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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
STRIKES BIG COAL VEIN.
New Find Made in Drilling for OIL
Coal is Feet Thick.

Coffeyville, Kan, July S.-Considcr-
able interest is being aroused over the
reported finding of a large vein of coal
on the Brinkman farm. about two
miles west of Coffeyville. The coal
was found in a dry well drilled in by
the Kansas Natural Gas company.
John Richards, who owns a farm
adjoining the Brinkman place on the
south and whose land is only a few
feet from the well, was in Coffeyville
with a sample of the coal. He had
but small quantity of it, which he
had picked out of the bailings thrown
on the ground by the drillers. There
is no doubt about the find being coal
but the burning qualities are un-
known What little Mr. Richards test
ed burned readily
According to Mr.. Richards. the vein
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
BOY BELONGS TO UNION.
Chris BIockberger, Aged IA, Mines
Coal With Men.

Kansas City. July s.-Chris Block
berger was in the juvenile court
charged with having drunk beer with
boys.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself?''
Judge Porterfield began. "A little boy
like you to be caught drinking"
I'm not a boy: I belong to the
uinon." Chris explained proudly.
1.-The union? What union % Judge
Porterheld asked.
THE coal miners. m a coal miner. "
Sure enough, the 14-year-oId boy al
ready had worked two winters in mines
near Pittsburg, Kan. and as a regular
digger, too. Judge Porterheld sent for
his mother She admitted that she
had sworn to the state employment
agency that her son was over IA that
he might work.
i've five children to support and
believed he would be better off in the
mine than in school," the mother said
Then turning to Chris. the judge
asked:
Don't you want to go to school any
more? p"
you bet" the boy said.
The mother promised to send her
boy to school next winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
Woman Who Waits Six Years
Asks Damages From Man.
Since 1905 She Has Been His
Promised Bride.
HE CALLS MATCH OFF
This Is Only Lately and Miss
Jacobs Wants S., 900.
Proposed to Her, Says Woman,
in 1906.

LeayenWorth, Kan, July S.-After
sacrificing all chances of becoming ac-
quainted with manageable men by
accepting Clarence Paire as her ''ex-
elusive suitor,'' Alice Jacobs AYERS, her
fiance broke their engagement, so she
brought suit in the district court here
for $1,000 damages.
Miss Jacobs petition recounts a
courtship lasting more than six years
followed by disappointment and hui
initiation, according to the plaintiff, to
say nothing of the opportunities she
had neglected. Five thousand dollars.
she thinks, will assuage her three griev-
ances-humiliation, mental anguish and
lost opportunities.
She and Paire became intimately ac-
quainted more than ten years ago and
a few years later, she says, he began
to pay her marked attention. He de-
clared many times in the last three
years, she also says, that he loved her
and desired to make her his wife. She
does not remember the exact time of
these protestations, however.
Because of the defendants many
lovabie qualities and his oft repeated
protestations of love, she became deep
ly in love with said defendant" she
confesses in her petition. When he pro-
posed, August 1, 1905, she continues.
she consented.
March %, 1911, was fixed as the day
for their marriage, Miss Jacobs says.
and she made preparations for the hap
by event, but Paire refused and they
postponed their nuptials until later.
When the time came he declined again,
she says, and declared their engage
ment to be broken.
Miss Jacobs alleges that Paire owns
a lot here and that he has several hun
dred dollars in possession of his father.
Allen Paire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
WHOSE

ed an officer who saw the roomer
lying on the bed and opened the win
dow Realizing that the boarder was
examination, the coroner pronounced
death due to prostration. The man
probably had died the night of July 4.
The body had swollen until the
largest coffin Obtainable had to be used
and the men carrying it downstairs
damned the wall in several places be-
sides having to remove the door to get
the coffin out of the house. Mrs.
Brickhauser complained because Of
this and says she will ask the city 70
pay for the repairs necessary to her
house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Chicago. July SIN retaliation for
q. crusade against crime headed by
Rev. Henry Hepborn and members of
his congregation, thugs attempted TO
burn the church while the congrega-
ton were at services The crusade has
been directed against the hoodlums
and loafers who fnfest the bathing
beaches of the Wilson avenue district
and was started because of attacks
made upon women during the last few
weeks.
But for the quick work of ushers in
the Buena Memorial Presbyterian
church, the building would have been
destroyed and several persons probab-
ly killed in the panic which was bare
ly averted through heroic work by the
pastor.
Suspicious looking men were found
nearby and fled when questioned. An
investigation of the parlor of the
church disclosed the presence of a
large cotton bale soaked with oil
burning fercely. Chairs had been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
Kansas Pair Under Sentence to
Hang for Murder.
Rain, for Which She Pleaded
Long, Has Come.
DROUTH is BROKEN
Now Mrs. Leila Ford Hopes She
May Live.
Charged With Murder of Rich
Arkansas Planter.

DeQueen, Ark, July Sin most
miraculous way, the prayers of Mrs.
Leila Ford who has been sentenced tc
hang for murder have been answered
and the state of Arkansas has had a
heavy rain which will do much to i'm
prove crop conditions.
Mrs. Ford and her husband. John
Ford, are in Jail here, cOnvincted OF
murder and sentenced to hang. They
were found guilty of having killed VIII
Nichols, a rich planter.
Mrs. Ford was induced to pray by a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
GREELEY WILL EXPERIMENT.
Farming Under X. S. A. C. Directions
VIII Be Tried.

Tribune, Kan, July 8.-The county
commissioners of Greeley county have
completed arrangements for an ex-
perimental station near Tribune, to be
run under the direction of the State
Agricultural college at Manhattan
Kansas. Work is to begin at once.
There is no other experimental station
in this part of Kansas and on account
of Greeley county being centrally To-
Gated in western Kansas and on the
eastern border of Colorado, the de-
velopment of such an enterprise is ex-
pected to attract state wide attention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

them and threw it away, the other
one then took the bottle and threw it
at Carl striking him in the face a lit
tie below the eye and to the right of
the nose, crushing the bone and max
ing a very dangerous wound. Carl
was taken to the hospital at Beatrice,
Neb., and is doing as well as can be
expected The wound will heal nicely
but it will no doubt leave a bad scar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
FIRST MRS. SHARP LEAVES.
One of Peters Wives Goes Home
With Son

Will 0OAAe
Pfttsburg, Kan, July S.-Both hap
piness and regret reign in the home
of Peter c. Sharp, who for the past
two months has been living in a little
cottage on the outskirts of the city
with his two wives.
Anna Catherine Sharp, from whom
Sharp was separated forty years by the
Chicago fire, has left Pittsburg with
her son, William, for his home in New
Orleans, after being convinced that the
three could not get along together.
She declared she will never return to
her husband as long as his second
wife, Louise, is living.
With tear on his cheek, Peter this
afternoon babe farewell to the wife
and son, from whom he was separated
forty years ago. Louise was not there
to give Gods speed to her predecessor.
Forty years ago, when Chicago was
swept by fire, Peter Sharp. who was
then engaged in business at Keokuk,
Iowa, was separated from his wife and
son, who were visiting in Chicago ct
the time.
Gives Up Long Search.
His efforts to find his wife and son
continued until nine years ago, when,
after thirty-one years searching, he
came to the conclusion that they were
dead. Soon after giving up his long
search, he was married here for the
second time.
InFee IHOnlnS dSO lAS AAiSl WIG
learned of Sharp's whereabouts,
through the government pension de-
partment, and wrote to him. He inn
mediately answered and invited her 20
come to Pittsburg and make her home
with him and his second wife. She
came.
Then the trouble came. The wemen
began to disagree on various matters.
Each claimed she was the only legal
wife. When Sharp had been a1mosN
driven to desperation in solving the
problem of managing the two, he
heard from the long lost son, who Of
fered to care for his mother, if she
cared to make her home with him.
This was agreed to and he came here
after his mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
BOY HrT WITH BOTTLE
Notorious Toughs Assault Kansan al
Picnic.

Falun, July S.=Carl Carlson, who
was reported to have been seriously
burned in a fire was not the victim OF
such an accident at all. He together
with four other boy companions and
their girl friends were having a little
picnic supper at Blue Springs. Two
notorious characters from Wymore
Neb., were at the grounds and were
drunk and were disturbing their par
ty. Carl took a bottle from one OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
Pillow FOR WINTER WHEAT.
In Greeley County the Drouth Is
Broken.

Tribune, Kan, July S.-Out in
Greeley county, Kansas, on the Colo
rade line, the drouth is broken by a
general rain of a half inch after the
thermometer for three days stood at
105 in the shade. The cattleman,
grower of broom corn, cane, etc, is
once more happy. The sound of the
whistle on the steam engine that pro-
pels the. great steam plows is once
again heard and it is believed there
Will be a bigger acreage of winter
wheat put out this year than ever
before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
MUST KEEP STORES CLOSED.
Merchants Warned That Sunday
Opening VIII Cause Arrest.

Solomon, Kan, July $40 matter
how busy farmers are they must do
their trading on week days. Lately a
number of stores have kept open on
Sunday for their benefit. Complaint
was made to the county attorney and
he warned the merchants that the
repetition of the act would be fol-
lowed by arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
Favors Underground siIo.

Smith Center, Kan, July 8.-Ray
Taylor of this county. is a strong be-
ing feed for stock. and still has
enough in the one he filled last fall to
run his stock till the first of next
month. He says he will dig hole in
the ground ten feet deep. 25 feet long
and 15 feet wide. With the additional
space in his silo above ground he be-
lieves he will have enough feed to
carry him over till grass next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

is variously estimated at from Is to so
feet thick. The bottom of the vein is
1,135 feet, consequently the strike was
made below 1000 feet. Despite the
depth it will be a paying proposition
to sink shafts and mine it. providing
the vein is found to be even Is feet
thick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
DRY WEATHER HURT PHONES.
Ground Wires Need Moisture When
Earth Is Dry.

Salina, Kan. July S.-The rain
which broke a two months drouth
here also helped out telephone line
men. Previous to the rain trouble
men" were overworked by patrons
whose phones refused to work. When
several buckets of water were poured
on the ground where the ground wire
was buried the phones worked as we'll
as ever This is the first time that
weather interfered with telephone
service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
FARMER PAYS WIDOW DAMAGES
Wife of Dead Pop-Pop Rider Gets
$3.50 From Farmer.

Colby, Kan. July S.-A satisfactory
adjustment of the damages arising
from the death of George Higgins,
who was killed when he struck a barb
wire fence while riding a motorcycle
has been made. James Campbell, the
farmer who stretched the wire across
the road paid Mrs. Higgins $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
SEEKS RENT: FINDS DEAD MAN.
Woman Demands Damages Because
Coffin Handles Scratched Walls.

Leavenworth, Kan. July S.-The
room rent which MILFORD J. Ungles, a
veteran 81 years old, owed his land
lady, Mrs. L. Brinckhauser. was due
and she had not seen her roomer since
5 o'clock in the afternoon of July 4,
when ne came downstairs to get
pitcher of water.
She looked through the keyhole and
saw Ungles on the bed. Then she call
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

''She insists that when she marries 1t
will be for love- MY goodness, is she as
old-fashioned as all that?'-Detroit Free
Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
POLICE SEEK TWO MEN.
Girl g Names Man Aged 80 Years as
ASSaiIant.

Smith Center, Kan, July S.-Offi-
GERS here are seeking Frank Dundas
and Andrew Majors, both charged
with statutory crimes. In one case
the girl is g years old and the man
thirty-tWo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

The Serpent-What's Adam SO grouchy
about today? The Ape-Oh. he says that
the arrival of woman means that all his
plans for universal peace have been
knocked in the head for good.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
FEARS ICE FAMINE SOON.
Smith Center Certain Of Raise in Price
in Two Weeks.

Smith Center, Kan, July S.-The
ice supply here will be exhausted bv
July Is. Heretofore ice has been ship
ped in after that date. but on account
of the shortage elsewhere this year it
is feared it may be impossible to get
it. If shipped in ice will sell for 20
cents a hundred, a raise of 90 cents.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
WOULD EMULATE THE EMU.

"We must wage this battle until we get our oppressor, man, reduced to the happy condition of the emu family" said the suffragette orator to her women auditors.
 "When the lady emu decides that it is time to raise a family she sounds a call like blowing into the bunghole of barrel Mir. Emu comes and scrapes a hole in the ground and by and by there are a dozen eggs there The male sits on those eggs, matches 'em out after eight weeks and then takes care of the youngsters until the next hatch ing season, when they go to the mother. Now that is equal labor and equal responsibility and it is what we women are entitled to-
 "Good Good !" shouted the auditors.-New York Sun.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
DEATH DREAM REALIZED.

A remarkable dream of death wW
 mentioned the other day at South ward, England, inquest on an infant named George Mccarthy. q had so vivid dream that my daughters child was dead" said Mrs. Hendry, the grandmother of the infant, ''that went early in the morning to her house. 1 found her in bed, and asked her what was wrong with the child. She replied, He is all right. What did you think was the matter with him?' l told her of my dream, and asked her to look at the baby. She looked, and the child was dead. !"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
ASBESTOS.

The total production of asbestos in the United States for 1910 was the greatest yet recorded, 6,693 tons. This was an increase of 20 per cent. in quantity over the production of 1909. The United States has long held first place as a manufacturer of asbestos goods, but the raw material for that purpose was freely drawn from Canada, at present the chief source of the worlds supply. Georgia and Vermont are our chief asbestos producers, the former of amphibole and the latter of chrysolite varieties, the latter being reported by manu- lecturers to compare favorably with that from Canada. The production in Wyoming and Idaho has advanced but in those states the industry Is still in the development stage and has not become permanently estab- lished.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
ALL THIS FROM ARGENTINA.

Argentina is the greatest ex- porter of corn in the world; she sends abroad more chilled and frozen meat than any other country Only Russia excels her in wheat exports, and only Australia contributes more wool to international trade. The sto- " of her occupations is told in the fact that nearly $500, 0,00o,000 of working capital is represented in the pastoral and agricultural pur- suits and in the allied industries, while less than $100,000,000 Is in- volved in manufactures, and this in- cludes electric light and power plants used in the larger cities.-Century Magazine.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
|coup OF GREAT COLLECTOR
Low Charles Wertheimer Bought Fur nlshed House In Order to Get
 Priceless Chinese Vase.

The late Charles Wertheimer when sked on one occasion what he con- Iidered to be his astutest business koup, thought for a while and then kold how once when he was walking Through a Brighton square he espied through an open window what he knew to be priceless Chinese vase. He went to the nearest postoffice, ex- bmined local directory and found : he name of the resident. Then he Jailed and asked for the gentleman ! md was shown into the study under he name of "IIamilton." He briefly nplained that he was looking for a modest house in Brighton and had aken fancy to this one. Would he gentleman entertain an offer for he place as 1t stood flock, stock nd barrel?' The owner, a little
 onplused, hesitated. If your of FrB reasonable, interrupted Ham
 tOn,' q will give you an extra housand" "Call tomorrow at 10:30 hen," replied the owner. "Hamil- pn" did and found him prepared to pcept fl8,000 for the twenty-two
 ears' unexpired term and the con- Pnts of the residence.
 Although this was well over mar
 et vulue, "Hamilton" at once closed,
 dding the extra thousand, according
 promise. As, however, he after
 ard sold the vase for e35, ,000, his pup was unmistakable.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
MANY USES FOR ASBESTOS
Theater Curtains, Pipe Coverings, Wire Insulation and Other Things
 Made of the Mineral.

Asbestos plays a more important part in the national life than is gen. erally credited to it. The well-made asbestos theater curtain assures the safety of the audience from stage fires. In the home the asbestos cov- ering of the furnace and heating pipes, or of the gas logs in the open fireplace, makes for economy and comfort. Wherever steam is used as a motive power in factories, on trains or on ships, it is asbestos packing that holds the steam to it's work; on the other hand, if electric ity is employed, the wires are prob ably insulated by asbestos tape and the adjacent parts are made of asbes- tos "lumber." Asbestos shingles and sheathing make houses cooler in summer and warmer in winter and reduce the fire risk. From the ice house, where asbestos protects the brine pipes from the heated air, to the foundry, where it shields the workman from molten metal, in the workshop, the home or the place of amusement, asbestos contributes ma terially to human welfare.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
SIR WALTER AT ABBOTSFORD
This Is the Centenary of Scott's En- try Into Possession of That
 Famous Estate.

This is a notable year in the his- tory of Abbotsford, for it is the cen- tenary of Sir Walter Scott's entry into possession of the lands ever aft erward closely associated with his name. On May 12, 1911, he wrote to his publisher, James Ballantyre, that he had resolved to purchase a piece of ground sufficient for cot tage and few fields" That first purchase, which cost G4,000 was a wretched farm by the riverside, the house, says Lockhart, "small and poor, with a common kailyard on one flank and a staring barn on the oth- CT, while in front appeared a filthy pond covered with ducks and duck weed, from which the whole tene- ment had derived the unharmonious designation of Clarty Hole"
 Scott spent f50,000 in extending and beautifying the estate, and in Abbotsford, amid the music so de- licious to his ear, "the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles" he breathed his last on the sunny after noon of September 21, 1832.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
|OOD ONE ON BERNARD SHAW
|lnclnnatl Librarian Said They Had "All the Works of the Great BuHoon."

Bernard Shaw's new biography biography written by an American fls piece of work that will win DIS brilliant playwright the respect E deserves"
 The speaker, a Cincinnati poet, piled.
 MT. Bernard Shaw is we'll P0Tn. he said, but not we'll re- PVc.ed- His profound and serious
 ma Is resarled-dear knows why fas as the mind of a triacr.
 For example, I desired the other to read np a little natural his [h and l visited a Cincinnati li- [aly to consult the one pre-eminent fiural history authority. Have you,' said, the works of E great Buiton?' , es' SIT, said the clerk, we have 'ae great buiToon's works, sir
 Ala :, .e laid before me Shaw's |''S' Pleasant and Unpleasant ]"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
NOTICE

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 aTes Mss News is frequently urged to roast this, Ine S .SO tbe other thing by it's readers. For |hat athanet ",,u of such it has concluded to open e ee%er's Column. II something goes wrong lend in your roast together, with your name. e us ue hnt will be held as a guarantee Of good t;th The News will when 1t feels so disposed aitinise tn ublic evils on it's own motion.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
WHAT MOORE DID.

Frank Moore is a young farmer of Garland county, little more than q mere boy yet. A few years ago he saw some fine pure bred hogs at the State Fair. He was then in his teens. He bought a couple of pigs. Today he has one of the finest herus n the state. He took first premium over everything at the Tri-State fair in Memphis last year, and has maas big money from sales. Go thou and do likewise
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
A DiscoVE RY.

"I have discovered a way of mak- ing our predictions less misleading 7 said weather bureau employe.
 "A new system of calculation ? asked the other.
 "No. Instead of using the word probably Tn our announcements, Vt will use the word possibly
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
-AitlNG.

\ 01iiy had just finished scratch E Esu.,, sum m the surface of the new |s ['"alk wax when his father arrived on
 a0, .nat ., :, Is this l see in the ce- |~rbo,a demanded an the irate parent. |rs aa' ause' iather," replied the youth,
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
A SAFE SURM SEE.

"I'see where a rich man has mar ried soubrette who reflected spot light into his eyes with mirror while she was singing song."
 What conclusions do you draw from that"
 "She evidently dazzIed him."
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
FOOLISH QUESTION.

"How did you get the bruised face? P
 1t was caused by the hatrach last night"
 Accidentally"
 "No; 1 think it attacked me pur- posely."
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
DISAPPOINTED.

Lvpoonsalssscent-oh, po1 s I'm quite bet Ill;no l;aa'0r-Quite betterl After my
 |N $ over " four miles to see you I
The Prescott daily news., 1911-08-03
Ina Prescott Daily News
 sgsLfSEED Sy ,..e News Printing Go.

,4ara9 as ss,)llcLass mlli matter ',nn,ber D 4th, 1905, at the postoffice NO'n nnoscott Ark, under the act of [ougress, March B. 1873.