The Topeka state journal. [volume], October 31, 1908, LAST EDITION, Page 8, Image 8

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 31, 1908.
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Candidate for Representative
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EM WEI J ,
OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT
I would thank you kindly for your votes, and if
elected I will give my best efforts to the duties of the
office and for the best interests of the people of my
district. Very truly,
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L. M. PENWELL
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INCREASE IX MANUFACTURES
Is Shown in the Bureau's Statement
for Month of September.
Washington, Oct. 31. A marked in
crease in activity in the principal
manufacturing industries of the coun
try is indicated for the month of Sep
tember, according to the monthly
statement of imports issued by the
bureau of manufactures of the depart
ment of commerce and labor. A large
decrease in the import prices of the
principal manufacturers material as
compared with September, 1907, is
shown.
Hides and skins show an Increase
in quantity imported of 50 per cent in
excess of the corresponding month of
last year. Pig copper shows an in
crease of 25 per cent, crude India rub
ber 60 per cent, tobacco for manufac
turing 50 per cent and fibres 30 per
cent. While more raw cotton was im
ported than in September, 1907, the
value of raw cotton imports for Sep
tember of this year shows a decrease
of over 30 per cent. Similar decreases
in the import prices per unit of quan
tity are noted in nearly all articles of
importance used in manufacturing.
Court Fixes Mule's Ixad. .
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 31. There
is a
limit to the weight a Georgia mule
should) be made to haul and this limit
has been fixed by Judge Broyles in
police court at 2,500 pounds. Judge
Broyles fined C. E. Walker $5.75 be
cause Walker's mule was caught by an
euterprising policeman in the act of
hauling a load of 4,032 pounds.
Secretary Wilson Declines an Offer.
Chicago, Oct. 31. A dispatch to
the Record-Herald from Denver,
Colo., says: Secretary James Wilson
of President Roosevelt's cabinet is
reported today to have declined the
offer of the presidency of the Colo
rado Agricultural college at Fort Collins.
Watch your front" gates tonight.
.The tacky skating party is tonight.
The Central T. M. C. A. will have a
"spook" party for the junior members
of the association in the attic tonight.
The polls will open at 6 o'clock in
the morning and close at 6 o'clock in
the evening in the city. They open
two hours later in the country.
The last Democratic rally of the sea
son will take place at the Auditorium
tonight. F. M. Pearl of Hiawatha, can
didate for congress, will be the prin
cipal attraction.
There will be no more looping the
loop by the residents of Oakland for
the new street car line and the Branner
street viaduct were formally opened this
morning for traffic.
The Central Y. M. C. A. will give a
Halloween party this evening to the
junior association members, when
spooks will walk and form the princi
pal form of amusement.
In one of the hardest football scrim
mages of the season, Friday afternoon,
the high school team and the Washburn
freshmen team held each other at bay,
neither side' being able to score.
The Santa Fe will run a special
train to the Washburn-Kansas univer
sity football game which will be played
in Lawrence next Saturday. The train
will leave Topeka at 1:45 "and will re
turn following the game.
The Drake football team arrived In
Topeka late last night and are quarter
ed at the Throop hotel. The Drake team
is a husky looking bunch and trouble
for the Washburn aggregation is evi
dent from one glance at the Hawk
eyes. Lest you forget, this is Halloween,
the evening when spooks, gobblins and
the like are said to stalk about and
the evening when the boys and the girls
take liberties with the property of oth
ers which would not be tolerated at any
other time.
People who do not wish to vote a
straight ticket and still declare their
party allegiance, may make a cross
mark in the circle at the top and then
make cross marks opposite the names
on any other ticket. This will not
invalidate the ballot.
The first case of typhoid fever re
ported to the board of health for a
month is that of Esther Muhrung of
219 North Jefferson street, who has a
light attack of the disease. There is
one case of smallpox and three of
scarlet fever in the city at this time.
Mrs. Ella S. Burton, candidate for
superintendent of public instructions,
will speak at the Auditorium this even
ing on the school book situation in
Kansas as related to the American
Book company. Her knowledge of the
situation and ability to handle it prom
ises an evening of revelations.
Street Commissioner Snyder, who
has been busy all week cleaning the
streets of leaves and debris and clear
ing out the manholes in the sewers,
reports that he has hauled 150 wagon
loads of dead leaves from the streets
in the past few days. The foliage
was exceptionally heavy this year.
At the invitation of the manager
of the Novelty theater the football
players of the Washburn college and
Drake university teams will occupy
the boxes at the second performance
at that playhouse tonight. All the
boxes in the theater have been placed
at the disposal of the athletes for the
second performance and every mem
ber of the two squads will be ac
commodated. Street cars were run today for the
first time over the new Branner street
viaduct. The old route to Oakland
along the south bank of the Kaw and
under the Santa Fe bridge will be
abandoned. The Oakland cars will be
run east on Sixth to Lake, thence
north to Third street and west to
Branner where the viaduct crosses
Santa Fe tracks. The viaduct in
sures a passage to Oakland during
the high water. It will be a week or
two before 'the flooring of the viaduct
will be ready for teams and buggies.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth reports that
the departments of the city have
answered calls for thirty-four fires
JOHN M. WILKERS0N
Republican Candidate For
SHERIFF
a 1 1 e d up onto I
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o be re-elected i
11 find my I
r the ballot.
To the Voters of Shawnee County :
Next Tuesday you will be c
vote for a number of candidat
btate and County. I expect t
for a second term, and you wi
name on tne Kepuoncan siae o
I ask for your vote for the following
r e a so n s : j
A county officer who has faithfully per
formed his duty, is entitled to a second
t e r m, as a matter of custom.
"Ihave been a resident of. this county for
over half a lifetime, and'during that time
have been honored with positons of trust
which I have handled to the1 best of my
ability, and to the satisfaction of the vot
ers. This was proven two years ago, when
I was elected sheriff, after being out of
politics for several years.
My present term has. been satisfactory.
Even those whom I have arrested are com
pelled to admit that I treated them fairly.
If re-elected I intend to continue the same
policy of fair treatment and' attention to
duty.
I have enemies. When you find them,
see if their past records will bear investi
gation. Sincerely yours, r j
John M. Wilkerson.
this month, which is twice as many
fires as the records show for any one
of the past four months. Every one
of these alarms represented a working
fire and many of these threatened
serious possibilities during the dry
weather and high winds the first half
of the month. The only serious con
flagration was that at Tenth and
Tyler streets, but many of the others,
notably the Kenwood prairie fire and
the blaze at Thirteenth and Tyler and
Buchanan, would Jiave proved to be
worse fires than the Tenth street
affair but for the prompt and effective
work of the firemen. There were
thirteen fires in September, fourteen
in August and sixteen in July.-
Democrats Claim New Jersey.
Newark, N. J., Oct. 81. A plurality
of approximately 17.000 for Bryan
and Kern in New Jersey is the pre
diction made by the Democratic state,
committee in an official statement is-,
sued today. ,
Death of H. A. Robinson. '
Emporia, Kan., Oct. 31. H. A.
Robinson, who had lived on his farm:
in Reading township since 1873, died
Friday at his home. He was born in
1852. A wife and daughter survive
him.
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Theodore F. Kreipe, who is a candidate
for County Commissioner in the third com
missioner district, has lived in Tecumseh
township practically all his life. His father,
Theodore Sr., settled in Douglas County in
1859, and a few years later moved to the
farm in Shawnee County, which he now
owns. When he moved to Shawnee County
his family included Theodore F. Kreipe, who
aspires to represent his district as County
Commissioner.
Father and son have lived continually on
the same farm which was purchased by the
elder Kreipe when he settled in Shawnee
county, though the farm has been added to
until it now comprises 1,880 acres of the
best farming land in Shawnee i County.
Three hundred and thirty acres of farm is
owned by Theorore F. Kreipe, who not only
farms this large body of land, but assists
his father, who is 80 years of age, in caring
for his even larger property rights.
Theodore F. Kreipe
Mr. Kreipe is one of the successful farm
ers of Kansas who has earned every dollar
that he is worth by hard and honest labor,
and has the respect of all of the farmers in
the district in which has spent many years
of his life.
He is an up-to-date and progressive farm
er, being an ardent advocate of better roads
and bridges and will make this an issue of
the campaign as well as a reduction in the
taxes of the county. Mr. Kreipe is one of
the fancy stock-breeders of Shawnee county
and between 150 and 200 head of cattle and
as many head of hogs are fattened on the
Kreipe farms each year. He is one of the
stockholders and a member of the board of
directors of the German-American Bank re
cently organized in Topeka.
If elected Mr. Kreipe's friends say it will add a member of un
usual strength and honesty of purpose to the board of county
commissioners, and a man who will look after the interests of
Shawnee county as he has his own. ; , , :,
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