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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
First SNOW at T.akin.

Lakin. Kan. Oct. 31.-The ground is
partially covered with the first fall ct
snow for the season with the temperature
at 40 degrees and cloudy. The Indicators
are for more moisture. 1t will cause Some
delay in the beet harvest but no serious
results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

The regular 81 size of KeIogg's SAM
tone Waters are for sale in Topeka
Campbell Drug Co, S21 Kansas avenue;
Arnold Drug Co. c. W. Lacey, S31 No.
Kansas avenue: Brunt Drug CO. 435 Kan
sa savenue; Rex Pharamcy. 1901 Kansas
avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
Fortunes in Faces.

There's often much truth in the saying
her face is her fortune" but its never
said where pimpIes, skin eruptions,
blotches, or other blemishes disfigure Il.
Impure blood is back of them all, and
shows the need of DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. They promote health and beauty.
Try them, Is cents at Campbell Drug
Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31

| ing the breast and passed through the
| lower part of the right lung.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
a 5O-CENT BOX FREE

a Recent Discovery. Kellogg's sanitono
Waters, the Most Effective Nerve
Strengthened for Hen and WO-
men Ever Found by Science.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
NetDs Notes of Wisconsin

Green Bay.--A mad dog bit three
persons at Shawano and all of them
we're taken to Madison for the Pas
teur treatment.
Manitowoc.--John Radej, on trial
for the killing of John ROLAND, a
farm hand, was found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree by Jury
in the circuit court. Radej was SEN
fenced to from fourteen to twenty
five years at Waupun.
Neenah One of the worst fires In
the history of the city Quilted the big
mill of the Krueger-Lachman COM
pany, -four manufacturers. 1t is be-
lieved that the blaze was started by
a locomotive spark. Machinery,
grain, warehouse and mill were de-
stroyed at loss of $4,000.
Madison. The insurance depart
ment has issued license to the Bad
ger Casualty company of Green Bay,
a stock company which VIII have a
capital stock OF 100000.
Neenah. Because of an epidemic
of scarlet fever, the schools at Win.
neconne have been closed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
ASSESSMENT ROLLS SUMMED
Downtown Fire In Milwaukee Causes
SIPS. 900 Dsmags-Six BusI-
ness Firms Lose Heavily.

Milwaukee.-Fire of unknown or
igin, starting In the basement of the
four-story brick building at 172-176
Third street, wiped out six business
concerns, destroyed twenty-five out
of twenty-seven city assessment rolls,
imperilled the lives of score OF en-
ployes and caused loss estimated
at between 100000 and $125,0O0.
The tenants OF the burned building
were: Lawrence McGreal, musical
supplies; Grand Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Co., Murphy Clothing Co.,
Boehm Bindery, Huxall Billiard Co..
Wisconsin Talking Machine Co.
Twenty-Five Of the twenty-seven
assessment rolls placed by the tax de-
partment in the Boehme bindery
were destroyed. Two of the volumes
were found in the rear of the build
Ing and returned to the tax depart
ment
The assessment rolls were to have
been placed In the hands OF the board
OF review on June "a, and their loss
will make it necessary to recompile
them from the assessors field books.
This cannotl be done in less than
months time.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
CONVlCTS TO BUILD ROADS
System of Varied industries for In.
mates at Waupun Considered
by Board of Control.

Madison.-A system of varied in
dustries for the employment of the
convicts at the Wisconsin state pris-
on at Waupun will be considered by
the state board of control. At pres
ent majority of the prisoners are
working under a contract made by
the state with knitting company in
the manufacture of socks and stock
ings. The board will consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of varying the work, and
one of the labor plans to receive at
tention is roadbuilding for the state.
According to President Smith of
the state board of control, there are
about $50 convicts in the state prison
at present, of which number between
400 and 500 are employed in the
knitting plant. Their income for the
state is approximately $500 a
month. In addition the prisoners
earn over 1,400 a month over and
above their task requirements. This
money is credited to their private &C
counts. Prisoners have earned as
much as SIT per month for overtime.
The number of women prisoners at
Waupun is now about twenty. They
are employed in laundering the linen,
patching and other light work.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
POWDER TRUST IS BROKEN.
Court Orders Dissolution Of Dupont
and Affiliated Interests.

Wilmington, Del. June 15.-The final
decree was entered In the United
States circuit court on Thursday by
Judge Gray. Burlington and McPher-
son In the government suit against
f. l. Du Pont De Nemours & Co, ct
al, providing for dissolution OF the al
legged combination.
The decree directs that the follow.
ing concerns be dissolved and the
property distributed among the stock.
holders:
E. |. Du Pont De Nemours & Co..
G902 Delaware corporation). Hazard
Powder company, Delaware Securities
company, Delaware Investment COM
pany Eastern Dynamite company, Cal
ifornia Investment company, and Jud
son Dynamite G. Powder company.
The order directs the organization
of two corporations, in addition to the
f, |. Du Pont De Nemours Powder
company, which shall be capitalized
according to schedule given, or rec
ognize the Latin & Rand Powder com
pany, and the Eastern Dynamite COM
pany, or either OF them. to be used
instead of one or both OF said two cor
porations.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
FIRE RATES ARE EXCESSIVE
House Owners of Wisconsin Ara
Overcharged an Aggregate of
100000 Annually.

Madison. - Milwaukee, Oshkosh,
Madison, La Crosse and other Wis
consin cities are paying excessive
rates for dwelling house insurance.
aggregating an overcharge of up-
ward of 100000 annually This is
one of the conclusions demonstrated
by the evidence presented to the leg
islatiye fire insurance investigating
committee, according to a statement
made by Insurance Commissioner
Ekern.
The testimony also indicates that
Wisconsin is a profitable field for in
surance companies in that the ratio
of losses to premiums is more favor
able than in the country as a whole.
Excepting the year 1910, which was
an unfavorable year for all classes
OF companies in Wisconsin, the Der
centages for each year show a more
favorable loss ratio in Wisconsin
than upon the business of these COM
panies as whole. The losses in
Wisconsin are about 4 per cent lower
than outside Of this state.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
DISTRIBUTE TAX Of
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Amount This Year, $525, 1923,
an Increase of $50, 759.
TOWNS GET IS PER CENT
Largest Assessment Against Milwau-
kee Street Car Co., Milwaukee
Northern Railway. and Light. Heat
& Traction Co.

Madison.-The state tax commits
sion has made distribution of the tax
levied against the street railway,
light, heat and power companies OPP
Grated in the state, the total amount
of the tax being $525,128.21 or an
assessed valuation of $47,365, 1000.
The distribution Is according to the
law which requires that So per cent
of the tax shall be returned to the
towns, cities and villages in which
the properties are located, 10 per
cent being retained by the state as
compensation for administration.
The total amount of the tax for
1912 Is $53,75914 more than for
1911, when it was s471,369.07. The
amount retained by the state out of
the present tax is $7S,769.23 while
the amount distributed to the towns,
cities and villages is $446,35S98.
The largest assessments are those
against the Milwaukee Electric Rail-
way & Light company, the Milwau-
kee Light. Heat & Traction company
and the Milwaukee Northern railway,
the total of the three being $780,
Ioo''o, on valuation of $685.
100000.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
SCOUTS MAY BUY FARM
Plan State Reservation for Badger
Boys-Site Near Valley juno
ton Under Consideration.

Madison.-Plans are under way for
the purchase of state reservation
for the Boy Scouts of Wisconsin. One
of the sites considered for such a
reservation where the scouts of Wis
consin could gather each summer is
Bonnie View, about two and a half
miles from Valley Junction. A nat
ural lake and adjoining farm with a
number of cottages, the site of a
camping resort, are points in it's IA
vor
The purpose is to have in Wiscon-
sin for the Boy Scouts a second hoy
city" such as was held last year in
Indiana The farm, with its thirty
acres Of Cranberries, would be work
ed by boys in summer and would be
the source of considerable income.
Efforts may be made to have the
farm, which is part of camping re-
sort, bought by company of men in
terested in the Boy Scouts. After
purchase the grounds would be self
supporting. All state patrols of the
Boy Scouts would be welcome to
camp at the farm for one or two
weeks each summer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
THE PEEVISH CHILD
NEEDS TREATMENT

When a child sulks drowsily, or is
fretful, 1t is usually due to some slight
disorder Of the digestive organs, and a
mild laxative IL very often all that IL
necessary to restore cheerfulness ara
buoyancy of spirits.
In cases where the use Of p gentle,
effective laxative stimul9rc is indi-
Gated. many Of the best physicians are
now prescribing DR.. Caidwell's Syrup
Pepsin. This preparation is admitted
ly the perfect laxative. being mild, yet
positive In It's action on the bowels.
and far preferable to violent cathart-
les and purgative waters. 1t is very
pleasant to the taste and Is an ideal
remedy to regulate and strengthen the
stomach, liver and bowels. Its easy,
natural action makes 1t especially de-
sirable in the case of children, dose
at bedtime being sure to have the de-
sired result next morning, with no at
tendant unpleasantness or discomfort.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold
by druggists everywhere in SOC and
$1.00 bottles. If you have never tried
this splendid remedy, write to DR.. w.
B. Caldwell, POI Washington St., Mon
ucello, ILL.,, for sample. He will be
very glad to send trial bottle with
out any expense to you whatever.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
GOVERNMENT LENT
MORGAN MILLIONS
corteIyou Tells How Banks Were
Aided in 1907.
BROKERS STIRRED BY STORY
Ex-Secretary Of Trcasury's Memory
Proves Faulty-CouId Not Recall
Just What Institutions Re-
ceivcd the Money.

New York, June 15-Evidences to
show that the $25,000,000. which j. f.
Morgan has been credited generally
with placing upon the New York stock
exchange during the panic OF l907
was really supplied by the treasury OF
the United States, was introduced on
Thursday at the nearing OF the Pujo
committee of the house of represen'
tatives that is investigating the so
called money trust
George b. Cortelyou, secretary OF
the treasury under the Roosevelt ad'
ministration, on the witness stand
made the assertion that he under
stood" that the money loaned by the
government to the banks at that time
was to be used on the stock exchange.
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
committee, attempted to learn the
names of the banks In which the
money was deposited, but Mr.. Cor
telyoh said his memory on this sub
Ject was poor.
The witness said he came here on
the night of October %, 1907, and had
a conference with J. p Morgan. James
Stillman. A. Barton Hepburn. George
F. Baker George W. Perkins, Frank
A. VANDERBILT and other financiers
After inquiring into the general stu
alton. he promised that the govern
ment would aid "ln a general way.
The next evening, he said, another
conference was held He was lot sure
that Mr.. Morgan was present then.
At this conference the witness said,
he promised $25,OO0,00O for distribu-
tion among the banks.
AT the first conference" he ex'
planned, 81 stated that | would not de.
post dollar except for the relief
of the country generally and the com
mercial community generally"
Cortelyou, on being pressed for a
list of the banks in which the $685..
100000 was deposited, finally referred
Mr.. Untermyer to the records Of the
treasury department. 81 only remem-
Der" the witness said. that the
money was deposited in national
banks. | could not undertake to say
which ones"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
PRESIDENT GOMEZ TO QUELL
REBELLION IN CUBA
Assures Taft That Peace VIII Be De-
clared Within Ten Days-Battle
With Rebels On.

Washington. June 13.-Assurancs
has been given by the United States
government by President Gomez that
the revolt In Cuba will be put down
within the next ten days.
President Taft received this assur-
ance on Wednesday from Rear Ad-
miral Hugo Osterhaus. COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Atlantic feet. part OF
which is now in Havana harbor. Ad'
miral Osterhaus, In a message to the
state department said that President
Gomez gave his assurance wheo ne
(Osterhaus) paid the president or Gu
ba an official visit.
Santiago, Cuba. June 14,-Govern'
ment troops fought battle with
force of 200 rebels In the vicinity OF
Daiquri, is miles from this city on
Wednesday. Two OF the rebel lead
ers were killed and 20 horses and IL
rifles captured.
A battle also ia reported TO have
been fought ten miles from the town
of Imias on the north coast OF the
province OF Oriente, near Baracos.
The result OF the fighting Is not
known here
A detachment OF government troops
under Major Rosendo Collazo fought a
battle with the insurgents near Ell
Cobre. ten miles west OF this -. city.
The rebels were defeated, losing ten
killed The government troops made
effective use of their artillery and are
pursuing the fleeing insurgents.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
WANTS LIMIT FOR
NEW STATE BANKS
State Commissioner Points Out
Defect Of Present Laws.
CANNOT REFUSE APPROVAL
Thinks Many. New Institutions Create
Needless and Improbable Com
petition, Thus Menacing the Sta
biIity of Financial Conditions.

Madison.-That there is serious
defect in the banking law Of Wis
sonsin, In that there is no adequate
provision whereby permission to or
ganize new bank may be refused
by the department, is pointed out in
a recent report by Commissioner Of
Banking A. Il. Kuolt. The commits
sioner declares that the number of
banks, fifty-six, organized during
the year 1911, is out of proportion
to the present needs of the state.
while some of these new banks
were needed in new communities, !"
says Commissioner kuolt, ''or in
places which have outgrown their
banking facilities, others, located
where such facilities are adequate to
existing business, create needless and
Improbable competition. Untram-
meled competition is menace to the
stability of the affected banks. Since
it is the intention of bank regulation
to strengthen, and unnecessary COM
petition weakens, the need arises of
some rule to restrict competition.
Commissioner Kuolt points out
that under tha provisions of the ma
tlonal bank act the comptroller of
the currency Is clothed with power
to refuse charters to new banks for
cause He says that the only statu-
tory provision In Wisconsin for the
refusal of the prescribed certificate
of authority to commence business is
contained in section 2024-12 of the
code and is inadequate both as to
cause and time of refusal. The cause
speficed must be that the bank has
been formed for other than legiti-
mate banking business" Other valid
causes are not recognized by this
statute. The time falls upon the
date when the bank is ready to open
for business To refuse charter at
this eleventh hour would cause hard
ship and financial loss to stockhold-
ers, many of whom might be inno-
cent of any design TO violate or to
cirCumvent the law.
THE power of refusal should be
coincident with the first overtures to
organize a new bank" says the COM
missioner.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
Life and Dickens.

Some one has said Of Charles Dick.
ems that he was not afraid of being
melodramatiC. II not one fault of our
more modern literature that it Is too
faultless? There is a certain anobbish
tyranny of taste which pals. Wood
row Wilson has said that taste Is un.
democratic. The culture which cannot
bear contact with cCarseness Is much
TO blame for our social maladjust.
ments. he said. So the literary taste
(Which sympathizes not with Rabel-
aisian humor and disdains redundant
emotion, Is at odds with life.
People live not by repression. AS
cetcism forms but very small part
of life. And 1t IL asceticism to cut ont
emotion, even excess emotion, with its
boisterOus laughter and too easy tears
Heaven forbid that from the one ex-
IRENE of chasteued, white corpuscled
style" the other extreme of affected
forcefulness- slang and unreal real.
ism-should be reached There is too
much OF that now. II will never salts.
fly. II will not set true standard or
mark a literary epoch But may we
have more Of the big artist work which
is not agraid to be as untrammclod
and as filled with cariCature as life
itself ls!-Kansas City Star.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
ACCUSES PRESIDENT TAFT.
Charge That $4,000 Annual Allow
ance Is Wrongly Utilized.

Washington, June 15.-Declartng
that President Taft has misused the
$4,000 travelling expense fund voted
yearly by congress. Chairman Fitzger.
aid OF the house appropriations COM
mittee bitterly attacked the president
during consideration OF the sundry
civil appropriation bill on Thursday.
He declared the president on his re-
cent western trip had mulcted the ac-
companying newspaper and secret
service men in spite OF protests to
bolster his depleted funds.
ut Is deplorable," he said, TO have
to state these facts to this house and
to the country"
Representative Page of North Caro-
lima also condemned the presidents
actions and demanded that the item
be stricken from the bill. The house
finally, by a vote of rs to 81. decided
to retain the item.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
Oriuin of Life

No one has the faintest idea how,
when or where life began There
are all sorts of theories. but no alb
solute certainty on the subject. So
far. no experiment has succeeded In
producing life from non-living matter.
Almost the last words that the great
Huxley wrote was to the effect that
the theory OF spontaneous genera
ton" was failure Many claims
have been advanced by those seek.
ing to produce life in the laboratories
from various sorts OF inanimate mat
ter, but in every case the claims
have gone up in smoke We do not
know what life is or how 1t originated
And the probability is we never will
know.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
To Protect Against Forest Fires.

Oshkosh. --Although no definite
action was taken, lumbermen and
timber land owners of Northern Wis
consin, who met here decided to take
steps for the formation of a forest
fire protective association. A COM
mittee will be appointed to ascertain
the sentiment among the owners of
private lands and the prospects are
that careful system of fire protec-
ton will be established. 1t was
brought out in the discussions that
the states system of preventing fires
was all right for state land, but it is
unsatisfactory for private land and
it was held that to prevent the fires
was more essential than stopping
them after they were started.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
TABLETS MARK MARCH ROUTE,

Advance Of General Herkmer in 1777
Is Commemorated at Utica.
Utica, N. Y, June 15.--Ceneral Mich
olas Herkmers 40 mile advance
through the Mohawk Valley to re-
lieve Col Peter Gansevoort at Fort
Stanwix from the onslaught of large
force OF British and Indians in August
1777 was concentrated Thursday by
the unwilling OF fourteen bronze tab
let's strung along his line Of march.
Il is probable that never before in
history of the United States has as
striking memorial service been
staged Along the forty miles of coun-
try road trayersed by the rescue par
ty the tablets mark each important
historical spot Each OF these tab
let's contains map OF the route and
also a few lines explaining the signi-
ticance Of its site
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
THE lNGRATITUDE OF WOMAN.
Paul Begged in Order That His Wife
Might Fast-What He Got
For IL.

Federico Panl--which is compo-
site rendering of his name as reported
in the various New York papers-was
dragged out of a subway station In
the Bronx by an ironhanded copper
the other day The copper took poor
Paul's two canes away from him
and prodding him with one of them,
made him walk briskly to the station
house. During the walk the spinal
Gu Nature that had bothered poor Paul
for several years past disappeared
completely and he forgot the cruel
limp. At the station house they peeled
Paul and found him armour plated
with small coins. He melted down
something like SIS in jingles. When
he was arraigned in court that night
for begging his wife arose:
HE doesn't have to beg, Judge"
said she. He has good business as
a chiropodist uptown He has a nice
little Office of his own; he employs
several helpers, and we own our own
home. But he insists on making up
in rags and dirt and taking his two
canes and going out at night to beg
i am dying of shame"
She was we'll dressed and seemed
thoroughly respectable. She sank back
in her chair sobbing Paul looked at
her with an enigmatic smile and kept
his own counsel. After he had been
toasted upon the judicial Goals he was
led away to give bail for his good con
duct during the next six months. Later
-bathed, shaved. dressed up in well
pressed clothes and wearing polished
ishoes-Paul gave his own story of
his double life.
81 worked hard" said he Il made
a good living and ] was happy and
content, until | married My income
from my business is sufficient to main
tain us in comfort But my wife
wanted more than that In despera.
ton one night | made up and went
out to beg. | made so much money
that ] begged by preference after
ward. II is an easier way Of getting
money than of working-and | made
my wife happy because | could give
her the money she wanted, and which
could not make by honest work Now
she objects To my begging Is It not
somewhat unreasonable? Must | car.
penter toes eighteen hours a day to
provide her with Injuries, when can
get more money in six hours by sit.
ting on cold stone floor and crying
into my beard?"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
TREASURER'S WORK GROWS
University Alone Requires 5000 War
rants-To Pay Out 100000
Vars ~ Gets $4,000.

Madison.-The increasing amount
OF business handled by the Office of
the state treasurer was indicated
when State Treasurer Dahl showed
that during 1894, when George w.
Peck was governor, the total amount
of warrants issued by the treasurer
for the year was S,571. In the pres
ent month alone over 5000 warrants
of the university will be handled,
while the total amount of money
needed to pay off all of the warrants
drawn on the state this month will
be about $500. 900 To pay the uni
versity demands for June will re-
quire about $280,0OO.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-20
The Last Word In Defense.

The angry mother returns home
from shopping tour down town to
find that Tommy has broken into the
jam closet. teased his little sister till
she cried. smashed a window pane
with his top. tied O. tin can on the tail
Of the dog next door, and then wound
up further depredations by tracking
the parlor carpet with his muddy
boots. You young villain, I'm going
to whip you till you can't sit down"
GRABS hold of him. Now what have
you got to say for YOURSELF"
Tommy: Jaw, say, ma, this looks
like a frame-up."