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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
HoteI at solomon BURNS.

Solomon, Kan. Jan. 12.-The
George Cryderman hotel at Solomon
was completely destroyed early Mon
day by fire. 1t was a two-story build
ing of twenty-five rooms and was one
of the first hotel buildings in this part
of the state The total loss is esti-
mated at $4,000 to $1,000. The total
insurance was about $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

A distribution of patronage is the in
tent of a suggestion which carried
easily in the senate caucus. BY nam
ing a committee of eight to distribute
the pie to the lesser employees, much
i'll feeling may be avoided. The men,
bers Of the committee can deal gently
with a few applicants from their cor
ner of the state. Those who lose will
be let down easy, and cannot charge
their defeat to any one locality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
IN RANGE OF BULLETS.
Government to Purchase $50 Acres
Adjoining FIT. Leavenworth Range.

Washington, Jan. 12.-Claiming
that the protection of human life re-
quires the purchase by the govern
ment of 800 acres of land adjoining
the target range at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, which land is in the danger
zone" Secretary Wright has submit
ted an additional estimate to congress
in connection wi the army appro-
priation bill asking for $44,516.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

DR.. .Mulligan, the Senate Humorist.
the most serious part of a sitting of
legislature. While the effort was being
made to pick q Divine from an assort-
ment of five select ones, the doctor, on
the third ballot, handed in his vote like
this;
Wood
J. w"
Some senator votes for Wood and
there is no such candidate" remarked
the Teller.
"J W, under Wood" murmured Sen
ator MulIigan, and the vote was duly
added to the collection held by Rev.
J. w. Underwood.
Those who believe that the Senate
Lodge is an institution which did not
depart with the late senator from Sc
dan, are eagerly watching for the per-
sonnet of the alleged Lodge of 1909
Some of the watchers thought they had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WELL?

Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Rheu-
matism, Gout, Gravel, Dropsy, In
fiammation of the Bladder, Bad Blood
and Nervous Troubles caused by Sick
Kidneys.
NJ. Weightman. Jr., the well known
druggist of Topeka, known by expert
ence that HINDIPO will cure all
forms of Kidney and Nervous Trou-
bles, and will guarantee it in all cases.
Can't you afford to try it at their
risk? 1t costs you nothing if it don't
do the work.
Sent by mail to any address, pre-
boxes, $3.50, under a positive guaran-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
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NORTH topeka news.

Items for the North Topeka column may
be left at A. NJ. Petro's drug store, SS9
North Kansas avenue. or call the North
Side reporter at her home. Ind. phone
1881 black
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
KANSAS COURT UPHELD.
United States Supreme Tribunal Al
firms Larabee Mill Case.

Washington, Jan. 12-Justice Brewer
of the supreme court of the United
States announced the opinion of that
court in the case of the Missouri Pa
mills at Stafford, Kan, in which the
owners of the mills sought to compel
the railroad company, as a common
carrier, to perform switching services
on spur track built to the mill by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe company.
The decision was favorable to the mills.
The resistance of the railroad was
based on the absence Of a specific con-
tract. The Kansas supreme court af-
firmed a verdict granting the prayer of
the former mandamus and directing the
railroad company to supply the requis-
lite facilities and that decision was af-
firmed by the courts action.
Capt. ]. G. Waters, of Topeka, was the
leading attorney in this case.
The Larabee company had switch
to its mills at Stafford, Kan, and the
company removed it. The company
filed suit for a peremptory writ requir-
ing the company to restore the siding.
The Kansas supreme court granted the
writ Justice Burch writing the decis-
ion. The railroad company appealed to
the supreme court of the United States
and that court has just sustained the
Kansas court upon every point.
1.-The case is an important victory"
said Captain Waters. The decision is
of sweeping Importance on account of
Interstate commerce questions which
the railroad company raised. I feel very
much elated over the outcome OF the
case. I feel that it is the greatest legal
victory of my life.
Captain Waters says that the su-
preme court of the United States paid
a particularly high compliment to Jus
tice Burch, since it sustained in every
particular the decision which he wrote.
With Captain Waters for the milling
company were associated John F. Swift
ger and Charles Blood Smith. Bale
Waggener of Atchison, general attor-
ney for the Missouri Pacific, represent
ed the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
SHOT BY HUSBAND.
Mrs. MiIIie Donnelly Murdered at
Oxford, Ohio.

Oxford, o., Jan. 12-Mrs. Mile
Donnelly was murdered in her home
here last night, having been shot
through the head. The body was
found by her son, Paul Brandenburg.
On a table in the same room was found
a note signed by Frank Donnelly, the
woman's husband, in which he wished
all goodbye and asked that his body
be sent to his sister at Shelbyville, Ind.
Hamilton. O., Jan. 12.-Frank Dom
nelly walked into the office of J. d.
Marshall early today with his throat
slashed and his wrists bleeding and
with three pistol wounds in his head.
The man could scarcely whisper his
name and it said that he can not live.
He is Sc years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

Senator l. S. Cambern comes from
Erie. and his future is assured Some
of our leading newspaper men came
from Erie some time Grigsby Station,
and the little town has delivered to the
public some shining lights On account
of the complexion of this senator's
hair, the subject of shining lights
will be dropped at once and forgotten.
The senator from Erie has succee ded
Senator Porter of Montgomery, a lead :
ing member of the last senate, in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

81 think I'll go out for drink after the
second act" Hubby; you. know yoa
swore off for a year. But Two years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
Don't Get a Divorce.

account of iIl-temper and bad breath.
DR.. Kings New Life Pills would have
prevented it. They cure Constipation,
causing bad breath and Liver Trouble the
ill-temper, dispel colds. Danish headaches,
conquer chills. Csc at Campbell Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

discovered it yesterday in caucus. when
a vote of IS was cast twice in success
sion. To others. there was no sig
nificance attached to this vote, and no
symptoms of lodge work. The fact that
a majority Of the Republican senators
chose Senator Porter as president
pro tenn. in preference to the senator
from Wicked Wichita. does not look
like a deep, dark plot to the casual OBJ
server
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12
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9GMsLr4a MNf iAa

Items for the East Topeka column may
be teleDhoned to Ind. phone 2SS1 black.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

position of tallest man. Although he is
new in the senate, he is perfectly al
ease, and has the appearance of one
who will handle his own vote and back
his own measures. He is a man OF
Importance in his own county, and is
liable to be such in Copeland County.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

Five preachers signif1ed a willingness
to look after the spiritual welfare of
Church does not consider that body Of
Lawmakers a Lost Band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-12

1t is quite evident that DR.. Mulligan,
of Garrett, will be the jokesmith of the
senate. This genial gentleman even
ventured (and escaped WITH a rare
''josh'' in the sacred. caucus, which is
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
Continued on Page 8.)
RICH SUGAR CANE
Tests of Valley Product Show Nine teen Per Cent of Sacchrine Mat
 ter, Says Prominent Chemist

F. B. Fuller president of the Fl Centro National Bank, has received letter from w. w. Sullivan, capital ist of the Middle West, who has be- come deeply interested in Pacific Coast development, and aside from the nice things MT. Sullivan says about Imperial Valley, he gives some inter estipg information about test of val ley sugar cane. The letter says, in part:
 I have been looking over Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho, and am now headed toward Colorado. Have seen no country which appears to equal the Imperial Valley for opportunity and investment. I wish you would send me literature on the valley. will have great many questions to answer about the valley when I get back to Colorado, and I have not kept as well posted as l ought to have done. Would like to know how the cantaloupe growers made it this year, what prospect there is for getting ti- ties to land and what the different crops are doing. l am especially in terested in the experiments on sugar cane. l want to talk to the sugar people about the valley and I desire to know what l am talking about I saw the head chemist of the Great Western Sugar Company in Los An geles last winter, He had just an alyzed some cane grown in the valley, and he said it showed 19 per cent sugar. He was enthusiastic over it and predicted a great future for the valley in sugar production.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
HIGH WATER IN ALAMO RIVER
Cutting of Rivers South Banks Threat en County Bridge South of
 HoItville.

The Alamo river has been carrying more water the past few days than at any time since the break in the Colo rado river, which deepened the Alamo into a gorge at many places.
 The first of this week the Holton Inter- Urban Railroad Company had men stationed at the bridge across the river at Holtville, to keep the piling cleared of driftwood trees and tim bers that came down the stream.
 On Thursday it was discovered that the south bank of the river was cut = ting back in the vicinity of the county bridge, and men were set at the task of placing trees and brush at that point to divert the channel to the center of the river bed. This was accomplished and the danger of this bridge going out is passed.
 The Gila river has been pouring a flood of storm waters into the Colorado river at Yuma the past few days. Summer rains in Arizona are the cause of this rise in the Gila.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
Texas Wakes Up

In dozens of cases growers who consigned lost not only the shipments outright but were actually compelled to pay freight charges after the con- mission merchant had gobbled up the returns of their seasons labor.
 Then these Texas growers woke up and organized locals" and strong central organization which paid it's manager $50O0 season. The same grower who had to take $2.65 for car of fine early potatoes realized, through the association, a net profit of $325 an acre on common red carrots. In it's first business year the associa- ton sold 369,064 crates of Bermuda onions for which it returned $250,567 to the growers. But concrete individ- ual cases are more interesting: at Kingsville thirty-three growers had ninety-two acres in onions. The as- sociation handled the crop and paid them an amount in net profits, suffi- cient to average $157.60 an acre. The onion acreage was far greater before the association took hold of it, but scarcely grower did better than make bare expenses.
 Organization has been the salvation of the growers of the Gulf Coast coun- try: without it they would have been crushed and discouraged; with it they have whipped the commission men in to line. The 1900 or more cars of i truck and melons shipped over the Gulf Coast Line alone this season will represent substantial profit to the growers because organization has pro- | tected them against their own inex- perience, their ignorance of market conditions and methods, and against the crooked practices of that element of the commission business which has not yet learned that square dealing pays best in the long run. If the growth of truck growing under coop eration methods in this region is not sufficiently indicated by these figures, then let it be emphasized by the state
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
INDIANS WANT TEN ACRES
Yumas Ask Government to Double the Size of Proposed AIIotments of 
 Lands in Imperial County

D. D. Graham, alloting agent for the Yuma Indian Reservation lands, all of which are located in Imperial County, has gone to the reservation to take the Indian census. He states that the job is by no means a rapid one. For some reason, the Indians are very loath to give explicit informa- tion, and this makes the work much more difficult
 For the past year or more 1t has been generally known that each In dian, man, woman and child, would be allotted five acres Within the past few weeks, however, movement has developed among the Yuma In
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
NEW BUSINESS CONCERN
Company Forms to Handle General School Supplies for Districts of
 Imperial County

This week Fl Centro adds to it's list of business concerns the Valley School Supply Company, which pro- poses to carry on a general school supply business and to cover by direct canvass all of the school districts of the county.
 Albert Durham has been made man ager of the new company, and the headquarters will be in the building occupied by Crawford & Davis Be- sides Mr. Durham and the firm men -tioned above, other well known val ley people are interested in the com pany, and it is probable that at a later date it will be incorporated un- der the State laws.
 The company will at once place in Fl Centro an extensive stock of gen eral school suplies, and will handle school furniture and fixtures. It will also have the agency for some of the best known Eastern school supply houses.
 Prof. G. A. Ragan, who is to be prin- cipal of the Calexico schools is mak- ing a thorough district canvass of the county for the new concern.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28

dians for the purpose of trying to se- cure individual allotments of ten acres The Indians set forth the claim that as from twenty to forty acres are to be allowed each white claimant the small tract of five acres for each In dian is unjust.
 This movement has crystalized in a petition headed by Chief Miguel and signed by the heads of the Indian fam flies, appealing to the Indian Rights Department at Washington, and as a result R. M. Brosious, special Indian agent, has arrived at. the reservation to make a general investigation.
 The land has been surveyed and tracts have been located on the basis of five-acre allotments to the Indians, and if their petition for ten acres eacn is now allowed it will doubtless delay the opening of the reservation for sev- eral weeks.
 In case this change is made, there will be only about 225 tracts left for white claimants instead of 400 as now planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
HoIton Company Doubles Its Capacity for Producing
 Electric Energy
Machinery Housed in Fireproof Build ing of Reinforced Concrete Reaching Fjfty-Five Feet Below Ground Level and Floor of Old Power House.

This week has brought about the adding of another highly important factor to the industrial equipment of Imperial Valley-the opening of the new power plant of the Holton Power Company.
 For months past work on this plant has been in progress, and it was de- signed to meet the increased demand for electrical energy made upon this company from all parts of the valley.
 Beginning last Monday a test run has been in progress during the week, and the plant is proving satisfactory. It practically doubles the producing power, and is located on the banks of the Alamo river, a short distance below the original power house.
 The building is of reinforced con- foundation to the roof, fifty-five feet of this being below the ground level and the same distance below the floor of the old power house. The floor is further strengthened by reinforced concrete buttresses, the building be- ing arranged in such manner that the base of each buttress hts a hol- low space to which there is an en- trance from the oue'ating floor Tltese several spaces will be lscd as trans former, telephone, toilet rooms, etc.
 The building is fireproof, no wood heinz used, the who'.r, including the roNi being of concrete, with window frames of iron.
 The new plant was installed by the Allis- Chambers Company, and the erecting engineer of this firm has been at Holtville this week experimenting the test runs.
 The machinery which has been in stalled consists of one 1150 horse ed so that it will operate automatic ally by the use of an oil pressure turbine governor and fifty inch hy- draulically operated gate valve. The first unit to be installed consists of one $50 K. w. water wheel type gen. orator with the necessary exciter, rheostat, switch boards etc. The ma chinery was all supplied under con tract by the Alis- Chambers Com pany direct from their works in Mil waukee
 It is the intention of the Holton Power Company to install another gen orator on the other side of the tur- bine during the coming winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
"cALLING OF DAN MATTHEWs"'

Harold Bell Wrights latest novel, "The Calling of Dan Matthews" made it's appearance at the book stores on August 25. The shipment sent to El Centro was sold out in one day and more are on the way. The book has had an advance sale of more than 5O,0OO copies, and is destined to have remarkable run. The manuscript of this story was written at MT. Wright's ranch home at Meloland,
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
MANY INSTRUMENTS FILED

Seventy-one instruments were filed for record in the office of County Re corder J. R. Baker, Wednesday, Six ty-seven of these were right of way deeds from valley ranch owners to the Imperial Water Company No, l, for canals across their lands, Some of these instruments dated as far back as 1901.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28

needed to be taken in. Occasionally the growers were permitted to steal the bait, but often they were hooked and hooked good and strong.
 tThey were worked precisely as the cantaloupe, cabbage and onion grow CTS of Imperial valley have been work ed--to finish-by commission pi- rateS.-Ed. Press.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-08-28
Specialist From Arkansas De- cIares Imperial Valley
 Crop First Class
Suggests That onyNone Kind of Cot ton Be Planted To Avoid Hybridi~ zation-Governmen Bug Man Finds Dry Heat Fatal to Br'er Boil Weevil.

Early this week an inspection of some of the cotton fields near El Centro was made by J. A. Watkins, of Little Rock, in the interest of persons contemplating going into the cotton growing business on large scale in Imperial Valley MT Watkins is an expert judge of cotton, whose busl- ness is sizing up cotton crops for the banks in the Mississippi Valley.
 Better than 1 expected to find it." was the verdict of the Arkansas ex- pert on the cotton crop of this re- gion There is no question what ever of the suitability of soil and eli mate to cotton. The experiment is an absolute, unquestionable success, so far as growing cotton goes The quantity of the crop, as indicated by the bolls already matured, is very great, and the quality of fibre is first class. The staple is of good length, and it is very fine and white It VIII Sl ouC hl6l uuu c LOp pllCc.
 Probably it will take some time to work out the water problem and as certain the best way to irrigate the fields. It seems to me that the tend ency will be at first to use too much water, to the detriment of the staple. Growers will find out by experience how to handle the water, however.
 Tt will be advisable to determine which variety of cotton can be grown to the best advantage, and then plant that exclusively. Good results can not be obtained if upland and Egyp- tian cotton are planted in the same district. It must be either one or the other. If both kinds are grown. they will hybridize and the result will be a mongrel cotton. Bees will carry the pollen long distances and cross fertilize the plants"
 Mr. Watkins did not volunteer opin- ions or advice. The little he said was eXtorted from him in installments ne was SeehlnS lnlOTIlldllOn, ana ne asked more questions than he an swered. But he was explicit and pos itive in his declaration that this has been proved by the results of the first years plantings, to be the cot ton region par excellence of North America. It remains only to work out the labor factor of the problem and prove the financial advantages of cot ton growing.
 i That there is not much danger of in- vasion by the boil weevil is indicat- ed by inability of that pest to en- dure a high degree of dry heat. Dr. w. D. Hunter, the government ento- mologist in charge of the southern field crop, in a bulletin just issued declares that the terrific heat of the last few days has killed more than | 99 per cent of the boil weevil in Texas and Oklahoma and that the heat and dryness of the season every where has brought out small plants on which the bolls will soon open, so that the crop may be picked at
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-01-26

the bottom or head proper. Six OF
seven inches Of coarse gravel or bro
ken stone are next placed on the false
bottom, and on this stone q layer of
charcoal six or seven inches thick is
placed, and on the charcoal a second
layer of stone or gravel. In all it
should be about eighteen or twenty
inches thick. The water enters the
barrel at the bottom between the head
and the false bottom through the reg
ular down spout, which is clearly illus
trated. 1t passes up through the
gravel and charcoal and out at the top
through a second pipe which leads to
the cistern. The top layer of stone
may be improved on by filling the
voids between the stone with sand.
The sand is covered with cheesecloth
stretched on a wire and the cloth and
wire held in place with one OF two
stones. A small wooden plug or faucet
is placed at the lower end Of the bar
rel to drain same after a rain or when
washing out the filter. Give the barrel
two or three coats of paint, provide a
close fitting cover and your filter will
do the work just as well as any twen-
ty-ive dollar filter in the land.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-01-26
Strike Of HstmakafS.

A general strike of hatmakers
shat may involve some 25, DOC
workers, was inaugurated in the
hat manufacturing centers of the
country today thrc Ugh a decision
of the Associated Hat Manufac.
tnrers to discontinue the use Of
the union label in the factories
represented in the association
Reports from various places ipdi-
cate that the hattars in this vicin-
!ty, including those in the facto.
ries in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut, have generally
obeyed the order to strike. There
yer nc signs Of disorder anywhere,
ahe hatmakers peacefully retiring
from the fact ,ries when the order
10 quit work was received.
lhe manufacturers, III eSplalH-
ing theirorder to discard tha unior
label, said il was the result Of the
failure of the union to keep Il
working agreement made with the
Guyer Hat Company, of Phila-
deIphia. Their acton to discon-
inue the label, they declared, was
unanimous.
The leaders of the hatters, on
the other hand, claim that the
step was only the first in an or
gapizod and general plan of en-
p!overs IL all Ines to do awav
with the union la',el and that
union tabor was prepared to COM
lat t.-Philad-Iphla dispatch,