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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
CUBAN POLITICS BROIL
Leaders Discussing Plan to Have I'm
Gle Sam Referee Election.

Havana, Jan. 21.-Prominent lead
ers of the liberal party, who are OPP
posed to action of the conservatives in
renominating President Menocal, on
the ground that the principle of re-
election is a menace to the country,
are discussing secretly a proposal to
REQUEST the United States to appoint a
commission to supervise the PROPOSE
ton.
Those who favor the plan say 1t
would. prevent repetition of irregular
tiles connected with the second cleo
ton of President Palma, which was
followed by uprisings that eliminated
in the revolution of 1906 and the sec
ond American intervention Ameri-
can supervision of the election. it is
also said would curtail further talks
of a revolution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
SHAWNEE STANDING Low.
County Is Thirty Third in List of
Kansas High Schools.

Emporia, Kan, Jan. 21.-Shawnee
county ranks SO among the los coun-
ties of Kansas in high school standing.
In a series of tests, carried out last
year by Professor w. H. Carothers of
the Kansas State Normal at Emporia,
and published in the last number of
the Normal magazine Teaching, Shaw
nee county was found to rank 81 in
percentage of school population in
high schol; it ranked 35 in persistence
of high school attendance; in prepara-
ton of teachers it was Al; in salaries
of teachers "a; in salaries of supervi-
sors %; in library facilities 90; in
breadth of curriculum SO. These
seven tests summed up give Shawnee
county a final ranking of SO.
Mr.. Carothers, who is the professor
of secondary education at the Nor
NAL, is the first to make a high school
survey of this sort in Kansas He
found that among the first Is counties
81 per cent were under the operation
of the Barnes high school law; of the
second 35 counties 40 per cent were
under the operation of the general
high school law, and of the last 35
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
A BIC CROP YEAR
All Lines of Business Pick Up
in Atwood.
Treasurer Reports Largest Tax
Collection in History.
HOME OF FIRST GIRLS BAND
Woman Heads Bank; Employs
Girl Assistant Cashier.
This Year a Promising One for
County Seat Town.
OF FIRST GIRLS BAND

Atwood, Kan. Jan. 21.-The tax
levy of Rawlins county for 1915 was
$4,000. Up to the 10th of Deem
Der there was paid in the treasury
office 871A per cent of the total,
which beats all records of tax paying
in Rawlins county. The big crops
for the last two years the county has
gathered made it possible to beat all
former records in paying taxes. One
of the large real estate agents here
makes the statement that he collected
at least 10 per cent more rentals off
the lands he is agent for than ever
before. This shows that the farm
ers of the county are meeting with
prosperity. The same authority says
that many quarters of land in Raw
Inns county produced crops in 1915
to more than pay for the land. In
round figures the county had out in
small grains 200, 900 acres. A care
full average is made of 1S bushels an
acre. or a total of over three million
bushels. Besides the county, in bush
els, raised more corn than any year
since the organization
Return to Atwood.
Several former Atwood and Raw
Inns county people who drifted else
where to better their fortunes are re-
turning L. NJ. Robertson and John
Dillon, former business partners here,
have been on the Pacific coast for the
last three years. They see good open
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
PAPE'S D|APEPS|N
FOR INDIGESTION OR
SICK, ACID STOMACH
Relief Awaits You! Instantly Stops Dyspepsia,
Gases, SourneSS, Hearburn--Get Some Now!

your home-keep it handy-get a
large fifty-cent case from any drug
store and then if anyone should eat
something which doesn't agree with
them; If what they eat lays like lead,
ferments and sours and forms gas;
causes headache, dizziness and nausea;
eructions of acid and undigested food
remember as soon as Pape's Diapep-
sin comes in contact with the stomach
all such distress vanfshes Its prompt
ness. certainty and ease in overcom-
ing the worst stomach disorders is a
revelation to those who try it.-Ad-
Vertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
KANsAN IN JUAREz PRISON.
JEFF Walker of Hiawatha Arrested and
Released by Mexicans.

Htawatha, Kan, Jan. 21.-Relatives
or Jeff Walker, a young man of Re
serve, north of here, who went to Ell
Paso few months ago for his health,
nave been telegraphing and trying in
every way to get into communication
with him, were astonished to learn
that they had not heard from Walker
because he had been imprisoned in
Juarez- In company with several
other young men, Walker went over
10 Juarez to see the races. 1t was
after dark before they started home
and before they left the city they
were arrested and taken to Jail with
no other explanation than that they
would be told the reason of their i'm
pr1sonment later. No charge was
preferred, and finally Walker was re-
leased, just as mysteriously as he had
been arrested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
ORGANIZE ROTARY CLUB.
Business Men Enroll at LeavenWorth I:
Charter Closes Next Week.

Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. 21.-A new
organization, a Rotary club, was born
in Leavenworth this week and one
which promises to do much good in
its line of endeavor, that of promoting
and stimulating ideas which will tend
to bring the men of the city closer to-
gether for the common good of the
city.
DR.. S. E. Johnston is president of
the Rotary club, w. F. Cobb is vice
president, DR.. A. J. Stacey, secretary
and George Geiger is treasurer. The
organization has been meeting at the
Y. NJ. c. A. rooms and already has
a membership of twenty. The charter
is to close next week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
NOSE AND HEAD STOPPED UP FROM
COLD OR CATARRH, OPEN AT ONCE

balm dissolves by the heat of the nos
tr1ls; penetrates and heals the in
fIamed, swollen membrane which lines
the nose, head and throat; clears the
air passages; stops nasty discharges
and feeling of cleansing, soothing re-
lief comes Immediately
Don't lay awake tonight struggling
for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils
closed, hawking and blowing. Ca
tarrh or a cold, with its running nose,
foul mucous dropping into the throat,
and raw dryness is distressing but
truly needless.
Put your faith-just once-in "EIy's
Cream Balm and your cold or catarrh
will surely disappear.-Adverti lent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
KANSANs GET POSITIONS.
Il. Q. Men Named for Navy Pay and
Army Engineer Service.

Washington. D. c., Jan. 21.-As a
result of competitive examination
held recently thirteen young men will
be commissioned assistant paymasters
IN the navy. One of these is Otto
3. Ir1gg, a student of the Kansas
State university at Lawrence.
Charles o. Boynton, also a student
or the Kansas university, successfully
passed an examination for appoint
ment as probational second lieutenant
IN the corps OF army engineers. This
appointment will be made under the
river and harbors appropriation act of
1911, which permits civilians to COM
pete for such commissions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

You don't want a slow remedy when
your stomach is bad-or an uncertain
one-or a harmful one-your stomach
is TOO valuable; you mustn't injure it
with drastic drugs.
Pape's Diapepsin Is noted for its
speed in giving relief; it's harmless
ness it's certain unfailing action in
regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs.
It's millions of cures in indigestion,
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach
trouble has made it famous the world
over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
TOLD OF TOPEKA CLUB WORK.
Mrs. Wilma Rhodes Gave Address at
High School in Manhattan.

Manhattan, Kan, Jan. 21.-Mrs.
Wilma Cross Rhodes of Topeka, lee
tured on What a Good Government
Club Has Done for Topeka" at the
high school auditorium Thursday eve
ming at o'clock. Many business men
and women who are interested in good
government attended the meeting.
Mrs. Rhodes is a daughter n-law of
w. H. Rhodes, who lives at 319 Colo
RADIO street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

counties So per cent were under the
operation of the county high school
law.
The six counties having the best
high schools of the state are Cowley,
Harvey, Sedgwick, Leavenworth, Fin
nv and Edwards. The last six are
Morris, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Cove, Has
kell and Norton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
RUB BACKACHE AWAY
WITH 4ST. JACOBS OIL y
Rub Lumbago, Pain and Soreness from Your Lame
BaCk--InStant Relief! Doesn't BIister-Get
Small Trial BottIe-WondefuI Liniment

When your back is sore and lame
or lumbago. sciatic or rheumatism has
you stiffened up, don't suffer! Get q
small trial bottle of old, honest st.
Jacobs Oil" at any drug store, pour a
little in your hand and rub it right on
your aching back, and by the time you
count fifty, the soreness and lameness
is gone.
Don't stay crippled! This soothing,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

penetrating liniment needs to be used
only once. 1t takes the pain right out
yet absolutely harmless and doesn't
burn the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago, sci
attic, backache or rheumatism SO
promptly. 1t never disappoints! In
use for over sixty years.-Advertise-
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
My Cleansing, Healing Balm Instantly
Clears Nose, Head and Throat
Stops Nasty Catarrhal Discharges.
Dull Headache Goes.
Try "Ely's Cream Balm

Try "Elys Cream Balm"
Get a small bottle anyway, just to
try it-Apply little in the nostrils
and instantly your clogged nose and
stopped-up air passages of the head
will open; you will breathe freely;
dizziness and headache disappear. By
morningi the catarrh, cold-in-head or
catarrhal sore throat will be gone.
End such misery now! Get the
small bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm" at
any drug store. This sweet, fragrant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
ToPEKAN TO GIVE LECTURE.
W. w. Russell, Expert on Poultry
Husbandry. to Speak.

Great Bend, Kan, Jan. 21.-The
Rev. w. w. Russell of Topeka, expert
lecturer on poultry husbandry and
special representative of Poultry and
other publications, will give a free
lecture at the A M. E. church this
evening under the auspices of the
Pleasant Hour Literary society. All
persons interested in poultry raising
are invited to attend
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

Z JOUR little boy or girl isn't
istless, apathetic, sleepy at
the wrong time-adturally.
Something is wrong.
That something is usually consti-
patton.
Constipation is one of the greatest
dangers of childhood-not only in
childhood but because it is an in
sidious habit that grows and be-
comes chronic as the years go on.
Do not use cathartics and strong purges
for children, except on doctors orders.
They weaken the natural process of evacu-
stion and are dangerously habit-forming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
OIL MEN BUSY IN GEARY.
Work From junction City: Several
Leases Reported Closed.

Junction City, Kan, Jan. 21.-The
indications for an oil boom in this
county are better than ever before and
for the past two weeks oil prospectors
from the oil fields have been working
in this county and to the south. For
the past week oil men have been max
ing this city their headquarters and
each day going out over the county
and it is reported that a number of
leases have been made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
No Child Is "NaturallyLazy'

Nujol, pure whit., mineral oil, is the
medically endorsed remedy for constipa-
ton. Nuiol acts solely as a lubricant
oiling the intestinal tract, softening the
contents, and thus promoting easy normal
excavations. It is not absorbed by the
system, and may be taken in any quantity
without harm. Hence it is especially re-
commended for children.
Nulol Is colorless, odoriess and tasteiess
Over ~ 900 doctors already have asked us
to send them samples of Nuiol.
Write for booklet, The Rational Treat
ment of Constipation. If your druggist
hasn't IT, we will send a pint bottle of
NuJol prepaid to any point in the United
States ON receipt of 75c-mOney order g
stamps,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21
IRON

increases strength Of
delicate. nervous. run
down people 200 per
cent in ten days in
many instances. S100
forfeit II IL fails as
per full explanation
in large article soon
to appear in this pa
per. Ask your doctor
or druggist about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

Arnold Drug co. always caEry L ~ stoek.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

Approved byf
Harvey w. Wiley, Director God
Housekeeping Bureau Of E0e&A
Sanitation and Health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

president, Mrs. Sarah L. Burton, and
Miss Nellie Binning is assistant cash
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

penditure Of money must inevitably
be followed by higher taxes.
High tax rates do not necessarily
mean extravagant expenditures. If
the money derived from tax levies
is wisely and economically expended
the benefits derived by the taxpayer
may fully compensate for high tax
rate. THIS is a question, however,
self.
The total tax levy in Beltrami
county last year and payable this
year amounted to $633,6SO.40. Each
500 of this amount, when collected,
will be apportioned as follows: To
the state for support of state govern
ment and state institutions, $2.18; to
the county, $31.5S; to the towns,
$4.98; to the cities and villages,
$13.71; to education, $32.S6, and to
roads and bridges, $14.69.
The total state levy in Beltrami
county last year, including the state
levy for schools and roads and
bridges, amounted to $32,898.98,
while the county received $46,090.16
from the state in aid of schools, roads
and other local purposes. Expressed
in another way; for each dollar lev
led for state purposes last year, in
Guiding schools and roads and bridges
the county received from the state in
aid of schools, roads and other pub
lie purposes, SLAB in return These
figures show that direct taxes in their
final analysis are levied almost en-
tirely for local purposes.
High Taxes Discourage Settlers.
More or less discussion has taken
place of late as to relative tax rates
in the rural districts and in cities
should be borne in mind that farm
or unplatted lands are taxed on a
basis of one-third of value, while city
and village or plated property is tax
ed on basis of 40 per cent of value,
or 20 per cent higher than farm prop
erty. It therefore follows that if the
rate of levy was exactly the same on
unplatted property the actual tax on
the latter would be 20 per cent higher
than on the former because of the
difference in the basis of assessment.
| Separating the taxes levied in the
towns of Beltrami county in 1915
from the levy in the cities and vii
lagos of the county, exclusive of spe-
cial assessments, it is found that the
total township levy was $296,3S9.1S,
the average rate being $500 mills,
while the levy in the cities and vii
lagos amounted to $217,429.64, the
average rate in the latter being $3.50
mills. Based on full value, the rate
on unplatted land would be 1884
mills and on plated lands 1852 mills.
Much complaint has been heard of
late about growing tax rates in Bel
trami county. That tax rates are
growing increasingly heavy in the
! county cannot be denied. In many
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

The increase in 1915 over 1914
amounts to $10O,368.12 or about 10
per cent. Of this amount the county
increase is $63,303.74, the township
increase $7,964.44, the city and vii
lage increase $8,740.96, and the
school increase $23,363.34. For state
revenue purposes the levy in 1915
was $4,01255 less than in 1914. A
comparison of levies for the two years
tells the story of growing tax rates
in Beltrami county.
In the city of Bemidji assessed val
uations have been at a standstill for
the last few years while the expendi-
lures of the municipality have been
steadily increasing. The result is, of
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

She-You don't seem to understand
that when l criticise l do it solely for
your good. He-and you don't seem
to understand that when I am required
to listen it is impossible for me to
think Of anything that is good.-Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

standpoint whether the assessment is
based on true value or is but ten
per cent thereof. In either instance
the same sum of money must be raised
and the only variation will be the rate
of per cent of the value of the prop
erty assessed which is required to
raise the amount required by the
municipality.
While the assessor has practically
nothing to do with making the taxes
of a community high or low he has
nearly everything to do with making
them fair and just. From the stand
point of the individual taxpayer he
is the most important officer who has
anything to do with taxation. If he
complies with his oath of office and
does his work in the way that the
law provides, approximate justice will
prevail among all Of the taxpayers of
his district; but, if on the other hand
he departs from the standard fixed
by law, or if he omits any consider
able amount of property from his list
his assessment will inevitably abound
in the grOssest inequalities and re-
suit in the rankest injustice Tax
payers whose property is not all list
ed and assessed will pay less than
their share and taxpayers whose prop
erty is all assessed will pay more than
they ought to.
High Tax Rates Not Extravangance
In nearly every community tax
lodging is resorted to most by people
who are best able to pay. It is not
the citizen of limited means whose
property is all in sight and easily
found by the assessor who escapes.
Such people as a rule pay taxes on
every dollars worth of property they
have in the world. 1t is among peo-
pie with bullying pocketbooks where
we find our fragrant tax dodgers.
Many of these people by one dishonest
device or another evade every tax
that they safely can. 1t is this class
of citizens that. makes the burden of
taxation harder than it should be for
honest taxpayers, because all taxes
which by trickery and dishonest
ing must be made up by the less ia
VOTeu anu more uOueSI Taxpayers VI
the county.
In a general way growing tax rates
are largely due to the expanding
functions of government-sta and
local-and to an increasing demand
on the part of the people for more
things and better things from each
of the units of government. We now
demand and insist that numerous
things be done by government that
we did for ourselves years ago or
left undone entirely. To do these
numerous things revenues are neces-
sary, and the necessary revenue must
be raised by some form of taxation,
so that every expansion of the func-
lions of government entailing the ex-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

Regular Customer (who has just en-.
tered restaurant)-Strong smell Of
paint here, William. Waiter Cough
ing alphabetically and indicating young
women about to leave table)-Yessir;
soon pass of, sir; they're just going
London Punch.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

Altar Of Roses.
1t requires one ton of musk rose pet-
ais to distill one pound of pure altar
of roses.
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Might Be Done.

Might Be Done.
"A man should never talk about
what he does not understand"
"Well," replied Senator Sorghum.
sometimes he can get away with It.
If he is dead sure his audience doesn't
understand it either" - Washington
Star.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

Genius unexerted is no more genius
than bushel of acorns ia q forest Of
oaks.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

'~r
Not Idle.
Willie-Dad, what is idle curiosity?
Dad-The busiest thing in the world.
Willie.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

BY speaking Of our misfortunes We
oft relieve them.-C orneille,
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.$533,312.28

of $46.8O9.22 the city of Bemidji re-
quired $31,779.6S more in 1915 than
in 1910 and the schools took $12,-
ATT. The money contributed to the
state was $896.89 more in 1915 than
in 1910 and to the county $1,655.65
more.
All this indicates that the high tax
rates in Bemidji are due to increas-
ing local expenditures and not to any
outside influence.
The only effect that doubling the
assessed valuation would have would
be the reduction of the rate assuming
the same amount of money had to be
raised. If the valuation was cut in
two the result would be simply
doubled rate.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

Growth Of Children.
A forr-year-old child is generally
twice as tall as it was at the time of
birth.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26
Mans Way and Woman's.

manS way AND Woman0.
When a wife dies a husband says,
II would be better husband If I had
it to do over again." But when hus-
band dies his wife says, "Well, I did
my duty by him."-Topeka Capital.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26
Sxnnfona of T.

Symptoms Of It.
rs there any insanity in Billy's fam
ny?' III, -s--- 49,. ~. ... s..
"They all speak highly Of Billy!"-
Puck.
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Called Down,

NaIIeO OO"ns
II would like to see the man or
place that could get my nerve"
did you ever try dentists chair?''
Baltimore American.
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districts of the county taxes have be-
come so burdensome that settlers of
moderate means are compelled to
make many personal sacrifices in or
der to save sufficient money with
which to pay them, or else let them
go unpaid. This is to be regretted
because it discourages new settlers
from locating in the county.
While roads and bridges, and ditch
es and schools are desirable improve
ments in any community, there is
such thing as pushing them so rap
idly as to make them an unbearable
burden to the settler. There has been
a noticeable tendency in recent years
toward large public expenditures, not
only in Beltrami, but in practically
every other county of the state. Large
expenditures necessarily mean high
tax rates. If mounting tax rates are
to be halted it behooves every good
citizen, and especially taxpayers of
moderate means, to carefully seTut1n-
ize public expenditures and to think
twice before lending their support to
new enterprises not now absolutely
essential to the development of dis
trfct.
Comparison of Levies Tell Story.
The following table shows the COM
parative tax levies for different pur-
poses in BeItrami county in 1914 and
1915:
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HIGH TAX RATES IN BEM1DJI c AUsED
BY LOCAL EXPENDITURES

In community between equitable basis
slight
make little difference districts
bear
that
IN done
repetition
not determine of a
whether
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-26

FOR 'SALE-Good big work horses
cheap as I have my seasons work
about done. Tom Smart, Bemidji,
= MINI. ~ 1861