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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
by TIE WAY
By HARVEY PARSoRse

The engraving on the Roosevelt
certificate is almost as good as tndt
on gold certificate, but the real value
of the Roosevelt certificate may pest
be ascertained by trying to pay for
cheese sandwich with one.
AS rule. the surgeon is not con
tent with taking the case, but he wants
to tinker with he works.
When Tip Thatcher got married.
he announced that he would rule MS
own hone or know the reason why.
He has compromised on knowing the
reason why.
The greatest difference between an
old fool and a young one is that the
old one has been at it longer.
Lives of professional politicians re-
mind US that there is a vast d1Herence
between a job and a job of work.
Friend r. c. suggests that the
Greeks who are chasing Moslems
should be pinched for promoting the
Turkey trct.
However, the latest reports indicate
that it is no longer a trot but fast
1Gpe.
ton out of the epidemic of holdups in
Kansas City. The victims might have
spent their money for Demon Rum
al way.
What has become of the old fash
Toned vaudeville team-tramp with
red nose and one tooth and cop with
a yard of inflated bike tube for a club?
We observe that our late friend
Ponce has regular job now. He is
playing center on the University Kan
san team.
Now that the pipe line is in the
hands of a receiver, let us hope that
we will set more gas and less wind.
Sometimes geek brags about the
spade when the fact is that his
voca bulary is so limited he can't think
CT a synonym.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
KANSAS COAMENT
WANTED: A HERO.

We should hardly go so far as 20
say the novelists are all suffraGettes
even that the female fiction factories
are all out for Votes for Women. But
the books lately drifting this way have
surely displayed the dainty dago hand
of women working for the Cause. The
heroes who aren't entitled to be called
that, were weak sisters. who broke
when the burdens were heaviest, And
left them to be borne by woman OF
great fortitude and high purposes.
None of the clinging vine herotnes ct
the sort we used to know nor heroes
of sturdy oak who went trlumphantly
to the finish with the ivy about their
neck. The latest and, ii seems TO US,
the best of these books we've been
browsing through is The Soddy,' by
Sarah Comstock, Doubleday, Page &
Co., publishers. 1t is an interesting
tale of some country God forgot a
drouth- stricken land where phone srs
hung on by their frazzled forelocks
while crops and prospects were SWEPT
away by hot sun and hotter winds TO
this desert desolation came Dexter
Hayden, with much hope and httl9
capital. He showed better than the
average at the start, clean, hopeful,
hardworking young man, who seemed
destined to do things worth while, but
three crop failures and a prairie fire
broke his proud spirit and puny purse,
and he went east where they might
pay real money for his efforts. Not
so the prairie princess he had won and
heavy Odds to redeem the land she
loved by irrigation from the under
flow of a river which apparently ran
only on rare occasions. Months
passed, and unto them a child was
born, which was the magnet to draw
the husband back. He came as sho
held by hair between life and death.
and life won, and they lived happily
ever after, as they should. A fins
story of woman's devotion to a man.
full of the pathos of parched plains.
and frightened now and then by inc
quaint humor of pioneers. A tale
worth while surely to those who have
seen Kansas rise triumphant from
drOuth and desolation of divers kinds.
She knows her west, does Sarah Com
stock. But the fact remains that
mere man gets the short end of il,
which, with due regard for the brave
women who also stayed, doesn't accord
with the facts in the case, and suggests
somewhat the suffragete in action
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If the Giants started a laundry would
they clean up the Sox?
concert Dust off the electric chair!)
When the fog horn blows why don't
the Armour Institute?
Get out the bloodhoundsi There goes
the boob that put the toe in toast.)
If the prisoners in a Jail divided
into rival factions with which one would
the homocide2
CAV. take the handouts off I won't
run away.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
THIS IS MURDERLAND.

Those tender hearted persons who con-
tend that the extreme punishment for
murder is too severe. may be interested
in the statement that the ratio of execV-
crimes. They may also find food for re-
Election in the statement of a Massa-
chusetts judge who has Investigated ire
subject who says that there are more
murders committed in this country than
in any ten other civilized countries. ex-
Guiding Russia. Last year there we've
nine hundred more murders than in tn.
year Before.-Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

That impenetrable veil which is said
to conceal the most interesting opera
lions of the T IAN war will be lifted
in a jiffy as soon as the American
war correspondents arrive on the scene.
And if the censors refuse to permit
them to send out the facts concerning
the struggle, they will provide the
reading public with matter just as
interesting. probably more so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

the results of the election are probably
as good as settled. President TAFT
has been presented with 6-leaf clover.
The one recently given to Colonel
Roose1 cit was only of the 4-leaf vari-
ETY.. And Governor Wilson hasn't any.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

If the Women's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church happened to be backing some
political cause. it wouldn't have the
slightest difficulty in raising that fund
of 1925. 900 it desires to continue its
work along effective lines. The CAPT
talists of the land would fall all over
themselves in getting their names on
the substitution list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

However, the decision of the dining
car superintendent to increase their
receipts by making a special charge
for bread and butter will not bother
the oId-fashioned tourists who carry
their eats with them in commodious
lunch baskets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

At last there seems to be a good
joke on some of the famous European
scientists. They have expressed posi-
tive opinions that cave painting, "
recently unearthed in Wales. belongs
to the Aurignacian age of some $4,000
years ago. Less scientific Investigations
appear to prove that this supposedly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

After Chicago had invested $450,00O
in voting machines and had contract
ed to spend an equal sum for addl-
tionaI machines, the supreme court OF
Illinois stepped in and decreed that IL
would be unlawful to use such ma
chimes at the election. But Chicagos
+axpavers are just as complacent easy
marks as are those the country over.
60 what's the Oddsi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

TF'rom the New York Press.J
A girl catches a man by making him
think he is catching her.
The best way for a girl to daub color
on her cheeks is with mustache-
If, instead of walking, a woman wad-
dies she knows she does It gracefully
It's pity it isn't against the law to
save money for then everybody would
do it.
There's kind of man who can pooh
pooh Cromwell and Napoleon because
they didn't have steam heat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

marvellous memento of prehistoric
man is nothing more than some rough
daubs of paint applied by a boatman
some Is years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

Isn't it a trife strange that mel
who are willing to run for office on
the Republican ticket in Kansas make
campaign speech after campaign speech
without even so much as mentioning
the Republican party? They are ask
ing for votes because of their adher-
ence to the new Progressive party and
its principles, but they expect to get
these votes through the medium of the
Republican ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

All fiction, even of the dime-novel
variety, was outdone in a restaurant
in st. Louis the other night when a
man and a woman duelled to their
deaths with knives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

And the news that seven governors
have given endorsement to President
Taft's plan for the establishment of
cooperative banking institutions for
farmers also calls to mind the fact
that the famous society of seven gov
errors who egged Mr.. Roosevelt into
becoming a presidential candidate for
a third term has been in a state of
innocuous desuetude for some time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

More power to the arms of the re-
ceivers OF the Kansas Natural Gas
company. 1t did not take them long
to decide on plans that will materially
increase the gas supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

If facility at letter-writing was much
of a political asset, the Progressives
in Kansas would always be assured OF
a victory. And isn't William Allen
White the busy boy in this direction
these days. If the campaign were 10
continue much longer, he certainly
wouldn't have any words left for that
new novel he has planned to write.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal IN g member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news or
ganiz4tion for the exclusive afternoon
publication IN Topeka
The news IS received in The State Jour
nose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

A report comes via Washington
that the situation in Mexico is critical
Is that any different from what II
has been off and on for two or three
vearS9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

Johnson is soon to be counted down
and out, the White Hope having
finally been developed in the strong
arm of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

More evidence that the Turks are
not nearly as fierce fighters as their
looks would indicate is found in the
ease with which the Balkan allies are
pushing back the sultan's army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
FROM OTHER PENS
POLICE TNEFFTC,TENCy

BelIigerent members of the Chinese
tongs in New York are becoming al
most as impertinent and dangerous as
the white gun-men of the city Until
recently they were a menace to per-
sons outside their race only when
those outsiders interfered in matters
purely oriental, or possibly as they
were unskillful in their shooting but
in their last outbreak they complete
ly smashed tradition by killing any
one who happened to be in sight and
finally by openly defying the police
even going so far as to deliver a
volley at them. 1t is impossible to
escape the conviction that the police
themselves are responsible for this
condition of things. The Chinese are
an observing people and those in the
New York settlement must have noted
the constantly increasing ina bility of
the bluecoats to deal with Manhattan
brigands. 1t can scarcely be outside
their knowledge than at the Zelig fu-
neral gunner with drawn revolvers
threatened newspaper photogra pliers
in the very presence of police off
GERS and that the latter far from
attempting to make arrests, frankly
confessed their inability to deal with
the situation and advised the photoE-
raphers to retire. 1t is beyond rea-
son that orientals should hold in great
fear or respect peace officers as i'm
potent as this, and it is small wonder
that they evidenced their contempt nv
little wholesale murder and open
resistance to representatives of the
law The fact that the police after
ward showed some unwonted activity
and actually nabbed four of the orr
entails may perhaps convince the tong
men that they were guilty of a slight
error of judgment in supposing that
tney were to be treated with the con-
sheraton given white gangsters. 1t
ought to create much interest among
the citizens of New York as a whole
VINO assuredly must be inouiring
among themselves why it is easier to
eaten yellow gunman than a white
one.-Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24
SAILING VESSELS AS FREAKS.

Sir Thomas Upton is at hand IL the
chance at the Americas cup. AS three
ZINES loser, he wants it more than he
ever dld before, for the very reason
~ and lost it. He has come over ttfg
tiIne without a challenge in his pocket
because the last time that he inatf-
gated challenge there was objection
~ changing the rules to meet his
views; He is as loud against racine
nlachlnes and in praise of yachts OF
good practical type as ever he used
ttoDe De. however, the moderns can
urn upon him now in these davs ~
motor boats and tell him that the day
Is close at hand when all sailing yes
Ss1s VIII be recognized merely as
a 1 NJ. W nat would he think of that
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

AS rule. the surgeon is not con-
tent with taking the case, but he wants
to tinker with he works.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

When Tip Thatcher got married
he announced that he would rule hi
own hone or know the reason why
He has compromised on knowing tn
reason why.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-24

The gre atest difference between an
old fool and a young one is that the
old one has been at it longer.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
PITY COTTON MILL WORKERS.
Government Report Shows Dismal Pic
ture of Life in Cotton Mill
Districts of South.

Westinghouse dismal picture of
life among southern cotton mill work
ers is painted in report issued by the
federal bureau of labor. With scanty
food and poor clothing, according to
the report, these people exist in
crowded, company-owned houses, looked
down upon and ignored by other resi-
dents.
| 1t is declared that while the whole
family-men, women and children
work for a living, the table of the
average householder offers in quality
and quantity about what the govern
ment gives inmates of the federal
prison at Atlanta.
The bureau selected as an example
21 typical cotton mill families, 10
living in or near Atlanta, Ca, six just
outside of Greensboro, N. c., and FIVE
at Burlington, N. c.
The so-called normal family father,
with wife and children depending
upon him for support, was not found
among the 81 families described as
typical. Even the poorest of these
was supported by the earnings of sew
eral, and in many cases boarders were
taken in.
The average number of wage arners
per family was sc. In family where
five were employed the earnings totaled
between $500 and 5000.
Pork, syrup, cornbread and coffee
constitute the diet of an average
family, the bureau says.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
BAND OF men HEADED BY
FRANK JAMES TRYING TO
LOCATE TREASURE.
Work Going on Near Blackwell, Okla.
-$65,00o Booty Sought for Was Sc
cured by Gang During Train Robbery
in Early '7os at Big Springs, Neb,,
on Union Pacific Railroad.

Guthrie, Okla.-The thrilling robber-
les of the Iron Mountain train at Blue
Cut, Mo-, by the James boys, and of
the Union Pacific at Big Springs, Neb.,
by the Sam Bass gang during the palmy
days of outlawry in the west are re-
called by the efforts of band of men,
headed by one said to be Frank James
himself, to locate the burial place of
the booty secured either in the Blue
Cut or Big Springs robbery.
The men have been digging for some
time recently along the bank of the
Chicaskia river, near Blackwell, Okla,
at a point near where the Santa Fe
and Frisco railroads cross the river.
Numerous excavations have been
made, but whether any success was
had by the party is not known. The
fact became known here through the
Rev. George H. Bradford, chancellor
of the Methodist university of Okla
homa, who recently visited the scenes
of the excavations with the Methodist
preacher of Blackwell and former
Mayor Vickery of that city.
Chancellor Bradford says that the
people in that vicinity understood that
the booty. sought for was that secured
by the James boys, Bill Anderson and
their pals in the Blue Cut robbery
amounting to about $4,000, and that
Frank James is the leader.
In Early Seventies
The Blue Cut robbery occurred dur
ing the early '70s and the Union Pa
cific holdup at Big Springs, Neb., b,
the Bass gang, was in May, 1874. Thu
Bass gang was driven southwark
through Kansas and Oklahoma b,
federal troopers and two members O.
the gang were killed at Buffal
Springs. They were so hard pushe'
that they cached their booty some
where. 1t was big haul, $4,000
mostly $40 gold pieces. Bass was late
killed at Round Grove, Texas, by troop
ers, and Frank Collins, another of tn
gang, in Wyoming.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07

Nashville, Tenn.-"If you want to
stop 'joy-riding' you don't break up
the automobile; you catch the joy-rider
1--WE dom want to break up cor
porations. We might use them. But
we do want to halt corporations joy
riding. When dealing with corpora
tions, if wrong is committed, we
should catch the individual at fault
and indict him-not as an officer OF the
corporation, but as an individual.
These statements featured an address
by Governor Wilson of New jersey
here.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
Conference of Business Men.

Washington.-Charles Nagel, secre-
tary of commerce and labor, has told
members of the Manufacturers asso-
citation of New York that he is think
ing of inviting representatives of bust
ness all over the country to Washing
ton to discuss business matters. Uniform
legislation affecting business and the
ultimate establishment of a national
board of trade were objects in view
he said.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
Husband Got So Damages.

st. Joseph, Mo.-The affections of a
husband are worth but So, according to
the decision of jury which returned
its findings in the alienation suit of
Mrs. Mabel Holt for $4,000 against
her father-in-law, Lewis F. Holt. The
suit was the sequel to a dramatic elope-
ment a year ago. Holt caused the ar
rest of the couple, who were held for
a few hours and then released. Later
Holt persuaded his son to leave his
bride and the suit followed.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
Stephens Addresses U. S. Court.

H. M. Stephens of Spokane was
allotted 80 minutes for argument before
the United States supreme court Mon
day afternoon on the appeal to over
throw the injunction granted by the
commerce court in the Spokane rate
case. This gave time to present the
principal points of Spokane's conten-
ton, general issues having been covered
by counsel for the interstate commerce
commission.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
FROM MINING CAMPS

Bids were opened March 1 for the.
work of sinking shaft 100 feet on
the Metaline Oriole mine at -Metaline
Falls.
Thirty-fve men are beng employed
on the Alice mine, near Wallace, and
good progress is being made on the
work.
Proceedings of the Northwest Mining
convention, including every speech and
paper rendered, have been published in
book form and sent free on application.
Stockholders in the Tamaraclx and
Chesapeake mine, near Mullan, accord
ing to current report, have decided to
start operations this spring on the big
ore body.
After burning for more than 40 hours
the fire in the Standard mine, Wallace,
was extinguished Sunday. During the
entire time the blaze was confined to
the upper abandoned workings and did
little damage.
| The American Tungsten Consoi-
dated company, which has taken over
the old Germania mines and other
properties in Cedar canyon, Stevens
county, Wash, is planning the erection
of large mill.
The hearing of the application of the
Butte Mill and Smeltermen IS union for
an injunction restraining the Western
Federation of Miners and others from
securing possession of the property or
money or in any way interfering with
the jurisdctional rights of the mill
and smeltermen as a result of the de-
csion of the Butte miners union to
absorb the smeltermen was begun in
Butte, Mont.
Republic District.
Shipments to the smelters are in
creasing. In January SO carloads were
shipped from the Surprise mine, six
went out from the Lone Pine and four
carloads were sent from the 500-foot
level of the Quilp mine. The Tacoma
and CRANKY smelters took the largest
part of the shipments and the Washoe
Sampling works at Butte, Mont, took
! the balance. 1t is highly probable that
the February will exceed the January
shipments.
Grand Forks, B. G.
During the present year the mines of
the Boundary district have shipped
nearly 100000 tons of ore, the tonnage
sent out this week being 35,0S7, making
the figures for the year to date 244,747
tons. The mines shipping during the
week were: CRANKY, 21,95s tons;
Mother Lode, SAP tons; Rawhide, 4416
tons; Jack Pot, 275 tons; Athelstan, "a
tons; others, 272 tons.
The CRANKY smelter has been rum
ming full blast during the last week,
treating 23,627 tons of ore, making a
total treatment for the year to date of
} 164, 1s4 tons.
The B. c. Copper company's smelter
at Greenwood treated II, 345 tons of ore
, during the week, making a total treat
ment for the year to date of 1921
tons.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
DEAF MUTES DANCE.
They Can Not Hear Music But Enjoy
the Dance Nevertheless.

systematically gyrating to the
strains of "The Rod Rose Rag" with
an occasional glimpse into the realm of
the "Turkey Trot" and the Partisan
apache, Spokane deaf and dumb peo-
pie had the time of their lives Satur-
day night. They were hosts to their
friends at dance and basket social.