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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1905.
TO REDUCE, TAXES
Council Will Mak6 f nffwrtant
Redaction inLevy.
1L ' V ,
1" SATURDAY
10c buys any Straw Hat in
our house; men's and boys'
Be Early at August's.
Boys' Knee Pants ", . , . 19c
Boys Caps. . . . .. .i . . 9o
Boys Tennis Shoes. ..39c
25o "Windsor Ties. ;.... 8c
A t August's
SATURDAY
The Old Park Allowance Is Restored.
Late
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Enables us to offer to "our pat
rons just now several hundred
Men's and Young Men's Fine
Outing Suit3 at less than half
the price you would expect to
find them in any bargain store
sale. The Suits are stricly
new, up-to-date, all desirable
and stylish fabrics, made by
Rosemund Weil and the Cahn
Block Co., of Chicago, and
always shown by our com
petitors as $12.50 and $15
values for about S9.85, very
SPECIAL. The
price we make
for choice o f
these garments,
with hundreds
to select from
is
See our south window, its the talk
of the town. We should easily sell
five hundred suits tomorrow from a
second lot, including the Stein-Block
vo. smart suits shown everywhere
at $18, $20 522.50 and $25, and never shown in Topeka in any "Clearance
Sale"at le:s than 914.85 special these are the suits we mm -w
are selling at the low price of II
Stein-Block
Co.s Smart
Suits
$7.50
Yes, you'll buy one if you take a look.
. All sizes, 33 to 44.
Watch Us Grow. Watch Our Business Methods Win.
obinson, lers
hall & Co.
703 Kansas Ave.
Ind. 'Phone 22 Security Building;.
WILL BUY IT ANY WAY.
Kansas Bound to Have Silver Service
for Her Battleship.
It was decided by the executive
council of the state today that Kansas
shall go ahead and buy the silver
service for the battleship Kansas, even
If it has to ask. the silver manufac
turers to wait until the next session of
the legislature for the pay.
Governor Hoch brought up the
matter. He said:. "Some question has
been raised about the right of the ex
ecutive council to purchase this silver
service. We would certainly be a lot
of Jays if we did not respond to the
honor which the government has con
ferred upon us."
"There is no law authorizing the
purchase," said State Auditor Wells.
"I should like to have that silver serv
ice bought, but I see no way to buy
It."
Secretary Burrow asked if any action
of the executive council would help the
situation.
"The council can go no further than
the law." said Mr. Coleman.
Mr. Burrow moved that the governor
be Instructed to go ahead and buy the
silver service with the money appropri
ated by the last legislature If possible,
and if that is impossible, that the coun
cil put Itself on record as being in favor
of the purchase ,and urge an appropria
tion by the next legislature, with the
further understanding that the manu
facturers of the silver service are will
ing to wait for their money.
Governor Hoch extended to each
member of the executive council an in
vitation to come to Camden and at
tend the launching of the battleship
on August 12. "I am sorry," he said
"that I can't offer much substantial
encouragement. The legislature made
such a small appropriation that there
Is not enough to go around."
ON BOTH SIDES OF A CASE.
TZuit Is Position of an Attorney in
City Court.
Squire Wesley I. Jamison, deputy
county attorney and ex-justice of the
peace, is conducting both sides of a
legal tangle for a horse owner and a
clairvoyant.
The first was this: E. E. Johnson,
head of the Johnson household at 400
Van Buren street .stated to Jamison
that a Mary Campbell, clairvoyant,
owed him rent for several weeks and
he wanted to know if he could lock her
out of the house. Jamison said he could.
That night Mary Campbell appeared at
Jamison's home, after office hours, and
said Johnson was holding her personal
belongings, claiming that she owed him
rent. She wanted to know what to do.
Then Jamison, equal to all emergencies
on both sides of the case, told her to
bring a replevin suit. She brought a
replevin suit in the city court .tor her
ordination papers, a package Of Egypt
ian sacrmces, 62 fortune telling cards, 1
package spirit photograph cards ,a re
volver, clothing and a few other things
valued at $82.50. Marshal Wintrode of
the city court. Is custodian of the sacri
fice, the ordination papera and spirit
photo cards awaiting a redelivery bond
from Johnson which is not forthcoming.
MURDER IN ASYLUM.
Max Jfordau Declines.
London, July 21. Dr. Max Nordau.
according to the Jewish World, has
definitely declined to be one of the
three leaders of the Zionist movement.
who it was proposed should succeed
tne late Dr. Herzl, the founder of the
movement, who died about a vear aeo.
Dr. Nordau gives ill health as the
reason for his declination.
H. Clay Evans, Jr., Dead.
Chattanooga, Tenn., July 21. Can
tain H. Clay Evans, jr., retired, diel
today at his summer home on Walnut
ridge, aged 32 years. Captain Evans
served tn the Philippines and was re
tired some time ago on account of poor
neaitn. He was the only son of H.
Clay Evans, former pension commis
sioner and former consul general at
London.
No Voyage for Nicholas.
St. Petersburg, July 21. 6 p. m.
Emperor Nicholas remained at Peter
hot palace today. The report that his
majesty was to start on a sea voyage
and meet Emperor William was offi
cially denied. No such trip is con
templated.
Slightly Acquainted.
"When I Introduced you to the lady
In the Pullman this morning," said the
drummer to the nursery man, "I thought
you seemed a bit confused. She also
seemed a bit put out.
"WelL I dunno."
"Did I understand her to say that the
two of you were slightly acquainted?"
"I believe she did murmur something
of the kind."
"Then you had met before?"
"Y-e-s. The fact is, we were man
and wife for over ten years and it is
only a year since she got her divorce.
I can't exactly say that I was confused,
but I do admit that for a moment I
looked around for the coffee pot and felt
like dodging." M. Quad.
Proceed Asuinst Illinois Life.
The board of county commissioners
today entered Into a contract with
Judge Z. T. Hazen for him to take
1a1 n.nfiaai4tnira tn friTTT. Tift t Vl tl T 1 1
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nois Life Insurance company to pay
taxes on $500,000 worth of securities
for tnis year ana iasi. ine ioiai iax
Biituuiiia iw """" - " ' " - -. .
ceives a retaining fee of $250 and 5
per cent, oi me juaemenc ... .
One Insane Woman Kills Another
While Nurse Is Absent.
WILL SAVE $17,000.
New Levy Recommended Is
20.55 Mills.
No Provision Made for Marshall's
Band.
Traverse City, Mich., July 21. Mrs.
Mary Larkins, a patient at the state
insane asylum here, was murdered
early today by Mrs. Ernestine Berge,
another patient, while the attendant
was absent from the room. When the
nurse. Miss Fenter, returned to the
room, she found Mrs. Larkins with
her head crushed from blows with a
granite iron vessel. She died in two
hours. Mrs. Berge, after killing Mrs.
Larkins, quietly walked to her own
bedroom. Both women were victims
of suicidal mania.
FIVE SKELETONS FOUND
By Workmen Who Were Dismantling
an Old House.
Hammond, Ind., July 21. Men en
gaged In dismantling an old house on
Grake island, in the Kankakee river,
which was occupied during the Civil
war by a trapper named Steele, today
found in the cellar wall of the' house
three male and two female skeletons.
The finding of these skeletons recalls
stories told by old settlers who declare
that an attempt to lynch Steele was
made in 1861, after the disappearance
of a government agent named Bar
rington, who, while having in his pos
session $10,000 with which he was
commissioned to buy horses for the
government, passed the night with
Steele. The next morning his horse
was found in the woods, but no trace
of the man was ever found. In 1861
Steele's wife and daughter disappeared.
Following the threatened lynching
Steele nea. since tnai time tne nouse
has been unoccupied.
If the council adopts Councilman
Howe's recommendation, the tax levy
for 1905 will be 20155 mills, or 1.45
mills less than last year. This means
in the neighborhood of about $17,000
less taxes for the city.
The matter of the tax levy for the
coming year will be discussed this
evening at the council committee of
the ways and means. Chairman S. T.
Howe of the ways ana means com
mittee will submit the report of the
proposed levy. . It is as follows:
1906-6. 1901-5.
Mills. Mills.
General revenue fund 6.01) 6.00
General improvement fund 6.00 6.00
Sinking lund su "
Interest fund 2.40 2.25
Interest water plant 1.50 1.30
Princinal improvement bonds. 1.70 2.00
Interest Improvement bonds... .85 J.C0
Parks 1.00 .50
Judgments 10 1.00
Jiirifirmfmt water - 1.2S
Library 50 .50
Totals 20.55 22.00
'Hydrant rentals..
The recommendation of Mr. Howe
has the endorsement of two other
members of the ways and means
committee, Councilmen Hughes and
Green. It is expected that there will
be few changes if any in the recom
mendation of the committee and that
it is entirely probable that it will go
to the council as the report of the
committee. The report is in line with
the effort which is being made to re
duce the taxation as much as possible.
and comes within 55 hundredths of a
mill of being as low as th levy of
1903-'04.
The park commissioners have their
old levy re-established by this report
The item of $5,000 a year which a
half-mill levy brings In was found not
to be sufficient tor the needs. The
hydrant rental is done away with but
an interest tax is inserted in its stead
and the same levy maintained. This
is to procure a continuance of the re
sources amounting to over $15,000
yearly.
The sinking fund is lowered Dy almost
one-half. .40 mill, while the interest
fund has been increased by .15 of a mill.
Both the levies on the principal of the
improvement bonds and the interest on
the improvement bonds have been rais
ed. The former by 3.30 of a mill and
the latter by .15. The judgment In tne
suit of Topeka versus the Topeka Wa
ter company has been paid and this
levy of 1.25' mill has been wiped out.
The other judgment fund has been re
duced considerably; from one mill to
one-tenth. The library levy remains
the same as do the general revenue and
general improvement, both of the latter
being at the maximum amounts speci
fied by law.
"We have figured out," said Mr.
Howe, "that we will come out in better
shape the coming year- than we did
last year. This levy upon the basis of
the old assessment of the city's valua
tion will amount to $233,984.07. At that
time I figured this I did not have the
new assessed valuation and of course
figuring on the basis of the new, the
returns will be higher than that even
since the valuation has been increased.
We have retained the judgment levy,
though at first we were considering ser
iously of doing away with it. But we
have found that we will have to make
up about $973.02 for that fund and so
decided to retain the judgment levy but
cut it down.
"I have made an estimate of the re
ceipts which will be at the disposal of
the city for the ensuing year for meet
ing its running expenses at $176,938.72.
Last year we made an estimate of the
probable expenses at $175,000 and act
ually only spent $173,498, and this year
we will do even better. At least we
should do as well."
The estimate for receipts follows:
General General
Revenue Improve
fund. ment.
Balances April 1, 1905 $17,7(Y7.RS $25,101.00
BWrt clnnp A til. 1 12.540.69 12.540.83
Uncollected fi less 5 levy 14,961.30 14.961.30
5-12 levy for 1905 less 5.. 26,762.50 2S,762.oO
Miscellaneous 25.000.00 600.00
Saturday
The Great
' S5.50 Suit Sale
At August's
Free an extra pair of
Woolen Mill Pants
Free
Vr
j Saturday
Begins
Promptly
at 8o'cIock
50c Underwear 25c
$1.50 Silk Underwear
475C
Scriven Drawers 25c
Wilson Bros'., 50c
Hose 19c
Guyot Suspenders 19c
At August's
Saturday
Men's Light Coats 15c. Men's Office Coats 15c.
Men's Crash Pants 25c. 50c Ties 25c.
Stock Ties 10c. Porous Underwear 39c.
AT AUGUST'S SATDRDAY
J
Saturday
H. S. & M., Alfred Benjamin, Garston & Meyer
Suits for $5.50 Pair of extra Pants Free at
August's
Men's Drop stitch $1.50
Shirts .45c
1000 Pairs Men's Pants Sat
urday. .... $1.00
$3.00 white vests 75c
50c and 75c link buttons 25c at August's
SATURDAY
Still Dying from Heat.
Chicago, July 21. Twenty deaths
have been added to the list of mor
talities due to the blighting heat of
the first three days of this week. Of
this number seven were adults and
the others were infants. The cool
weather continues.
Many years ago our stockholders vol
untarily retired the capital stock in fa
vor of the policy holders. Hence we
are a mutual company from choice. We
wish you would search the records for
another case like it.
National Life Insurance company of
Vermont Mutual Organized 1850.
Fifty-sixth year, doing business In 42
states. Wm. B. Henderson, general
manager, suite 459 Kemper building,
Kansas City, Mo. Both phones 459
Main; or E. W. Thompson, manager
Columbian building. Fhone 3891 Ind.
Total $96,972.35 $79,966.37
The above levy, however, fails to take
in account the one-tenth mill levy
which the law permits the council to
assess for band piirposes. The ma
jority of the ways and means commit
tee had expressed themselves in favor
of it previously but It seems to have
skipped their memory. The matter
may be brought up in the committee
meeting this evening.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
Thomas Hollaran, age 3 months, died
at 508 East Third street, on Thursday
nieht. TheTuneral will take place from
the Church of the Assumption at 9
o'clock on Saturday morning, inter
ment will be in the Catholic cemetery.
Woman Held for Assault.
In the city court today Will Monegom-
ery was discharged and Blanche Wood
all was held on $200 bond to stand trial
on the charge of assault and battery
upon Martha Horton in Harve Wheel
er s Joint.
The Miracle of Sunburn.
There are certain Arctic animals,
dark coated in the short summer, that
in winter turn pure white, thus match'
ing the snow covered landscape and
escaping notice ana narm.
This change of color, this protection,
effected no one knows how, is wonder
ful, as wonderful as a miracle, and yet
a kindred change of color, a kindred
protection, happens among mankind
every summer and nobody ever no
tices It.
When the pale city people go out in
the summer sun at the seashore or the
mountains the light attacks them
fiercely, first reddening their skin, then
swelling, blistering and scorching it. If
they kept in tne srun enougn, ana if
no miracle occurred, the light would
kill them finally, burning off the skin
first and afterward attacking the raw
flesh.
But a miracle does occur. The skin
changes from a pale color to a tan,
and on this tan the sun has no effect.
The sun may beat on tan colored skin
for days and weeks, but such skin re
mains always sound, unblistered
whole.
Thus nature works a miracle. The
white skin is suffering, and nature.
FOR 1 jr-n js.. yi-
Linen Handkerchiefs 5c
As good as
Manhattan Shirts 85c
Wilson Bros. Shirts 65c
Mohair Shirts 45c
Selfopening Umbrellas 45c
At AUGUST'S
aware, somehow, that a tan skin is
sun proof, changes to tan the white.
How does she. do this Where did
she learn that it was wise to do this?
No one knows. Only the fact of the
miracle remains.-
To prove this miracle to prove that
it is not the hardening of the skin, but
the change in its color, which protects
it from sunburn is an easy matter.
Let a pale person, unusued to the
sun, stain one side of his face yellow.
and leaving the other side untouched,
go out in the bright summer sun for a
couple or hours. ; xne one siae 01 nis
face is no tougher, ho more hardened,
than the oiher, yet the unstained side
will be inflamed, blistered, while the
tan colored one. will be quite cool and
unhurt, -
Sunburn is a miracle, a protection
to mankind as inexplicable and as
wonderful as the miracle of the Arctic
animals' change in the winter from
dark coats to snow white ones. New
York Herald.
Stolen IVOm Chicago Poor.
Mr. Charles Edward Russell, in clos
ing his series of articles on "The
Greatest Trust"fn the World," in the
August Everybody's, brings to light a
particularly inhuman atrocity, perpe
trated yearly by the packing house directors.
"The water department of the Chi
cago city government," saya Mr. Rus
sell, "customarily issues every summer
a series of frantic warnings to the in
habitants of the great South Side, tell
ing them that they must be careful
and abstemious about the use of the
city water because there is very little
of it. What? With all Lake Michigan
at their doors? Yes, all Lake Michi
gan is at their doors; and yet of the
precious stuff these people must use
none to sprinkle lawns nor to lay the
dust, and even with these restrictions,
and all possible care, dwellers in upper
tenements may sometimes nave not
enouerh water wherewith to wasn
dishes nor their own hands. Parts of
the South Side, are densely populated
Sometimes the great southwest wind
blows for days up irom tne DiacK
baking prairies, the withering simoon
of the west, and in the sweltering heat
water i3 as necessary as air, and in the
upper tenement ovens women toil
breathless ud and down stairs with
pitchers to get a few drops of the
hoarded thine that lies in inexnausti
ble supply in the cool lake almost in
their sight.
"But why? Because the packing
houses steal the water. They steal it
summer and winter, spring and fall
but in the summer the general con
sumption is the greatest, and then the
results of the stealing become appar
ent and women toil with the pitchers."
eTHE big pumpkin and
f THE FAT - ST K SHW
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STATE FAIR.
At Topeka, September llth to 16th.
rail
Europe's Richest Woman.
' The gunmaker of Essen Is a woman, a
young woman, and the richest woman
in Europe. She is Miss Krupp, daugh
ter of the famous Herr Krupp, whose
death occurred some years ago. Essen
exists because of the Krupp gun
works, and practically all its 100,000
inhabitants are dependent on her for
their work, directly or indirectly. Miss
Krupp is more powerrul in Essen than
many a German princeling in his four-
by-mne kingdom. Fretty she la said
to be she is the richest girl in Europe
clever, it is declared still the
richest girl In Europe wise beyond
her years again, the richest girl in
Europe simple and unostentatious In
her demeanor remember, the richest
girl in Europe and she is to be intro
duced to society under the direct pat
ronage of the kaiser and the kaiserin.
There will be heart burnings and jeal
ousies, up-tilted German aristocratic
noses, sneers and disparaging com
ment but she is the richest girl In
Europe, and in these days, when a
people tumbles royalty about as Kin
Oscar was tumbled in Norway, the
greatest heiress in the land cannot be
overlooked even by the court itself.
The descriptions of Miss Krupp read
much as descriptions of rather plain
but very rich American girls do. Per
haps more Interesting than her wealth
is the fact that by refusing to sell arms
to several nations. Miss Krupp could
Insure their good behavior for a while.
They would not know where to go for
guns -were she-to cut off their credit.
"With the Procession," Everybody'
Magazine for August. .
He (wearer of Yale crew sweater) Tot,
our family dates back to the Normans.
Blue blood counts for something.
"It wont count for much w4th pa. He's
a Harvard man." Life.
The Cattle Department
The biggest beeves and the best
milkers will compete for premiums
amounting to $2,500.
The Agricultural Bldg.
The largest pumpkins, finest grains
and grasses, and the best of farm prod
ucts will be in competition for the
$1,500 in premiums.
The Dairy Building
Home-made and creamery-made but
ter and cheese displays in the dairying
department for $1,000 in prizes.
The Chicken and Sheep Pens
The sheep raisers are offered $500,
and the poultry fanciers $500 for the
best exhibits.
The Gallopers
The thoroughbreds, in the one mile
Kansas Derby for the $500 stake, and
four to six furlong dashes, steeple
chases, hurdle races and novelty run
ning races, three every day, for $1,500
in purses.
The Women's Dep't
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs has charge of the department of
Art and Domestic Science, where $500
is offered for the best exhibits of
handicraft.
ship -will make ascensions in the quarter stretch.
Indian pony races, ana otner novel ieatures.
Automobile races for the $1,000 purses.
Given
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M. A. Low, Pres. Charles H. Samson. Sec.
One fare for tbe round trip on all railroads from all points in Kansas for the Topeka Fair
The Horse Department
The heaviest draft and the trimmest
standard bred horses will be awarded
$2,500.
Horticultural Display
Big red apples, grapes and peaches
and other fruits will be awarded $1,000
in the horticultural department.
The Swine Pens
The fattest corn and alfalfa-fed
swine competing for $1,000 in pre
miums. The Harness Races
The trotters and pacers from the
2:10 class to the two-year-old young
sters, in the sixteen big events, for
purses and stakes amounting to more
than $8,500.
The Model Dairy
A perfectly appointed dairy, in oper
ation on the grounds, where the cream
is churned, in sight of all, into the rich
est golden butter.
The Horse Show
The swellest turnouts, the nobbiest
rigs and the most graceful high school
saddle horses and their riders and
drivers in competition in the Horse
Show events, at night in front of the
grandstand, during the concerts by
Marshall's full concert band.
CnQ,i A rtrafrinn c Cute," the guideiess wonder, pacing a mile every after
opcCIctl rtlli aw-liuua noon without harness, sulky or driver. The Captive air-
Faitliful Boy.
"Have you heard of the 12-year-old
boy who carried his message to Gar
cia.?" asked a broker. "His family
ought to be mighty proud of him and
doubtless are. His father owns a big
rubber plantation down in Central
America. He is a great believer in the
future of rubber cultivated rubber.
Not long ago he secured options on
two plantations adjoining his own and
he came to New Orleans to raise the
money to purchase them. Meanwhile
his wife secured an option on a. third
plantation which he very much de
sired, but which he had not been able
to get. With a wife's caution, she was
afraid to trust it to the mails, so she
sewed It carefully in the lining of the
boy's jacket and sent him north by the
first steamer. Her partlnsr Injunction
to him was that he was not to talk to
anybody. The youngster obeyed her
so literally that half the passengers
thought he was dumb. Hardly a word
could anybody get out of him. Sev
eral people took a kindly interest In
him and tried to see if they could
make the voyage pleasanter for him.
but he would make no friends. As
soon as the boat docked, he hurried to
the office of the broker where he knew
his father made his headquarters. His
father turned pale at the sight of him.
Three or four days before he had re
ceived a cable from his wife, written
In code, in which he could make out
nothing but the name of the boy. All
t-iuiu linn tv m was mat ne was
dead or very ill, and he was preparing
tn leave for home In the first steamer.
After the first greetings the father
asked him what had brought him
here. He answered by shaking-- his
head and drawing: hi father into a
private office, where they were alone,
he shut the door and locked It. Then,
taking off his coat, he showed his
father where to rip It, and the option
was in safe hands. Now," queried the
broker, : "how many boys of that age
do you know who would have carried
a message aa well as that?" New Or
leans Picayune.