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THE TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOUBNAL TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1908.
FABLED CITIES SUBMERGED.
E
ectricixy
has been tested; it has been found to
fill the bill; it makes good where oth
er methods fail; its superior features,
established by tests, by experiments
and by comparison, have secured for
it a place in every modern home and
commercial establishment. We would
like to have you phone for our light
ing expert.
The TopeKa Edison Co.
Both Phones 369
Major Anderson, Who Will Tender His Resignation as
Secretary of the Commercial Club to the Board of
Directors.
"Haven't a -word more to say concerning my resignation from the sec
retaryship of the Topeka Commercial club." said Major T. J. Anderson, "that
is at this time time but there may be some things in my system which I
will release later, if the spirit moves me. I have worked for the interests
of Topeka ever since I located in the city at the close of the war and shall
continue to do so in the future, whether I am secretary of the Commercial
club or not. When I was elected secretary of the Topeka Commercial club
In 1889 it had 37 members and the enrollment at this time is 265, a growth
Of which I am mighty proud. Mr. Jensen says that he will have 300 addition
al members by the time his term expires and hope that he has not made a
bad guess, time alone will tell." J
DAVIS IS SIDETRACKED.
Stubbs Candidate In Second District
Turned Down.
Lawrence, Kan., March 3. The Sec
ond district congressional" convention
met here today with a good attend
ance. A. R. Berger was made chair
man and J. O. McAfee secretary.
George L. Davis, who was slated for
a delegate early in the day and who
was counted as a Stubbs man, was
sidetracked and C. A. Biglow, of Jef
ferson county, put in his place. O. J.
Peterson of Wyandotte county was the
other delegate. Peterson is a Long
Mulvane follower.
The resolutions endorsed President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. No at
tempt was made to endorse a candi
date for governor or United States senator.
COOLEY . IiANDS O.VE MORE.
Signs Up Cuthbert for
Position.
an Outfield
Cuthbert, a player who played with
the Springfield Midgets last season,
is the latest addition to the roster of
the White Sox. Cooley secured Cuth
bert's signature to a contract late
yesterday afternoon. Cuthbert play
ed a number of positions for Spring
field. He started the season at third
and was later shifted to second and
then sent to the outfield. It was in
the outfield that Cuthbert made 'his
best record. He developed great tal
ent along the line of sun fielding and
It is in this department that Cooley Is
planning to use him.
Cuthbert's record last season was
not a wonderful one. He was dis
couraged in the first place by being
with a team that was hopelessly in
COFFEE
Blend No. S 35c lb. 1 lbs. 50c
Blend No. 10 10c per lb.
These blends have genuine
Mandhling Java from the Dutch
East Indies, Arabian Mocha from
Aden Arabia, and other coffees
from the best coffee districts o
the world.
Chas. McClintock
Tea Coffee Crockery
815 Kansas Ave.
the rut and never a contender for
anv! tune hie-her th.qn utvanth niai
He W l a 1 R O nilt n f tha o--j mi fr OAir.
eral weeks in mid-season on account
of sickness. It is Cooleys opinion
that Cuthbert is a valuable player
ana ne win oe given a chance with the
Other OUtfiAlrlAT- Whrt 1qva haan oi rrr.
ed up. Cooley has a good bunch of
uuiueiuers in wooiey, ianaretn, dxly
cross, Crumrine, Cuthbert and poser
bly Davis.
WOMAN DEPUTY MARSHAL.
Miss Burch of Abilene Appointed by
Mr. Mackey.
Kansas has a woman deputy Unit
ed States marshal. Her name is Mis
Burch of Abilene, newly appointed to
a position made vacant by the resig
nation of Clarence Keller who left to
enter the employ of the Harvey eat
ing house system at the Hotel Bls
onte at Hutchinson.
Miss Burch is known as office
deputy, and will not be required to
make any heroic arrests of law
breakers, but hers will be the less ex
citing work of clerk. - Miss Burcb
came to Topeka yesterday and engag
ed on her new duties this morning.
Presidential Appointments.
Washington, March 3. The presi
dent sent to the senate today the fol
lowing nominations: Consuls general:
Prank D. Hill of Minnesota, at Bar
celona, Spain; James W. Ragsdale, of
California, at St. Petersburg, Russia;
Benjamin H. Ridgely of Kentucky, at
Mexico, Mexico; Edward T. Williams,
of Ohio, at Tien Tsin, China. To be
United States marshal for the eastern
district of Oklahoma: Samuel Gran
Victor, in place of G. A. Porter,
whose nomination was withdrawn at
the request of the senate judiciary
committee.
Western Rural Carriers.
Washington, March 3. These rural
carriers have been appointed: Kansas
Riley, route No. 2, Samuel Sharp
less, carrier, Lynn H. Couner, substi
tute. Oklahoma Alva, route No. 4,
James D. Harris, carrier, reinstated, no
substitute; Noble, route No. 1, William
E. Morris, carrier, Howard E. Sieg,
substitute.
Young Sigsbee a Middy. .
Washington, March 3. The presi
dent today appointed Charles D. Sigs
bee, son of Rear Admiral Sigsbee, and
a number of sons of deceased naval
officers as midshipmen. .
Trie Last Train
Leaving Topeka for Kansas City in the
morning is the Union Pacific No. 10S
at 8:15 a. m arriving In Kansas City
at 10:15 a. m. , The afternoon train
returning Is the earliest train Into To
peka at 6:15 cm.
Along the German Ocean, the Baltic
and Other Parts of the World.
Many of those persons who have been
fortunate enough, due to ample means
of lucky circumstances of a business
or other nature, to spend a holiday at
many of the charming resorts dotting
the coast line of the German ocean will
have been amused (and perchance in
terested) by the many tales and leg
ends related as to submerged cities
all supramundane trace of which has
now disappeared. Of such cities which
once were famous for their wealtn.beau
ty and power, it is whispered that their
love of luxury, their greed and cruelty
led to the offended and unseen Powers
Above causing the waves to rise in the
night and engulf them , forever. Not
only are such legends rife on the coast,
but even in inland German towns many
a lake is Invested with a halo of sim
ilar mystery.
Of these latter cases two of the most
Interesting relate to an old-time city
named Buckow, which is said to rest
upon the bottom of Lake Schermuetzel,
In Brandenburg, while Lake Werbellin
(a most mysterious sheet or water, ac-onrillne-
to folk-lore) conceals In its
bosom a town of the same name; all
that remains of this latter is the name
given to a small village, in memory of
its predecessor, which now stands not
far from the point where the former
town stood.
Aitboiie-h most of the stories rife In
Germany as to vanished towns in ttw
interior have no actual historical basis,
or at best, a slight one (tne werDeuiu
story being based upon the disappear
ance of a castle called Werbellin, one
of the Ascanian castles built in lloO
1170 by Albert the Bear. Margrave, of
Brandenberg, and a coniempurai y ui
TTVoHorioir Ttorharossa). this is not so
on the coast; here the legends are all
well founded on fact, and. In most
cases, the salient features have lost but
little of their original truth In the tell-,ns-
.... . V
The most striking or all tne legenas
current In the coast towns of the Ger
man Ocean is that dealing- with the
lost Dutch town of Stavoren at the
entrance to the Zuyder Zee. Here
there lived a rich and powerful wo
man, whose pride, cruelty and selfish
ness aroused the anger of heaven, and
caused the wicked and misguided city
to sink beneath the waves. A small
portion of the city (where the good
people lived) was saved, and its name
still cleaves to the small town of
Stavoren, which is well known to
every traveler going by water from
Amsterdam to Lecuwarden and Gron
lngen. It is an undisputable fact that,
in the thirteenth century, Stavoren
was a wealthy and powerful commer
cial city; however, due partly to the
port becoming choked with sand, and
partly to the eruption of the Zuyder
Zee in 1277, it rapidly lost its import
ance, and at the present time what is
left or it only ait or da sneiter 10 aooui
800 souls. The roofs ana spires or tne
now submarine buildings can, it is
said, be often seen far down in the
depths when the sea is still and the
weather Is clear, while silent listeners
on Christmas eve will hear the distant
and muffled tone of church bells aris
ing from the depths, only to break in
bubbles and ripples on the surface of
the Zuyder Zee.
Visitors to Sylt, the well known sea
side resort and island in the North
sea, will doubtless remember ' the
small village of Winningstedt. Al
though its present population is only
fifty persons, it Is none the less "com
memorative of the large commercial
town of Winningstedt. which went to
the bottom of the sea ffuring a great
flood and storm which took place on
January 16, 1362.
Wenningstedt Is by no means the
only town which once stood on the
shores of Friesland and Holland only
to meet with destruction at the hands
(or rather billows) of "Old Hans," as
the Frisian familiarly terms the North
sea. As a matter of fact, of all the
seas in the world it is the German
ocean alone which can establish a rec-
ord for the number of towns, villages
and hamlets which it has either de
stroyed or engulfed. , Since the
eleventh century "Old Hans" has
devastated no less than 144 towns and
villages, either by swallowing them up
entirely or else by burying them under
heaps of sand. The fate of the Dutch
town of Rungholt, which disappeared
during a great storm in the year 1337
Is still sung and told in story by the
present day nsherfolk of Holland.
The Baltic sea has not such a bad
record in catastrophes as "Old Hans."
Vet a halo of romance is thrown around
the legends told about this sea by the
story of the wonderful town of "Vineta,
chimes from whose church - steeples
may, at the fall of eventide, be heard
pealing faintly from the depths of the
ocean. In the 70s of the last century
articles were still published in support
of the sometime existence of a large,
fabulously wealthy Wendish city named
Vineta, which, in the middle ages, nest
led at the foot of the Stakelberg at
Usedom, nearly at the same altitude at
which the hamlet of Damerow now
stands. The legend states It was total
ly destroyed by a flood and earthquake
which, occurred in the year 1183. At
one time the city of Vineta was marked
on the Prussian maps, but geological
and historical Investigation made local
ly by Prof. Vlrchow and others have
proved beyond doubt that a town never
could have stood upon the site indi
cated. Researches into the origin of the leg
end led to the remarkable discovery
that the name of Vineta was nothing
more than a corruption of Jumneta
and Jumne the old Wendish name of
the modern town of Wollin, or Julln
as It was called by the Danes. The re
ported fabulous wealth owned by
Vineta was to a certain extent true, ss
Julln or Jumne was according to the
old historian Adam of Bremen a very
large and remarkably wealthy town In
the tenth century, doing even then a
trade with Arabia, Asia and the coast
towns of northern Africa. To use the
historian's own words, the old Wendinh
town was certainly the greatest of all
towns "now existing in Europe." When
the Danish King Waldemar the Great
crushed out the power wielded by the
Wends, he also destroyed Jumne by
burning it to the ground in 1172; hence
In this case the earthquake and flood
business is a mere fabrication. The
Baltic Sea can boast of no sunken
cities, although it has caused' consider
able destruction to life and property by
Hoods. A few of the more important
instances are: (1) The great flood of
November 1, 1304. which submerged the
whole of the strip of land which con
nected the present island of Ruden
with Ruegen; (2) the flood of Novem
oer 13, 1872, which rent the islands of
Usedom and Hiddensee into two parts,
while (3) the flood which took place on
April 13, 1908, destroyed the well known
and beautiful Adlerhorst . resort on
Arkona. -
But to turn to other parts of the
world. - Here there are not many known
instances of sunken cities; still there
are a few. The . latest known case is
that of Galveston, which, as will be re
membered, was destroyed, and . partly
enguuea on Beptemoer 8, uui. Scien
title American-
Emporia Telephony ComPnl?
Empori, g&ns&s, Feby. 2 9, 190 8 .
Mr. O. M. Hill,
813 Kansas Avenue,
Topeka, Kansas.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed you will find check for $450.00 for
decorating my. residence. I will mail you a check
for ; the extras as soon as I have time . to check over
the same, probably next Monday."
I assure you that we are more than pleased
with the work and any time that I have an opportunity
to speak a good word for you, I will be only too glad
to do so. With kindest regards, I am, , " J' '.:'V.
End. Very truly yours,
OPENING OF THE BIG PROSPERITY CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE.
More than fifty cities were represented by delegates at the opening of the prosperity convention in Baltimore.
This big gathering, of business men who are determined to do all they can to restore business confidence Is an excel
lent example of American pluck and optimism. The Optimist clubs of various southern and western cities wera the
moving spirit in the convention. Their motto is "Be an Optimist and Smile." Baltimore made splendid preparations
to entertain the 10,000 delegates that had been invited to the convention. Business men's organizations, commercial
;ltibs, civic societies and scores of kindred associations were represented at the opening reception tn th delegates
".nil enthusiasm was unbounded. .
PUNISHED ENOUGH.
Claim of Family of Joseph Walker
Who Went to Prison at 16.
The mother, sister and brother-in-law
of Joseph Walker, a young man
confined In the state penitentiary, had
a long session with Governor Hoch
this morning for the purpose of urg
ing the governor to pardon . Walker,
or at least commute his sentence to 20
years imprisonment.'
Joseph Walker was in 1894, when
he was a boy of 16, convicted in Ford
county of killing an infant child os-
Mr. and Mrs. William jvimDan. jri
was sent to the penitentiary for life.
Walker seems to have become involv
ed in a love affair with a young girl,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Klm.
ball. He was a country boy, with his
brain saturated with dime novel liter
ature. He thought that it would be
i good scheme to kill the girl's father
and mother. - To accomplish his OD
ject, he got a shot gun, .and fired two
shots through the window where the
member of the ' Kimball family
were visible. He wounded Mr. Kim
ball, and killed an infant child which
Mrs. Kimball was holding in her
arms. He confessed to the crime.
The grounds upon which the relatives
ask the governor to commute the sen
tence to 20 years' imprisonment are
that the boy was too young to realize
the nature of his crime, and that he
has been punished sufficiently. The par
don is recommended by the judge who
heard the case and by the county at
torney who prosecuted. There is a long
petition in behalf of the young man. A
similar application for clemency was
refused by Governor Bailey. Governor
Hoch has not yet decided the case.
Wall Street Alarmed.
New York, March 3. Greater precau
tions have been taken and are being
continued for the prevention of an
anarchist violence in this cty according
to statements made today by Police
Commissioner Bingham. These meas
ures were adopted after letters - of a
threatening nature had been received
by Archbishop Farley and one of the
deputy police commissioners and fol
lowing the distribution of a circular ad
vising the people to march to Wall
street and take what they wanted.
Twenty additional men have been add
ed to the detective bureau in the
financial district and the closest watch
is being maintained in all sections of
the city.
FOURTH DISTRICT IS SIXJW.
Convention Does Not Meet Until 4
O'clock This Afternoon.
Osage City, Kan., March 5. The
Fourth district Republican congres
sional convention was not called until
4 o'clock today owing to the lateness
of many delegates in arriving. In the
early afternoon a Fourth District Re
publican association was organized. It
was thought at 3 o'clock that the con
gressional . convention would indorse
President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft
and the state administration and ad
journ.
First Flag With Forty-six Stars.
Washington, March 3. A joint reso
lution was adopted by the house today
donating to the state of Oklahoma
"the first flag bearing forty-six stars
which for the first time floats over the
capitol today." The resolution places
the flag in the custody of the Okla
noma historical society.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFi'.
Be kind to your skin. Use nnlv.Kain
kin cream and Satin- skin powder. 25c.
SUFFRAGISTS HEARD.
to
They Make Their Annual plea
Congress for Franchise
Washington, March 3. The ad
vocates of female suffrage were to
day given their annual opportunity to
present pleas to congress the ' pre-:
sentation to the senate being made
before the committee on woman suf
frage and to the house before the
judiciary committee. Before the sen-,
ate committee meeting Rev. Anna
Shaw, as ' president of the National
Female Suffrage association, intro
duced the speakers, the first of whom
was Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who ex
pressed confidence In the support of,
her cause by the committee. Mrs.
Fannie Fernald, president of the'
Maine Woman's Suffrage association,
made an eloquent plea for "a voice in
government which controls every in
terest we hold dear." "
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio,
was in charge of the house com
mittee and the speakers include Miss
Emma Follette of Washington, Mrs.'
Chapman Catt of New York, Senator
Owen of Oklahoma, and Miss Rose
Sullivan of Utah. '
LOCAL JlEiSTIOxX.
Make Price's drug store your meeting
place when down town.
Household goods on sale at 324 To
peka avenue. Special bargains if sold by,
Friday night.. Hours 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Dr. S. Temple, Osteopath, 735 Kan-,
sas Ave. Ind. 1642. Res. 5174. Bell 1885.
The -Chapman grocery,' Tenth and
D.mk n . ,-,.11 I -1 f 1 ...... rT-. 1
nan DCll xkcuvi uoo uuucl, 1 I J ii..
The damage suit of C. C. Coleman .
against F. P. MacLennan, owner and
editor of the Topeka State Journal,
which was set for hearing in the su
preme court today, was continued until
June, by agreement.
The Topeka Poultry Breeders' asso
ciation will meet tonight to formulate
plans to assist the State Fair associa
tion. Among other things, the asso
ciation will recommend a superintend
ent for the state fair next fall.
Mrs. H. N. Guymon will erect a new
dwelling at 12 21 Wayne street to coat
$1,300. while W. G. Magaw will build
an addition to a dwelling at 1614 West
Fifteenth street to cost $750. Build
ing permits were Issued today.
John Bumgartner, the . merchant
tailor, has received a full line of new
spring and summer suiting. -Call on
him for your Easter suit.. 809 Kansas
avenue. , .
The grocers who are the most par
ticular in selecting their stock buy
Idaho potatoes; ask Hindman, Green,
Morns, Fitzgerald, Covell, Effinger,
Exchange, Fraser, Cole, Layton, Gladd,
McSpadden, Dreisbach, Gallagher,'
Nichol, Knox, Hebb, Spaulding, Fer
guson, Real, Lamb, Sheetz and Gor
don to fill your orders for Idaho pota
toes. They all recommend them.
The household goods of Mrs. Wil
liam Sells will be for sale Wednesday,
March 4, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. at
the rooms of the Merchants' Transfer
company, 611 Quincy street.
Sensitive Plants.
There are plants so sensitive that
If, when standing by them, you should
suddenly put up your umbrella or
sunshade, it would be quite sufficient
to cause them instantly to close to
gether their leaflets and turn down
their leaf stalks, just as If they were
startled and alarmed by the move
ment. Indeed, on a sunny day, when
the temperature is sufficiently high,
you need not make even so decided a
movement; merely your shadow com
ing In contact with their leaves will
often cause them to fall slightly.
Strand Magazine-
Bhr Tree National Forest. "
: Washington, March 3. The secre-
establish the Calaveras big tree nation
al forest in California, by a bill passed
by the senate today. The bill permits
an exchange of timber on public lands
for the bis tree forests.