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The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-30
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as the engineers gave him the necessary
information. This he has had for ALMOST
mud puddles and weeds. Although the
mud has dried up the rocks and weeds are
still much in evidence.
Mr.. Tandy's many promises come and
go like midnight dreams in a thunder
storm In fact nothing has been done to
amount to anything in 10 years. 1t is a
well known fact that weeds sunflowers.
altalfa and scrub trees to 10 feet high
have enjoyed the freedom of Clay street
between Nineteenth and Twenty-first
streets for the past 10 years. and not a
single man has ever put in appearance
from the street department with a scythe
or sickle One enterprising colored wom-
an is now pasturing her COW on the park
! ing-there is room for plenty more.
The property owners are getting tired of
Nj Tandy's tactics and his promises
What We want is some strong evidence
ike to have him back up a few of his
promises before election.
What right did Tandy have to haul 1000
LOADS OF dirt away from Hampton street
between Clay and Buchanan when this
street is owned by property owners and
not the city. We would like also to know
why Tandy hauls dirt from Filimors
street to Clay and then has to haul it
back again. We would also like to know
when 43 property owners again petitioned
the street commissioner about four
months ago to grade and stake Clay to
! TIVE eaty-first street. why he paid no at
tention to this petition but went ahead,
staked between Nineteenth and Twentieth n
street, east on Twentieth and no further
partially graded one block and left it for
four months, tore up crossing and let the
people paddle across in the mud. 1t never
has been replaced
Automobiles and buggies stop on BIZ
chanan in bad weather rather than travel
over the condition Clay street is now in.
The ~lty is supposed to keep up its streets
and Mr.. Tandy is supposed to look after
tnat end of it. The property owners have
paid and paying for it and expect to
get what they are paying for. 1t should
not be necessary to call the street COM
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THEY WANT TO KNOW.
Clay street Taxpayers Write Open Let
ter to Tandy.

The Clay Street Taxpayers league says
w. G. Tandy, street commissioner, hasn't
kept his promises. The association in
Vites the Investigation of the Shawnee
County Taxpayers league 1t asks: Why
hasn't Clay street been graded? Why did
Commissioner Tandy move 20O loads of
dirt from Hampton street which is owned
by property holders. not by the city? Why
was petition with 43 signatures overlooked
by the commissioner of StreetS2 Was
preference given to his own street which
was recently paved? The letter received
by the Journal follows:
To the Editor of the State Journal:
A year ago the Topeka Street Railway
company removed their rolling stock
rails and ties off of Clay street from
Seventeenth to Twenty-third. Mr.. Tandy
our efficient street commissioner. prom
iSed the property owners at that time that
TIE street would be put to grade as soon
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breaks the monotony of his journey
by watching the country and towns
from the car window, and Mr.. JarrelIS s
investigation shows that travellers al
ways read the matter printed on the
big sign boards, if it has to do with
the country through which they are
passing. Several commercial clubs on
the Santa Fe lately have taken up the
suggestion and will erect sign boards.
The largest sign board on the Santa
Fe is at Lamar, ColO.,-500 feet long
and 20 feet high. Hundreds of thou
sands of people see the sign annually,
and the data about production printed
thereon from time to time give that
part of Colorado a world wide adver-
tisement. Mr.. FARRELL says he has
seen references to the Lamar sign
board in the travel notes published
in large number of newspapers. The
London Times lately mentioned it.
Here are four items from the Lamar
sign board:
Sugar beets. 20 tons per acre.
1.-TWO hundred lambs fed annually.
Wheat, 60 bushels per acre.
Alfalfa, tons per acre"
The sign board stands about SO
yards from the Santa Fe right of way,
and can be read easily as the train
goes by.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,

L. G. Mum and husband to ]. S. Cor
don, pit. int. in tract in res. 3.....S
A s. Coyne and wife to j. F. Coyne,
and wife, lot 116 w. II Is Tyler St.
H. NJ. kfmball to N. NJ. Kimban, a
int: in e. u Sc. 4 33-10-16. .-....
D. E. Garner and wife to w. c. FL
wood, lots /, 3, Guthrie ave-,
Euclid Park. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. z, ,90t
I. S. Curtis to C. w. Morand lots
101S-20-22 West 22nd St, Quinton &
Steele's add. ........................ Il
E. S. Dunway to F. Sanley, lots 640-
"a Clay St, Martin & Dennis add. 1,50C
c. NJ. Blanchard and wife to NJ. Nc
Nary, lots 43-5 Polk St, Douthitt
aQo 4,VV'
L. J. Mcclure and husband to ]. o.
Ehrhart and wife, lots 1855 Van
Buren St, block c, Parks add. 3O(
F. Cox and wife to H. Long, tract in -
5-12-16 10, ,OOt
A. Lawrence to G. L. Doel, pit. s. w.
J. G. Kennedy and wife to G. r.
Bumgardner and others, lots 3S9-41-
3-5 Winfield ave. ]. w. Morris add 4Ot
I. ]. Page to V. Smith, lot 32O-22- Sth
ave-, E. Parkdale. ale...--......-.........-- ]
K. Smith and husband to NJ. F.
Slower, lot SO Klein St, Klein's 1st
add. Observation-Disclosures. -'s oou
A Anderson to D. D. Wadleigh, lots
1880 College ave, Elmhurst add. go
D. Marker and wife to G.. Williams
lots 1916 Logan ave, ]. Nortons m
md aQO-. w
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missioner's attention to his duty. He
ought to know it by now.
We might call attention to the street
Mr. Tandy is now living which has
been recently paved. Clay street is not
even graded. If Mr.. Tandy can explain
these things the property owners will be
glad to listen. We cheerfully invite the
Taxpayers League to investigate.
CLAY STREET TAXPAYERS LEAGUE.
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JARRELL'S GOOD IDEA.
Santa Fe Publicity Man Gets Results
From Sign Boards.

J. F. FARRELL, publicity agent of the
Atch1son. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company, whose work brings him into
contact with commercial clubs and
farmers organizations, suggests in his
speeches that every agricultural and
stock raising community put up a
large sign board for the purpose of
exploiting its resources to travellers on
the trains. The average traveller
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-30
ROB POLICE CHIEF.
Burglars Enter Home of Muskogee
Officer and Clean His Pockets.

Muskogee. Okla, April 30.-Bur-
glars entered the home of Joseph
Depew. chief of police, last night They
entered his sleeping apartments and
emptied his trousers pockets of all his
change. They also took his silk hose
The chief has given the detective force
three days in which to catch the bur
glars.
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EAST SIDE NOTES.

Items for this column may be 'phoned
to 3S15 the State Journal office.l
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WANTED-MALE HELP.

ADVERTISING SOLICITOR. good one
straight proposition. Steady work. Box
% city.
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FOR RENT--R00MS.

THE ST. RITA, PIP West sth, very desir-
able adjoining rooms, suitable for two
or three young men; rates very reason
oh
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wANTED-washer at Harris Laundry
1123 Kansas ave.
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2 OR 8 nicely furnished housekeeping
rooms first floor, close in, cheap. lO7
T.
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LOST and FOUND.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

YOUNG MAN attending Business college
desires place to work for his board Call
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wANTED-Sodding three trimming, dirt,
rotted manure. Tel. 3919.
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wANTED-Position shoe salesman,
experienced; references; young man,
married. R. A, care Journal.
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Observation-Disclosures.

wANTEDl,To do your moving; the only
three horse hich van in Topeka. Booher
Moving & Storage Co. Phone 696.
WANTED-Let me figure your house
painting; prices reasonable. Phone 2352
Red
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
Pen, ChiSeI and Brush.

Janet Scudder, Americas most prom
inent woman sculptor. will superintend
the erection of fountain of her own
design on the Rockefeller estate at
Tarrytown, y. Y. She has been work
ing in a Paris studio.
Ellis Parker Butler is secretary
treasurer of the recently organized Au-
thors' League Of America, with offices
in New York. The objects of the league
are to promote adequate copyright leg
islation, to protect the rights and prop
erty of authors and 10 assist authors
in the marketing of their product.
Zarah Howilson Pritchard, founder
OF the new school of submarine paint
ing, lives at Pasadena, Cal, but is a
native of India, Irish by birth. He
goes down TO the bottom Of the sea in
n divers suit and with specially pre-,
pared equipment sketches rapidly for
fifteen or twenty minutes and takes
sufficient color notes to enable him tC
finish his picture in the studio.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
A Spoonful of Fun.

Sometimes instead of feeling with
his hands in order to discover who it
is that he has caught the blind man
is given a large spoon, which he uses
as a wand. As in silence" the play
ers must all remain perfectly still Di-
rectly he succeeds in finding some one
the blindfoIded player tries, by deftly
touching him here and there with the
spoon, to discover who it is. AS it is
much easier than anybody who has
not tried can possibly imagine to dis
cover the identity Of a person by
spoon touching, it is best for the I'M
blindfolded players to try to disguise
themselves as much as possible. Some
might stand on tiptoe TO make them
selves appear taller, others tie hand
kerchiefs around their necks or wrap
themselves up in shawls, and the boys
might remove their telltale collars or
put on their overcoats.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
April Fools Day Party.

Ethel loved the 1st of April, for she
always had some surprise to spring on
the family early that morning. This
year she was very busy preparing for
an April fools day party.
The nursery was beautifully decorat-
ed with flowers, and over the door was
a large card with April Fool" printed
on it, surrounded by a pretty wreath.
Ethel. dressed in the costume Of a fool
with cap and bells. awaited her guests.
She had many games prepared for
them, and all entered into the fun
with vim
They played charades, taking only
such sayings to act as contained the
word fool, such as Fools rush in
where angels fear to tread" "a fool
and his money are soon parted Fools
make feasts and wise men eat them"
Experience keeps dear school. but
fools viii learn in no other way"
Ethel next introduced the game of
1T" She went about IT. in this way:
She asked of each guest three foolish
questions, and the answer to each had
to be April fool" and the one ques.
toned was not allowed to smile. This
the little girls found hard to do, and
many and funny were the forfeits
handed in by them for failing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
HORTON D. WALKER
EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL
Br&ttleboro, Vt.
South Having It's Innings.

The public building bin calling for As
millions which passed congress has
some items which are attracting some
attention, now that it is too late to stop
it. An Alabama town of 1850 people
is granted a 100000 federal office, to
a Tennessee village of 2,280 inhabitants
100000 building, to a Wyoming
prairie metropolis of 1868 scattered cit
liens a $62, 500 structure, and to a Cal
ifornian hamlet of 1000 arboriculturists
a $4,000 mission-style production.
During a debate in congress on some
other topic a republican tainted a
Georgian member with voting for the
bill, and he replied as follows: FFor
years and years all the appropriations
of this government have been voted into
the large cities like Boston and New
York and other places in the east and
west. And, forsooth, because the PEG
pie of the south are now coming into
their own in small degree and secur.
ing some appropriations, it i'll becomes
the gentlemen who have been gobbline
up everything all of these years, t.
come here and criticise us for trying tC
get something The south is now
having its innings, for sure, and they
are making the most of it. This is the
day of the downtrodden and oppressed
Northampton Gazette.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
SlRES AND SONS.

Charles Francis Adams, I'd, treasur-
er of Harvard university, will act as
chief marshal at the Harvard COM
mencement in June next.
Herr Siegmund Springer, the Vienna
banker, who recently gave more than
100000 to the Austrian Red Cross so
ciety, has been made baron by EN-
peror Franz Josef.
John Currie Lauder, son of Harry
Lauder, the famous Scotch comedian.
is completing his third year at Jesus
college, Cambridge. He has passed the
first part of the law special.
Professor H. L. Clifford, Gordon Me-
Kay professor of electrical engineer
ing at Harvard, has been invited to or
ganize a course in graduate study in
electrical engineering at the United
States Naval academy.
Benjamin r. Stickney, inventor of
the new machine which will, it is est
mated, save the government at least
100000 annually in printing postage
stamps, has been in the employ of the
/ federal service for eleven years.
DR.. George Turner, recently knighted
in England partly because of his devo'
\ ton TO the lepers at the asylum at Pre-
toria during his long career in South
\ Africa. is himself 4 victim Of the dread
disease, contracted through his work
among the afflicted. For several years
he has been living in seclusiOn i'm Eng
land
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
BRINGS FEAR
AMERICAN WARS
Troops MaSSed on Border.
Treasury of Mexico Is
Found Looted.
-. es%%*N = 900 q ! ! ! ! ). I 70

Meantime the treasury of Mexico
which ultimately was to be drawn
upon for restitution, had been sacked
and looted until a hoard formerly
amounting to millions was found TO
total a little over $4,000.
All over Mexico the same general
story OF damage has been reported,
although in no case to such a serious
extent as in the capital city. The con-
dition Of unrest and Outlawry in the
rural and mining districts led the
American resident investors to arm
themselves and fortify their property.
Mines in Sonora and other states were
placed under martial guard. Cannons
were mounted about the pits and the
collieries, and stores of ammunition
were laid in.
The latest authentic estimate of
American interests in Mexico places
the total at over S1,OO0,O00000. This
sum is % per cent more than the capt.
tai invested by the Mexicans them
selves and is twice as much as the in
vestments Of all the other nations
| combined. This capital covers mining
and SmeltlnS properties, railroads. dSrl-
| cultural and industrial enterprises, oil
wells, plantations and ranches.
The Guggenheims, or the American
| Smelling and Refining interests, head
| the list Of investors.
! That an organized plot to bring abou
| general Central American uprising
has been freely surmised by close OBJ
servers. CiprianO Castro. the exileG
dictator OF Venezuela. and Jesus San
tos Zelaya, deposed president OF Mica
| ragua, were suspected of being behind
the main conspiracy.
According to rumorS. it was theil
| plan to overthrow the governments o.
Honduras. Guatemala and Nicaragu;
and to combine these countries into 4;
Central American federation. JuaI
Leets, a notorious Russian, vel
known as professional leader of Latin
American uprisings, was said to b.
one of the leaders in the latest plot.
Signs of the plot were found in tn
presence OF Manuel Ugarte, a Hondu
ran exile; Daniel Mena. son of Gen
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10

Photo by American Press Association
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM q, CARTER.
President Taft in ordering a force of
1900 troops massed on the frontier.
Ten thousand troops were ordered to
points along the gulf of Mexico, 5000
marines along the Mexican border, and
large numbers of marines were con.
centrated at Guantanamo
Six battleships have been kept at
Mexican ports for days, and smaller
American vessels have been kept pa
trolling Central American waters.
Major General William II. Carter,
commanding the second division Of the
reorganized army, was put in charge
Of the American forces. The regiments
were taken from scattered points about
the country.
International war among the Latin
nations of Central America and one
involving the United States has been
the bugaboo confronting this country
grimly throughout the trouble, 1t has
been clearly estimated that interven.
ton by the United States would pre-
cipitate a conflict with Mexico lasting
at least two years and costing innumer
able lives and millions of dollars. The
warning Mexican factions would unite
| against the United States
Yet certain European countries have
clamored for just such a move. 1t wa
| pointed out to Uncle Sam that since b.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10

had always hurled the Monroe doctrine
at the heads Of all European countries
that intruded upon the western hemi-
sphere he should therefore be respon-
sible for the interests of those coun-
tries forbidden to protect their own
interests Military experts say a war
with Mexico would mean much guer-
rilla fighting.
How seriously the various countries
were involved was shown by the
losses of the American citizens in the
City OF Mexico. When the Americans
ventured TO their homes after the days
Of bombardment and street battles
they discovered great havoc. Claims
presented 20 the United States officials
and in turn forwarded to the state de-
partment totaled a sum over $780,
600 AM the foreign residents of 9th
er nationaiities suffered an equally
heavy loss.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
Facts From France.

BY French law no doctor may in
herit property left TO him by a deceas-
ed patient.
In the French schools there has been
Il return to the slanting system of
writing instead Of the vertical.
Experiments in France indicate that
mushroom poisoning can be cured by a
serum prepared in Il similar manner
to diphtheria antitoXin.
The Gothic priory of Rochefoucauld,
France, dating from the year 1000, has
been acquired by a butcher, who will
use it as a pig breeding establishment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
Automobile Bumps.

There are only about $4,000 automo-
biles in Greater New York, but the
casualties are numerous enough for
many more.-New York American.
Automobile drivers in Chicago are
demanding tail lights on all wagons
and buggies. Like death, some chauf-
feurs love a shining mark.-Chatta-
nooga Times.
Detroit man boasts of having in.
vented an automobile that can be turn
ed into a buggy. A buggy that might
be turned into an automobile would be
a better seller.-Minneapoli Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
Current Comment.

Everybody seems 10 agree that there
is too much concentration OF money
except the entirely affable and oblig-
ing concentrators.-Chic News.
Switzerland has rugged up a tall
church tower so as to hold wireless
communication with the Eiffel tower.
But why not rig up the Jungfrau and
talk TO Pixies peak ?-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The sale OF a seat in the Boston
Stock Exchange at S14.5OO shows q
relatively greater drop from the record
price of S3S,5O0 in 1907 than the de
cline i'm the price Of a seat in the New
York Stock Exchange from $4,000 to
/ S4S, 000.-BostOn Globe
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
London's Suffragettes.

Burn this letter" is the latest slogan
of the London suffra gettes.-Philadel-
phia Record.
The trouble with London's militant
suffragettes is that they never pause
for an effort to bring a discussion Of
arbitration into the situation.-Wash-
ington Star.
The London suffragettes are now
sending letters containing pepper to
the British cabinet, and yet they them
selves maintain that their campaign is
not to be sneezed at!-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
NEW TYPE OF RAPID FIRE GUN.

NEW TYPE OF hARID EIbE GUN.
eral Mena, leader OF the Nicaraguan
revolution last summer, and several
other person of like ilk in New Or
leans.
Meantime serious trouble has been
brewing in Cuba. There has long been
said to exist in that country a strong
anti-American feeling. Casros infiu.
ence in Havana also was said to be di-
rected toward evil things.
Following the summary killing of
former President Madero and former
Vice President Jose Pine Suarez, it was
apparent that Victoriano Huerta, pro-
yisional president, would be held NOR
ally responsible and his rule would be
an unstable one. The shame of the
country IN Madero and Suarez's death.
it was declared, would ultimately force
Huerta out of office.
1t is just two years beyond the cen
fury since Mexico set itself in the path
Of republican government. In that
time the list of those who have held
rule over Mexico and have come to
| death at the hands Of their rivals or by
| act of what has purported to be con
| stituted authority is long enough to
| attract attention. The century is one
long chapter OF turmoil and fnsurrec.
ton. 1t has its long roll of those who
have fallen in the attempt to wrest
power from those who held it. Un.
successful in their revolts. 1t would be
difficult task to discover their names
and their deeds in the records of the
usual course Of common events In the
republic of the Aztec eagle. where &
failed life counts for little.
There are many in the list of those
whose revolts have succeeded. whC
have come to power as constitutions
as is wholesome south of the RiC
Grande. who have paid the penalty O.
their greatness. This roll Of the deaC
begins with the furious priest who re
mains in memory as the lfberator 0
Mexico. 1t includes both the emperor
who sought to set themselves on tn
throne OF the Montezumas. and its las
entry is In Ink scarcely dry.
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1t is plain to be seen that the two
young folks in the picture are intent
on making some friend happy. They
bear gifts emblematic of the Easter
seasonal lily and a basket Of eggs.
We can only conjecture the object Of
their morning call, for they were snap
ped by the photographer just as they
rang the doorbell. Perhaps the offer
ings are for grandma. who would sure
ly be glad to see the visitors. even if
they came empty handed. Their very
presence would be joy TO grandma.
Again. perhaps the flower and the eggs
are for some little playmate. Who
knows but they? If 1t should happen
that this playmate is unable through
illness to leave her home, how happily
the gifts will be received And those
who give will also be happy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-10
Town Topics.

If Berkeley, Cal, succeeds in its eff
forts to make the town catless it might
pass the recipe around. - Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Amundsen says that Milwaukee has
worse climate than the south pole
Still. he must admit that it has better
Saloons Washington Post.
Opposition to the sweeping changes
of street names in Chicago is vigorous.
Some Chicago men have difficulty in
finding their homes in the early morn
ing as things are now.-BOstOn Globe