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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-06

The board of city commissioners this
morning approved the petitions for a
great white way on East Fourth street
The petitions call for an extension OF
the Kansas avenue lighting system
from the intersection of Fourth street
and Kansas avenue to Holiday street
at the Santa F7e tracks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-06

The Kreipe 80 team and the Bot
toms Sharks played a game of circus
baseball Sunday afternoon. The BIOS
won % to 6. They made 22 hits, 4
of which were home runs. The BIOS
want out of town games
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-06
Everyday Owl Prices

White House Flour, AZ lps'S1'f0
15c can extra good Tomatoes,
TOT =
Extra fine Northern Pink 70
tatoes, PIX. ..-.-,. 3Sc
Home grown Spinach, PIX &c
1Oc best Toilet Paper ---' &c
Best Spices sold in Topeka pkg.
for 4 and SC
Oil, gal. -.
Pretty good Broom ..... &c
Bulk Olives, OF. %oc
No. 10 can Pumpkin, about gal'
Tor -
No. 10 size can Apricots, about
gal. o.
Small sack good Flour, "a IDS.
Bulk or Link Sausage, lb. Tic
Csc can Baking Powder -- 1Sc
North Topeka people are get
ting the habit-1004 Kan Ave.
Our bakery goods are getting
very popular. We use the very
best of material
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-06

The police were active Saturday and
Sunday in trying to enforce the pro-
hibitory laws and arrested several
stocks of wet goods but the owners
fed and no one could be found who
would claim the stock. Beginning Sat
urday afternoon they went to oil East
Eleventh street where they found sew
eral cases and keg of beer and four
gallons of whisky in a wagon in front
of the place of John Brown and negro
with police reputation. Several Other
places were also raided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-06

Sunday morning the city and shop
fire companies in that territory, an
swered an alarm from the Santa Fe
yards where ties were burning. The
fire. was e&tinguished with slight loss.
Charles Snead, a negro, was arrest
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
FOREIGN.

After occupying the throne of China
for nearly three centuries, the Manchu
dynasty. represented by the child en-
reror, Pu VI, abdicated. Three edicts
were issued, the first proclaiming alb.
dication: the second, dealing with the
establishment of the republic, and the
third. urging the maintenance of
peace and approving the conditions
agreed upon by the imperial premier
Yuan Shi Kai, and the republicans.
A reflex Of the threatened national
coal strike viii go into effect Feb, 30
in Scotland, unless meantime the own
ers accept the principle of minimum
wage for all men and boys employed
underground, il seen in notices given
by the blast furnace owners through.
out Scotland to their workmen. The
contracts of the workmen are thus ter
minated Feb. 49,. The furnace owners
are OF opinion that national coal
strike is inevitable. 1t will affect
about 100000 men.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
SPORT.

wildcat" Ferns of Kansas City and
Clarence English OF Omaha have been
matched fer q fifteen15und bout at
st. Joseph. Mo.
Carl Morris. the Oklahoma giant,
had the better of every round in a
ten round bout with Jim Stewart, the
Brooklyn heavyweight, in Brooklyn.
1t is almost q certainty that the Jim
Flynn Jack johnson battle for the
heavyweight championship of the
world will be staged at Las Vegas, N.
NJ.
The National League baseball
schedule for 1919 has been adopted
and made public. The schedule pro-
vides for 154 games but the season
will be three days shorter than last
year. beginning one day earlier and
closing four days earlier The season
will open ON April 18th.
Jack ('Twin'') Sullivan of Boston
and Howard Morrow of Syracuse,
fought ten rounds to draw in Cleye-
land. Morrow was surprise, as he
got to" Sullivan frequently and eff
fectively. He had Sullivan's eye and
nose bleeding. Morrow's best work
was in covering. avoiding many heavy
blows.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
An unsh.ks.pearean Surprise.

At small seaport town in England,
q lady star actress of the third magni-
tude appeared as Juliet. 81 cannot do
Justice to myself" she said to the
manager. who combined theatrical en-
terprises with the conduct of row of
bathing machines. 'if do not have a
lime" (limelight) thrown on me when
I appear on the balcony"
1--WE amt got no limelight, Miss,
but think we could get you ships
blue light" replied the obliging man.
ager; and to this the lady agreed. The
lad who went to the shop to buy the
blue-light brought back a signal rock
ct which was given him by mistake.
The prompter was her own man, and
In his ignorance took the rocket in
good faith.
Romeo. He jests at scars, who never
felt wound.
Juliet appears. Prompter lights the
match).
s. But soft what light through
yonder window breaks?
(This was the match lighting the
fuse).
Arise, fair sun!
The sun, or rathsr~the rocket, did
rise with hiss that sounded far
louder in theater than it does in the
open air. Juliet was knocked off the
balcony. the fly borders were set on
fire, and the theater was filled with
sulphurous smoke. while the audience,
which was fortunately small one,
made a stampede to the doors.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
: -WASHINGToN.

James X. Polk, Jr., direct descend
ant of President Polk and son of
Bishop Leohidas Polk, first Episcopal
bishop of Louisiana, dropped dead in
Paris, Texas.
The House passed an anti-loan shark
bill establishing twelve per cent. az
the legal rate Of interest that may be
charged by loan agencies in the Dis.
trict of Columbia.
The nomination Of former Gov. Ny
ron 7. Herrick OF Ohio as ambassador
Of the United States to France, to
succeed Robert Bacon, resigned, was
confirmed by the Senate.
Secretary Fisher OF the Interior De.
partment has supplemented his oral
testimony given before the House pub
lie lands committee against the Borah-
Jones bill to reduce the term Of a
homestead entry to three years, by a
written report, which has reached the
committee.
The twenty-five army posts which
experts Of the War Department advo.
cate abolishing will not be provided
for in the army appropriation bill now
before the House. BY vote of So to
13, money for their maintenance or
repair was withdrawn. A reduction OF
$4,000 In the fund for barracks and
quarters also was made.
Plans for military government
for the Panama canal zone modelled
after that Of Gibralter are being drawn
by the War Department. Between S..
900 and 5000 troops are to be sta.
toned permanently on the zone. The
fortresses guarding the ends Of the
canal will be made the most powerful
In the world.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
FROM TELEoRAPHic REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEk'o
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

At the opening OF an aviation meet
in Oakland, Cal, one man was killed
ond six others seriously injured in an
accident.
Death by shooting was selected by
Harley McWhinney when the court at
Salt Lake. before passing sentence,
asked him his preference.
Aviator Horace F. Kearney, after a
mile minute flight across the bay
from Oakland, successfully threaded a
maze of electric wires and landed in
one of San Francisco's streets.
Senator Guggenheim introduced a
bill providing that but forty acres OF
on enlarged homestead shall be culti-
waited instead of eighty acres, as is
provided for by the present law.
Headquarters for the National Irri-
CATION Congress have been opened
here by Arthur Hooker, secretary of
the congress. The time of the meet
ing in Salt Lake next fall will be des-
lgnated soon by the board Of control.
The Seminole National bank. Semi
mole. Gaines county. Tex. was robbed
of $4,000 by two mounted men, who
rode up in front Of the bank during
the absence of the cashier and with
drawn revolyers compelled the assist
ant cashier, to hand over all the
money in sight. The robbers escaped.
President Taft has signed the proc
lamation admitting Arizona to state
hood. The inauguration of Governor
Hunt was witnessed by many promi-
nent people, including William j. Bry-
an. The news was heraided by the
explosion of forty-eight sticks of dyna-
mite at Bisbee.
Four persons were killed and nine
injured at Bingham, Utah, q mining
camp near Salt Lake, when an engine
hauling three cars loaded with ore was
derailed on steep grade of the Cop
per Belt railroad and rolled $50 feet
down the mountain side. crashing
through the roofs of two of the prin-
cipal buildings of the town.
Thousands Of protested land en-
tries in the West are to be taken in
hand at once by the Interior Depart
ment and pushed toward settlement
pursuant to an order issued by Sec
retary Fisher as result of pressure
exerted by Representatives Taylor Of
Colorado and Mondell of Wyoming of
the House public land committee.
Twenty-eight hundred entries in Colo,
orado alone. some of which have been
under a cloud of the governments
rubber stamp" protest system for
years are to be certified to the Land
Office at once. with reason why they
Lave not been examined by govern
ment agents.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
Contempt Of Court.

John Marshall was one defending a
client before Kentucky court. The
decisions OF the judge were invariably
in favor Of the plaintiff and Mr.. Mar
shall stopped short in his argument
to address the judge in this manner:
"Your honor" taking out his pocket
book. how much is Mr.. Marshall's
fine?"
Il do not understand you." replied
the Judge. II have not fined you;
what is the fine for?"
For contempt of court, sir"
But / have not held you in con.
tempt OF court"
Il know you haven't, Judge. but
have such an ungodly contempt for
the whole shebang I am more than
willing to pay the fine"
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
Read About These Three Girls. How Sick
They Were and How Their Health
Was Restored by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Appleton Wis take pleasure aa,d fsnd in writ
how felt and she said had female trou
advised me to use Lydia E. Pinkham's VI
Compound, as she had taken it herself for
trouble with wonderful results. had bee
for two years and overworked myself, and
bad feelings every month that could hard
for pain. / was Very nervous and easily t
and could not sleep nights. | had dizzy sp
pimples came On my face. But have tax
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
GENERAL.

The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the constitutionality cf the Greene
nine-hour work-day law for women.
Three million persons in central
China. are on the vefge of starvation,
according to statement just issued.
Sheriff Nancy A Williams Of La
clede county is the first and only wom-
I'm sheriff in Missouri. She recently
took several prisoners to the peniten-
tiary.
BY driving nails into the spine Of
his wife, Stanley Vekamas. a Pole. of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, sought to bring
sbout her death and hide the cause SO
that he could marry another. He was
arrested and his wife taken to a hos
pital lowering between life and death.
Sermons on the prevention of con
sumption will be preached in thou
sands of churches on April 2Sth. which
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention Of tuberculosis, ac-
cording to an announcement made re-
Gently, has set aside as tuberculosis
Day.
The anthracite mine workers spe-
cial committee in Pennsylvania will
present to the operators demands for
"a new working contract. On the oper-
4ators' answer hinges the question
whether there will be strike of 1S0,-
900 mine workers in the hard coal re-
gions.
Charles W. Morse, the banker, who
reached New York recently from the
federal prison in Atlanta, Ca, follow
ing Communication of his fifteen-year
sentence, has departed for Europe On
board the steamship Kaiser Auguste
Victoria, accompanied only by his
wife.
/; More men were hanged in Chicago
February 10th than suffered death for
throwing the Haymarket bomb in the
anarchist riots of 1886. Two murders
caused five men to walk to the gal
lows and drop to their death through
the trap, while four were hanged for
the Haymarket bomb throwing.
Five men contemplate crossing the
Atlantic ocean In the air above that sea
during the coming summer. Two of
these will, II they make the attempts,
fly In aeroplanes, two in immense dir
igible balloons, and one will be con-
tent with the spherical balloon. OF
the five, each is man skilled in his
own style Of flying.
Lieut.. Col. George w. Goethals, In
charge of the work on the Panama
canal, has plan Of his own to test
the canal before 1t Is formally opened.
When the canal has been completed"
he said at the War Department, "or
when l think things are ready to send
ship through, I'm going to pick out
some old scow that has done good
service there and have test of my
own. Starting at the Atlantic. I'm
going to head for the Pacific via the
canal. II get through III wire the
President that the first ship has sue.
cessfuily made the passage. II I don't
get through I'll say nothing about it"
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
A Safe investment.

Bill Jones was resident of Balti-
more. who. Notwithstanding an impedi-
ment in his speech, prospered in his
business as broker. He moved to
New York city and prospered even
more. A friend from Baltimore called
on him one day, and after some famil-
lar conversation, remarked:
'I say. Bill, 1t seems to me that you
stutter wrose here in New York than
you did In Baltimore"
'v-v-very l-l-likely; it's b-b-bigger
city"
'But say, Bill, you have made a
lot of money here and want your ad.
vice."-Life.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
Could Fill Requirements.

I4awyer-Now. SIR. from what you
know of his reputation for truth and
veracity in the community in which he
lives. would you believe him under
oath?
Witness-Yes. sir. as general
thing. OF course if it was absolutely
necessary for him to swear to lie
reckon he'd do it. mister. same as
you would,
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
The Ticket Didn't Tick.

Moore-My sense of hearing is the
keenest ever Do you know, can
hear your watch ticking although you
are six feet away.
Poore-Then you're wonder. My
wa-ch is at the pawnbroker's, six
blocks away!
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23

ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE."
That is LAXATIVE BROAO QClNINE. Look fo9
lhe signature Of e. W. GROVE. Used the World
pycr 10 Cure u Cold in One Day. &c.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23

Only a fool ever attempts to con-
vince a man that he isn't as clever as
he thinks he is.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23

Don't be misled. Ask for Red Cross
Bag Blue Makes beautiful white clothes.
At all good grocers.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23

The up-to-date waitress wears a
fetching costume.
The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
The Proportion.

Knicker-Did he speak at a dinner?
Bocker-No; he ate at talk.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
TO
MARRY A YOUNG GIRL

in his room at Claverly hall, Cam
bridge, They've made it a positive
thing. My brother and I aren't geine
to try and oppose it. Miss Hills deuc-
eddy attractive. I think We're for
tunate, as long as we are going to
have a stepmother. She's about nv
own age. That won't be half bad. IN.
less she should take it INTO her head
to run things. A fellow would feel a
bit foolish to have to step round at
the bidding Of a girl of 20. The fact
would make it worst still.
As for the story thai both NV
brother and I We're trying to win her
hand, and that sort Of stuff, it's an idle
yarn" foNe
Miss Hill is living with her mother
Mrs. John j. Hill, in New York civ
studying music. Miss Hills father q
Georgia physician, died about two
a ago. W.
Mr.. Alsop is known as a f~nancier in
New York and in Pittsburgh. His wife
was Emma Hester Hussey, a member
OF one of the Oldest and best families
of Philadelphia. Mrs. Alsop died a few
years ago, leaving a large fortune 70
her husband. who was already wealthy
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
Girls Brother Takes Bride
Away AT Point Of a Gun But
Father May ReIent.
WEDDING A SPEEDY AFFAIR

Hot Springs, Ark.-Special: Said to
be broker hearted and regretting her
precipitancy, Miss Bessie Landauer, a
19-year-old girl, has been sent back TIC
her home at Dallas, Tex, to wait while
he father decides whether or not she
shall have for a husband the man
whom she met in the Arlington hotter
here and married on two days ac-
.~quaintance.
Her father, a retired business man of
Dallas. declares that the girl eloped
after a total of less than three hours
lovemaking and so. he says, could not
have known her mind any better than
she knew the stranger.
Meanwhile the bridegroom, who was
deprived of his bride just as they had
spoken the fateful words before a JUS
tice of the peace. is L. J. Whitestone,
of Bradford, Pa, % years old. and a
dealer in real estate. The elopement
would have cost him his life, but for
the quickness OF a deputy constable.
Whitestone vas here for a stay of
several weeks and was registered at
the Arlington. Miss Landauer, her
father, mother n brother Leo, hap
pened to be at the same hotel. The
young couple CHANGED to meet in the
hotel lobby. After h a matters went
rapidly.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
PUTS PERIOD
TO LIGHTNING ROMANCE

Mr.. Landauer said, after he had or.
dered the ~newlyweds s%eparated: "Mr
Whitestone may be q nice young man.
but he is altogether too ardent a lovet
TO please me. I'm not saying anything
against him, and my baby daughter
says she loves him. But fancy marry.
Ing af:er less than three hours con,
%versation! don't say he is after the
child's money n 1 don't care whether
or not he a any of his own; but the
girl could not have realized what she
was doing"
Miss Landauer eluded her parents.
met Whitestone, got a license and then
hunted up Justice of the Peace joel
W. Alford. The justice was uttering
mony when in rushed the girls brother
shouting stop! Stop the ceremony!''
IF o have married my baby sister.
| will kill you'll" he cried, as he made
for Whttestone and drew a revolver.
Deputy Constable Rowe Brown, who
was acting as one of the witnesses.
was just an instant quicker on the
draw. He covered Landauer with a big
gun. ndau was disarmed and his
production Of the gun cost him a $50
line. Fills sister had thrown herself into
her husbands arms and begged him to
protect her. but eventually she agreed
to his going away without her. A fam
lily conference followed.
II wanted to be fair" said Mr.. Land
auer afterward. we don't know this
young man. I wanted my son to go
port. He wouldn't consent to that. He
says, though, that he will bring back
credentials and his widowed mother.
If. when he comes back, my daughter
still loves him and wants to go with
him, I shall have no more to say"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
Mrs. EVA MAY BRYANT
WIFE OF A NOTED POET
GOING HOME AS A COOK

sation with q sailor in regard to the
weather which the Provence would
probably encounter. She would not go
on board until the last minute and then
had to be led by her friends.
Mime. Maeterlinck is an enthusiastic
housekeeper and likes to do her own
cooking. Part of the long cable dis
patch was a list Of groceries that She
wants her husband to order in prepare
ton for her HON coming. She ex-
plafned that he was such a genius that
unless b instructed him beforehand
she might get home and find not a
a thing in the house to eat.
Il am sad to leave America" she
said, Il have been here six weeks and
have found the people charming and
intelligent. The works Of my husband
are understood here perhaps better
than anywhere else. I have seen MANY
artistic performances here and | IN Bos-
ton. The performance of Tristan and
Isolde by Weingartner, by the Boston
Opera company, was one Of the finest
things I have seen. It made me so
enthusiastic that I am going to ear
the role of Isolde"
Asked If she considered American
women good looking and If she Thought
they dressed well. Nine. Maeterlinck
said:
Your women are really beautiful
and the beauty Of women makes the
beauty OF the dresses"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
Nine. MaeterlinCk Cables Her
Orders for Groceries Before
Sailing To Europe.
TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS

New York, Feb. 17.-Mme. G%eorgette
Maeterlinck, the wife of Maurice Mae
terlinck, the Belgian poet, sailed on the
French liner Provence, wrapped in her
famous leopard skin coa and wearing
a hat constructed principally of two
golden wings. The French singer is
bound for Nice by way of Paris. On
the rosy Riviera, Maeterlinck is en-
gagged In writing a new play and ma
dame having finished her season of
concerts and operate appearances here,
is hurying over to keep house fer him
at their villa.
Nine. G~eorgette was very sorry to
leave, partly because she has found
American audiences both friendly and
intelligent n partly because she is
terribly afraid of the sea. Before the
liner sailed she stood on the pier using
the end of a trunk as a desk as she
wrote a cable message to her husband
and incidently carried On long CONVEX
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF AMERICANS
GOING TO CANADA

Although Western Canada suffered,
as did many other portions of the
west, from untoward conditions, which
turned one Of the most promising
crops ever seer in that country. into
but little more than an average yield
of all grains, there is left in the
farmers hands, a big margin of profit.
OF course there were many farmers
who were fortunate enough to harvest
n market g big yield, and with the
prices that were secured made hand
come returns. From wheat, oats, bar
ley and fax marketed to the list of
January. 1912. there was a gross rev
enue OF $75.384, 900. The cattle, hogs,
poultry and dairy proceeds brought
this up to SOL, $40, 900 or 81 million
dollars in excess of 1910. There was
still In the farmers hands at that
time about 95 million bushels of wheat
worth at least another sixty-five mil
lion dollars ~(allowing for inferior
grades). besides about 100 million
bushels of oats to say nothing of bar
ley and fax. which would run into sew
eral million of dollars.
There Is a great thrush Of settlers
to occupy the vacant lands through
out Manitoba, Saskatchewan and AL
berta. The reports from the Govern
Ment show that during the past year
upwards of 131, 900 Americans crossed
the border into Canada. A great many
OF these took up farms, owe ten thou
sand having homesteaded, in fact the
records show that every state in the
Union contributed. A larger number, !
not caring to go SO far away as the
homesteading area, have purchased
lands at from fifteen dollars an acre
to twenty-five dollars an acre. The
prospects for q good crop for 1912
are as satisfactory as for many years.
The land has had sufficient moisture,
and with a reasonably early spring, it
is safe to predict a record crop.
Those who have not had tho latest
sent out by the Government
agents should send to the one nearest,
and secure a copy.