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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-02
NOTICE TO PENSIONERS

No matter how you vote next
Tuesday, you are cordially in
vited to call on County Clerk Sam
Zimmerman at the court house on
Monday, August 5th, and have your
pension voucher executed by men
who know how.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-02

Everybody read the State Journal.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
Thatcher Brothers. Great Pueblo Bankers Dispose Of Huge Tract
Deal Is Practically Closed TOday-CattIe Thieves
Drive Seiber Company Out Of Business.

A deal which has been pending
for the past sixty days was consum-
mated yesterday by which the Big
Park Irrigation, Water & Power COM
pany becomes the owner of the en-
tire land holdings of the Seiber Cat
tie company on Pinon mesa and near
Westwater, Utah, amounting to at
least 1000 acres and involving
consideration of fully $4,000.
Frank ID. Parks, manager for many
years of the Seiber Cattle company,
came down yesterday from Grand
Valley where he owns large ranch
and with several members of the Big
Park concern, went up to look over
the property yesterday afternoon. IL
is now understood that only the min
or details OF the transaction remain
To be closed up.
The big holdings of the Seibers
have been gradually cleared of cat
tie for several years, only remnant
of the once large nerds remaining on
the ranges. The deal will include
the transfer of ownership Of the S
Cross ranch, the Bar Eleven ranch
and the lower place near Westwater.
1t is said by Mr.. Parks and his as
sociates that the depredations of cat
tie thieves on the mesa practically
forced the company out of the cattle
business and it was but a few months
ago that Thatcher Brothers. the Pu-
eblo bankers, purchased the entire
title to the land and cattle
The Sentinel this morning called
up j. b. Kennedy, president of the
Big Park Irrigation. Water & Power
company, who admitted that the deal
had practically been consummated.
81 am not wholly familiar with all
the details of the transaction said
Mr. Kennedy. "as those matters were
entirely in Mr.. H. NJ. Armstrong;
hands. 1t is safe to say, however,
that the deal will now go through
without a hitch. 1t may take
week or so yet for the formal trans
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
SPRY T0ATTEND
MEETING HERE
Chief Executive of Utah Expects to
be Present at Highway Congress
Here in May-Will Meet Gov.
Shafroth Here.

Secretary Shaffer of the Chamber
of Commerce this morning received
a communication from Governor John
Spry of Utah in reference to the Col
orado-Utah Good Roads conference
here May and 3.
The governor was not certain as
to whether it would be possible for
him to be present or not. He declar-
ed, however, that so interested was
he in the purposes and program of
the convention that he would have
a personal representative here to at
tend the sessions and act for him.
Gov. Spry is very enthusiastic over
the opportunity to put Utah on
direct tTanscontinental route and is
firmly of the opinion that the con
ference here will be fruitful in pro-
viding definite plans for the prose-
cution of immediate work on such
a highway.
Gov. Spry hopes to be present and
it is possible that as the date has
been changed since he was communi-
Gated with that he will be able to
so arrange his plans as to attend
the congress here.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
20 MILES OF CARS.

Pueblo. Colo, March 27-During
the "a hours ending at midnight,
1000 loaded freight cars have enter
ed the Pueblo freight yards from the
East, marking a new epoch in Colo
RADIO railroad history.
With the opening of the blockades
in Kansas. freight trains are now
moving and the cars which came from
the East alone during "a hours, if
joined into one train, would have
stretched over 20 miles of track. The
Santa Fe brought in 500 cars, the
Rock Island 500 and the Missouri
Pacific 500 The railroads are us
ing every available car to move
freight
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
PROVES UNFAITHFULNESS,

Pittsburg, Pa, March 2S.-Every
little sound and every word of con-
-versation between Jonas McClintock
wealthy manufacturer. aged 65,
and Mrs. Margaret Fellabom. aged
23, while the two were in Mr.. Nc
Clintock's bed room the night of st.
Patrick's day. were intensified many
times and carried across the street
by wires to operatives of detective
agency
This was the statement filed in
common pleas court today by Earl
Fellabom. a wealthy contractor, in
answer to his wife's habeaus corpus
petition to get possession of their
2 Y year old child, whom Fellabom
kidnapped from the mothers home
after the revelations of the dicta-
graph
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
DOCTOR
/ HEIR To BIG
ESTATE
More Than $4,000 Will Be the
Share Of Dr.. F. c. Nichols in
Estate Of Mother Who Died
in Portland in January.

A legacy of at least $4,000 and
probably 100000 will be turned ov-
er to DIR. +. c. Nichols of this city
within the next few months. accord
Ing to telegram received this morn
ing from the attorney who has filed
the will of the late Mrs. Isabel Mich
OILS in probate. The estate of the lady,
who was the mother of DR.. Nichols.
amounts to probably 100000, to be
divided among six sons and daugh-
..sS His nncle, Dawson Nichols.
died without heirs several months
ago and the same message brings the
information that the local man S
share in that estate will amount to
not less than $4,000 more.
DR.. William Nichols was surgeon
in the civil war and when he died
l6 years ago he left an estate of
timber lands in Oregon reputed to
be worth several thousands. These
have increased in value and since his
widow, Mrs. Isabel Nichols, died Jan
uary 10, the appraisers have found
that the estate has become among
the wealthiest in that part of the
state.
81 expect to have my share con-
verted Immediately into cash" de-
clared DR.. Nichols. 81 would be un-
able to look after my property in
terests SO far away and | want to
make my own Investments"
1t will probably be several months
before the estate can be finally set
tied up.
DR.. Nichols had not seen any mem
Der of his family in Il years.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28

fer to be made"
1t is the plan of the Big Park peo-
pie to include all of this land under
their monster S250,OOO irrigation
system. At least, that part of the
ranch that is irrigable will be placed
under water. 1t is understood that
all the level stretches will be cut up
into small tracts and colonized in a
systematic manner by Messrs. Arm
strong, Kennedy and associates. This
will mean the addition of several
hundred families to that part of the
county within the next year or more
and heavy increase in the taxable
value of the land. Only the rough.
unirrigable portions will be leased
for ranges while the rest will be
turned to agricultural and horticult-
ural uses.
About 1900 acres of the ranch is
already in alfalfa and there are sever
al fine orchards on the property. In
fact 1t is one of the best improved
ranches in Colorado Its transfor-
nation into wholly agricultural and
horticultural region will mark great
stride in the progress of the county
as the tiller OF the soil replaces the
cowman and the range becomes the
orchard and the farm
The Big Park project is well able
to furnish water for this immense
tract. 1t has 40 square miles of wa
ter shed from which to get its water
supply while its enormous reservoir
facilities are able TO conserve many
thousands of acre feet for the water
ing of the big holdings under the
system.
In the Big Park proper there are
about $4,000 acres and the reservoir
and canal system can easily irrigate
25 900 acres of this amount
This first announcement of the
close of the big deal will be heard
with general interest throughout the
entire state as the Seiber ranch ia
as well known as any in Colorado.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
OAWG DIT Ty
WILL WIN
ELECTION
Houn' Song From Missouri In
vades DeBeque and Makes
Votes for Water Works En-
thusiasts.- Big Rally.

The Champ Clark houn' dawg song
has officially entered Mesa county.
Moreover. its homely strains, affixed
to paraphrase of the original lines,
have become a campaign issue and
1t is confidently expected that the
Missouri canine will lead the way to
victory for the enterprising citizens
who have projected HIM into the mu-
nicipal fight.
Last night at De Beque the biggest
political rally that old town has ever
known was held in the Odd Fellows
hall. The building was crowded to
the very doors with enthusiastic vot-
ers anxious to express their senti-
ments in favor of waterworks for
their home city.
Charles e. Noble. the well known
attorney of Grand Junction and Col
orado Springs, was present and de-
livered a telling speech on the water
works question from the standpoint
of bond attorney. He referred to
the high desirability of waterworks
and other municipal bonds and par
ticularly bonds such as might be is
such as might be issued by the town
of De Beque.
Col. c. C. Bower of Palisade told
of the experience of Palisade in get
ting a waterworks system and made
a telling speech The Grand June
tion system was referred to several
times.
Several musical numbers were in
terpolated, adding much to the pleas
ure of the evening.
Continued on Page 81
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
SUES TELEPHONE COMPANY.

Boulder, Colo, March 27.-A suit
of special interest to telephone users
in Boulder county was brought in
the district court yesterday against
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company by Edward VOL
verton, who seeks to have renewed
contract made between the COM
pany and telephone users in 1904,
whereby telephone calls to Lafayette,
Louisville and other towns in Boul-
der county from this city were paid
for at the same rate as charged for
calls within the city. When Wolver-
ton moved recently to another resi-
dence. the telephone company refused
to grant him the privileges under
which he leased phone. in 1904.
The suit will decide if the compa-
ny, which proposes to discontinue it's
former gratuities, can be held to
the provisions of the 1904 contracts.
Wolverton asks $1,000 damages. as
well as continuance of former serv-
ice.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
YOUTH OF 10 TO HANG.
Sentinel Special Service.

Sentinel Special Service.
Hopkinsville, by, March IS
The death penalty was imposed by
a jury here today on Tom Slaughter.
a 19-year-old negro. charged with
numbering Lee Jenkins during a
quarrel over the purchase of dimes
worth of cheese in Jenkins store at
Edgoten, Ky.
The jury got the case last night
and Judge Hanberry was called from
church to receive the verdict. Feel
ing in the Edgoten vicinity over the
killing has been intense. Two ne
groes active in Slaughter's defense.
were whipped by whitecappers.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
POST DIVORCE
PLEA GRANTED
Judge Walter S. Sullivan Orders Dis
solution of Matrimonial Bonds of
Well Known Couple-Suit is
Brought by VIM. Post.

Judge Walter S. Sullivan last week
handed down decree of divorce dis
solving the bonds of matrimony be-
tween William II. Post and his wife.
Sarah A. Post.
The suit was brought by the hus-
band and contained a variety of
charges, among which were infidel-
ity and desertion. No contest was
made by Mrs. Post.
1t is said that some of the Incl
dents of the Curley Thomas larceny
case last fall had bearing on the
Post divorce suit.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
FEEDER CATTLE RATE
CAN'T Be INCREASED
ientInel special Service.

Sentinel Special Service.
Washington, March 27.-The In
terstate Commerce Commission today
decided that the proposed increase OF
33 1-3 per cent in the transportation
rate on feeder" cattle and sheep
made by all of the western railroads
was not justified.
The commission expects the car
riers to cancel the proposed advances
by April is. If they should fail to
do so voluntarily the commission will
issue peremptory order.
Existing rates on feeder cattle
are approximately rs per cent of the
rates on fat cattle. The railroads
contended this low rate was ''gra-
tuity" which they could withdraw at
will
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
JOHN H. FRY ON
RECALL PROBLEM

{, Attorney John H. Fry of this 6
= city contributes an article to g
- the Public, Louis F. Posts ia &
Z, nous Chicago journal of review :
3 and comment, on the question s
:, of the recall of judges. The +
9, Grand Junction mans article is e
3 entitled THE Courts and Con- s
:, stitutional Problems" and is in 3
:, answer to an argument advanc- &
3 ed by Herbert S. Swan. e
= Mr.. Fry's article presents some Z
:, new phases of the recall prob 8
3 lem and the powers and prob s
3 lens of the court. 1t is s
e thoughtful and interesting COM s.
6, ment and will doubtless be 8
8, widely read. g
= The Sentinel believes it wor- &,
6, thy of reproduction locally and 3
3 we shall publish it in full 9.
g, shortly. 8
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The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
BRYAN COMES
BACK At HARMON
Sentinel Special Service.

6, Sentinel Special Service. g
= Lincoln. Neb., March 2S.- 8
= William J. Bryan has given out 3
6, an open letter in reply to the 3
= letter given out by E. II. Moore. p
= Governor Harmon's campaign 3
= manager In the letter Mr.. 3
= Bryan announces the basis of 3
$ his distrust of the Ohio eXecu- p
:, tive. Bryan denies he has ac- -
= cused Harmon of being tool p
: of Wall street" but says he has -
: labeled Harmon as the Wall 3
= street choice and as a reaction -
= airy. Bryan recites that the q
= Ohio man was a deserter from g
: the Democratic cause in 1896, g
g came back to the party in 1900, -
g but the next year was a leader "a
3 in the movement organized in .
= Ohio and throughout the coun- 3
q trv to turn the party back to 8
:, Wall street" g
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The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
THE TROOPS REMAIN To
KEEP ORDER IN CITY
Associated Press

AssOCIdIeN Ffess.
Rock Island, H., March 2S.-Be-
lieving that the presence of the sixth
regiment and the martial law which
prevails in ROCK Island are the best
guaranty against the renewal of the
riots of Thursday night, the city and
county officials rejected today the
suggestion that the troops be with
drawn.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
THE RECALL IS PASSED
BY THE LOWER HOUSE
Associated Press.

Phoenix, March 2S.-The bill sub
mitting judiciary recall amendment
to the people at the next general
election was passed by the lower
house of the Arizona Legislature to-
day and an identical bill is in the
hands of the senate committee on
constitutional amendments.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
SECRETARY KNOX IS IN
SANTO DOMINGO TODAY
Associated Press.

FhoSo'ldltu fItsS.
Santo Domingo, March 2S-Secre-
tary of State Knox arrived here yes
terday on board the cruiser Wash
ington and this morning visited sew
eral public buildings and historical
ruins.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
MAJOR BUTT PRESENTED
To The ITALIAN KING
Associated Press.

Rome, March 2S.-Major Archi-
bald w. Butt, personal aide to Presi-
dent Taft, was received today by King
Victor Emmanuel in a private audi
ence
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Philadelphia, March 2S.-A strike
among the textile workers in the
kensington mills has been avoided
by the action of the upholstery weav-
ers union in accepting the compro-
mise offered by the mill owners.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
London, March 2S.-The end of
the coal strike which has so sorrily
affected many millions of population
of thee United Kingdom during the
last three weeks is believed to be at
hand
The belief is expressed that ma
Jority of the miners who left work
on March /, are anxious to return to
the pits and when the occasion of
fers will vote in favor of resuming
work.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Lowell, Mass. March 2S.-In an
nouncing second increase of per
cent, statement from the United
states Bunting company says: "If
between now and the time the in
creases come into effect the Indus
trial Workers of the World or any
other organization prevails upon the
operatives to leave the mill or cause
any trouble the advance will not be
given"
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
SE|BER RANCH 4,OOO ACRES, SOLD TO BIG !
PARK IRRIGATION CONCERN FOR S4O,OO0; u
ONE OF THE BIGGEST TRANSACTIONS Of YEAR

Reservoirs of Pennsylvania Capitalists Will Water 900 Acres
of Former Cattle Range.-Includes S Cross, Bar
Eleven and Westwater Ranches in Deal
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
New York, March 2S.-Warren e.
Stone, grand chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. pre-
dicted today that when the result of
the strike vote on the wage question
is made public on Aprils 10. 1t will
be found that less than $500 of 25,-
900 engineers in the Brotherhood
will oppose the strike.
1T is significant" said Mr.. Stone,
that in none of our conferences with
the eastern railroads representatives
have they once declared that our
demands are unjust: They don't say
we do not need the increase; they
say they cannot afford to grant it,
because they are not allowed to in
crease their freight rates.
THE interstate commerce commits
sion stands in the way of any raise
and as the commission represents the
public. it is really the public that is
the stumbling block. This public
opinion needs an object lesson to
convince them that the roads are
entitled to more pay for the freight
they carry"
Associated Press.
New York, March est was
learned today from an authentic
source that the anthracite coal opera
tors are making no move to prevent
strike in the anthracite fields and
that they regard such suspension at
midnight on March 81 as inevitable.
Associated Press.
Cleveland, O., March 2S.-With
only three days intervening before
the time set for shutdown in case
no agreement is reached, the hope
of avoiding the anthracite coal strike
in the anthracite fields beginning next
Monday is fast failing. Interest is
centered today in the subcommittee
appointed by the bitumnious opera
tors and miners to agree If possible
to a compromise of the wage scale,
all other means of agreeing having
failed, and it was said that unless
compromise was affected. $4,000
miners would quit work Sunday night
and the suspension would be in
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
GETS NATIONAL
MEETING Of PYTH|ANS
Associated Press.


Knights
biennial session of lodge
the Oldest
lodge sessions
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
500,00OC0AL MINERS IN EAST T0QU|T
MIDNIGHT MARCH 81 - S0C|ALST|C BODY IS
BLAMED FOR GREAT new ENGLAND STRIKES

The United States Faces the Greatest Coal Strike in Its His
tory--Operators Absolutely Refuse Meet
the Demands of the Miners
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
'If Industrial Workers Of the World Interfere No Raise Will Be
Given the Textile Workers, Declare Manufacturers
Strike Of Locomotive Engineers Is Certain.

effect strike. Jointly the wage
disputes in the anthracite and btu
minous regions involve a threatened
strike of almost 500. 900 miners.
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28

Associated Press.
Boston. Mass. March 2S.-Re-
sponsibility for the strike and lock-
out situation in the Lowell cotton
mills, where $4,000 operatives are
idle, is laid at the door of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, in a
statement given out by the Manu-
facturers association.
The statement says the strike was
due entirely to an attempt by the
Industrial Workers of the World to
get a foothold and strengthen their
organization"
The daily sentinel., 1912-03-28
City Commissioner Ran.

manufacturing plants, in adj
\ Grand Junction man hasn't
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-10
CreoleS.

have used the word "Creole." To
the average Engiishman l imagine II
conjures up visions of a dark aud beauti-
ful woman gloriously appareled and
with large proportion of colOred blood
In her veins. 1t is necessary to get that
idea out of ones head at the very begin
ming, as it 10 q wholly mistaken one. The
frat and essential claim to the title OF
Creole 10 that one should be of the pur
est European blood; the second, so fal
as the West Indies are concerned, is thai
one should be native of the islands.
If Queen Victoria had happened to bt
in Trinidad, when her eldest son wal
born, Edward, would have been Creole
The word simply applies to two things
parentage and birth. You may be ar
English creole, French creole, {
Spanish creole; but you cannot be ,
creole II you are born In England OF
France or Spain, even though your an
cestors had been born and bred In tn,
West Indies for generations. The ont
thing which is impossible In Q tru'
creole IL exactly what the ignorant thinl
the word implies-that is, the least sug
gestion of negro blood.
Please remember, then, that the true
cseoles are az white as you are, and tina,
those of the upper classes have nearly
ell been educated In France or England
and that II you meet one In Londor
drawing room and expect wells and nos'
rings and a jangle OF barbaric jewels yor
will be grievously disappointed. The!
are just ordinary ladies and gentlemen
q little paler than you because, living IL
the tropics, they have not been 80 mucl
under the open sky-citizens also of th'
British Empire and loyal subjects O
King George, although sometimes they
can only speak French or Spanish.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-10
d Stranger than Fiction.
A TRUE sToRY FROM TEXAS THAT OUT.
THRILLS ANY MELoDRANA.

"Truth 10 stranger than felton," run,
the old adage. This was perhaps true II
the days Of the old-fashioied novelist
and playwright. But fiction has grown
stranger with the passing years. Writers
of the modern "thrillers" Of literature
and the stage seem to write with de-
termination to 60. beyond the utmost
possibilities OF truth. The opium-pipe
fiction In plays and romsnces to-day may
be stranger than truth.
But story comes out Of Texas which
proves that truth 10 still In the race, and
that, II 1t 10 NO longer stranger than flo.
ton, Is 10, onoe In . while, equally al
strange.
The dramatic sequence of the tale Is
remarkable. A master drsmstist could
not have marshaled the incidents in
more effective order. The episode H.
one of life's msde-to-Order dramas which
falls naturally into FIVE acts In this way
/ Act Bernard Carter and Rext I
Williams are cowboys ON the Texas
ranges. While following a cattle trail
they quarrel. Williams stabs Carter.
Believing bis unconscious victim dead,
Williams rolls the body into the Pecoe
River.
Act II-Carter regains his senses and
crawls to the bank. he is found and
sent to q hospital In FL Paso. When he
RECEIVERS he leaves the country. vii.
liams, believing himself murderer
fees. Weeks after the stabbing a de-
composed body Is found In the river. Il
10 Identified az that Of Carter. William'
Is caught. He 10 tried and entenced II
40 years for murder.
Act III-Carter remains in Ignorance
OF his supposed death and Of the fate
that has befallen Williams. He grows
rich. He settled in Seattle 10 years ago
In the meantime for twenty years Viii
liams Is convict 10 the Texas peniten
tiary. He believes bis sentence is a JUS
one. Hs does not know Carter Is alive
Act lV-There is prison investiga
cation 10 Texas. The exposure OF cruel
ties is teleRraphed to newspapers al
over the country. Carter, the wealthy
citizen OF Seattle, notes the name OF Rex
ter Williams in the list Of convicts Wit
testified. It is an unusual name. HI
usver heard of but one man of that name
in his life. He writes letter OF inquiry
to the warden of the prison In which
Williams Ia Confined. He is ast0nishe(
to learn that Williams is serving 40 year.
for the murder OF Bernard Carter.
Act V-Carter hurries to Texas. 81
proves that the report of bis death hal
been greatly exaggerated" He obtains
pardon for Williams. He takes him t
Seattle. He establishes the former con
vict In bis own comfortable home TO
the remainder of bis life. (Curtain.)
Is there anything in the plot dreams
OF Louis Tracy, CASTOR Leroux, Arms
Katherine Green or George Barr Nc
Cutcheon stronger than thisP Has Au
gustus Thomas, William Gillette or Lin
coin J. Carter ever staged q more thrill
ing melodrama than this strange, tru'
story from life?-Chicsgo Inter Ocean.