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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
WOMEN START CRUSADE
Club Officers Write Letters to Taft
About Whisky.

Washington. July BY reason of
briefs from lawyers and letters from wo-
men whose attention had been directed TO
the fight over what is whisky" Presi-
dent Taft is forced to remember the sub
ject even wrestling with the tariff
Purity and quality in wet goods" are
what the women who are writing the pres
tdent, want They do not set themselves
up as a rule consumers of the COM
modify nor are they prepared to subscribe
to the sentiment that all whisky is good.
What they seek is to have the president
adhere to the ruling of former President
Roosevelt that straight whisky. made
from distlllation of grain, is the only form
in which 1t meets the requirements of the
pure food act. Any other form of whisky
under the law as construed by Mr.. Roose-
welt, must bear a label procIaiming it to
be adulterated.
To permit whisky in any other than its
straight form TO appear without such
label would. in the opinion of the presi-
dents correspondents mean that the pure
food law would not be enforced.
The crusade of the women was started
by Mrs. Beulah AnidOn. of the General
Federation Of Women's Clubs. She sent
circulars to every wonen's club in the
country asking that the members write
the president. If there is any truth in
rumor, most of them have done so.
Tomorrow is the time limit set by the
president for the whisky men to file their
briefs in the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
MAY BE ENJOINED.
Enforcement of the High Cream
Rates Likely to Be Tested.

John Dawson, newly appointed at
torney for the railroad board, assumed
the duties of his office today. His
first official business was the receipt
of an intimation that the board would
be enjoined by the big creamery
companies of the state from putting
into effect the new cream rates re-
Gently established.
The railroad board, it will be re-
membered, at a recent hearing, raised
the express rates in this state on
cream shipments to a rate higher
than the interstate rate and higher
even than the express companies
asked for. The boards excuse for
this action was the allegation that
there was a creamery trust in this
state and they wanted to protect the
little creameries by keeping the rates
down on the short haul and hosting
them on the long haul
The boards action plays right into
the hands of the express companies
and will hurt the farmers and milk
producers of the state as we'll as the
big creameries. The attorneys for
the creameries last week appealed to
the board for a reconsideration of
the rates, but the board stood pat
This cream rate may be the shoal
upon which the political hopes Of the
members of the railroad board Will
be wrecked in their journey toward a
third term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
Killing TO BROOKLYN.
President Ebbetts Offers $4,000 for
Peerless Catcher

Washington, July 19-President
Ebbetts of the Brooklyn National
league has made the Chicago club an
offer of $4,000 for Catcher John
Killing, who has refused to play with
Chicago this year. Ebbetts wants
King to manage the Brooklyn club
President Murphy of the Chicago club
said:
president Ebbetts has made me an
offer of $4,000 for Killing, but have
done nothing in regard to it. You
know Killing will have to play with my
club first. He is a great player and
must not act too hastily in his case"
Kansas City, No, July 19.-Johnny
when shown the New York dis
patch announcing the Brooklyn clubs
offer of $20,O 600 for his services, said:
president Ebbetts has never has
any communication with me in regard
to my playing in Brooklyn. But if the
deal is consummated I will play with
Brooklyn or any other club that meets
my terms otherwise shall remain in
Kansas City,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19

society: -- secretary, Independence.
Montgomery county-Coffeyvil
Fair and Park association: C L. Hol-
Iingsworth. secretary: Coneyville.
Nemaha County Fair association:
". H. Fftzwater, secretary, Seneca;
September 1917.
Ness County Agricultural associa-
ton: ThOs. Rineley, secretary. Ness
City; September 22-24.
Ness county-Utica Agricultural
and Fair association: r Q. Webster,
Jr., secretary. Utica
Norton County Agricultural assoc
citation: NJ. z. Clarity, secretary, Nor
ton; August 31-September 4.
Usage County Fair association: z.
T. Price. secretary, Burlingame, August
81. September 1, 2 and 3. 1903.
Reno county-Central Kansas Fair
association: A L Sponsler, secretary.
Hutchinson; September ILL
Improvement association: WILDER F.
Allen, secretary. Chanute; August IS
Republic County Agricultural
association: F. y. Woodward, sec
rotary. BellevilIe; September 1916.
Riley county-Manhattan Agricul-
turaI Fair association: J. Q. - Shell
den, secretary. Manhattan: Septem-
Rocks County Fair association: II.
A Butler. secretary, Stockton; Sep
TENDER no
Smith County Fair association: H.
c. Smith. secretary. Smith Center;
STAFFORD County Fair association:
D. s. Null. secretary, st. John; Au-
gust 25-27.
Saline County Agricultural. Horti-
cultural and Mechanical association:
B. 3 Stimmel. secretary Salinas Au-
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tural society: Elmer z. Brown, secre-
tary, Lawrence; September 21-25.
Elk County Agricultural Fair asso-
citation: J. J. Marshall, secretary,
GrenoIa; September 22-24.
Fiuney County Agricultural society:
a. H. Warner, secretary, Garden City.
Franklin County Agricultural So
ciety: J. E. Shinn, secretary, Ottawa;
August 31-September 3.
Greenwood County Fair associa-
ton: c. H Weiser. secretary. Eureka;
August 1920.
Harper county-Anthony Fair as
ISOLATION: L. G. Jennings, secretary,
Anthony; August 3-6.
Harper County Agricultural asso-
citation: Chas. H. Simpson, secretary.
Harper; September 7-10.
Harvey County Agricultural society:
L G. Harlan, secretary Newton; Au-
gust 31-SeDtember 3
Leaxenwerth County Fair associa-
ton: c. A Sparrow, secretary, Leav-
enworth: September 21-24.
Linn County Fair association: John
D. Morse, secretary, Mound City;
September 21-23.
Lyon County Agricultural society:
C z. Feeble, secretary. Emporia;
September I'll.
Marshall County Fair association:
W. H Smith, secretary, MarysviIle.
Mcpherson County Agricultural
Fair association: Carl A Grant. sec
rotary. Mcpherson; September 7-10.
Miami County Agricultural and Me-
chanfcaI FAIR association: Geo r.
Reynolds, secretary. Paola; Septem-
Der 2s-October 1.
Mitchell County Agricultural asso-
citation. w s GabeI. secretary. Be
lott; September 2s-October I.
Montgomery County Agricultural
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
MANY ARE AFFLICTED.
Cases of tuberculosis at Penitentiary
Are Numerous.

DR.. Crumbine of the state board of
health today received word from Dr.
Emily of the board, who is conducting
the tuberculin test of the inmates of
the penitentiary, that he has tested
sixty prisoners up to this time. In
the first batch of twenty-five he found
so per cent infected. In the second
batch of thirty-five he found eleven
cases and two doubtful. However, it
must be membere that these first
sixty prisoners were picked as among
those most likely to be affected with
the disease. They were checked off
by DR.. Crumbine from the sick call
Friday morning of last week
So far there has been no reluctance
on the part of the prisoners to submit
to the test All the inmates will be
tested this week for symptoms of
tuberculosis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
KANSAS FAIRS IN 1909.

The following is the list of the
forty-seven county fairs to be held in
Kansas in 1909. their dates, locations
and secretaries, as reported to the
state board of agriculture and COM
piled by Secretary F. D. Coburn:
Allen County Agricultural society:
Frank E. Smith. secretary, lola; Au-
gust 24-27.
Allen county-Moran Agricultural
Fair association: z. n. Mccormack,
secretary, Moran; September $40.
Barton County Fair association: W.
P. FEEDER, secretary Great Bend.
association: c. A. Money, secretary.
Hiawatha; September 7-10.
Butler County Fair association: W.
F. Benson, secretary. Ell Dorado; Au-
gust 24-2T.
Butler county-DougIass AgricuI-
turaI society: ]. A Clay, secretary.
Douglass: september 2s-October 2.
Clay County Fair association: Wal
ter Puckey. secretary. Clay Center;
September 7-10.
Clay county-wakefe1d Agricultur-
al society: Eugene EIkins. secretary,
Wakefield: October q and %.
Cloud County Fair association: L.
z. Abbott, secretary, Concordia; Sep
Corey County Agricultural Fair
association: Henry Jackson, secre-
tary. Burlington; September 14-17.
Cowley County Agricultural and
secretary, winfield; Aug. 31-Septem-
Der 4.
CowIey county-Eastern CowIey
Fair association: w. A Bowden. sec
rotary. Burden: September $40.
Cowley county-UdaH Agricultural
society: F. H. Chenoweth. secretary.
Udau; Septem Der 1913.
Dickinson County Fair association:
w c. Curphey, secretary, Abilene;
September 2S-October 1.
Douglas County Fair and AgricuI-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
HOT FIGHTING.
BIoors SSvoop Down on Spanish Gar
rison at McIiIIa.

Madrid. July 19.-OhiciaI dis
patches received here indicated that
the fighting yesterday between the
Moors and Spaniards at Melilla was
more grave than at first believed. The
Moorish cavalry made a concerted
attack on the Spanish headquarters
swarming down from all directions
and firing their guns as they ap-
preached.
The tribesmen displayed fanaticaI
bravery. and theft sheadIong charge
was only stopped by a deadly fire
from the Spanish batteries. The
Moors returned the attack during the
night and the battle is still raging
this morning. Spanish losses are i'm
portant, among the dead being a lieu
tenant colonel a cOmmandant and a
captain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
COMPL AIN OF TAXES.
Many Large Companies Complain of
Valuations.

The state tax commission today
listened to the complaints of the
Prairie Oil and Gas Co. and the lola
electric railway over their assess
ments of property. On July 81 all
the big packing companies of Kansas
City will argue for reduction of their
assessment Swift Morris, Armour,
Cudahy and Schwarzchild and
Sulzburger are among those who have
filed an appeal. The Metropolitan
Water Co.. of Kansas City will also
make Il protest over their assessment
on that day The tax commission
will finish hearing appeals about July
% and will get to work on their
task of handing down decisions on
these appeals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
INSURANCE MEN PROTEST
Object TO Proposition to Tax Incomes
OF Companies.

The semi-annuaI meeting of the
Kansas Association of Life Under
writer's took place at the Commercial
club this afternoon. Two kilograms
were prepared to send to washington.
d. c., the first to the entire list of
senators and representatives of the
Kansas delegation. and the second to
President Taft They are as follows:
Hon. Chas. Curtis, Z. S. Senator,
Washington, D. c.:
We respectfully request your in
huence against any bill taxing net in
come OF life insurance companies.
We urge your active opposition to
any such injustice upon these
voluntary savings for benefit Of
widows. orphans. and other bene-
f1ciaries
(Signed.) Kansas Association of
Life Underwriters.
ELON S. CLARK, Pres.
CHAS a. MONROE. Sec.
To the President, Washington, D. C:
Following telegram sent today to
Kansas delegation in Washington.
and we most respectfully request
your official consideration of same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
CHASED BY 5 LIONS.
Member of Roosevelt Party Enters
Town on the Run.

Naivasha, British East Africa. July
19-Leslie A Tarlton of Nairoba.
who accompanied the Roosevelt
expedition to the Sotik country. ar
rived here last night He was chased
into the town by five lions. the dis
trict having been invaded by many of
these animals It is probable that
the Roosevelt party will arrive here
from its shooting tour on July p.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
BRIDGE IS NOT SATISFACTORY.
That at West Stone Creek Doesn't
Meet Requirements.

The bridge Just completed across the
West Stone creek near Tecumseh was
inspected this morning by Commission
ers Ed O'Neil and J 9. Sinner and
refused acceptance. The structure was
built by George Skene of Topeka and
is known as the Buck Miller bridge
already it is sagging in the center and
will have to be reinforced before it
VIII Ill the requirements Of the board
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19

Children are quick TO find the good
things to eat They prefer CYCLIC
cornhakes because there's really a taste
Of corn in them; the rich, delicious
taste Of yellow corn. Try them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
In the Heart of Things

And wha7 That after eight Of apoloszins
hold SALE wen well how have the Mighty Fallen The old
8 a all
A
do in
contrary
thinking
cicise
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strange to say 1t Is at Lawrence and
Lake View.

Governor Stubs did not come over
to the state capitol from Lawrence
today, but has concluded to take a few
DAYS of his summer vacation this
week. He believes that the climate at
Lawrence and Lake View is as fine as
that at the noted summer resorts of
the country. Topeka people swelter-
ed with the heat last night. but the
governor is authority for the state
ment that he had to pull three covers
over him TO keep comfortable at his
summer home near Lawrence.
III. xr,5an+5ql ss4ata hank sax-frgq
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
LOCAL MENTION.

J r. s. cigars in high favor solely
because OF their high quality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19

gust s1-Sept. 3.
Shawnee county-Kansas State TX
position company: r. T. Kreipe. Sec
retary, Topeka; September 1918.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19

The Prudential state bank savings
accounts
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
NEW YORK FIRM
BACKS NORTH
COAST

NORTH YAKIMA, June A..
That the ''mysterious" North
Coast railroad. now under con-
on the east side of the
Yakima river, Is being financed by
the financial house of Harvey
Fish & Son of New York, Is the
interesting bit OF news that has
cropped out OF the condemnation
proceedings brought by the COR
poration for right of way in Par
ker bottom.
While testifying in the case late
yesterday afternoon A. G. Smith.
secretary and treasurer of the
company, was compelled by the
court to tell who put up the
money for the road. This fnfor-
nation had heretofore been denied
the public. The fight M court is
between the North Coast and the
North Yakima &valley railroad.
The latter concern has purchased
a right-of-way in Parker bottom
and the North Coast road wants
to run over 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04

just for Saturday
Olives, quart bottles $500. 23c
String Beans, gal. cans 23c
Tomatoes, gal. cans ...... 28c
Cherries, gal. cans ...... 28c
Spiced Herring, 81 kegs $3.50
Anchovies, soc kegs 28c
Mushrooms, per can 1880. zoe
Sound Mackerel ....... 18c
Picked Salmon and Cod, per
pound ........ ...... DC
Peas, Corn and Tomatoes, 3
cans 25c
Salmon, cans ,........ 25c
st. Charles MIX, cans 05c
Big box Matche1, 1000 count &c
Flour, per suck ....... 1.Qo
Holland Herring, 9 for -. -
Gale 4 %. Grocery
-''' Upsfa1rn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04


The committee on salaries Of
The council is this afternoon boost
Ing the pay Of city officials.
a general raise OF about IS q
month to hremen was recommend
"a. Policemen get the same.
Some OF the straw bosses in the
water and hight departments also
IRE getting boosts.
Other officials are towering
around the comittee and an effort
10 get more raises will be made.
The committee objected to the
way things are going In the city
nv which foreigners are getting
much OF the street and sewer con-
tracfing jobs. Some members
wanted to pass an ordinance to
exclude all but citizens from pub
lie work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
$50, 100000; WHAT IT
DID TO s PEOPLE

! found. They attacked the will;
the courts held it valid.
/ Surprise Ill. came when Mrs.
IShevalier's daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Nina Shevalier, began to wear
most expensive gowns and furs
and jewelry. The poison of the
tgold was beginning to infect.
Surprise w. was the dying state
ment made by Marcus Cobb, a
young man who had witnessed the
will, that Mrs. Shevalier had given
him $1,000 to antedate the will
several days. Also that Mrs. Horn
was all but dead when she signed
lit, and that Mrs. Shevalier had
guided the palsied fingers.
81 had to tell" the dying man
mutered. II couldn't go away
with this on my soul. It's been
driving me mad"
Surprise ". was the arrest and
conviction of Mrs. Shevalier and
her sentence to the penitentiary for
two years. Some $4,000 in bills
and jewels were found sewed in
side her clothes and $4,000 more in
personal property discovered at
her house. She confessed
Enter Mccarthy, into this web
of lies, brilliant and religious
young lawyer. He was engaged
as administrator at the request of
Mrs. Horns sisters. He wanted
time to hunt up hidden assets. AL
most at once the virus OF the
money poison got into his blood.
He engaged on startling
course of extravaganza expenditure.
Wine, chorus girls, automobiles,
racing, suppers-he changed over
night to be the leader of Lincoln's
fast set. In a short time Mrs.
Foley and Mrs. Nichols grew ner-
vous. They asked an accounting
So did the court. Mccarthy fled.
He had spent $1,000 in as many
weeks, 1t Is estimated.
The curse had fallen again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04

s LINCOLN, Neb., June 4.-"The
fatal $4,000"
Good people in Lincoln shuddeI
when they speak of the money
that Mrs. Helen Horn could moi
take with her when she died.
There is a curse in that mass
Of gold. they say.
Mrs Horn has been dead lit
tie more than a year. Yet al
ready that fatal fifty thousand
has
Laid its curse on good woman.
middle-aged, mother, respect
able, and made her a convicted
thief and perjurer and sent her,
broken-hearted, to the peniten-
tiary.
It has laid It's hand on young
man, Marcus Cobb, made him a
bearer of false witness, then
racked and tortured him till, on
his deathbed, he had to confess.
1t transformed another young
man, j. ii. Mccarthy. from a de-
v0ut Sunday school teacher and
brilliant lawyer, to reckless
spendthrift and fugitive from JUS
tice.
And 1t never gave Mrs. Horn
any comfort in life. She lived and
died meanly, all but alone.
And now, two women, sisters
are fighting in the courts to get
IT.
And Mccarthy, his life ruined.
has been brought back from Sc
attic In manacles to face trial for
embezzlement of some $1,000 of
the fatal fifty.
And he comes with the threat,
uttered to the detectives through
his set teeth, that there are 9TH
ers men and women-mixed up
In this as guilty as land l will
drag them all down with me
make them suffer as l have"
Mrs. Horn was 20, a widow. liv-l
Ing alone, supposedly in poor cir
cumstances. She had two sisters,
she said, whom she had not heard
from In years.
Next door to her lived Mrs. Al
phia M. Shevalier. middle-aged,
well to do, the wife of a trusted
Missouri Pacific employee. Neigh
borliness and common decency
urged that Mrs. Shevalier should
take the friendless old woman in.
She did. Two weeks later Mrs.
Horn died.
Then came Surprise I. A will
was probated, giving to Mrs. She
Waller s50,000--all the estate of
Mrs. Horn.
Surprise III. was a statement
from Mrs. Shevalier that the $780,,
600 seemed to be myth. Bank
books, property, jewels. she could
find no trace of any assets at all.
No clew was found in the will.
Then the two sisters of Mrs.
Horn appeared in Denver-Mrs. ].
w. Foley of Council Bluffs, Ia. !
and Mrs. Geo. M. Nichols of Dem
YER COL They charged foul play.
The dead woman's stomach was
examined for poison. None was
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
SHERIFF REMOVED
FROM OFFICE

MONTGOMERY. Ala. June A.
Frank Cazalas, who Is sheriff of
Mobile county, allowed a mob to
today was removed from office by
the state supreme court after i'm
parchment proceedings had been
brought against him under a new
law, making the sheriff responsible
for prisoners
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
BETTING on RACES
GOES ON JUST i
THE SAME II

NEW YORK, June 4.-Renbrt
OF the police to the commissionkrs
today that there were no visit
tions OF the anti-betting law sf
Graveseud yesterday 10 takenil to
indicate that race tracks can be
run probably here in the future.
The report means that the 70
lice construe the law like the Baw-
yers and that "oral' wagers VIII
he permitted. az
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
rev 1 ToHeE QUITS

PUYALLUP. June 4. Rev.
Frederick Tonge, for six years
pastor Of the Presbyterian church
here, has resigned. The an
po1|ncement that he is to sever his
relations with the church was
made last Sunday. At a meeting
Of the church board "wednesday
nI}sfa the resignation was accept
Cd.
Hev. Tonge's resignation is said
TO be the result of friction which
he's been developing for a year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
NEWCOMB SEEKS
TO HAVE TRIAL
DELAYED

Charles r. Newcomb. whose trial
for the murder OF Martin Kvalshaug
was recently set by Judge Easter
day OF the superior court for June Fl
entered an objection to the date this
morning and reserved an exception.
Eewcomb claims that the date was
fixed without his knowledge and
that his attorneys appeared in court
10 arrange the date of trial before
he knew anything of ehmatter.
Although the attorneys refuse to
discuss the matter. 1t Is rumored
that q change of venue to Chehalis,
In Lewis county, will be asked for
In the case Of Mrs. Kvalshaug, also
held on the murder charge. The
change of venue will be asked for. 1t
Is understood, on the plea that pub
lie sentiment Is so strong against
the woman in Tacoma that she could
not obtain an impartial jury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04

BUFFALO. N. Y. June 4.-The
seven entries and pilot car in the
New York to Seattle exposition au-
fomobile race. started for Toledo,
Ohio, this morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-04
Men s Hand Tailored
Suits

Warranted in perfect
condition, marked at
prices to sell them quick
Oil what snaps they
are! Listen:
Young mems suits, sizes
33 to Sc ........ $685.
$685. for an entire suit.
$7.45 for another lot.
$3.50 for a better one.
$685. and $685., worth
$3.50.
Wait until you see our
high grade tailor made
suits, none like them in
town. Ranging from
81 to $18 in price. We
are sure you'll pick
them out first.
Children's clothes less
than half price.