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The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 3

The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 3

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Monday, May 5, 1913. THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL 0 BOUND FOR KANSAS COUNTY CITY AND DW News Over Kansas WHEN LIEN GET RICH THE TOPEKA CAPITAL'S Special to The Capital. BELT LINE IS PROPOSED New Orleans, May 4. A party OI German Immigrants, numbering seven SENTENCE KANSAS THUGS Great BooMoyers9 Coetest Suggests a Connection for Waakburm, ty-nine and mostly headed for Kansas and western grain states, formed the steerage list of the steamship Vir amtie FOR ginia, the first ship to land at the new United States Immigration sta ROBBING VETERANS Mount Hope, Gage Park and Asylum With Remainder of City. A belt street railway line connecting tion today.

Peter Stelb, with his family, a large Starts May 7th one, Is bound for Topeka. Kan, where he goes to Join his father, Philip Stelb. Washburn college. Seabrook, Mt Hope cemetery, Gage park and the asylum with the rest of Topeka and owned by KANSAS MILLERS iftNT TARIFF BILL CHANGED Representatives of Millers of Southwest Protest Agninni Wheat and Floor Schedules. Special to The Capital.

Washington, D. "May 4. Henry Lossen, of Wichita, and L. E. Moses, of Kansas City, prominent Kansas millers, are in Washington representing the milling industry of the southwest.

They are endeavoring to have changed in the pending tariff bill cer They will engage In farming. me family is a strong healthy one and say they are glad to go west. Others the city and county, has been proposed as a solution of the street car situation, as far as the west side of the will follow them from the Russian border of Germany. Steib's 2-year-old boy, wearing pants. city is concerned.

was a picturesque feature of the day's examinations at the station. In a letter written to The Daily Cap ital the plan is outlined, with a sug 1st Prize Ford Touring Car, value. $635 2nd Prize Piano Player, value 500 3rd Prize Gold, value 300 4th to 26th Inc. Columbia Graphophones and Records, value. 975 27th to 72nd Inc.

Magnificent sets of books publish by Harper value 479 73rd to 201st Inc. Cash, real money, value 169 gestion that the city and county officials help in the movement. The writer says: WARRANTS ARE ISSUED FOR GEARY TAX DODGERS Leavenworth, May 4. Joe Titolskl and "Snake" Workman, leaders of a gang of thugs who have been robbing the old veterans near the difers' home for the last few years, were sentenced In the district court this afternoon. Several veterans have been killed by robbers In the last five years.

Titolskl was sent to the state penitentiary at Lansing to serve not less than 10 nor more than 21 years at hard labor. Workman, who turned state's evidence, was sent to the state reformatory at Hutchinson. Henry T. Ellis, the Spanish-American war veteran, was given 30 days in the county jail on the charge of impersonating an officer during the robbery of four veterans. The three were caught in the act of robbery.

Titolskl tried to kill himself by dashing his head against railroad ties. tain features of th wheat and flour schedules which they say if enacted All the prospective interurban lines have no outlet as yet, and provision could be made for them to come in on into law as carried in the bill will work great hardship on the milling Industry in Kansas and adjoining states. the belt line. -It would be an attract ive proposition to put before he capitalists, also an incentive to such lines A NEW $40,000 SCIENCE BUILDING FOR C. OF E.

as the Kansas City, the Independence and Neosho and Manhattan interurban lines to connect. Special to The Capital. Junction City. May 4. Citations and warrants are being issued by the county officials for persons who have refused to make or sign statements of their personal property for the assessors.

One man has been arrested, but the case against him was dismissed after he had made out his statement. One woman also slammed the door in the assessor's face, and she has been cited to appear before the county clerk at once and give in a list of her chattels. Several other citations have "Mt, Hope cemetery is owned jointly Special to The' Capital. Total prizes, 201, aggregating in all $3,058 HERE IS AN OBJECT LESSON by Washburn college, the Y. W.

C. A. and the Y. M. C.

so it Is probable Emporia, May 4. A $40,000 science building, to be called Lewis Science the Influence of these instutions could be used in soliciting stock sub hall, will be added to the equipment scriptions. The district lying between of the College of Emporia this year. The-new building was made possible when the college board of trustees voted to discontinue Lewis academy at been issued for dodgers, and most of MERITOL PILE REMEDY. A new scientific preparation for both Internal and external use and absolutely without an equal for the treatment of piles in any form.

Ask us to how you this remedy and explain many advantages. Brunt Drug Co. Adv. Wichita, for the erection of the sci them are making quick time to the court house to turn In their reports. Washburn and Mt.

Hope probably could raise $12,000 to. $20,000, and has a population of 1,500, and would require one and one-half miles of track. The whole distance to be covered would require eight miles of track. If it is in the power of the city a-nd county to own such a road, it woflld be a good thing for the future of both. ence building.

The building will be named in honor of the late Col. Hiram W. Lewis, who founded Lewis academy PET BULL SNAKE SCARES in Wichita many years ago. The acad emy was moved to Emporia in 1911. WOMEN AWAITING TRAIN By taking this step the College of KANSAN HAS PAPER PRINTED JAN.

4, 1800 Emporia is moving ahead of all the Special to The Capital. Manhattan, May 4. A mam other denominational colleges of the AUGUST PREPARING FOR SPECIAL SUIT SALE state and with the erection of the new moth bull snake got loose In the Union Pacific pasenger depot here last night just at train time, and caused $40,000 hall of science, the college will have more buildings and equipment TOPEKA CAPITAL'S $3,058.00 Booklovers' Contest! Picture No. 0 Date 0 than any other denominational college a panic among waiting passengers. in the state, except Washburn.

Women screamed and jumped up In LOW PRICE FOR BOILER Special to The Capital. Parsons, May 4. A copy of the Ulster County Gazette, published in Ulster county, New York, January 4, 1800, and giving an account of the death and burial of George Washington, is the property of Mrs. M. Anderson, of this city.

The columns of the paper are separated by heavy black lines, such as newspapers still use in honor of deceased celebrities. The paper is kept in a glass case and is in an excellent state of prservation. the seats, but the excitement subsided when the snake was captured by its owner. The snake, which measured a little over six feet in length, was GAS AT ATCHISON "McConnell of St. Louis, disposed of their entire stock of men's suits at public auction today.

McConnell brothers were St. Louis agents for B. finely tailored suits and the successful bidder for the entire stock was David August, representing the clothing firm of the August Clothing company, in Topeka, Kan. The stock will not be disposed of in St. Louis, but Will be moved to the August establishment "In Topeka.

Mr. captured near the Blue river channel Special to The Capital. bridge east of Manhattan, by a laborer. He brought his pet to town and Atchison, May 4. Atchison received Take a good shrewd look at the picture to the left.

It is a sample of the sort of pictures that will appear in The Capital Booklovers' Contest We. are using it as an object lesson to show you how; to solve the actual contest pictures when they are printed. Contest Picture No. 1 will appear May 7. You don't have to know anything about books to win a prize, for the pictures will represent ONLY the titles of books.

4 The pictures will have nothing to do with the contents of books. Isn't the picture clear and plain? Doesn't it fit the title like the glove fits the hand! the panic at the depot was one ex ample of the excitement it afforded an intimation today taht natural gas Isn't as scarce as the Kansas Natural company intimated last winter. The local distributing company received a him. HARMONY DELEGATES letter from the receivers of the Kan sas Natural Gas company today say ing the summer rate for manufactur NAMED IN SMITH CO. August, in speaking of the purchase of this enormous stock of clothing, did not fail to mention that it was somewhat hazardous to buy a stock as this one and the only temptation was the fine quality of the suits and the price for which they were let down to him.

KAIN AT HIAWATHA. Special to The Capital. Hiawatha, May 4. One and three-fourths inches of rain was received at this place yesterday, one and one-fourth inches of it falling in the course of about a half an hour, bringing relief from the heat and dust experienced here during the last few days. All growing crops and gardens will be much benefited.

ing purposes will be 12 cents, only about a half cent a thousand feet more Special to The Capital. than last summer. The Railway and Smith Center, May A. A largely Lighting company will at once com mence using gas instead of coal at its power house. The readers of The Capital are especially requested to await the arrival of this stock, as Mr.

August says he will launch one of the greatest men's suit sales ever held in Topeka. Again Mr. August requests the readers of The Capital to watch the columns of this paper for the day of the opening sale. attended and most enthusiastic meeting of Smith county Republicans was held here today in the interest of the get together movement. It was completely harmonious.

The so-called Bull' Moose faction was in the majority, and seemed the more anxious of the two factions to restore harmony within the Republican party. Not a dissenting vote was cast when a motion to send twelve delegates to Topeka to the get together meeting was made. These delegates, a representative body by commissioner districts, are equally divided between the two existing factions of the party. CEMENT FLOORS should be finished with Acme Quality Cement Coater. Saves the floor prevents crumbling eliminates dirt and wear.

Acme Quality Paint Store, 628 Kansas Ave. Adv. Every picture in the contest there will be 77 in all will be just as plain and clear. HODGES ON GROUND READY FOR JOURNEY FEELING OF UNREST IN THE KANSAS SCHOOLS You don't have to sub WHAT BOOK Does This Picture Represent? Write title and name of author in form below Special to The Capital. Hutchinson, May 4.

Governor Hodges has arrived In Hutchinson for the spectacular automobile run across the state today. governor and party of Santa Fe "Numerous disquieting reports are being circulated regarding what the new board of administration of the Kansas educational institutions are going to do," says the Lyons Republican. "They have already forced Pro scribe. You don't have to solicit or canvass. i fessor Hill, head of the Emporia Nor-j Trail officials will leave Hutchinson at 5:15 Monday morning at sunrise, and Title.

The Man With the Hoe. Simply solve each pic will make a 300-mile drive, winding up in Kansas City, at sunset this evening. Author Edwin Markham. ture as it appears each day in this newspaper. One hundred Hutchinson motorists man, and Professor Pickens, head of the Hays Normal to resign, have ordered the school of journalism at Manhattan to close, killing the Kansas Industrialist, one of the very best class journals published.

A number of the K. U- professors are looking elsewhere for employment and there is a general feeling of unrest." will give the governor a send off on the trip Monday morning, accompanying him as far as Newton. Your Name John Doe Street and Number 100 Doe Street. City or Town Kan RUSH CORN TO MARKET Safeguarding the Contest Three of Topeka 's most WHEN PRICE IS HIGH A PRIVATE FUNERAL FOR MRS. W.

I. MILLER Special to The Capital Scandia, May 4. High prices prominent men will judge are causing considerable corn and wheat to be marketed within the past this Booklovers' game. Total number of pictures, 77. Coatest berlns May 7th.

Kaeh day a different picture appear la this apace. Cat them oat. Save then aatll the last picture appears on July 22ud. Doit send la partial lists. Walt aatll you have all the answers to the 77.

Read Kales. Dally Story and Special Announcements in another part of this paper. It will help yon win a prise. Extra pictures and coupon of nny -date that have appeared may he had at 5c. Enter today without reslaterlnn; your name.

Merely save pictures and coupons as they appear. few weeks. An idea of the activity in the former cereal is noted in the re -v. iin ill ii i ceipts of J. Pinney, a well known The judges in The Capi- Scandia buyer, who this week purchased over 8,400 bushels at 50 cents.

tars graet Book- The funeral services of Mrs. W. I. Miller, wife of the Topeka lumberman, who died Saturday morning, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the family residence, 1325 Topeka avenue. The services and burial will be private, but friends of the family may call at the home between, the hours of 1 and 3 o'clock.

Ethel Norwood Miller was born In Sterling, 111., on August 4, 1878, and was married to Mr. Miller in 1905. She is survived by her husband and four children. The death of Mrs. Miller has caused much grief among her large circle of friends.

She was a lovable woman and filled an important place In the home and social life of the city. cr in round figures $4,200 worth of corn. Farmers are also marketing wheat In greater quantities than for many months. Food SHOW STIDEXTS' WORK. Special to The Capital.

Augusta, May manual train lovers' Contest will be announced later on in the contest. In other cities the judges in the Booklovers Contests were governors of states, judges of the supreme court, the mayors of cities, post masters, clerymen, priects, etc. ing and the domestic science depart Finds its highest expression in HERE ARE THE RULES CUT THEM OUT SAVE FOR FUTURE USE The contest is open to everybody. Only Topeka Capital employes and members of their families are barred. Dally for 77 days will be published In The Capital a picture representing the title of a book, one each day.

Beneath this picture will be a coupon to fill fn with the name of the book and the author, together with the name and address of entrant. Cut out the picture and coupon, filling in the book title and author's name, writing your name and address neatly and plainly in the place provided. ment of the high school secured a down-town storeroom and gave a public display of the products of the two departments. Many of the school No restrictions are placed on the manner in which answers to pictures are secured. Each picture represents the title of one book only.

If you are Dot certain of your solution you may send in one to ten answersto the picture. The judges in The Capital's contest will be men of absolute integrity and of tho highest standing. XO MORF. THAN TEX AXSWEKS WILL HE AH EPTKU TO A IMCTIIIE. In correct answers will not count against contestant it correct answer la also riven.

And put one answer to each picture and coupon. Extra coupons must be secured and used for extra answers. All answers to each picture must be kept together In compiling your set. patrons availed themselves of this opportunity to get a better understanding of the purpose of the work offered. Ever since the two departments were added to the high school curriculum two years ago, there has been some sharp criticism offered on the extravagance of the innovation.

But today's display is opening the eyes of many who did not understand the scope of the work given the students. Fine quarter-sawed oak tables, book cases, kitchen cabinets, hat racks and all styles of chairs ranging from the oak dining room chair to the Morri3 easy chair were ranged along the front of the large storeroom for display. The domestic science department had an abundance of hand-made candies, cakes, roasted chicken, veai. chops, aprons, dresses, on display all made by the girls of the Additional picture and coupons may be obtained at The Capital Office, by mail or by person. Answers will not be accepted unless they are properly filled out on the coupons appearing beneath each picture.

It is necessary that pictures be sent in with the answers in order thai all answers may be uniform. When you have all 77 answers, fasten them together and bring them or mall them in a neat flat package not folded or rolled to The Capital Office, COXTEST EDITOR- Prlxes will be awarded con testants sending in the largest number of correct solutions. In the event of two or more persons having the same number of correct solutions, the person using the small number of extra coupons on the set of answers will be de- tho winner. In the event of two or more persons having the same number of correct solutions, and using the same number of coupons, an equal i interest in me prizes ilea lor uv tiu iw i ui uiuiciuuu, Plenty of Light or the persons involved in the tie may choose any one of the lesser prizes. More than one prize will not be awarded to any one family, but each member of the family may enter the contest and submit a complete set.

Only one complete set (comprising not more than 10 answers to any one ple-tnroi nf answers mar be submitted by a contestant. Awards will be made strict ly according to the merit of each separate list. The names of more than one person must not be written on any one coupon. Some time before the end of the contest the complete list of 77 book titles with the names of authors will be deposited in a local bank under the direction of the Publisher of this paper and the three judges. The list of correct titles will not be withdrawn until all sets of answers have been received and entered on a record.

THE SYSTEM THAT WILL BE USED WILL MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE POR AN ERROR TO OCCUR AND A DOZEN SAFEGUARDS WILL BE THROWN AROUND THE CHECKING OF THE SETS AND THE PUBLIC WILL BE INVITED TO WITNESS THE CHECKING. The 77 titles as selected during the contest will be known only to the Publisher, and the reputation of this Newspaper stands as a guarantee to all contestants of an absolutely fair and impartial awarding of the prizes. All answers will be considered on their merits. The first set filed will have no preference over the last set filed; provided only that answers must be filed Made of choice Indian Corn perfectly cooked, rolled paper-thin, then toasted to an appetizing golden brown the sweet bits are readv to eat direct from the package with cream and sugar. Post Toasties are never touched by human hand in the making.

Thcv are packed bv automatic ma-chines in tightly sealed packages which retain the "Toasty" flavour. Toasties come to the home from the spotless factories of Postumville, fresh and crisp A dainty food for Particular- People SOLD BY GROCERS within the time specmea a iter me iai picture ci appeareo. READY FOR INSTITUTE. Special to The Capital. Augusta, May 4.

Prof. Harley E. French is the new county superintendent of schools. He will open the county normal institute June 2. He has engaged the following teachers to assist him In the work of instruction: Trot F.

L. Gibson, of Southwestern college, oratory and expression generally in educating the youth; County Supt. Edward Adams, of Elk county, will deal with actual school problems In connection with his work in the Institute; Miss Henrietta V. Race, head of the department of education In Southwestern college and author of several histories, will give especial attention to history along with her other work, and J. W.

Zahnley, of the El Dorado high school, will instruct in agriculture. is a great aid in selecting merchandise of the QUALITY COLOR SHADE and TINT one desires. This and the complete, fresh stocks of everything elegant and serviceable in dry goods and kindred trading The awards will be made by the Contest Editor and three well-known citizens whose names will be announced later. The correct answers to the series of pictures will be filed with a local trust company or bank previous to the close of the contest. Entry to the contest may be made at any time.

All communications or let ters of inquiry concerning the contest should be addressed to the Booklovers" Contest Editor. The Capital, Topeka, Kan. Tkr Capital Is aw oialtIa7 Mat of ikMl SjsO book title, Cross which will at HUE lilU SiUltfc. very he eleete the 77 tHles whleh the 77 pietsires will he tfrawa te reytweat. This catalogue will he offered to the pafclle shortly.

TOPEKASS IX XEW YORK. SpecIaKto The Capital. Briar Cliff Lodge. X. Y- May 4.

Mr, enjoyable to those who seek the best. rived here this morning on the bankers i First Picture Will Appear May 7 The mills Dr Goods Go. special from Chicago to attend the annual spring meeting of the executive council of the American Bankers association now being held at the Briar Cliff. Topeka, Kansas The principal features In connection with this contest are copyrighted by the Booklovers Contest Co, San Francisco. CaL.

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