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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
EDITORIAL

This is one of those days when
it seems to US as if the last thing
in the world that we wanted to do
or could do is to write a edditoriel
on any subjeckt whatsoever. There
isn't anything clammering in our
mind for utterance, so to speak,
and we feel kind of tired and lazy
and unable to think about amy
thing in partickuler.
This has happened so many many
times of late that we are beginning
to get discourridged. We sit up
here at our desk and look down at
Main St. with its evidences of
peaceful quiet life. We see Sim
Wheeler's hound dog come into
view and sit down and meditatively
scratch hisse1f behind the ear with
his left foot and then pass on to his
favvorite sleeping spot beneath the
steps of the P. O. Then we gaze
langwidly at the spot where he dis
appeared, thinking of nothing, until
the hound dog emerdges from be-
meath the steps of the P O. and
slowly walks back up Main St.
whence he came.
This is our only source of in
SEPARATION. Is it enough? It is.
We answer quickly, bekause to the
true 1itrary mind, anything no mat
ter how infinnitessimal, as it were,
has in it the germ and the inspirra-
ton for litrachoor.
/ You may say Io, what can he
find in Sim Wheeler's hound dog
to make into the subjecIt Of eddi-
torriel? We answer that such
person who says such thing only
displays his pittifu1 ignorants.
We will write edditoriel on The
Lessons to be Learnt from the Lit
tel Things of Life. We will start
with Sim Wheeler's hound dog. He
is only a ornery dog, and it has
been said that more fleas inhabit
his hide than ever inhabited the
hide of any other known dog. Be
that as it may. this hound dog
shows us the needlessness and the
futillity of worriting over every lit
tel thing that comes up, as do some
# our respeckted townsmen. This
'ound dog don't know one day
here the food to nourrish him is
Ding to come from next day. Does
pine and NOPE and snarl
ot1nd? He don't He goes and
avs down under the P. 0. steps,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
Personals

The weather are getting a lot cold
err although we will probably have sew
veral more hot days before snow flies.
| Jim Hendricks, our oldest inhabitant
remembers one year a long ways back
when Gootchic Pond friz up on Oct:
6, which was followed by hot spell
in which the merkury went up to 1903
There are no weather these days, no
matter what kind, that can come up to
the weather when Jim was boy.
Mrs. Henderson, who is one of Bing
ville's most handsome widows, opened
the winders in her parlor and spare
room one day last wk to give them
the regular airing before closing them
up for the winter
Miss Lulu Andrews, who substituted
in the choir last Sun. in place of Miss
Phebe Hilderbrand is suffering from a
quincy sore throat, partly caused on
acct of taking a high note in Rock
of Ages" and having her voice slip on
her and go several notes higher than
she intended and spraining her voice
quite bad If Miss Lulu could only get
her voice to stop slipping around that
way, she would be one of our best
singers
Lem Brown, our all round carpenter
and joiner. swung his hammer onto his
thumb while mailing up a pikshur in his
domisile last wk. and mashed it very
painfully. Mrs. Brown finished the job.
Lem is skilled nail driver and cannot
acct for this thing happening.
Mrs. Eph Higgins reports having saw
Mrs Snod Petersby and Mrs Sim
Goolins conversing with each other
one day last wk. Sinst their falling
out several mos. ago they have not
spoken, and it was GENERALLY consid-
dered that they would not speak again.
We have been unable to learn at this
writing what it was that they was con-
versing about. We hope that they will
be friends again, but we fear that it
will not be more than a wk or be-
fore they are fighting worse than ever
Bill Hepburn, our artistick blacksmith,
is suffering from a in-growing toe nail
which causes him great pain. he being
unable to walk any CRATE distance on
acct of it. Bill Yates walked to the
Co. seat last Satterdy, returning in the
ev'g with enough Ticker for him and Bill
Hepburn. The two Bills then got in
tocksicated in the blacksmith shop. both /
having pleasant time and not retiring
until late
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04

and begun to swear at Seth in most
profane and indecent manner. When
Seth asked him what in tarnashion was
the matter, Ranse replied that two win
ders in his house had been broke by re-
volover bullets just couple of minutes
before, and that Seth would have to
anty up or he (Rans) would prosecute
Seth to the fullest extent of the law.
Meanwhile the bull had found the re-
volover which Seth had dropped in his
haste to climb the tree, and had paved
it all to pieces. When Seth was finally
rescued, he said he was ding-busted glad
that the bull had paved it, and that
hereafter he was going to trust to his
club to captchure thieves, or they
wouldn't git captchured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
SOOvGneGr Performance

The sooveneer performance of the
Oriental Palace Moving Pikshur Theay-
ter, Shorty Melcher, Mgr. and Prop,
was attended by a enormous gathering
of Bingville folks, mostly women, being
as how only the women reed the 500
veneers. The moving pikshur showed
The Fall of Babylon, and was disap-
pointing, only one man being killed.
Shorty Melcher sang a beautiful song
entitled Remember Boys She Is Still
Your Mother Although She Can Never
Be Your Wife Shorty's voice as
much appreciated exsept when the mu-
sic went too high or too low.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
Locals

Littel Tommy Barker, the thyroid
son of Bile Barker of this place, whose
artistick talent has brought him into
publici notice more than once of late.
gave another evidence of his artistick
talent when he found a bucket of green
paint in his barn tother day and drawed
pikshurs of birds and dogs all over the
white side of his house. Bile reclcog-
nized that his son had talent, but he
warmed him up with shingel SO that
Tommy has took all nourishnent often
the mantlepiece ever sinst.
A roomer was circulated last wk to
the effect that Miss Samanthy Deevers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
Shooting!
Seth Dewberry Causes Intents Ex-
element With Ills Revolver
His Shots Go Wild and so Does
Some Others, as Folders:

Seth Dewberry, our lion-hearted
constable, caused intents excitement
throughout Bingvi1le last Saturday af-
ternoon, although the only thing he cal
cu1ated to do was to show his mastery
over the 1ittel weepon known as the re-
volover.
For a long time Seth has been carry
ing this REVOLVER around in his pants
pocket for the purpose of intimmidat-
ing and even punctshuring any male
facktors or fends in human shape that
undertook to disturb the life of our
peaceful community. Some time ago
he shot shots at chicken with this
REVOLVER to see how good he was with
it, but the chicken was not hit seriously,
and Seth was obliged to chase after it
and put an end to it with a axe
So on Saturday Seth determined to
practise with this revOlover until he be-
come prohshient and exact in the use of
it, as you might say.
He marked off circle on the door of
his barn, and then he loaded the re-
volver and took posishion ten #. from
the barn door. He pulled back the ham
mer, and examined it closely, shielding
the hammer with his hand so as it
wouldn't go off Sort of unconsciously
he got to fddling with the trigger and
the first thing he knowed the hammer
had descended with horrible force onto
his thumb. Never, says Seth, had he
knowed such demonstrating pain. He
hollered and tried to drop it, but his
thumb was pinched and he couldn't
Finally he become calm and raised the
hammer and drew out his thumb when
suddenly the hammer descended. again
and the REVOLVER went off with loud
report and the bullet bored a hole right
through Seth's beard, which hasn't
been cut for some mos
This angered Seth considerably,
and he made up his mind then and there
that he would master the blamed thing
or know the reason why.
He loaded up the empty chamber of
the revolover and carefully pinted it
straight at the circle on the barn door
It is a self-cocking REVOLVER, SO Seth
then pulled the trigger rapidly FIVE times.
There was FIVE loud reports, and from
the cloud of smoke emerdged Seth,
running rapidly towards the circle on
the barn door to see what damadge had
been did.
To his establishment and disgust he
had not hit the barn door even, nor the
barn itself, SO far as he was able to
discover.
Loading the REVOLVER again, Seth
retreated seven steps from the barn
door and rested the revolver on the
limb of young sapling that grows in
his barnyard. This time he cooked the
revolver, took careful aim, and fired.
Immediately there was a turrible uproar
inside the barn. Loud thuds rung out
on the still air and a offal bellering
arose The next second-Seth's big red
bull come busting outen the side door
of the barn and made straight for Seth.
Seth Immediately CHM a tree with CRATE
haste, obserbing as he did SO that the
bull had got a bullet in the side of his
neck
The bull bellered and ramped around
something turrib1e, and just as Seth was
to be afraid that nobody was
never coming to rescue him. Ranse
Smiley come running up to the fence
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
SHAKER CASE IS
BEFORE A JURY
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
A GRAND JURY is TO DECIDE IF
PRACTICE OF EuTHANAsIA IS A
CRIME.
BY Associated Praaa.

Tampa, Fla, Nov. 2s.-Perhaps for
the first time in this country a grand
jury at Kissimmee, Fla, was asked to-
day to decide If the practice of euthan-
asia is a crime. The case is that OF
Egbert Gillette and Elizabeth Sesres,
members of a Shaker colony who ad
mitted having chloroformed and "as-
sisted out of life" a co-religionist, Sis
ter Sadie Marchant, on August %.
Gillette is under indictment for mur-
der and has been in jail at Ashton,
Fla. Miss Sears, while not indicted,
is under bond to appear at the jury
hearings.
Both of the accused contend they
did right in assisting in the passing
of their friend and declare it was al
her request because she was in the
last stages of tuberculosis. The ground
on which they are held is that medi-
cal examination disclosed the fact thar
the woman was not as near death as
they reported.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
GIVE BANQUET
DECEMBER 10
At SAN CARLOS
1T WILL FOLLOW THE PREsEN-
TATIoN OF SILVER SERVICE TO
THE BATTLESHIP FLORIDA AND
WILL BE ATTENDED BY OFF,
GERS AND MEMBERS OF THE
COMMISSION.

A banquet on the evening of Decem-
ber 18 will be one of the features fol-
lowing the silver service presentation
to the battleship Florida in Pensacola.
This was decided upon at a meeting
yesterday afternoon between T. A.
Jennings, member of the silver ser
vice committee, and President w. K.
Hyer, Jr., and Secretary Waterman,
of the Commercial Association.
1t was then decided to create a
committee to arrange for a subscrip
tion banquet to be given on the even
ing following the presentation, at
which the officers of the Florida and
Utah, members of the naval COM
mittee who will be here and those of
the silver service commission will be
the guests Of the Commercial Associa-
tion.
The banquet will be an elaborate af-
fair and it is expected it will be at
tended by a hundred or more of the
prominent citizens. as well as many
prominent naval officers and visitors.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
BY Associated Press.


Los Angeles. Nov. 2s.-Ugly smirch
suspected bribery, trailed today
across the trial of James B. McNam
ara for the alleged murder of Chas.
Haggerty, one OF the victims of the
Times disaster. Tonight there is
pleased prosecution and a dumb
founded defense.
Samuel L. Brown, chief investigator
for the state, arrested the three men
and stacked District Attorney Fred
erick's desk with bank notes taken
from the arrested mems pockets in
Frederick's presence. Bert H. Frank
lin, former deputy United States mar
shal, now employed by the Mcnamara
defense as investigator, was released
this afternoon on ten thousand dol
lar bond and will appear in court to-
morrow to answer to the charges OF
bribery and attempted bribery sworn
10 by Brown and Geo. H. n. Lock
wood, an unsummoned venircman- G.
E. White, the alleged stakeholder ar
rested with Franklin, is at liberty and.
according to Frederick, with appear as
. witness against Franklin.
Five hundred dollars was taken from
Lockwood's pockets and is declared by
the prosecution to have been the first
payment of sum he would receive If
he should prevent an adverse verdict
in the McNanar case. Thirty-five hun
uT0u uOIldES vi w llIS Is uS
clared to be the balance to be paid
when the jury was discharged.
Detective Brown arrested the men
on street corner before two of them
could take their hands out of their
pockets after, 1t Is alleged, they had
stuffed the money into them. The
men, with their hands in their pockets
were marched to F'rederick's Office. The
detective, disguised as laboreT. stood
close to the men on a street corner.
. Lockwood, the venireman, was sum
moned to appear before Judge Bord
well today for preliminary examina-
ton.
Cap" White ss charaefer Of whom
s.ounse1 for the defense said they
klew nothing of the case.
Il saw Franklin give Lockwood $500
which was on his person when ar
rested said Brown.
White had SO, 500 on his person. |
saw the money pass from Franklin to
I lockwood. I know it was in connec-
ton with the Mcnamara case"
Brown refused to say how he knew.
He indicated that he expected even
more dramatic Developments.
This is not the big smash he said.
That will come in court just a little
Iater.''
c. e. (Cap) White for many years
was an undersheriff and jaiIer in this
county. Recently he served on the
jury which acquitted c. E. Reynolds,
indicted for wife murder
Brown declared today that he first
began to watch White when White
served on that jury and It was a result
of this surveillance that he tracked
Whites movements in alleged connec-
tion with the Mcnamara case. Brown
said that today's incidents had been
expected to develop for nearly a week
and claims that his detectives were at
work on other alleged attempts to
bribe.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29

The Wall Street Journal, POSSIBLY
the greatest authority on railroad deals
and business matters in general, this
week says that the Pennsylvania rail-
road Is desirous of getting into Pensa
cola and New Orleans and that to d.
so it must make some arrangement
with the Atlantic Coast Line. The pa
per says that official disclaimers BY
railroad officials are not sufficient to
dispose of the belief that the Pennsyl
vania management is anxious to brin-
about closer arrangements with the
Coast Line.
Another statement of the paper Is
that the Big Four has traffic arrange
ments with the Louisville & Nash
vile whereby it can reach the gulf
establishing thereby a direct route
from Chicago and the middle states.
The article which appeared in the
Wall Street Journal Menday says:
Official disclaimers do not suffice to
dispose of the belief that the manage
ment of the Pennsylvania railroad is
anxious to bring about closer relations
with the Atlantic Coast Line.
There are many factors in the stu
alton that lend such reports q certain
respectability, however. The Pennsyi
vania sough an influence in the affairs
Of the New Haven, and obtained 2
dictatorship, though the purchase OF
anything like control was out of the
question. With its connecting railroad
and bridge over He'll Gate completed
the New Haven Pennsylvania alfalfa
ton will occupy the dominant position
in regard to traffic between New Eng
land and the Middle Atlantic States
The two will be increa singly powerful
in the coastwise traffic, both by IanG
and by water.
An interest Sn the Atlantic Coast
CONTINUED on Second Page)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
.IAET'S subject
TO Be TRUSTS
HIS THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE,
WHICH GOES TO CONGRESS
TUESDAY, WILL BE DEVOTED
TO THIS QUESTION.
BY Associated Press.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-President
Tafts third annual message, which
goes to congress Tuesday, will be de-
voted to the trust" question with the
exception of a few references in a gen
eral way to other related subjects.
Although the details have not been
made public it is understood tonight
federal incorporation as outlined by
Taft two years ago will be suggested
again as a solution of the problem
The president expects to discuss the
tariff in a separate message later. The
tariff board, it is said tonight. Will be
unable TO make a report on the wool
and cotton schedules until Dec. II and
the message will not be undertaken
until the report is ready.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
ey AssocIate1 Press.

Denver, Nov. 2S.--The case of Mrs.
Gertrude Gibson Patterson, charged
with the murder Of her husband, went
to the jury at $40 O'Clock tonight. A
night session was held To enable the
attorneys to finish their arguments.
When Mrs. Patterson reached court
today for resumption Of her trial or
the charge of Staying her husband.
she was pale and wan. and deep circles
about her eyes gave mute evidence of
a sleepIess, worried night.
An unpleasant scene marked the
testimony of the first witness who had
been originally called for the defense.
The witness was Mrs. c. A. Jones and
she was compelled to admit Jones was
not her real name, nor her husbands.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
Life of Mrs. Patterson is Now
In the Hands of Twelve Men

The state brought out that the witness
had been married to a man named
T''rr'"'eu a"d counsel for the state in
directly stated the man had been tried
I'd; So stsaling n several counties
of Colorado.
Mrs. Jones testified yesterday that
she witnessed an assault by Patterson
on his wife
Mrs Mary K. Patterson, mother OF
the slain man, being recalled. testj-
fed that che had paid eli the expenses
attendant upon her sons Illness. gx-
cepting those for two s-eek..
Attorney Hilton asked that the Jury
be taken TO the scene OF the shooting,
but Judge Allen said he could see No
valid reason for such action. and be
gan reading his instructions to the
jury.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
RAILROAD COMMISSION
WINS IT'S FIGHT MADE FOR
BETTER PASSENGER SERVICE

cola ia cksonville accommodation train
1t was about two months ago that
the commission, after thorough ex-
animation, issued an order to the rail
roads to discontinue attaching freight
cars to the night train and give an all
passenger service between the two
cities, at the same time arranging a
schedule for this train, which short
ened the run by nearly six hours.
Both railroads protested and dis
obeyed the order, whereupon the com
mission brought mandamus proceed
ings in the supreme court. and that
tribunal decided against the railroads
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
FAMILY Of SIX
SLAIN IN BED
YOUNG NEGRESS is ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH THE MURDER
OF NEGRO MAN, HIS WIFE AND
CHILDREN.
BY Associated Press.

Lafayette, La. Nov. 2S.-Slain in
their beds with an axe, the bodies of
six negroes, Nobert Randall and his
wife and four children, were found in
their home here yesterday. Officers
working on the case arrested Clemen-
tine Barnabl, a young negreSs, who,
when confronted with her own cloth
ing soaked with blood, laughed at the
officers who charged her with butch
ering the Randall family.
Her brother Zephering Barnabel,
was also held together with two others
as material witnesses. The crime
was committed Saturday night.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
He WILL PASS
UP THIS S4OO
MAN ACCUSED OF ROBBERY CAN
eETlT, BUT is LIKELY TO ALSO
GET TWENTY YEARS IN JAIL.
Ry Associated Press.

Sparta, Wis, Nov. 2S.-If Jim Rad
ley. who is accused of robbing the
Bank of Warrens, but who escaped
before trial. will show up here, he may
lay claim to $400 taken from him on
his arrest. However. at the same
time he might subject himself to risk
of twenty years in Jail and for this
reason, local officials think Radley will
let the $400 go.
All this was brought out today
when thrifty members of tie Monroe
county board objected to paying rent
on the safety box in the bank Radle-
is accused of robbing, in which the
$400 is kept
Inasmuch as Radley was never con-
victed, the bank. though it believes the
$500 to have been part of Radley's al
legged spoils. cannot claim the cash.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
STRONG CASE,
MAN GUARDED
DAMAGING EVIDENCE PRODUCED
AGAINST ROBERT LEONARD,
CHARGED WITH MURDER OF c.
L. EVERHART.
Continued on Page TWo.)
BY Associated Press.

Thomasville. n. c., Nov. 2S.-Darn-
ging evidence was produced against
obert Leonard before the coroner to-
Jay and tonight he is in Jail and
closely guarded, charged with the muir
der of Charles L. Everhart, whose de-
composed body was found near hera
by hunters yesterday.
The testimony was to the effect
that Leonard went to a shooting
match Saturday and had blood stains
on his face and handkerchief, and a
roll of greenbacks, one of which was
identified as a keepsake of Everhart-
and that when arrested he declared
he had no money, but later it was
found in his shoe.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
Another Letter Written by Henry
G.. Beattie, Jr., is Made Public

your efforts were not all in vain.
so many things in the Bible you
explained to me which I never under
stood before. I only hope and pray
that you viii be able to enlighten
others. so that they may be prepared.
IF I were free I would ask for no
greater joy than to bring others to
God.
One night I will never forget, and
that was the occasion when your wife
and dear little girl sang for me. Give
my love to them and remember that
I am praying for you an that God be
with you till we meet again Fare
well.
HENRY CLAY BEATTIE, JR."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
BY Associated Press.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 2s.-Another
letter written by Henry Clay Beattie,
Jr., shortly before he was executed
for the murder of his wife, was made
public today by w. H. Gates, who
took deep interest in Beattie while the
youth awaited execution.
The letter. apparently expressing full
confidence felt by Beattie that peace
had been made with his Maker, reads:
Dear Mr.. Gates: I am unable to
think OF words that would fully ex-
press my appreciation of the inter-
est which you seemed to take in try
ing to prepare me for the Great Be-
yond; though 1 can assure you that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29
Special to The Journal

Tallahassee, Nov. 28.-An improved
passenger service must be maintained
between Jacksonville and Pensacola
over the Seaboard Air Line and the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, AMI
the present accommodation or mixed
train must be discontinued by these
railways, for the Florida railroad COM
mission today won it's fight in the su
preme court, the latter handing down
a decision upholding the right of the
commission to compel the roads to
discontinue the hauling of freight cars
on what is now known as the Fensa-