New York. The suit may
be filed in the federal court in this
city during the present month and if
it is successful, it is said the consti-
tutionality of the Adams law will also
be tested in the federal courts. The
Adams law prohibits the sale of Whis-
key in towns of 5000 or under in Ten
nessee.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
BLOCKING SIDEWALKS.

In the Open Court today will be
found a letter from a Hattiesburg
lady asking to have published an ar
ticle from The Issue, on Washers.
While the article contains many truths
We are not inclined to think that
there are many genuine Washers in
Hattiesburg; but some of our men are
a little careless about standing on the
street corners and in front of places
of business, in such numbers, some
times that they do no doubt look very
formidable to the lady without an es-
cort, and we can easily understand the
feelings which inspired the letter to
the News. Not only have we seen
men block the sidewalk, who ought
to have heen more thoughtful, but it
is no uncommon sight to see hal
dozen men sitting in front of a dis
play window, soiling the sidewalk
with tobacco juice, and presenting not
only a disgusting picture but menac-
ing the city's health by doing so.
The annoyance that the lady con-
plains about can all be avoided by
those who have nothing else to dc,
than stand on the sidewalks, if they
will only think about their own wife,
mother or sister, when they stand in
the center of a street crossing and
compel lady to walk around them be-
cause of their thoughtlessness. II
they will also remember that ladies
must walk through the filth they spit
on the sidewalks they will realize that
it is just as ungentlemanly to do that,
as it would be to call on a young lady
and sit and spit tobacco juice on the
gallery or parlor carpet. 1t is bad
enough to be addicted to such habit
and certainly those who must use to-
bacco in that way, can be thoughtful
enough to stand on the edge of the
sidewalk or go and sit in some alley
when they are enjoying themselves.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
UGLY CONDITIONS
EXIST IN TURKEY
BANDITS ARE BUSY IN THE VI.
CINITY OF CAPITAL.
Reports Received Daily of Destruc
ton of American Missions and
SchooIs-Troops Took Part.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May RE
ports of considerable disorder come
from the country surrounding the
capital. The bandits are believed to
be deserters who are looting and hold
ing up tourists who get too far from
the city. Count Deene, secretary of
the Austrian embassy was shot at
while riding. Outside of Pera, party
of American tourists were warned in
time to escape the bandits. An inves,
tigator just returned from the Kes-
sab, Asiatic Turkey, says that all the
property of the American missions
there was destroyed by Moslem raid
ers.. 1t consisted of a girls school,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07

The business men of Knoxville,
Tenn, are using page ads in the Ala
bama papers to induce people to buy
their goods in Knoxville. We feel
sure that our Hattiesburg merchants
could increase threir business by adj
certising articles, which merchants
in the nearby towns do not keep. This
kind of business is going to the big
mail order houses because Hattiesburg
business men do not advertise for
the business.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07

but who pledged anew their fealty and
will do their part in getting up the big
class which is now planned
Grand Chancellor Sessions was pres
ent and fully exmplified the secret
work and eloquently spoke of the
great principles on which the order
was founded. His talk was of the
highest order and was the means of
inspiring anew the members with a de-
time that has been wasted.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
HOWlS THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case Of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY e CO.,
Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known f.
J., Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN G MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. Testimonials sent free. Price |
IS cents per bottle. Sold by all drug |
,ists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
,ation.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
DOUBTFUL ECONOMY.

The county commissioners of Adams
county have started to cut down ex-
penses by abolishing the office of
county commissioner of agriculture,
which we think was grave mistake
IL the man who was filling the office
was competent One of the things
which is lacking in this country is an
understanding of the science of farm
ing, and though it concerns the farm
err directly, it indirectly affects every
man in business and there is no econ
omy in reducing expenses where such
an important work, as promoting bet
ter agricultural methods are con-
cerned. Our farmers need to know
what their farms will produce and
what kind of fertilizers bring the best
results and how much to use per acre
all of which could be greatly helped
by some county officer who had the
knowledge of these things, and We
have a few men in every county who
are successful farmers because they
have studied the problems and are
competent to instruct others. If For
rest county could increase the agri-
cultural products around this city,
twenty-five per cent, it would be a
great benefit to not only the farmers
n, would
more than pay the salary of a good
man whose duty it should be to give
all of our farmers instructions who
should ask for it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
ADVERTISING THE SOUTH.
Montgomery JournaI.D

NAhCh eOiiANiy cC'i HNA'F
Southerners are raising the slogan,
Organize and Advertise Due to lack
lack of intelligent exploitation saya
one of these gentlemen, the South ii
| less understood and more understood
than any otner region of our country.
From 1880 to 1900 the amount Of
farm land Under cultivation in twelve
old Southern states increased twenty
three million acres or thirty-three per
cent In the same years the amount
/ farm land under cultivation in SD.
Western states increased fifty-eight
million acres, or one hundred and
thirty per cent.
"Only forty-fiye per c. ht Of the farm
land in the Southern group of states
was under cultivation in 1900, against
eighty per cent. for example, in In.
diana, Illinois and Ohio, where the
density of population is twice that al
the South.
Since 1900 there has been a not.
able gain, Southern bank deposits in
creasing one hundred and forty per
cent. against one hundred and ten per
cent for the Middle West That the
South still suffers from lack of or
ganized, energetic advertising such as
the new West enjoyed is, however,
growing conviction. With this idea
he Southern Commercial Congress,
having headquarters at Washington,
has been instituted 1t believes that |
'elatively fewer investors and settlers |
rave reliable information Of the oppor
in the way of undeveloped
in the South than in any
Their section, and it purposes to rem
dy that condition.
I'VE would hazard a guess thatt here
re ten farmers in the Middle West
no are posted on Canadian wheat
nds for every one who is informed
Southern agriculture; and
e are quite persuaded that it pays t
as well as individuals to b
vertise." t.
The above from the Saturday Even Z
, Post, contains much food for | g
ought. The figures quoted are doubt
s approximately correct, and the pi
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07

deduction drawn from them and the
general condition pointed out, are alb
solutely right. The South needs more
advertising. AS regards industrial
conditions in the South, her resources
and the opportunities presented here,
the outside world is as poorly inform
ed as it is misinformed about our So
cial conditions.
parent from the figures presented,
parent fro mthe figures presented,
which is not pointed out by The Post.
This is the far greater amount of I'M
developed resources possessed by the
South than the West. While the
South in 1900 contained fifty-five per
cent of its farm lands undeveloped,
the West had only fifteen per cent
in other words the agricultural oppor-
tunities presented by the the South in
the available quantity of land alone,
is four times as great as those of the
West. While in this respect the door
of opportunity in the West is nearly
closed, in the South it is not vet half
open.
Then, too. it must be remembered
that the South has always been an
agricultural section. Until only a
short time ago agriculture was almost
her only industry. If with all this
her agricultural resources are not vet
being half developed, her industrial
resources can only have been barely
touched. The industrial resources of
the West are being practically develop-
ed. There is little left for new men
Of enterprise to take hold of, while
in the South they have as yet been
barely touched.
Yet even with this, the figures
again show that since 1900 the South
made 140 per cent. gain in bank L.
posits against 40 per cent for the
West. How forcibly these figures
foretell of the wonderfully prosperity
that must come to the South when her
resources are developed as those IF
the West are now; development that
has just begun, and which will come
faster, now that there is little left to
develop in the West.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
PUNcTURE SPINE OF
CHESTER JORDAN

BOSTON, May Ito save Chester
Jordan from the electric chair expert
neurologists will open his spine and
by the delicate operation known as
lumbar puncture, extract a portion of
the spinal fluid in which, according to
their absolute belief would be found
paresis germs. In this case, they de-
clare, this would be certain evidence
of the brain disease from which they
claim the defendant is suffering
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
PYTHIAN knights
WERE ENTHUSIASTIC
GRAND CHANCELLOR SESSIONS
HAD A FULL ATTENDANCE.
Members Will Work Under Special
Dispensation to Increase the
Membership.

Crescent Lodge, No. Al, Knights OF
Pythias had a revival last night and
from the amount of enthusiasm which
was evident in the crowded lodge
room. it is easy to predict that the
old time spirit is going to be again
manifested and that the Hattlesburg
lodge will soon be in the lead again.
There were members present last
night who had not been there in years
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
NO TWO BANKS ARE ALIKE

Each bank has characteristics pc
culiar to itself.
Facilities vary in the amount of
capital, surplus, means of giving Gus
toners safety, etc. Service may con
tain elements that give greater conven
fence. The banks policy may be diff
ferent in it's details. Even the class
of customers differs with different
banks.
This bank has an honorable record
It's policy is to render each custo'
mer such service as will best suit
his individual requirements.
We ask your consideration OF the
benefits offered customers.
Very truly,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
Citizens Bank

Gated embodiment of lust and laziness,
moral and mental inanity-a pervert-
ed parasite, the legitimate offspring
of social rottenness.
The principle vocation of this hui
man insect is making improper re-
marks about decent women who pass
along the street, and gazing with an
idiotic, soul subduing () stare at ev'
cry woman who passes, whose form
and face are at all attractive.
saw one of these little things a
few days ago "lying in wait"
And when lady came along to take
car, it came to a squat, like an I'M
trained setter pup that had suddenly
come upon betsy bug.
These little things boast of their
power to charm with the fixed gaze
of the eye. They employ the metnous
of the snake in trying to overcome the
shyness of the frog.
I watched the dirty little mishap
for a moment, with an almost uncon-
trolable desire to spit on it and drown
it.
It saw me looking at it, and its COW
ardly conscience quaked, and it skunk
away like a NANCY dog caught in a hen
house.
It ought not to be against the law
to kill such a thing.
Really it is not
1t is neither brute nor human-it is
bug.
It is a needless incumbrance upon
the earth and a painful reminder of
the depths of degeneracy to which
man made in the image of God, by
his own wickedness, may descend.
This product of our modrn civil
ization calls for attention at the hands
of the scientist and statesman.
A commendable campaign against
tuberculosis, malarial diseases and
OlHer eHeHuleS 10 tHe HUMAN idCe IL
being made.
It might be well to include in that
campaign of determination the masher
It is a pernicious little thing which
effects the public health, and moral
we'll being of society.
If you are going to kill ticks and
boil weevils either one of which is
superior in all the elements Of man
hood, to the masher, | do not see why
| the masher should be permitted to es
cape.
A general distribution of rough on
rats where they get hold of it and a
pond where they might drink and die
before returning to the house is about
the best remedy | know.
But if that will not do, then some
thing else should be suggested.
By all means let them be exter
minated.
There is no trouble about locating
them.
Really, | think the board of super
visors ought to offer reward fol
the piece of skin that covers the upper
end of it's neck, as it is common fol
them to pay for the scalps of wolf
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07

Newspaper men constantly get the
impression that the Law Enforcement
League is not getting many results
from Detective Pinson. Substituting
abuse for argument, may influence a
few, but so few that it does not
count.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07

Wheat is soaring again, which
makes the poor mans loaf grow
smaller. If the price of wheat is reg
ulated by the law of supply and de-
mand, there is no remedy but if mar
ket manipulations are responsible, it
is high time to stop it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-07
The Washer.

There is a species Of human bug
with an odor more offensive than the
chinch bug and an avocation less re-
spectacle than the scavenger beetle,
which is found in most of the towns
and cities of this republic.
You will find this little society par
asite usually loafng around the street
corners.
There is where it does its business
spawns it's putrid lies and wallows in
social filth.
1t is known to the less scientific
by the euphonious appellation of "the
masher."
But to the biologist it is the bifur-