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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
Convincing

Der of trains. The sleeper service has
been improved.
Tomorrow is pension day and Coun-
ty Clerk Samuel G.. Zimmerm and
his deputies will be at the office, be-
ginning at o'clock in the morning,
as usual to execute vouchers. for the
accommodation of pensioners.
The annual complaints registered by
the early morning street car patrons as
to the lack of heat in the city cars,
are being registered. The street rail-
way company is installing their heaters
as quick as possible, they say.
When the United States Express of
flee building near the Rock Island de-
pot is finished the room to be vacated
by this company in the station build
ing will be used as a news stand by
the Greer people of Kansas City.
There are almost 1900 Sabbath
school pupils in Shawnee county
These pupils are taught by about
1900 teachers. The home depart
ment members number 712, making a
total membership in the county of
14,184.
You know as we'll as I do" said
Fred D. Warren of the Appeal TO
Reason, that everything Roosevelt has
said since his return from Africa, that
has made any impression upon the peo-
pie, has been taken bodily from our
PLATFORM
Howard E. Everett formerly with the
State Journal and now on the Kansas
City Journal, is visiting in Topeka. Mrs.
Everett accompanied her husband
neWspap per man to Topeka. Mrs. Ever
EFT was formerly Miss Dolly McKibben
and well known here.
In engineering a new bid through
the contractors, and letting the Melan
bridge contract, the city commission
ers made $3.50. 1t has been suggested
that this money be used to fill up the
hole which was dug originally for the
"dry land structure
The publicity given the Y. M. c. A.
and Y. W. G. A. campaign has at
tracted other Kansas papers. Like the
average country dailies these papers
come out and roast Topeka because
they think she hasn't Y. NJ. c. A.
building. Topeka has the best Y. NJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
LAD BEATS WAY TO COAST.
Fourteen Year-OId Kansas Boy En-
dures Hunger and Beatings.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 3.-After hav-
ing beaten his way from Atchison,
Kan. where he ran away from home
because his parents abused him, he
says, Neal Merritt. aged IA years, was
found in boxcar in the Santa Fe
yards at San Bernardino early this
morning by railroad officers and turned
over to the police. The little lad had
followed the Santa Fe from his home
west and was bound for Los Angeles.
He says that he left September IL and
had been handed from one division to
another by sympathetic trainmen
Sometimes. however, they were not so
sympathetic. he said.
AT one place." the little fellow said
today, 1" brakeman said he was go
ing to send me back home but 1 ran
away from him and hid in a car until
the train stopped. Then I stayed over
q day and got on another freight and
the men were nice to me.
mo, 1 don't want to go back I'm
going to Los Angeles and get a job. I
guess I can take care of myself.
Hungry? Yes, I was hungry lots OF
times, and once a man hit me. but
could always get away and hide in the
cars. Most of the time. though, they
were awful good to me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

G. 4. building in Kansas-but it takes
$4,000 more to clear up all debts in
connection with it.
Apropos the Y. NJ. C. A. beer and
WHISKY bottle sensation, the police
have received a second complaint
from the people living just north of
the building. They charge that it is
dangerous to live near the building on
account of the rain of "empties.
Mayor Billiard remembered this aft
ernoon that he forgot to issue a proc
Iamation for the annual Halloween
roWdyism. II didn't think of it until
today said the mayor The mayor
has decided that Miss Blanche Bates.
his stenographer, shall issue procIa-
nations hereafter.
A report comes to Topeka that the
Rock Island has cut one day from the
wages and the time of the men work
ing at the Horton shops. 1t was rumor-
ed at first that the shops had closed
down altogether. This is supposed to
be another move on the part of the
railroads in the rate case.
! DR.. George F. Babb CDR. Babb re-
quested that the former middle name,
| "SWatthecow," be dropped) has been
reappointed city milk inspector by the
city commissioners. It will be remem-
bered that DR.. Babb legislated himself
from office by pushing a new milk or
dlnance through the commissioners
~ - holiIldH' CITY comm SS1Oner,
sun insists that no one in Topeka is
in favor of filing up the dry land
bridge" hole and forget the construc-
ton of the extension. Mr. Holman
would find SO out of 100 people on
| Kansas avenue any day who would
declare that this would be the wise ac-
ton.
Thirteen new overcoats and num-
her of caps We're received at the police
station Wednesday afternoon. The new
clothing was ordered by members of
the force and thirteen lucky police
men will go on dress parade the first
cold day. One of the bad features is
the fact that every policeman is com
| PEELED to equip his own wardrobe
| The boys of the high school are try
| ing to work up enthusiasm for the
Lawrence foot ball game week from
| saturday. 1t VIII be possible to get a
| special train if 100 students agree to
| go the ATHENS of Kansas to root for
| T. H. S. The game with Council Grove
| On Saturday has been called off The
! regular team will play in Emporia
| A Newton newspaper called the
State Journal railroad news |subsi-
| died matter the other day Their
| this same paper copied headlines anC
all under a head Railroad News the
| entire column found in a recent issue
| of the State Journal. F'urth erm ore
| this paper always purloins this ma.
| terial--not even stopping to change
| the headlines.
Last night the twenty electricians
| employed in the shops of H. B. Howard
E. P. Jordon, and the Machinists' E.lec
| trical company threatened to strike to-
day if a contract which they proposed
| to enter into with their employers was
| not signed by morning. I'VE wanted
| the right to classify the men accord
| ing to their ability said H. B. Howard
| this noon, regardless to whether o,
not they are members of the union
| The men objected to this We have
| arranged matters satisfactorily, so that
| there will be no strike"
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Mrs. w. l.. Hummer has returned
from Wichita, where she spent week
visiting her son, Carl Hummell, and
Miss Edith Jessop entertained the
c. E. society of the Presbyterian
church at her home on Arter avenue
Monday night.
Mrs Lenore Cattle entertained the
w c. t U ladies at her home on
Green street Tuesday afternoon
A very pleasant evening was en-
loved Wednesday by the Ladies' Help
ing Hand society of the Christian
church, who gave pie social at the
home of Mrs. Cochran. on Indiana and
Forest avenues.
Miss Lutte Howard of Kansas CITY
is here visiting relatives for a few
days
Miss Hazel Crawford has returned
from Iowa City, Ia, where she has
been visiting relatives and friends for
the past three weeks.
Miss Florence Barns left Sunday for
| her home in Lawrence, after spending
a week here with relatives and friends.
Miss Bernice Miller and Miss Lu-
! Gle Watson have returned from Leb-
anon, Ill, where they spent several
weeks visiting relatives and friends.
| Miss Ada Green is improving, after
being sick two weeks with an attack
of tonsilitis.
Miss Lula Hagen of Leavenworth is
| mere SDGuulAS ILLS WOCEA WIN 4HAAN0
| Nettie Powell on Michigan avenue.
! Miss Mary Hutchinson and Miss Ger
| aldine hurry of Newton, Kan. are
! here spending a few DAYS with friends
while on their return home from St
Louis, where they spent a three
months vacation.
Miss Madge Moore will entertain the
Missionary society of the Methodist
| church at her home on Forest and In
diana avenues Saturday afternoon.
| Mr. Warren Bell spent Wednesday
| in Kansas City on a business trip.
| Miss Birdie Thomas left Tuesday for
| her home in Hugo, Colo, after spend
/ ing several days here with friends
while on her way from the east, where
she spent the summer.
Miss Blanche Mackev was the
hostess at a ghost party, which was
given Monday evening at her home,
1925 Forest avenue. The chief amuse-
ment of the evening was "Weenie"
roast Halloween games were played
and every one enjoyed a fine time.
Those present were Miss Rebecca Will
kerson, Miss Cora Shepler. Miss Hattie
Swope, Miss Harriet Williams. Miss
Hodges, Miss Eva Richardson. Miss
Neva Cooper Miss Lulu Mackey, Mr..
A. Clayton, Mr. Fred Seibert, Mr.. S.
F. Mabrie, Mr.. Ray Allen. Mr.. Joe
Miller. Mr.. VIM. Grant and Mr.. VIM.
| Allen.
| Mrs. R. s. Vansant entertained the
Taxa Art Embroidery club this after
noon at her home on East Belmont
]
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
SESniors

Don't write or send a message. Use
the Independent phone.
All claims against the board of edu-
cation must be handed to the clerk on
or before Friday of this week.
Fighting Bob" Stewart says that Ne
braska will go down to defeat at the
hands of the husky Jayhawkers.
The whole high school football squad
of % boys will be taken to Lawrence
a week from Saturday for the football
game.
The girls gymnasium classes of the
high school under Miss May Williams,
are practicing for the annual spring
tournament.
P. J. Monaghan, of the Southwestern
Coal company. made a business trip to
Marysville Wednesday. He returned
home today.
H. NJ. Bayless' county jailer, left
Wednesday for Kansas City, where he
will spend a couple of days looking af-
ter business matters.
The Lowman Hill NJ. E. basket bal
team defeated the North side NJ. +.
and Baptist team at the Central Y.
NJ. G. A. by a score of sixty to twenty.
The Novep Der Civil Service examina-
lions are being held in the circuit court
room in the federal building. The
first examinations were given Wednes-
day
Thousands are visiting the display
in the window of the ROsser Bros.
drug store, sos Kansas avenue, given
by the International Correspondence
Schools.
Interest in debates is being revived
at the high school, and debating socie-
ties are being organized. There is am
pie time to 0repare for the Emporia
and Wichita debates which do not come
until March.
Sunday the new time card on the
Rock Island takes effect. The fall time
card does not make any radical changes
and simply changes the time of a num-
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be teIephoned to Ind. phone I751.J
ing for La Junta, Colo, to spend several
/ weeks on a business trip.
Mr.. VIM. WhittleSey will go to Law
Kansas football game.
Mrs. Mitchell Bundy, who is i'll in
Christ hospital, is in very dangerous
Miss Alice Ellenberger returned Sunday
from Iowa, where she has spent the past
two months visiting relatives and friends
Miss Margaret MOSCOW of Carbonate
spent Monday here with relatives =,
to attend the religious services held in
the hall at s05 East Sixth street every
day nights. Good preaching and singing
at every meeting.
ian church will entertain. the young men S
class at an oyster supper in the church
! Mr.. ]. R. Stitt has returned to work
after being off several days on account
of an injured hand.
| Miss Kate Stevens entertained the G. E.
Society sf the Presbyterian church at her
| home on Hancock street Monday evening
Halloween games were played and apples
| cider and doughnuts were served for re-
| freshments. All enjoyed a fine time.
Mr.. C. Pragheimer has sold his property
| on Hancock street to 6. E. Seybold
| Mr. Roy Cole of Burlington, Kan, spent
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday here
on a business trip.
! Miss Helen Beyers entertained num-
| Der of friends at her home on California
| avenue Monday evening.
| Miss Jessie Cole is improving after be-
ing sick two weeks with an attack Of
| Miss Bertha Thomas is spending this
week in Lawrence visiting relatives and
| Miss Elsie Stewart has returned to work
| after being off two weeks on account of
! illness. l.
| Mr.. Galen Crook entertained the Skid
! club at his home, 400 Lafayette street
| Tuesday evening. The club has just re
! Gently been organized and its members
| are twenty-three of the East side young
| people who gather on the 23rd of each
! month and enjoy a social time.
! We please you with glasses. The R. H
Baker Optical Co, 624 Kansas avenue,
| Miss Mabel Murphy has gone to Wa
Keeney to spend two weeks with rela-
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Snyder of SIT Leland
| street entertained the following guests
at Halloween party at the1r 33mF Rb M3n-
| meyer, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Seibrel, Mr..
| and Mrs. Allen Black, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Mays, Mr. and MIS- rs Jonn Vac AZ.
and Mrs. Frank Warren, Mr. and Mrs sI,s
! Tom Granger Mrs. Reed, MIS- LEX 4;S.
| lighter Mrs Elliott, Mrs. Covflle. Miss
| Ethel Pritz. Miss Emma Snyder and Mr..
| Elmer Robertson.
| Mr. oliver Snyder was very pleasantly
| surprised Saturday evening by the follow
! ing friends who masqued and gathered at
| the Snyder home to celebrate Halloween:
Miss Ma Edwards, Miss Edna Edwards
| son, Miss Grace Patterson, Miss Emma
| SNYDER, Miss Florence McBroom. Miss
| Gladys Harper, Miss Amelia Shaffer, MISS
| Florence Shaffer. Miss Katie Shaffer, MISS
| Elsie Moffatt Miss Lille Anderson. MISS
| marguerite Snyder, Miss Junita Snyder
and Allie Edwards MISS Heaen - Bi goes
| Mr.. Clarence Anderson. Mr.. Thadeous
Harper, Mr.. Leo Harper. Mr.. Sam Sny-
der Mr.. Joe Biddles and Mrs. Dan Lane,
| chaperone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
Why Not Elect
Vim. Dickson
County Clerk

He is the unanimous choice of the
Democrats of Shawnee county for the
nomination for County Clerk.
He Is Competent.
He has served Auburn township as
assessor and trustee four years with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
entire satisfaction.

he promises to make good in one
term and asks every fair minded man
VINO does not believe in an officer
asking for a third term to give him
his support
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
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Undertaken and EmbalmcP
511 Quincy St.
Both Phones 1872
Not Sorry For Blunder.

IF my friends hadn't Numbered in
thinking 1 was a doomed victim of con-
sumption, I might not be alive now
writes D. T. Sanders. of Harrodsburg
KY, but for years they saw every at
tempt to cure a lung-racking cough fail
At last tried DR.. Kings New Discov-
stopped the cough and I am now in bet bet
ter health than have had for years. This
wonderful life-saver is an unrivaled re-
medy for coughs, colds, 1agrippe, asthma
Group, hemorrhages, whooping cough or
weak lungs. SOC, $1.00. Trial bottle free
Guaranteed by all druggists.
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[0AKLA|NIID GOSSIP |
KIM al 1Ia5Il 55f5lI 7ls-S1s.

items for the Oakland column may be
telephoned to Ind. phone 17511
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Items for the East Topeka column may
be telephoned to Ind. phone ISL
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-10-06
ORGANIZED LABOR OF
LOS ANGELES ENDORSE
The Entire Socialist State and County
Ticket-San Francisco is Also
in Line.

Los Angeles. Col, Oct 81 Stitt
Wilson, candidate for governor and
the entire Socialist party, state and
county, We're endorsed at the meeting
of the Los Angeles labor party held
at the Union Labor Temple last Satur-
day evening. Forty unions were rep.
resented and the attendance the larg.
est and most cnthusia site of any meet
ing yet held by this new political
organization composed of working
men of Los Angeles city and county
The fact was pointed out that owing
TO the developments of the past few
months how impossible it would De
for the organized working men of Los
Angeles to- affiliate with either the
Republican or Democratic parties. The
drastic ordinance. denying the right OF
free speech and assemblage. brought
to life by the so-calIed reform element
OF the Republican party of Los Ange.
les city. and the activity of the Demo.
cratic standard bearer of san Fran.
cisco during the last municipal cam.
paign, when Mayor Mccarthy was be.
fore the people as a candidate, were
factors in bringing about the endorse.
mept of the Socialist ticket
The policy of endorsing the Social
list ticket, it is claimed. is in line with
the acton OF Il great many labor unions
in San Francisco, Oakland. San jose.
Stockton and other places. Twenty.
live thousand union labor votes will
be polled Tor the Socialist standard.
bearer in San Francisco. it is conf
IDENTITY expected.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-10-06

by the solidarity Of organized labor and
the Socialist movement, revealed the ex-
1stence of a far-reaching and UNI
scrupulous conspiracy by the ruling class
against the organiza tions of labor.
In their efforts to take the lives of
the leaders of the miners the con
spIrators violated the state laws and the
federal constitution in manner seldom
equaled even in country so completely
dominated by the profit seeking class as
IS the United States.
The congress of the United States h, 9
shown It's contempt for the interests of
TABOR as plainly and unmistakablv as
nave the other branches of government
L lie laws for which the labor orpaojzs
tlons have continually petitioned have
tailed to pass. Laws os(ensibly enactad
Tor the benefit of labor have been dis
tortcd against labor
Ihe working class of the United St,tas
cannot expect any remedy for its
wrongs from the dominant PARTIES So
long as small number of individuals
are permitted to control the sources of
the nations wealth for their rrir,to
profit IN competition with each Other
ana tor the exploration of their fellow
men, industrial deprcssions are bound N
occur at certain intervals. No c,.rrencv
reforms or other legislative measure nro
posed by capitalist reformers can avai,
against these fatal results of utter
anarchy in production
Individual competition leads 7nsvi.
taoly to combinations and trusts. No
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-10-06
THE WORKING PROGRAM
OF the National Party Adopted in
Nineteen Hundred and Eight.

The socialist party, in national conven,
ton assembled again declares itself as
the party of the working class, and ap,
peals for the support of all workers
OF the United States and of all citizens
who sympathize with the great and just
cause of labor.
We are at this moment in the midst of
one of those industrial breakdowns that
periodically paralyze the life of the
nation The ch-boasted era of our
national prosperity has been followed by
one of general misery. Factories, mills
and mines closed. Millions of men.
ready. willing and able to provide the
nation with all the necessaries and COM
iorts OF life. are forced into idieness ana
starvation. Within recent times tho
trusts and monopolies have attained an
enormous and mcnacing DEVELOPMENT
They have acquired the power to dictate
the terms upon which we shall be al
lowed to live. The trusts fix the price
or our bread. meat and sugar, OF orr
coal: oil and clothing, of our raw
material and machinery, of all the
necessities of life.
he present desperate condition of the
ior a renewed onslaught on organized
lahor. / he highest courts of the countr,
have within the last year rendered do
cislon after decision depriving the work
ers of rights which they had won bx
generations of struggle
The attempt to DESTROY the Wester,
Federation of Miners, although defeat.
workers has been made the opportunit,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-10-06
PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE COR
RUPTED.

pUBLlC 1NIELLlGENCE COX
RUPTED.
To maintain their rule over their fell
low men, the capitalists must keep III
their pay all organs OF the public powers,
public mind and public conscience
They control the dominating parties
and, through them, the elected public
officials. They select our executives,
bride our legislatures and corrupt our
courts of justice. They own and censor
the press. They sway our educational in
stitutions. They own the nation politi.
cally and intellectually, just as they
own it industrially.
The struggle between wage workerd
and capitalists grows ever tiercer, and
has become the only vital issue before
ing class, therefore, has the most vital
and direct interest Establishing the
capitalist system. But in abolishing
the present system, the workmen will
free not only their own class, but also
all other classes of modern society:
The small farmer, who is today exploit
ed by large capital more indirectly but
not less effectively than is the wage
laborer; the small manufacturer and
trader, who is engaged in IL desperate
and losing struggle for economic indie
pendence in the face of the alI-conqucr-
ing power of concentrated capital; and
even the capitalist himself, who is the
.lave of his wealth, rather than its
master. The struggle of the working
class against the capitalist class, while
it is a class struggle, is thus at the same
time a struggle for the abolition of all
classes and class privileges.
MUST CONQUER THE POLITICAL
POWER.
The private ownership of the land
and means of production used for ex-
ploitation, is the rtcl< upon which ella IS
rule is built; political government is its
Indispensable instrument. The wage
workers cannot be freed from cxploita-
ton without conqucring the political ad-
ministration for private ownership of
the land and the means of production
used for exploitation.
The basis for such Transformation is
rapidly developing within the very
bosom of present capitalist society. The
! factory system, with its immense ma
chinery and minute division of labor,
is rapidly destroying all vestigcs of in
dividual production in manufacture.
Modern production is already very
largely collective and social process,
while the great trusts and monopolies
which have sprung up in recent years
have had the effect OF organizing the
work and management OF some OF our
main industries on a national scale, and
fitting them for national use and opera
ton.
AN END TO CLASS RULE
In the struggle for freedom the in
tcrcsts of the workers of all nations are
identical. The struggle is not only
national. but International. 1t embraces
the world and will be carried to ulti-
mate victory by the united workers of
the world
To unite the workers of the nation
and their allies and sympathizers of all
, other classes to this end. is the mission
of the Socia list. In this battle for free
dom the Socialist movement does not
strive to substitute working class rule
for capitalist rule. but by work ing ella IS
victory to free all humanity from class
rule and to realize the international
brotherhood of man.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-10-06
200 MAY BE DEAD
IN A MEXICAN MINE
Eight of Reseuins Party kilied-Ter.
rible Scenes as Bodies Are
Slowly Removed.

Eagle Pass, Tex, Oct. 5-The coal
leo, about 100 miles south of here
Saturday. was worse than the early
reports indicated. Adyices received
here this evening are to the effect that
more than 200 men were III the cham
Der where the explosion occurred, and
that they are al! believed to be dead
Immediately after the explosion a
rescuing party, composed of abou'
twenty Americans and MeXicans, en-
tered the shaft, when a second eX
plosion occurred Eight members
OF the party were killed.
The debris which blocked the en-.
trance TO the chamber was cleared
away after several hours work and
dead bodies are being slowly re
moved. The foul gas is interfering
with the work -Re last report more
: than sixty bodies had been recovered
a corcc of government soldiers and
rurales is on the ground.
Members of the bereaved famiiie:
: ing, and the scene Is ncartrenderiuG
/ The government has ordered an in
/ vestigation made as to the cause o
| the explosion. The mine is owned BY
/ the Coahllia Coal Company, sub
sidary concern OF the Mexican Goa
! and Coke Company. which is con
trolled by Erie railroad Interests.