Kansas State Democrat from Topeka, Kansas • 6

AFTER "MADSTONE" OWNER WOULDN'T ANY WOMAN? BLACKMAILING MUST BE ART STAMDARD'S KANSAS FINES THE WEEKLY X-RAY-DEMOCRAT Fred C. Funk, Publisher. KANSAS TOPICS Amateur Makes Mistake When He Seeks to Make Money in Such an Avocation. Police Commissioner Waldo of New York was talking about blackmailers. "They are, as a rule, stupid," he said.

"Their threatening letters are as ludicrous in their stupidity as a letter a friend of mine received the other day." And Commissioner Waldo, with a laugh, produced the letter. Written In a large, boyish hand, It said: "Deer sir Your winder was broken by a bad boi wat throo It throo four thee pirpus. The ball beelonged two mee, but an eneme of mine sneaked it and did the deed to put the blaame on mee. I am sorry he did it, and that It have give you grate pain, and I have persecuted the per-peetrater wot done it. But you would not have thee innocent suffer fer the bilty, so, if you drop thee ball over the garden wall.

If you don't beware! (Signed) Innocent." BABY'S HAIR ALL CAME OUT "When my first baby was six months old he broke out on his head with little bumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break out again and it spread all over his head. All the hair came out and his head was scaly all over. Then his face broke out all over In red bumps and It kept spreading until it was on hia hands and arms.

I bought several boxes of ointment, gave him blood medicine, and had two doctors to treat him, but he got worse all the time. He had It about six months when a friend told me about Cuticura. I sent and got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment In three days after using them he began to improve. He began to take long naps and to stop scratching his head. After taking two bottles of Resolvent, two boxes of Ointment and three cakes of Soap he was sound and well, and never had any breaking out of any kind.

His hair came out in little curls all over his head. I don't think anything else would have cured him except Cuticura. "I have bought Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap several times since to use for cuts and sores and have never known them to fail to cure what I put them on. Cuticura Soap is the best that I have ever used for toilet purposes." (Signed) Mrs. F.

E. Harmon, R. F. D. 2, Atoka, Sept.

10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to "Cuticura," Dept. 16 Boston. His Thoughtful Wife. "I hate to boast," said a Cleveland lawyer, "but my wife is one of the most economical women in the world.

The other day she told me she needed a new suit. I said she ought to have It, by all means, but asked her not to spend a big bunch of money without letting me know about It. Well, the next day she said: 'The tailor said he couldn't make the suit for less than $150. I thought it was too much but told him to go I suppose it is all I said, 'but why didn't you consult me 'Why, dearie, I didn't want to spend car fare for two "I tell you, it's these little economies that count, eh?" His Prescription. A young doctor wishing to engage the company of a young lady for a buggy ride, sent the following prescription: One buggy, one horse, one good road, one doctor.

Take from 3 p. m. on. Judge. Refreshing Sight "Feeling blue today?" "Yes." "Let's go down to the bank and look at some money." Smokers like Lewis' Single Binder cigar for its rich mellow quality.

More people would succeed if more would try. Low round Kansas -Authorities to Prosecute Man Who Would Use Superstitious Treatment for Rabies. Topeka, Kan. 'Madstones are- under the ban in Kansas. Attorney General Dawson ordered the county attorney oi Reno county to cause the arret there of the owner of a madstone if he used it in an effort to cure.

The attorney general also instructed the Reno county attorney to find the boy recently bitten at Winfield, who had been taken to Hutchinson for madstone treatment, and have" him sent to the state university hospital at Rosedale, where Pasteur treatment for rabies will be administered. The action of the attorney general followed complaints of the health authorities at Winfield, where several persons were recently bitten by a dog which was afflicted with rabies, that a girl had been taken to Hutchinson for madstone treatment and that a boy who had been bitten was being taken there yesterday. The Winfield authorities notified Dr. S. J.

Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, who complained to the attorney general and urged the arrest of the owner of the madstone for practicing medicine without a license in case he undertook to treat persons who had been bitten by a mad dog. Dr. Crumbine asserts that the madstone treatment for rabies is entirely worthless in preventing the development of the disease while the state is prepared to furnish scientific treafr ment at the Rosedale hospital. Are High Schools Lacking? Washington, D. What is the matter with the high school of Kansas? Some of the Kansas representatives in -congress are complaining that the schools are turning out boys so poorly equipped that they are unable to pass the examinations for West Point and Annapolis.

One Kansas representative was no tified that three of his appointees to West Point had been rejected. The boys had failed to pass the mental ex amination. These same three places are actually going begging. The con gressman who does not want his name used because he is ashamed to admit there are no boys in his district who can pass the requisite examination, has named boy after boy, only to have them fail in the intellectual test. Other members of the Kansas dele gation have the same trouble.

They are inclined to place the blame on the high schools. The training in these schools they say, apparently is too superficial to fit the boys for the West Point and Annapolis requirements. Most of the candidates fail in mathematics, formerly one of the strong points of country schools. Most of the boys pass in history and they are fairly proficient in English. Algebra and gaometry floor them.

Dog Guards Dead Man. Winona, Kan. A man by the name of Jasperson, living north of Winona, in Thomas county, was found dead in his pasture. He had been herding cat tle in the early part of the day and as he had been feeling poorly for several days, his son, when he returned from Sunday school and did not find his father at the house, went in search of him. The old gentleman was found lying in the grass of the pasture, uarded by his faithful dog.

Salina, Wife Invokes New Law. Salina, Kan. The first arrest which has occurred here under the new state law making wife desertion a felony occurred when A. G. Waldorf was locked up by Sheriff Swanson on complaint of Mrs- Hattie Wraldorf, who charges that her husband went away and left her destitute.

Costly Fire At Americus. Americas. Kan. Americus was vis ited by a disastrous fire Which caused loss of about $25,000, partially cov ered by insurance. Oriign unknown.

Tubercular Cattle In Kansas Watched. Topeka, Kan Dr. J. C. Burneson, an expert veterinarian of the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture, will come to Kansas August 8 to take charge of tu berculosis control among cattle.

Soma time ago J. E. Mercer, sanitary live stock commissioner of Kansas, requested A. D. Melvin, chief of the "bureau of animal industry at Washing ton to send a man to Kansas to take up this work.

"The first work will be taken up in connection with tuberculosis among Kansas dairy cattle and said Mr. Mercer. "There isn't a great deal of cattle tuberculosis in Kansas, but we wish to check over the situation thoroughly." A Conductor Killer. Eldorado, Kan. C.

F. con ductor on an extra passenger on the Missouri Pacific through here, was killed this side of Yates Center, sup posedly by falling between two cars while walking from one to the other. He was missed when the train reached Yates Center and they backed a mil before finding his body. Boy Camper Is Drowned. Kan.

Mace McNuIty of Man- kota. 18 years old, was drowned in the Solomon river near Solomon Rapids, a station six n.iles west of here, where a party of nineteen Mankot? people were camped. Loses Arm in Corn Sheller. Republic, Kan. Homer Truer, op erator of a corn sheller, in White Rock ad his arm taken off in the cron sheller.

He is a man of about 35 and has a wife and family. ARE ABOUT $25,000.00 THIS SUM IS TOTAL OF OIL COM PANY'S "CONTRIBUTION." Aidge Aikman Wanted to Know Butler County Court Inquired About $500 Forced on Country. Topeka, Kan. The Standard Oil Company will pay $25,000 in civil pen. alties to the state of Kansas which will go, into the school funds of eonie forty or fifty counties.

Some time ago when the Standard cases in Kansas were concluded, At torney General Dawson began filing suits for ciivl penalties in a number of counties, most of them in the sum of $500, the fines to go into the school funds. Mr. Dawson did not state the total amount of penalties which would be asked. The total amount was an-nounced in an affidavit which Mr Dawson filed in the Butler county dis- trict court in support of his motion tor a judgment of the civil penalty case filed there. Originally Mr.

Daw son had intended to file criminal pros ecutions, but a compromise was effect ed after the conclusion of the big cases were changed to civil ones, to be filed in some forty or fifty counties, the grand total amounting to $25,000. When the case was filed in the P.ut- ier county court and came up before Judge Aikman he withheld judgment and was quoted as saying that if the Standard was guilty it should come in and plead guilty and if not guilty should not be compelled to pay any penalty. Mr. Dawson filed motion for Judgment and supported it with an at fidavit in which he set forth in, con cise detail the history of the Standard litigation in the state, and the story of the compromise and settlement. "Judge Aikman," said Mr.

Dawson, "is a high grade lawyer and judge. He just wanted to have the matter explained and wanted information on it, He has merely delayed taking action on the matter." Stubbs Would Aid Farmers. Topeka, Kan. Governor Stubbs is mquiring into the condition in Western Kansas with a view to aiding the farmers in getting seed wheat for fall sowing. It is said that some half dozen counties, where the hot weather affected the wheat crop disastrously this year, may need some such help.

A special session of the legislature seems to be the only way in which a county may be empowered to advance seed wheat money to farmers. J. W. Schlicher, representative from Sheridan county, has wired the governor asking him to consider a special ses sion to get relief in the matter. It was stated at the governors office that half a dozen requests had come in so far for a special session.

The governor is inquiring into conditions, not with a view to calling a special session, but to find out what relief is necessary and to see if the sit uation cannot be handled in some way other than by calling the lawmakers together. Farmer, Falls to Death. Frankfort, Kan. A fall from a oridge near Frankfort caused the death of George H. Gordon, 43 years old, a farmer living near Frankfort.

Gordon was walking across the bridge in the dark and fell to the ground, breaking his neck. He was taken to St. Margaret's hospital in Kansas City, and died there. Burglars Loot Wicihta Church. Wichita, Kan.

Burglars broke Into St. Paul's M. E. church here and stole about $150 worth of table linen, some stereopticon slides and 15 cents from the missionary strong box. No Reward In Kansas for Craven.

Topeka, Kan. Ben Craven, once a famous Kansas and Oklahoma outlaw, is in the Missouri penitentiary, acord-ing to a deputy sheriff of Kankakee, 111. The deputy sheriff has written to the secretary of state to learn whether or not there still is a reward for Craven. Craven escaped from the Kansas penitentiary about eight years ago while Kansas was caring for Oklahoma prisoners. He was an Oklahoma prisoner.

He made an imitation revolver out of wood and tinfoil and terrorized his guard, thus making his escape. Craven has many crimes against him in Oklahoma and some in Kansas, but according to J. T. Botkin secretary of state, there is no reward offered for him. Convict Smoked Out.

Leavenworth, Kan. Thomas Eckler, A convict in the state prison, attempted to escape by dropping into a manhole in a sewer outside the prison wall. He was immediately missed and several guards blocked the outlet of the sewer, after which a fire was built and Eckler was smoked out after about an hour. New Head of Normal School Chosen. Atchison, Kan.

Sheffield Ingalls, president of the board of regents of the State Normal schools, has announced that Prof. Geo. E. Myers, of Washington. D.

had been elected principal of the State Normal school at Pittsburg to succeed Prof. R. S. Russ. Professor Myers resigns the principal-ship of the McKinley Manual Training school, the best school of its kind in Washington, to accept his new position.

Professor Mvers is a former resident of Kansas. ARKANSAS CITY KAN. A cobege education is getting to be mighty expensive for alumni. Still this is Just the weather you were wishing for last February. That wind blown summer resort advertising begins to look very catchy.

The summer girl was never more fascinating than she is this season. An umpire never reverses a decision, although asked to do so every day. A Sacramento minister defended Sun-flay baseball, and they say he struck right out. Worse than not being able to swim these days is not being able to go iwimming. In addition to the wireless, telegraph Chicago will now have permanently noiseless peddlers.

When a man boasts about his old age It is generally found: that he has nothing else to boast about. Chicago has twice as many telephones as London. But then it has twice as much to say. A Pittsburg scientist says there is a microbe in every kiss. Pittsburg ought to know that by this time.

A new counterfeit $20 bill is in circulation. Watch for it when the con-iuctor hands you your change. Visit any store where they sell straw hats and view the impressive ceremony of putting the lid on. Redman Wanamaker is insured for but it is not stated whether he is an aviator or a canoeist Warmer winters are promised. It is eonsoling to know that they cannot be warmer than the summers.

No first class summer resort, as you may have observed, ever has any flies or mosquitoes for publication. When you discover two souls with but a single thought the thought concerns the coolest place within reach. A good many of our householders labor under the impression that ice is measured by th carat, like diamonds. England has just launched her first war airship. It is called the Mayfly.

Probably the implied doubt is Justifiable. One who will sit out on the bleachers when the temperature is playing around 100 must really want to see the ball game. Po'o is a great game, and might be even more thrilling and spectacular if the players would ride motorcycles instead of horses. Willie Berri's Brooklyn playmates can never brag successfully about having had. the measles, for Willie stepped in the president's soup.

A New York physician says that ona can escape typhoid fever by chewing tobacco. The remedy, however, is worse than the disease. Several hundred marriages in Chica go have been declared void, thereby saving a good many people the pense of a trip to Reno. A young woman in Brooklyn wants to marry the stepson of her father-in-law's first wife. All of which is cm notion of considerable mixup.

"You'll not notice the heat if you don't talk about It," says Doctoi Wiley. The trouble is that other peo pie Insist on talking about it. A Boston court has been called on to decide whether baseball playing it labor. It seems to be when the Detroii icaiu Edison says that the end of the trol ley car Is in sight. But the boldest in ventor has not yet tackled the prob lem of the strap-hangerless car.

A Chicago woman has had a lawyei arrested, alleging that he called her ai "old cat." Call a woman a cat, If yot must, but never call her an old cat A Chicago woman says that divorce! are more common now because hei sex have raised the standard of man hood. Any old kind of a husband will no longer do, she says. How doei it happen, then, that so many men ge married? A Swedish astronomer gives th earth more than 10,000 years longai to live. Which loobs bad for our do scendants in about the threa huu dredtb generation. Bramlette Appointed Cherokee Sheriff Topeka, Kan.

C. E. Bramlette, a Democrat, has been appointed sheri'r of Cherokee county by Governor Stubbs. Mr. Bramlette succeeds Ralph Martin.

Sheriff Martin was suspended by the Supreme court last week pending the final hearing of an ouster proceeding brought against him by Attorney General John S. Dawson. Mr. Bramlette lives in Columbus and formerly published a labor paper in Columbus. He was not an applicant for the place.

Make Fort Riley the Largest. Junction City, Kan. With the numerous changes that are being planned by the war department in the reformation that several of the central army posts are to be made headquarters for the most of the troops and that Fort Riley will be enlarged for Ihe station of three regiments of cavalry and one of artillery. If these tlans are carried out it will mean that Fort Riley will be the largest Military post in this country. Sold 9,000 Chickens This Year.

Smith Center, Kan. This city claims to have in the person of Mrs. Clara Colwell the champion individual chicken raiser of Kansas. Since early last spring she has taken from her incubators and shipped to different points the United States over nine thousand chicks. She has done this alone and unaided, except for the assistance of her young son.

The chicks are shipped by express to purchasers wheD they are a day old. Kansas Institute Closes. Emporia, Kan. The state-wide in-titute, with an enrollment of 200, and with many in attendance who did not This is its second year and it promises enroll, closed a two weeks' session, to become the most important of the ptate educational meetings. Superintendents and principals were here from every county in Kansas, and in the faculty were several representatives of important schools of other states.

Child Scalded to Death at Salina Salina, Kan. The 3-year-old daughter of Leslie E. Ellithorpe Russell, while playing in the kitchen where its mother was washing, sat down in a bucket of boiling water which had just been taken off the stove and placed on the floor. A doctor was called at once and found that the childs entire body was scalded from the shoulders to the knees although everything pos-siblewas done the girl died in a few hours. Horse Thief Pleads Guilty.

Ottawa, Kan. Grover C. Puckett pleaded guilty to horse stealing before Judge A. Smart and was sentenced to serve from one to seven years in the penitentiary. Puckett was.

brought here from Kansas City, where he had been arrested. On the night of July 20 he took from the pasture of W. L. Delano, his former employer, a valuable mare. Through a friend in Kansas City he disposed of the animal.

Discovered $4,000 Shortage. Wichita, Kan. Examination of the unds and records contained in the big safe in the office of the R. I. railroad, showed a shortage of more than it is understood.

Frank L. Galle, formerly ticket agent here, disappeared from the city Sunday night. He was the only one on the local staff knew the combination to the safe, which fact caused considerable delay in its opening. Norcatur Postoffice Robbed. Norton, Kan.

The postof-fice at Nor-eatur was entered by burglars, the safe blown, and $200 in cash and stamps taken "Suicide" Writes a Postal. Atchison, Kan. What was regarded as a suicide mystery of more than a year's standing was cleared when Frank Dilgert, a confectioner here, received a postcard from Fred Plummet bearing a Manila, P. I. postmark.

Plummer, then a traveling man for a wholesale cracker house, disappear-ed here one night and the next morning a "suicide" note and his hat were found on the bridge over the Missouri river. It Was reported that he had had trouble with his wife, whom he had married but a short time before his disappearance. While there were people who doubted the suicide theory when no body was found, the post card received is the first positive evidence that Plummer merely disappeared. On the card he says he is making a tour of fbe world. Son Born to 70-Year Old Veteran.

Wichita, Kan. A son was born to Captain .1. B. Fishback, clerk of the city court here the other day. Captain Fishback is 70 years old.

His oldest child is 42. The proud parent is a veteran of the civil war, enlisting in 1861 His wife is young. Boy Killed Under Box Car. Atchison, Kan. Andrew Tolk, an 8-fear-old boy, was run over by a box car in the Missouri Pacific yards ano killed.

The boy was climbing on an empty car when a loaded coal car switched onto the siding, striking the box car, causing the boy to fall undei it. He lived but a few minutes. An unusual coincidence in connection with the tragedy is that the boy's father, Oscar Polk, a Missouri Pacific trainman, is laid up by injuries received in a last week. Mollie She's great on adopting ne fads. Jack But 6he objects to new wrinkles.

Wichita, July 7, 1911. "Wichit and Kansas may well be proud of THE FARMERS AND BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, the successful new financial institution of this city. The Company's success is attracting attention all over the country, and has been remarked upon by every leading Life Insurance Magazine in the United States. Its record for its first month, of $532,500 of business is a remarkable one, and is great endorsement of the Kansas spirit which has built up so many great institutions in this state. The success of the Company continues, and its total business is now over three-quarters of a million." Generous.

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