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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31

ticket need not be discouraged. The
| low man in the Wichita commission
primary was the high man at the cleo
ton.
.'wrasty'' Wright, one of the six foot
sections of the Cooley pitching staff, is
in town. "eWrasty'' says he will not
jump rope to reduce his weight this
year.
Twenty-four prominent business men
of the city have volunteered their SER
vices towards aiding in increasing the
Y. w. G. a. building fund from $4,000
Mrs. Jennie Thayer Walker. a for
mer state Y. W. G. A. secretary of
to help in an association building fund
campaign
Postmaster A K. Rodgers has sue
cessfully passed an examination by
three U. S. p. o. inspectors. The an
nual examination of the Office has just
been completed.
w. Earl Flynn will deliver an adj
dress to men only on Sunday at the
First Baptist church under the aus
pieces of the Y. NJ. c. A. on What a
Man Ought 70 Know
Wayne Montgomery, stenographer at
the Central Y. M. c. A. has left for
California account of his health
He hopes to return to Topeka next fall.
H. L. johnson is filling his position.
Samuel Shields a postoffice carrier
dL Butte, Mont, WHO lTdueu places
with Joseph Johnson of the Topeka
Office, will begin work tomorrow. Fri
day evidently has no hoodoo for
Shields.
Augustus Palm is still much wor-
ried man. Now ]. r. McNary, an at
torney, has secured Judgment against
Augie for sos for services rendered
The trou bles Of Gus have come In bun
dies of late.
Reports are stin conflicting in regard
to the prospects for a good wheat crop
will be nice crop. A few of the farm
ers have plowed up their wheat fields
but this has not generally been done
On Friday evening the Christian En-
deavor of the First Christian church
will give an entertainment at the Prov
ident Association. The c. E. of the
First CONGREGATIONAL church is plan
ming to give similar affair on Friday,
April Is.
an extended lull just now and Judge
s. s. Urmy longs for election time 70
pass SO that people will call on him.
Actually. people are so good" said
the judge this morning, THAT l get
lonely"
Tomorrow evening at the rink the
second game of the city league cham
rionship basketball series will be play
ed. Last week the central association
won by the narrow margin of a single
point, and now the high school five are
expecting to make a desperate effort
to get even.
Upwards of 70 new members have
been added to the Central Y. NJ. c. A. |
since the commencement of the duck
ten days ago. The campaign |
closes on April 5 and the red duck |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
skSSinD1s
Use the Independent Telephone.

Use the Independent Telephone.
There will be a meeting of the schoo
board on Monday evening.
The inter-class track meet of the high
school has been set for April %.
On April ] 5 the contract will be let
for the erection of the new Y. w. c. A.
Tomorrow at noon the immigration
committee of the Commercial club will
meet.
Small bIazes caused by bonfires have
decreased greatly with the past few
days.
knights ard Ladies of Security band
furnished the music for the annual
" NJ. c. A. circus.
The North Topeka pumping station
has been tested and found in first
class working order.
John E. Manley, state Y. NJ. c. A.
secretary, has left the city for En-
poria and other points
DR.. S. s. Estey will meet the bust
ness mems Bible class at the Central
y NJ c. A. tomorrow
Subscriptions are now being taken for
the History of the High School," which
will be out about April 80.
The fifth story of the new office
building at The corner of Fifth and
Kansas avenue will soon be completed.
Charles Eberhardt.. United States
consul at large, passed through this
city Wednesday bound for Washing
ton.
April p has been set aside as the
date for the chorus concert of the Y.
w c. A, to be held at the First Chris
tian church.
Judge ]. 5. West spoke before the
members of the ''blue duck member
ship team of the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
this noon.
Today the s'red ducks, of the Y. M.
c. A. are quacking vigorously, for they
find the blues ahead and they are try
ing to get even.
Frank Rankin. J. H. Chase, J. Bar
rum and c. r. Waddle. of the Santa
Fe claim force, spent Sunday at Cot
tonwood Falls
I. D. Graham and Secretary Cook of
the State Fair association are at work
on the premium list which will be the
largest in Kansas.
There is now some talk of holding
the annual circus of the Central Y. NJ.
e. A next year in the Auditorium and
charging popular prices.
Judgment for $S40.S2 against the Re
atty Lumber company. is asked in
suit filed by William and Charles Moe
ser in the district court.
Friday evening the foreign work COM
mittee of the Central Y. NJ. c. A. will
meet for supper. Dan Crawford is the
chairman of the committee.
Last night the Christian Endeavor
OF the First Congregational church en-
oorsed Mayor Green for mayor under
the new form of city administration.
There are now nine tuberculosis pat
tents being cared for by the Provident
Association. The association is eager to
see an open air camp established in the
city
The low men on the city commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
HAD TOO MUCH HARNESS
Son of Former Councilman Arrested
on Suspicion.

Because he has too much new har-
ness to sell Lester Earnest, son of a
former councilman of Topeka, is now
in the city Jail charged with larceny
A new bride which he sold to q Greek
employed in the Palace of Sweets for
is being made for another bride and
two collars which it is believed Earnest
has stoIen and secreted until he should
have an opportunity to sell them. Ac-
ton against the Greek for receiving
stolen property may be started.
Earnest tried to sell the bride to a
number of men. In each case he car
ried it under his coat and his coat but
toned, completely hiding 1T from view.
The prospective purchasers did not
take kindly to Earnest's proposition,
however, and he failed to land one I'M
til the Greek. his avarice getting the
better of his judgment. paid him the
above amount. Earnest was arrested
before he had an opportunity to dis
pose of the other harness. The police,
however. have so far been unable to
find it.
Harry Thomas. a negro, was fined $25
for stealing a bride by Police Judge
Urrny this morning. Thomas claimed
to have bought the bride three or four
different places. But evidence was in
troduced to show that he stole it from
a barn. The barn, door was open and
this saved Harry from facing a charge
of burglary. Thomas began working
out his fine today.
There has been an epidemic of har-
ness stealing this spring and these are
by the officers to have done most of
the stealing but it has always been diff
6c1Ilt to secure evidence enough to war
rant holding him the charge.
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can save mere ~ on might
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31

| team expects that the blues will have
to eat the mush and milk, however the
reds will have to 'eo some,' the blues
declare.
A campaign is now under way for
the securing of $4,000 to run the ProVi-
dent Association during the year. Treas
urer Horace L. Hall has sent out hun
dredS of letters to citizens who have
not formerly been contributors to the
work of the association. Last year but
81 900 was raised for the support of the
institution and that was found to be
entirely inadequate to meet all de-
mands.
A full page announcement of the
sale of stock in the Kansas State Fair
association is being prepared for pub
ication in the papers. The business
men have become decidedly interested
in the enterprise that has been
giving of a great state fair, and it
seems certain that there will be but
little difficulty in disposing of $780,
900 in stock this season.
Young Peoples Societies of the city
are already planning for the entertain
ment of 1000 delegates to the state
Christian Endeavor convention, which
will be held June 14-16. The lecture
at the Auditorium tomorrow evening
on "A Modern Crusade to Jerusalem
by DR.. d. Everett Smith, will be given
for the purpose of securing funds for
financing the convention. The Com
mercial club will be asked to lend a
hand towards making it possible to
adequately entertain the delegates to
the convention.
L B. Walrus and u. B. Hangback's
circus is thing of the past. The clos
ing performance which was held last
night at the Central Y. NJ c. A. drew
a crowd OF about 500 persons, and was
even more of success than the first
entertainment. At the close of the ev-
eLings entertainment medals were
awarded TO those who showed the
greatest degree of cleverness in appar-
atus work. Contestants for honors
were graded on the scale of 100. Row
Stoves, who was the high man with a
grade of 931.3 per cent was the recipi-
ent of q geld medal Ralph Smith took
second place and was awarded a sill
yer medal. while Ralph McKibben, Don
Teeter and Arthur Bolton tied for third
place. The drawing has not as vet
been made for the bronze medal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
ARMOUR PAPERS FILED.
Prosecutor Asks Extradition of the
Chicago Packer.

New York, March S1.-Requisition
papers for the extradition of J. Ogden
Armour of Chicago, who was recently
indicted by The Hudson county, New
Jersey, grand jury for conspiracy in
controlling the prices of meat prod
ucts, were filed with Governor Fort at
Trenton today by Prosecutor Garven
of jersey City.
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wife to rise and sorrowfully led her
slowly, half carrying her, out of the
room and back to the county Jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
Nrra Kelly Is Dead.

London, March 31.-Stvra Kelly, Mrs.
Allan McNaughton. the american ed
ueator and author. died yesterday at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31

Torquay. Mrs McNaughton had been
in i'll health for long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

WANTED-Teams to haul lumber T. "A
Whelan & Co., East 4th.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
FREIGHT RATE ROBBERY

r F our readers will give attention to
the report of the harbor commission
= filed with the city council on yester-
day, and which on account of its great
Importance appears in full in our news
columns today, they will begin to real
ze the Importance of the harbor that
the city of Los Angeles is preparing to
develop.
1t is safe to say that no portion of
the United States has been more ruth
lessly ridden by transportation compa-
nies than has Southern California and
particularly the city of Los Angeles.
At present this city is compelled to
pay for the transportation of freight
between its business center and its
harbor, about twenty-five miles, the
same rate charged for transporting
freight between Los Angeles and the
harbor OF San Diego, a distance of 125
miles. In other words, we are being
charged by the railroads for the serv-
ice which they render to our own har-
Dor nearly six times the rate charged
by the Santa Fe for services which
IL TenueTS 10 IIle ndTDUI Ol Odl lltSOs
OF course this thing would not have
been tolerated as long as it has had
the state in years past had the railroad
commission which the constitution pro-
vides for. The railroad commission,
however, having been owned by the
railroads, this abuse has continued.
When the Panama canal is completed
the city of Los Angeles with a properly
developed harbor will be in a position
to protect itself from transportation
companies whose greed appears only to
have been bounded in the past by op-
portunity. And with the county high
way now in construction between the
business center of the city and its har-
Dor front completed, and the owens
river electric power developed, the city
will also be in a position to secure
proper rates between its business CEN
ter and it's own harbor both by the use
of auto vehicles and the operation of
municipality owned railway.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
SAYS "GEATLEMAN" I'M NEED
OF EDUCATION ON SOME LINES

LOS ANGELES, March 1.-[Editor
of February 2Sth al individual sign
ing himself "A Gentleman" but upon
the assumption of which said title is
based would according to the tenor of
the article be somewhat difficult to
preceive. believes the working class
is far too extravagant. He says 1.-THE
American men of the working class
want too much of the luxuries of life.
The average butcher wants the best
cut of meat for himself and family"
l suppose, according to the tenor of
the communication, the best cut should
be reserved for the communicate and
his family or those of his class. but
upon what ground this would be JUS
titled Is as difficult to ascertain as is
the assumption of calling himself a
gentleman
He also says that said idea is as
preposterous as that those who work
in silk factories should want to wear
silks, or those who work in Pullman
car shops should want to travel first
class. This individual remarks "Those
who build automobiles usually ride on
the trolley cars-and that is right"
VIII this self-styled Gentleman" in
form the public upon what ground he
or any of his puerile type are more
entitled to ride in automobiles than
those who build them?
He says, MY chauffeur tells me
working people of France or Germany
would not think of doing things the
workers of America do. I have al
ways noticed the peasants of Europe
are more contented than their class in
| America. These people need education
along this line" 1t would evidently
appear that he needs education along
a great many lines, and particularly
does he need to learn that a true gen
tleman instead of desiring that the
workers be deprived of so much of
what they produce, will instead earn
estly desire that all possible benefits
shall be theirs. c. HALIFAX.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
LOS ANGELES PARKS

NJ o city has such great park pos
sibilities as Los Angeles. The de-
~ velopment and arrangement Of
the park system could be carried TO
such a pitch of perfection that visitors
from all over the world would come to
Lovely Los Angeles if only to see the
parks. Everything grown in any cl-
mate anywhere under the sun can be
grown to perfection in our parks.
They can be developed from the
viewpoint of beauty, or from the view
point of educational value. In addi-
tion, they will always be great breath
ing spaces to which the vast popula-
ton of Greater Los Angeles may re-
sort for rest and recreation. In an
outdoor city like this the preserva-
tion of park spaces does not appear
to be of as paramount Importance as in
congested eastern cities, but as a mat
ter of fact. it is of equal importance.
Los Angeles must preserve it's repu-
tation of being the healthiest and most
attractive metropolis on earth; and
for this and many other excellent rea-
sons Judge Silent's recommendations
should receive the staunch support of
our citizens, and the city council and
park commission should be aided and
supported in the work of giving Great
er Los Angeles the finest and most
useful and valuable park system in
the world
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
TRUST OUTRAGE

OFFICIAL recognition of the cold
storage outrage has been taken
" by the Indictment of the beef
trust, consisting of six packing COM
panies and twenty-one packers, on the
charge of conspiracy in limiting the
meat and poultry supply. Investigation
of cold storage plans disclosed that
there was plenty of food laid away,
and that the reign of high prices was
unnecessary.
The indictment charges the defen-
dants conspired, "willfully and felon-
iously devising, contriving and intend
ing for their unjust, excessive, ir:-
moral and unlawful profit and gain
to injure, defraud. rejudice, damage,
cheat, impoverish and oppress the
public and the people by so cornering
and limiting the necessary and rea-
sonable supply of meats and poultry
for consumption by the public and
the people, as to produce an ARTI-
FICIAL SCARCITY in the supply of
said meats and poultry, and to great
ly, excessively and extortionately en-
hance the cost and price thereof"
Economic conditions produced by the
tariff make it singularly easy to es-
tablish combinations and to engage in
conspiracies with the object Of eX-
torting from the people an artificial
price for food. No question is more
important to a nation than that of its
food supply. Nature has gifted the
United States with more lavish food
provision than has been bestowed on
any other country. If the interferers
and manipulators only would let it
alone, this nation would enjoy per-
petual good times. Interference with
the freedom of the market, in order
that high price conditions may be pro-
duced, is encouraged by tariff sched-
ules. Genuine tariff reform win aid
in delivering the country from the
price conspirators, cold storage hold
up men and gougers-at-large.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
GOOD ROADS

TLLINOIS is interested in good roads
and is taking great pains to in
u form the public on the subject of
road making and road keeping, in order
that the new highways provided for
general use may be used not abused.
If road users were all we'll Informed on
the subject of good roads, the problem
of maintenance and repairs would be
simpified greatly and expenses would
be reduced.
a. NJ. JOHNSON, state highway engi-
neer of Illinois. has issued a card to
road users. 1t is as applicable to tho
roads Of California as to the roads Of
Illinois. 1t reads as follows: "How to
keep this road good for years. Don't
drive in one track. Avoid making ruts.
This road was constructed for your
use If ali use one place all the wear
will be in one place and will make a
rut. If you use a little care and do
not drive exactly where the last wagon
did, the wear will be distributed, which
will keep the surface smooth and the
road will remain good for years.
Otherwise it will soon be rutted and
the smooth surface gone" 1t is one
thing to get good roads; another to
take care of good roads. With reason
able care a road will last practically
forever. This is not a wild statement.
Some of the roads made by the Ro-
mans in Britain have been kept in
repair since before the first Christmas
and are still in use.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
HOLDS MONETARY SYSTEM is
RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDITIONS

PASADENA, Feb. 27.-l Editor Her.
ald1 Speaker Cannon says the rea-
son it costs so much to live is be-
cause we live so high. In a way this
is true, for the majority of us graft
ers do live too high. But where does
this answer touch so-called common
people who have not had enough to
eat and wear for the past twenty
years? His explanation is about as RI
diculous as made by a member in
the house of commons, in which he
stated that protective tariff didn't
cause high prices in the United States.
England profits by our tariff, there
fore they are in favor of the system.
When the United States placed high
duties on imports then England start
ed factories here; now she has us
going and coming, don't cher know.
Under the present monetary system
land holdings and Liverpool stock ma
nipulations. England reaps a large
English syndicates and individuals
own 12,9S5,000 acres of land in the
United States. One syndicate owns
100000 and one Englishman 700, 900
acres. We are so tied up with Britain
in a financial way that whenever the
Bank of England makes readjust-
ments it creates excitement among our
financial kings and causes a furry on
Wall street.
A universal standard of coinage,
making the dollar of equal purchas-
ing power in all nations, and univer-
sal free trade will curb the concentra-
tion of capital; be of more benefit to
the greatest number and make this
old world a better place to live in.
Money is what our laws make it,
and it's not a medium of exchange,
but measure of values only.
c.. r. LUNA.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
SEWING MACHINES

4 ENCOURAGEMENT of a plan to
n build a monument to Elias
"A Howe, the inventor of the sewing
machine, is accompanied by the inter-
esting news that the first woman who
used a machine still lives. She is so
years old and will unveil the monument
to the inventor The sewing machine
is one of the greatest of the inventions
which America has contributed to
mankind. 1t has brought relief to
many women who, but for the genius
Of Howe would be wearing out their
eyes sewing the long white seam," or
stitching, stitching, stitching like the
heroine of the song of the shirt.
It is sad, however to think that un-
scrupulous exploiters of labor took
advantage of the fact that a sewing
machine is not costly and by invest
ing their limited capital in a battery
of machines and hiring poor women to
operate them established the sweat
shop system which is a scandal and
disgrace to American civilization.
The sewing machine was meant to
help and not to injure women; and it
is to be hoped the day soon will come
when the stuffy tailor shops of the
tenement districts win no longer grind
the lives out of poor women who be-
come bent-backed and feeble-eyed
from toiling at the machine that was
intended to emancipate and not en-
slave them.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-02
ANTI-GoUGE MEASURES

A p. FLEMING, secretary of tho
n board of harbor commissioners,
As reports that between $4,0OO'OoU
and $5, 000 900 would be saved annually
to the citrus fruit growers of Los An
geles If adequate steamship service
were given from Los Angeles to Pan
anna. If refrigerator ships could pe
operated from Los Angeles to Panama
citrus fruits could be shipped for $l5
ton, and Mr.. Fleming says the saw
ing on four California products alone
would run into big figures. He esti-
mates the saving on citrus fruits
would be $4,6s0,OO0; walnuts, $4,000;
celery. 100000; eaulifower, $4,000.
The harbor commission yesterday
called the attention of the city coun-
Gil to the absolute necessity of the
immediate development of Los Angeles
harbor in order that the citizens en-
gagged in building up the industries OF
this city may be enabled to avail
themselves of the advantages that will
come with the opening of the Panama
canal.
At last steps are being taken to
break the grinding freightage monop-
oily which has been crushing the in
dustries of Southern California. That
much commercial progress has been
made in this great section of the
country has been due to the pluck,
perseverance, determination, grit and
Americanism of citizens, and not at
all to the corporations, which have
made a study of methods of extracting
the utmost profit from the most
cramped and inefficient gouging serv-
ice that has ever manacled enterprise
and shackled advancement. At the
hearing of the committee on inter-
oceanic canals on the bill for an APP
preparation Of $1O.OOO,OOO to buy or
build ships for a steamship line to
compete with the Pacific Mail, Sem
ator Flint said there seems to be no
law which would forbid the Southern
Pacific to own stock in the Pacific
Mail company and thereby establish a
throttling transportation combination.
"There ought to be legislation passed
at this session of congress covering
the situation" added the senator.
If such O. case as that in instance
is not legislatively provided for, then
the sooner definite provision is made
the better, because the commerce Of
the United States looks to water COM
petition to help solve the rates prob
lem, and all possibility of collusion
between water transportation COM
panies and land transportation COM
panies by interownership of stock or
by mutual understanding must be
made impossible.
With a federal steamship line as a
basis of vantage from which to con-
duct operations, the discipline of good
citizenship and square dealing should
be applied to the rates problem, and
the industries of Southern California
should be emancipated forever from
tyranny that if permitted would not
hesitate to make an entire population
work for the enrichment of few So
called "magnates," plentifully endowed
with the ambition for success at any
price that would qualify them for
membership in the National Club of
Malefactors of Great Wealth.