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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
Robbers Blow Open Safe in State
Bank at LinwOod.
Take 81, 900 Silver, $500 Cur
rency and Leave $3.50 Gold.
FIRE ON. SECTION MAN.
Make No e forts to Try to Cover
Up Noise of Work.
Three Men Escape in Buggy At
ter Wrecking Building.

Lawrence, KAN. Feb. 6.-The State
bank of Linwood, a small town IA miles
east of Lawrence, was blown open by
bank robbers at 3 o'clock this morning
and robbed of s., 900 in silver, and $500
in currency, $3.50 in gold was left be-
hind. evidently unEoticed. Owing to
the fact that the robbery took place
when it was yet dark. the facts are
hard to obtain as the town was thrown
into the widest excitement by the re-
port of the explosion which shook the
houses in the vicinity.
The robbers broke into the Union
Pacific tool house first and then OBJ
tanned the tools with which they broke
open the bank, battering down the front
door. They did not try to cover up
the noise of their work and a man
named Peterson. section hand on the
Union Pacific, went to investigate but
was fired upon. In the darkness he es-
capped the bullets of the robbers. Tie
shooting further aroused the town but
the robbers were not molested.
Willis K. Folks. of Lawrence. who
owns the bank was called over the tel
ephone while the robbing was going on
but he told the citizens not to risk
their lives. The safe was blown with
nitroglycerine and the interior of the
office is wreck. In the darkness the
robbers disappeared, going west in a
buggy. Two men patrolled the front
of the bank while one did the robbing,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
A GREAT WHITE WAY.

The Commercial club, through a large
and active committee of prominent
business men, is working for a great
white way" for Kansas avenue and is
urging the passage of a bill by the
legislature which will enable the COM
missioners of first-class cities to in
stall white way at the expense of
the abutting property owners upon pc
tition of not less than one-half Of the
resident property owners of the block
which it is desired to light.
When the property owners make the
installation, and the commissioners see
fit to grant the petition, then the city
is to maintain the lights provided for
by a levy which is not to exceed one
third of one MILL
The leading business men of the city
seem to be practically unanimous for
such a measure. The committee sets
forth that it is an advertising PROPOSE
ton of the city at large and that it
believes that unless a great white
way be secured with distribution OF
the expense as stated it cannot be Sc
cured at all.
If a levy of one-third of one mill be
made it is said that at least twenty
five blocks in the business center could
be brilliantly lighted and that the ad-
ditional tax would amount to but
twenty-five cents to the man whose
taxes are SIS. The tax would raise
about $12,OO0.Oo.
Another bill favored by the city
commissioners provided that one-half
of the maintenance be paid by the city
at large and the other half by the
abutting property owners
other progressive cities are taking
advanced steps along this line and
other towns of far less Importance
than Topeka are lighting their busi-
ness streets in this manner and at
tracing most favorable attention to
visitors, as well as stimulating the
prosperity and pride of the city itself.
There is probably no one thing that
Topeka could do to create a more
favorable impression than through
this great white way and the only
Lpractical way to construct it and main
tain it seems to be the way pointed
out as above
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TO EXEMPT MORTGAGES.

There is a measure before the legis-
lature providing that mortgages on
real estate be exempt from taxation
and that a registration fee be substi-
tuted therefor.
This bill in the senate is known as
No. 1856.
The proposed registration fee is
so cents on each 500, covering a
mortgage running five years.
If the measure becomes a law mort
cages which now pay the regular
taxation of about one and one-haIf
per cent would escape this taxation
and in its stead pay a fee which would
amount to only about one-tenth
of one per cent.
The theory of this proposed law is
that a great many mortgages which
should pay taxes escape taxation
and that it is better to get one-tenth
of one per cent on everything
than fail to get one and one-half per
cent on a large amount, particularly as
probably four-fifths of the money
loaned in Kansas comes from outside
the state and is subject to taxation in
the states where the loaner resides.
This bill seems to have the strong
support of wealthy Kansans who loan
their own money. 1t has the opposition
of those who are loaning Kansas money
advanced by outside interests.
A bill of this nature was vetoed by
Governor Stubbs two years ago. 1t is
said that other western states which
have tried such law abandoned it in
haste on account of the injury it pro-
duced.
1t is claimed by those who are bring
ing in the necessary outside capital to
Kansas that such a proposed law would
drive out this capital. which is so nee
essary to the development and busi-
ness of the state, and permit the loan
ers of local money to lend it at higher
rates of interest.
1t is set forth that vicious pro-
vision in the bill is that which would
void the security, and to a great ex-
tent destroy the negotiability of mort
cages and the market for mortgages
in the event that an additional regis
tration fee provided for should be
overlooked or not paid by the holder
of the mortgage at the end of five
years; further, that it puts a premium
on foreclosures and would bring in
evitable litigation; that it would de-
stroy to a great extent the business
and usefulness of the loan and trust
companies of Kansas.
1t is set forth that the tax COM
mission and the Kansas legislatures
have given this subject a great deal OF
thought and attention for many years
and that the existing tax law is the
result of many years of careful work
and is about as nearly good practica
working tax law as is likely to be Sc
cured; that business has adjusted itseli
to the present law and the change
would cause a disturbance.
This in brief is the argument against
| the proposed measure
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of the sun is twenty-eight times as
powerful as in the force at the earth S
surface; and that the object which
weighs PIT pounds elsewhere would
weigh 5000 pounds there. For seven
years this country has lain smothering
under a burden like that, the incubus
representing, in the person of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, the difference between
PIT pounds and 6,000.' Thanks be. we
got rid of this disastrous burden day
before yesterday, at last! Forever !?
Probably not. Probably only for a
brief breathing spell, wherein, under
Mr.. Taft, we may hope to get back
some of our health-four years. We
may expect to have Mr.. Roosevelt sit
ting on us again with his twenty-eight
times the weight of any other presi-
Dental burden that a hostile provi-
dence would impose upon us for our
sins.
"Our people have adored this snowy
charlatan as perhaps no imposter of
his breed has been adored since the
golden calf; so it is to be expected that
the nation will want him back again
after he is done hunting other wild
animals heroically in Africa, with the
safeguards and advertising equipment
of a park of artillery and a brass
hand >"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
COST FRISCO 500, 900.
winning Worlds Fair From New Or
leans Was Expensive.

New York, Feb. 6.-The story of how
California's committee of lobbyists
ron over the house of representatives
to San F'rancisco's side in the dispute
over the location of the 1915 worlds
fair was told by NJ. H. De Young, pro-
prietor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
in an address to the California society
here last night.
1.-The fight to get the exposition has
cost the San Francisco committee $780,
OOO," said the speaker, but not cent
was spent wrongfully. The efforts Of
the committee in the last stages of the
fight were directed mainly against the
New Orleans delegation, toward get
ting the constituents of congressman
all over the country to urge their rep
resentatives by telegraph to vote for
San Francisco. An avalanche of tele-
grams, about 10000 in number was re-
ceived by President Taft last Nor
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
AS MARK TWAIN SAW HIM
The Humorist's Estimate of Roosevelt
Among His Papers.

New York, Feb. 6.-An interesting
and comparatively recent document in
which Theodore Roosevelt is charac-
terized as a sshowy charlatan and inn
poster has been found among the
books that were owned and the manu-
scripts that were written by Samuel
L. Clemens MARX Twain), collected
here for disposal at auction at an early
date. The manuscript is one de-
scribed as IAN article on the Inaugural
ton of President Taft and the deliver
ance of the country from Mr.. Roose-
velt,' dated March s, 1909. A portion
of IT follows:
Astronomers assure us that the at
traction of gravitation on the surface
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approached final completion. Today's
informal anticipation Of the real cere-
mony at the church was largely for
the purpose Of teaching the two young
Beresford lads, Marcus and Graham,
sons of Lord Decies's brother, to man
age the BRIDES five and a half yard
long train, weighted with embroidery
of silver.
All of today there was a hustle of
preparation at the home Of George
Gould at Fifth avenue. where the fam
lily of the bride, Miss Vivian Gould,
were supervising the finishing touches
of the wedding arrangements. Elabo-
rate decorations were being put in
place at the Gould residence and at the
church the altar was being banked
with palms and ferns and the columns
entwined with hanging vines and
srnilax. The general color scheme OF
the decorations, both at church and
home, is white and green, the flowers
forming the main features of the en-
bellishment to be lilies and mar
| queries.
There will be no display Of wedding
! gifts at the reception in the Gould bail
room which is to follow the ceremony,
| it was learned today. Many costly
gifts from friends of Lord Decies, the
| groom, were not forwarded across the
Atlantic, it being decided to have these
gifts await the bridal couple In Lon
don.
| Her wedding Gifts.
| Mr.. Gould has given his daughter a
superb corouet of diamonds tipped with
nine pear shaped diamonds and also a
necklace of diamonds to which is at
tached a corsage ornament of the same
gems.
Among Mrs. Gould's gifts are a fine
gold chain set with diamonds, to which
are attached as pendants beautiful
pink pear-shaped pearl and two mar
| uuise-cut diamonds; q sautoir of pearls
and two rings. one set with rubies and
diamonds and the other with a large
pearl surrounded with smaller ones.
| From Miss Helen Gould to her niece
came a dog collar of matched pearls
set with diamond bars.
Her brothers, Kingdom, Jay and
George Gould, gave her a bracelet set
with solitaire diamonds. and her
grandmother, Mrs. Charles G. King
don, sent her brooch of diamonds.
Mr.. and Mrs Anthony j. Drexel, Jr.,
her brother-in-law and sister, sent a
gold vanity case with. a diamond mon
ogram. and there was a similar one
from DIR. and Mrs William B. Ander-
son.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay's gift was a
watch of blue enamel set with dia-
monds and pendant to a chain of
I pearls.
Mrs. Russell Sage sent a flexible
placque of pearls and diamonds, and
fConfint1ed on Page Efghk1
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CoIwelI Is Obnoxious.

Washington, Feb. 6.-Upon the
statements of Senators Bourne and
Chamberlain that Elmer B. Colwell,
who was appointed during the recess
of congress to be United States mar
shall for Oregon, was personally OBJ
noxious to them the senate committee
on judiciary today rejected the NOM
ination. Colwell is now serving as
marshal. He belongs to the anti
Bourne faction of the Republican par
ty in Oregon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06
GEN. FUNSTON SAILS.
Goes to Take Command of the Army
in the Philippines.

San Francisco, Feb. 6.-With about
1900 officers and men-tl1e largest
number of troops leaving this port in
several years-the transport Sheridan
sailed today for Manila
The military force includes ten
troops of the Seventh cavalry, under
command of Col. George K. Hunter,
sent from Fort Riley, Kansas, to re-
lieve the Thirteenth reginl ent. ordered
home from the islands, two companies
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of coast artillery and a large number
of officers and casuals returning to the
Philippines. The ranking officers on
board are Gen. Frederick Funston,
who goes to take command of the de-
partment of Luzon, and Col. John A
Lundeen, who is to command the new
coast artillery post at Corregidor.
The Sheridan carries more than
1000 tons of commissary stocks and
other freight
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40 Choice at AIbany.

Albany, Feb. 6.-Seventeenth ballot
for United States senator resulted as
follows: Sheehan, 66; Shepard, D;
Herman, 8; Glynn, 8; Littleton, g.;
O'Brien, 2; Porker, 1: Taylor, 1; Sui
zer, 1. Republican-Depew, SO. Total
vote. 153. Necessary for choice. IS.
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Decorations Are Put in Place
for Gould Wedding.
Rehearsal Of Ceremony at the
Home Of the B.ide.
MANY COSTLY GIFTS.
Diamonds Showered Upon Her
by Relatives and Friends.
Others Will Await Couples Ar.
rival in London.

New York, Feb. 6.-with the re-
hearsal today of the Gould-Decies we'd
ding preparations for this social event
of the first magnitude to take place Ia
St. Bartholomew's church tomorrow
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warmer Temperature Tonicht.

No rain or snow is expected and the
forecast is for generally fair weather
tonight and Tuesday The tempera-
ture viii be warmer tonight
Hourly temperatures:
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Weather Indicatinns

Chicago, Feb. 6-Forecast for Kan
sas: Generally fair tonight and Tues
day Warmer tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06

OF the SS9 bills introduced in tho
house up to Saturday noon, IT'S have
died and AZ been passed. There are 1S
on special orders and 1s9 on general
orders. Only six are on third reading.
This means that over half of these
tee and some action taken. The com
mittees will have some 500 bills vet to
consider. The house is in fair shane
at this time of the session.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1911-09-05
Krotkie Notatki MiejSkie.

IS letnia Elsie Hoeener, 1910
Wrightwood ave-, smiertelnie sic po-
parzyla wrzaca woda poparzen
tych umarla.
- "a pobicie zony $25 kary zapia-
Gil Norman McRae, 1885 Larrabee ul.
- Ia sprzedawanie piwa chiopcu
IA letniemu Antonio Bonfito zosta
skazany ma $40 kary.
g Ietni James Quinlan chciaf
wskoczyc ma tramwaj wpadi pod ko-
Ia. Zgina} ma mieiscu.
oknem wypadF 27 Ietni Frank
Radona, 1412 Elston ave. | umar}
ran odniesionych.
- Do Chicago przyjechaFa iona ge-
nerala Filipa Sheridana, bohatera VOL
uy domowej.
- Pies niebezpiecznle poszarpai IA
letniego Wma Griffina.
- C. c. MaImquist chciai sic ga
zem zaczadzic, ale mu sic ME udafo.
- Pod koiami tramwaju zgInat
wczoraj W Austin, IA letni Aleksan-
der Davidson.
Z powodu zawodu w miosci ~.
Gle odebrala sobie Sara Barnon.
- Cd wszelkiej odpowedziaInoscl
uwolniono motorowego A. Hartmann,
k.trego tramwaj zabii Z letnia r.
Friedman ma Milwaukee ave.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1911-09-05

doniesiono = Niemcy orzekly, ze
ME beda ,,wojowac o kupe pia-
sku".
= Prasa ogiasza peine niepoko-
ju artykuly powodu trwajq-
cych wciqz jeSzcze rozruchow
drozyznianych w poludniowej
Francyi, oraz Szpiegostwa ME
mieckiego ma granicy niemie-
ckiej; utrzymuja nawet, re to "a
pieniadze niemieckie dzieja sic o.
we awantury drozyzniane ma ze-
wnatrz. Obawy tie podeJrzenla
sd nieuzaSadnione, ale SWoJQ dro-
ga rozruchy trwaja W Dunkirku,
St. Quaintin i dziesiatkach in
nych miaSt, gdzie tlumy rozbija-
ia i rabuja skiady spozywcze.
Rad wszedzie tam wysial woJ-
sko; we wielu miejscach przy szlo
do krwawych stare! Polecono
wiadzom prowincyonalnym thu
mic rozruchy agitacye rewolu-
cy1na, ktora przy owych bur
dach drozyznianych rowniez roz-
bujala. w Paryzu stale obradu-
je komisya rzadowa mad sposoba-
mi zaradzenia drozyznie. Akcya
rzadowa wplynela znacznie ma u
spokojenie ludnoSci.
- Okret wojenny .Brennus
kolidowal w porcie tulonskim z
okretem ,,Magali" i ciezko zostai
uszkodzony, ale ludzi Mkt ME
zginal. Wielu pasazerow okretu
,,Magali" wskoczylo do wody W
panice po kolizyi, ale ich zdoiano
uratowac
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1911-09-05

Cholera, szerzy sic tn W zastra-
szajacy sposob; W ciagu ostat-
nich Sch dni znarlo ma MIA $50
os0b: takze " miastacll proWln-
cyonalnych europej. azyatyckie]
Turcyi zaraza liczne pochlania
ofiary. s-. '.
Gandawa, Belgia., ) wrzesnia.
w podmiejskiej miejscowosci
Kerelecke stwierdzono 2 wypad-
XII cholery; w}adze- poczyniEy sto-
sowne zarzadzenia.
.. Z Persyi. a
Teheran, ) wrzesnia. = Po-
dobno Gala polnocna polac kralu
lest luz w reku ex-Szacha, 'Moha-
meta Alego, dazacego ma tron
droga rewolucyi., .-. ..- O..
. Z Rosyi. :.
Petersburg, 5 wrzesnia. - w
kaplicy wielkiego carskiego paia-
Gu odbyi sic Stub W. ksiecia ana
Konstantynowicza. 'ksiezniczka
Helena, corka krola Piotra serb
skiego. Ojciec Heleny i brat, ma
stepca tronu serbski bawia Z o.
kazyi tel W Petersburgu. T..
Gubernator Finlandyi,
Sehin, zabronii odbywac zgroma-
dzenia protestujace przeciwko
odiaczeniu cd Finlandyi ma rzecz
Rosyi pewnego okregu pofudnlo-
wego, O czem w zeszlym tygo-
dniu doniesiono, CO wzbudzlio
wielkie oburzenie Finow. L O.
kazyi tel we Wyborgu przyszlo
do stare policyi demonstru)a-
Gym tIumem wiele osob raniono.
- Donosza z Nerczynska, ma
Syberyi, re W wiezieniu polltycz-
mem w Zartatni pewien czlowiek
zabit naczelnika wiezienia, znane-
go z przeSladowania wiezniow;
nazwisk telegramy ME podala;
aresztowano.
z Chin. :.
Hankau, 5 wrzeSnia. Donosza
z porzecza rzeki ang-Tse-Kiang,
ze straszliwe powodzie spowodo-
valy tam zgon 10Otysiecy ludzi
Solosalne straty finansowe W
zasiewach, pobu-
-zonych domach itp.
z Mexyku.
Mexyk, miasto, 5 wrzesnia. =
<iedy gen. Reyes, ubiegajacy sic
, prezydenture obok Madery,
vyglaszal onegdaj ma ulicy mo-
We polityczna, Maderystow gro
jDokofczenie ma str. 5ej.)
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TeIegramy zagraniGzne.
Zatarg Marokkanski.

Berlin. = wrZeSn1a. = Me be-
die wojny o Marokko! Ambasa-
dor francuski, Cambon, przedio-
zyi juz rzadowi niemieckiemu o.
Statnie warunki Francyi co do
wyrownania wzajemnych preten-
Syi. a niemiecki Rad zbadawszy
je W ciagu ostatnich trzech dni,
dale obecnie do poznania, ze je
Przyjmie, DO ,,niebyloby sensu
wszczynac wojne o taxa kupe
piasku, jak jest Marokko"- tax
wiaSciwie wyrazil SIG minister
spraw zagranicznych kiderlen-
WaeChter w rozmowie Amery-
kanami. Wolframem i Barthold
tenn, Kt6rzy byTi oficyalnymi po-
siami prczydenta Tafta przy oka-
wi wreczenia Nicmcom pomnika
Steubena, co miaio miejsce w
Sobotc. 2go bm. - Minister mo-
viii. ze W ciagu dalSzych ukta-
dow liczne jeszcze pewne wylo-
mia sic trudnoSci, ale do wojny
mic przyjdzie!. =. o ,,kupe pia-
sku" - kwaSne winogrona.
- Jak wyzej wspomniano, W
niniona sobote odbylo sic Off
cvalne wreczenie W Berlinie POM
nika gen. Steubena, amerykan-
skiego bohatera czasow wolny
O wolnosc. zbudowanego Mem
com przez kongres Stanow Zjed-
noczonvch, w odwdziece "a
przyslany do WaszyngtOnu pred
kilku laty pomnik krola pruskie-
go Fryderyka. Pomnik Steubena
ustawiono w parku komendan-
tury, naprzeciw paiacu cesarskie-
90 w Poczdamie. w uroczystoScl
wziai udzial ceSarz Z rodzina
dworem caly szereg dygnitarzy
wszelkiegO rodzaju stoPnia.
Przvbyla tez Gala berlinska ko-
lonia amerykanska i urzednicy
ambasady Stan. Zjedn. POmnik
wreczH dotychczasowy ambasa-
dor amerykanski w Berlinie, O.
becnie ustepujacy, DR.. Hill, kto-
~ przy TEN stosowna wygiosit
przemowe. Odpowiedziai ma MA
cesarz. ktory diugo i szeroko mo-
will o niemiecko-amerykanskleJ
przyjazni, a po urOczystosci prze-
slal depesze do prezydenta TAT
ia podziekowaniem wiasnem !
narodu niemieckiego = kongre-
sowi i ludowi amerykanskiemu
Pomnik wreczyli specyalni po-
slowie prezydenta Tafta, pp
Wolfram Bartholdt. Zaraz pc
odslonieciu pomnika DR.. Hill Po-
zegnai sic z cesarzem wreczyi
mu swe papiery urzedowe. Ce-
sarz ofiarowai Hillowi wspaniaiq
waze porcelanowa, chciat
mn dac order, ale go Hill, opie-
raiac sic ma konstytucyi amery-
kahskiej - ME Przyjal. Podobno
ustapieuie Hilla jest w zwiqzku
niedawnym zatargiem niemie-
cko-amerykanskim o dowoz po-
tazu amerykahskiego do Me
mice. - Wczoraj minister spraw
zagranicznych, Kiderlen-Waech-
ter wydal siebie obiad ma Geese
Ora Hilla, a potem odjezdzajace-
90 odprowadzil ma dworzec ko-
lei.
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Z Awiatyki.

Parame, Francya, ) wrzeSnia.
Aviator francuski Garros, zdobyi
nowy Swiatowy rekord wysoko-
sci, wzbiwszy sic ma 13,943 stop
W gore.
Huelva, Hiszpania, 5 wrzeSnia.
= Francuski lotnik Loferrertier
spadi tn podczas wzlotu wyso-
kosci $50 stop zginaf ma miejscu.
Troyes, Francya, wrzesnia
= Porucznik de Orally, lotnik
wojskowy zginal tn, spaliwszy sic
W czasie lotu wraz ze swym ae-
roplanem. Eksplozya kotla gazo-
linowego spowodowala katastro-
fe.
Naugis, Francya, . wrzeSnia.--
Kapitan de Canine, aviator woj-
skowy zabii sic tn spadlszy W
czasie lotu re znacznej wysoko-
sci.
Chartres, Francya, 5 wrzeSnia.
Aviator franouski Maron spadl Z
wysokoSci 600 stop i zabil sic ma
miejscu.
z Wfoch.
Rzym, 5 wrzeSnia. = Onegdaj-
sze telegramy donosza, re stan
zdrowia OLGA sw. pogorszy} sic
znowu; w kazdym razie Papiez
odprawia co dnia Msze Sw. i
przyjmuje ma audyencyach swych
goSci interesantow,
z Portugalii.
Lizbona, 5 wrzesnia. = Pre-.
mierem nowego rzadu jest Izak
Chacas, ktory zaja} sic formacya
gabinetu. w kraju panuje
wzgledny spokoj.
Cholera. :.
Konstantynopol, 5 wrzesnia. -