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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
SAVE CITY$2O,OO
Commissioner Bone Would Buy
in Old Bonds.
Take Up 5 Per Cent Bonds and
Sell Them at 4 1-2.
WATERWORKS DEBT.
City Paid 100000 for Plant
$27O,OOO Not Direct.
Bill for This Move VIII Pass
1911 Legislature.

II the state legislature passes a bill
prepared by Roy L. Bone, city COM
missioner. the city of Topeka will be
able to add $4,000 to the funds in the
city treasury by buying up $270,0 900
worth of first mortgage bonds at AZ
per cent and selling them at per cent.
Commissioner Bone, acting as head
of the finance department of the city
government. realized this move some
time ago and he brought the bill be-
fore the legislature at once. 1t has met
no opposition in either house and it is
expected that it win pass.
The bonds are a result Of the sale
Of the old waterworks plant to the city
a few years ago. When the city pur-
chased this plant from the old water
company they paid $620,o00 for it. OF
this amount $350,000 was paid in cash
and the remaining $270,000 was in first
mortgage bonds assumed Nv the city.
These first mortgage bonds have been
drawing per cent The city was re-
Quired to pay them within 15 years.
Commissioner Bone figures that he can
take these bonds, buy them in at par
and sell them at Az per cent
This, under the Bone plan, would save
the city one-half ~~c ce-A on $27O, 900
mean $2O,220 to the city treasury, net.
The $350,000 that the city paid the
old water company for the waterWorks
plant was a bond issue paying Az per
cent. This would place the entire cost
of $620.000 on a Az per cent basis.
An assumed bond or one that is not
under direct obligation to the city is
directly concerned. COMMISSIONS
Bone feels that it would be possible to
pick up most of the 8 per cent bonds
in the $270,0O0 issue and make them
marketable on the 4 1k per cent basis.
II could have purchased 100000
worth of those bonds last summer if
the law would have permitted" said
Roy L. Bone this afternoon. 'And I
believe that we could get an option
on practically all of them-then buy
cent 1 no reason why we couldn t
do this and net the city more than
$4,000
''This, of course, >is for the next
commissioner of finance to do. I have
started the thing going-and the next
man will reap the benf1ts for the city
that is, of course, if am not reelected
as city commissioner. But it would
mean a good amount to the city at this
time when we are struggling to meet
all of our obligations, pay off. the
deficits and put the city government on
q good sound business-like basis
ANY commissioner would work
overtime to bring $4,000 into the city
treasury. This bill have given to the
legislature would affect first class cities
only and is an injustice to no one
There can be possibly no objection to
1t by the senators and representatives.
''The old law wouldn't permit a city
to issue refunding bonds to take up
bonds secured by a mortgage. That is
the reason we haven't done this be-
FORE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
STORM REACHES N. Y.
More Than Two Inches of Snow Had
Fallen by O'clock.

New York. Feb. 2O.-The storm
from the southwest, which ragged over
the south central portion of the coun-
try yesterday and last night. struck
New York and vicinity in force this
morning and before o'clock a snow
blanket more than two inches in thick
ness had been deposited here, with
prospects that the fall would continue
through the day. There was little
wind, but the temperature was "a de-
grees at 8 o'clock and falling, this in
oreasing the probability of consider
able accumulation of the fleecy cover
ing.
The storm is widespread, snow or
rain having fallen over the great part
of southern New England.
The chief centers of the distur bance
appeared this morning to be in North
Carolina and central Pennsylvania.
The northeastward course of the storm
promised to take it farther into New
England. The weather has cleared to
the west and the most westerly points
affected, according to local weather
bureau reports, now being in Michigan
and Ohio.
Traffic in this city and neighborhood
suffered little delay in the early hours,
but as the force of the storm in
creased trouble began to be expert
enced on surface rail lines and by the
shipping in the rivers and down the
bay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20

Brilliant Lawyer Enters Contest for
New York Senatorship.

New York. Feb. 2O.-Martin w Lit
tleton, newly elected Democratic rep
resentative from Theodore Roosevelt 8
home district has announced his can
didacy for the United States senate to
succeed Chauncey NJ. Depew and sup
plemented his formal statement with
verbal declaration that he will take his
cause before the people. He will speak
in Brooklyn Tuesday night in Man
haitian Wednesday night and perhaps
thereafter upstate. He chose to make
known his candidacy through a letter
to Lieutenant Governor Conway.
Among the leaders here some curl
osity was aroused as to Mr.. Littleton's
motive in coming forward at this time:
why he should write to Lieutenant Gov
ernor Conway and what counsels had
aided him in reaching a decision.
Mr.. Littleton said he came forward
now because he had become convinced
neither Mr.. Sheehan nor Mr.. Shepard
can be elected They had been the lead
ing candidates when the legislature con-
vened and hitherto he had hesitated to
dispute their pre-eminence.
He chose to write to Lieutenant Gov
ernor Conway because the latter pre-
sides over the election of United States
senators and therefore a communities
tion addressed to him would come be-
fore the joint assembly in a manner
bef1tting the proprieties and the legali-
ties demanded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
WAS A LONG DAY
National House Remained in Ses-
sion Saturday Night
And Until Four O'clock in the
Afternoon of Sunday.

Washington, Feb. 2o.-A truce, en-
tered into shortly before 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon brought the long
f1libuster in the house against the
omnibus war claims bill temporarily
to an end. The agreement was reach
ed following an intermission of three
hours devoted to memorial services
and eulogies to the late Senator Clay
of Georgia, and the late Representa-
tive Brown1ow of Tennessee.
These services, occurring at midday
of Sunday, semed to put the house
combatants in a more peaceable frame
of mind. A recess was ordered until
10 a. m. today when the fighting will
be resumed.
When the house convenes today an
effort will be made to adopt a rule
shutting off further delay. 1t will be
bitterly fought by a new band of fill
busters, made up of former advocates
of the measure as 1t came from the
senate.
who conducted the original flibuster,
ended his fight when he succeeded in
having the old French spoliation and
the navy yard overtime claims stricken
out. This was ccomplished when the
house voted to substitute a house bill
carries only war claims which have
been adjudicated in the court of
claims.
The Democrats who were particu-
larly interested in the war claims af-
fecting southern persons, were op-
posed to the spoliation claims. When
they voted to strike out the latter,
however. they lost the support of the
Republican members who favored the
omnibus bill because it included the
French claims. Realizing that the
new house bill probably had not the
slightest chance of passing the senate,
Mr.. Mann ceased his flibuster.
1t was Immediately take up, how
ever, by Representatives Gardner of
Massachusetts; Bennett and Parsons
of New York, and several New Eng
land members, who said unless the
bill contained the spoliation claims it
should not pass. They will offer long
amendments to the house bill unless
the rule excludes them.
The house remained in session all
Saturday night and until few min
utes before o'clock Sunday after
noon. Practically nothing was accom-
plished in the last IL hours of the
sitting, except the pronouncement of
the eulogies which were permitted by
unanimous consent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
COLD SNAP AT LAST.
Mercury Drops to 12-Lowest Mark in
February

With 5.5 inches of snow on the
ground and the temperature hanging
at IL to IA degrees above zero, To-
peka people are today trying to look
pleasant and accustom themselves to
the first real cold snap of the present
month. Following a general snow
storm Sunday afternoon, the temper
ature last night went steadily toward
the zero mark and the little gas meters
sung merrily in the ears of their own
ers. But the music was not in har-
mony with the brand used in the
Scoville services. The total precipita-
tion for the month is 5.24 inches
At o'clock this morning the ther-
mometer at the Topeka weather sta
ton registered IL degrees above zero.
The weather man is in a pleasant
frame of mind and solemnly promises
that the colds spell as all joke ''It
won't last long," he prophesied, "and
I think the weather will settle down
and be good-but it won't be so hor-
ribly good today and Tuesday. Real
ly, the temperature won't go much
above 15 degrees today. Tonight it
will probably take another tumble to
IL degrees, possibly little lower"
There is no encouragement that the
snow will disappear at once. This
heavy coat of snow is a good thing
out in the short grass country, where
there is lots of wheat and there is re-
joicing in Barton county. In Topeka,
however the snow is coated with ice
and where the walks have not been
cleaned the walking is uncertain and
requires caution.
The prediction for tonight is contin-
ued cloudy and cold. At o'clock this
morning the thermometer registered
12 degrees above zero. An hour later
there was a rise of one point and at
9 o'clock the SUMS rays had pushed
the register to IA degrees.
Though it was freezing in the shade
the snow was thawing in the sun this
afternoon. A temperature of 20 de-
grees below zero was reported from
North Dakota in the morning.
Hourly femnerat t11res.
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peramentaIly cautious. rejecting the
new with suspicion, clinging to the old
with tenacity.
''The progressives are more open
hope. They view the old with alarm.
I'm this pork barrel proposition,
there was no question of personal hon
esty or dishonesty. The old order in
politics demands taht a man snail get
just as many of the material things
for his constituents as possible-pat-
ronage, public buildings, special IA
vors. The new order should not make
that demand; it is demanding legisla-
ton, and the common good. That is,
of course, merely the aspiration of the
new order; not its achievement. But
it is a marked tendency.
Now, between these two forces,
each equally honest, each equally f1rm
in it's conviction, is coming strong
clash. Issues must be fought out, but
in these issues, the party must not be
forgotten. The neglect of party pledges
made at the last election will hurt both
the conservatives and the progresstves
and will benefit only the Democrats
who will take the broken promises to
the people and win on those promises
and what is more enact them into
law Why not enact these promises
into law now? Why not enact these
pledges into laws and then at the next
party council fight over the platform
and settle it for another two years.
and let the best man win If these
pledges are wrong they can be repud-
lated at the next party council. If
they are right they can be endorsed.
There will be an appeal to the people
in the primary. That will settle mat
ters then, as the appeal last summer
should settle matters now. 1t all rests
with the conservative members of the
Kansas senate. They have it in their
power to make party integrity prevail
or fail. And it is no excuse to point to
the actions of others. Even if tho
others were wrong, two wrongs will
not make one right.
Surely there are enough loyal Re
publicans in the ranks of the two
wings of the party, to consider party
success at this time. For We are about
to go into the hardest national CAM
paign We have had in years, and we
should go with the party's pledges re-
deemed in Kansas, If we expect Kan
sas people to consider Republican
pledges again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
CLAY CENTER IN CONTEMPT.
United States Supreme Court Lets
Officers OF by Paying Costs.

Washington, Feb. 20.-The supreme
court of the United States today found
the mayor and certain members of the
council of Clay Center, Kansas, guilty
of contempt of court for destroying
the subject matter of litigation be-
fore it. The court let them off with
the payment of costs of the contempt
proceedings.
Complaint had been made to the
court that these men destroyed a por-
ton of an electric light plant in that
city after the supreme court of the
United States had dismissed ar appeal
to it from a decision of a lower court
in controversy in regard to the
plant. The mayor is George w. Han
ma, while the councilmen are o. L.
Slade, w. D. Vincent, S. D. Trip and
George P. Randall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
COMMISSION MEN wall.
Charge That Retailers Prevent Dis
posal of Their Surplus Stock.

Chicago, FEB. 2o.-Caught by the
breaking of the cold storage warehouse
corner on eggs and butter, Chicago
commission merchants now complain
that retail dealers are holding up
prices and preventing disposal of their
surplus stock
While the wholesale prices of eggs
and butter have dropped to a low fig
ure, the consumer still is paying fancy
prices It is contended by commission
men and wholesalers that reduced re-
tail prices would cause the housewife
to use larger quantities of eggs and
butter.
The president of large packing
company said:
There are eggs today in Chicago
which have been in storage twenty
four months. They were unfit for food
eighteen months ago. One concern Of
fered by circular letter to sell it's eggs
at 21a cents q pound, claiming they had
been spoiled in the cold storage where
they were stored The price is eQuiva
lent to about cents a dozen.
"It never has been known where 3
lot of this poisonous food was disposed
of, but it always has found its may
into the consuming public's stomach.
Much good has been done by the
United States government in the last
year keeping close watch on the can
ned egg trade. It is to be hoped that
they will prohibit absolutely the plac-
ing of any eggs in cans in the freezers
during the ensuing year.
''The facts are that the bulk of these
eggs canned are seconds, spots, or rots
when they are placed in the cans-ab-
solutely unfit for food. But when
smashed up, mixed together, frozen
sold as a rock, it is almost impossi-
BILE for the baker or consumer to know
exactly how good or how bad they
are"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
He SPEAKS FOR TAFT.
Mccall says There VIII Be Extra Ses-
sion If Reciprocity Fails.

Washington, Feb. 20.-The first auth
oritative announcement that President
Taft will call an extra session of con-
gress If the senate fails to act on the
Canadian reciprocity agreement, came
from Mr.. Mccall himself, following a
visit at the White House.
According to Mr.. Mccall, the presi-
dent feels he is under an International
obligation to summon an extra session,
If necessary, to secure action on the re-
ciprocity agreement. That session would
be called Immediately following the ad-
journment of congress at noon on March
4.
president to avoid an extra session by
inducing senators to act upon the
agreement, it is the opinion of many
that the statement has come too late.
Few senators predict that action will
be taken on the agreement in the SEN
ate at this session while some insist
there will be a vote.
With appropriation bills in a con-
gested condition, with the Lorimer case
pending, the permanent tariff board bill
pressing for consideration, the general
service pension bill being urged by many
senators and the resolution for the pop
ular election Of senators coming up
daily as the unfinished business, it
seems the chances for -ction on the re-
ciprocity agreement are slight.
There is some prospect that the Lori
mer case may be disposed of Wednes-
day, following a speech which Senator
Lorimer will make in his own behalf,
but there is no apparent likelihood of
early votes on any Of the other import
ant measures.
Opponents Of the reciprocity agree
ment in the senate are viewing with
complacency, not to say satisfaction
the congested conditions.
The demands of the public business
are such that a vote on reciprocity can
be avoided easily without the appear
ance Of a flibuster.
The bill probably will not be report
ed out of the finance committee before
Thursday at the earliest AT that time
there will remain only seven and a
half legislative days of the present ses-
sion.
Mr.. Mccall also made the announce
ment that the president would veto any
tariff legislation passed by the Demo-
cratic house and approved by a nearly
Democratic senate if that should be
necessary to maintain the Republican
party's protective prircinles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
SELLING DYED FISH.
They Are Put on the Market for
Smoked Article.

Philadelphia, Feb. 2o.-The dairy
and food bureau of the state agricul-
tural department has decided that
large number of delicatessen and other
stores of this city have been for
long time selling dyed fish as a sub
stitute for smoked fish. When Harry
P. Cassidy, the agent of the bureau,
told the retail store proprietors what
they were doing they were surprised.
as they had purchased the stuff as
genuine smoked fish.
Cassidy's attention to the food arti-
Gle was attracted by its rich red color.
Purchasing some of the fish, he had it
examined and the expert reported that
he could dye wool with the coloring
matter extracted from ii. In smoking
fish there is a loss of fifteen pounds
to every hundred, it is said, but in dye
ing the article there is no loss at all.
This permitted the violators of the law
to undersell their competitors in the
smoked fish industry. The dairy and
food bureau promises prosecutions
this week against certain wholesale
dealers.
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in two deaths and the serious Illness

in two deaths and the serious Illness
of several persons.
On the evening of February f.
Charles B. Hutchinson gave dinner
for sixteen friends. At the end OF the
meal coffee was served, first to the
ladies, and later to the men. After
only a few minutes several of the Ia
dies became ill and a number of men
complained of distress.
Physicians were summoned. but
the host died during the night. Later
Alexander Clapperton, relative, died.
riously i'll for some days
Postmortem examinations revealed
that the deaths were due to poisoning
and suspicion fell on the son, John. A
warrant for his arrest was issued and
today the officers found him at no.
tel at Guernsey. The young man drew
vial from his pocket and despite the
efforts of the officers to prevent him
drank the contents. He died in few
moments. The motive for poisoning
the dinner party if known, has not
been divu1ged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
Tafts Hear Eva Booth.

Washington, Feb. 20.-The Presi-
dent and Mrs. Taft, as well as many
members of the diplomatic corps,
heard Commander Eva Booth of the
Salvation army deliver an appeal in
the cause of that organization here
last night. Miss Booth paid a tribute
in her speech to the lives of Lincoln
and Mckinley and spoke of the great
characters of history who had de-
voted themselves to the uplift of their
fellowmen. John Wanamaker of
Philadelphia accompanied the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Taft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
NOTHING BUT MONEY.
Railroads Can't Accept Advertising
for Transportation.

washington, Feb. 2O.-Only money
and not advertising can be accepted
by Interstate RAILROADS in payment for
transportation, according to an inter-
pretation announced today by the su-
preme court of the United States of
the Hepburn rate law of 1906.
The decision involves a large num-
Der of contracts between the Chicago,
Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad
company and various publishers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
POISON IN THE COFFEE.
Man Accused of Putting 1t There
Commits Suicide.

London, Feb. 20.-The coffee pois-
oning mystery at Dalketh had tragic
sequel today in the suicide of John
Hutchinson, son of one of the vic
tins who swallowed a fatal drug in
the presence of officers sent to arrest
him. The suicide was a chemist and
was charged with having placed pois-
on in the coffee served at a dinner
party at his fathers home, resulting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
E,nployers' Liability Law sustained

Washington, Feb. 20.-The consti-
tutionality of the law of Iowa passed
in 1898 enabling an employee of the
operating department of a railroad to
sue a railroad for injuries notwith-
standing the fact he had received in
Jury benefit from a relief department
supported partially by the railroad
was upheld today by the supreme
court Of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
Violent Quake in the Vilayet Of
MOnastir, Turkey.
Many of the Houses and Mosques
Are Demolished.
PEOPLE DRIVEN OUT.
Camping in the Open and Suf-
fering From Cold.
Some Loss of Life Has Been Re-
ported.

Constantinople. Feb. 20.-A violent
earthquake was experienced at Mona
stir and elsewhere throughout the VIII
layet Of Monastir today. There was
some loss of life.
several mosques and houses were de-
molshed. The population is camping
OUT and suffering intensely with cold.
Inc authorities have appealed to the
government for 300 tents and relief
funds.
Monastir Is town of European Tur-
key capital Of the Vilayet of Monastir
in Macedonia, IS miles northwest of
Salon1k1. 1t Is an important military
center and has large trade in wheat
and tobacco, besides having manufac-
tories of gold and silver ware and car
pets. The population, which is esti-
mated at $4,000, is a medlev of all the
nat1onalities to be found in Macedonia,
the Christian numbering about half of
the total.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
Jack London Wounded.

Los Angeles, Cal. Feb. 2O.-A re-
port has reached here that Jack Lon
don, the novelist and short story writ
er. has been wounded and is under
arrest at Calexico. Mex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-20
Fnu Grew Law Is Upheld.

washington, Feb. 20.-The full
crew. act of Arkansas, regulating the
size of crews on freight trains was
held today to be constitutional by the
supreme court of the United States.
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Weather Indications.

Chicago, Feb. 20.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Increasing cloudiness tonight and
Tuesday. Continued cold.
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the northwest.