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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31
Taft Sends More Helm.

Washington, Oct. 31.-Another mem
per of President Taft's cabinet has
6een drafted for campaign work in New
YORK state. Secretary of Agriculture
wilson viii leave here Monday night
and make an upstate automobile four
IN behalf of Mr.. Stimson, the RepLbli-
can candidate for governor and of Re-
publican candidates for congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31

operation-but in ten years he mas ac-
cumulated farms and money that yield
him and his wife 1000 yearly income.
There are other farmers here who
have done as well but health and con-
ditions were against Mr.. Spickard
when he started. Every modern i'm
provement for comfort is in the new
home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31

FROM
OPERATION
ByLydiaE. Pinkllam's
Vegetable Compound

De Forest, Wis
after an opera
ton four years ago
I had pains down
ward in both sides,
ba cka che, and a
weakness. The doc
tor wanted me to
have another opera
ton. I toOkLydia E.
.Pinkham'S Vegeta-
bic Compound and
/ am entirely cured
of nv troubles. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31
CLOUD COUNTY Is AWAKE.
COncordia Must Have Large Addition
to Its Schools.

10 1IS SC4OOIS.
Concordia, Kan, Oct. 31.-The
schools of Concordia have grown to
such an extent this year that a new
$4,000 building or large addition to
one of the four ward schools is being
considered by the board of education
at the present time.
Concordia has schools second to
none in Kansas. The school board is
enthusiastic, the teachers are working
harmoniouSly and results have been
attained that would have been impos-
sible under other conditions. IL is the
ambition of the teachers and school
board to make the schools of Con-
cordia rank first in Kansas.
Professor c. G. Brown has had
splendid success teaching in other
places and comes highly recommended.
He is college bred man and took hold
of the work which was all dismember-
ed like an old veteran. He has won
the admiration of every student and
teacher and has brought the schools
from the real bottom to a place where
none others can excel. Many
patrons have expressed themselves be-
lieving this the best start the schools
have ever had. 1t is due to the faith
full work of Professor Brown who took
a large risk upon himself in assuming
the duties here and working under
difficulties but he has won out and
placed the school at the top where
more room is absolutely necessary. He
has been aided in his efforts greatly by
efficient principal of the high school,
Professor F. NJ. Heaton, formerly of
Wichita.
Concordia is putting on some very
attractive White Way airs at present.
Every main street in the city is light
ed every twenty feet with incandescent
lights which give a very metropolitan
appearance to the city. The lights ex-
tend from the four depots to the post
office and on the other main street
for four blocks. Visitors passing
through on the trains at night are well
pleased at the enterprise of the mer-
chants.
The campaign in this county is warm
throughout. Nearly every office is
having eager aspirants on all sides.
on the sheriff. Party lines have now
become obliterated and it is a wet and
dry fight until election day. So fierce
is the campaign that an average of all
but five voters in every ward in Con-
cordia have registered. The vets are
doing all they can to elect a man who
was sehriff a number of years ago.
The present sheriff, w. J. Dunnuck. is
a Democrat. He is a candidate for re-
election on his past term and by that
he will win as no party lines are visible
in this Office and all the people are de-
handing is that the fight that Sheriff
Dunnuck has made on vice and boot
leggers generally be continued without.
cessation. Dunnuck has accomplished
more in this line than all the other
shertnS of the county combined and
promises a more vigilant campaign in
the next two years if he is elected. If
Dunnuck is elected it will be not be-
cause of any political party but by the
law and order element of Cloud coun-
date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31
Cornen the Winner-

Ithaca, Oct. 31.-CorneIl won the dual
cross-country meet with Penna. with
score OF As to II. ]. P Jones of
Cornell was the first man to score over
course Of 81 miles in 1904.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31
FROM SOD HOME TO MANSION,
a. w. Spiclzard of Stafford Builds 3
$4,000 Country Home.

Stafford, Kan, Oct. 31.-Arcbi+ec+
Ira Hull has just completed for A w
Spickard the finest country residences
in Stafford county at a cost exceeding
$4,000.
Mr.. Spickard, in 1900, lived in a sod
house, was in debt, and borrowed
money to pay for serious surgical
Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-18

 times a cradle to rock the infant Savior to sleep.
 In a lullaby. exquisite in it's tend CT simplicity. the finale comes when the shepherds bid the christ-child farewell.
 Hush-a-bye my little son. / Hush-a-bye my heart of gold: Softly slumber, little one. The night Is dark and the winds blow cold. Hush-asbye baby sleep all night The shepherds watch thee with delight,
 Sh s.-h: Blinking owl from wil- tow shoot Thou wakeat my bGby with thy
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SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Dec. 17:-
 (SpecialJ-The most picturesque
 Christmas celebration ir all Amer
 ica is held by the Mexicans in San
 Antonio. Los Pastores", the drama
 tic presentation of the story of the
 Christchild. with its weird, yet bean
 tiful setting, is given in the quaint
 Chapel of Miracles and at other
 chapels and churches where the
 Mexicans worship. It is mystery
 play, analogous to the Pasion Play of Oberammergau. and has been handed down from father to son for generations It was introduced by the early Spanish missionaries. in order to teach the Indians the story of the birth of Christ and to impress them with His divine origin.
 Los Pastores." or The Sheperds' Is a form Of the mediaeyai religious dramas known as Passion Plays. mificle plays and nativity plays. Be fore the altar brilliant with it's cand- les. and decorated with roses and flowers that bloom here throughout the winter. and with the walls Of the chapel covered with the green Of cedar boughs and palms. the large company of actors. costumed the same as was the custom three 1 and -four hundred years ago, enact. as they conceive it. the coming of the Child amid the flashing stars | and the joyful acclaim of the shep- nerds on that wonderful night in Bethlehem Alter the fashion of the nediaeval plays. bits of broad humor are interspensed with the really ,squisits poetry of the theme. If |
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ly, and a bright illumination of cslAs tiaI glory falls about him, a com uination that wakes him up to his re igious duties. Other characters
 represent almost every prominent name in biblical history including
 Mary, Joseph, Belzebub, and other
 -eyils. the arehangel Michael and
 other archange.s and angels, Moses,
 .oah, the three wise men, and some-
 times, such modern personages as
 Thomas A. Beckett, Pope Leo XII. and Isabel the Catholic. The weary wandering of Mary and Joseph from door to door, in search of shelter in
 Bethlehem, the birth of Christ. the angels chorus announcing it to sheph erds in the fields. their jour- ney and that of the wise men Of th
 Fast, guided by the Star of Betble- hem. are set forth in detail. Away
 hosts of angels and devils hove about the scene and have bitter co
 uroversies over every imaginable point of difference. The devils are driven out in disgrace.
 The illiteracy of many of the actors meilns that they must learn their part by rote. Everything is chanted. The shepherds carry crooks upon which are hung various tinkiing instruments, and as the shepherds lift and drop them upon the wooden floor they produce monotonous jingle that keeps time to the simple tune to which they recite the his tory of the birth of Christ Some times. a tableau of Mary. the Chili Joseph. and the Wise Men is seen. he setting being a stable stall an often a couple of donkeys are tied ,y the manager. The deep religious | instinct of ttese simple Mexican |, ok causes many times the dispif If great emotion and real tears. In 10 sense is there any irreverence ttached te e comic relief of funny" characters.
 When tho shepherds kneel at tho tar they lay at the feet of the their most prfzed roS- ossions. These gifts include little sskets. ribbons, cakes. wild horcy pmb. . game called perinoia. . mt "as white as snow" and some
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MOST UNIQUE CHRISTMAS
 CELEBRATION IN AMERICA

opens with shepherds singing a hymn beginning Tn Bethlehem's Holy Manager" and containing the following verse:
 March on together joyfully.
 While the angels sing;
 For Our Lords nativity.
 Hot tamales bring.
 This is the literal translation from the original Spanish and is chsract- ersstic of the simplicity of the de vout Mexican people. the hot tamale. with them. being a piece-de-resis tance of their feasts. This song af ter many stanzas, closes with:
 4 bitter contest ours to wage.
 The evil power to queiI.
 To match the cunning. dare the
 rage.
 or Satan Prince of Hell. This serves to introduce Satan, who wears a very long tail made firecrackers. Putting the devil int hell requires much time, the indus trious effort of the apostles and th giving occasion for many of humor When Luci Ter and his imps are finally banished 5atenis tail is set on fire and his wild antics furnish uproarious amuse 1 menti Another comic character is ihs shepherd Bartholomew. ridi- 'H'ousiy sleepy fellow. who canno. 5hake on his drowsiness. The other 'hepherds. including comic cook. leg him to wake up and worship | he Christ-child. tu. he has some ,eepy-headed excuse each time. At ast. ths shepherds take him up odily and deposit iiim before the ltsr They drag him. not too sent-
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hliot.

hoot.
 In addition to the Psstores. the altar of the Christ-child is erected in every Mexican home. It is covered with cloth canopy. from which hangs every fruit and flower. and also Images of angels and arch angels, besides articles of house hold use. Bright-hued draperies cover the image of the Christchild and chains of vari-coiored beads are hung around.
 The Mexican people aiso. hang lanterns from tall poles about their doorways for twelve nights during Christmas as a symbol of the star that vas seen in the East, and so
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that if the Christ-child should com seeking shelter in any house He would be shown the way. A circle of ashes is also scattered about the
 house to keep away evil spirits and the sign of the cross is made on the lintei of the door for devils are supposed to be perniciousiy active at Christmas time.
 These quaint old-world customs preserve to San Antonio it's ancieat Spanish atmosphere and prove per enially attractive to the winter tour ists who throng this city lat this season of the year. In fact. the Pas torres of San Antonio are second ons y in interest 10 the Oberammergau
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our national policy-and long will
 te, I trust--to rely upon private cap ital and pr.yate enterprise to pro vide these great highways of com
 meree. to improve and mu tipiy them
 in pace with our requirements must
 We not in the larger public interest,
 whatever may be thought by this
 or that shipper, make the business
 of furnishing railway transportation,
 which shall be up to the best stand
 Erd of efficiency, convenience and
 safety. so desirable to the investor
 that the necessary funds TOT better
 ments and extensions will be forth
 coming and so attractive as . voca-
 ton that the highest abi ity will be
 employed in its management. 9th
 erwise, if unhappily this is not done,
 must not our country come measure
 ably to a standstill and face a fut-
 ure of comparatice stagnation?
 '3econd, the payment of liberal
 wages to an adequate number of com
 petent men. This not on,y to insure
 incres ssing skill and reliability in
 servics is all the wh le becoming
 more eXactfng. and on which the sasety and comfort of the puonc con t,tantly depend but also because of the very great influence of railway wages upon the compensation of lab or in every sphere and grad of pri. yate employment. To my mind the fundamental social problem is to pro vide. by the wise development of our institutions and without radical action or injustice. for a more equ- able diffusion of the bountiful wealth 1 which the carts produces. Now as l a large and increasing majority of i the able bodied live. and must live, by work ng for others in some capa | ,ity, high and advancing standard ,f payment for service of every sort ends strongly to promote. and is he best practical mans to bring H bout. the degree of equality in SOC sl welfare which makes for the sat sfaction and happiness of all our eople
 Third, the betterment of existing nes so as to greatly augment their erviceableness to the public, as can ! varying degree be done every here without unnecessary and un- increase in capitalization.
 very dollar borrowed to improve
 read now in operation involves a ornament addition to the interest chnrge which the public is required , pay; the improvement from cur snt earnings puts no lien upon the toperty but gathsr augments its alue aild usefulness, and by adding the security of the capital already vested tends to lower a rate of in ,rest upon that capital. Broadly this means a national pol y. so to speak, in respect Of rail ay rates and revenues in harmony k ith our national policy in other mat rs of public concern, ana in ac- , rdance with that enlarging spirit
 altruLsm which maI fesss itself
 public as we'll as in private life, ft ld which impels the present as mption of burden that might be k caped or deferred in order that
 other generation may have an eas- I, r task and a largr opportunity. It :,
 not in this particular field a wise Id patriotic policy?" @
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The quicker a cold is sostNu rid ol the less the dlDger from pns1. monie and other serious diseases. MT. B. W. Hall, of waver1y, Va, says: T firmly believe Chamber lain's Cougn Remedy uo be abso lutely the best preparation on the market for colds. have reconl- mended it to my friends and they all agree with me" For sale by all Dealers.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-18
VIEWS OF CHAIRMAN KNAPP
 ON RAILROAD PROBLEMS

Martin A. Knapp. Chairman of
 the Interstate Commerce Commis-
 sion, has just completed TOT the pub
 lie a careful statement covering the
 ground upon wh,ch the Interstate
 Commerce Commission works in mak
 ing freight rates.
 At the meeting of the Railway
 way Bnsiness Association in New
 York, November 22nd Mr. Knapp
 addressed the body and at that
 time was asked to prepare state
 ment for the education of the pub
 lie MT. Knapps statement follows:
 ''The question of railway rates,
 that is to say, of railway revenues
 involves vastly more than the dir
 ect interest of shippers or stock
 holders. In a very real sense, in
 a sense which is fortunately coming
 10 be better underrtood. it is a great
 question of national policy sec ond to none in it's economic impor-
 tance. That the pulsation or com
 petition among the carriers is an
 unwise a.ld mistaken policy, I am per Suaded Is is out of the question
 to have the presence ot competi- ton and the absence of discrimina. tiou. Just so long as competition between carriers is unrSstrainea
 just so long will it result in policies which are dangerous, for to compete is to discriminate. It is a fallacy to condemn discrin nation and as the same time to insist upon the very policy which promotes it For 'hls reason l advocate the legal sane ton of cooperative action between railways regarding rates.
 Speaking only for myself. and without reference to the pending con | troversy over rate advances or any other concrete instance suggest three' aspects of this question which are of immediate and intense public If our country is to grow md prosper as ksougbT, if its un- old resources are to be developed md its swelling numbers find pro itah.e empic.mentN we need and must have railway earnings ,suffi- tent for three things: ''Firts, a return on railway invest tents Of such amount and so well ssured as to attract and secure the , ccessary capital-an enormous sum , the aggragate-to improve exist , lg road5 and to construct without clay thOusanCs of miles of new lin 5 in fruitful district now destitute any means of transportation. Tt is a matter of common know sdge that the output of traffic for ,e fiscal year 1907 exceeded our en Ire carrying capacity on land and -ater. With the rapid increase of '. opuiaSion, and of productive effi- ency, that is, with a greater army workers and better industrial or anization the volume Of that year ight to be and will be nearly doub- d in another decade if ony we can -ovide for its prompt and propad !" stribution. And when We think of e rich regions yet unopened be- use unserved. when we recall, for II ample that there sS today in the | state of Maine a section larger s ar the whole of Massachusetts in g hich there is net a road Of railway, a ust we not be impressed with le ,alization of pressing need and Of is ,undless opportunity. Since it is a
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Brewery Gulch

play and is unquestionably the most i interesting festival of it's hind is America.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31
Scott Gabbie, Mayetta Indian,
Commits Horrible Crime.
When Child Cried and
Dashed 1t to Sidewalk.
CAUGHT BY THE FEET.
Head Struck Bricks and Death
Followed Instantly.
Arrested and Refuses to Talk
of Act.

Angered because his eight months
old baby girl was crying. Scott Gabbie.
a young Pottawatomie Indian from
Mayetta, grabbed the child from the
hands of its mother near the corner
of First and Kansas avenue at 1
o'clock this afternoon and, swinging
the baby by the feet crashed its little
head on the pavement, causing almost
instant death.
After the young Indian husband
had realized what he had done he
picked the dying baby up from the
pavement. hugged it to his breast and
moaning at the awful crime he licked
the blood from it's face with his
tongue.
The police were informed at once
and E. G. Voiles, a plain clothes man.
zier, arrested the murderer at once
he was taken to the police station but
would say nothing of the crime. The
wife and mother was picked up by
Dr. II. III. Keith. county coroner, anG
removed to his office.
Slaps His Wife.
Before he grabbed the child and
crushed its head to the pavement
Scott Gabbie slapped his wife IN The
race and beat her on the head, ac-
cording to the story told by the no.
lice. Under this attack the young
inoian woman released her hold on
the baby and, grabbing 1t by the feet
the husband whirled it in the air and
threw 1t against the pavement.
Inc child was alive when removed
TO the office of DIR. Keith, but died
soon after. Sobbing and ravinr in
sorrow the young mother knelt at
its side until the last gasp from the
girl baby indicated its death.
The left side of the skull was
mashed in and there were no hopes at
any time of saving the life of the
child.
The Indian couple had arrival in To
peka from Kansas City over the Roc;x
Island at 9:35 this morning. They had
! been in Kansas City for few davs and
according to the story told by the no.
! nee scott tiabbfe had been fntoxicafed.
AFTER wandering around lower kansas
| avenue for some time the Indians ar
rived In front of the little shack near
| First street and Kansas avenue.
Inc oabv was crying and we could
not make 1t STOP sobbed the little
mother to a newspaper man. INV b,,s-
band asked me to stop it but couldn' t.
Pretty soon he got mad and slapped me
on the side of the face and took Cath
erlne from my arms. Then he threw
II down on the pavement"
| Mother Is InconsolabIe.
| According to Mrs. Gabbie the coun,.
| nave been married only a short time
| and live on the Indian reservation
| near Mayetta.
This is my first baby moaned the
young mother as she sat sobbine bv
the side of the dying child.
Then turning to the little girl whose
4 head was bleeding and who was gasp
ing In the last stages of death she
buried her head in her arms and
moaned her unhappiness.
Officer Voiles of the police force was
the first on the scene of the murder
Both man and wife stood dumb
founded at the murder and said moth
ing. The wife was crying and huggins
the baby to her arms and the husha nd
was licking its face. We ARRESTED
Gabbie at once but he would say moth
ing.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31
THE CURTIS RESOLUTION
why 1t Was Not Presented on Floor
of Council.

Senator Curtis presented the Taft res
olution he drew up some days ago and
which was printed Monday in the pa
pers to the resolutions committee of the
Republican party council. where it was
turned down. The senator did not push
the resolution on the floor of the coun-
Gil because he was unable to force
yea and nay vote and could not there
fore put the delegates on record.
The senator had the secretary of the
council read a resolution to the effect
that as Governor Stubbs had, in his
sneech at the beginning of the party
council, declared that there we're un-
lawful combinations and corporations
in the state, that the council hereby in
str11cted the state administration to go
after these corporations under the trust
laws of the state and put them out of
business. The delegates laughed at the
sarcasm in the motion. but it was not
Considered formally by the council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31
WAS FREE SEVEN YEARS
Now William Ryan Goes Back to
Serve Out Sentence.

William Ryan, who has been held in
the Shawnee county Jail pending trial
in the federal court on the charge of
robbing a postoffice in Atchison coun-
ty has been turned over to Warden J.
E. Doyle of the San Rafael, Cal, state
prison, and is on his way west to begin
serving seventeen years remaining of a
twenty-one year sentence from which
he had been paroled. Ryan has been at
liberty for seven years and his present
return to prison is a testimonial to the
vigilance with which an offender
against American penal codes is fe;-
lowed.
The return of Ryan to California is
due directly to Sheriff Ericsson of Wa
baunsee county who saw him when iil
Topeka on business. Ericsson thought
he recognized Ryan's face but was not
sure until he had returned home and
examined his collection of photographs
Of criminals wanted in various parts OF
the country. Correspondence was
commenced with California at once
with the result that Ryan is once more
headed back to the penitentiary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31
HAMMER ROOSEVELT.
Socialists in International Congress
Attack the Colonel

Copenhagen, Aug. 31-Former
President Roosevelt came in for a ralt
ing incidental to the discussion of anti
militarism at today's session of the In
ternational Socialist congress. Several
speakers turned their guns on the
American, the most bitter attack be-
ing made by George B. Ledebour. a
Socialist member of the German
reichstag, who described him as a "po-
litical drummer Among other things
Herr Ledebour said:
NHe has forgotten that he repre-
sents democratic nation whose exist
ence was due to revolution Shame
on him for joining the British rulers
against Egyptian patriots!"
On the general subject of anti-mili-
tarism so many conflicting opinions
developed that the congress was in a
constant turmoil The committee on
international disarmament were un-
able to agree among themselves.