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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-08
Pigeon CaugIt Ear at Sea.

Pigeon Caught Far at Sea.
wireless message received here
from the outward bound liner Ryn-
dam stated that while the ship was in
latitude 1920, longitude 71:50, on the
evening of March 81. one of the crew
caught a carrier pigeon, which alight-
ed on deck. The bird had an alumni
UNI ring on its right leg which bore
the inscription. .Heist s. NJ. 1,O61."-
New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-08
Season Pass Free

Lincoln opens the Western League season in
Topeka on Monday, April Oath.
To the person who guesses the nearest to the paid
attendance that day the State Journal will give
a season pass. If anything prevents the opening
taking place on Monday, the guesses will apply on
whatever day is the opening. No guesses received
after April Goth will be considered so get in your
guess right away. In case of tie, the first re-
ceved gets the ticket The closing of guesses is set
for April Goth, so that nobody will have advan-
tage account of weather conditions. Be your own
prophet and guess the weather. too, for the kind
of day has lots to do with attendance. Everybody
has the chance get in your guess. Last year
the opening day cold and windy and the paid at
tendance was 2,812. Two years ago the weather
was fine and the paid attendance was about 1000
The 1910 pass won by lady, who guessed 2,819
Seal and leave your guess at this office, or mail it
No matter where you live, Topeka or elsewhere, YOU
eligible.
The of the person winning the pass will be
announced at the ball park the day following the
opening.
Fill in the blank below, or one of your own This
form is printed only for your convenience. b1iA oct
your guess in some time between now and April 90
Baseball Editor State Journal-
guess the paid attendance at the opening game
VIII De--.,...
Name .................. .................
Address .................
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-08
A Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank our many friends
for their kindness and sympathy dur
ing the illness and death of our baby
MR.. AND MRS. e. f. KITCHEN.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

familiar with the judicial routine
when he and Senator David C. Brod,
erick, entertaining conflicting opin'
ions, adopted the hair-trigger method
of settlement at the prescribed fifteen
PAGES. Broderick waited for the sec.
ond Terry split it and fired. Brod-
erick fell dead
Terry pleaded the cause of his ro-
bust client before Justice Stephen ].
Field. Sharon died, but Sarah Althea
HIS suit lived on. Terry one day
surprised his friends by marrying his
client.
Justice Field ordered the cancella.
ton of the marriage contract on the
ground of forgery. Justice Field
stepped off a train. Terry and his
wife coincidently stepped from train
at the same time. Terry stepped be.
hind Field and slapped his face with
the back of the hand. A marshal shot
Terry dead.
Charles Livingston, who was a pro-
tege OF Sharon's, became manager of
the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Livingston had boarded at one time
with a certain Sarah Mitchell, when
the fight to get at the Sharon millions
was at its height. Miss Mitchell came
to the front with package of mys-
FERROUS letters. She demanded $50,0
for them. but she didn't get it. There
was talk of conspiracy Living
ston's name was mentioned unpleas-
antly in that connection. One morn
ing he was found dead in his room in
the Palace hotel with a pistol shot In
his heart
Sharon's two daughters grew to
womanhood surrounded by luxury.
One daughter fell In love with SEN
ator Newlands of Nevada and became
his wife The other, Florence Mily
Sharon. was married to Sir Thomas
George Fermor-Hesketh. Lady Hes.
keith had two sons. both soldiers. The
lieutenant of Lanciers who disap-
peared was the younger.
The Palace hotel and hundreds of
other pieces Of Sharon property were
burned in the fire which followed the
earthquake on the Pacific coast
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
IN TRAGEDY OF GOLD
Death and Mystery Watch Over
the Sharon Millions.
so Far There Have Been Four Muir
ders, Three Suicides and Two
DIssppearances In the CAL
ifornia Case.

San Francisco.-Frederick Fermor-
Hesketh, lieutenant Ninth Lancers,
British army, on seven days leave.
stood on the pier at Queenstown, Ire
land. The next day he was lost to
the world. Thus another tragedy is
linked with the name of Sharon, or.
as they phrase 1t on the Pacific coast,
with the long-dead argonaut's money
bags. Stretching wide the list there
are disclosed four murders, three sui
cides and two disappearance. Lieu
tenant Hesketh, in the latter classif-
cation, was Sharon's grandson.
William Sharon was one of the Gold
Hills pioneers. He stepped out OF
cowhide boots into patent feathers;
from a mountain shack to a city man
sion, from the Crown Point and Belch-
er mines In Nevada. He became a
senator from that state. The wealth
be left behind made pyramid OF
millions, and likewise a pyramid OF
trouble.
William c. Ralston, who orten had
shared the output of his battered cof-
fee pot with Sharon In his roIghshod
days, started the list When the finan-
cial pinch caught Sharon's bank and
frightened San Francisco didn't know
whether its money was good, bad or
Indifferent, Ralston accused Sharon,
and then took his own life.
Ralstons son, Samuel, went to ST.
IBERIA. where he believed there was
another Ell Dorado. He failed to find
1t, returned and killed himself. Two
Of his friends were murdered, another
died In duel.
Getting back to Sharon, the Forty
miner Some time after the death of
Mrs. Sharon Senator Sharon was sued
by woman known as Sarah Althea
Hill. She entered into the contest for
Sharon's money with emery and zeal
Her counsel was David s. Terry.
Terry was elected chief justice OF
the California supreme court. and had
served just long enough to become
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
gssFEEaET,

until il hung across the track. 1t
caught me in the throat and j was
thrown from the seat of my machine.
while trying for the Vanderbilt
cup race the same year, and riding
around the course with Walter Chris
tie In the Christie car, something hap
pened to the steering gear The car
swerved In a straight stretch while go
ing about eighty-five miles an hour
ran full tilt into telegraph pole,
breaking the pole and splintering the
machine. but | was only cut in the
calf of the leg and my front teeth dam
aged.
In aeroplanes ! have had planes
turn over with me twice. Once at a
height Of about $50 feet had plane
turn over and fall. Outside of couple
of cuts from splintered spars, | escap-
ed injury. The other plane that turn
ed over hit pole in the ground while
running on the ground just prepare
tory to ascending, while going about
fifty miles an hour. The engine came
down on my back and l was badly
burned with hot water.
while testing a racing hydroplane
with John Tyson, the owner of the
craft, we capsized in the middle of
Long Island sound. but this plane was
so fast that we had expected an acct
dent and had on heavy oilskins and
cork jackets, so we just climbed on
the hull and sat there until yacht,
which had been following us a couple
of miles behind, picked us up.
zones feeling the second after an
accident is indescribable. He almost
says, Well, you didn't get me that
time with an inward chuckle or laugh.
You often hear the remark made that
Nothing is sport unless you take a
chance That shows the way the
sports of the world are measured;
hence the greatest sport must be that
which you play for the greatest stake.
life"
Strang, who is shown in the illus
tration, will act as captain and man.
ager of team which will participate
in the 500-mile International sweep
stake race to be run over the Indian
a3olis Motor Speedway on May 80.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

G0gszRSA

Mike Donlin is the latest to apply
for membership in the Come Backs.
Fred Lake will try his hand as a
scout for the Boston National league
team.
Grover Land is being touted as the
first catcher on the Cleveland Maps
this year
Topsy Hartsel played on the 1902,
1905 and 1910 pennant winners of the
Athletics.
Charley Hall, the Boston Ameri-
cans pitcher, is playing winter ball
out in California.
Tommy Burns Is training to see if
that injured knee is strong enough
for two more bouts.
Politeness will be one of the courses
taught along with track athletics at
the University of Chicago hereafter.
JEFF Pfeffer, the Cub pitcher, who is
wintering at Dorchester, Mass, is
keeping in condition by playing golf.
George Tebeau will spend $4,000
on his Kansas City ball park to I'M
crease its seating capacity to $4,000.
Manager Hal Chase of the New
York Highlanders says he intends
working his pitchers in rotation in
1911.
King" Cole says he has discovered
a new twist to put on the horsehide.
King intends retaining that windup
maneuver.
Foul tips are sometimes expensive.
Mrs. Jennie Fletcher of st. Louis was
struck by one and has brought suit
for 100000
1t seems to be all in the fitness OF
things that a fighter named Wuest
should be doing his best work in
Frankfort. Ky.
Joe Tinker performed as referee in
some wrestling bouts the other night.
Now Joe says that baseball playing is
pie and pudding alongside of It.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

Lewis Strang was recently asked If
he ever had any narrow escapes and
smilingly answered, mo" But when
asked why he replied in that way said
he had dozens of accidents, but they
were so quickly forgotten that he
would not dignity them with the APP
pellation of narrow escapes"
1.-The first accident | remember"
said Strang, was in 1904, when | hit
an elevated post on Third avenue in
New York. | wrecked the car, but
escaped without injury. Two years lat
er at Elkwood Park, in midsummer
meet, went through the fence on the
inside of the track. | wrecked the car
in this accident, but again escaped
without injury.
81 went through the fence at the
Parkway turn in the 1906 Brighton
Beach twenty-four hour race. This
was probably the most fatal accident
that has ever occurred in any race.
About eighteen persons were seriously
injured and five killed outright. The
car was in the middle of the track
about o'clock in the morning, when
the left front wheel collapsed. Swerv-
ing around, the machine tore through
the fence, breaking up the heavy bar
rier as if il were so much matchwood,
then charged directly through large
crowd of spectators, repair men and
race track employees At the cor
oner's inquest no blame was attached
to me, as the car was beyond control
as soon as the front wheel collapsed,
and it was just luck for me that it did
not roll over and kill me- About two
hours after this accident the repair
crew had put the machine back in run
ming order, replacing the broken ra-
diator, front springs and axles, and
continued the race and finished, but
the loss of time had been so great that
l was unable to get better than fifth
place.
In the next twenty-four hour race
on this same track a string of eight or
ten kites was sent up which carried
aluft a wire cable to which were hung
some large advertising signs. The
wind died down about o'clock in the
afternoon and the cable looped down
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
CERTAIN OF LARGE STADIUM
Chicago University Students Expect
Two Athletic Buildings as Re-
suit of Gift.

Material athletic expansion at the
University of Chicago may be one of
the early results of John d. Rockefel-
ler's gift of $10,O00,00O to the Maroon
institution. Members of the depart
ment of physical culture admit that
the long-wished-for stadium and a new
gymnasium for the women students
might follow the oil kings generosity.
The matter will be considered by the
university board of trustees.
Under the terms of Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's donation the university authori-
ties will be allowed to construct build
ings for the use of any existing depart
ment, while all new departments are
to be made possible by other gifts. AL
though the trustees assert that build
ing expansion is not probable in the
near future owing to the university's
wish to give the first installments Of
the s10.000000 for endowment pur-
poses, the ultimate erection of the
needed. buildings is assured. The Off
cials stated that they would reach no
decision on the building question until
later.
If the members of the board decide
to take advantage of Mr.. Rockefeller's
permission, the Midway school will
have the costliest an1 most complete
department of athletics in the coun-
try. The physical culture experts be-
lieve that the additional buildings are
necessities.
President Harry Pratt Judson names
the stadium and the women's gymna-
stun as two of the four most needed
features of the university's material
growth, the other two being building
for the use of the department of geol-
ogy and geography and an astronomi-
cal observatory on the campus for the
use of the students.
The location of the prospective sta
dunn has not been fixed. Coach Stage
is modest in expressing his views, but
he has stated his wish that it be 10
Gated on the ground owned by the uni
versity on the south side of tie Mid
way Plaisance, between Ellis and Lex
ington avenues. II the university
should remove one fiat building from
this land block and half would be
available for the purpose.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
IRA DAVENPORT IS H0N0RED
James {. Sullivan Picks Maroon Star
a. Greatest 44o-vard Runner
In United States.

An allAmerican college track team
has been selected by James +. Sulli-
van, secretary and treasurer of the
Amateur Athletic Union. Like the all
American football teams. the selection
has no official significance and IL
merely Mr.. Sullivan's rating Of some
of the best college athletes in each OF
the ordinary track and field activities.
Ira Davenport Of the University Of
Chicago is placed in class by him
self in the 440-yard run.
Fourteen men are named and II 10
notable that seven of them are from
colleges on the western side of the
Alleghenies
The team chosen Is as follows:
110-Yard RUM L. Ramsdell, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania
220-Yard Run-R. c. Craig, Uni
versity of Michigan.
440-Yard Rum. N. Davenport, Uni
versity of Chicago.
SS0-Yard Run-G. H. Whitley.
Princeton.
120-Yard Hurdle-W. A. Edwards,
University of California.
220-Yard Hurdle-C. P. Gardner,
Harvard.
One-Mile Run-A. F. Baker, Oberlin.
Two-Mile Run-T. s. Berna, Cornell.
Running Broad Jump J. WATSON.
Notre Dame.
Running High Jump-K. w. Burdick.
University of Pennsylvania.
Pole Vault. s. Scott, Leland
Stanford University.
Putting 16-Pound Shot. Horner.
Jr.. University of Michigan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
GOPHERS WILL LOSE WALKER
Minnesota Tackle Announces He Will
Leave Minnesota and Enter
Some Eastern College.

Jim Walker, star tackle of the Uni
tersity of Minnesota football team for
the last two years, all-western tackle
for two years and all-American for
1910, has very probably played his last
game of football for the Gophers.
Walker. according to the report, will
leave Minnesota and enter some big
eastern university, likely Yale.
Walker has made an enviable rec
ord on the football field with the Co
piers He was the unanimous choice
for all-western tackle in both 1909 and
1910, and his ability was further recog-
nlzed during the season recently
closed. Walter Camp picked him for
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
Ill BOYS IN GARDEN
ank Brown Of Clyde, Kan,
hey in Raising and Sell
ng Vegetables.

% garden story Of two lit.
Clyde. Kan, their picture
b load of their prize win
e, grown on q plot OF
by 140 feet.
Frank Brown are eight
Is old. Their father is a
esman. Mr.. and Mrs.
he boys became interest
before last in garden sto-
oys attended the meet
lrmers' institute arranged
rs State Agricultural col
its agricultural extension
md they listened to every
} encouraged the boys In
hen they announced one
ention OF cultivating the
rh their house stood and
ing II. She hired a man
harrow the ground and
NO dollars forth Of seed.
lt the boys showed much
y knew that land needed
ne one had said so, and
afford to have II done
too much. The boys haul.
days, after school hours,
lie 100 feet had a fairly
overing.
spring they planted the
Ugh the long vacation. In
Gather, they toiled like
and cultivating and ped
plus vegetables from the
rfners' institute of Clyde
Frank loaded the wagon
NIPPLES from their garden
he meeting. The farm
Used. No provision had
for such an exhibit. but
the institution gave the
dollar and their appro-
d them how proud they
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
Spoke Blu. Once In Fifty Years.

English, lnd.-Insane for the last
fifty years and not having spoken a
word during that time. Philip Burk
hart of this place is dead at the age
of ninety years. During the Civil
war he lost his mind lie became
superstitious on the subject of witches
and kept a gun loaded with needles
to shoot them Three d IS before he
died he broke his long silence and
predicted that he was to die He
passed away within an hour of the
time he named.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
Japs to Meet Cornell.

Cornell expects to have a baseball
game next spring with a team from
the University of Kioto, Japan. which
will torr the country. The Cornell
management has been asked to sche>
ule game in May, and will consider
the application at its next meeting.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
Prettier Pictures.

A little girl went visiting one day,
and after time was given the album
of family photographs to look at. She
turned the leaves over carefully, and
pretty soon closed the book.
well, DEAR" asked the hostess,
did you look at the album"
"Oh, yes" answered the little maid,
brightly. land we've got one 'zactly
like 1t, only the pictures are prettier."
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
Ankle Support.

along the heel of the shoe. At a point
above the heel. or where the foot re-
CURES someplay. the support has a
double hinge. thus permitting free
movements of the ankle. while at the
same time preventing 1t from bend
ing far enough to cause sprain.
Many people who are very fond Of
skating are unable TO enjoy the sport
because of weak ankles, which per-
sist In turning. II is this turning, too.
which makes 1t so hard for some peo-
pie to learn to skate, there being diff
ficulty enough in keeping a perpen-
dicular position withC-t having to
watch the feet. This ankle support
will be found useful for beginners for
this reason. as 1t will give them more
confidence. A strong strap at the top
of the support buckles around the top
of the wearer's shoe.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
SUPPORT FOR WEAK ANKLES
Steel plate Fastened to Skate and
Running UP Along Heel Of Shoe
viii Benefit Many.

For people with weak ankles the
support designed by a Canadian will
be found great help In skating. It
consists OF steel plate attached TO
the back OF the skate and running up
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

Mary must sit
On the grass for BIT,
And Tommy must run with the string.
Yes, that's all right;
Now I'll toss the kite
Up, UP. on the breeze's wing.
1t wriggles its tail
Ger the meadow rail.
And wheels about in the air;
Then up to the sky
II will soon pass by
The lark that is caroiing there.
Up. up II flies
To the clear blue skies.
Let's sit on the grass in row.
And watch the fight
OF our fine new kite
AS far as Its string will go.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

20 little boys in Clyde
laid of work.
$12 In the bank, the
bedding. and they sup
table all summer and
Besides. the Brown
btained for winter use:
I bushels OF popcorn,
ets. three-fourths bush
% bushels Of potatoes,
} pumpkins, and a lot
There were enough
} to keep the family
nths.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
PLAY NEW GAME OF BASEBALL
Apparatus Arranged so That Several
Persons May Take Part-Marble
Into Chute.

The apparatus shown in the illus.
tration consists OF an inexpensive de-
vice which may be played by one or
more persons. and which involves the
principles of the game of baseball. At
one corner of the board is a chute
down which a marble may be rolled,
says the Scientific American. The
marble is required to pass through a
barrier, and II 1t fails to do this the
throw counts as a strike. II 1t stops
In the area marked out" this elm
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
SHORTER COURSE.

baby as fast as you car.
worry him, make him a man;
Is baby clothes. get him In
|n brain foods and make him
b.
soon as he's able to walk.
hmar school; cram him with
head full of figures and facts,
hmming them in till 1t cracks.
rev up at a rational rate;
elop a man while you wait.
rough college. compel him TO
Pwn subject a dip and a dab.
usiness and after the cash
me he can grow a mustache.
let he was ever a boy.
Is god and Its jingle his JOY:
-hustling and clear out OF
ns-nervous prostration and
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
|ctory Comedy.


was raging at a fac
les. the rumor spread
hber of children were
death. Crowds col
vas seen that what
rs were being thrown
Ts. But 1t was soon
the placo was a doll
bodies" were those
pf which over 1000
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

mates the player temporarily. II 1t
stops In the numbered areas the value
of the throw is indicated by the mum.
bers.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

his all-American eleven, the highest
honor in football. Walkers loss to
Minnesota would be a severe one and
his presence on any line of any east
ern university would add great
strength TO the fortunate team.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22
Could Carry.

=" said his Aunt
barry your bat and
Tor your"
INKS" replied the lit
tarry bat an Jumps.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-22

Throwing the Hammer-Lee Talbot,
Pennsylvania State College.
Cross Country Run-T. P. Jones.
Cornell.
The evening world., 1911-12-07
GAyN0R SEES TAFT
ON NORTH RIVER
PIER EXTENSION
T With Secretary Meyer
on Possible Abandonment of
Brooklyn Navy Yard.

WASHINGTON, Dec. MAYOR Gay
nor OF New York city, Dock Commits.
sloner Calvin Tomkins and X. A.. c.
smith. member OF the New York Com-
mission. to-day renewed to Secretary
Of Wal Stimson and later TO President
Taft New York City's appeal for per-
mission to extend permanently her
ocean steamship piers into the North
River far enough to accommodate the
mamoth Atlantic steamships. which
arm neganeers have reported against.
They also discussed with the Secretary
Of Wal the question OF a terminal for
the Governments line OF to
Panama.
Subsequently the New York officials
called upon Secretary Meyer OF the
Navy. VINO had requested a conference
In connection with his plans for q re-
organization OF the a v yards. The
~Sccrctary's reorganization contem-
plates only Ave navy yards On the At
lantic. one in New England. tho Nor
folk yard and one at Guantanamo. with
reserve yards or torpedo stations at
Philadelphia and Charleston.
THIS plan would mean the abandon
ment OF the New York Navy Yard In
Brooklyn. Should this be decided upon
New York City would be given oppor-
tun!ty 20 buy tho property after Con.
gress had sanctioned the sale.
Representative Calder OF Brooklyn,
who called or the President afterward.
said he did not believe New York
would buy the Brooklyn yard property
very soon.
II SUPPOSE said Mr.. Calder. the
Government would want about $780, oo,-
900 for the yard. and I don't believe
New York has that much to spend"