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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
OFF FOR PANAMA.
Taft and Party Sail to Inspect
the Canal.
VIII Reach New Orleans on Re-
turn Feb. Is.
TWO BIG WARSHIPS.
The North Carolina and the
Montana Garry Them.
Newspaper Men and Secret Ser
vice Agents Go Along.
TWO BIG WARSHIPS.

Charleston, S. c.. Jan. 25-President-
elect and Mrs. Taft and party incIud-
ing small star of distinguished civil
engineers selected to inspect with the
president-elect the isthmian canal, sail
ed for Panama early today. The party
will reach New Orleans on the return
trip on February L.
The two big warships. the North Car
onna and the Montana as they swung
out into the harbor and passed out to
sea attracted considerable attention
Aboard the big cruiser North Carolina
We're the president-eIect, his rI1ddy
cheekS attesting the benefit he had
gained from the golf links at Augusta,
ana MS immediate party, including Mrs.
ant secretary, who has been with Mr.
1aLl since Secretary Carpenter left for
california to recuperate his health, and
the party OF engineers. also was aboard
that vessel
On the other cruiser was the party
OF newspaper correspondents. Aboard
eacn cratr was a secret service agent
l. C. Wheeler on the North Carolina
ana Richard Jarvis on the Montana
Both men will remain with the uarty
throughout the trfp.
MI Taft's immediate party besides
hlInsef and Mrs. Taft include WendaII
Mischler, assistant secretary L q
Wheeler. secret service operator and
the following civil engineers: Frederick
z Sterns, Boston; John r Freeman
providence, R. L; James Schuyler. Los
Angeles; Ischam Randolph, Chicago:
Henry R. Allen, Chicago; A P Davis.
Washington, and Allen Hagen. New
York
The cruisers sailed at 9 O'Clock this
morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
wEATHER STILL coslFoRTaBIE.
No Indication That Conditions WIN
Change Soon

The sun has done q good job Of
shining today though part OF the time
its efforts have not been felt on ac-
count of convention of clouds which
gathered in the southwest about noon
and followed the concourse of the sun
Inc mercury has been that of early
spring or late fall and windows and
doors which have been closed and bat
tened for week were thrown open
and the fresh bracfng air admitted to
the homes.
sunday was such another day
though there was even more sunshine
and temperatures slightly higher than
those Of today The forecast indicates
a continuation of the weather con-
dit1onS which have prevailed for the
past two days with little or no change
IN the prevailing temperatures with
perhaps freezing weather tonight. The
following were the temperatures since
O'Clock this rnorrire-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
sTAID On HIS SHIP.
Captain SeaIby Refused to Leave Until
She Went Down

Woods Hole, Mass. Jan 25.-Accord-
ing TO the log OF the revenue cutter
Gresham, the Republic sank at $40 o..
m Sunday, Is miles west-southwest Of
Nantucket south shoals light, in So
fathoms of water.
At this time very little progress was
being made and it was reported from
the Republic that she was making
water fast, especially by the stern
About dark another government boat
arrived on the scene whose identity
could not be learned She proved very
useful assistance in turning her search
lights on the Republic.
At Z o'clock last night the entire crew
of the Republic were ordered by Cap
tain SeaIby to abandon the ship, and
getting into their life boats, easily
overlook the Gresham
The men said they could not persuade
Captain SeaIby to leave his vessel and
the second officer Of the Republic re-
fused TO leave the side of his COM
mander At o'clock last night the bow
of the Republic, Illuminated by the
searchlights, was seen rising fast. Five
minutes later two pistol shots We're
heard and two blue lights were burned
At $40 the Republics bow shot up high
iH the air and she sank in SO fathoms
of water In a position Is miles west
southwest Of Nantucket south shoals
ightship.
A life boat was dropped from the side
of the Gresham and a crew under the
command of Gunner Carl Johnson
started of. The boat returned in three
quarters of an hour with both the cap
tain and the second officer on board
They had been picked up cinging to
some wreckage. Neither had on life
preservers.
When the Republic began to sink
Captain Sealby climbed the foremaSt
and reached the masthead light as his
boat went down The second officer
jumped from the rail to the sea and
said that he fell some distance and
sustained slight bruises in striking the
surface of the water. Captain Sealby
was unhurt.
The Republic was struck on the port
side a little more than two-thirds of
the way aft A large hole was torn in
her side which was clearly visible. but
as sometimes happens in such cases,
she had a big list TO starboard
Captain SeaIby stated that on the
deck of the Republic when she went
down rested two caskets containing
the bodies of those passengers who
had been killed in the collision
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
BOY HIT By AUTOMOBILE.
Ignafz Ran in Front
of A G. Lewis Car.

Ignatz Amerein. a seven-year-oid
Russian boy living at 513 North Har-
risou street was struck by an aEtomO-
bile driven by A G. Lewis, Sunday
afternoon and SO severely injured that
twenty stitches were required to close
a wound in his head. Accompanied BY
his mother he was returning from SER
vices at the German Catholic church.
As the family We're crossing the Melan
bridge the boy started TO cross to the
opposite side and ran directly in from
Of the automobile.
Fortunately the machine was being
driven at a low rate Of speed but at
that It could not be stopped until after
the boy had been struck by one OF the
lamps and had fallen under the ma
chine. He was taken from under the
automobile and with his mother was
taken immediately to Keith's hospital
where he was made as comfortable as
possible No blame is attached to Mr.
Lewis for the accident and he did an
that he could following II, for the re-
lief OF the boy and has agreed to pay
the doctor bill incurred
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SINKING OF THE REPUBLIC
Captain SeaIby was Picked Up After
She Went Down

Menemsha Blight, Island OF Martha s
Vineyard jan 25.-Captain SeaIby
and fifty members of the crew OF the
Republic were transferred to the dere-
let destroyer Seneca on Vineyard
sound lightship at 8 a. m today and
an hour later the Seneca started for
New York. The ca plain Of the Gres-
ham states that the Republic sank
last night nine miles south by east off
Nantucket light in about forty
fathoms of water. None of the officers
or crew were injured The Gresham
after transferring the Republics sur
viv0rs to the Seneca started for Wood s
Hole.
The Information was gained from
the captain of the revenue cutter Mo-
hawk which today was found to be
the vessel which anchored of Cav
the Gresham Captain Landry of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
Killed in a Runaway.

Waver1y. kan. Jan 25--C. Cox. d
farmer of FIVE miles southwest of
here was killed almost instantly in a
runaway accident He was coming to
town and was near the city limits
when a buggy wheel came off,
Frightening his team which ran away.
He held pluckiIy to the lines and was
dragged several blocks Finally he
struck a tree stump. which crushed
his chest He lived thirty minutes
afterwards. He leaves a widow and
five children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
JAILED FOR BETTING.
Sentence Given Racing Operators at
New Orleans.

New Orleans. Jan. 25.-PIaeide Fri
gerio and R. NJ. Sheffield who were
charged with operating betting book
as q result of the testimony made of
the socaIIed Locke anti-raciug law
at the CITY Park track New Orleans
several weeks ago, were today sen
fenced to serve seven months in the
parfsh prison Each man was also
fined $50 A motion for a new trial
was overruled.
An appeal viii be made to the su-
prenle court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25
THREE MINERS KILLED.
Loaded Cars Became UncoupIed on an
Incline.

Cumberland Md. Jan. 25-Three men
were killed and ten others injured, three
perhaps fatally in a coal mine accident
at Piedmont. w. Va, today.
Two cars loaded with miners were
ascending the plane at the mine Of the
Piedmont and Georges Creek Coal COM
pany at that place Near the top the cars
became unco1Dieo. dashed down the in
cline and coIlided with other cars at the
bottom
James Coudrey, William Hamilton and
an italian were killed outright. Charles
knight and two Italians sustained injuries
which NAV result fatally.
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MUST TAKE THE SMOKE.
Farmers Lose Their Case Against the
WaShOe SmeIter.

Helena Mont, jan 25--Judge Hunt
Of +he United States district court
handed down a decision IN the so
called smoke case today in which he
denies the application of farmers for
the closing of the WasF1oe smeIter at
Anaconda No damages are awarded
TO the farmers whose property is
alleged to have been injured The
court will make further investigation
as TO the alleged dissemination of
arsenic and if conditions can be i'm
proved, this will be ordered done by
the com pany-
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REPORT ON IRRIGATION.
Prof. F. W. BIaclxmar Has Finished
the Manuscript of an Investigation

Lawrence. kan Jan 25.-Prof- F.
W RIacknar. head of the departme ment
of sociology and economics in the
University of Kansas. has Just finished
fT5e manuscript of an exhaustive in
vesrigatfou on the development of
irrigation and the government rec
Iamatfon service in the arid west The
report will be published at once by the
Carnegie institution of Washington
Prof. Blackmar has spent every sum
mer for the last four years investigat-
ing the principal irrigation plants in
the western states.
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MANY WOMEN TAINTED.
Panic in st. Louis Coliseum Started by
sound Of Gong.

St. Louis Jan. 25.-Many women
tainted here last night during panic
in the Coliseum which held $4,000
persons listening to Gypsy Smith. an
evangelist. The excitement was sub
dued by the choir Of 1 1000 voices sing
ing hymns.
The panic was started by the ring
ing of a gong on the electric com
pany's trouble wagon which passed
the crowded building
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REHEARING DENIED.
The Alton Loses Its Appeal 10 the
Supreme Court.

Washington. Jan. 25--The petition
Of the Chicago & Alton Railroad COM
pany for a rehearing on the case in
which the company and two of its off,
GERS were subjected to a fine OF $50, 600
for granting rebates to Kansas City
packers was today denied by the SUI
preme court Of the United States
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They Put Mrs. Nation ont.

London. Jan 25.-Carrfe Nation, the
American anti-liquor advocate. has
invaded London and caused a scene at
Oxford Music hall She was elected
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-03

Georgia district in the national House
of Representatives at the beginning of
the war and resigned to enter the Con-
federate army.
Eugene Underwood. the father of the
member from Alabama, was the oldest
son of Joseph r. Underwood. He re-
ceived a liberal educati ton and engaged
in the practice of law at Bowling
Green, KY, and at Nashville, Tenn.
He was one of the first projectors of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
and the last survivor the original
board of directors of that great enter
prise He moved from Nashville to
Louisville and participated prominent
ly in the movement looking to the
Improvement of the Mississippi, the
floods in which at that time carried
annual havoc to the delta below Mem
phis. 1t was his suggestion that
prompted Albert Willis representative
in Congress from Louisville, and chair
man of the rivers and harbors com
mittee to secure the passage of the
bill creating the Mississippi river COM
mission. He died in 1893 at his faith
er's old homestead near Bowling
Green.
Oscar w. Underwood was born at
Louisville, Ky, May 6. 1852 He was
educated at the famous Rugby school
of that city and at the university of
Virginia, where he so greatly disting-
uished himself as to be chosen pres
ident of the Jeffersonian society of
that institution. What a legislator Is
war; A Kentucky Underwood mem
Der of a Jefferson society, Joseph R..
Underwood, the head and founder of
this family in Kentucky, was a Ham
iltonian from crown to heel. He abom-
mated Jefferson as an English whig
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with dew and heavy with the scent of
wild flowers.
When he reached the white farm house
he softly opened the door, believing that
kerrigan was still asleep. But he found
him standing in the sitting room, looking
tired and worn, as if he, too, had had
bad night. He was leaning against the
side of the fireplace and looking at the
picture of Ruth Emery. which he held
between his two SCARED hands. When
he heard Fielding he looked up. and then
slowly put the photograph back in its
place
Weir he asked.
Fielding threw bundle of the morning
papers on the desk. ITS fine, Kerryr
he said. Its big hit and the papers say
your work is wonderful! Bronson and
Miss Carew and every one were delighted
absolutely satisfied.
And then the two mem sat down before
the fre and Fielding read each notice
aloud several times and told Kerrigan
everything that had happened from the
rise of the first to the fall of the last
curtain and afterwards. He told him, too,
OF his drive with Miss Emery and of all
that he had said to her.
You must see her. Kerry" he begged
IF It's only for moment. She feels that
she owes you so much"
And so. although Kerrigan had not seen
fire, 1t was arranged before Fielding went
back to town the next day to take up
his work on the newspaper again that he
was to return on Sunday morning and
bring Miss Emery with him.
1t was a brilliant November morning
that they arrived at the little station and
found Ferguson waiting for them When
they reached the white farm house Field
ing opened the door into Kerrgan's sit
ting room and Ruth Emery went in to
meet her host. Every curtain had been
pulled aside, every shade had been raised,
so that the place was flooded with sun
ligh. In the golden haze they found Ker-
rgan standing In the center of the room
leaning on his cane and waiting. The girl
, moved quickly across the room with her
hand outstretched toward him. Kerrigan
tried to stand very erect. but at the touch
of her hand he crumpled up and she put
her arms about him as IL he had been a
child Fielding closed the door softly be-
hind him and walked around the house
and over the meadow to the river. When
he had reached the pier he got into the
catboat and quite mechanically hoisted
the sail, and casting off, went sailing
away down the little river
Those of us who follow the drama most
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over land titles and land boundaries, for
nearly every survey overlapped previous
survey or was overlapped by a subse-
quent survey, and 1t was the adjustment
of such litigation that makes the adjudi
cations of the Kentucky court of appeals
the richest land law in the world. The
pioneers of California adopted it, and it
there averted many a battle over disputed
o.aims. Joseph r. Underwood, as practi
cal surveyor as counsel at the bar, and
as Judge on the supreme bench of the
state had as much to do in making what
is to this day called the old Common
wealth 1.-THE Kentucky land law as any
other individual.
He was several times a member of the
state legislature and repeatedly a MEM
Der of Congress- in which body he sat
four terms. serving from 1885 to 1913 as
v hig the trusted counselor and faithful
follower of Henry Clay In 1916 he was
elected United States senator. where his
laborious study and infinite capacity for
taking pains made him conspicuous.
Toombs of Georgia said that Underwood
would have offered score of amend
n3ents to the Sermon on the Mount had
IT. been proposed in legislative body Of
which he was a member. However that
nay be. there is no doubt that he pre-
vented the secession of Kentucky in 1861.
for it was his letter on the situation adj
dressed personally to John ]. Crittenden,
his bosom friend and political coadjutor,
that inspired the joint resolution that
PASSED both houses of Congress the day
after Bull Run and thus prevented the
secession of kentucky
Warner L. Underwood, younger
brother of Joseph r., was twice rep
resentative in Congress from kentucky
in the fifties as a whig. Another I'm
derwood, and a relative, represented a
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has yet recovered from the effects of that
disastrous difficulty
And what was it all about? Well the
difficulty originated in the fact that some
body had said that the pastors wife was
fond of dried apples.
l once related this story to a company
of people in Virginia, and one of them
asked: How upon earth could all that
trouble arise from so insignificant a re-
mark?" l replied: 81 know nothing of
the details, but | was personally acquaint-
ed with the pastor and with his wife, and
[ will tell you just how l imagine the
trouble arose." and | proceeded as fol-
lows
Rev. MIR. S married a very beautiful
and sweet girl, and brought his bride
home The happy pair were soon flooded
with invitations to dine with the various
sisters of the church. At one of these
dinings there were dried apples, nicely
seasoned and quite appetizing. The pas
tors pretty wife ate them with a relish.
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make trouble now is 1t at all probable
that any one of them deliberately lied
But the fact is that telling the truth
is q fine art. 1t requires care, thought,
attention and usually a good deal of
practice. A very large proportion of the
general public and. ! am sorry to say,
not a few preachers. are continually tell
ing what they have not taken the trouble
to know. Harry Hotspur was uncon-
seiously paying a very high compliment
to his wife Kate, when he said to her
in his teasing way: II we'll believe thou
wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
James Martineau, the famous Unitarian
preacher, did not believe in the Divinity
of Christ; but he did deVoutly believe in
the Plurality of Worlds, that is, that
the stars are inhabted and he further
held that the inhabitants of some of the
worlds" were of a higher order than the
denizens of earth. 1t is. not improbable
that he now and then preached these
Views from his pulpit, and If so, he told
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1.-The Green River region now called the
"Pennyrile." Late in the afternoon he
found himself far from campo, and cross
ing on a fallen tree a small stream that
now bears his name, he slipped off and
got a ducking. The weather was rather
cold, and he proceeded but a short dis
tance when, finding spring whence
flowed a copious stream of clear, cool.
pure and delicious water, he slaked his
thirst, builded a fire, dried his clothing,
cooked his ration and camped for the
night. 1t was a picturesque spot, and
there the old soldier surveyed a large
body of land, and ere the patent was is
sued him he founded a town that is now
the county seat of Metcalf county, the
name originally Edmunton, now changed
to Edmonton by fiat of the United States
postoffice department.
Joseph R. Underwood a nephew of y
years, was a member of Captain Rogers
family. He soon grew to be a stalwart
man, above six feet symmetrical in pro
portion, graceful in carriage, athletic in
strength, and robust in heaith-typical of
that invincible band, the pioneers that
wrested the Ohio valley from savagery to
bestow it on civilization. Young Under
wood became a solder of 1872, as was
natural to a grandson of that Colonel
Byrd of Westover, the friend and COM
panion in arms of George Washington
and was severely wounded at 1.-The River
Raison," where he was captured Soon
thereafter, he was forced ito run the
gantlet' by the savage allies of the Brit
ish, and when he died, more than three
score years later, he bore numerous
scars he got in that desperate under
taking.
After the war Joseph Rogers Underwood
became lawyer and located at Glasgow
the county seat of Barren county. Most
of the litigation grew out of disputes
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Sister jones' the hostess, had dried,
cooked and seasoned those apples, and
was pleased to see her guest enjoying
them. few days after this Sister Jones
visited Sister Brown, and learned that the
pastor and his wife were engaged to dine
with Sister Brown the next day. Have
you any dried apples?' asked Mrs Jones
of Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown said she had
none; whereupon Mrs. Jones said, We'll,
I'll send you a half-gallon early tomorrow
morning in time to he stewed for dinner:
for Mrs. S. is fond of Them as l saw
when she dned with us on Wednesday,
Somebody who overheard this converse
tion related the circumstance again and
remarked that Mrs. S. had eaten quite
freely of dried apples at Sister Jones' din
ing. Still another person repeated the
story, and expressed her wonder at the
great quantity of dried apples which Mrs.
s. had eaten. Another person, exagger-
ating again, thought that eating such
quantities of dried apples was likely to
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served in democratic Congress, and con-
sequently he has not been given a fair
opportunity to fully discover his capacity
for affirmative. practical legislation a
talent with which he is certainly richly
endowed, and 1t is disciplined by IA years
of experience in a body where nothing
in this world is legal tender but merit.
A fellow that somes to the front in the
American House of Representatives works
his passage. There is no other way to
get there.
Though a young man. but 80 when first
elected, Underwood has been singularly
fortunate in committee assignments, ju
dietary, rules, appropriations, ways and
means. This is the very aristocracy of
congressional life No man gets commit
tee appointments by chance or by favor.
He must command them by the reputa-
ton he made before he got here or earn
them by his meritorious service after he
gets here. Sound in mind and members,
correct in morris, judicial of temper, mod
crate of speech, industrious of habit, OBJ
servant, vigilant. prompt-these are the
qualities that made young Underwood
conspicuous in that great council before
he was 40. He is not brilliant man, not
showy-he will not set the Potomac afre
or knock a rival down to get into the
limelight-none of that for him-but he is
a plain man of good common sense, like
John Sherman or Charles A. Culberson,
and these are they who are precious in
councils of state.
He is not a Blaine, nor Bryan, to
dazzle. to captivate, to take in train
the public Imagination and lead it
where he would but he has ideas.
He can incorporate those ideas in a
statute and If he had a majority be-
hind him he could have those ideas