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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

olive branch and it is claimed that his
proposal is being seriously considered.
THE late primary has produced
very hard nut for some of the poll
ticians to crack said Sticher. Before
the primary the Roosevelt fellows were
worrying how to stay on the primary
ballot; now the Taft fellows are wor-
rying how to get back on the Novem-
Der ballot and stay there so that the
Taft followers will have an opportunity
to express themselves. 1 am frank TIC
say that I would be one Progressive
who would be gla1 to give the Taft
followers chance to vote for their
man.
Il believe it would be a good plan to
let the Taft electors stay on the ticket
and let the Roosevelt electors volun-
tarily take the Independent column. NO
Republican could then say he had been
disfranchised or be forced into a posi-
ton where he could not vote"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
LIKE THE MIRACLES.
George Gatecliff's Fifteen Tomato
Vines Yielded a Carload.

Friends of George Gateclifr of AFTER and
Belmont avenues, claim that he is the
champion amateur gardener of Shawnee
county and Kansas. Mr.. Gateclif set out
fifteen tomato plants this spring. He has
forgotten the number of bushels he has
picked from them. Anyhow he has sup
ply of canned tomatoes to last his family
for several years and he has furnished
all his friends and relatives with all Of
this fruit that they had any use for. But
although his tomato plants were stripped
time and time again, they continued to
bear in such profusion that the tomatoes
were beginning to crowd his house of
its foundation, so the other day he found
it necessary to dig the plants up. Mr..
Gatecliff also has a pepper plant that
has no less than 70l pods on it. Charley
Parker, on the way to Oakland, is au-
thority for this statement. And next year
Mr. Gatecliff proposes to train his water
melon vines up the side of the house, so
that when he wants a melon all he will
have to do is reach out of the window
and pick 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

tr1ct has been placed In real simple
terms, the school fund commission would
welcome the receipt of the money cover
ing bonds issued by the Topeka district.
If this money is not forthcoming. Super
gest to the Topeka board that it should
hasten to REISSUE its bonds. And in this
respect. 1t is made clear that the interest
rate will be per cent and not per cent.
which was enjoyed under the old issue.
If the board of education does not desire
to accept either of these terms, there is a
third course presented. The board must
create a sinking fund to protect this in
debtednees
Replying to the statement of Mr. Hol-
man. wherein he claimed the bond diff
culties had been adjusted with the state
school fund commission, this commission
begs to differ with Mr.. Holman and ir
forms Mr. Fairchild that no action has
ever been taken. Now the matter is
checked directly up to the school boar,t
with instructions that it must act hastily
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
PRESIDENT IS FIRM
VIII Again Veto the Legislative
Appropriation Bill
If 1t Comes to Him With Com.
merce Court Out.

Washington, Aug. 17.--President
Taft told callers today he intended to
fight congress for the retention of the
commerce court if it kept him in
he would again veto the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation
bill if it came back to him containing
the provision to abolish the court.
Mr.. Taft was aroused over reports
that the Democratic house leaders
planned to retaliate for his veto by
refusing appropriation for the coun-
selor for the state department, the bu-
reau of trade relations and other adj
juncts of the department which the
president considers of immense i'm
portance to interests engaged in for
eign trade.
Two Republican senators, Smoot
and Sanders, assured the president
that the senate might pass the bill as
reported to the house yesterday but
they were confident it would not pass
over a second veto Those who talked
with the president in the White Horse
offices today quoted him as saying he
could listen to no offers of compromise
on the bill and must do his duty as
he saw it.
President Taft has not decided wheth-
er h. will approve the Panama canal
bill as agreed to by the senate ano
house conferees. The president told
friends today that the free tolls pro-
vision of the bill might prove a serious
Embarrassment TO the United States
and that he was not sure he could
sign the bill in that shape.
Mr.. Taft favors an amendment which
in effect would permit other nations tic
test the free tolls provision by suits in
United States courts He was told by
Senator Simmons today that it proba-
bly, was too late to attach such an
amendment to the bill.
The house rules committee today
made a special rule which prohibits
the raising of any point of order against
the measure. The bill will be consid-
cred and probably passed by the house
before adjournment today. This drastic
action was taken because of opposition
of last night when Representatives
Olmstead and Moore of Pennsylvania
contended that the conferees had gone
beyond their Jurisdiction in accepting
several senate amendments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
NEGRO MOVEMENT
National Civic League to Meet
in Topeka August go.
Booker Washington Will Be
Here-Be Big Session.

The first annual meeting of the
Negro National Civic movement will
be held in Topeka beginning Tuesday
of next week and continuing until
Friday evening. A large attendance
of prominent members of the race are
expected to attend from far and wide
The opening general meeting will
be held in the auditorium Wednesday
evening at o'clock. On that occa-
sion the main speaker will be DR.. A.
Henry Attaway of Jacksonville, FIori-
da, president of the Edward Waters
college. His subject will be 1.-The Ne
gro's Place in the World" DR.. Alta
way, who is said to be something of an
orator, spent eight years in Africa.
There will be several special mu-
steal numbers Wednesday night, and
Mrs. Reverdy c.. Ransom of New
Y ork will have something to say about
Y. w. c. A. work for negro women.
Regular sessions will be held in Rep
resentative hall.
Booker T. Washington will be
among the convention speakers. The
meetings will be presided over by r.
Conkling Wassom, president of the
national organization.
OF the new movement for the bet
terment of the negro race President
Wassom has this to say:
l. Be loyal, energetic, and aggressive.
2. Take an interest in negro enter
prises and institutions, and support them.
B. If not member, join some lodge
4. Read your own negro newspaper, if
not a Observation-Disclosures
5. Buy a home-however humble, buy.
Have something tangible, something that
is yours
6. Keep up the property that you occu-
py, whether you own it or not. Now your
lawns, nail on the loose palings, do not
become Stagnant to your duty tenant.
7. See that your back yard is clean
and keep it SO. Remember Cleanliness is
Goodness"
g. Attend some church, once a month
at least-matters not whether you be a
Christian.
8 Carry a life Insurance. however
small, carry 1t.
TO- See that your children attend school.
What do you pay taxes for?
II. If you are enfranchised, vote, no
matter for what party or person, but vote.
Exercise your right.
Officers of the movement IN charge of
the convention are: r. Conkling Wassom.
president; Prof. Reuben H Brown, of
Quindaro, Kan, vice president; Dr. A.
Baxten Whitby, of Oklahoma City, second
vice president; John M. Wright, of To-
peka, treasurer.
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Christening q viIlage.

Even the apparently simple matter
of inquiring the names of places is
not so easy as one would think When
to Parimau they pointed to the huts
and asked what the village was called:
the answer given was "Tupue," mean
ing, 1 believe, the name of the family
who lived in the huts pointed at. For
several months we called the place
Tupue, and the name appeared in va
rious DISCUSSES in the English news
papers. When 1 was at Parimau, in
July, it occurred to me to doubt the
name of Tupue, which we never
heard the natives use, so I questioned
a man deliberately. Pointing in the
direction of Wakatimi, said in his
language, Many houses, Wakatimi,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
MELVIN WANTS S2,275
He Had His Hand Mashed in Crane
& Co. Machine

For crushing the fore finger on his
left hand in an enclosing machine be-
longing to Crane & Co., Harvey M. Mel
vir this morning filed suit in the dis
trict court for damages against the
company in the aggregate of $2,275.
Melvin says that at the time of the ac-
c1oent, December 4, 1911, he was an APP
prentice bookbinder in the employ Of
Crane & Company. He says following
the instructions of his foreman he
started to file of a flaw in an emboss-
Ing plate in the machine when a hand
clutch used to disconnect the machine,
slipped and the machine started. He
claims that the machine is old and
Anticipated, and that it is so badly worn
that it is dangerous. He asks $50 ply
sicians- fees, 1925 for loss of time and
s., 900 damages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

and he nodded assent; then pointing
in the direction of another village
that we had visited I said, MANY
houses, Imah," to which he agreed;
then said, MANY houses" and
pointed towards Parimau. This per
Torrance was repeated three times
before he understood my intention
and supplied the word "Parimau,"
across the river to the people in the
village, who received 1t with shouts
of laughter, and well they might. 1t
was as If a foreigner, who had been
living for six months in a place
which he was accustomed to call
Jones, inquired again one day what
its name was and found that il was
London.-Cornhill Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
LIKE THE PHILOSOPHERS
David Leahy VIII Retire to St. Marys
Week for Rest.

Dave Leahy, secretary to the governor;
also Irishman and philosopher, like Aris-
totle, or Mira, is retiring from the world
for week. It was the custom of the
ancient philosophers to withdraw them
selves for a few days to the devotion OF
peace, rest and profound meditation
Leahy is following these examples. Leahy
is leaving political activity, fights, fac
tons, the rise and fall of the parties,
and has betaken himself to the quiet viii
lage of st. Marys. St. Marys is a head
quarters for all Catholics in the state of
Kansas, a gathering place for the cardi-
to the governor. For quiet week there
will be rest, informal talks, plenty of
sleep, and enjoyment of an annual &C.
currence. Leahy will be there for the
week. Good luck to you, Dave Leahy-
Only don't stay too long, for the state
house without you is like a shell without
a pearl, or a glass of lemonade without
a stick in it.
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an, who recently moved here after
having passed unscathed through a
ern Missouri.
The house was built by Christopher
Schroers for his bride. To him a
gypsy prophesied evil things to be-
fall the occupants of the house. He
laughed and moved in. A few weeks
later he was killed by train. The
little daughter of George Lobbey, a
telegraph operator, was run down and
killed by a wabon. Then a child of
Conrad Ebert, a railroad employee, was
killed by train as she rushed out
to wave at the passengers. Claude
Hudnan and his bride succeeded them
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st. Joseph, Mo, Aug. 3.-The restless
spirit of a gypsy slain 20 years ago Dy
a rival in quarrel over the affections
OF girl of the clan, is blamed by the
superstitious of the neighborhood for
a series of fatalities and misfortunes
which have occurred to tho occupants
OF a house near st. Joseph.
Death after death has occurred there
until the man who braves the curse
which is supposed to haunt it and moves
his family into the house is regarded
with awe and Stunned by the neigh
bors. The latest of these tragedies is
the death within a week of each other
OF the two little children of D. Noon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
No Better Place on Earth
in Which to Rear a Family
Topeka in Brief

Population, $4,000.
No saloons.
Area, 8 square miles.
Commission, business form of
government.
hospitals, annual revenue ST.
100000
public parks. .=cIuding a ZOO.
Telephones. 5000.
rs miles of paving.
400 miles brick and cement
walks.
rs miles OF sewerage system.
70 miles OF water mains, city
owns plant.
banks capital and surplus
S1,424,0 900.
FIGURING mills, daily capacity
$500 barrels.
Number of buildings construct
ed 1911, 400.
At miles electric street railway.
miles suburban.
~ churches. Y. M. c. A. or
ganizations with buildings.
7. w. G. A. building.
4 lines of steam railways
6F passenger tre1ng daily.
Wholesale and jobbing houses,
Al.
s76 manufacturing plants
rs public schools, 240 teachers,
1855 pupils.
washburn college and Bethany
college. 1900 students.
8 business. colleges.
About s25 automobiles.
Assessed valuation, Topeka
$4,000, 200.
Employees Santa Fe general Of
fices, 1900.
Employees Santa Fe shops.
largest railway repair shops IN
the world. $500.
Employees Rock Island offices.
$50.
Topeka has largest creamery in
the world Manufactures g.
100000 pounds of butter and
ships 100000 eggs annually
Topeka has greatest pipe organ
west of the Atlantic coast, in
the Auditorium which seats
1000 people.
Topeka has the largest pension
bureau in the United States.
100, 900 pensioners on lists.
S1s.000.0no %i=4ributed an
nuaIs=
NsturaI gas. 25 cents per 1000
feet
$50 miles natural gas mains.
Municipal lighting plant
Cheap natural gas and electric
power.
Electric Light, Heat & Power
Plant furnishes current for
operation of the Topeka
Street Railway and 1900
horsepower in motors and all
commercial lighting in city:
heat for business houses, low
priced economical power for
factories.
Topeka has 100000 state
capitol building and many
other state institutions.
State hospital for the insane:
cost one million dollars.
State printing and heating
plant; cost one hundred and
six thousand dollars.
State reform school for boys.
Memorial building (now build
lng); cost three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
Topeka has a live Commercial
club of 1000 members.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

and things turned out so badly that
HudneI killed himself. So did Charles
Highly, although the motive has never
become known The next tenant and
his hired hand met death under a
train on their way to town.
Ill luck has marked every venture
undertaken by those who have lived IN
the house. Broken legs, accidental
gunshot wounds, paralysis, illness and
poor crops have featured the residence
Of others.
The house is vacant now because
after spinal meningitis had claimed
his two children, Noonan took the re-
n1ainder of his family and speedily
moved out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
OLD STARS IN GAME.
Rickert and Moore viii Play in Inter.
city Contest.

The. Shawnee Mills Midgets and the
Rose Tint team will play for the city
championship Sunday afternoon at
League park. Each team will be
strengthened by the addition of sever
al players Joe Rickert and Ed
Moore will be in the contest. Cum
mings the tphenom' who is from Hi
awatha and was supposed to be
Bugs Raymond in disguise VIII
pitch for the MidRets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
RABBIT bitches CAR.
Party Thrown From Auto When
Jack Dies.

Dover, Colo, Aug, IA jackrao-
bit hich became entangled in the
steering gear of an automobile belong
ing to w. L. Lidesay, who came here
from Iowa, early today caused the
machine to run into fence. throwing
members of the party from the car.
and damaging the automobile. No
one was Seriouslu hurt.
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state school Fund Trustees take Hand

state school Fund Trustees Take Hand
In a letter to State Superintendent E. T.
Fairchild today, the state school fund
commission directs the state superintend-
emit to order the placing of the Topeka
school bond situation in a more safe ann
legal condition. Superintendent FafrchfId
is directed to Immediately open corre-
spondence with the Topeka school board
of education with a view of adjusting
the trouble
Tt is made quite clear by the state
school fund commission that It does no.
approve of the manner in which the
bonded Indebtedness of the Topeka DIS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

The college will print the list of
rooms for rent August 22nd. House
holders DESTROYS of listing rooms
should hand in their description with
listing fee of Csc by that date.
Blanks will be furnished by the col
lege on application
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

Charles Hutchinson, who was arrest
Ell last night charged with attempting
to pass check to which the name Of
Mayor ]. B. Billiard had been forged
probably viii be turned over to the
The police believe the boy has success
fully passed several checks. and are
seeking a positive identification of him
before applying for a state warrant for
his arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
HE PLEADS GUILTY,
Sidna Edwards Is Sentenced to is
Years in Prison.

Wyethville, Va. Aug. i.-Sidna Ed
wards, one of the Hillville court house as
sassins, pleaded guilty today to second de-
gree murder and was sentenced to Is
years in the prison.
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100 LATE TO CLASSIFY.

FOR RENT-$9O 5 room lower flat new,
modern and complete. 706 West Sth.
Phone No. l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17

Dine at Dunton's Cafe. formerly
Elks Cafe, Seventh and jackson.
Sunday luncheon 1880 to 2 d. m.
Sunday dinner to D. m.-5Oc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
LOCAL MENTION.

The Eagle Rose Tint baseball Glib
played the Indian Creek grange team this
afternoon north of the city. The Rose
Tints will play the Shawnee Mill Midgests
Sunday afternoon at League park. The
game will be called at $3.50 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-17
ROOMS for WashbUrn students.

Santa Fe apprentice band concert every
night CITY park. Dancing, skating.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-14
CHARLEsTowN RESULTS.

FIRST RACE Selling: pure. $40; threyeAr-
old hllies; Eve and onehan furiongs. Chiffon
Trance. lis (wilscnl. u to S won: Grace Nc ll1
i0bertl, Is to l. second: Leialoha. los tHEnoverl.
TO I. third. Time. l:2 IS Diamood Brckle.
Day May. Elsie Herndou. RoSsalo, Eloro. Pearl.
Princess May, Chn Top. and Loathly Lady also
raM
SECOND RACE-Purse. 500; three-yeir-olds and
upward: five and one-hah furlongS ParkTiew. IL
tkocnsrl. II to 10 won: Richard Reed. III tFcr-
sythel. II to S. second: Marx Anthony II, III
t0bcr9, 10 to /. third. Time. i:lI Is Tiny Tim.
Love Watches. J. Q. Gore. Carroll. and PocOtaliso
also ran
THIRD RACE-cslhom stakes: selling; two
yearolds: four and oDe-hah fulongs. Rosturtium.
lG tJensenl. to L won: Arcene. le tGoosel.
. to . second: EIla Crane. lol tTurnerl- 10 to J..
third Time. 0sS IS Clinton. St Avano. Faus-
tina, Roseburg ". Miss NelmA. Miss Edith.
spdshtly Miss. Cedar Brook. Prince Fonso and
Senator James also ran.
FOURTH RACE-Sellinz: handicap; purse. 500:
thTee-year-olds and upward: mile and seventy
yards. Any Port. 1G tTurncri TO !. won: Bob
r.. III (wilsonl. TO s. scooad: Mad River. 6
tlsounsberIyl. 90 to l. third Tine. l:e Is. Camel
and High Private also ran.
FIFTH RAeE-Selling: purse. so: three-ysar-oids
and supwari: i've ard enc-haf fnriooes. Berkeley.
lls tBmweill. B To $ won; Royal Captive. 10
u.ounsbsuyi.' % TO L second: MseAzinc. lls Hop
kinsl. u to j. third Time. iIe 2-5 An Red.
Wander. Losd Elam. and Jeznp Burne also
SIXTH RACE-Purse. Nco; fouryearolds and up-
ward. hVc anf>onc-hah furlons~ Toiscus 4 Or. fff
tGOoso). 8 70 5. won weitcrn Belle III JJenseul.
to !. second: Sir lEdwlrd. Ils GOansberyl. Is to
The Washington herald., 1912-03-14
WALL STREET NEWS
Impossibility of Tariff Reform by
Congress at This Session
Causes Heavy Trading.
BY THOMAS c. sHorwELL.

New York. March I2-Although a re-
action carried prices down in the final
trading to-day, most were left with net
advances as a result of the days busi-
ness. Business was on a light scale. but
it was confident throughout. A feature
was the sharp movement among indus
trials. There was ample reason for this
activity in the knowledge that Congress
is so helplessly involved in investigations
as to make IL impossible that any tariff
reform of importance be done this year.
This and the fact that trust busting helps
the trust busted encouraged traders.
The tobacco and sugar trusts made an
nual reports showing record earnings.
Tobacco earned about s. per cent on Its
common stock, and sugar earned double
its dividends. The earnings of the sugar
trust are largely caused by the failure
of the beet-sugar crop in Germany last
summer, so this year cannot hope to
equal them. In the case of the tobacco
for expecting anything less than new
high record earnings this year.
The advance in Harvester was on eN-
pectatiOn of plan for segregation. 1t
touched a new hig record for the year.
The stock would have advanced anyhow
because of the record acreage TO be
planted in all crops this year.
Rubber stocks were strong on the eX-
change and on the curb. This is due to
two distinct reasons The collapse of
the movement TO reform the tariff makes
rubber men feel sure that their business
will not be disturbed. The forthcoming
announcement of the organization of the
new Goodrich Rubber combination fur
nishes speculative chances for the share
holders Of concerns directly or indirectly
connected with that company and the
United States Rubber Company. Smelling,
10y the way. is to be listed in Paris be-
fore long. The necessary consents have
been obtained, and the formal announce
Western Unions statements disproved
the allegations Of President Mackay. of
the Postal, that the company was losing
as a result Of the cheap service inaug-
Urated
r. Canadian Pacific was one of the strong
features. The report that Canadian Pa
citic is buying Erie was afioat again, but
IL can be said on the authority of one
of the highest officers of the company
that the Canadian Pacific has not pur-
chased Erie and has no intention of doing
so. The Erie mystery will be cleared up
in couple of weeks. II was noted that
the stock remained strong to-day, even
when other issues were reactiOnary.
Professionals are working in the mar
ket on the theory that it will advance
until the British coal strike Is officially
settled. Then they intend to jump on |
it and discount the American coal strike |
in advance.