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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
May BE CIGARETTES.
County Attorney Will Go After Dealers
of Little Cigars

If the .ilIustrious county attorney.
John j. Schenck, enforces his finding in
the cigarette law which defines Gig"
to be any little cigar made of finely cut
tobacco rolled in an envelope of paper,
corn husk, of tobacco, SO as to form q
cylinder at both ends, then there viii
likely be lined up at the bonding
agents desk under arrest all the big
and little dealers, proprietors of cigar
stores. drug stores, pool halls, hotels
and restaurants, grocery stores, etc.,
and perhaps half their clerks will be in
attendance
The manufacturers of all the types Of
Between the Acts little cigars are ap-
parently as ignorant as retailers on the
question of what is a cigarette. 1t is
the general opinion that with a tobacco
wrapper, the cigarette, or better the
little cigar, is not different except in
shape from the makeup of a real cigar.
The concerted feeling of the smokers
will not be badly hurt anyhow if the
little pills are tabooed for the things
are seldom used, being considered a
very, very poor imitation of the real
thing.
Even then. a cigar is some tobacco
wrapped in some more for "a that and
why is a cigarette when it is small
sized cigar? Perhaps the law was
made without careful enough defini-
ton to allow even the making of cigars.
The county attorney, when asked what
he was going to do with his discovery,
said he would have to wait until he
talked to his two Esquimaux.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
PIERCE MUST BE TRIED.
Court Overrules All of His Exceptions
in Texas Case

Austin, Tex, Dec 6.-Judge Cal
houn today overruled all exceptions
offered by H. Clay Pierce in the pro-
ceedings against him charging false
swearing, and ordered the trial to
proceed.
Judge Calhoun said the exception
to woman notary taking the
acknowledgment of the affidavit was
not well taken; because the con-
stitution does not prohibit a woman
from serving in that capacity.
Following the ruling the attorneys
for the state asked time to consult,
which was granted. It is the general
opinion that they will try Mr.. Pierce
on charge of false swearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

ing anything which would be an in
justice to the dealers, but he considered
there were two sides to the question.
Topeka Shopping Train.
The delegation from the Commercial
club which went to Kansas City this
morning to confer with the Union Pa
cific traffic officials in regard to the
installation of a Topeka shopping trai.'
on the Marysville extension of the line
report that their proposition was fav-
orably received.
The committee was assured that the
Topeka people can be reasonably sure
of some kind of service in the way OF
an accommodation train or motor car.
This train would leave Marysville in the
early morning and return in the even
ing. allowing the people along the line
to take advantage of the shopping ia
cilities in the capital city.
Those who went to Kansas City to-
day are: c. P. Adams, S. E. Lux,
David Bowie, L. NJ. Penwell, w. w
Whitney, Elon S. Clark, H. A. Auer
bach, Bauer. w. c. Stephenson, Clad
Hamilton, John Dawson, Roy S. Bone
and Geo. S. BadderS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
YARDS ARE CLEAR.
Railway Officials Say Freight Is Nov
ing All Right. g.

St Paul, Dec. 6.-The railway Of
ficials report all yards including the
Minnesota Transfer and South St.
Paul terminals working full capacity.
Superintendent Dooley of the Mime
sofa Transfer yards said the yards
were clear and that he had AZ exper-
fenced switchmen working. Whole
sale merchants say their shipments
are being delivered and they are re-
ceiving freight. Reports from west
ern terminal points show freight
trains moving.
Deputy State Labor Commissioner
A. B. Gray. investigating among the
nonresident special police, was eject
ed from the yards of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad in Min
neapolis today and told by the legal
counsel for the road that he had no
right on the premises.
Mr.. Gray reported the act to State
labor Commissioner McEwan, who is
sued to him written instructions that
l e was within his rights and directing
i'm to proceed with his work. If Mr..
Gray is again elected Commissioner
McEwan will begin action to enforce
his orders.
Mills Resuming Operation.
Minneapolis, Dec. 6.-Nearly every
-four mill in Minneapolis is in opera
ton today Those closed are practical
ly~aH east of the river. Millers believe
that by tomorrow every mill on the
west side of tie river will be in opera
tiOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
Invents Cable Quadruplex.

Cyrus West Field, who laid the first At
lantic cable, has perfected an instru-
ment in his laboratory here by the USE
of which four messages can be sent
over a single cable simultaneously.
The device is now being used success
fully on the cable between Kew West.
Fla, and Havana, Cuba, and proved
serviceable during the recent severe
storm. Heretofore it has been possible
to send only one message at time over
a cable. Mr. Field has obtained pat
ents on his invention. 1t was Mr. Fiei.1
who invented and operated successfully
in Stockbridge early in the eighties the
first trolley car.-Stockbridge Mass,
dispatch to New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
EATON'S CHALLENGE.
Brands as False All Charges of Dis.
honesty.

To the Editor of the State Journal.
Will you please publish through the
columns of your paper the following:
I am not surprised that a jointist
whom 1 have helped to convict is
sInarting under his conviction.
1 brand as falsehoods all statements
made in the morning Capital directly
or by implication against my honesty
in the administration of the police af-
fairs of this city.
1 hereby issue an open challenge to
my enemies, the lawless element, to
show one instance of dishonesty or a
promise of immunity from punishment
in any way, she pc or form.
1 have acted in good faith in this
matter from the beginning and stand
ready to cooperate with the sheriff
and county attorney in the suppression
of crime in this community.
(Signed) r. W. EATON.
Topeka, Kansas, Dec. 6, 1909.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
THERE IS A LEAK.
Governor Stubbs Finds That State
Game Fund Is Short.

It has been discovered that there is q
course from the various counties to the
state treasury, it's final destination. The
governor has instructed the attorney gen.
eral to make an investigation of the mat
ter and it is likely that sensational de-
velopments will follow.
The exact spots where there is leak
have not been discovered, at least they
will not be given out at this time, but
they will be found, as they are known to
exist 1t is declared that this leak
amounts to $4,000 per year and first
suspected when the late T. B. Murdoch
assumed the office of fish and game war
den Governor Stubs decided today that
the facts warranted sweeping investiga-
ton of these alleged irregularities and it
will be made at once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
TO RETURN in June.
The Roosevelt Program for Next Six
Months Announced.

Washington, Dec. 6-Word has beel
received here from former President
Roosevelt that he and lis son Kermit
are in the best of health and that they
expect to return to the United States
some time next June.
Mrs. Roosevelt will leave here early
in February to meet them at khar-
toum on the Nile, in the Egyptian
Soudan, the middle of March. They
will proceed to Europe where the
president will deliver addresses in
Berlin Paris and London, sailing
from the latter city for New York
early in June.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
WALLACE McGRATH DEAD.
Was Hero of Mission Ridge Battle in
Civil War.

tin of Atchison, was the first man up
Mission Ridge in the battle of that name
during the civil war, died Saturday night
at Lawrence. The remains will be
brought to Topeka for BURIAL He was 81
years old. He came to Topeka shortly af-
ter the close of the civil and engaged
in the dry goods business with George
Geiger- He was stricken with locomoter
ataxfa % years ago and has been an in
valid since that time Mr.. McGrath suf-
fered five paralytic strokes the last two
weeks of his life. He enlisted in the Union
army during the rebellion. a private
in the Fifteenth Ohio infantry. He was
promoted for bravery. to the rank of first
lieutenant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
COOK RECORDS There.
The Explorers Secretary Has Reached
Shores of Denmark.

Copenhagen, Dec 6.-Rector Torp
of the University of Copenhagen,
Chancellor Salomonsen and Prof
Fills Stromgren have been delegated to
receive the North polar records of
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, on behalf of
the university.
These records are being brought
here by Dr. Cooks secretary, who ar
rived at Christiansand yesterday. A
committee of examination will. soon
be appointed.
The president of this committee
will be Prof. Stomgren and the other
members will be made uI of
scientists and explorers such as Com
modore Hovgaard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
Mills Resuming Operation.
1T WAS A SUICIDE.
Coroner's Jury Decides That Pittsburg
Woman Took Her Own Life.

Pittsburg, Kan, Dec. 6.-F'vidence
brought out at the coroners inquest
here today indicated that Miss Goldie
Engberg who was found dying on the
front porch of her home, here Satur-
day and was supposed to have been
murdered, probably committed suicide.
Mrs. Blazor. a neighbor, testifying
today. said Miss Engberg had told her
only a few days before her death that
she did not care to live, that there
was not much in life''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
CONN0R HOTEL RAIDED,
Manager Is Charged With Harborfng
Gambling Resort.

Joplin, Mo-, Dec 6-The million dollar
Connor hotel was raided by Mayor GUY
T. Humes, patrolmen and private citizens
floor roulette wheel was taken Fred
frey and Walter Miller, who were in
for the arrest of F. w. Young. manager
of the hotel, charging him with being I'M
pl1cated in running the gambling resort
was issued.
Earlier in the evening one of the MAYORS
detectives had gambled at the wheel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

Clothing especially children's. shoes
and women's Undertaking, are needed
at the Provident Association rooms,
and a request has been issued by the
management to persons in a position to
Go so, to please contribute.
Harry Ogden. who was arrested and
tried on the charge of being drug
habitue. unable to care for himself ana
family. and a menace to the cOmmun-
ity, will be given a chance to redeem
himself Crazed with the use of CO.
caine, which he pumped into his limbs
until they were a mass of sores, the
man was put in the Shawnee jail a
week ago Now that he has recover
ed his normal mind and gotten the
coke" out of himself. he stands before
the officers and swears solemnly never
to touch the dope again.
Mr.. Fred NJ Nelson has just been
notified that he has been elected
representative of Abdallah Temple of
Leavenworth. to the Imperial Council
of the Mystic Shriners which meets in
New Orleans next April.
The next five years will show
greater increase in populatd on in San
Diego than has ever occurred in any
city in the United States We will
show you at the San Dego EXHIBIT
National hotel.
Another deposition in the investiga-
non regarding certain alleged actions
of Police Chief r. w. Eaton, in which
he is accused of having exceeded his
authority in several instances. was
teken this afternoon. The sworn state
r1.ent was that of John Hoffman. who
vas recently convicted in police court
III two counts of having made illicit
sales of liquor. Hoffman, who was
fined 800 each and sentenced to six
months in jail on each of the counts,
signed an affidavit relative to his con-
v.ction. Just the extent of charges
rnade by Hoffman, if any. are kept
c.osely in the hands of those who
knows
Charles Kramer, who lives at Mis-
ION Center, is today homeless as
result of fire of unknown origin
Which burned his residence Saturday
afternoon. TIE blaze started about 5
o'clock, and, efforts of neighbors to
cuench it wire unavailing. The struc-
ture was valued at 81, 500 and was par
tally covered by insurance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
Hent feature of the trial so far was re-

| Sunled.
The cross examination of Parr was
brief, and developed little of interest.
Other witnesses testified to what SEEM
ed to them unwarranted variations in the
scales for some time previous to the raid.
Thomas NJ. Stenson, government
weigher, testified that in June, 1906 he
noticed that the weights were running
lower than ordinarily at a scale at which
Kehoe. one Of the defendants. was check
ing. He called Kehoe's attention to it.
and the weights, after the scales were
balanced by the weigher, went at once up
to normal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
STENSON NOTICED 1T.
Government Weigher Suspected Some
thing Wrong About Sugar Scales.

New York, Dec. 6.-Ramifications of the
scheme through which the government is
alleged to have been defrauded of millions
of dollars in duties on sugar were gone
into today at the continuation of the trial
of former employees of the American
Sugar Refining company on charges of
conspiracy to fraud.
The cross examination of Richard Parr.
the deputy surveyor of customs whose
dramatic story of the raid on the sugar
docks at Williamsburg stands out as the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

What's your pa going to buy your ma
for Christmas?' Il don't know yet. Pa
hasn't made up his mind HE hasn't?
mo, he's got such a lot of things to
choose from All ma wants is a set of
furs. a diamond ring, electric runabout,
a party dress. pearl necklace and a solid
gold purse. Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

Buy your friend box of union made
cigars fer Christmas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
LOCAL MENTION.

Clothing, especially children's. shoes
and womens Undertaking, are needed
at the Provident Association rooms,
and a request has been issued by the
management to persons in a position to
Go so, to please contribute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

Mr.. Fred NJ. Nelson has Just been
notified that he has been elected
representative of Abdallah Temple of
Leavenworth to the Imperial Council
of the Mystic Shriners. which meets in
New Orleans next April.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06

The next five years will show
greater increase in population in San
Diego. than has ever occurred in any
city in the United States We will
show you at the San Diego exhibit,
National hotel
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
NO PERMIT, SUFFRAGETTE
MEETING is HALTED.
E. Orange Women Had Forgotten
to Get Written Police Assent.

lust because they had merely for
gotten a ridiculously small, almost inn
material thing like a written police
permit. the East Orange s~uffragettes
had hardly cleared their Threats for
the big meeting in Military Park last
night when two large determined po-
licemen, without tears in their eyes or
any other show of regretful emotion,
stepped in and said them nay.
Miss Martha Klatschken, secretary
of the suffragettes. got upon a soap box
opposite Proctor's Theatre before an
enthusiastic audience of 1000 persons
and said: Ladies and gentlemen
and the two policemen, Peterson and
Bruins, who are large even for police
men, stepped up and said mix" or
Nothing DOING or something to that
depressing effect.
And as it turned out that was abso-
1utely all there was to 1T. The suf-
fragettes did not have the permit, the
police demanded it, many telephone
appeals to the First Precinct We're I'M
availing; and in the end Miss Klatsch-
ken had to to the crowd that
the meeting was postponed until next
Monday night.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
MISS VICTORY BATEMAN ONE OF
THE ARCADE'S MANY FEATURES

That the popularity of Miss Victory
Bateman In Newark has not waned was
attested by the capacity houses and APP
plause that greeted this talented actress
at every performance yesterday at the
Arcade Theatre. Miss Bateman is Of
fering during this, her farewell appear
ance in Newark this season, an original
conception, consisting of a combination
of acting with a motion picture por-
trayal of East Lynne" This favorite
old drama is first depicted by animated
photography to the death of Little
Willie, then Miss Bateman. who APP
pears always to the best advantage in
emotional roles. as Lady Isabelle, dis
guised as Madame Vine, aided by Miss
Muriel Erinzetta as Joyce and Baby
Helene as Willie, gives a forcib1e presen-
tation of the chief scene Of the entire
play.
The program contains other attrac-
tive features, interspersed with artistic
motion pictures, the subjects of which
are changed daily. Billy Cook and LII
Ian Weigand present 1.-THE College Boy
and the Girl" gingery but refined sing
ing and talking skit with original vocal
numbers. Miss Rita Matoux. the little
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
THERE'S MUCH TO ADMIRE
IN WALDMANN'S BURLESQUE.

Manager Lee Ottolengui, Of VALID
mann's Theatre, believes in gaining the
pleasure and confidence of the bur-
lesque patrons toward the close of the
season, SO that when the next season
opens the friends of burlesque will turn
out in full force. That this is true one
needs only visit the popular playhouse
his week to see the work of Rose Sydell
and her troupe of London Bellies" to
perceive.
The particular delight of the patrons
is the chorus, of which the girls are the
most shapely and the most vigorous
that have been here in a long time.
Miss Sydell as the headliner is COM
PEELED to share honors with Johnnie
Weber. In the opening skit, called 1.-The
Affinity Bureau the comedians have a
| slim plot to work upon, but with the
aid of the chorus do amusing work.
Miss Louise Kennedy as the 'muchly
married woman and willing to take
one more chance, is very clever In
the entertaining olio are the Freeman
Brothers, singers and eccentric dancing
comedians, n Campbell and Weber,
In German dialect. The latter make a
hit themselves, but the best thing in
their act is the living pictures. The
Manhasett -Four, a quartet of Newark
| singers, were cordially greeted last
night. They will be guests at a ban-
quet to be given by the M. J. Griffin AS
sociation tonight. Kennedy, Evans and
| Kennedy, In a sketch called, True to
Nature were also good.
The show closed with a burlesque OF
the realms of Satan. The costumes ex-
hibited here, though abbreviated, were
extremely pretty. and the use of colored
lights heightened the effects.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
VARIED AND EXCELLENT
PROGRAM AT pROCTOR'S.

Frank Morrell, the California boy"
big and broad, with a smile that knows
how to get over the footlights, is n
of the good things at Proctor's this
week. His strong, clear, high n
gives to ordinary popular songs music
and pathos that they never dreamed of
possessing. Gee, / Wish I Had a GIRL
becomes a heart, broken, plaintive plea
as he sings it. One forgets the alb
surdity of the words in listening to the
exquisite sounds he sends forth so cas-
lily. Mr.. Morrell delivers a monologue
that is passing good, but it is his voice
that makes him solid with his hearers.
One of the best sketches that has APP
peared here in several months is Pix
ley's Prodigal Parents in which an
able company supports Mrs. Gardner
Crane, who possesses a huge amount
of humor Of the sort that Is droll rather
than boisterous; that is expressed in
a gesture rather than in a tumble,
though when she does take to tumbles,
in getting through that complicated
gate, she does it with an abandon and
disregard of consequences that make
one sure it is the real thing. The story
tells of a yoluble wife, who through
jealousy is suing for a divorce. Her
daughter and son-in-law endeavor to
teach their parents a lesson, by pre-
tending to lead a cat-and-dog life.
After all sorts of complications the les
son takes and ma and pa are united,
The Piquays. skilled acrobats, give
an artistic performance. Mr.. Piquay
astonishes by the ease with which he
does a buck-and-wing on his hands
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
REAL REPORTERS ACT
IN NEWSPAPER DRAMA.

CHICAEo, ILL.,, May 11.-With a
completely equipped newspaper edi-
torial office in full blast on the stage,
thirty members of the newly organized
Chicago Newspaper Club, assisted by
the stock company OF the Bush Temple
Theatre, presented Jesse Lynch Will
iams's sThe Stolen Story" in that
house last night. -Four truck loads OF
newspaper properties We're Used in
the performance. John Morrison. of
the Record Herald, and Jimmy
kin, of the Tribune, the most famous
copy boys Of the West, enacted their
roless true to life, and Apple Mary,
who has been peddling fruit to en-.
cago offices nearly thirty years, vended
her wares for real money.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
BALL TEAMS RECEPTION.

The National Turn verein baseball
team will hold it's third annual recep-
ton and ball at the Turn Hall, 2ll-zls
Bruce street, tomorrow night. The ar
rangement committee consists OF =.
Fieg, chairman; Orrin Beegle, secre-
tary; Henry Frey, treasurer; Edward
Lau. Louis Stoetzei, p. Hunkele, Will
lam Schooner. The reception committee
of Mayor Haussling, Ferdinand
Hosp, John Metzger, William Vogel,
Carl Fischer, Frank Moeltner, David
ADeles, A. Rachlin and Carl Fink. The
floor manager will be George Mills, and
his assistants are Joe Portenstein and
Louis Engelhardt.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-11
Aborn Opera Singers Open Third Week
BY Scoring a Success in LA Trapiata'
Tenor Role Sung by Luigi ella
in Italian and 1t Is Well
Done.
T was strictly italian Night at
the Newark Theatre last evening,

was strictly ltanan Night at
the Newark Theatre last evening,
when the Aborn English Grand
Opera Company began its third week
with verdi's La Traviata." 1t showed
both before and behind the footlights;
in the one case because of the great
bursts of enthusiasm from the top gal
lery and in the other because of the
presence in the cast of Luigi ella. The
latter, a newcomer, sang the tenor role
of Alfred Germont. He did it in Ital-
ian, n it tickled the large number of
his compatriots in the house right up
to the last notch of enthusiasm. 1t
might be considered a bit incongruous
to mix English and Italian in the same
performance, but the managerial expe-
diences of operate performances some
times demand much from the good ma
tLre Of the opera-goer.
Since "Traviata" has been sung for
more h fifty years and ranks as one
of the many popular Verdian operas,
having been given by all sorts and con-
ditions Of men, 1t is a late day to COM
ment upon the work itself. In the
popular mind, however, 1t hardly holds
the same place with Aida" and I'll
Tr~ovatore,' whose m~elodious arias
everybody knows by heart. The music
in "Traviata" is beautiful throughout
but is not of that catchy sort, to use
a phrase perhaps unsuitable to grand
opera, which prevails in the other two
more popular works. Again the hbretto,
which is based upon Alexander Dumas's
LES Dame aux Camelias." known in
English as Camille" is not of the
barnic onoli+v which italian onpra-