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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL. MONDAY NIGHT.
5
AUDITORIUM
This Entire Week
Matinees Thanksgiving and Saturday
Elks' Annual Benefits
BE A FIRST-NIGHTER AND SEE THE
Big Vaudeville Show
Start off, and you'll ,be so well pleased that you
will want to go again, for there'll be changes
on the program, and you'll want to see it all.
HARRY CORSON CLARKE
AND COMPANY
The Headliner Act of the Vaudeville Stage, will head the bill, and in addition there will be
JOS. CALLAHAN, Impersonator; Green & Barton, Comedy Musical Act; Kelly
& Adams, Irish Comedy ; Neff & Miller, Eccentric Dancers ; Kherns & Cole, German Comedy ;
Her, Burk & McDonald, Trick House Comedy Acrobats ; LaMont's Big Trained Animal Act, and
MISS MAUDE ROCKWELL
ELKS NIGHT IT IS.
Big Vauderille Opening at the
Auditorium.
j
Largest Offering of Kind Ever
Given Here.
NCfOSE TO BE FAVORED
Anywhere in House Except Pit
for 25 Cents.
Reservations Will Not Be Made
in Advance.
THE CALIFORNIA NIGHTINGALE
The Sweet Singer from Beyond the Sierra Nevada.
9
25c
BIG
ACTS
9
The Biggest Show ever given in
Topeka for so Small a Price as
BuyTicKets at the Stores or of ElKs,
and avoid the rush at the Box Office.
25c
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Ladies will be admitted free at the
rink tonight.
The rubbish is being removed from
the gutters of the paved, streets by the
street commissioner's force.
The Froebel Mothers' union will
meet with Mrs. Ray Dietrich, 1247
Fillmore. Friday. December 1.
Ho
ace L. Hall,
Sunday and
appendicitis
Frank A. Wear, formerly of To
peka, is one of the organizers of a
new Portland cement company at
Park Hflmick. formerly In the
newspaper business at Chanute. is now
'ngaged in the manufacture of a
patent egg case.
Further Devlin Insurance money is
expected by Receiver J. T. Bradley of
the First National bank this week. But
$167,000 has been paid up thus far.
P. W. Robertson of Washington, D. C,
enters in a. bid for installing a system
of municipal accounting in the city's
books and making an audit of the same.
For Thanksgiving dinner the Throop
has arranged an elaborate menu and
music both noon and evening. Tables
can be. reserved by 'phone. Capacity 300.
Students of Baker university are ar
ranging for the formation of a club in
Topeka to which the membership will
be limited to present or former stud
ents of Baker.
All of the churches in Oakland were
closed Sunday and no services were
held owing to the epidemic of diph
theria which is prevalent in that sec
tion of the city.
The posters for the Kansas-Missouri
game at Kansas City were print
ed by Trapp, here in Topeka. The
picture was drawn by Miss Ruth
Welch of this city.
Washburn's football team arrived at
home Sunday afternoon with honors
even after two weeks spent in Colorado
contending for victory over the two
crack teams of that state.
The annual concert of Marshall's
band will be given in the Auditorium
S'me time in March. The proceeds of
these concerts are devoted to paying
I he running expenses of the aggrega
tion. The Plamondon brothers arrived In
Fifty Years the Standard
BAKING
POWDER
A Cream of Tarter Powder
lade From firapes
lie Alum
Topeka Sunday to spend the winter,
after having finished up the year with
the Forepaugh-Sells Show's. Their
ladder act was one of the features of
the show.
Joe Louthan, the old Washburn
football player, was one of the spec
tators at the football game in Law
rence Saturday. He says he is playing
a little football with his home town
this year.
Coach Samson of the State Normal
football team attended the K. U.-Man-hattan
game Saturday. He was there
getting pointers on the Agriculturists'
style of play in preparation for the
Normal-Agricultural game Thursday.
Indications are that the Normal will
beat the formers.
Laomi Simonds has filed an appeal
in the supreme court in the case
brought against W. I. Richards in
Logan county. Simonds wanted to
recover title to three sections of land
and $150 damages, but the lower
court decided that he did not have
sufficient cause of action.
A horse attached to a delivery
wagon belonging to Guy Brothers'
grocery crashed into a street car at
the corner of Twelfth and Fillmore
streets Saturday evening. The driver
was driving carelessly. The horse
had its head pushed through the glass
windows by the momentum of the
shafts.
D. O. McCray is now running a cor
respondence school of journalism. A
number of the leading magazines con
tain advertisements of the school. Mc
Cray is an old newspaper man, corres
pondent or Kansas for some of the
eastern papers and has been interested
in the oil and gas business of southern
Kansas.
HKI.n FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.
Agent of Untitling and Proprietor of
Owl Restaurant Before Judge Dana.
W. C. Stephenson and G. W. Black
burn appeared before Judge Dana of
the district court this morning In an
swer to a citation issued by the court
asking them to show cause why they
should not be punished for contempt.
Mr. Stephenson is the agent for the
building occupied by the famous Owl
restaurant, and Blackburn is known
as the bartender at that place.
Some time ago a restraining order
was made by the court at the instiga
tion of Judge Garver prohibiting the
use of the building where the Owl
restaurant is located as a Joint. At
the same time an order was made
which robs Blackburn of his winter
position at the Owl. It is claimed by
the assistant attorney general that the
order of the court is being violated
and that a joint is still conducted in
the building. Each of the defendants
were bound over and their bonds fixed
at $500 each fcrr their appearance
December 11.
Mr. Stephenson, who is simply agent
of the building, says that so far as he
knows the order of the court has not
been violated and he has done all he
can to prevent the sale of liquor there.
NORTH TOPEKA.
Leave items for this column with Kim
ball Printing Co.. 912 N. Kansas ave.
Nelson Brown, of Thompsonville, was
a North side visitor today.
The storm doors have been put up at
the Union Pacific depot and hotel.
Mail Carrier Charles Summers has re
turned to work after a ten days' vaca
tion. Victor council No. 4 K. and L. of S.,
will initiate several candidates at their
meeting this evening.
Miss Amelia Becker was the guest
Saturday and Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Matthews of 1322 Quincy street.
Yesterday was a banner day at the
East Indianola Sunday school as re
gards attendance, about 100 being pres
ent. Mr. Howard Green, of Shorey, who
has been confined to his home bv ill
ness, is much improved and able to be
out.
The Soldier Township Sunday School
convention will be held next Sunday
at the Rochester school house. Gover
nor Hoch will be present and deliver an
address and County Superintendent
John Carter will conduct the lesson.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Wizer of .1030
Jackson street, left today for Albuquer
que, N. M., to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Guy Gatehell. From theie they will go
to Los Angeles, Cal., where they will be
the guests of their son, Mr. Archie
Wizer.
There is said to be enough drift wood
in Soldier creek to keen Topeka sup
plied with fire wood all winter. The
creek certainly needs cleaning out for
with even the rains we have had, some
parts of the creek have been almost
bank full.
At the meeting tomorrow afternoon of
the W. T. K. club at the home of Mrs.
K. IT. Bissell. 1302 Monroe street, the
programme will partake of the Thanks
giving spirit and the origin of this great
feast day will be the subject of one of
the papers.
Work began this morning on the
widening, raising and straightening the
long approach to the Central avenue
bridge over Soldier creek. As soon as
this is finished the county promises to
macadamize it so that this quarter of a
mile of road from being of the worst
in the township will become one of thi
be?!.
The Argonauts will meet Tuesday ev
ening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Nicholson. 919 Van Buren street. The
lesson in American history will be chap
ters 16-18 and the paper for the evening
will be by Mrs. A. F. Stanley on "Sup
pression of Colonial Manufactories."
The musical part of the programme
will be furnished by Mrs. Walter E.
Tanner who will sing with the Rev.
Mr. Tanner as accompaniest.
"The advance seat sale for the Elks
show which opens tonight at the Audi
torium," said Manager R. S. Brigham
today, "is more than 5,000. Every
member of the Elks took twenty tick
ets. The committee which we had
wait upon the business men sold a
great many. This figure if anything is
quite conservative.
"The show will be the best vaude
ville ever put on in this city. Joe Cal
lahan, one of our headliners, declares
the bill to be bigger than the ordinary
Orpheum circuit programme. I know
that the audiences which we will have
this week will be greatly pleased. They
can not help but be satisfied."
The full list of performers were in
Topeka at noon. Some of them came
Sunday. Harry Corson Clark, the
"piece de resistance," came this morn
ing with Miss Owens. Mr. Lehman
came yesterday.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon a full re
hearsal of the entire programme took
place. Everything went off with
smoothness and dispatch. The stage
arrangement on the Auditorium plat
form is entirely adequate to handle
all the performances.
The finishing touches were put on
the stage settings this morning. It
represents the interior of a room with
three entrances, two from the sides
and one from the rear. The back wall
of the setting is 36 feet in length.
Wings swing off at wide angles from
both ends, making a stage frontage of
56 feet. The height is 20 feet. A col
umn stands at the front end of each
wing. They carry a good imitation of
a proscenium arch. Border, foot and
spot lights illuminate the stage bril
liantly. Special attention has been
given to the lighting.
. A large curtain of purple is in place.
It is of the sliding variety, the kind
used in Shakespeare's time. To that
extent at least the show will be
classical.
Every seat in the house sells for 25
cents, the cheapest price ever put on
anywhere for a vaudeville show such
as Topeka will sec this week. One
block in the middle of the house will
be reserved. These are the 600 par
quet seats, on the fiat square on the
main floor. A reservation price of 10
cents will be charged for each of
these chairs. The reservations, how
ever, must be bougnt from the usners
right In the house and can not be ob
tained in advance- outside. Fifteen
mimbers of the local Elks lodge will
usher the crowd to their seats. Cal
kins' orchestra of -twelve pieces will
play at each performance. This or
ganization has been coached for some
time on the music which the perform
ers will use.
Eight shows will be given this week,
one every night, and matinees on Thurs
day and Saturday afternoon. Special
matinees may be given in case they are
asked for.
The bill to be given is an exceptionally
long one, but special effort will be made
to run it off rapidly. Regular "Hurry
up Tost" methods will be used. Each
act in itself will be a big one, of the
headline variety.
The evening performances will com
mence promptly at 8:15 o'clock, and the
matinee performances at 2:30. The
patrons of the show should take notice
of the hours. Topeka affairs are noted
for not starting at the time appointed,
but Manager Brigham proposes to make
the Elk shows an exception to this rule.
Our Special Thanksgiving Offers
Mean MoneySaving in Every In
stance and Valuegiving par excel
lence. Come, Clothing Buyers!
Handsome BlacK Thibet and Pure
Worsted Suits, Special, now $15
Also a chance buy from Hart. Schaffner & Marx
genuine pure all-wool American mills black Thibet
and lamous bhakamaxon mills pure
all-wool worsteds single and double
breasted, strictly hand-tailored, new long
designs, all sizes fitted. Strictly $20 Suits,
and worth it you now save S5.00, at only
Stylish Long Overcoats and
Raincoats, Specially Priced
at $15
Are the greatest clothing values we
have ever offered, the result of a re
cent purchase made way under value from
Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Alfred Ben
jamin & Co., nobbiest plain black jnd fancy long
overcoats ana raincoats garments of merited
fabrics and fashions kerseys, mel
tons, vicunas, fancy cheviots,
Scotch plaids and black Thibets
usual retail value S20, S22.50, a few
S25 this week at
$
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! i B ? f 4 Safe.
tv :' I t' "V 500 pairs fine
; ,:i H. S. & M. $5,
S . S6, $7,t8.
-""7 ' '. rtf Best Trousers,
At," , on sale now at
A $3.50,
3. Ml 5 $5
,Lot ffl VA All Sixes.
K-L-p Fitted.
15
LIEB TURNED OUT.
For Constant and Persistent Violation
of Civil Service Law.
Sidetrack at Rexford.
M. A. Low has notified the state
board of railroad commissioners that
his road has decided to satisfy the de
mands of W. H. Miller, a grain dealer
at Rexford. Kan., in Thomas county,
who wants a. sidetrack built to his
elevator. Mr. Miller has filed a com
plaint with the board claiming that the
company refused to give him sidetrack
facilities in compliance with the new
sidetrack law.
FOOTBALL.
Kansas vs. Missouri at Kansas City
Thanksgiving Day Santa Fe.
$2.70 round trip. Tickets on sale
November 29 and 30. Final limit re
turning December 4.
Kansas-Missouri Football.
Thanksgiving Day, Kansas City, the
game of the season. J2.70 round trip
via Union Pacific.
Not ice.
Effective Nov. 26th. See time table,
page 0. today's State Journal.
New Pianos for Rent.
$4, $4.50 and $5 a month. E. B.
Guild Music Co., 722 Kansas avenue
Washington. Nov. 27. President
Roosevelt today removed from office
William S. Leib. assistant United States
treasurer at Philadelphia, for "constant,
and persistct violation of the civil ser
vice law while in office."
In a formal statement issued at the
White House today by President Roose
velt, Mr. Leib's removal is announced.
The president gave Mr. Leib a hearing
last Friday, at the request of Senators
Penrose and Knox of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Leib submitted a long statement in an
swer to the charges made against him
and was supported in his defense by
Representative Patterson of Pennsylvania.
After careful consideration of all the
facts developed by the inquiry, the pres
ident decided to remove Mr. Leib Trom
office, it being shown according to the
statement that tf.ere was "constant and
consistent effort on your (Mr. Leib's)
part to evade the provisions of the civil
service law. to hamper its workings as
far as possible and to obstruct in every
way the action of the commission."
He declared that the evidence showed
fraud in the civil service examinations,
the fraud in one instance Implicating
Mr. Leib's Sister. .After reviewing the
case the president concluded'
"Under these circumstances of persist
ence in wrong doing on your part it
seems to me that there is no alternative
but to remove you from office. You are
accordingly hereby removed from the
position of assistant treasurer of the
United States."
President Roosevelt's statement which
is in the form of a letter to Mr. Leib is
as follows:
The President's Letter.
"White House, Washington, Nov. 27,
1905. -
"Sir: I have carefully considered the
papers in your case and the statements
made by you in your own behalf and
by Mr. Cooley on behalf of the civil ser
vice commission. It appears to me very
clear that there has been a constant and
persistent effort on your part to evade
the provisions of the civil service law.
to hamper its workings as far as possi
ble and to obstruct in every way the
action of the commission. I expect on
the one hand that the commission shall
endeavor not to hamper bijt to aid the
other public servants' of the government
in doing their work successfully and on
the other hand I expect in return that
the other public servants shall co-operate
with the commission and aid them in
their efforts to carry out the civil ser
vice law. In your case it seems to me
clearly established tha,t you have sought
continually to taks advantage of every
kind of technicality in order to avoid
carrying out the law in good faith. By
taking advantage of these technicalities
you have kept upon the roll in almost con
tinuous positions certain of your rela
tives and at least one person whose ap
pointment was evidently pressed merely
for political reasons instead of making
all proper effort to cary out the law as
it applies to appointments within the
classified service. It clearly appears
that in one examination held upon in
formation furnished by your office there
was such clear evidence of fraud that
it had to be cancelled. The evidence as
to the fraudulent character of the exam
ination implicated your sister, two per
sons from your own town and one per
son who was at that time serving in
your office under temporary appoint
ment and who was subsequently dis
missed from the service for swearing
falsely."
Quotes From Shaw.
The president here quotes a letter
sent by Secretary Shaw to Mr. Leib
calling attrition to irregularities and
then concludes his own letter as follows:
"If the case had at that time (when
Shaw's letter was sent) been called to
my attention my belief is that I would
then have requested your resignation.
Most certainly after receiving such a
letter, to which you failed in any way
to make any answer clearing yourself
or traversing the facts alleged by the
secretary, it was your 6uty so to con
duct your office that no possible critic
ism could come upon you. Instead of
so conducting it you have continued
exactly the methods that previously ob
tained; your sister, for instance, having
been again temporarily appointed last
August as money counter and notwith
standing -the fact that this is a per
manent position and that there were two
eligibles on the register. When
you were notified that the
appointment must be made from
these eligibles you in some man
ner secured their declinations and there
upon, on September 27, again tempor
arily appointed your sister; and she Is
in office at this time, so far as the rec
ords of the civil service commission
show.
"Under these circumstances of per
sistence in wring doing on your part it
seems to me that there is no alternative,
but to remove you from office. You are
accordingly hereby removed from the
position of assistant treasurer of the
United States. Very truly yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"Hon. William S. Leib, sub-treasury,
Philadelphia, Pa."
BACK TO VERMONT.
Supreme Court Hands the Responsi.
bility in Mrs. Rogers Case.
Washington, Nov. 27. The supreme
court of the United States today af
firmed the decision of the United
States district court of Vermont in the
case of Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, who I
is unuer sentence ot death in Vermont,
for the murder of her husband. The
effect of the decision will be to again
place the responsibility of dealing
with the case in the hands of the statt
authorities and if in the meantime
neither the governor nor the state
courts take action in Mrs. Rogers' be
half her execution must occur on tht
day set, which is December 8, next.
The court held, in effect, that it was
without jurisdiction in all the point?
raised.
tee from the five organizations is to
meet again December 19 to make the
final arrangements for the mass meet
ing of raHroad workers.
Following the mass meeting that will
be held in Chicago, it Is expected a
national meeting will be called and
every city in the Union and each rail
road organization asked to send repre
sentatives. The national convention
will then deal with congress in what
ever way is determined upon.
RGCK FELL ON HIM.
NOT WITH ROOSEVELT.
Railroad Employes Organizing u
Fight Rate Legislation.
Chicago, Nov. 27. An organized
movement on the part of railroad em
ployes in every branch of the service
has been put on foot to secure con
certed action against the Roosevelt
idea of rate legislation. Preliminary
steps have already been taken by com
mittees from the different brother
hoods of rniiroad men for a general
mass meeting.
Kate regulation, in the opinion of
the employes, means a subsequent re
duction in wages for them and they
propose a strong organization to oppose
any move to give the government di
rection of traffic rates.
The plan, so far as now completed,
is to influence a firm stand on the part
of congress against any rate revision
measures and a lobby may be sent to
Washington for that purpose.
Twenty employes of various Chicago
railroads met here the other day to
take up the first plans for the coming
mass meeting. In response to a call
from the locomotive engineers, there
were present representatives of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
Order of Railway Conductors, Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Switchmen's union. A commit-
Kailsas City Laborer Killed a- Result
of Too Heavy Blast.
Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. 27. One
persons was killed and twelve were in
jured, none seriously, as the result of
blasting rock at Ninth street and
Grand avenue, the center of the busi
necc district, where an excavation is
being made for an office building. The
dead man, Andrew McKnight. age 30.
i laborer, was crushed beneath a 200
pound rock that was hurled ino the
air by a blast and was instantly killed.
The injured were men and women who
were watching the progress of the
work. Their hurts consists of cuts
and slight bruises. DO:sens of windows
in the vicinity were broken. The up
heaval resulted from a too heavy
charge of giant powder beiijg used.
AMERICAN ATTACKED."
Narrowly Escaped Death in Streets of
Su Petersburg.
St. Petersburg. Nov. 27. 5 p. m.
Robert Woods Bliss, second secretary
of the American embassy, who has
just returned here after three months'
vacation in Paris, was the victim of an
outrage by rowdies in one of the most
fashionable streets of the capital last
night and only escaped being beaten
to death through the timely arrival of
the police.
Kansas-Missouri 1
Thanksgiving Day, Ki
game of the season " $:
via Union Pacific.
round tri
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CEESCEUS, CHAMPION TROTTING STALLION, RECENTLY SOLD FOR $21,000.
Cresceus, who ever since the passing of the mighty Directum as the turf king has besn the champion stallion ot
the world, is probably the greatest trotting horse that ever existed. The price at which he was recently sold, $21,
000, is therefore considered extremely low. Cresceus' best mark was 1:59 for a mile behind a wind shield. Th
fastest mile ever trotted in a race was also made by Cresceus when he defeated The Abbot, one ef ths hets be
ing made in 2:03.