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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
WESTON IS COMING.
Reaches Usage City This Morning at
O'Clock.

Edward Payson Weston expects
to spend tonight at Pauline. six miles
west of Topeka, making the distance
today 55 miles. He is following the
Santa Fe tracks and will not be seen
on Kansas avenue.
Weston left Emporia this morning
at 10 minutes after midnight after
having spent a quiet Sunday.
Weston reached Emporia at 2:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon just ten
days ahead of his schedule from Los
Angeles. He has been forty days on
miles a day. The Atchison, Topeka
& Santa F'e distance between Los An
geles and Emporia is 1879 miles.
Lying on the bed in his room at
the Harvey House at Emporia, West
on dropped up his feet.
cred nearly seventeen hundred miles.
do they?' he asked. There wasn't
blister or a callous on them.
Soon after his arrival here Weston
o'clock. Then he ate a heavy din
ner and spent several hours reading.
Barclay. March 21.-Edward Pay
son Weston passed this place, 20
miles from Emporia at 7:05 this
emily had enjoyed his early morning
jaunt.
Usage City, Kan, March 21.-Wes-
ton arrived in Usage City at 9 o'clock
this morning, walking 81 miles from
Emporia in nine hours. He left En-
poria at 1910 this morning. The six
miles from Barclay to Usage City he
covered in less than two hours. He
was met at the south limits of the city
by fully two thousand persons headed
by the Usage City band. The crowd
accompanied him up through town and
to the Everest hotel, where he expect
ed to take one hours rest and break
fast of pancakes, but at the hotel door
step he changed his plans and resumed
his walk without rest and without
eating anything, going north along the
main line of the Santa Fe.
BurIingame. March 21=Weston
passed Burlingame at 1912 this after
noon and did not stop. He appeared
To ha in excelIent condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
HE FELL FIVE STORIES.
Man Tainted From Loss of Blood
Caused by Operation

New York. March 21.-Weakness
brought on by an operation for blood
TRANSMISSION was declared today to have
caused the death of Barnard Lizer. a
painter who tainted on a scaffolding
five stories above the streets and fell
to his death. According to the coro-
ner, the young painter had been in
destitute circumstances and had sub
mitted to an operation for blood trans
fusion in order to obtain money to pay
his rent and grocery bill. The loss of
blood left him so weak that he tainted
after working for few hours
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
Like Midsummer.

Three weeks in March, with only one
cloudy day and one dash of rain, is the
record which closes tonight. This is Of
ficially the first day of spring. The
equinox occurred at 7:45 this morning
Today is % degrees above normal In
temperature, but Observer Jennings
positively refuses to guarantee a con-
tinuation of the present grade of
weather. This afternoon the wind blows
II miles an hour from the south. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
TWENTY OUT AT WICHITA
Brotherhood of Leather Workers Re-
fuse Is Per Cent Advance.

Wichita, Kan, March 21.-The
Wichita local of the United Brother
hood of Leather Workers on horse
goods called strike today when en-
ployers refused Is per cent advance
in wages and ten hours pay for an
eight hour day. Twenty workers had
quit at noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
COST OF A CHILD.
AT Age of One, Represents Investment
of $75, Says Prof. Arnold.

Winsted, Conn. March 21.-The av-
erage child at one year of age repre-
sents an investment of about SIS. ac-
cording to Prof E. H. Arnold of the
Yale Medical school. who is delivering
a series of lectures here.
At the age of Is, he says. the child
owes the world in the neighborhood of
$4,000. At Is he begins to keep him
self, and at 80 or 35 he has given back
all that he has cost and is square with
the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

Rome, March 21.-The italian cabi-
net resigned today. The retirement
of the ministry. which was formed on
December 10. 1903, with Baron Sidney
Sonnio as premier, was due to the
realization that the governments mer-
camille marine subsidies measure was
doomed to defeat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

on the congressional primaries to be
held in this state next August The six
regular congressman who have opposi-
tion for denomination all voted for Can
non and died with him in the last ditch.
The lines will be more sharply drawn
than ever as result of the Washing
ton fight last week. There can be no
temporizing or lodging of the issues
The insurgent candidates for congress
will all push their campaign from now
on along the lines laid out by the in
surgents in congress last week The
regulars will stand pat on their votes
for Cannon and the rule of the ma
jority.
The insurgents believe that the vic
tory last week gives prestige to their
cause. The regulars believe that the
revision of the rules committee removes
the principal bone of contention be-
tween the factions in the congressional
fight. Both sides claim an overwhelm-
ing majority in their favor at home.
1t is generally conceded that the
Washington fight and insurgent victory
make Duncan McKinlay's task hard
one. He is making stand pat speeches
in Kansas and he was quoted in To-
peka last week as stating that the
fight in congress was only a passing
cloud.
The effec+ of the insurgent victory On
the Kansas situation is hard to gauge
at present. The insurgents, of course.
are jubilant. but then the regulars are
just as firm and confident in their
stand as they have ever been.
A glance through thirty-five Kansas
dailies and weeklies today disclosed the
fact that only five of them discussed
political issues in their editorial col
umns. They are talking about water
works plants. preachers. boosters, the
weather, crops and hints for daily
health and moral uplift. State politics
was not mentioned in a single one OF
the thirty-hve papers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
supreme Court Takes a Recess

washington March 21-The su-
preme court of the United States today
took q recess until Monday, April 4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

Chicago, March 21.-Forecast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Tuesday;
moderate Temperature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

Thomas Wagstaff will make the race
against Stubbs as the candidate of the
regular wing of the party against the
reformers and square dealers, socalled.
Mr.. Wagstaff is member of the
younger set of Republicans who have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
OmciaI Report..

Chicago. March 21.-An official re-
port to the Rock Island offices here at
2:10 p. m, states that the bodies of 33
dead have been recovered from the
wreck at Gladbrook. Ia, and 81 in
jured rescued. AT that hour the search
continued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Thomas Wagstaff Enters Race
for Governor.
Stubbs Says That He Is Glad
of 1t.
ANOTHER FOR AUDITOR
Will Davis to Have Opposition
in His Race.
w. II. Cauble, of Wilson County,
Is Candidate.

Independence, Kan. March 21.-
Thomas Wasstaff, president of the
Kansas Day club. formerly attorney of
Montgomery county, today announced
that he would be a Republican candi-
date for governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

Burlingame. March 21.-Weston
passed Burlingame at 1:12 this after
noon and did not stop. He appeared
to be in excellent condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

Kansas square dealers are interested
in the congressional fight in Washing
ton principally because Of its bearing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

Marshalltown, Ia. March 21.-Thir-
ty-two and perhaps 40 people were
killed and "a injured, several fatally
in the wreck today of Rock Island
train which was being detoured on
the Chicago Great Western tracks
four miles north of Green Mountain.
Ia, today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
WIVES AGAINST HUSBANDS
A Tangled Tale of Domestic SnarIs,
Criminal Libel, Perjury and
Stolen Love Are Charged.

NEW York; remarkable tan
gle of domestic troubles was revealed
in New York today with the arrest
and arraignment on charges of Grim
inal libel and perjury of Mrs. Jane
Humes Parker, wife of John Alley
Parker, Wall street banker and
broker. Mrs. Parker was released in
$4,000 bail, and the hearing was adj
iourned.
Mrs. Edith Moser Ellis is the com
plainant. The alleged libel and per-
jury was committed in affidavits made
by Mrs. Parker to support motion
for proper counsel fees in defending
an action for divorce brought by her
husband.
Parker, IN the divorce papers,
charged his wife with statutory Of
lenses with a dashing Australian,
while Mrs. Parker was studying mu-
sic in Vienna last year. Mrs. Parker
Immediately filed a counter-suit for
divorce, naming Mrs. Ellis as CO.
respondent.
AS a side issue to the divorce case
Mrs. Ellis husband, Samuel Diliplane
Ellis, who lives in Philadelphia, has
sued Parker for 100000. charging
alienation of Mrs. Ellis affection and
Mrs. Parker, according to her coun-
sci, is contemplating a suit against
Mrs. Ellis for the same amount and
on similar grounds.
The Parkers were married in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, in 1892.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
NOW LYE STEWED PEACHES
Most of the Canneries Use Red-Hot
Caustic Soda to Cook Their
Fruit. How to Tell 1t.

The pure food agitation, which has
been principally over the question of
benzoate of soda, has now taken a
new turn, and renewed interest will
doubtless be aroused over this ques-
ton.
1t is said that in most of the can
neries of the country peaches are
stewed in red-hot caustic soda to eat
away the skins and thereby save the
cost of removing it, amounting to a
cent and a half or two cents per can.
In the process of this I've stewing
almost all the flavor of the peach
disappears, and doubtless a little
caustic soda is left on each piece of
fruit as a memento of its trip
through the cannery.
Caustic soda strong enough to eat
away the skin of an unripe peach
must be anything but soothing to the
inner man or child. The full signif-
canoe of this is best understood IN
connection with the fact that caus-
tic soda is used in making many
kinds of soap; in fact, it is the dirt
eating part of soap.
1t is said that the great majority
of the canneries use the I've process
in place of the knife-peeling method.
Attempts have been made for some
time to get the department of asg
riculture to make a ruling on this
question, which would compel the
Gamers who use this method to say
so on the labels of their goods 1t
looks now as if the question will be
passed up to congress for a specific
law covering this phase of the pure
food agitation.
The use of caustic soda is impos-
sible with ripe fruit, because it dis
colors a ripe peach so that it will
not pass muster with the users of
high-grade canned fruits. In conse-
quence this process is possible only
with unripe fruit, and green fruit is
purposely gathered for canning.
Owing to the absence of any marks
on the cans to indicate the use of
caustic soda the only way the custo-
mer can tell if he has purchased a
lye-process can of fruit is by taste.
Open a can of peaches, wash away
the syrup from a piece of the fruit.
Then taste it, If it is void of flavor,
woody and pulpy, and has a soapy
appearance, it is undoubtedly the lye-
peeled variety.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
70 LYNCHINGS LAST YEAR
GEORGIA TIES WITH TEXAS FOR
THE LARGEST NUMBER.
Greatest Number Country Has Known
Since. 1904. Eleven Whites and
Fifty-Nine Negroes Victims.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Lynchings
in 1909 have numbered seventy, the
highest number recorded since 1904.
The victims numbered II whites and
SO negroes. The lynchings occurred
in twelve states and one territory
New Mexico. AS in previous years,
crimes or alleged crimes against
white women and murders have
caused most of these summary exc
cutions. One case, occurring in
Cairo, Ill, combined both causes and
resulted in the placing of the city
under military control for several
days. The Cairo lynchings were the
only cases of the kind that occurred
north of the Ohio river during the
year. Several double lynchings oc-
CURED at various points in the south,
and Oklahoma furnished a quad
ripple lynching, with four cattlemen
as the victims
In the following record the word
'1ynching" has been held to apply
only to the summary punishment in
fiicted by a mob or by any number
of citizens on person alleged to
have committed crime. BY states
the seventy lynching cases here re-
corded are classified as follows:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
$40, 600 FOR "RED LICKER "
TINIES-RECORDER SAYS AMERI-
Gus SPENT THAT SUM.
The Muckalee Town Had a Tremen-
dous and Consuming Thirst
During Holidays.

There were evidences of few
drains being taken in Dawson during
the Christmas holidays, but the thirst
here, judging by the following arti-
Gle from the Times Recorder, was
nothing to compare with what it was
in Americas:
Twenty thousand dollars, it is
conservatively estimated, was spent
in Americas for whiskey during the
holidays-or rather that amount of
good money was sent away from here
for booze, principally to Jackson
vile, which is about the wettest spot
on the map of the south now.
And Americas does a large part
towards keeping up the damp atmos-
phere of the Florida metropolis,
where the money flows.
Thousands of the familiar brown
packages have come through the Of
flee of the Americas express cOmpa-
ny, which for three or four days past
has held a multitude of booze seek
ers in quest of the Florida Santa
Claus.
ION a recent afternoon the front
of the express Office looked like a
voting precinct, so densely crowded
was it, while the overflow of strug-
Cling, thirsty black humanity was
stacked up beyond the curbstone out
side, all impatiently awaiting their
| turn at the booze counter.
And every negro-and scores of
whites as well-received their box
of four full quarts, express prepaid,
and went away happy.
Inside the building half the floor
space was covered with packages of
whiskey. And this was not the case
for two or three days only, but rath-
er covered a period of ten days or
two weeks before the holiday.
The Americas postofice did an
enormous business in the transmits
sion of money orders sent for whis-
key, while express checks and bank
checks probably swelled the grand
total to the $4,000 point. A pretty
good sum for a dry town to spend
in two weeks for wet licker!'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
IS A CONVICT.
How Advice - Witzell to the
Pen. He Is Pardoned.


Pen. He Is Pardoned.
AS Ignorant" is the way an Off
cial order in the executive Office in
Atlanta granting him pardon from
further service in the penitentiary.
characterizes John c. Witzeu. who
was sent up from Gilmer county for
four years for larceny.
Witzell has been in the neniten-
tiary for two and a half years as the
result of peculiar stroke of misfor-
tune. He once undertook to do a
friend kindness by lending him
$50, and there is where his trouble
began. The time came around for
the payment of the debt, but the
friend failed to pay. Witzell begged
and importuned, but couldn't get his
money.
Finally, acting upon the suggestion
Of another friend, who told him to
go and give the debtor a licking and
then steal his horse, he stole the
horse, but the order fails to state
whether the suggested licking was
administered.
At any rate, Witzell sold the horse
for $25, just half the debt; the for
mer friend had him arrested for
stealing it, and recovered his prop
erty, while the man who bought the
horse got back his $25; so Witzell
was still out the $50 and two years
and half hard work in the peni-
tertiary, all on account of his friends.
He will doubtless be careful in the
future as to what sort of friends he
makes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
ATE THEIR MOCCASINS.
Bishop and Party Suffer in WiIds Of
Vast Northwest.

VAST NOELnWSSC,
Bishop Stringer, of the Church of
England, recently arrived at Daw-
son, after hard trip of AZ days from
Fort MACPHERSON, at the mouth of
Mackenzie river bringing the first
news since summer from that region.
The bishop and Missionary Charles
johnson started from Fort MacPher-
son September LIST, hoping to cross
to the head of the Porcupine river in
time to reach Yukon river last fall
with canoe. The head of Bell river,
emptying into the Porcupine, was
partly frozen, so they had to walk
back to Fort Macpherson.
For % days they marched in blind
ing fogs with little food. Their sup
plies finally gave out and they ex-
perienced hardship worse than those
of Peary. For long time there was
only handful of food for each man
daily.
Finally the party were compelled
to take their moccasins and muck
lucks from their feet and eat them.
they were able then to walk five o.
ten miles day until they stumbled
into an Indian camp. Their mecca
sins and mucklucks had kept them
alive for five days. Each man had
lost SO pounds in weight.
Johnson remained at Fort Mac
Pherson. After the rivers froze the
bishop, with two Indians, started for
Dawson via Rampant, and came
through with no further difficulty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
MAKES MODELS OF BUGS.
Unique Occupation of a ScuIptress
Employed by Uncle Sam.

Employed by Uncle Sam.
No easy task is that which Mrs.
Otto Heidemann, a well-known sculp-
tress in Washington, performs.
Hers is the novel occupation of max
ing models of bugs for Uncle Sam S
use in teaching agriculturists and
"bugology' students how to distin-
guish between insects that are harm
full and those that are useful. All
the skill of the sculptor is necessary
in the dexterous fashioning of the
queer-looking models, for although
they are made on a gigantic scale in
comparison to the life size of in
sects a close microscopical study of
the subject and the ability to shape
the different parts on identical lines
are details of Mrs. Heidemann' S
work that must be followed each
time she molds a reproduction.
The models of insects cover vir-
tually every known form of life in
the world of bugs. They are a true
production, fantastic in some cases
and hideous in others, and they fur
nish exceptional means for persons
interested in agriculture to study
both the insects that destroy crops
and the others that preserve agri-
aaashural products.
making her models for the gov
dfment she uses wire, thread wax,
celluloid, rubber, papier mache and
70 saI~ Of fnIo sr
composition she discovered herself,
and the secret of which she carefully
guards.
Millions of dollars worth of prop
erty are destroyed each year by de-
insects The fight which
the department of agriculture has
made to combat this destruction is
based, to large extent, on the work
which Mrs. Heidemann does for the
government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
WATCH FOR HALLEY'S COMET
Ii Will Be Visible to Naked Eve in
Very Short Time.

u
Have you seen Halley's comet?
No?
Then keep close watch upon the
heavens for the next few nights and
the phenomenon which Mr.. HALEY
discovered roaming through the
armament many years ago will prob
ably reward your vigil with a clear
view of its scintillating briIliance.
For Halleys comet, speeding to-
ward this mundane sphere at the
rate OF several million miles per
minute, has already been sighted
by Professor Eastman of Columbia
university, in New York city, and
that with the naked eye.
When seen by Professor Eastman
the comet was in the northeast,
twenty degrees in length, and it's
celestial altitude was about fifteen
degrees.
1t is said by those who have been
studying the comet that it will be
visible to all in about two weeks.
and that it will be plainly seen for
several nights.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
MUST ACKNOWLEDGES THE CORN
Agent Rives Puts Springvale Booze
Buyers on Notice.

Mr.. A. P Rives the agent of the
Central railroad and Southern Ex-
press Co. at Springvale, puts booze
buyers of that community on notice
that hereafter they must acknowl-
edge their corn, or do without it.
In the last issue of the Cuthbert
Leader he said:
Section 23S of the penal code pre-
scribes a penalty of five thousand dol
lars or two years in federal prison,
one or both, in discretion of the
court, for the delivery of any intoxi-
eating liquor of any description to
any one save the bona fide consignee
by any common carrier, officer or
agent of said carrier (this includes
draymen.) Section 239 forbids any
one collecting the purchase price or
acting as agent of the seller in any
way save as a common carrier. Sec
ton 140 compels the seller or ship
per to plainly mark the contents on
the outside of the package.
I'm passing, and without in any
way binding myself to support Con-
gresham Griggs, l want to give him
the credit of doing all in his power
to place this law in the federal code.
"Also l wish to say to the patrons
of the Springvale express office that
am not a writing expert, and know
of but two signatures in the county,
Nick Weavers and my own, that
can't be counterfeited; therefore all
of the ardent which comes to this
office will have to be called for by
the owner, from the confirmed topper
to the sanctified Jew lately in these
parts who was so good he never had
an evil thought
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
SENATOR CLAY a SICK NAN.
His Condition Is Such as to Cause
Uneasiness Among Friends,

Senator A. s. Clay has gone from
his home in Marietta to an Atlanta
sanitarium for treatment and rest.
Senator Clay has been in i'll health
for some time, and as he has not re-
covered as rapidly as his family and
friends thought he should they be-
came considerably worried about
him.
A reporter called at the sanitarium
and asked if Senator Clay could be
seen. DR.. Bowden, who answered.
replied that it was deemed best not
to let anyone see the senator for the
present, as he is in need of absolute
rest, with which, he said, there is
no doubt he will be considerably
strengthened.
1t is said to be Senator Clay's pur-
pose to follow his rest in Atlanta
with a course of treatment at Johns
Hopkins, and temporarily give up
his labors until his health is better
established
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
SHOT OWN HEAD OFF.
Well-KnOwn Randolph, Citizen Found
Dead Near His Home.

DEAD Near His Home.
A fatal accident that caused the
death of a good citizen in the vilulah
neighborhood, this county, occurred
several days ago. We heard of it
too late for our last issue.
On the 18th Mr.. r. A. Lindsey
took his gun and told some members
Of his family that he was going hunt
ing, but would not be off long.
When he did not return by dark the
family became alarmed, and with the
neighbors began searching for him.
His lifeless body was found not far
from his home. A portion of his
head had been blown off by the dis
charge Of his shotgun. Appearances
indicated that the gun had gone off
when he attempted to climb the
fence.
Mr.. Lindsey was well thought of.
and is survived by wife and several
children, with whom many friends
sympathize in their great affection
Cuthbert Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-05
"SAM JONES" CAN'T HIDE HIS "RYE0
1t Is Now Unlawful to Ship Liquor Without the Name
of the Consignee on the Package.

beginning January LIST a new law
went into effect, having more effect
IN prohibition sections than else
where. 1t is now unlawful to shin
any whiskey wines or distilled or
fermented liquors without plainly
stamping on the package the name
OF the consignee and the character of
the contents.
heretofore it has been possible for
anyone to secure such goods without
having them marked at all as to con-
tents, and in many cases fictitious
names have been used for such pur-
poses.
For instance, package sent to