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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
M'ENTIRE AT HEAD.
Manufacturers and Jobbers Will Again
Entertain Visitors.

At a meeting of the Jobbers' and
Manufacturers association held at
the Commercial club quarters the an
nual election of officers took place
with the following result:
President-George P. McEntire.
Vice president-Samuel E. Lux.
Treasurer-C1yde Lawrence.
Secretary-Sadler j. Hodgins.
1t was decided that it would be
good policy to make a new deal in
respect to officers not that the old Of
ficers were not efficient, because they
were decidedly SO, but in order to
have other interests represented, SO
that no one could claim that there
had been any discrimination in re-
Spect to the choice of officers.
1t was decided to continue mer-
chants week and perhaps vary the
program to some extent. Two years
ago there were 500 merchants in at
tendance during the gala week, while
last year the number was increased to
nearly a thousand. Judging from this
increase it is predicted that the asso-
citation will have at least 1900 visit
ing merchants to entertain in connec-
ton with the next affair of the kind.
Nothing was decided in regard to
the program to be carried out but
a number of suggestions were made
1t was proposed that instead of
banquet the Grand opera house be Sc
cured and a good entertainment en-
gagged for one evening, and also to
distribute coupons which would be
good for meals at the hotels and res
taurants.
Some of the thirty men present,
however, commended that there is
nothing like big banquet to promote
good feeling. Ameeting of the new
officers will be held during the spring
and at that time a program will be
mapped out. The outgoing treasurer,
E. c. Arnold stated that the expendi-
ture last year was upwards of $2.S00
an advance of $1,000 over the pre-
viouS year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
BLIND SISTER PLEADS.
For the Release of Her Brother From
Penitcntiary.

Washington, Jan. 24.-The pleadings
Of a blind sister probably will win the
release from Montana penitentiary to
which he was sentenced for 80 years, of
Henry Whitton, former Washington
boy.
Governor Norris. of Montana, VINO
was here last week, attending the gov
ernors conference, promised Miss
Wilton that if her brother continues a
model prisoner, he will recommend that
he be released on parole. Whitton has
served most of the 121a years required
by the Montana law before pardon
can be granted.
Young Whitton was sentenced for
completely in a murder, because he was
in company with a desperate when the
latter shot fatally deputy sheriff. The
desperate escapsed and was never cap
tured Miss Wilton interested Sena-
tors Carter and Dixon in the case and
when Governor Norris was here few
days ago, pleaded with him for her
brother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
WAS FED BY FORCE.
Miss Alice Paul Relates Her Expert
encc in British Prison.

Moorestown. N J., JAN 24-Miss Alice
Paul the American girl who Joined the
British suffragettes in London last year
and served a term in Holloway Jail for
throwing stones at members of the cab
met, has returned to her home here. She
glories in her experience abroad and says
that she would gladly suffer more eff 1T
would benefit the cause On her exper-
fence in the British prison, she says:
Il refused to eat in Holloway and they
resorted to enforced feeding. The process
is something like vivisection They strap
the prisoner to big chair, much as if
one had delirium tremens, and through
a rubber tube, a mixture of milk and eggs
is forced into the mouth. 1t was a trying
fering it cost.
1T will be easier for the American wo-
man to secure the ballot than her English
cousin. The English men are slow and
conservative, but most American men will
give the women ANYTHING they want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
Attic 11 i

While THE Yama Yama Man has
been on most of Topeka's pianos for
two years, The Three Twins, the vehicle
he came in. has remained unknown and
unsuspected until Saturday. But The
Three Twins lost nothing by their tar1y
appearance. Full houses greeted both
matinee and night performances and
laughed the whole show through
The Three Twins is easily the clever
est and best balanced musical comedy
which has had a stopover in Topeka.
barring not even those of the time hon
cred comedians. The Three Twins
might have been any old twins, an i'm
poster, and few skits from any other
musical comedies seen here, but it was
i'll reality adapted from Charles Dick
sons "Incos,' as any one who has
seen Dickson can testify. The Three
Twins, arriving at inopportune mo-
ments-or rather opportune moments
would naturally confuse people and es-
pecially if wives and sweethearts were
concerned-that's the plot.
But the funmaker for the thing and
the man who makes the show is Victor
Morley. When man some % years of
age and who is exposed as knowing
most everything of worldly nature
can get away with stuff like Now,
papa, TIL slap you on the wrist" then
you have to let him by. Morley ought
to be starred. He is absolutely the most
perfect fool on the stage-and that's
the very best feature in musical COM
edy-a perfect fool. But more than
that, Morley can sing and his duet
with Miss Allen. Good Night Sweet
heart" will make great sale of that
number at the local stores.
Another thing The Three Twins had
quite out of the ordinary was a trio
of leading ladies who could sing and
dance. These were Miss Bessie Cliff
ford, Miss Ada Clifford, and Miss Min
ME Allen.
Miss Clifford, who is the successor
CT the job forsaken by Miss Mccoy,
very nearly drives Victor Morley out
of mind when her dancing turn as the
Yama Yama girl comes as the final hit
of the show. and there are few who
would care at all to see the original
in the role after Miss Clifford's per-
Torrance. No one ever danced so
sprightly and gracefully at the Grand
as this fairy did with the exception OF
course of Miss Hoffman. who has the
handicap of clothes.
A decided feature of The Three Twins
is the musical melodrama which Nor
ley works with the orchestra. We have
always heard from the music teachers
and harmony crankS that there are the
tones of speech in the notes OF the
various instruments. A whole per-
Torrance was talked by the orchestra
by giving the various instruments the
different words. The Seven Ages or
Guiding in a tableau arranged by Gus
Up a Little Closer. LOvey Mine, the
electric circle swing, and the faceograpn
We're other features distinctive enough
20 claim credit. G. H. W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
DECIDED HIS CHILDREN.
Young Ben TiIlnan Turned Them
Over to Their Grandfather.

Washington. Jan. Ex-senator Till
man of South Carolina thinks he and
his wife will not be deprived of the
custody of their two grandchildren for
the possession of whom their mother,
Mrs. B. r. Ti1lman. jr., will, it is stated,
begin habeas corpus proceedings at Co
lumbus, today Senator Tillman said:
MY son and his wife have been twice
separated and are now living apart. She
is in South Carolina. They disagreed
last February, but later were reconciled
and at my suggestion went west, In
tending to remain. A few weeks ago,
they again disagreed. Mrs. Tillman
let their apartment here in Washing
ton, and, after waiting three days, my
son brought these little girls to my
wife.
Finding that his wife showed no in
clination to return to him, my son
decided the children to me. Under the
law of South Carolina, this may be
done by a father for the good of his
children, or by the wife in case the
father is not living. That is why they
are here now. My sole interest in the
matter is to see them properly cared for
and guarded. Mrs. 5. r. Tillman, jr-,
has been told by eminent counsel that
she cannot recover the children"
B. r. Tillman, jr., is clerk Of the SEN
ate committee on the Five Civilized
tribes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24

the bearing down. l recommended it
to some friends and two of them have
been greatly benefited by it, Mrs.
MAE Mcknight, Oronogo, Mo.
Another Grateful Woman.
ST. Louis, Mo. II was bothered
terribly with a female weakness and
had backache, bearing down pains and
pains in lower parts. I began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com:
pound regularly and used the Sanative
Wash and now I have no more troubles
that way" Mrs. AL. HERzoG, 5722
Prescott Ave-, st. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound a trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
flammation, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner.
vous prostration. 1t costs but trif1e
to try it, and the result is worth mil.
lions to many suffering women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
FINDS BANK TRUST.
Wisconsin Commissioner Discovers 40
Institutions Under one Head.

Madison. Wis, Jan 24.-The state
commissioner of banking has discov-
cred new Kind of trust-a combina-
ton of banks in the small towns of the
northwest. His annual report just
given out asks for legislation to pre-
vent such a combination. The report
shows that there is a Minneapolis
holding company which holds the ma
jority of the stock of forty banks in
the small cities of Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota and the Dakotas and that
other similar holding companies are
being formed.
The commissioner believes that
there is a serious danger in these
banking trusts for the general public.
Holding companies, he says. can not
paw close attenti / to the individual
banks and the risk through defalcation
of subordinate officials not directly in
terested in the concerns. he thinks is
great.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24

In November of 1905. when she was
only 16. Miss Fritz entered a typewrit-
ing contest held in Madison Square
Garden under the auspices of the Ma
tional Business shows. in which she
won second place, competing with the
then worlds champion
Her first brilliant success came in
1906, when, at the Chicago Business
shows. she led her nearest competitor
by 1900 words and won two cham
pionships-the American ladies' and
the blindfolded. In this last with eyes
covered, she wrote 4.45z words in one
hour.
For the last three years Miss Fritz
has held the international champion
ship, her last record being 6,135 words
III one hour. the net amount after five
words had been deducted for each
error.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
HAS LOST ITS PLACE.
Pacific Express to Be Superseded by
the American on U. p.

New York, Jan. 24.-From the Of
fees of the American Express COM
pany came the announcement today
that on April ] that company will
supersede the Pacific Express COM
panyj on the Union Pacific railroad.
This change means the establish
ment of about one thousand new offices
by the American and the extension of
its business to the Pacific coast. West
ern headquarters will be established
at Salt Lake City and an assistant gen.
eral manager will be stationed at
Portland to give special attention to
Pacific coast business.
The Pacific Express company it was
said here today, lost its privileges on
the Union Pacific, railroad because of
a contract with the new Western Pa
cific railroad, competing line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
HIT BY ICE YACHT.
Two Skaters Knocked Down and Seri-
OuSly Hurt.

New York. Jan. 24.-Being run
down and injured by automobiles
trains or runaway horses is of every
day occurrence, but when the ice
yacht begins to get in it's work in this
manner, the record FOR the unique
must be begun.
John Manning and Miss Mabel Fish
er were skating last night on the
Shrewsbury river, near Red Bank, N.
J., when suddenly seemingly out of
the nowhere the ice yacht Silver Heels
sailed by Reuben White was upon
them.
The big sail of the swift moving ice
craft had ohscured the vision of the
helmsman and Mr.. Manning and Miss
Fisher were caught by a side stay and
struck by 4 side runner. Both were
knocked unt onscious. Although their
injuries are serious, both will re-
cover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
PINCROT IS PLEASED.
DepOsed Forester Expresses Delight
With His New Place.

Washington. Jan. 24.-"The pleasant
est thing about my election as presi-
dent of the National Conservation as
ISOLATION is that / follow DIR. Eliot by
his own DESIRE" said Clifford Pinchot
after the announcement of his election
to that position had been made 1T is
most fortunate that he will remain in
the work as honorary president. l APP
preciate keenly both the honor and the
chance to help the movement.
THE National Conservation aSsocia-
tion is not in politics. 1t believes that
conservation is a great moral issue.
broader than any party or section and
more vital than any political question
or measure now before us.
The rights and the property of the
American people are at stake. This
association will be on the firing line in
the conservation fight. Its immediate
task will be to do what it can toward
getting good conservation laws in con-
gress. Hereafter, l expect to devote
what energy I have to the association
as did to the forest service in the
past. 1 believe the national cOnserVa-
tion association offers the best way to
help the cause of conservation"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
FORMED A HUMAN CHAIN
Three People Saved From Drowning
in Milwaukee River.

Milwaukee, Jan. 24.-Three persons
were saved from death in the Mil
waukee river Sunday by a human
chain, in each case through the eff
forts of Robert F. Noite, jr., son of a
physician of this city. He was aided
by several companions. Those rescued
were:
Louis Weiss, aged IA years.
John w. Kuhn, aged SO, and Irene
Kuhn, his 13-year-old daughter.
The rescnes took place in almost
the same spot.
Weiss was skating when he went
through the ice and was rescued and
Kuhn and his daughter were crossing
the river on the ice when they broke
through. When they were seen strug-
Cling in the water, Nolte crawled out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
CLEARED OF THIEVES.
One New York County Cleaned Up by
Organized Effort.

Middletown, n. Y. Jan. 24.-Horse
stealers and chicken thieves who start
ed a reign If terror in this section of
New York about a year ago, have been
driven away, largely through the eff
forts of two men, one a parson and
the other a relative of President Taft.
The Rev. ]. H. Thompson, Presby-
terrain Clergyman, has just reported as
president of the Horse Thief Detective
society that the county is free of horse
thieves for the first time in 20 years
A similar report of the success of the
Chicken Thief Detective society, form
ed a year ago, is made by it's presi-
dent, Lyman H. Taft, a relative of the
president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
Amateur Must own the Car.

New York, Jan. 24.-One interesting
feature of the new rules which shortly
will be promulgated by the contest
board of the American Automobile as
sociation will be a new definition OF
what constitutes an amateur driver 1t
is said that the new amateur rule,
which in the past has been more hon
ored in the breach than the observance,
will have to be lived up to. Hereafter
a driver in an amateur event will have
to prove that he is actually the owner
of the car he drives. In this way the
association hopes to build up legitimate
amateur competition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
ADJUSTMENTS.
AT the Grand.

The offering at the Grand tomorrow
night will be H. H. Frazee's production
of that La Sale theater popular success
"A Girl at the Helm" This attraction
and the most enthusiastic notices
ever given by the Chicago newspaper
critics to any play since the first thea
ter was built in the Windy City. are
accorded the musical comedy "A Girl at
the Helm which was presented to ca
pacity audiences for 300 performances
at the La Sale theater. The book and
lyrics are by Robert B. Smith and Ray
mond Hubbell, authors of "A knight
for a Day.
What is often called the greatest play
of the time and the most popular. will
be the attraction at the Grand Satur-
day matinee and night when the Wag-
enhals & kemper Co. offers Eugene
Walters Paid in Full with a cast
that brings o 1T in highest degree the
superbly dramatic qualities, the human
sympathy. the comedy that make this
the most appealing work the stage has
seen. Paid in Fulr' is a MASTERPIECE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
TONG WAR CLAIMS ANOTHER.
Japanese Is Slain in New York 5
"Chink'' District.

New York, Jan. 24.-Another death
has been placed to the credit of the
latest Tong war in New York's China
town. Mistaken for a member of the
On Leongs, a Japanese known only as
Yesito. was shot through the body last
night, dying early today in a nearby
hospital.
Jing Hing. Chinese student. %
years old. is under arrest charged with
the shooting by two policemen. who
say they saw him fire. The japanese
in an ante-mortem statement said he
never saw the Chinaman and the
Chinaman swears he never saw the
Japanese.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
HACKED TO PIECES.
Victim of Black Hand Refuses to Dis
cuss Assault.

Buffalo, n. Y, Jan. 24.-Gaetana
Galaate was attacked by three men
near his home on George street late
last night and shot and stabbed. There
are more than fifty distinct knife
wounds. one of which will prove fatal
in few hours.
He refuses to talk to the police, but
the attempted murder is believed to
be a part of a black hand plot. The
wounded man is a near relative of
man murdered here last summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24

Ln0 uOOr WI { d o ut
my heart f1uttering
and I could not even
receive a letter.
Every month I had
such a bearing down
sensation, as if the
lower parts would
fall out. Lydia E.
|Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound has
done my nerves a
great deal of good
and has alSorelieyed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
Trolley Car Rolls Down a Bank.

Pittsburg, Pa Jan. 24.@Ten persons
We're seriously injured, three probably
fatally, when a McKeesport bound
trolley car jumped a defective rail
early today near Dravosburg and roll
ed down a ten foot eInbankment. The
injured were taken to a McKeesport
hospital
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
Many Unsolved Murders in New York

New York. Jan. 24.-Thirty-seven
unsolved murders in twelve months
was the record of New York for 1909;
seven more have been added in the
first three weeks of the new year, ac-
cording to a report just issued by the
police department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
Aged Millionaire Dies.

Danville, Ill, Jan. 24.-Solomon
Plaut, aged ~, millionaire pioneer
banker and land owner of this city,
died suddenly of heart disease today.
He had been in business in this county
for half a century
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24

on the ice, with his eliminates holding
his feet He pulled the girl out first
and cautioned her to roll ashore, as
the ice was thin. Then he saved her
father in the same way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
CHAMPION TYPIsT.
Miss Rose Fritz Holds Title Against
tho World.

Six years ago. when Is years old,
Miss Fritz began the study of stenog
raphy and tyDewriting. In 13 weeks
she was writing without mistakes or
hesitation 120 words a minute in short
hand and 60 words a minute on the
tVDeM ritter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24
MORE
PINKHAM
CURES
Added to the Long List due
to This Famous Remedy.

Oronogo, MOI was simply ner-
vous wreck. / could not walk across
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-24

Yes; she threatened to go home to her
mother" And how did you keep her
from doing it?'' Il refused to button her
gown for her. Lourier-Jour-
nal
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-19
SECRETARY OF STATES REPORT.

State Secretary Policy in his report
to the governor VIII not make any re-
cnmmendation in regard to the de-
partment, but will show what has been
done financially for the fiscal year
ending June 30 last, the total receipts
reaching S2S,322.72. In the year 1lS
churches have been Incorporated, and
sixty four social and benevolent as
sociations received charters. The
banking industry has evidently flour
ished with 1l9 new banks started on
their way. Commercial corporations
other than banks numbered l,S443, and
1874 foreign corporations came under
the provisions of law required of them
in this state. There were 1859 notarial
commissions issued for this year,
1852 auto licences were granted. The
pardon power has not been used to
any great extent, as to total number
of cases in which clemency was grant
ed was only fifteen.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-19
THE BOGUS CHECK MAN.

Two weeks ago a stranger came in
on the train from De Smet with G. s..
McKihben, the photographer, reprcs
enting himself as a farmer living near
Oldham. He spent the day here and
after supper purchased a suit of
cloths at Hugo's clothing store to the
value of SIT and left an order for a
tailor made suit, giving in payment a
check on the Dakota State Bank at
Oldham for 500, the total amount of
the bill, stating hat he would come
up on a certain date aud get the
tailor made suit. He signed the
check Douglas j. Carter. He return
ed to De Smet on the same train with
MsiofKziihbtben and on the plea OF bling
short of pocket money got McKibben
to cash a S. check for him. Hugo's
check went through the regular
channel and in due course CT time
came back to the f. 81 NJ. bank pro-
tested, the party being unknown and
having no funds on deposit.
"Mr. Carter is evidently one of a
gang that is working the bogus check
racket throughout the northwest. He
was strong on Odd Fellow talk, hav.
80
ing the emblem of the order tatooed
on his arm, and put up a good spiel
about the thoroughbred stock on his
farm nsdT 6idham. 4 good descrip-
ton of the forger has been sent to the
officers OF the bankers association and
he may get tripped up in his opera
tions. 1t is believed that he is the
same fellow who caught some Madi-
son parties recently with bogus checks
drawn on a bank at Junius. -Iroquois
Chief.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-08-19
HIS w

Titusville, Pa.-William Harmon
has committed suicide from a melan-
choly conviction that he was his own
grandfather. Here is the singular
letter that he left:
II married a widow who had a
grown daughter. Ny father visited
our house very often, fell in love with
my stepdaughter and married her.
So my father became my son-in-law,
and my stepdaughter my mother, be.
cause she was my fathers wife. Soon
afterwards my wife had a son-he was
my fathers brother-in law and nv,
uncle, for he was the brother of my
stepmother. My fathers wife, i. e.,
my stepdaughter, had,a son; he was,
OF course, my brother and in the mean
time my grandchild, for he was the
son of my daughter. My wife was my
Or grandmother, Because she was my
mothers mother. | was my wife's
husband and grandchild at the same
time. And as the husband of a per-
sons grandmother is his grandfather,
| was my own grandfather"