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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

The Goose Girl, CIFQ
The New Book YasaO
Harold MacGrath's new
book. just out. The au-
thor of the Man on the
BOX. and the Lure Of the
Mask. It's a beautiful
edition; why pay S1.b0
when you can buy them
here at s1.1S? All the
other popular titles IN
stock.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

MISSES soc 0nc
UNION SUITS. S.....@OV
Our best soc quality, both
high and low neck, cum
and lace knee. Soft fin
ish: some slightly soiled.
Monday, each 39e.
WOmen's 0Sc Lisle EEO
UNION SUITS. S......OOV
These are the regular
Broadway goods closing
out.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

WOMEN'S SOC 0Oc
STOCKINGS. 80.
Embroidered and lace
stockings. in black, tan
and colors. Some silk
., some Fauze Isle;
all imported. Also
novelties of various
kinds, and white lace
effects. pair zoe.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

August Sales continue to be the center of at
traction. Important plans are unfolding this week
beginning Monday. Sale events will follow each
other in rapid succession.
The week just passed has seen previous sales
records surpassed, With the events that are
booked for this week The Broadway will be the CEN
ter of attraction. Some of the best news of the
month will be heralded this week. Pay close at
tention to our publicity.
This ad is Just filled to the brim with Bargain
opportunities Some of the best of the news is in
small print Don't miss single item.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

Just imagine a seamless sheet for
4Sc and a full sized one at that.
Just figure the cost of sheeting and
you'll realize the saving this az
fords
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
inquiries DIVORCED.
Wife of the Congressman Obtains a
Decree Without Contest.

Guthrie, Now. 1S.-Mrs. Anna Nc
CURE has been granted a divorce
from Bird s.. Mcclure, congressman
from the first Oklahoma district on
charges of cruelty and gross neglect.
The divorce was granted within few
minutes after the petition was filed
and the whole matter was conducted
as quietly as possible. Mrs. Mcclure
took the stand in her own behalf
and testified to acts of cruelty, con-
sisting in the most part of abusive
language although she also testified
that on one occasion her husband at
tempted to choke her.
Mcclure did not oppose the grant
ing of the divorce. No. alimony was
asked, but a settlement was made out
side Of court in which it is understood
that the largest share of their prop
erty goes to Mrs. Mcclure, including
the home at Pawnee.
The McGuires were married at Sc
dan, Kan, in 1894. He is chairman
of the committee on expenditures in
the interior department and is a
strong supporter of Speaker Cannon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18

gent citizen knows that the state ed
ucational institutions require a large
additional force to take care of 800
more students and that the state char
liable institutions cannot possibly care
for several hundred more patients
without additional help.
Does Mr.. Simmons know that the adj
ditional tax for state purposes this
year as compared with the state tax
ir 1907 amounts to about Is or 16 cents
on the $1,000 or so cents on $1,000 val
Uation. or $1.60 on $4,000 farm? That
the state taxes in Topeka, for instance,
are only SIPS per $1,000 as compared
with $14.25 for local taxes; that the
state tax in Wichita is only s125 on
$1,000 valuation as compared with near
ly $1s per $1,000 for local taxes?
Is Mr. simmons, Senator Curtis. Sen
ator Fred Dumont. Memo of the late
senate lodge" and that tribe of pro-
fessional politicians trying to make
people believe that the state is respon-
sible for their burdensome taxes when
as a matter of fact the city taxes, the
school district tax. the county and
township taxes are the real taxation
burdens?
Is this campaign of confusion and
dust throwing where all the profession
al politicians engaged in this so-cafIed
fight on the Republican administration
are trying to obscure themselves and
their nisdeeds and Senator Curtis rec
ord in congress?
Are you Mr.. Simmons, still opposed
to the primary election law which you
fought so bitterly as speaker of the
house of representatives; and are you
also still opposed to the anti-pass law,
and all the railroad legislation and ev-
cry other measure that I remember
that was before the legislature?
Will Mr.. Simmons please state to the
people of Kansas how long after he
was speaker of the house of represen-
tatives was he appointed attorney for
the Santa Fee railway at Hutchinson,
stion in western Kansas to take this
important place for the biggest rail-
road in Kansas?
Will he also state how long it was
after Senator Fitzpatrick, leader of the
senate lodge fought the battle Of the
great corporations in the state senate,
that be was appointed general attor-
rey of the Standard Oil company at
Independence, Kan, and became a
prominent factor in the management in
this state of the greatest corporation
in the world?
Will you state, Mr.. Simmons, wheth-
er or not the fact that you failed to
get a job ur der this administration,
which you sought as director of the
reformatory at Hutchinson, has left
some sore spots which you are ex-
hibiting in this fight against the Re
publican administration. or, are you
representing the interests of Senator
Curtis and the corporations in this
fight?
c. A. STANDARD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
STANNARD TO SIMMONS
Asks Him Questions Concerning Tax
Controversy and Politics in General.

| To the Editor of the State Journal:
| In reply to the statement made by
John Simmons, attorney for the Santa
Fe Railway company, at Hutchinson,
here attending sale of Hereford cattle
which he made at the fair grounds,
asks the following questions:
I would like for Mr.. Simmons to
appropriations made by the last legis-
lature of $650,000 to the governing
boards instead of specifying the State
university, Agricultural college. State
which received $4,000 of this in
| crease?
| Why does Mr.. Simmons want to
Juggle with the facts and try to make
It appear that the governors Office is
responsible for these appropriations
for the state educational institutions
made by the legislature after the en-
tire legislative membership had visited
the Agricultural college at Manhattan
and the State university at Lawrence
| these institutions.
From which one of these institutions
would Mr.. Simmons withhold the APP
rropriationS that were made by the
/ last legislature?
If the cost for maintenance of our
state educational institutions is as low,
or lower, than similar institutions in
! their class throughout the United
I =
| much lower would Mr.. Simmons, Sena
| tor Fitzpatrick, Senator Curtis and
their political associates reduce the
cost of our educational institutions?
preparation of 100000 for the cree
| ton of Memorial building for the
/ soldiers of the Civil war?
| Is Mr.. Simmons opposed to the ap-
| coal for the charitable institutions in
| Kansas?
These items alone aggregate $780,
COO appropriated by the last legisla-
N the appropriations of the 1907 leg
! lslature. Will Mr.. Simmons please
state which one of these items he
would cut out? Or, will Mr.. Simmons,
| or his associates, state how much they
| would reduce the appropriations for
| each of the above named institutions?
Mr.. Simmons charges that there are
135 extra employees on the state pay
| rolls. Why don't he tell the truth
! about this matter and say that these
/ t mployes are practically all employees
Of the state educational and state
charitable institutions employed to
| take care of the 500 additional stu
| dents in the educational institutions
| and approximately 500 additional pa
tients in the charitable institutions?
| Why don't Mr.. Simmons tell the in
disputable facts about these employees
| and say IN the departments where
Governor Stubs is directly RESPONSE
| BILE for the management, such as the
| state grain department, state oil in
| spection department, live stock sani-
| tary department. ETC.. there has been
| q reduction of employees that amounts
| to approximately $50 a day or $1,000
per month.
| Why does he try to fool the people
1 by insinuating that the management
| of this state administration is extrav-
agant?
Mr Simmons and every other intelli-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18

tee of the New York Trust company
and trustee of Vassar college.
Mr.. Perkins is a member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the New York
State Bankers association, president OF
the New York Palisades Interstate
Park commission, member of the board
of managers Of the executive commit
tee of the New York Botanical gardens.
trustee of the New York Scenic and
Historic Preservation society, honorary
vice president of the Park District Pro-
tective league, member of the museum
of natural history, member of the
Metropolitan Museum of Arts, member
of the Society of the Lyingin hospital,
and director and member of the
finance committee of the Young Mems
Christian association.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
LANE A NEWSPAPER REPORTER
Member of Interstate Commerce Com
mission Chased News

Although it may not be a matter of
common knowledge that Franklin K.
Lane. a member of the interstate COM
merce commission, was once a news
Taper reporter, he made the following
statement recently to representative
of the Salt Lake Tribune:
81 worked for the Tribune as a re-
porter in 1883 and 1889. Was its New
York correspondents that winter-and
you see the end I've come to. Better
Iook out. Little did think in those
days, when I used to send my weekly
clip that twenty years later 1 would
De here in Salt Lake itself trying to
decide how much the Tribune must
pay for it's freight on white paper"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18

Among the financial engineers who
have come prominently before the
public within comparatively recent
years, George Walbridge Perkins
stands out as an example to young
men who have their own ways to
make and who are willing to work
hard to accomplish that end. Mr.
Perkins who is today a partner in
the banking firm of J. Pierpont Nor
gan & Co, started his business career
about 80 years ago as an office boy on
probation. He was given a salary of
$25 a month on condition that he
made no blunders or mistakes and did
everything that he was told to do
promptly. He did as he was told,
and if he made any blunders or mis-
takes there is no record of them for
the time he filled the position of Of
afce boy in the Chicago office of the
New York Life Insurance company.
This was in 1879. During the latter
part of that year Mr.. Perkins, who
was not yet 16 years of age, was
made a clerk at a salary of $1,000 a
year. He continued in this position
at the same salary until 1888, when
he became cashier in the Cleveland
office at a salary of $1,000. In 1886
he left the position of cashier and
went into the field as an agent for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
ANNOUNCEMENT Is COMING.
Missouri Pacific Plans Expected Public
in Few Days.


New York, Nov. 1S.-Bond inves-
lors have been placed in a state CT ex-
pectancy by the news that announce
:nent of the Missouri Pacific's financing
is likely TO be made within a few
days. There are two reasons why this
announcement should be awaited with
est-G) that it will set at rest the
speculation so long INDUCED in as to
v hat kind of a mortgage the company
has been able to create, after prac-
tically a year of almost continuous
effort to satisfy it's financial hackers
On that point. and CD that the public
offering of the bonds, the amount of
whcih it is said will be in the neigh
.,orhood of s50.000,0O0, will afford a
better test than has been made in some
time of the absorptive power of the in
vestment market
Rumor has it that the bonds to be
offered now, as a part of an authorized
issue of between 100000 and
5000, 100000, will bear 5 per cent in
terest. and that. they will have the con-
vertible feature attached. From the
time when negotiations were first be-
gun looking toward the financing of
the roads requirements. the under
has been that the new mort
gage would be comprehensive one,
Ct the entire mortgage Indebtedness,
amounting to about 96,50G.000.
1t has been stated also that the new
mortgage would be a first lien on sew
eral hundred miles of the system, as
constituted under the consolidation
plan effected only a comparatively
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
HEARTS OF COURT TOUCHED.
Man Who Gave Consumptive Railroad
Pass Is Dismissed.

Chicago, Nov 1S.-The case against
Bernard Love, the railroad employee
who secured a pass for Charles J.
1 undbloom. consumptive, has been
dismissed, the federal authorities de-
Gliding that Love secured the pass as
TN act of charity.
Lundbloom was arrested Sunday
while en- route to Denver in search of
health and Love was arrested the fol-
lowing day charged with violation of
he interstate commerce act. The case
sgainst LundbloOm was dismissed
Tuesday and Wednesday he was given
transportation to Denver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
ROCK ISLANDS FINE SHOWING.
Tremendously Increased Traffic Han
died With Efficiency.

The Rock Island roads latest sta
tistics on earnings and loaded car
movements, which is the largest in it's
history, show that a tremendously in
creased traffic is being handled with a
vast increase in efficiency and economy.
The result is reflected strongly in the
earnings which are justifying the pre-
diction made by President B. L. Win
cheH when he assumed control of the
Rock Island and inaugurated q liberal
policy of improvement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
Kills Her Foe of 20 Years

THE most merciless enemy had for
20 years." declares Mrs. James Duncan.
of Haynesville. Me-, was Dyspepsia. I
suffered intensely after eating or drink
ing and could scarcely Sleep After many
remedies had failed and several doctors
gave me up tried Electric Bitters. which
cured me Completely. Now can eat any
thing. I am 20 years old and over
joyed to get my health and strength back
again. For Indigestion, Loss of Appetite.
Kidney Trouble Lame Back, Female
Complaints. its unequaled. Only Soc at
Campbell Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
EARNINGS INCREASING.
Percentage Over Same Month Last
Year Almost Equals 10 Per Cent.

Railroad earnings continue to show
large gains over last year, total gross
earnings of all railroads in the United
States reporting for the month of Oc-
tober being s52O31,943. an increase of
S.2 per cent over last year. The same
roads year ago reported a loss of
tober. 1907, while now there is a gain
of 27 per cent. Nearly all roads in
cluded report gains number of them
for considerable amounts. In the fol-
lowing table is given earnings of Uni
ted States roads reporting for October
and practically the same roads for Sep
TENDER and August with the increase
in comparison with the preceding year:
Gross
earnings. Gain Pct
October ........ $50. OBI. 943 81, 1858, 21S 90
September 49,. 46,9996, 1853 4,O2422S 94
August ........ 44.302,923 4,659.659 lis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18

city and the Chanute Refining COM
pany. 1t buys by. meter. The big end
is taken from the refining company,
which has a large pond about q quar-
ter of a mile south of the shops. The
refinery makes rate slightly cheaper
than that which the city gives, and the
company takes all it can get from the
pond and uses the city supply to fall
hack upon in case of emergency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
ADOPT DEMURRAGE RULES.
Railway Commissioners Agree on 4S.
Hour Free Time System.

Washington, Nov. 1S.-Despite OPP
position to the 4S-hour free time rule
and the failure to embody reciprocal
rule" the NationaF Association of
Railway commissioners in convention
here adopted a uniform code of de-
murrage rules to be applicable alike to
state and interstate transportation
This code was incorporated in a re-
ort of a committee headed by Com
missioner Lane of the interstate COM
nerce commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
RESERVOIR FOR SANTA FEE.
Railroad Will Spend $45, 900 for Water
-lsstsa sr Service in Chanute.

1t is the intention of the Santa Fe
railroad to secure a water supply of
its own here. The company will con-
struct a reservoir south of the city.
The lake will cost $4,000. 1t will be
situated between mile posts 1923 and
120, near the new roundhouse and the
machine shops.
company is receiving water from the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
GENERAL OFFICERS IN OKLA.
Corporation Commission Demands
Business of Railroads.

Business of Railroads.
Guthrie, Okla, Nov. 1S.-The cor
poration commission has issued an or
Ger requiring all public service cor
porations, both foreign and domestic
including railroads, to maintain gem
eral offices within Oklahoma. The or
Ger also requires every corporation
to maintain an agent in the state with
the same powers as general manager
in accepting legal service, or to con-
duct business with the commission.
The order becomes effective June 1,
1910. 1t is said the railroads will ap-
peal to the courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-18
RAILROAD NEWS.
Remarkable Rise of George W..
Perkins of New York.
Recently Made President Of Pere
= Marquette Lines.
A BRILLIANT CAREER.
Started as Office Boy 80 Years
Ago.
A BRILLIANT CAREER.
Now a Partner in Firm of j.
PierpOnt Morgan & Co.

Detroit, Mich. Nov. 1S.-The re-
cent elevation of George w. Perkins
to the head of the Pere Marquette
marks another step in the dramatic
rise of this railroad king and financial
wizard
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-03
5 RESIGNED
FROM FORCE
5LUEcOATS NOTIFIED CHIEF
SANDERS THAT THEY DID NOT
CARE TO STAND TRIAL ON TIE
CHARGES WHICH HAD BEEN
PREFERRED.

Policemen NJ. Fillingim, Jack Mich
OILS, w. w. NeSmith, Chas. Malone and
William Malone, yesterday morning
hunted up Chief Sanders and an
nounced their intention Of quitting the
force. This announcement was fol-
lowed soon afterwaTd by the return
to the marshal of all city property in
their possession, consisting of keys.
whistle, chains, cuffs, weapons, cop
les of rules and city code, and every
thing which had been given them
upon their becoming members of the
department.
The marshal had it from them that
they did not care to stand trial on
the charges which had been preferred,
a copy of which had been handed or
rendered each man. OFFICER Nichols
had nothing against him, but his
resignation was ready with the rest of
the bluecoats. Chas. Malone was the
officer against whom charges had
been preferred, but who failed 10
show up after being repeatedly mott
fed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-03
The Pensacola Pilots
Not to Blame.

The Journal was glad to observe
that the board of pilot commissioners
found nothing in the complaint Of the
master Of the British steamship Give
grove that reflected on the Pensacola
pilots
The captain had complained that
his inability to get a pilot on the night
OF August % had caused a delay OF
Sc hours in his reaching port, It was
shown by the pilots and by other wit
nesses. however, that any attempt to
launch a boat on that night would
have proven disastrous. The wind
was blowing a gale. the seas were
running very high, and it was dem
onstrated to the satisfaction Of the
board that it would have teen impOs-
sible to put a pilot aboard under the
existing conditions.
The pilots Of Pensacola constitute
very vital element in the commerce
of the port, and The Journal is glad
that the investigation has shown
that no blame attaches to them in
this case and that the captains COM
plant was not founded on any good
reason.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-03
PREMIUM LIST
Of TRI-COUNTy
FAIR IS ISSUED
is NEATLY ARRANGED AND CON-
SISTS OF SEVENTY-SIX PAGES,
INCLUDING THE GOVERNOR
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION.

The official premium list Of the
Tri-County Fair Association, upon
which the printers have been engaged
for several weeks, is now ready for
distribution, a large quantity being
delivered yesterday.
The pamphlet is of seventy-six
pages, including the cover. is neatly
arranged, contains large numbers of
lastly gotten up advertisements, rules
governing the awarding Of prizes and
making exhibits, as we'll as a long list
of valuable premiums. The largest
prize offered is $500 for the best,
largest and most aTtistically displayed
county agricultural exhibit, and for
the second best exhibit a prize of
$3.50 is to be given.
Special prizes are offered for al
most every kind of farm and garden
product, as well as poultry, live stock
and even down to the best exhibit Of
gophers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-03
Is the North Pole
Americas Plaything?

That an American should reach the
north pole ahead Of the older nations
would be a feather in Americas cap.
Although the news OF Cooks discov-
cry lacks convincing proof let us hope
that it is true and that the star span
gled banner will hereafter wave over
the apex of Brightness as well as the
lend of the free and the home of the
brave"
If the story that this Brooklyn
navigator tells is true, if he really
sent the dispatch chTonicTIng his sue
cess, and he has actually accomplish
ed a feat which was the hope of such
men as Franklin, Kane and Cabot,
nay, that antedated these dauntless
sailors and led to the voyages OF
Willoughby, Burroughs, and others
for the discovery Of the northeast or
northwest passage, it will be the
greatest of the many feathers in the
cap of the west world republic whose
laurels have come thick and fast from
the performances of its people in
every line of invention. ingenuity,
muscular strength and adaptability.
And now, the greatest of all, discov-
cry, the opening up Of a new terri
tory which will aid science and bring
knowledge to the world, will, if Cook
has really reached the northern apex
Of the earth, give to this country q
triumph and prestige which will
arouse the envy of every other.
And an interesting thing in con-
nection with Cooks success, If it be
real, is that despite the different ap-
pliances offered by modern invention,
such as Wellman's airship, the daring
discoverer reached his goal by using
the old-fashioned sled and dogs which
have for centuries been the means OF
locomOtion in the fee. paved land of
the Esquimaux.