davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
TABLE TALK q
AT THE $3.50 -<J2T
COMMERCIAL Club. E1A

The ritual team for the Loyal Or
der of Rough Roads that will be
dragged into the group of secret or
ders bv the Commercial club when
the county officials hold their conven-
ton in Topeka next Tuesday. Wednes-
day and Thursday has been an
nounced 1t is as follows:
Lord High King Drag. l.. over
High Chief Road Inspector-Roy L.
Chief Road scraper-B. B. Elite
man.
High Chief Steam Roller-George
Godfrey Moore.
Village Constables-R. T. Bennett
and E. F. Maxwell.
Every delegate to the convention
will be given the first degree in this
order.
1t was the consensus of opinion at
the Commercial club this noon that
Governor Capper should go with
Henry on his peace expedition When
the time comes for the governor to
leave every one will wish him bon
voyage
In spite of the fact that yesterday
was THANKSGIVING day, there was an
unusually large crowd of business
men at the club for luncheon this
noon.
James Mcfarland of Kansas City
was a guest at the cIuD- he Is IN
Topeka on business
An effort is being made TO get Ida
NJ TarbeIl, the well known magazine
writer, to give a speech at the cIup
on the night of February IL. Miss
Tarbel will speak at the University
of Kansas on that day and Secretary
Kelley hopes to get her to come to
Topeka He has written to T. r.
Hamilton. director of the extension
department OF the university, but has
received 20 answer
Announcements for the Know
Your Town dinner that will be held
at the club Thursday night will be
mailed tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
GUEST OF THE COUNTY
j. W. Martin Is Accused of Opening
AnOther'S Mail.

On a charge of opening letter that
did not belong to him, J. w. Martin,
a VirgiEian. has been committed to
the Shawnee county Jail, by fedora;
authorities.
Martins trail of trouble, it is alleged,
began July 8, 1915, when he called for
mail at the general delivery WINDOW of
the Topeka postoffjce- He received
a letter addressed to j. w Martin.
Government authorities claim that the
letter was meant for another j. w.
Martin. Inside was a check for $40.
1t is alleged that Martin attempted to
pass the paper and after he had failed
wrote to the sender and asked for the
money as he could not negotiate the
check.
Then the postoffice inspectors were
given scent of Martins trail He was
traced to Utah. where he was arrested.
He was. indicted for the alleged Of
Tense by d Kansas grand jury Octo-
hc,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
IN ANNUAL. CONVENTION
Shawnee County S. s. Workers to
Meet Nov. 80.

The seventeenth annual convention
of the Shawnee County Sunday School
association will begin Tuesday, No
vember 80 at the First English Luth-
eran church, Fifth and Harrison
streets, and continue "Wednesday, De
cember l.
Several hundred Sunday school
workers from Topeka and Shawnee
county will attend and dinner and
supper are to be served by the ladies'
aid of the First Lutheran church
Wednesday.
Opening the meetings Tuesday aft
ernoon at 2:3O o'clock Will be Il bust
ness session, election of officers ard
the handling of miscellaneous bust
ness. Wednesday morning at 1880
o'clock, David owen will be the first
speaker with the subject, Devotional
Service and Music in the Sunday
School" Mrs. d. o. Coe, Mrs. S A.
Chappell, and Harold Rude VIII speak
on Cradle Roll and Home Depart
ments.''
The Monmouth Township chorus
will open the Wednesday afternoon
session with u song service at 80
O'Clock followed by report of the
the secretary. Following are the
speeches: Some of the Problems of
the Rural Sunday school the Rev
Robert BusSey, What the Rural sun
day School Stands For" the Rev j.
w Waldron, of HoltOn. Kansas, Our
Relation to Orga nized Sunday School
Work by General Secretary }. H.
Engle: My Impression of the State
Fair Sunday School Exhibit Mrs s
A Chappell; Pump Teachers, Or.
H E. Tralle; "Bible Study in Sunday
School for High School Credits H
B. Wilson, superintendent of the To-
peka schools. Mr.. Wilson will conduct
a question box on the subject of his
speech.
Beginning at I O'Clock r. n. Mem
tire will make an address on '.Ilni-
tating the Ostrich" followed by
speech by DR. H z. Tralle on When
the Teacher Cares"
OFFICERS of the association are: H.
w Bomgardner, president, David Ii.
owen, first vice president; J: Jay
Henderson, second vice president;
George e. Dougherty, secretary; A. a.
Knapp, treasurer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
See STAFFORD RACER
Topeka Has Interest in Auto at Fair
Grounds saturday.

An extra program of automobile racing
vii, be held ia at the fair grounds track
his Stafford racer will be Il new entry.
Word was received from Streigel at Kan
sas City this morning that he would ship
his racing bv express and be here
for the races which A. c. Peterson will
hold Saturday. Peterson has entered him
in Saturdays events.
This new entry will be of special interest
to Topeka people for the Stafford racer
was built by Terry Stafford. formerly of
Topeka and now an automobile manufac-
turer in Kansas City. Auto racing men
all over the country have been particularly
interested IN this Stafford racer because
of it's speed and motor especially adopted
to speed. Streigel has never raced i'll To-
peka and with tine Stafford racer entered
it means that MackcrelI. Lauer. Donaldson
and the other drivers will have to let
their cars ont if they eXpect to win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
THRONGS See HANGING
MaryIandcrs Flock to See Triple Stay
CIR EXpiate Crime.

Snowhill, Md, Nov 26-Several
thousand persons witnessed the hang
ing today of Frank Grano. who muir
dered three persons near this place
last September. The scaffo1d was
erected in the woods of the county
aims house farm, and every tree af-
fording a view of the gruesome spec
acle was loaded down with onlookers.
Grano killed Levin B. Robinson, a
farmer; Mrs. Robinson and Alonzo r.
Spedden, a farm hand. He was in
fatuated with Mrs. Robinson and
jealousy was given as the motive for
the deed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26

miles of railway and he has been COM
missioned to investigate American
standards with a view to placing or
derS in this country.
Heretofore railroad construction in
China has been under the direction of
European engineers who have inaug
resulted in the adoption of European
equipment. The war makes such pur-
chases now so difficult that the Chi
nese government turned to the United
States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
THEY TURN TO u. S.
Chinese Railway Buyers Abandon
European Market.

Pittsburg. Pa, Nov. &c. T. Hsia,
an engineer of the Chinese ministry
of communication, spent today in con-
suItation with manufacturers of rail-
road supplies and equipment He eX-
planned the Chinese government con
templates the construction OF 1000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

William Mariner. rs, died early this
morning at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. CT. b. Black, 315 Straight street,
Oakland. The funeral will be held
Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the
home. Interment in Rochester ceme-
terry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26

Lewis, the 6 year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Tastrana, died Thursday.
The funeral was held this afternoon
and was private. Intermen in Mount
Calvary cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26

The funeral of Miss Maude Fort
son who died Thursday afternoon, will
be held Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock at Mount Carmel Baptist
church, Fifteenth and Quincy streets.
Burial in Mount Auburn cemetery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26

The funeral of Charles Nattsen will
be held at the residence, 125 Tyler
street, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
The body will lie in state from 10 to
IL a. m. Interment in Topeka ceme-
terry.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
HELPFUL HINTS

When ironing delicate garments put
powdered orris root between the folds
of the ironing blanket. A delicate per.
fume will permeate the clothing.
Almost all vegetables beans
should be cooked in as little water
as possible; then this water should be
thickened with butter, cream and the
tiniest amount of flour for the sauce.
To make boots waterproof melt to.
gether two parts beeswax to one part
of mutton fat. Apply this to the leather
at night, and In the morning wipe we'll
with a piece Of flannel.
If magnet is kept in the hook and
sye box, sitewill be an easy matter to
pick up the hooks and eyes, and any
hook that will not be picked up by the
magnet, do not use, because it will
rust.
Every cellar should have many
shelves for the convenience of the
housekeeper. There should be one or
two hanging shelves. BY this means
the cellar may be kept in order and
sanitary.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28

smut balls. This being done, the grain
should be- soaked ten minutes in a So
luton consisting Of one pound of CON-
mercial formalin (obtainable at near
~ all drug stores) added to 40 gallons
Of water: The seed thus treated is next
allowed to drain and is then piled on
the floor and stirred frequently until
sufficiently drv to SOW. If, during this
process, the Farnels have swollen very
much, the Grill SHOULD be set to SOW a
little thicker, else the quantity sown
per acre will be less than was in
tended.
Rotation In Severe Cases.
Recent experiments have shown that
In certain sections of the country the
coil of a field producing q crop Of
smutted wheat this year may harbor
enough smut spores to cause the ap.
pearance of smut in next years crop
If the field be reseeded to wheat. This
sometimes occurs, where smut is very
bad. IN. spite Of the planting of treat
ed seed, and shows that In such local..
ties crop rotation should be practicod
in addition to seed treatment: Blunt
o. ceT>red smut OF Whax* attacks no
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
Apparatus
and sawhorsea. Trough; Piate

other cereal crop, but other cereals
have their own smut diseases.
Loose Smut.
The other wheat smut occurring in
this country, known commonly az
loose smut, is not so serious as hunt,
although it probably produces an av-
erage loss of three-fourths of one per
cent Of the total wheat crop of tho
country. Loose smut may be prevent
ed by treating the seed by the Jensen
hot-water method or some modification
of it.
The Jensen method consists in soak
ing the seed for ten to fifteen minutes
In hot water at a temperature o: 1872
to 1873 degrees, Fahrenheit. It is high
ly important that the water shall not
rise over 1876 degrees or fall below 100
degrees, Fahrenheit. A temperature
below this will not kill the smut, while
a temperature too high may affect
the termination of the seed. The grain
after treatment should be Immediate
ly spread out to dry. II 1t cannot b.
spread at once it should be dipped into
cold water to cool at once, and spread
as soon as possible.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
Need Of Reforestatlon In Japan

Need Of Reforestatlon In Japan.
The forest area of Japan is decreas
ing at the rate of one million aere.
a year. This area is being cut away
partly for timber and lumber and for
frewood and partly to make the land
available for the cultivation of rice.
The forests CT Japan at the end OF
1914 covered about As million acres
Extensive efforts are being made to
increase the acreage of forest lands
by planting surfaces now cleared off
with young trees of quick growth. It
has been urged that it is necessary
to replant all surfaces as soon as they
are cleared for commercial purposes
in order to lessen the great loss an
nually caused by floods in the noun,
tains.-Vice Consul Harold G. Hug.
gins, Yokohama, Japan, in Commerce
Reports.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28

couver, and through the Lynn canal,
TO Skagway, which he terms the gate
way to the Yukon, and describes as
"a wretched little town with decayed
wooden houses and grass-grown
streets, the scene of many robberies,
riots and murders at the time of the
gold rush, which the police authorities
had neither the power nor energy to
control. Skagway is not, and can
never be, of much use to the United
States except as an obstruction to
Canadian progress, but might be of
some advantage to the vast Canadian
hinterland less than twenty miles in
land"
Skagway is surrounded on three
sides by a plateau of steep and rug
ged mountains through which two
trails lead to the north over the White
Horse and the Chilcoot passes, up
whose wild and difficult ravines thou
sands of fOrtune-seekers trekked and
struggled with their heavy packs,
tools and tents in the mad rush to the
expected Ell Dorado over five hundred
miles away. Soon after the gold was
fond in quantities a mountain rail-
road was built up the White pass
from Skagway to the summit and on
to Lake Bennett, a distance Of 40
miles, traversing wild and iceworn
plateau of gigantic proportions,
streWn with moraines, sprinkled over
with lakes and inclosed by snowy
peaks 5000 to 5000 feet in height.
f, At the head of Lake Bennett lies the
deserted town of Bennett, where, at
the time of the gold rush, there were
lodged some five thousand people in
houses, huts and tents. The only
building now standing beside the rail-
road station is wooden Presbyterian
church-which shows that at least q
lew righteous men were among that
sordid crowd. It was here that the
first prospectors and miners got into
boats and canoes and navigated their
frail craft through lakes and rapids
for the remaining 531 miles of their
venturesome journey to Dawson City.
The last stretch of the railroad from
skagway runs along Lake Bennett to
White Horse, few miles above Lake
Laberge, where safe navigation down
the Lewes river to Dawson. begins.
Dawson City the Crrter.
Although tbs great leo f,,lds of the
early ages swept the greater portion
of North America they missed the re-
gion Of the Klondike, and consequent
~ the gold-producing deposits re-
manned. intact until the, early ,prospec-
tors discovered them. The Yukon
gDldfeld Is confined mainly to- the. Vi.
entity Of Dawson City. although
small quantities Of gold can be found
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
CARE OF THE TABLE LINEN
Mt Life May BE Materially Length
&sned4lf It 10, Always i1andled
Properly.

Careful housewives who fear the Ell
lects of fruit stains on their best table
linen often lay it aside during the
fruit season and use in it, place table
squares with the square doilies or
the round table coverings with the
round doilies to match.
These are chosen of fine linen or
patterned damask, preferably with the
scalloped edges or the simple hem
stitched hens. Under them are used
the asbestos mats, which perfectly
protect the polished table top. Many
ire using the Japanese sets, made
of the cotton toweling. These are
herringboned together to make the
square cover the desired size, some
even having the blue linen kuotted to
form a fringe. They are pretty and
cool looking with the blue Dresden
china.
The use of the smaller table linens,
apparently, increases the size of the
laundry, but in reality it is less work
to do up number of the small pieces
than it is to wash and iron the largo
heavy tablecloths.
Almost all stains are removed quite
readily with plain boiling water, which
must be applied before any soap is
used. Soap always sets q stain. But
If the stain is stubborn and refuses
to come out for, the hot water, then
salts Of lemon may be applied, and
the article should b5 allowed to stand
in the sun while it dries.
Then rinse in cold water and applv
the salts second time if there are
any traces of the stain still on the
cloth. One may also use spirits of
wine, ammonia or javel water, which
latter must be rinsed out almost i'm
mediately for fear it mayHdamage the
material.
For grease or gravy spots, plain vel.
low soap rubbed well into them, then
the boiling water turned through, will
remove them at once. One must be
careful with the laundry list while
using the small tableware, for the
loss of few doilies spoils the set.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28

| in the sand of the Yukon fer hundred,
| OF miles up the valley. Dawson City
is situated on the elluvial fiat where
the Yukon is joined by the Klondike
river, two tributaries of which are the
famous Bonanza creek and Hunker
creek. Although traces of gold were
discovered in the Yukon valley in
about 1869, it was twelve years later,
in 1881, before it was found in the
Big Salmon, and In the Lewes, after
ward coarse gold was found on the
Fortymile, a tributary of the Yukon
below Dawson, and in 1894-1906 the
discoveries of Bob Henderson and
George Cormack, in Hunker and Bo-
nanza creek and many miners made
fortunes in a short time, but unfor-
tunately most of the gold was spent
foolishly or in debauchery One man
is said to have taken 100000 out of
claim Sc feet by 800 feet, but, so
the story goes, he spent it in a few
years and died in poverty. The quick
est fortune on record was secured by
two men who cleaned up gold to the
value of $4,000 in q hours. Stories
Of the proceedings at Klondike during
these golden days" are not edifying,
but point to the moral that wealth
too easily and quickly won is apt to
work ill.
The total output in 1898 was $780,
100000, from which figure it jumped
six million annually until 1900, when
the production reached $22,275, 900,
the highest point. From this point
steady decline began until In 1908,
when it was $2,829, 131, at which time
hydraulicking and dredging began,
and the total output rose slowly until
it was $5,O18,411 in 1913. It has been
estimated that only about $20,0O0,O00
worth of gold remains to be produced,
out OF the original available amount OF
nearly $180,0OO,00O. At the height Of
the boom in the winter of 1899 tbs
population of Dawson is said to have
reached $4,000; recently, however, 1t
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
Silver Mine Under CITY.

Embedded under 100 feet of solid
earth, a silver vein more than a mile
long and IN feet deep, and said to
contain nearly a million dollars worth
of pyrites of silver ore, has been dis
covered on the United States bureau
Of mines site, Forbes and Craig
streets, Oakland, by Chief Engineer
J. D. McTighe.
This discovery was made when En-.
gineer McTighe was surveying land
where the boiler room Of the new
Bureau of Mines building is to ba
erected. u,
italian workmen blasting slate saw
little, white objects, which looked like
diamonds to them, nestled among tn
rocks, and this led IT,: the strike. :
Pittsburgh dispatch Philadelphia Rex
ord. ~. ,%5. -
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
The PROPER Spoon.

No other kitchen utensil will
hasten the labor of cooking quite so
much as the proper spoon.
Beating spoons which are split or
perforated are essential for obtaining
light and fluffy mixtures in the short.
est time. They can also be used as
vegetable Washers.
The tongs-spoon is an Invaluable
help in handling hot eggs, potatoes,
etc. The strainer spoon and the meas.
uring spoon, which usually come in
sets of three, are found to be indis.
pensable after a cook has once be-
come accustomed to the use Of them.
For one dollar complete supply OF
spoons can be put in the kitchen.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28


until the last yellow nugget is
extracted from the earth. Nat
Ut urally the Klondike and Yukon
gOldfelds, as the latest to be
opened, will attract the would-be pio-
beers of the present, and romantic
btories coming out of the great Alas
kan forests and mountains will stir
the blood of the adventurous until the
whole region has become commercial
ICED. In recent publication of the
Smithsonian, H. c. Cadell reports his
Etudies and Investigations in the Klon-
Hike and the Yukon and presents a
picture of conditions in these famous
fields which the man with the gold
fever will do we'll to see.
The name Klondike was once in ev-
bry mouth, and late In the nineteenth
century' it nearly became a synonym
For all that was rich and prosperous.
But of late it has not been so common,
its early bloom having faded away.
Fhc sensational pockets of fine placer
gold, which attracted hordes OF hardy
~ 'oA]OA Vi . AAOAA OSOAy AN<AA ~"
Gre nearly depleted, and no new ones
have been discovered to maintain its
earlier reputation. But while this part
bf the Yukon district can no longer
be called a poor mans goldfield, it
Still contains a considerable quantity
pf alluvial gold which can be secured
b. the application of capital and
brains. 1t remains a region we'll
worth visiting, for besides the gold it
has other possibilities of development.
There are many points Of geographic
and scientific interest; in this remote
and imperfectly explored northwest
ern corner of the British empire there
pre- numerous problems awaiting the
discussion and investigation of the
biologist and the geographer of the
years to come.
Skagway Now a Wretched Spot.
On his trip Of investigation Mr.. Ca
dell steamed up the coast from Van
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28

has dwindled down to less than two
thousand people.
Three Ways Of Getting Gold.
The various processes of recovering
gold in this region fall under three
main Observation-Disclosures, by washing
surface gravels with shovel and pan,
or by sluicing with flume and sluice
box; small parties, by working drift
with mechanical scrapers and sluices,
or drift-mining in shafts and sluicing,
and capitalists, by dredging with pow.
erful mechanical plants, hydraulic
sluicing with monitors, or mining and
stamping ore in mills. The first class
includes poor mems diggings" and
the second requires more financial re-
sources and mechanical ability, but a
successful man in the first may be.
come member of the second class
While the first two classes require
fairly rich ground, only men with ex
ceptional ability and ample capital can
reach the third class and work the
low-grade placer gravels or quarts
veins successfully.
The author describes in detail the
several methods of extracting gold
from the frozen Klondike field, based
upon his personal observations, and
shows how man has changed the to
biography of this district, especially in
the valleys. First the drift miners
turned the gravel upside down, Their
the dredgers plowed it all over again
and threw it into great ridges of stone
with mud banks between, and finally
where there were white gravels on
the high ground, the hydraulic
"giants" washed them down into great
fan-shaped cones, sometimes reaching
across the entire valley, completely
burying all below, damming up gullies
and producing new lakes. All of which
operations have made tough problems
for the future geologist
The vast territory of the Yukon dis
trict is imperfect explored, and al,
though it is far north, the climate In
summer is warm and favorable for az.
riculture and grazing. Exploration ia
now readily effected from Dawson, and
Mr.. Cadell hopes that fresh enterprise
will reveal new resources that will
lead to the permanent settlement OF
THE remote and almos1 .Sinnabited
outpost.