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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
COVERED HIS DISAPPEARANCE.
Atchison Man. Supposed Drowned Last
Year, Is in Manila.

Atchison. Kan. July 29.-What was
regarded as a, suicide mystery of more
than a years standing was cleared
when Frank Dilgert, a confectioner
here, received a postcard from Fred
Plummer bearing Manila, P. L., post
mark.
Plummer, then a travelling man for 4
wholesale cracker house. disappeared
here one night and the next morning &.
Suicide note and his hat were found
on the bridge over the Missouri river
1t was reported that he had trouble
with his wife, whom he had married
ance. While there were people who
doubted the suicide theory when no
body was found, the postcard received
is the first positive evidence that Plum
mer merely disappeared. On the card
he says he is making a tour of the
world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
WOMAN SCORES SCHOOL BOARD.
Order Requiring Peace Bond Sought
in Quarrel Over Cattle.

Fort Scott, kan, July 2e.-At the
instigation of the members of the
Shiloh school board, Miss Ella Todd
will appear in Justice Campbells court
today to be given trial to see wheth-
er she will be placed under peace
bond.
Miss Todd is a real farmer, and she
superintends the work on a large
ranch all by herself. For years. it is
said, she has been at war with the
Thompson family.
The present case arises from an
argument over the disposition of stock.
Miss Todd allowed cattle to run in the
school house yard, according to the
school board, and they served notice
upon her to take them off. 1t is said
that she took but part of them off,
According to statements made to
County Attorney Ramsey, she has
said: eff anyone tries to put those
cattle off they will find me there with
q shotgun ready to shoot,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
RYE a CHINCH BUG HATCHERY.
Franklin County Farmers Protest
Against Planting That Crop.

Ottawa, Kan. July pa little
patch of rye will raise enough chinch
bugs to ruin every bit of corn in the
country declared a Franklin county
farmer. There is no defense against
them; you just have to sit by and
watch them eat UP your corn. They
are bad enough in the wheat, but the
wheat isn't circumstance to the rye
as a chinch bug incubator"
A farmer in the chinch bug zone
south of Ottawa reports that from ono
small patch of rye the bugs stormed
out and destroyed fifty acres Of corn.
In other localities where rye and
wheat were grown, the corn fields were
overrun with the pest and many acres
of the stalks laid low.
The bugs were most in evidence Just
south of Ottawa along Rock creek, and
poured out of the rye and wheat fields
in such hordes that all efforts to check
them were of no avail.
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NEED TO LEARN HOW no SELL.
Frisco President Gives Advice to Texas
Farmers.

College. Tex, July 29.-In an address
before the Texas Farmers congress at
their annual meeting B. F. Yoalum,
chairman of the Frisco lines, advocated
the cooperation Of agriculturists in
marketing their products.
He cited that last years products
were worth nine billions Of dollars to
the farmers. He cited that the govern
ment figures show that the farmer gets
46 cents for the products for which the
consumer pays one dollar.
He said that the real problem is not
the high cost of living, but the high cost
of selling 1.-THE cost of getting the
years products from producers to con-
sumers," said he, amounted to the
enormous sum of seven billion dollars. -
He illustrated how this cost of mar
keting has been cut down by the peO-
pie of Denmark, and urged the upbuild-
ing of neighborhood marketing.
The neighborhood market house will
become as important and popular III
American life as the country school
house. Popular education has been the
strongest force in the development of
America. These neighborhood corpora
tive selling plants will play almost as
important a. part in our future as the
free schools have in the past. They
viii be of important educational value
rs they will cause small farmers to
make close study and application OF
business methods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
KANSAS HoRsETHTEF CAUGHT.
Farm Hand Rides Animal to Kansas
City Where It Is Sold.

Kansas city, July 29.-Grover Tuck
EFT, "a years old, the farm hand who.
it is said, admitted to Police Captain
Whitsett the theft of a horse from w.
L. DeIano of Ottawa, Kan, has been
taken back to Kansas and will be tried
at Ottawa. Tuckett worked for De-
lano, a farmer, and Friday night he
saddIed one of Delano's horses and
started to Kansas City.
Q. E. Trent. a horse salesman for
the company, who formerly was a
plain clothes policeman under Captain
Whitsett. suspected something wrong
and notified Whitsett- Charles H.
Riggle was sent with Trent to arrest
Slough. Slough told the police that
he didn't know the horse was stolen
and directed them to where Tuckett
was rooming. Slough was released.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
New Santa Fe Cutoff Will Help
Kansas.
Southwestern Part of State Is
Optimistic.
ROAD BUYS ACRES
Land Procured for New Right
Of Way Work.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

Dodge City, Kan. July 29.-Thls
country ana the southwest are greatly
elated over the assurance they now
have of the building of the Colmol
cutoff from Dodge City to Colmor n
NJ. passing through Gray, Haskel
Seward, Stevens and Morton counties
and on through practically an air line
from Dodge City to Colmor- rms u
course cuts out all the heaVy graoes
OF the ClOrietta mountains and RATION
pass and shortens the distance of the
main Santa Fe route to Cal1ornla more
than 100 miles.
The grade on this line is practically
level and is very cheap to construct
and when built will make the snort or,
est line and the easiest grace ol any
road to the west.
The Santa Fe Investment company
has purchased something ike z'SOu
quarter sections of land, starting at
the southwest corner OF Gray county
and buying clear through to the west
line of Morton county
The greater part of this land has
been placed on record in the various
counties. and parties who are in po-
sition to know state that the money Es
mas been provided for by the Santa Fe
board Of finance, and that nothing re-
mains now but a few prellmlnarles De-
fore actual construction viii begin
SURVEYS, profiles and geographical
mans have all been made, and nothing
partment to do before beginning actual
construction.
with the building of this road the
people of southwestern Kansas Will
be put IN touch with all the markets
of the east All the communities
through which this line will run are
very enthusiastic and are preparing TO
Dush their farms to & high state OF
cultivation, and lands are booming;
home seekers and investors are seek
ing Investments along this line in
crowds. and in the course OF a month
or two it is anticipated that large ex-
eursions will be run, both over the
santa Fe and Rock Island for the PEG
ole who will take advantage Of the
building Of this road to get in while
the lands are cheap.
Many Of the most sanguine people
are expecting to see land that can now
ne bought for from $3.50 to $40 pei
acre advance to $50 or $50 as soon as
the road is in operation.
The soil is deep and rich and viii
grow anything that will grow in any
other similar climate, and using the
CarnDbell system of dry farming will
make southwestern Kansas the banner
norton Of the state for the production
Of wheat and similar crops.
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MANI REFUSE no PAY TAx.
Seventy Four Warrants Issued to Col
Iect from Socialists.

Fort Scott, Kan. July 29.-Accord-
ing to information received here by
Attorney J. I. Sheppard, seventy-four
warrants have been issued by the
county attorney at Pittsburg for the
arrest of persons who refused to pay
poll tax, after hearing the decision of
the Justice of the peace before whom
one such case was tried, with favorable
results.
Although seventy-four warrants
have been issued, it is understood that
the county will not attempt to prose-
cute every man arrested.
One of the arguments advanced IS
that the law was passed in a bunch
with numerous others. The statutes
provide that each bill must be read
separately, and Representative A. NJ
Keene was a witness at the past trial
where he testified that the law was not
passed separately. However, he says
one can not go behind the house jour
nal which proves in black and white
what was done, and in this case proves
that the bill was passed by a separate
vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
NIX ON THAT TTCKLING!
Unsafe to Tickle Anybody But Your
self in GridIey Nowadays.

Gridley, Kan. July 29.-The town
of Gridley called a special meeting of
the city council and enacted an ordin-
ance against tickling" The fact that
it was enacted at a special meeting
Gridley. The measure reads:
AN ORDINANCE.
Making it unlawful for any person
to practice tickling" another person.
and fixing a penalty for same:
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Council of the City of Gridley, Kan. /;
Section THAT it shall be unIaw-
full for any person to punch another
person with thumb, finger, stick or
other thing in the manner commonly
known as tickling"
Section Amy person convicted of
the violation of section l of this or
dinance shall be fined in any sum not
to exceed twenty-five dollars and shall
stand committed to the city Jail I'M
til said fine and costs are paid.
Passed by the council and approved
by the mayor in special session, this
goth day of july 1911.
J. r. ANSPAUGH, Mayor.
c. E. PITCHER, City Clerk
man from Burlington, the county
seat of Coffy county, in which Grid
ley is located. said the ordinance was
passed because there was a bunch of
young fellows in Gridley that ANNOYED
older people and children very much,
and there were some people so ner-
Vous, even some women, that they
were afraid to go up town.
Members of the supreme court here
are talking about the ordinance with
interest, for they fear they may be
called at some future period to mass
upon its constitutionality.
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Mrs. Fannie Dugan and NJ. B. Nc
Creary.
Henry Parsons. Waterman, discov-
cred the fire in the foundry at $50
o'clock
The alarm from the Dugan HON Q
was received at the department just
after the trucks had left for the foun-
dry. The explosion of a gasoline stove
started the fire there. Mrs oliver
Dugan who was trying to light gas
oline stove at the time was severely
burned. The Dugan home was almost
gone when the firemen reached there
and the flames had reached the house
owned by Mr.. McCrearY.
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ADVERTISING TALKS.
Continued from PAGE ons.l

rage OtS-y
It saw the newspaper representa-
tiVes, who told me that it was alb
surd to think that the local dealer
could buy advertising any cheaper
than I could.
"One representative told me that
the rate of his paper was % cents
a line=that no better rate could be
secured. Another representative
told me that the rate in his paper
was II cents a line-that there was
no lower rate.
yet the 22-cents- a. line paper
wrote to the advertising manager
that the local dealer could buy ad-
vertising at IA cents; and the 12-
cents-a-line paper wrote that the
local dealer could buy advertising at
6 cents.
sion to be allowed to my agency If
the lower rate was accepted.
This made me pretty hot under
the collar, so I jumped on train
and visited the managers of these
two newspapers, BOTH OF WHOM
WTTHDREW THEIR QUOTATION
OF LOWER RATES and SUBSTI-
TUTED THE HIGHER RATES
Originally quoted by their repre-
sentatives. They did so that 1
might be paid a commission on the
business.
THAT was not the purpose of my
visit What I wanted to get at was
the reason for such a wide differ
ence between the rates paid by the
local dealer and the rates I. as an
agent, was asked to paw for my
client.
THE explanation I got was that
there was a marked difference be-
tween the rates paid by the local
and the general advertiser.
There was nothing for me to do
inc
manager of the company to let the
dealer wherever he could get bet
ter rate than I could, give out the
advertising.
In my zeal to get the advertiser
to use newspapers, 1 have punished
commissions amounting to upward
o. $4,000.
such a thing could not happen
in. a magazine campaign. THE
RATES ARE THE SAME TO ALL.
All agents in good standing receive
identically the same commission and
cash discount.
Don't you think that the news
papers should adopt a rate schedule
that is open to all? If they wish to
business done by any advertiser,
local or general, all right, but why
not print the schedule so that we
know where We are at-so that there
is no deception?
Until all newspapers have a repu-
tation for STABILITY OF ADVER-
4 Using RATES. it is going to be
hard to get advertising agencies to
work with enthusiasm for them, or
to get national advertisers to have
confidence in the integrity of their
rates"
Hardly necessary to say
more, is it? But The sixty-five
newspapers that are in the com
bination printing these Adver-
Using Talks will stand solid as
a rock for UNIFORM AND
STRAIGHT ADVERTISING
RATES.
They will help to bring to the
newspaper world the CONFI-
DENCE AND RESPECT of al
general advertisers.
ITO be cOntinuedO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
READJUsT NEW YORK CENTRAL
Plans to Consolidate Financial Man
agement of Road.

New York, July 29.-Bankers con-
nected with the New York Central
railroad interests have confirmed the
report that plans are being consider
ed for consolidating the financial man
agement of the New York Central sys-
TEN. It is expected that new CONSOLE
dation bonds will be issued to cover
the outstanding obligations and pro-
vide means Of financing for many years.
Details of the plan are still under dis
cussion.
This is by ear the largest readjust-
meat OF railroad capitalization ever I'M
dertaken involving several hundred
million dollars of value and 1900 miles
of railroads.
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PUMP FOR IRRIGATION.
Two Wells Near Fowler to Water 200
Acres Each.

Fowler, July 29.-The Hawley we'll
two miles west of Fowler, which is
being put down for irrigation Pur-
poses, is nearing completion. This
wen will be 275 feet deep. The first
80 feet will be cased with "a inch
casing, and the balance of the distance
13 inch casing will be used. Eighty
feet of screen will admit water from
the bearing strata of sand and gravel
A field of 225 acres has just been
broken out around the well, all of
which is on a lower plane than the
well itself. Just as soon as the well
is completed this will be put under
the ditch and alfalfa sown
Work is also progressing at the
Walker well, the so horse power gas
oline engine is being installed and the
engine house built A. D. Walker will
push the work of completing his ir-
rigation plant as rapidly as possible
These wells are guaranteed to supply
enough water to irrigate 200 acres of
ground each.
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EYE TORN FROM SOCKET.
Flying Nail Cost Wellington Boy the
Sight of One Eye.

Wellington, Kan, July 29.-To get
his left eye completely torn out by a
flying nail, was the misfortune of Ru-
pert Rusk, the f1fteen-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. I. E. Rusk of rural route
No. 6.
The boy was driving nails into d
board. A glancing blow of the ham
mer sent the nail he was driving, fly
ing, and it struck his left eye. The
eye was completely torn out The boy
ran into the house the blood stream
ing from his face. He was imm ediate-
~ brought to Wellington and received
medical attention.
The attending physician reports that
they hope to be able to save the eye
ball. but the sight viii be lost. The
other eye will probably not be affected.
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LARGER ENGINES FOR MO. P.
New Track Calls for Test of More
Motive Power

New Track Calls for Test OF More
Motive Power.
Wichita, Kan, July 29.-To test out
the track on the Wichita division OF
the Missouri Pacific that road has
placed two new engines of larger type
than heretofore used, in service be-
tween Wichita and Durand on extra
freight runs. These engines are of las
tons weight and are capable Of pulling
400 tons more than any engine former
ly used.
The Missouri Pacific track from
Wichita to Fort Scott has been relaid
with S5-pound rails and new steel cir
der bridges have been installed, in or
der that these heavy engines may run
on this part of the road.
Freight trains of the Missouri Pacific
railway between Wichita and Durand
and that point and Fort Scott, are now
pulled by engines which do not have u
drawing capacity of more than $50 tons
each. These lighter engines will be
supplanted by the heavier class.
The Missouri Pacific officials are
keeping account of the pulling power Of
these engines to determine what runs
to place them on. About 20 of these
engines will be placed in service on the
Kansas divisions They have eight
drive and four truck wheels.
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WRONG HERO GETS PRAISE.
Reece, Kansas. People Say Man Not
Woman Saved Train.

Wichita, Kan, July 29.-Citizens Of
Reece, Kan, claim that a real hero
has been overlooked and that to Perry
Aylor, farmer residing near that little
city, belongs the credit for preventing
a disastrous train wreck.
A burned bridge five miles east of
Reece, on the Missouri Pacific railway,
threatened destruction to a fast pas
senger train on the night of June %.
The bridge is located a short distance
from the Ay1or home. Mr.. Aylor
leases the farm from J. E. Malcolm.
Mrs. Malcolm was at the Aylor home
when the bridge burned.
Early reports of the Stopping of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
TRIBUTE AMERICAN wORKNIEN.
Ambition for Invention Makes Him
Famous.

Chicago, July 29.-"It is to the spirit
of the American workman which
prompts him to continually seek some
new method of diminishing his labor
that the devices which have made
American machinery famous are due
This statement was made by Angus
Sinclair, editor Of Locomotive Fngf-
neering, in an address before the sew
enth annual convention of the In
ternational Railway General Foremen's
association. The following officers
were chosen for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, F. G. Pickard, master mechanic
of the Chicago, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad; first vice president, J. A Boy
den, general foreman Erie railroad;
second vice president. T. F Griffin,
general foreman Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago e. St. Louis railway; third vice
president, w. Smith, Chicago & North
western railway; fourth vice president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

one size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, the antiseptic powder for the feet.
It makes tight or new shoes feel easy;
gives instant relief to corns and bunions.
It's the greatest comfort discovery of the
age. Relieves swollen feet. blisters, cal
lous and sore spots 1t is a certain relief
for sweating, tired, tender, aching feet
Always it to Break in New shoes.
Sold everywhere, 25c. Don't accept any
substitute. For FREE trial package, ad-
dress Allen s. Olmstead. LIE Roy. n. Y.
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A Peek Into His Pocket.

would show the box of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve that z. s. Lopez, a carpenter, Of
MarilIa, n. Y, always carries" I have
never had a cut, wound, bruise, or sore it
would not soon heal" he writes Greatest
healer of burns, boils, scalds, chapped
hands and lips, fever-sores, skin-erup-
lions, eczema, corns and piles, 25c at
Campbell Drug Co.
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to Iowa and enlisted in the Twenty
ninth Iowa regiment and served dur
ing the civil war. After the war ne
lived on his farm in May Day town
ship. He was sent to the state legisla-
ture and served for Riley county in
1S76-77. His wife died about four
months ago. Had she lived a day
longer she would have lived to cele-
brate her sixtieth wedding anniversary.
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FTvE-YEAR-oID SHOOTS FATHER.
Kansas City Fireman's Child Plays
Highway1nan With % Rife.

Kansas City, Mo, July 29.-'Hold
up your hands, daddy, or I'll shoot"
called 5-year-old Ernest Spillman
from behind the dining room door, as
his father, Carl Spillman, a member
of the Kansas City, Kansas. fire de-
partment, entered his home last night
Before the father had time to turn, a
small rife in the boys hands was dis
charged and the father fell dead.
Ernest did not know the gun was
loaded.
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FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS.
Damage at LeaTenworth Will Likely
Reach $50, OOc.

LeavenWorth. Kan, July 29.=Al-
most $50, 600 damages resulted from
two fires which occurred at the same
time here. Flames Quilted the foundry
of the Fisher Machine Works com
pany and a fire, which started in the
home of Oliver Dugan, destroyed that
house and spread to houses au1naa by
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STOLE no PAY HIS BILLS.
Horsetnief Confesses Charge-Wfn Be
Sentenced Today.

Ottawa, Kan, July 2o.-Grover c.
Prickett, arrested for horse stealing.
has pleaded guilty ana will be SEN
fenced to the penitentiary today. He
says he was in debt and stole the. horse
to raise money enough to settle his
bills
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CHILD FALLS 10 DEATH.
Bucket of Boiling Water Brings SOr-
row to Woman.

Saiina. kan, July 29.--The three
year-old daughter of Leslie E. Ellit-
thrope Of Russell died from the effects
of falling into a bucket of boiling
water while playing in the kitchen
where Mrs. Ellitthrope was washing
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Riley County Pioneer Dies

Edgerton is dead at the home of his
son at Canton, Kansas He was IN
old settler in Riley county, coming
here in 1859 and settling first near
Ogden. During the war he returned
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approaching passenger train stated
that Mrs. Malcolm tagged the train a
short distance from the bridge. Citi-
zens of Reece writing to trainmen in
this city say that it was Mr.. Aylor who
saved the train from being wrecked.
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ant mothers which contains much
valuable information, and many sug-
gestions of a helpful nature.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., AtlaRta, Ga.
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{ b o u S a d d S OF
cases. Mother
Friend is sold at
drug S torres
Write for free
book fer expect
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YOUNG
Mothers

No young woman, in the 10Y of
coming motherhood, should neglect
to prepare her system for the phys
ical ordeal she is to undergo. The
health of both she and her coming
child depends largely upon the care
she bestows upon herself during the
waiting months. Mothers Friend
prepares the expectant mothers sys-
TEN for the coming event, and its use
makes her comfortable during all the
term. It works with and for nature,
and by gradually expanding all it's
sues, muscles and tendons, involved.
and keeping the breasts in good con-
dition, brings the woman to the crisis
in splendid physical condition. The
baby too is more apt to be perfect and
strong where the mother has thus
prepared herself for natures supreme
function. No better advice could be
given young expectant mother than
that she use Mothers Friend; it is a
medicine that has proven its value n
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Louis A. North, Illinois Central rail-
road; secretary treasurer, Luther II
Bryan, Duluth & Iron Range railroad.