The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-12

say that Mr.. Taft will sign any tariff
bill which may be laid before him.
The complaint has been made from
other sources that Mr.. Taft has kept
out of the tariff fight too long to be
of any service in it even if he should
now take a hand in the matter. His
answering determination to do all in
his power to secure a measure which
shall embody the things he promised
for it in his campaign speeches is as
strong now as it was when he made
the speeches. This comes from men
to whom the president has talked the
last few days.
BY a second will of the late DR..
John w. Bischoff, the blind organist
of this city, Mrs. Elsie Bond Bischoff
Formerly Miss Elsie Bond of EN-
poria. Kan.). the second wife of the
musician and composers left $4,000
in the Bischoff home in Fourteenth
street and other valuable real estate
in Washington.
greatest newspaper men of the coun-
try who recently died, was one of the
last survivors of that remarkable con-
vention of American public men
at Pittsburg, Pa, more than a CEN
fury ago to protest against the Kan
as-Nebraska bill, and to form a new
mightier than they knew and fused
discordant elements-Whigs and
Democrats agreed upon one issue
the most powerful, the most audac-
ious and the most victorious political
force our country ever knew.
John T. Hover, II, of Kansas, will
be the captain of the Gallaudet insti-
INT fnT ho nd ha a II
team next spring, his selection by the
team being ratified by the College
Athletic association today. Hover
played third. base for Gallaudet this
year, and was a tower of strength at
the third corner. He is considered to
be one of the brainiest and best all
round men on the team, and his Selec-
ton as captain was expected and
proved to be unanimous.
G. William Crane of McGraw, Kan.
received his degree of bachelor of
laws at the graduating exercises of
the Georgetown university of this city
this week.
Clifford A. Rowley of Topeka also
received his degree of bachelor of
laws at the National university gradu-
alton exercises.
Captain Charles S. Wallace of the
signal corps, who has been relieved
from duty at the war department as
disbursing officer of the signal corps
of the army in order that he may at
tend the army signal school at Fort
Leavenworth during the next session,
will be succeeded as disburing officer
by Captain Charles Def. Chandler.
c. A. MCNEIL of Columbus, Kan, is
a late arrival in Washington. He is
stopping at the New Willard.
Congressman Reeder has intro
duced bills granting increased pen
sions to Henry o. Pixley, Alpheus
H. Hadley, Eugene K. Felt and Char
lotte D. Ohm.
Congressman James NJ. Miller has
been granted leave of absence in the
house indefinitely on account of i'm
portant business.
President Taft has nominated Olga
A. Krehbeil to be postmaster as
Mound Ridge. Kan. The Office became
presidential last october 1.
The postmaster general appointed
Ross H. Mccartney postmaster at
Angola, Labette county, Kan, to sue
coed W. C. Goodell, resigned. H. H.
Schlichting was also named for the
office at Rose, Woodson county, in the
place of F. A. Dumond, resigned.
Two new rural mail routes have
been ordered established in Kansas
August 2, as follows:
Route No. 4 out of Hoxie, Sheridan
County; length, S4%; will serve ITO
families
Route No. 2 out of Monument, Lo-
gan county; length, S3 1a; will serve
76 families.
Rural letter carriers appointed for
service in Kansas: Harry B. Galley
and Frank NJ. Galley at Cambridge;
Norris w. Wilcox and Gains B. Har-
rell at Paradise; James G. Nelson and
Minnie Nelson at Selden.
Two young Kansans graduated from
the Naval academy last week. They
are Raleigh c. Williams of Wichita
and Alva D. Bernhard of Lawrence.
Miss Dollie Curtis, sister of Senator
Curtis, attended the ball at the acad-
envy given to the midshipmen gradu-
ates.
Miss Lillian Leland Abraham of
Kansas was a member of the gradu-
ating class of the National Park semi
nary.
oscar n. Anderson of Chanute and
Don Baumhart of Hutchinson gradu-
ated from the Bliss Electrical school
of this city today.
w. L. Williams of Weir, Kan, is a
visitor at the national capital.