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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1907.
THE BALUS OPEN
Local Organization to Fight
King Kill Completed.
Captain Clad Hamilton Is the
Permanent Chairman.
ANDERSON SPEECH.
The Gallant Jlnjor Announces
His Emancipation.
Lengtlij Platform Is Adopted
by ihe Meeting.
The Republican square dealers cam
paign for the control of the next Re
publican state convention commenced
Saturday afternoon with a meeting at
tended by about 100 Shawnee county
Lepublicans, at which a permanent or
ganization was made for the avowed
purpose of sending- a solid square deal
delegation to the next state convention
and deposing Dave Mulvane as boss of
the Republican party In this county.
Capt. Clad Hamilton, formerly of the
Twentieth Kansas, and now a lawyer of
Topeka, presided over the meeting-, and
wes later elected as president of the
permanent organization. Edwin O'Neill,
clerk of the city court of Topeka, was
chosen for secretary.
Speeches were made by a large num
ber of the leading Republicans of the
county. Reese Van Sant, chairman of
the Republican county committee, and
generally recognized as one of the Mul
vene crowd, was present and was called
on for a speech. He said: "I am not
much on speechmaking, but I am In
favor of the squara deal measures."
A committee on permanent organiza
tion composed of H. G. Larimer, E. L.
O'Neill, W. S. Bergundthal, James A.
Troutman and A. E. Jones was appoint
ed to prepare a plan of organization
and resolutions setting forth the pur
poses of the movement. This commit
tee made a very lengthy report, com
prising seven typewritten pages.
T.. J. Anderson, secretary of the To
peka Commercial club, and former gen
eral passenger agent of the Rock Island
railway, opposed the resolutions be
cause of their length. "I don't believe
It necessary to expound the whole deca
logue in these resolutions," he said. "I
would like to see less resolutions and
more business. I could draw up resolu
tions ten lines In length covering the
ground. We should make our fight for a
direct primary, and full valuation of all
property. . We have too much stuff in
these proposed resolutions. They are
too broad.
"I am for a square deal in politics.
I don't know whether I can endorse
everything in the square deal move
ment. I am not a railroad baiter, but
I I know something about the injustices
of railroads. I know something about
the water in railroad stocks and the1
cost of railroads. But I know we need
the railroads, and I know how hard
we worked to get them. It is of great
importance to the city of Topeka to be
on friendly terms with the railroads.
I believe in government supervision; I
believe the railroads should be allowed
to pool their interests under govern- j
ment supervision. I have made up my
mind that I wm. vote fcr no man who
Isn't in favor of a primary election
law. I propose to vote as I please,
and I don't propose to be read out of
the Republican- party- either. I am
tired of machine made politics. I am
tired of having-a pill made up and
eugar coated and somebody come up
to me and say, 'Jarn ycu.,take it; it's
good Republican medicine." I will
vote for whom I please, and I believe
if we get together we will get a legis
lature which will give us a real pri
mary law, and do away with political
machinery."
Harold T. Chase said: "These Is
sues are elemental. They go down to
the foundation of politics. We have
come to unite in the demand that peo
ple have a right to vote as they
please."
Imrl Zumwalt endorsed the legisla
tive work of Robert Stone.
Luther Bailey then spoke briefly,
end B. F. Pankey declined an invita
tion to make a speech. Homer C. Bow
man was called for. He talked about
local politics to some extent. He said
he was opposed to having anybody In
the city council who receives a salary
from any railroad or other corpora
tion. Judge Rightmire was called for. He
eald: "I have been voting the Repub
lican party ticket straight since 1898,
but sometimes it has been a bitter
dose. But there are enough here to
organize and carry the state for the
primary law, which is the old populist
idea of Initiative and referendum."
The? Platform Adopted.
Robert . Stone, member of the leg
islature from Shawnee county, recom
mended that one portion of the reso
lutions pledging the organization to a
scheme for the appointment of a spe
cial commission to make a valuation
of the railroad property in the state
be stricken out. He oaid that the
board of railroad commissioners and
tax commission were already interested
with that work.
Mr. Troutman was opposed to strik
ing this out. He said it was doubt
ful Just how much these two boards
could accomplish, and that the pro
vision was mere surplusage at worst,
and could do no harm. It was left in!
Some of the sections from the plat
form adopted are as follows:
"1. We demand such amendments to
the antipass law that will prevent the
railway corporations from establish
ing numerous political agencies In
each county of the state under the
guise of attorneys, physicians, sheriffs
and police captains, and other privi
leged classes. To that end we ask for
the passage of the Stone antipass bill
as it was adopted at the last session by
the houre of representatives.
"2. We demand that an equitable
adjustment and wherever possible a
reduction of freight rates on all com
modities be established by the legisla
ture of 1909, and as supplemental to
WISDOM TEETH
Many people have the mistaken idea
that because the wisdom teeth some
times decay soon after they come in,
it does not pay to have them filled. At
least 75 per cent of all wisdom teeth
might be saved for many years of use
ful service if they were filled properly
and in good time. Do not wait until
they ache or until the whole top
breaks in, but have them examined
by a good dentist who saves teeth and
when he says they need filling, have
them filled.
If you do not have confidence
your dentist, change dentists.
in
LUX & LUX.
Dentists.
SOi Kansas Ave.
Ind. Tel. Mi.
that we ask that a commission be in-1
stltuted to determine the actual value
of property belonging to each railway j
In our borders, arirl tb ooat nf nnerat- l
lng the same. In order that our courts
may be "enabled to ascertain whether
such rates produce fair returns upon
the capital invested.
3. We demand that a passenger
rate be established which shall apply
to all our citizens alike, whatever their
financial position may be and if com
pensatory, we demand the enactment
of a flat two-cent per mile passenger
rate law for all distances traveled
wholly within the state.
' "4. We demand that a state wide
direct primary at which every political
party shall be required by open vote t
name its candidates for all elective
offices from United States senator to
township officers, be established, and
in order that there,- may be no Jug
gling with words or trimming of
phrases we ask for the enactment of
house bill No. 163. commonly knowh
as the Stubbs bill, practically as it was
reported to the house by its commit
tee on elections and for the clearer
demarkation of our purposes we are
resolved:
"1. We flatly oppose that sort of
sccalled redemption of party pledges
by which the 'word of promise is kept
to the ear and broken to the nope
and by which people have been so
freauentlv and successfully fllmflam-
med in the past. We demand that
nnpstions of nolltlcal rjollcv and ex
pediency be submitted to the people in
such a square, open and fair manner
that they may know exactly to what
their candidates are committed. We
affirm that no declaration in any par
tv nlatform should be so worded as to
be susceptible of one construction for
campaign and another ror legislative
purposes. If this theory is wrong the
people should vote against it. We
will cheerfully abide the event. If the
theory Is risrht. if It is in the interest
of self government ana gooa govern
ment the people should vote in favor
of it nnd nv renresentatlve who then
onDOses their expressed will is jusuj
rhare-nahle with being faithless to
their interests and false to his trust
2. That we demand tnat party com
mitteemen, local, state and national,
confine themselves to the duties for
which they are chosen and cease to dic
tate to senators and representatives In
the duties for which they are cnosen.
We point to the record of our state
committeemen, our state senator and
two of cur state representatives as Il
lustrative of what the people may ex
pect of persons selected and approved
of by political machines.
"3. That we call upon our United
States senators to report the partisan
conduct and interference with political
affairs by certain government officials,
to the president of the United States
and to the national department of Jus
tice. "4. That we commend the Honorable
Robert Stone, representative from the
Thirty-ninth district, for his magnifi
cent defense of true Republicanism as
we understand It. and rejoice that
Shawnee county claims him for her
own.
"'5. That we express our appreciation
of the heroic stand maintained through
many wearisome weeks by the little
band of square deal senators as they
battered against the medievalism of
the "lodge" and especially do we taken
pleasure in acknowledging the Impar
tial honesty of Lieutenant Governor
Fitzgerald, who could not be moved to
do an unjust thing, by use of threat,
cajolery or friendship.
"6. That, as we recall the splendid
ability and endurance of our Square
Deal chamnions in the house during
those fateful imprisonments or tne last
Friday and Monday of the session, our
faith in the people and in republican
government receives a new baptism,
and we earnestly desire that the man
ner of choosing state senators De so
modified that never again may the
state be subjected to the humiliation
which it suffered so keenly at the hands
of the senate of 1907.
"7. That, as a means to continue
the good fight we are in to a success
ful conclusion, we hereby : solve our
selves Into the Square Deal Republican
club of Shawnee county. For our
guidance we adopt a simple form of
government: Our officers shall be a
chairman, a secretary-treasurer, and a
vice chairman from each township in
the county of Shawnee, and each ward
In the city of Topeka. These officers
shall be our executive committee, any
four of whom acting with the chair
man shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business. The chair
man or executive committee shall have
power at any time to call together the
central committee, which shall be com
posed of one person from each voting
precinct in the county. The duties and
powers of these officers nd commit
tees shall be the same as appertain to
like officers and committee in all poli
tical organizations. A complete enroll
ment of the Republican voters of the
count- who are in sympathy with tho
purpose of this club shall be made at
once, and the following membership
card shall be used for that purpose:
"The secretary of the Shawne County
Republican-Squares Deal club Is hereby
authorized to enroll me as a member of
the organization and I hereby pledge my
self to support only candidates who are
unqualifiedly in favor of the Square
Deal measures, and especially of a di
rect primary law compelling nomina
tion of all candidates, including con
gressional, state and United States sen
atorial candidates, by popular open
vote:
Name
Precinct
Postefflce
"No membership is to be charged, but
each voter is requested to pay into the
treasury one dollar to aid In defraying
the necessary expenses of maintaining
the organization and In securing a com
plete enrollment of the Republican vot
ers of the county. The first annual meet
ing of the club shall be-held on the first
Saturday in January, 1908.
"'8. That to secure the strength of
union In this contest we call upon our
brother Republicans In the several
counties of the state to effect simllal
organizations and we pledge them ou!
unselfish co-operation in this supreme
trial of popular government and man
hood suffrage."
SANTA FE SPECIAL WRECKED.
Number .of Students From Athletic
Meet Killed or Injured.
Los Angeles, Cal., March 25. In a
headon collision between two Santa Fe
trains within the city limits late Sat
urday night, at least four persons were
killed and a score were injured, several
of them fatally. A Santa Fe special,
carrying scores of students returning
from an intercollegiate field meet at
Claremor.t. met the Santa Fe overland
limited, while both trains were moving
at a rapid rate. Both engines were
wrecked, one of the baggage cars on
the overland was demolished and the
crash was heard for blocks.
The collision- ocurred in that part of
the Los Angeles river bed occupied by
the Santa Fe tracks, and directly be
neath the Buena Vista street bridge.
The authenticated list of dead In
cluded the following:
C. G.- Franklin, student at the Uni
versity of Southern Salifornla.'
A. H. Edwards, J. C. Gall. Fred
Hodgson, all three students of Occiden
tal college,
CHECK TOSTATES
The Chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Commission
Thinks They Have Gone Too Far
in itailroad Legislation.
LEAVE TO UNCLE SAM.
Federal ControlTh rough License
System Is the Remedy.
Expects Supreme Court to
Straighten Out the Situation.
Chicago, March 25. A dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington says:
Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the
interstate commerce commission, in
an interview, discussed the causes of
Wall street distress, the evils existing
in railroad management, and the rem
edles therefor, and expressed the opin
ion that the states have exceeded their
constitutional rights In some of the
anti-railroad legislation they have
passed.
"There are two prominent aspects
of the present railroad situation, the
physical and the financial," Mr.
Knapp said in answer to a question.
"In the first place, Its causes certainly
are not found in any federal legisla
tion enacted or proposed, or in the
attitude or intentions of the president.
Possibly there is an underlying reason
for the present Wall street flurry
which has not been perceived clearly.
"Our marvelous prosperity has in
duced such , an extension of activity
as has led to unprecedented invest
ment plants, with the result that' over
and above the capital necessary to
conduct the business for which these
plants are created we lack a surplus
for their enlargement. Consequently
when the railroads go Into the mar
ket to get the vast sums needed for
that increase of transportation facil
ities which the country imperatively
demands, they find active capital so
profitably employed that they can not
get money for increasing the machin
ery of production without paying
rates of interest which would be a
handicap in the future if not actually
prohibitive. Something of that sort Is
the cause of the present financial sit
uation, more potent than generally is
taken into account.
"In the second place, one of the In
cidents of unusual prosperity is the
stimulus It gives to advancing prices.
which often reach abnormal and un
warrantable levels.
In other words, the boom in busi
ness works out fictitious values, so
naturally and properly when a check
comes there is a strong tendency for
quotations to fall down to the average
level, which represents true valuation.
While, of course, the venturesome and
speculative get hard hit when such a
setback comes, still it may be that a
setback now and then Is in the inter
est of the country in the long run."
Mr. Knapp was asked concerning the
effect of the disclosures of rottenness
in corporations, including railroad combi
nations, i
"It gives without saying," he eaid,
"that the disclosures of discreditable,
operations are followed by public re
sentment which oftens visits- its retali
ation on the Innocent, as well -as the
guilty. Right here I think we should
take into account, the undoubted fact
that the publico. conscience has been
aroused from its long lethargy and has
become sensitive, highly sensitive to the
moral character of conduct which In
other times would have been regarded
with indifference. , As .there can. be no
great good without some misfortune, so
the sharp awakening brings Its un
pleasant consequences." But after all. It
Indicates a marked and encouraging
elevation In the standard of public and
private morals. '.
"To my mind the" most Berious and
difficult phase of the situation and the
greatest menace to the needed develop
ment of our railroad systems is the
hostile attitude of the states. Serious
trouble Is likely to arise unless by some
means tolerably harmonious action as
between federal and state authorities
can be brought about.
"Manifestly such control as the
states may continue to exercise must
be subordinated to that larger control
which belongs to the federal govern
ment. For this reason I have long be
lieved that actual control by the na
tional government, under well consid
ered and workable laws, a control
which satisfies the demands of inter
state commerce, will tend strongly to
restrain the legislative activities of
states within proper limitations. If
federal authority Is feeble and easily
evaded, attempts constantly will bo
made to remedy defects by state laws.
often ill-considered and drastic."
Mr. Knapp was asked to state ex
plicitly what remedy he had in mind.
"The re-incorporatlon of our rail
roads under an act of congress." he
said, "or some plan of federal license
such as has been proposed." although
it wouia not limit tne actual power
of the states, nevertheless as a prac
tical matter would have a potent influ
ence in preventing improper legisla
tion by the states, and bring state laws
into harmony with national laws.
Moreover I am Inclined to antlciDate
such adjudications by our supreme
court as cases arise in the future as
will, by the principles announced and
the authority upheld, greatly restrict
the practical field of state control."
It's a good plan not to give away
your hore till you have your automo
bile paid for.
Old Eartli Must Sorely Be
UNWRITTEN LAW.
Jury Acquits Husband Who Killed tho
Family Doctor.
Carthage, Mo., March 25 Arthur San
derson is free.- The Jury hearing the
evidence against him for killing Dr. S.
D. Meredith January 2 acquitted him.
Arugments in the case closed Saturday
afternoon. Not until 4 o'clock Sunday
evening was a decision announced.
The hundreds of citizens from all over
the county: whif were In Carthage
awaiting the verdict heard it, and a
large crowd hurried to the court room.
Judge Hugh Datbs came from Joplin
to receive the verdict. When the clerk
read the vindication of Sanderson there
was a momentary outburst of applause
In the court- room, which Judge Dabbt
soon checked.
Sanderson and his father and attor
neys were congratulated upon all sides."
The verdict was, according to a Juror,
based upon the idea that the "unwrit
ten law" must be maintained.
MUST MARRY AND DO.
Fort Dodge Ordinance Brings 19 Wed
dings the First Day.
Chicago, March 25. A dispatch to
the Inter-Ocpan from Fort Dodge, la.,
says: -;- ...
What with performing without fees
the. marriage ceremonies of those who
desire to escape the penalties of the
new Fort Dodge ordinance aimed at
marriageable : people who refuse to
marry, and answering the telegrams
and letters -of expostulation which he
Is receiving from bachelors and spin
sters in all parts of the country,. Mayor
S. J. Bennett expresses fear that his
other duties - are liable to be sadly
neglected. ; .'
The "must marry" ordinance was
passed Wednesday night. Thursday
to the utter disgust of the Fort' Dodge
clergy Mayor : Bennett performed
nineteen marriage ceremonies, and
yesterday fourteen. The Fort Dodge
ministerial association threatens to
pass caustic resolutions, alleging that
the sacred character of the marriag
relation Is being vitiated by such spec
tacles.
RED SHIRTS MUST GO.
Katy Section Men . Requested Not to
Wear Them.
Chicago, March 25. A dispatch to
the Inter-Ocean .from . Sedalia, Mo.,
says: , - ..'
E. M. Alvord, ' general superinten
dent of the Missouri and Kansas and
Texas railway has Issued a bulletin,
requesting section men not to wear
red shirts while at work. The ex
planation Is said, to be that an engin
eer did not heed a red flag signal re
cently, and when taken to task, he ex
plained that he mistook 'the flag for
the red shirt of a section man.
CANNON QUARANTINED.
Speaker's Steamer Not Long Enough
Out. From Venezuela.
Bluecher," wlt,rTpfpeaker , Cannon and
representatives of the United States
congress on board, arrived here Sun
day.. The congressmen were not per
mitted to land, owing to the fact that
the Bluecher ha been out from Venezuela-
but five days. Six days are re
quired by the quarantine regulations
and the health authorities were . un
willing to establish a precedent in
fafvor of the congressmen - ' -'
THE TRIALS OF "NUB" BROWN.
Neighbors Objected to the Negro's
Write Wire.
The "Nub" Brown case had an air
ing in city court this morning, and for
the time being was a topic of more
absorbing Interest to the participants
than the Thaw case in New York city.
"Nub" Brown is a negro living on
the North side and he has a white
woman for a wife. The trial before
Judge McCabe today Is the sequel of
a neighborhood row that has been
brewing for a long time. From ap
pearances and from evidence deduced
at the hearing it Is evident that some
of the negro women of Jthe vicinity of
the Brown home were jealous of Mrs
Brown. - Mrs. Brown was white, and
they weren't, and as a consequence
they were In a continual state of feud.
A week or so ago the trouble culmi
nated In a pitched battle In which Mrs.
Brown charges that her neighbors
pulled out a portion of her hair and
pulled a fur to pieces. Hubby Is said
to have turned in to protect the honor
of his home and the person of his wife
from the attack, with the result that
he Is being tried on a charge of assault
and battery.
Doctor Stoned to Death.
Washington, March 25. The Ameri
can minister at Tangier, Morocco, re
ported to the state department that at
a meeting of tho diplomatic corps with
the Moorish delegates today the French
minister announced the stoning to
death ' of a French doctor at Morocco
city by natives. The meeting adjourn
ed as a mark of sympathy.
Root and Barrett Will Attend.
Washington. March 25. Secretary
Root and Director Barrett of the bureau
of American republics, will attend the
meeting of the international conciliation
committee in New York April 15-19.
In the Tail of That Comet.
MARKETSTODAY;
Sentiment In Wheat Pit Inclines
to Selling Side. '
Corn
Opens Steady .Though
Cables Are Weak.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Quoted Slow to Ten Cents
Lower.
Hogs From Fire to Ten Cents
- Higher. '
Chicago. March 25. WHF.ATSentiment
in the wheat pit was incined to the sell
ing side at the opening today. The
world's shipments were- larger thin had
Veen exrected and the weather n t'ic
eoathwest . was more favo-nble for the
new crop. Selin was genera at the open
ing, but shorts bought freeiy at the end
of the first half hour. Mav wiua-. open
ed a shade to c lower, at 75'-f75o to
75c, sold at 75ijt75c. and then ad
vanced to 75c. Minneapolis, Duluth and
Chicago reported receipts of 644 cars.
Conflicting reports from the southwest
regarding damage by the greenbug caused
the market to become nervous in the last
half of the session. The high point for
the May option was 76c. The close was
steady, with May gc lower, at 75c.
CORNThe corn market opened steady.
Cables were weak and local receipts were
somewhat p.bove the estimate. May- corn
opened a shade higher, at 15T4c, declined
to 45c. and sold again at 45c.
i ne mp.ritet oecame nrmer in- the last
half of the session. May selling up to 46c.
The close was steady, with May c high
er, at 45?M6c. -
OATS The onts market ooaaed easier
because J5f local receipts, which were
larger ttran expected. Buying by shorts,
however, soon caused a rally in prices.
May oats opened a shade lower, at 41e.
sold at 4141c, and then advanced to
41c.
PROVISIONS The provisions market
was weak on a 5g7c decline In live hogs.
May pork opened . 7c lower, at $15.53.
Lard was down 2c, at $8.75. Ribs opened
5c lower, at $8.55.
WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red. 7576c: No.
3 red, 74S76c; No. 2 hard. 73g'77c; No. 3
hardr 6574c; No. 1 northern, 80S5e:
No. I northern, 8083c: No. 3 spring, 75
C82c.
CORN No. 3, 4243c.
OATS No. 2, 41 e; No. 3, 4040c.
RYE Cash: 6S9c. - ,
BARLEY Cash : 6372c. - . '
Chicago Market.
Furnlslie.l by J. E. Ua.il. commissions
Grains, Provisions, Coiton and Stowki
- Office 110 West Sixth street. Phone 4S4
Chicago, March 25.
Open iign low Close sat
WHEAT
; May ... 75- 76
July ... 77- 77
Sept ... 77- 78
COKN
75
77
77
75 75-
77- 77-
78-78 78
May ... 45 46
45
45-4S 45-
July
Sept
OATS
45- 45- 45- 45 45
... 45 45- 45 46 45
May ... 41 41-42 41- 41- 41-
July ... 36- 37- 36 . .37 37
Sept ... 321 SZSfc 3254 3i-Ji-"fc
PORK-
May ...15 55
July ...15 70
LAKD-
. Mav ... 8 75
July ... 8 S5
ribs
May ... 8 57
July ... 8 65
15 62
15 75
8 75
8 85
8 55
8 67
15 45
15 55
15 45
15 55
15 62
35 75
8 60
8 70
8 60
8 70
8 77
8 87
8 37
8 50
8 37-40 8 60
8 50-52 8 72
National Isoanl of Trade. Kansas City.
U-urnlehed toy J. E. UalU Commissions.
Oralns, Provisions, Cotton and SLoe..
Office 110 West Sixth street. Phone 4mS.
Kansas City, March 25.
A - -Open High Low Close Sal
WHEAT -:
May ... 69 69 69- 69- 69-
July ... 70- 71- 70 70 70-
Sept ...71 72 71- 71- 71
CORN
May ...40 40 40 40 40
July .:. 41 41- 41 41- 41-
Sept ...41 42-42 41 43-42 41-
UAT8-
May ... 38 39
3S 39
35- 35
39
35
15 52
15 62
8 72
S 82
July ... 36- 3o
PORK-
May ...15 45
July ...15 60
Lard
May ... 8 70
July ... 8 80
ft I US
May ... 8 53
July ... 8 60
15 52
15 60
15 35
15 45
15 35
15 45
8 70
8 80
8 55
8 65
8 55
8 65
8 52
8 60
8 32-35 8 32-35 8 55
8 47 8 47 8 67
llffrtnc llv 1 rrwtr .
Kansas City, Mo., March 25. CATTLE
Receipts today, 12,000 head, including 1,000
h-ad of southerns. Market steady to 10c
lower. Native steers, $4.406.25; southern
steers. $3.75g5.35: southern cows. $3.0
4.25: native cows and heifers. $2.75d.;
stockers and feeders, $3.755.15; bulls. $3.00
g4.25:- calves, $3.507.00;western fed steers,
$4.256.80; western fed cows, $3.00(34.50.
HOGS Receipts today, 7.000 head. Mar
ket 5c lower. Bulk of sales, $6.106.15;
heavy, .156.17: packers', $6.106.20;
pigs and light, $5.006.20.
SHEEP- Receipts today. 10,000 head.
Market strong. Muttons. $5.006.00; Iambs,
THEY ATE CASTOR BEANS
Three Children of Wm. Van Orsdal of
Oakland Nearly Die as Result.
The three children of Wm. Van Ors
dal, the principal of the Oakland
school, were poisoned on Saturday
evening by eating castor beans. The
poison affected them quite seriously
and It took some heroic treatment, ad
ministered by Dr. G. H. Ensign, to
get them out of danger. As it Is. tne
youngest of the three, a girl two years
old. is still seriously 111 today, but Dr.
Ensign says that there is little doubt
of her ultimate recovery. The two
older children, both boys and "aged
nine and seven years, are now well on
tho road to recovery.
The children were playing in one of
the yards in the. neighborhood of their
home with some other children early
Saturday evening. They came across
some castor beans and were told, ac
cording to the eldest Van Orsdal boy.
by some of the other children that
the beans were good to eat. So they
proceeded to eat them. They went
home shortly afterward and had not
ben there long before they were taken
violently Hi. Dr. Ensign was called
and had no trouble In diagnosing the
Illness as being due to poison.
After some vigorous work on the
paft of the physician the two boys were
carried over the danger mark, but the
little girl did not respond so readily
to the treatment, probably because of
her youth. However, her condition to
day "is favorable toward recovery.
SENATOR LONG TO COME SOON.
R II Faxon and Mrs. Faxon are in
Topeka" for a few days on their way
home from Washington. Mr. Faxon
is private secretary to Senator Long.
He said today: .
"Senator Long will be back in Kan
sas in a few days. He does not pro
pose to open headquarters in Topeka,
as has been announced.. 'He will travel
about tho state considerably, and make
.ooha: and nrobably be in To-
hpeka several timea, but there will be
no brass Dana miusu "v"--- .
STOCK SHIPPERS
-To Insure Yourselves
Clay, Robinson Co.,
Live Stud, Ccmsslssicn IMants, Stock Yards, Kansas City
we iLta mivt mm own offich at CHioaen. bo. it. Joseph
10. OMAHA, OEPtVER. tlOUX
$7.257.60; range wethers,
ewes, $5.0056. Go. -
$5.506.73; fed
Clilcneo Lto Stork ',Vet.
Chicago, 111., Mar3h 25. CATTLE Re
ceipts today, V00 head. Market steady
to a shade lower. Beeves. $4.0026.70; cow.
$1.604.75; heifers. $2.60185.25, calves 5.ECC
7.50: good to prjw; steers, ir-..'ivi.70.
HOGS Receipts today, J"?.(-00 h ad. Mar
ket weak and ifrW-c-. lower. Lignt, $6.1jS?
6.32; mixed. So.i56 82; heavy. 6.Cr
6.50; rough, $6.006.1d; pigs, $5.60?j'6.20; good
to choice heavy, $6.20X5.S0.'
SHEEP Receipts - today, 23.000 head.
Market strong.. Natives, $4.0Ot?.25; west
ern. $4.00.20; yearlings, $6.O0.90; lambs,
$6.008.05.
Kansas City Live Sroclc Sales Today
The fcHowicg sales men made today at
the stock yards. Kansas City, Mo., and
telephoned to The Topeka State Journal
by Clay. Robinson & Co.. live stock cora
znibsion merchant, with offices at all
markets.!
Kansas City, March 25.'
CATTLE Receipts today, 12,000 head.
Market slow to 10c lower.
HOGS Receipts today. 7.000 head. Mar
ket opened 510c lower; now 10c lower.
duik oi sales, o.uou.ia ; tup,
SHEEP Receipts today, ' S.000
Market steady.
KlLlNCT RTKEHR
Ne. Wt. Price. INo. tv
head.
rrl-
$4.25
5.25
3.75
3.85
3.25
3.90
3.50
19 1118 $5.00 1 900
.1130 4.6
15
.1108
COWS A N 1
MKIKKK-
I..; 1090
5 1024
1 S70
1...;....1070
1 SS0
7.
12.
4.
111.
1.
931
3.25
.1293
. 987
. 8C5
. 670
.1130
4.15
3.25
4.25
3.75
1
3.90
KTOKEU.-
A.T FEKnlS.
9.
853
4.55 I 1...
.. 730
.. 830
4 00
4.65
12....
... 849
4.65 I 33...
OAL.VK&
7.00 I 14...
4.50 1...
HUl.T.S.
3.55 1 5...
3.40 (
6G0
$0
3S4,
170
3.75
. 6.50
1...
8...
. 7S2
.1340
.1M9.
3.70
HOGS,
No. Wt. 1
70 192
24 171
6 290
Price.
No.
81......
70.....
Nv.
..-205.
.. 209
.. 270
Price.
- $6 .17
. 6.07
6.10
$6.10
6.15
6.10
77 202-
6.15
nearly 800 head.
Prospects for good trade. Heavy shown
preference. A goodly number of buyers
from the west.
Knwn citv l'roitnce' Market.
Kansas City. March 25. Close WHEAT
Receipts today, - 170 c?.rs. Market un
changed to c higher, with quotations as
follows: May, 69c; July. 70(g7Oc; Sept.,
71c. Cash: No. 2 hard. 71874e; No.- 3
hard. 6773c; No. 2 red, 74c; No. 3 red,
CORN Market unchanged to c lower.
May, 40c; July. 41c; Sept.. 42c. Cash:
No. 2 mixed. 4041c; No. 3 mixed. 39
40c: No. 2 white. 42c; No. 3 white, 42c
OATS Market unchanged. No. 2 white,
42Vc: No. 2 mixed. 40c.
RYE Market steady, e&GtfSc.
HAY Market' steady. Choice timothy,
$14 5015.5: choice prairie, $11.S512.00.
BUTTER Market steady. Creamery,
29c; packing. 18c. -
EGGS Market firm. Fresh, 15c.
Ch5-njro Prortneo Market.
Chicago, 111.. March 25. CHEESE Mar
ket easy. Daisies, 14;3c; Twins, .13
(S,14c; Youni Americas, 14'l.-c.
POULTRY -Alive poult -y steady. Tur
keys. 12c; chickens, li'ic; springs. 12c.
BUTTER Market steady. Creamery,
2229c; dairy, 2027c.
EGGS Market steady.
.At mark, cases
Included, 16c. .
jfett- Vork. Prorlnce Market.
New York. March 25. BUTTER Mar
ket firm. Western factory, common to
firsts, 19g21c; western Imitation cream
ery, extras. 2627c; firsts, 23240.
CHEESE Market firm. Stale full cream
colored small September, fancy, 15c; same
white. 14c; same colored small October,
best, 1414c; same white 1314c.
same, good to prime, 13gl3c; winter
made, average best. 12c; large Septem
ber, fancy, ic; sa.mc,
tff!4c; same, good to prime, 12&13c,
Inferiors, llai2c. .
EGGS Market easier. Western firsts,
lS(!?18c; official prices. 1818c; seconds,
17c: southerns, 1617c.
POULTRY Dressed poultry firm. Tur
keys, 1215c; fowls. U(glSc.
Market Gossip.
Furnished by J. E. - Gall. Commission,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stock.
Office 110 West Sixth street. Phone 4Mi.'i
Liverpool opening cables: Wheat d
lower; corn Vid lower.
Liverpool, 1:30 p. m. : Wheat unchanged
to d lower; corn d lower.
Car lots at K. C: Wheat, 95: corn, 50:
oats, 11.
Car lots estimated at K. C. tomorrow:
Wheat. 170; corn, 130; oats, 21.
Car lots at Chicago: Wheat, 40; corn,
E03; oats, 289.
Estimated car lots at Chicago tomor
row: Wheat. 16; corn, 362; oats. 201.
N W car lots: Minneapolis. lu
lutli. 113. A year ago: Minneapolis, 618;
Duluth, 50.
Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d
lower; corn !gd lower.
New York Stock.
Wall St.. New York, March 25. STOCKS
The opening stock market was nervous
and irregular, wide gains and losses be
ing mixed. There were some sharp 'ad
vances among the international stocks.but
they did not fully respond to the rebound
shown In London before trading began
here. Canadian Pacific opened up 2 points
but receded almost Immediately to the low
point of Saturday; Union Pacific and Erie
roe 1 points and Southern Pacific a
point Great Northern Ore certificates
fell 3 points.-' U. S. Steel preferred 1
points. Reading and Smelting 1 points,
Amalgamated Copper, Missouri Pacific,
and Great Northern preferred 1 points.
Prices fluctuated very feverishly after
the opening.
The tide of liquidation swept over the
market which was attended by severe
losses and semi-demoralized conditions.
The transcontinental group. Rending,
Amalgamated Copper and the United
States Steel stocks were the chief targets
for the selling. The largest losses of Ihe
first hour were American Express 13. Chi
cago, St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha
10 Great Northern Ore certificates S.
Union Pacific 4. Amalgamated Copper
4 Reading 3, United States Steel pre
ferred 3. Anaconda. Missouri Pacific and
Great Northern preferred 3 and St. Paul
2 points.
Ftiivine orders In a large scale were ex
ecuted at the low prices and checked the
break. Great Northern Ore certificates
rallied 5 points. Union Pacific 3 points.
Amalgamated Copper and Canadian Pa
cific 2 points. Southern Pacific and
Gi?at Northern preferred 2 points and the
others a point or over.
After Union Pacific had rallied 4 points
there wrs another dip in prices. Appar
ently the subsidence or Duying at tne
higher level prompted renewal attack by
the bears. Iowa Central preferred tell 5
points. Great Northern preferred 3
points and Cleveland, C, C. and St. L. 3
points This decline was arrived for the
general' list considerably above the pre
vious low level. The market became very
dull on another rally.
Bonds were weak.
Drastic liquidation was resumed be
tween 12 and 1 o'clock with the metal
stocks the chief sufferers. Smelting sold
down S points, to 109. carrying it a
oolnt below the figures reaching in the
recent panic. Reading also dropped S
points and Amalgamated Copper slumped
f points.
Some other prominent stocks also gave
away : precipitately.- St. Paul - preferred.
Northwestern, Great Northern preferred,
Cleveland. C, C. and St. Louis, Colorad .
Best Results Consign To
CJTY, SO, T. PAUL. E. BUFFALO.
Southern second preferred. United States
Steel preferred,' General Electric and Uni
ted Railway Investment gave 3 to 4.
The stock market rapidly approached
a state of demoralization in the mid' af
ternoon r.nd stocks were dumped In an
unreasonable frenzy. Smelting dropped
12. Amalgamated Copper 9. Grat
Northern preferred. Union Pacific and
Reading 7. United States Steel preferred
6 and St. Paul 5 points. Others were-oft
anywhere from 1 to over 4 points. Prices
at the low level looked attractive to the
shorts and they bought heavily, raising
the weak features from 2 to 3 points
above the lowest.
Ran;re of Price" on Stork. .
rFurniahed by J. E. GaJl. Commission,
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stock,
Jffice 110 W. Sixth St- Phona 4S6.J
New York, March 25. .
Stocks Op'n High Low Close g.it
Sugar 119 119 116 117 119
People's Gas S7 87 85 85 86
Amal. Copper .... 89 89 8 M S
B. R. T.
60H oo 641 l nt
Am. C. & F. ...
U. S. Steel, com.
U. S. Steel, pfd.
Atchison, com ..
32 32 31 31 33
34 34 31 82 844.
SZ
96 96 92 93 97
87 87 82 85 87
13U 121 - t2M 1314
C. G. W
St. Paul 128 128 122 123 128
.. com afc isv )
Wabash, pfd 23 23 21 il 23
Mo. Pacific 70 70 6S 69 91
Am. Smelting.... 117 118 104 108 1117
N. Y. Central .... 115 115 112 113 116
Texas Pacific 25 25 24 25 26
So. Pacific 78 78 73 74 77
Reading 99 99 91 93 99
Erie 25 25 23 23 24
So. Railway 20 20 19 30 21
Union Pacific 130 130 121 123 129
C. & O 39 39 37 38 3S
B. & O. ; 95 95 90 90 94
L. & N 111 111 109 109 . 112
Katy 62 . 62 60 60 63
Pennsylvania 11S 118 117 llV,i IIS":
Can. Pac 160 160 155 159 158
C F. 1 32 33 29 30 32
Knjrnr and CofTeV M.irUct.
New York. March 25. SUGAR Raw su
gar firm. Fair refining. 3 l-16c; centrifu
gal, 96 test, 3 9-16c; molasses sugar, 2 13
16c. Refined sugar steady. Crushed, $6.40;
powdered, $4.80; granulated, $4.70.
COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rio.
7c; No. 4 Santos, 8c. .
Cctton Market
Galveston. Tex.. March 25. COTTON
Market higher, ll"c.
New York, March 25. COTTON Sates
today, 600 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet
and 10 points lower. Middling uplands,
$10.90; middling gulf, $11.15.
- Topeka Market.
Furnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co.
Yards close at noon Saturdays.
Topeka, March 25.
HCGS. - .
MIXED AND BUTCHERS' ..$5.72 5.$0
HEAVY , 5 75 !g5 77
LIGHT 6.70 .
Stags $1.001.50 less than hogs, accord
ing to quality.
CALVES
CALVES. 200 lbs. AND UNDER.$4.0O34.iS
CALVES, HEAVY, 260& 350 2.00ia.W
CORN FED COWS.
EXTRA GOOD $j 0011S
MEDIUM a.tiJ.iu
FAIR KILLERS S.OOy: JO
CORN FED HEIFERS. . -
EXTRA GOOD .$3.15S JO
MEDIUM X.604F3.A4
FAIR KILLERS .0&aj2 SO .
CORN FED BULLS.
CHOICE $2.50J-:75
KILLING t.Xtf2.U
TRIMMERS
GRAIN MARKET.
Furnished by J. B. Billard. Central Mills.
534 North Kansas avf.J
NO. 2 WHEAT...'. 6J0
NO. 3 WHEAT eOo
NO. 4 WHEAT Mo
NO. GRADE WHEAT 47a
CORN 38a
NO. 2 OATS 82,j
NO. 3 OATS Svo
BUTTER, EGGS. POULTRY.
Furnished by Topeka packing Co., 114-
POULTRY Broilers. 2 lbs.. 10c; hens.
9c lb.; coarse young roosters, 6c; spring
chickens. 8c; live turkeys, 12c; ducks, 9c.
EGGS Freshcountry, 13c.
BUTTER Fresh country. lSI2c.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Furnished by S. E:. Lux. 210 Kan. avt 1
CALIFORNIA O RANGES.
Per box $2.853.83
1.-T r -T -T-CJ
Per box
Per box
Per box .
....W25
NEW LEMONS.
' 'tangerines'.'
.....$4.4.23
.2.00
BANANAS.
Medium sized bunches..
.$1.752.0!
Large bunches 2.252.50
GRAPES.
Alraerla, per bbl $6.50a,CO
FRESH VEGETABLES.
Radishes, per doz 40c
Beets per doz 40o
Turnips, per dozen 40c
Horseradish, per lb .4c
Spinach, per bu WJj
Parsley, per doz 40o
Rutabagas, per 10 jv,a
Lettuce, per basket 75090c
CRANBERRIES.
Per barrel $6.25
COCOANUTS. ,
Per dozen 45e
Per sack $4.00
COLORADO AND UTAH HONEY.
Strictly 1st class, per 24 rack case$3.268.50
APPLES.
Per bu.-barrel $3.004.00
NEW FIGS. ,
Per box 750
DATES.
Hallow! .per lb ; .-
Salr, per lo .....6a
STRAWBERRIES. .
Per 24 qt.crate. $5 So
Per bu. '..$1.75
MISSOURI HICKORY NUTS.
PACKAGE DATES. .. .-
Per box $2.ro
SEED POTATOES.
Bliss Triumphs, per bu 5S0
Early Rose, per bu SSC
Kaw Valley, per bu sSo
Early Ohio.rt. ..,
p" bu; .:-":-cabbage:':':--'',1'oc 00
lb' " ONION SETS. .J
Red Globe, per bu. j2 T5
Yellow Globe, per bu.... j
White Silver skin, per bu 300
Spanlsh celery'. "lLa
Per doz.bunches 65S3e
OYSTERS. - V.
Standard, per can H
N. Y. Extra select, can
N. Y. Counts, can 4;
BULK OYSTERS. .e
N. Y. Counts, gal ,
Extra Selects, gal ,
.JO0
1 85
.. 1.50
-.iS
...10
...19a
...lo
...16o
...16a
...16o
Standard, fai.
FULL CREAM CHEESE.
Kansas Y. A.,- lt
N Y. State, white, lb ;..
Block Swiss, lb
Brick, lb. ;.
Limburger. Ib. .
Daisy 20-lb. bulk. lb
Dairy Twin 2 to box) lb
Wisconsin White, Ib
HAY.
Furnished by the City Hay Market. 4ix
Qulncy street.!
PRAIRIE Baled, $11.0012.00; loose 111
12.00. '
ALFALFA Loose. $14.00.
Topeka Hide Mnrket. - -
Prices paid in Topeka. this week, base'il
: on Boston quotations.
GREEN SALT CVR?."
NO. 1 HORSE- w. iav2
NO. 1 TALLOW .."'. 2