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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALSATURDAY EVENING.' JANUARY IS, 1909.
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HE DRAWS A LINE
President Roosevelt Tetoes Bil
Granting Water Eights
And Sets Forth the Reasons for
His Disapproval.
WILL SIGN NO MORE
Measures Giving Away Part
Public Domain
of
Unless Grant Is Subject to Re
strictions and Paid For.
"Washington. Jan. 16 President Roose
velt yesterday scent to congress a spe
cial message vetoine a bill for the con
struction of a dam across the James
river, Missouri.
The message in part follows:
"To the House of Representatives:
return herewith without my approval
house hill 17707 tn authorize William
Standish to construct a dam across the
James river, in Stone county. Missouri
and divert a portion of its waters
through a runnel into the said river
again, to create electric power. My
reason for not Rienln? the bill are:
"The bill gives to the grantee a val
uable privilege, which by its very
ture is monopolistic and does not con
tain the conditions essential to protect
the public interest."
President Roosevelt auotes from a
letter he wrote on March 13. 1908. to
the senate committee on commerce
pursuance of a policy declared in his
message of February 26. 1908. In this
letter the president said:
"Through lack of foresight we have
formed the habit of granting with
out compensation extremely valuable
rights, amounting to monopolies, on
navigable streams and On the public
domain. The re-purchase at great ex
pense of water rights thus carelessly
given away without return has already
begun in the east and before long will
be necessary in the west also. No
rights involving water power should be
granted to any corporation in perpet
uity, but only for a length of time, suf
ficient to allow them to conduct their
business profitably. A reason
able charge should of course
be made for valuable rights
and privile0v.s which they obtain from
the national government. The values
for which this charge is made will ul
timately, through the natural growth
and orderly development of our popu
lation and industries, reach enormous
amounts. A fair share of the increase
should be safeguarded for the benefit of
the people from whose labor-its springs.
The proceeds thus secured, after the
cost of administration and improve
ment has been met, should naturally
be devoted to the development of our
Inland waterways.
He Draws the Line.
"Accordingly I have decided to sign
no bills hereafter which do not provide
specifically for the right to nx ana
make a charge and for a definite limi
tation in time of the rights conferred."
The president also calls attention to
his veto-message of -April 13, 1908. re
turning a house bill to extend the time
for the construction of a dam across
Rainy river as follows:
"An amendment to the present bill
expressly authorizing the government
to fix a limitation of time and impose
a charge was proposed by the war
department.
"The letter, veto message, and
amendment above referred to were
considered by the senate committee on
commerce, as appears by the commit
tee's report on the present bill, and the
proposed amendment was character
ized by the committee as a 'new de
parture from the policy heretofore
pursued In respect to legislation au
thorizing the construction of such
dams.'
"Their report sets forth an elabor
ate argument intended to show that
the federal government has no power
to impose any charge whatever for
such a privilege.
"The fact that the proposed policy
Is new is in itself no sufficient argu
ment against its adoption. As we are
met with new conditions of industry
Charcoal Removes
Stomach Poisons
Pure Cliarooal Will Absorb One Hun
dred Times Its Volume In
Poisonous Gases.
Charcoal was made famous by the
old monks of Spain, who cured all
manner of stomach, liver, blood and
bowel troubles by this simple remedy.
One little nervous Frenchman held
forth its virtues before a famous con
vention of European physicians and
surgeons. Secheyron was his name. He
was odd. quaint and very determined.
.mis oroiners in meaicine laugnea at his
claims. Thereupon he swallowed two
- grains of strychnine, enough to kill
three men, and ate some charcoal. The
doctors thought him mad, but he did
not even nave to go to bed. The char
coal killed the effects of the strychnine
and Secheyron was famous. Ever since
that day physicians have used it. Run
impure water through charcoal and you
have a pure, oeucious drink.
Bad breath, gastritis, bowel gases.
torpid liver, impure Diood, etc.. give
way berore tne action or charcoal.
It is really a wonderful adjunct to
nature " and is a most inexhaustible
storehouse or neaith to the man or
woman who suffers from gases or im
purities of any kind.
Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges are made
of pure willow charcoal, sweetened to
a palatable state with honey.
Two or three of them cure an ordi
nary case of bad breath. They should
be used after every meal, especially if
one's breath prone to be impure.
These little lozenges have nothing to
do with medicine. They are just sweet,
fresh willow, burned to a nicety for
charcoal making and fragrant honey,
the product of the bee. Thus every in
gredient comes to man from the lap
of nature.
The only secret lies in the Stuart
process of compressing these simple
substances into a hard tablet or loz
enge, so that age. evaporation or decay
may not assail their curative qualities.
You may take as many of them as
you wish and the more you take the
quicker will you remove the effects of
bad breath and impurities arising from
a- decayed or decaying meal. They as
sist digestion, purify the blood and
help the intestines and bowels throw
off all waste matter.
Go to your druggist at once and buy
a package of Stuart's Charcoal Loz
enges, price 25 cents. You win soon
be told by your friends that your
breath is not so bad as it was. Send
us your name and address and we will
send you a trial package by mail free.
Address F. A. Stuart Co., 200 Stuart
Rldsr.. Marshall, Mich. . i
seriouslv affecting the public welfare,
we should not hesitate to adopt meas
ures for the protection of the public
merely because those measures are
new. When the public welfare is in
volved, congress should resolve any
reasonable doubt as to its legislative
power in favor of the people and
against the seekers- for a special privi
lege.
Reason for His Action.
"My reason for -believing that the
federal government, in granting a li
cense to dam a navigable river, has
the power to impose any conditions it
finds necessary to protect the public.
Including a charge and a limitation of
the time, is that its consent is legally
essential to an enterprise or mis cnar-
aeter. It follows tnat congress can
impose conditions upon its consent,
The president continues: .
"Believing that the national gov
ernment has this power, I am con
vinced that Its power ought to be ex
ercised. The people of the country
are threatened dv a. monopoly iar
more powerful, because in iar closer
touch with theid domestic and indus
trial life than anything known to our
experience. A single generation will
see the exhaustion of our natural re
sources of oil and gas and such a rise
in the price of coal as will make the
price of electrically transmitted water
power a controlling factor in trans
portation, in manufacturing and in
household lighting and heating. Our
water power alone if fully developed
and wisely used, is probably sufficient
for our present transportation, indus
trial, municipal and domestic needs.
Most of It is undeveloped and is still
in national or state control.
An Act of Folly.
To give away, without conditions,
this, one of the greatest of our resour
ces, would be an act of folly. If we are
guilty of it, our children will be forced
to pay an annual return upon a capi
talization based upon the highest prices
which 'the traffic will bear.' They will
find themselves face to face with pow
erful interests intrenched behind the
doctrine of 'vested rights and strength
ened by every defense which money can
buy and the Ingenuity of able corpor
ation lawyers can devise. Long before
that time they may and very probably
will have become a consolidated inter-
st. controlled from the great financial
centers, dictating the terms upon which
the citizen can conduct his business or
earn his livelihood and not amenable to
the wholesome check of local opinion.
Information collected by the bureau
of corporation says the president, shows
that 13 large concerns of which the
General Electric company and the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur-
ng company are most important, now
hold waterpower installations and ad
vantageous power sites aggregating
about 1,046,000 horse power, where the
control by these concerns is practically
admitted. This is a quantity equal to
over 19 per cent of the total now in use.
Further evidence, he says, makes It pro
bable that these 13 concerns directly or
indirectly control developed water power
and advantageous power sites equal to
more than 33 per cent of the total water
power now in use.
This astonishing consolidation, eays
the president, "has taken place practi
cally within the last five years.
Movement Still Young.
'The movement is still in its infancy
and unless it-is controlled the history
of the oil industry will be repeated In
the hydro-electric power industry, with
results far more oppressive and disas
trous for the people.
"It is, in my opinion, relatively unim
portant for us to know or not whether
the promoters of this particular project
are affiliated with any of these great
corporations. If we make an uncondi
ditlonal grant to this grantee our con
trol over it ceases. He. or any purchas
er from him will be free to sell nis
rights to any one of them at pleasure.
The time to attach conditions and pre
vent monopoly is when a grant is made.
Xhe great corporations are acting
with foresight, singleness of purpose
and vigor to control the water powers
of the country. They pay no attention
to state boundaries and are not inter
ested in the constitutional law affect
ing navigable streams except as it af
fords what has been aptly calle'd a
'twilight zone,' where they may find a
convenient refuge from any regulation
whatever by the public whether
through the national or the state gov
ernments. It is significant that they
are opposing the control of water pow
er on the Desplaines river by the state
of Illinois with equal vigor and with
like arguments to those with which
they oppose the national government
pursuing the policy I advocate. Their
attitude Is the same with reference to
their projects upon the mountain
streams of the west, where the juris
diction of the federal government as
the owner of the public lands and na
tional forests is not open to question.
They are demanding legislation for un
conditional grants in perpetuity of land
for reservoirs, conduits, power houses
and transmission lines to replace the
existing statute, which authorizes the
administration officers of the govern
ment to impose conditions to protect
the public when any permit Is Issued.
Several bills for that purpose are now
pending in both houses. These bills
were either drafted by representatives
of the power companies or similar in
effect to those thus drafted.
Rainy River BUI.
The president repeats his recom
mendations made when he vetoed the
Rainy river bill. This included acts,
among others, providing that water
grants should contain a provision mak
ing it the duty of a designated omcial
to annul the grant if the work is not
carried out in accordance with the
authority granted. Another provides
for a license fee or charge which can
in the future be adjusted so as to se
cure control in the interests of the
public. He now suggests another con
dition, namely, that the license should
be forfeited upon proof that the li
censee has joined in any conspiracy
or unlawful combination in restraint
of trade as is provided for grants of
coal lands in Alaska.
The president in concluding says:
"I will sign no bill granting a privi
lege of this character which does not
contain the substance of these condi
tions. I consider myself bound, as far
as exercise of my executive power will
allow to do for the people, in preven
tion of monopoly of their resources,
what I believe they would do for them
selves if they were in a position to act.
Accordingly I shall insist upon the
conditions mentioned above not only in
acts which I sign, but also in passing
upon plans for use of water power
presented to the executive departments
for action.
"I inclose a letter from the commis
sioner of corporations setting forth the
results of his investigations and the
evidence of the far reaching plans and
operations of the General Electric
company, the Westinghouse Electric &
Manufacturing company and other
large concerns, for consolidation of the
water powers of the country under
their control.
"I esteem it my duty to use every
endeavor to prevent this growing
monopoly, the most threatening which
has ever appeared from being fastened
upon the people of this nation."
The Butcher Have ye got Smith's
legs, an Jones" shoulder an' Brown's
tongue? The Boy Yep. The Butch
er Well, ye better take Ford's ribs
at the same time. Harper's Bazar. -
FARMERSMMHTS
They Can Always Get Them in
the law
Says Associate Justice Benson
in an Address.
COMPLIMENTS COBUKN
"Refused Senate to Teach World
of Kansas Farming."
Mrs. Kedzie-Jones Talks for the
Sons and Daughters.
Associate Justice A. W. Benson
of
tne Kansas supreme court, was on
of the speakers at the closing session
of the state board of agriculture last
night. Justice Benson took for his
subject, "The Farmer as Seen From
the Bench." The address was very
Interesting and the audience very at
tentive. He spent considerable tim
in relating some of his early Kansas
experiences with both lawyers and
farmers. Mr. Benson came to Kan
sas in I860, a year before Kansas be
came a state. Some of the incidents
which were mentioned in this connec
tlon were unique and typical only of
a new community.
Mr. Benson said that he had seen
almost every class of farmers, dur
ing his career of almost a half cen
tury as a lawyer and jurist. He had
at first regarded them as a class
lower than the average but with the
added years and the improvement o
the Kansas farms, his opinion has
greatly changed and now the Kansas
farmers are looked up to not only by
himself but by every other lawyer ip
tne. state.
In Kansas, Mr. Benson asserted the
farmers can always get their rights a
law. He considers the district court
a most important office and agrees
with President-elect Taft that a large
number of cases end there. He
showed the efficiency of the Kansas
district court by noting the small
number of reversals of district court
decisions by the higher tribunals.
Mr. Benson made a humorous
comparison between the bench and
the agricultural profession. "In this
country there are five million far
mers," he said, "but there are only
twelve of them in congress, while
there are 262 lawyers. You can see
the people trust lawyers."
Before he concluded Mr. Benson
managed to pay the customary com
pliment to Secretary Coburn. He
referred to Mr. Coburn as "a man
who turned down a seat in the United
States senate in order to teach the
world of Kansas farming."
Another Interesting address was
that of Mrs. Nellie Kedzie-Jones of
Kalamazoo, Mich., who was at the
head of the domestic science of the
Kansas Agricultural college until a
few years ago. Her subject, "The
Great Granddaughters of Kansas
Pioneers," was a plea for better edu
cation facilities for the girls of Kan
sas, and her many suggestions found
ready listeners in the person of every
member of the audience.
Mrs. Kedzie-Jones Address.
Her address follows in part:
"A few days ago I went through th
$70,000 building at Manhattan where
Kansas girls are to be taught some
things that will make life easier and
happier for them, and my Kansas pride
grew even greater because she is the
first state in the union to give so good
a building for girls alone.
"Many a building has been erected
for training and educating the boys,
and as a mark of special favor, the girls
have been allowed to share many of
these buildings. But Kansas has set a
pace the other states may do well to
follow, in giving one building tor tne
sDecial training of home-makers.
"Kansas is 200 miles wide and 400
miles long, and one building won't go
verv far toward providing for all her
daughters but as the grain or mustard
seed, this one- building will increase
and multiply till all Kansas shall be
doing her duty by all her daughters.
Is Kansas doing ail sne can ror ner
sons and daughters? She Is doing well
I know, but I believe that well Is not
enough: for after all we have heard
about the corn and the cattle, the soil
and the alfalfa, no crop means so much
to the Kansas farmer as the crop of
bovs and girls. Give them then, all the
advantages you can. Send out from
your centres to the borders of the state
all the help lor tne young people juu
can, and in the next generation you will
see not only individuals that will give
Kansas her full rank among tne states,
but such homes as shall make her the
envied of all nations.
"It pays Kansas to do much for those
great granddaughters. The debt the
state owes to the pioneers will never
be entirely paid; but as a payment of
interest, the care of these girls of today,
may be kept up. The more Kansas does
the more she will receive in return.
"Someone has asked how long must
we be doing for these girls, and I want
to answer in the words of Kansas men
who were one day standing in a Philip
pine river, holding a position, with the
water to their waists, with their am
munition in their caps, the word came
down the line, 'How long can you hold
the river? how long? how long?' and the
cry came back, as from one man, 'Till
we are mustered out.'
"Keep on then, men of Kansas, do
ing for these granddaughters of your
pioneers, and they will pay you back
by making such homes that Kansas will
not only be 200 miles wide, 400 miles
long, a thousand miles oeep, Dut win
truly reach to the stars."
During the evening Charles E. Sut
ton of Lawrence, the newly elected
president of the board was introduced
Ideal food for children.
WHEAT FLAKE CELERY
makes the children plump and
strong and prevents sour stom
ach and constipation. The best
food for growing children, in
valids and the aged.
For sale by all Grocers
1? Plld'g
uuu presiuea over - a portion of the
meeting. - ... ..
' Music was furnished -for the even
ing by Profs. A. Ghysbrecht, violinist
ana n. uen tiaerynejc, pianist, both
of whom recently came from Bel
gium to this country as -instructors in
the musical department of St Marys
college at St. Marys. During; the eve
ning they played "Suite En De Ma
jeur," "Czardos," and the "Berceuse
de Jocelyn." Their numbers were
nigniy entertaining and greatly appre
ciated. Greeting from "Farmer" Smith.
A feature of the evening session,
was a letter of greeting from A. W.
"Farmer" Smith of McPherson, the
newly elected vice president of . the
board and a victim of the Copeland
hotel disaster. Mr. Smith said his es
cape from the fourth story of the
"building, "was the most hazardous,
heroic and perilous feat of his whole
life." He said he would probably be
confined for several weeks with his
broken ankle, but that he would he at
the next meeting a year hence, if he
still lived as he hoped would be the
case. Mr. Smith evidently considers
his escape quite hazardous when he
used the adjective in the superfluous
form, as he spent fifteen months in
Andersonville prison during the civil
war, and this must have been pretty
bad even if it wasn't his "most hazard
ous"feat. WOLVES OX THE INCREASE.
Reno County Pays for More Scalps as
the Years Go By.
Hutchinson. Kan., Jan. 16. Reno
county has paid bounty upon nine
hundred and twenty-one coyotes killed
in the county during the last three
years. Contrary to the popular belief
the figures show that in spite of the
fact that the county is becoming more
thickly settled, the coyotes are in
creasing in numbers every year, or at
least more are being killed. The re
port shows that 214 were killed in
1906: 313 in 1907, and 394 in 1908.
This increase is -also borne out by
reports from the farmers and hunters
of the county who say that there are
more ot tne animals in the county
this year than ever berore.
PrSHIN'G ELECTRIC LINE.
A Mortgage of $12,000,000 Recorded
at Lawrence, by Laming.
Lawrence, Kan.,' Jan. 16. Win
stead Laming or Lawrence, manager
of the Kansas City & Southwestern
railway has filed for record a
mortgage of $12,000,000 in the
register of deeds office of this county.
It is given to the Carnegie Trust com
pany of New York city and is upon
the plans and project of the Kansas
City & Southwestern company. It
will have to be recorded in Mont
gomery, Labette, Neosho, Wilson
Allen, Anderson, Franklin, Wyandotte,
Leavenw6rth, Jefferson and Shawnee
counties, through which the proposed
electric road will run. Mr. Laming
says the work on the road will begin
this spring. " -f
CLAY CENTER'S .
POSTOFFICE.
Site Selected and Building
Will Be
Erected Soon.
Clay Center,' Kan.," Jan. 16. Senator
Curtis wired from Washington today
that the Rothman corner at Court and
Sixth streets had been selected as the
site for the new postoffice building
for which $65,000 was appropriated at
the last session or" congress. The
amount of the purchase price Is
$5,000. The lots are 138 by 140 feet
and are at the northeast corner of the
court house square. ', There were six
other sites offered ranging1 in price
from $6,000 to $9,000. The new site
is one and a half blocks from the
present postoffice.
TO BUILD $75,000 CHURCH.
Presbyterians of Wichita to Have a
New Meeting Place.
Wichita, Kan., Jan. 16. A beautiful
new church building, costing about
$75,000, will be built this spring by the
congregation, of the First Presbyterian
church.
The committee on purchasing
grounds made its report .at a meeting
of the men of the church. It reported
that it could purchase the site for
$10,500 if the deal was closed at once.
The committee was instructed to buy
the ground.
OPPOSED BY LABOR.
Kecfe Encounters Difficulties in Secur
ing Confirmation.
Washington, Jan. 16. Considerable
opposition to the confirmation of
Daniel J. Keefe of Michigan, who-was
nominated by the president on
December 1, to succeed the late Frank
Sargent as commissioner general of
immigration, has developed in the
senate under the leadership of Mr.
Gore of Oklahoma. The objection to
confirmation advanced by Mr. Gore is
the fact that a report has been made
to him by certain labor leaders that
Mr. Keefe received the appointment
as a reward for breaking with
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor, during the re
cent presidential campaign.
Some labor leaders have gone so far
aa to send letters to members of con
gress, charging that Mr. Keefe, as a
prominent labor leader himself has
been a traitor to the cause of labor.
Several efforts have been made by
Senator Dillingham, chairman of the
committee on immigration, to obtain
action on this nomination in com
mittee, but thus far he has failed,
senator Gore has given notice of a
desire to appear before the immigra
tion committee and to argue his
bjections to Keefe's confirmation. .
"PUSH THE BUTTON" ERA
It Is Being Illustrated at a
hibition in Chicago.
Big Ex-
Chicago, Jan. 16. With a great
blue canopy as a sky effect and a
blaze of lights for stars, the coliseum
opened today for the annual electrical
show. Every leading electrical con
cern in the country is represented
and almost every electrical Invention
manufactured is shown. Wireless tel
ephone and the electrical equipment
of a first class battleship are demon
strated. A series of devices are ar
ranged to show that this is the "push-the-button"
era of civilization.
STOCK FOR EMPLOYES.
The Steel Trust Hands Out
Shares Tliia Year.
33,000
New York, Jan. 16. A total of 33,
000 shares of stock has been allotted
by the V. 3. Steel corporation to its
employes this year tinder its- profit
sharing plan. Employes may take
15,000 shares or this at 50 and 18,000
of the preferred at 110.
COBURHSALARY
The Farmers Ask That It Be
Doubled.
Because of His Invaluable and
Unrequited Service.
UNANIMOUS ABOUT IT.
They Urge Appropriation for a
State Fair.
They Also Want Good Roads and
"Want Them Bad."
11 the state legislature does not
raise the salary of F. D. Coburn, the
efficient secretary of the state board
of agriculture, to $5,000 per year, it
will not be because the farmers of
the state are not for it. Among the
resolutions which were adopted at the
annual session of the board of agricul
ture which closed last night, one to
this effect was unanimously adopted
And as the farmers of the state are
in favor of giving Mr. Coburn more
pay it might as well be done. The
agricultural class represents sixty-five
per cent .of the total population. And
the farmers are a unit in demanding
a better salary for the man whose un
tiring work adds to their revenues.
The Coburn Resolution.
The resolution which favors an in
crease in salary for Mr. Coburn fol
lows: 'Whereas, our esteemed secretary,
through his untiring efforts and entire
devotion to the work of promoting,
upbuilding and exploiting the agricul
tural and other resources of our
great state, has secured for Kansas a
world-wide recognition, and
"Whereas, he has repeatedly and of
ten refused positions offering much
more thah his present compensation,
and
"Whereas, the salary allowed him
by the state is far from commensurate
with his invaluable services, there
fore be it
"Resolved, by the Kansas state
board of agriculture, and the dele
gates of the state in attendance, as
sembled in its thirty-eighth annual
meeting, that It respectfully urge upon
the present legislature, as an
acknowledgment of his worth to the
state, to Increase the salary of F. D.
Coburn, secretary of this board, from
$2,500 to $5,000 per annum."
There were in the neighborhood of
one hundred farmers and stock
raisers at the meeting in which the
resolutions were adopted late Friday
afternoon. Not a single opinion, dis
senting from the resolution recom
mending more pay for Mr. Coburn,
was heard, but on. the other hand
every member and delegate approved
it most heartily.
Enthusiastic for State Fair.
Another resolution of importance
was one relating to a state fair -.This
resolution - recommeded in a single
resolution recommended in a single
for the establishment of a state fair
for Kansas. The resolution might
have stated for the benefit of Topeka
people tnat the lair be held here, or
it might have said In either Wichita
or Hutchinson, but it did not. The
opinion prevailing among the mem
bers was that a fair is absolutely
necessary and that it. should be
worked for, regardless of the place
where it should be held. The sen
timent seemed to be to provide for the
place later.
There were but few other resolutions
adopted. One recommended that all
regents of the State Agricultural col
lege be men who are closely identi
fied with the agricultural and live
stock interests of the state.
Another resolution endorsed the
recommendations of Governor Stubbs
as expressed in his message to the leg
islature, relative to the physical valua
tion of railroads and the control of all
public service corporations.
The plan of establishing local ex
periment stations on the county farms
of the state, under tne direction of the
agricultural college and of authorizing
the county boards of commissioners
by law to appropriate any amount not
to exceed $300 a year to carry out this
plan of local investigation work, was
ncorporated in the resolutions. The
holding of local short courses through
out the state by the agricultural col
lege after the plan in vogue in Iowa,
was also favored.
They Want Good Roads.
The resolutions said nothing regard
ing the good roads movement, which
is one of Governor Stubbs" favorite
hobbies. In his address of welcome
before the board Wednesday night
Governor Stubbs devoted a major
portion of his time to a presentation
of his views on the question. . How
ever, when the matter was called to
the attention of one of the officials of
the board after the meeting was over,
he gave it as his opinion that it was
merely an oversight. . And it undoubt
edly was only an oversight, for the
farmers have freely during the session
of the board just closed voiced their
approval of Governor Stubbs idea per
taining to good roads.
At the evening session another reso
lution was adopted, relative to the es
cape of two of the leading members of
the board, A. W. Smith and H. A. Row
land, from the Copeland hotel fire of
Thursday morning, and it was deemed
"an act of an all wise Providence." The
resolution was introduced by Tom
Hubbard of Sumner county, who also
received some injuries in the fire.
In addition to the officers elected
late Friday afternoon, the names of
which were printed in the State Jour
nal Friday evening, the following five
members of the board were elected for
a term of two years: A. L. Sponsler,
Hutchinson; George W. Glide, Atcni-
son;'Edwin Taylor, Edwardsville: O. O.
Wolf, Ottawa, and J. W. Robinson,
ElDorado.
FOR
ELISTCS
in the
USE
mesa
If you have a weak, aching back,
or sharp, piercing pains, rub your
self st night with Omega Oil, and
often the pain will Le gone in the
morning. The Oil penetrates
through the pores of the skin and
goes direct to the seat of the trouble.
Oil
One of Wisconsin's Mothers
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R ;l Mrs. Alvina PlamaJMbt
If any one really wanted to find out whether or not Peruna La good foci
the baby who would he naturally asl? Some one who never used Peruna? I
Some one who is prejudiced against Peruna? Some one actuated by selfish! I
motives who is opposing Peruna for the sake of the notoriety? !
Would any sane person who really wanted . to know about Peruna ask '
any of these people? Of course not.
Who would they ask? They would ask mothers who have raised babies
and used Peruna for their babies times without number. They would ask
the parents who love their families, and know more about Peruna than '
all the professional writers in the world.
Above we give the portrait and testimonial of one of the mothers who
has used Peruna, and who has raised healthy and happy babies. We havs
many more such mothers in every state in the Union. These mothers give
their testimonials entirely unsolicited, without pay or expectation of pay.
Their only desire is to point out to other mothers a useful and reliable
family medicine. .
Ask your Druggist for a Free Peruna Almanac for 1909
City Real Estate Loans
At much less than any monthly payment
rates.- Made in quartily or semi-annual pay
payments, if desired.
State Savings Bank
S. W. Cor.
NO COMMISSIONS
THE BANK OF TOPEKA
Deposits $2,285,144.06
Proud of Its Prestige in Topeka
Kansas and America
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IRA!Gifl5CI5AR always reliable
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Boon Vichy Springs
X HIGH GRADE
t GINGER ALE $
85c doz. medium sized bottles
J One-cent per bottle refunded J
X on all empties. Special price for
orders of 100 bottles.
boon' vicinrspRixos co. i
5 Topeka, Kan., I nil. Phone 1075
J. L. EDDY
Contractor and Builder
Repairing and Jobbing.
Store Fronts. Shelving Counters,
Hardwood floors. Plain or Orna
mental. Shop 110 R. Xinth St.
arm
Who Always Keeps
Fe-rti-na in the
House
"I m now able to do my house-,
work again, and have a good appe
tite. I have used thirteen bottles;
of Peruna and one of Manalin.
My husband and children are also
in good health. We always keep
Peruna in the house. I thank
yon a thousand times for your
advice." Mrs. Alvina Plamann,
1914 Walnut St., Milwaukee,
a Wisconsin.
6th and Kansas Ave.
WANTED 600 TOTJNO
men to learn Teleg
raphy ana Station ac
counting. We have
railroad wires giving;
actual experience. En
dorsed by A. T. & 8. F.
Ry. Write for illus
trated catalogue.
SANTA FE RAITv
WAY & TELEGRAPH
SCHOOL
Topeka, Kan.
501 Kansas Ave.,
L. M. Penwell
Undertaker and Embalmer
511 Quincy Street
Both Phones 192
WHOLESALE FRUIT
AND PRODUCE
Mr stock Is full and comjIet at
all tlmM. Tour business solicited.
SAMUEL K. LUX.
110 Kansas) Avenue.
12S Long; Distance Telephone SIS.
Everybody reads the State Journal.
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