The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 4, 1895

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JIT 1 10 CENTS 'A WEEK. TO BEAUOBDELL Representative Seatoirs HanFor the Speakership Was Xot Altogether a Glittering Success. HE FAVORS REMIXGTOX Tlie Speakership Contest Docs Xot Affect The United States Senator-ship Political Xotes. Until today there has been no bad blood shown in the several legislative contests, but there u now an open war fare with growing bitterness in the race for the speakership. It is still conceded that Charles R J.obdell ia in the lead by several lengths, and until late last night it was thought the other candidates would quietly get olf the track and avoid being run over. '1 his was not so, however. The calm which prevailed during the last few d.iys preceded a storm, which broke loose when Captain John Seaton and Colonel Alexander Warner arrived in Topeka last night These two gentlemen at once set about the task of forming an anti-Lubdell com bination. J. K. Cubbison was called in, aod t 8. Benedict later joined the forces, while Major J. B. Remington was not slow in getting in with the anti-Lobdell-ites. These leaders decided to get up an anti-Lobdell caucus, agreeing to elect one of their own number speaker, to the ex clusion of the man who has been con ceded to be in the lead. As soon as this agreement was made each leader started out to get his men in line and there is where the difficulty came. They found they could not de liver their friends to any one else. Major Remington's friends said: "We will go into a Remington caucus, but wo will not go into an autl-Lobdell caucus." Mi. Cubbison, Col. Warner and Mr. Ben edict's friends all said the same thing, at least a number of them did. This attempted combination showed that Lobdell not only was in the lead, but that he had secured the friendship for second choice, of so many members, that his strength was practically solid. All day long the anti-LoDdell forces have been hard at work trying to induce their friends to go intoln proposed cau cus, but up to this hour they have accom plished little. Lobdell's friends say he can't be beaten by any combination which may be sprung now, that it is too late for a trick of that kind. On the other hand the anti-Lobdell forces say they mean to win and will elect one of their own number speaker. In the senatorial situation today, J. R. Burton is reported to have gained three votes which had up to this morning been conceded to Mr. Ady. These are said to be the votes of Sev enth district members but their names are not given. Caugressman-at-large Dick Blue is here today and is getting his ringers into the senatorial tight, lie is one of the accredited Ady boomers and his presence is not looked upon with kindly feelings by the other candidates. Chester I. Long's friendship and as sistance to Ady, is considered all right, because he lives in Ady's district, but the congressman -at -large lives in another part of the state and he is threatened with all eorts of things for his interfer ence. The worst threat is that the state will be reapportioned by congressional dis tricts this winter and if Mr. Blue does not immediately go home and take his tiugers out of the pot, he will nud the new Eighth district made out of a corner of the Seventh, where some Wichita man can be congressman and the gentle man from Pleasauton will be out of a job. Major Hood's friends are satisfied with the situation today and say their candidate is still in the front. Farmer Smith, who is heie, does not pretend to be in the lead, but savs there is likely to be a dead-lock in thecaucus, and when that is broken his chances will be as good as those of any one. Private Secretary J. L'Bristow took a hand in the speakership fight today in opposition to Lobdell and this stirred up luuio ui it ureeze man anything that has yet happened. D. O. McCray went to Governor Mor rill about it and told the governor that he kuew something about the duties of the attaches of the governor's office and meddling in speakership contests was not in the list of a private secretary's assignments. Governor Morrill said he would speak to Secretary Bristow about it, as he did rut regard it good policy to interfere. This happened in the" Copeland lobby shortly after noon, and a large crowd was attentive during the conversation between the governor and .VeCray. TOM REED BETTER. It May be Several Ways Before He is Out, However. Washington', Jan. 4. Representative Reed who is suffering from a sprained ankle caused by a fall on the ice in Sew York Wednesday, ia better today. He ia confined to his room; however, and de nies hin salf to callers. It mav be sev eral daj8 before he is abie to resume hi3 legislative duties. Burned Out Telephone. The Harrison telephone company wa3 in trouble yesterday. While some of its linemen were putting up a cross wire they accidentally let it down on one of the troliey wires of the street railway. The result was that ten or a dozen tela nhones were burned out. They are be ijg replaced today. Jhn Mulliva-i Coming. John Lawrence Sullivan and his talen ted company will be at the Grand on Jan uary 23rd, NIGlI'i f?!0: TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY POPS IN CONFERENCE. They Will Hold a Secret One to Decide on Their Course. The state conference of Populist lead-, ers which was called for today ia not the harmonious body expected. It was the intention of Chairman Breidenthal in calling the conference to have a few trusted leaders ,of the party assamb.e with the members of the state central committee and discuss in secret some measures for the good of the party. The meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock this morning in Representative hall, but it more resembled a mass meet ing than a secret conference. Mrs. Mary 11 Lease was there with her friends and J. II. Lathrop, the referendum leader, was there with his following. The members of the state committee were disgusted when they found their meeting captured iu point of numbers by people whom they regarded as having no business there and they at once de cided to hoJd the secret conference when the crowd leaves town. Mrs. Lease was called on and made a speech of about one minute's length, as did also S. H Snider, Gaveruor Lewel ling and S. M. Scott 'ionight there will be no effort to keep the public out and IL B. Kelly will make a speech. It is the intention of the party lead ers, among other things, to take some action towards Investigating the auditor's office and'" locate the re sponsibility for the manipulation of the railroad assessment but that ha: been postponed and will be attended to at a secret conference which will likely be held tomorrow. POLICE MADE ARRESTS. They Take Into Custody Sam Milton and His Wife for Killing Mrs. M.itson. The police made their first move to wards capturing Mrs. Matson's murder ers this afternoon by arresting Sam Mil ton, a colored man, and his white wife. They live on the south side of Fif teenth street, near the Shunga nunga. The police will not say much regarding the arrest, but hint that when these facts become known they will create a sensation. Mrs. Mil ton was arrested bv Officer Capron. and I she took ner arrest coolly. "What Is the charge." she said. ell never mind,-' she added, "I guess I 'know what the charge is." The sheriff looked wise when he was told by a Journal reporter of Milton's arrest, and said he wasn't surprised. Milton had evidently been suspected by the sheriff, too. Milton ia the man who was char?ed some time ago with trying to shoot Geo. Gaton, but was not convicted. He keeps a lot of vicious dogs in his yard. Once he went home and found a peddler at his door, "llow'd you get here": he asked. "Walked here," was the reply. "Didn"t that dog offer to stop you? "Xo." Mil ton thereupon took his gun and shot the dog. Milton livej not far from Novel's house. OKLAHOMA POSTMASTERS. The President Sends a Hatch of them to the Senate. Washington, Jan. 4. The president today sent to the senate the following nominations: Postmasters Samuel L. Johnson, at Alva, O. T.; Augusta F. Wilcox, Enid, O. T.; William G. Jones, Newkirk, O. T. Samuel II. Cummings, Pond Creek; O. T. John W. Moyle, Lecomse, O. T. Mary E. Botwick, Black Hawk, Colo.; Albert Guilliuger, Florence, Colo. John B. Fleming of Wisconsin to be regis.er of the land office at EiU Claire, Wis.; Wm. E. Saum of Kansas to be re ceiver of public moneys at Wakeeney, Kan. MIKADO MATCH' MAKING. Wants a European Princess or American Heiress for His Son. London, Jua. 4 A dispatch to tho Diiy News from Vienna says that a newspaper there states that the Mikado seeks a European princess or an Ameri can heiress as a wife for the Crown jrince of Japan. Carlisle and 'rii Confer. Washington, Jan. 4. Secretary Car lisle came to the capitol after the cabinet meeting and joined Speaker Crisp ia the latter s private office. It is understood that the purpose is to outline a definite plan of procedure on the cur rency bill. Members of congress were informed as a result of the secretary's visit that the cabinet meeting had not brought about an agreement to send a special message on the currency ques tion. Anti- Toiine Snceestsfnl. Vienna, Jan. 4 Official reports re ceived here in regard to the use of anti toxine in the districts of Trieste and Czernowitz, show a large decrease in the mortality from diphtheria. The reports advise that the medicine be administered at the earliest possible moment. LOCAL MENTION. The committee of the council with Chairman Fellows at its head, has re lieeted great credit on itself in entertain ing the representatives of the cities of the first class. An order by Judge Caldwell has beeu filed in the Uaited States circuit court giving the Santa Fa receivers the right to pay $17,5.i0 for their right-of-way into their freight depot in Chicago. Hint to Theater Managers. IJore peoplo are driven away from the theaters by bad or suggestive titles, repulsive, tasteless and vulgar picture posters than are ever drawn to the box ofiSce by such pictures aud titles. Tho great mass of the American people are right minded, clean thinking, self re specting men and -women who 'want the best, not the poorest. For every quar ter of a dollar drawn to the box office by an indecent or suggestive poster $100 is driven away. For one ni?.n or boy who goes to see a play of suggestive title 800 women and matinee girls and at least half as many men stay away. These are the eternal verities of the modern tfceater. Dramatic Mirror. CAN'T GETACTION. The Weakness of Our Judicial System Is Again Shown Up in the "Waterworks Case. The Everlasting: "Legal Techni cality" Coming Up POSTPONES THE TRIAL The Waterworks Case Xo Ex ception to the Rule, That When the People Fight Corporations THEY CAN BE DELAYED By Legal Quibbles Invented by the Lawyers And Acquiesced in Too Often by the Courts. The city lost the first point which has beeu passed on in the celebrated water works case. In the district court the case wa3 called by Judge Pro Tern J. G. Slonecker this morning and both sides expressed their readiness to proceed with the trial; but defendants had a surprise to spring. A. L. Williams offered a demurrer to the city's petition on the ground that it did not constitute a sufficient cause of action. He claimed that the question of the impurity of the water should be eliminated from the case; and the con troversy should be settled on the merits as to whether or not the witter company is obliged under its charter to extend its mains. i City Attorney Tillotson replied that the quality of the water furnished was a proper one to be tested at the trial of the case. In the petition the city charges impure water. In the defendants' an swer they denied the charge. The city is prepared to prove its charges and wishes only an opportunity to do so. S. B. Isenliart for the city read the petition in the case and at its conclusion said: '-If the defendants Wanted thir petition more definite and specific they' had means of matting it so without wait ing until they got into court to raise the i objections. After considerable more wrangling. durinar which a supreme court decision in a water works case from Burlington was cited. Judge Slonecker decided that the kind of water furnished did not arise in the case, and Mr. William's objections were sustained so far as they pertained only to the quality of the water. Judge Slonecker said that failure to extend and an inadequate supply were proper mat ters for evidence. This did not satisfy either City Attor ney Tillotson or Mr. Isenhart, and they asked for time in which to amend their petition. There was a lively tilt when Mr. Isenhart asked for time and Judge Slonecker objected. "This is the first time I evor knew of a lawyer being refused the right to amend his petition in this court," said Isenhart. 'Not after the trial has been com menced," replied the court. "Well, this trial hasn't commenced yet. Wre were just getting ready when Mr. Williams made his demurrer." "How much time do you want?' I "Not very much time." j "What do you want to amend the peti tion for?"- "1 am not usually asked to state in ad vance what my pleading is going to be." j "You will have to in this case,. Mr. Isentiart." Well, then, we wish to amend the pe tition in such a way as will make it in keeping with the decision of the su preme court and the rulings of this court." Mr. Isenhart and Mr. Tillotson agreed that five days would be ail the time they needed, and Mr- Williams said he had no objections provided his side was given twenty days in which to p.ead error or demur. '1 his was finally agreed to and the case was continued for the term. The counsel for the city says that when the case comes for final trial it may be heard before some other judge pro tern than Jir. MonecKer. Mr. Williams objected in court to what he called "trying the case in the papers," by reason of what the State Journal has said against the Topeka company as a corporation. He was especially anx ious that it should appear that it wasn't the water company who caused this con tinuance and consequent delay. The waterworks case had resolved itself into three charges failure to ex tend its mains as agreed in the contract; failure to maintain the fire pressure and adequate amount of water named in the contract, and failure to provide "good, clear and wholesome" described in the charter. It was for these breaches of contract, but more especially the first one, that the council asked to have the charter and contract annulled. The city is prepared to prove by chemical ana lysis that the water is impure. It can also prove that the pressure is not suffi cient to send ten streams to a height of 100 feet at the same time, as called for in the contract. The water company admits that it has beeu ordered to extend its mains, and re fuses to do so, taking merely a "what are you going to do about it?" policy. The city was represented at the trial by Mr. Tillotson and Mr. Isenhart City Engineer Tweeddale and Prof. Lovewell of Washburn college, were present as witnesses. 1 he defense was headed by A. L. Wil liams, with W. H. Loomis and Charles Blood Smith not far away. Receiver E. Summerfield of the water company and EVENING, JANUARY Manager Jesse Shaw were also present. The case was continued for the term; so that it probably won't come up until next Bpring. Bo it will oe seen that this case which has needed trial bo badly for many years is again delayed. This is the very thing that the people of this country are so justly incensed about; namely, that even when suit is brought in the courts, a quick trial cannot be secured. It is always and eternally, de lay and delay and again delay. It is all useless to tell the people that Judge Blockhead some twenty years ago decided so and so on a similar case and that Judge Thickskull affirmed the decision, and therefore such and such a case will not be heard for the next two years. The people are only conscious that they are put off. Explanations from courts and from lawyers are of no avail. It seems that the whole legal system of the country is organized largely to pro vide fees for court officers and fees for lawyers. This sentiment, wtiether pre judice or not, has been growing and in tensifying in this country for years and every delay or legal technicality like the presen mat is useu as an oosiacie flame of discontent with the methods of j the courts. It appears to the ordinary citizen that it ought not to be such a difficult thing to compel the Topeka Water Supply company to keep its contract with the city, and when they find that the com pany can not only swindle the city and cheat the people as it pleases, but that it can't be brought to justice without years of litigation it thoroughly convinces the people that changes in legal procedure are absolutely necessary. WHERE AMERICA LEADS. The Discoveries of a literary Visitor From Quen Victoria's Realm. In respect of some things America beats all countries easily hands down, Bays David Christie Murray in the Bos ton Herald. The plenitude of pure, natural drinking water, always deli ciously cold, is one of them. The gen eral use of ice for all things which de serve to be drunk or eaten cold is an other. I have experience enough and courage enough in my own judgment to say without hesitation or reserve that the American table is the best in the world and the best served. Nobody has eaten an oyster until he has it serv ed on the half shell on a bed of crushed ice. Nobody knows how delicious fresh fruit can be until he has eaten it with its native bloom untouched and newly brought from the ice safe. Why can't we have these little cheap pleasures in Europe? "Why are we strangers to ta beo .sance? Through how many cen turies ha the oyster waited t'or?b.afc crown of all his gustatorial glories? And whaS shall I say of the terrapin, of the venison steak "on a blaizer, of the inexpensive but glorious clam chow der, of the score of game birds and the novel and appetizing fish, of the "Eng lish mutton chop, which surpasses any mutton chop nowadays to be found ia England, of the glorious variety of fruits and breads? This is a country in which a man may order oysters with an open heart. They are not quite as good as our own dear little gentlemanly Whitestable na tive, but very nearly, and they beat our common sorts out of the field altogeth- er. I remember when our oyster famine 1 set in that I made my first visit to Eng laud in the oyster season of a space of five whole years. I knew nothing of the i appalling rise in price, and I invited some half dozen men to an oyster lunch eon. A certain glitter in the eyes of the invited was noticeable, but I failed to remark upon it until the bill came. I j recalled it ti:en. The precious bivalve j was retailed at 6s. Gd. per dozen 11 cents per oyster. And it was not as if the men had been my dearest friends. They were everyday club acquaintances. 1 No more. J If I recall one of the abiding sorrows of my life on this page, it is only to contrast it with the happier present. Sweet are the uses of adversity. They help to greaten later joys. Wines are dearer here than they have a right to be, and the excellent vintages of California, which are pro curable at so cheap a rate in England, are hardly seen where one would ex pect them to be plentiful. 1 have looked in vain down the wine list of several hotels and half a dozen clubs for my fa vorite California Burgundy. I am told that many of the vintages are retailed under French and German names a bad thing for the purchaser and a bad thing for the reputation of the home vineyard. Cheerful Philosophy. People ought to be happy in this life. All the beauties of nature are spread out before them for their delectation. There are just enough clouds to make ono enjoy tho sunshine. The gloomy raindrops that trickle down the wav ing blades of grass turn to glittering diamonds when touched by the first rays of the sun. There are rosebuds and green leaves in the spring, the golden harvest of the summer, the red and brown forests and ripening fruits in the fall, and the glistening frosts of winter. All add to the beauties of na ture and please the eye. Sweet songs can be heard every moment of life to gladden the ear, and the God of nature has filled the earth with rich viands to delight the taste. Everything is fur nished for man's happiness and pleas ure, and if he won't be happy it is bis own fault. The person who doesn't seek and find happiness out of the many ways God has blessed his creatures makes a sad, dismal failure of life and passes to the great beyond a sinner against his fellow man, a sinner against his God and a Binner against himself. Kansas City Times. 4. 1S93. WHITE'S LAST WORDS His Message to the Present Col orado Legislature. He Advises the Abolition of Capital Punishment. HAS A BRIGHT IDEA. Let Most Hardened Criminals Run for State Office. He Has Severe Words for Judges and Courts. Denver, Jan. 4. Governor Waite read his last message to the legislature of Colorado today. It consisted of about 15(K)0 word and wag peruap8 the most exhaustive document ever presented to the general assembly of this state. He called attention first to the fact that in spite of the destruction of the state's sil ver interests, the credit of Colorado was higher in New York today than ever be fore, and more miles of railroad wero built in this state last year than any other. He referred to the increased produc tion of gold aud said: "But if even gold should be found in Colorado as abun dantly as it wa3 in California and Aus tralia, it might relieve but would not atone for the tyranny and depression under which both a Republican and Democratic president have deprived tho people of the free coinage of silver a right which was theirs before the con stitution of the United States was adopted and which was never ceded to con gress." The governor recommends a revision of the siatp constitution; a law to abolish the private detective system, an 8- hour law and abolition of capital punishment. He suggests "that the most hardened criminals be compelled to run as candi dates for some state office." After a full discussion of state land matters, the governor recommends that the state construct reservoirs and canals for irrigation purposes. He condemns the Carey land bill "as in the interest of private corporations." and recommends the general assembly to "memorialize congress to cede the arid lands to the several states in which they are situated under conditions that the title to these lands shall forever remain in the state to be leased in areas not exceeding one huudred and sixty acres, to actual set-, tiers only." The governor reviewed at length the City Hall troubles and the Cripple Creek miners war, ana aeteuaea nis action on those occasions. He renewed his recom mendation first made to the extra session of the ninth general assembly, that the legislature should make gold and silver dollars, foreign and domestic, containing not less thun 412 grains of silver, O-lO hue legal tender in payment of all debts collectible iu Colorado. He declared the time had come for ag gressive action on the part of friends of silver, and said: "It is a matter of congratulation that at the List election the issues were so clearly defined and so imineut, that the devil claimed Lis own and the traitors who had been so long masquerading as silver Democrats and Populists were compelled to throw off their disguise and openly cling to the bosom of the Republican party, a party responsible beture God and man for the destruction of our silver product, the depreciation within the last sixteen months of all real aud personal property in the state (ex cept money andnoney securities,) to less than one-half their former value, and lhe loss of employment to thousands upon thousands of silver miners." The governor declared that during the year the president had sent troops into Colorado and Illinois in violation of the constitution, and recommended the as sembly "to memorialize congress in solemn protest against the usurpation of the United States courts and United States marshals, who. with the aid and consent of the United States judges, have converted the United States court houses into recruiting stations to enlist despera does as deputy marshals without any re gard to their proper qualifications, but aimply for military purposes." "In view of the fact that thesheriffa of Arapahoe and El Paso counties had 'as sumed military power in violation of the Uniied otates constitution, the state con stitution and common law,' the governor also recommends the assembly 'to pro vide some legislation to determine wheth er there are any rights left to the com mon people of the slate, which sheriffs and courts are bound to respect.'" In conclusion the governor said: "A brief two years ago a Democratic nation al administration arrogantly assumed power in all the departments of the government. Today that administra tion lies crushed and bleeding, its suc cess contained all the elements of its j swift destruction, for the money power which controlled the party prevented any relief to the people; and so the Repub lican party, controlled by the same re lentless power, can grant no relief no ciiHcTu ntlul nrninorlf u unrl it 1 1 rl nnt if il coluu. neuto it 100 uiuai give way vo the party of progress and reform. "lhe People's Party of Colorado, though never in control of the general assembly, and with its state officers somewhat divided and discordant, during the most exciting and troublous times that have existed n the history of the state, turns over to the incoming administration the affairs of the state with a clean bill of health and we shall hold your dominant party to a like rigid account. "1 will not say 'Hail and Farewell.' That would be too formal. We go, but we return. We will meet you, gentle men, in two years at 'Philippi." Jadje IK 1. Parry Dead. Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 4 Judge elect D. D. Parry died in this city this morning, aged 54 years. He represented "Warren county, Illinois, in the legisla ture of 1SS0. He was a prominent mem ber of the Kansas G. A. R T WENT Y-THIRD YEAR. ANOTHER CAUCUS. Democrats of One the For Honne Will CkII Monday. Washington, Jan. 4 "A Democratic house caucus on the currency bill probably will be called for 4 o'clock Monday afternoon." said Mr. Holmaa, chairman of the cau cus committee, after he had conferred today with Speaker Crisp and Represen tative Sbringer concerning the situation. The petition for the caucus will be cir culated by Mr. Springer today and to morrow, and Mr. Hoi man expects to issue the formal call tomorrow night. The desire had been to hold the caucus Saturday but as many Democratic mem bers are absent, it was deemed best to wait until Monday in order to secure a full attendance. No rule to close debate has yet been formulated iwing to the absence from the city, of Representative Catching, of the rules committee. He is expected back todfev so that the question of a rule will proba bly be considered. IX THE HOl"jiE. The Resignation of Representative Paint er of Kentucky Presented. Washington. Jan. 4. At the opening of the session today the speaker laid before the house the resigna tion of Representative Painter from the Fifth Kentucky district, to tak ef fect tomorrow when he assumes his new duties of the judge of the court of ap peals. On motion of Mr. Hermann (Rep. Ore.) a bill was passed granting an in crease of pension to Hosea Brown, aged 103, survivor of the war of 1812, and on motion of Mr. Page, (Dem.) of Rhode Island, to grant an American registry to the steamers Claribel and Athos. The debate on the currency bill was then resumed and Mr. Jlendrix (Dein. N. Y.) a banker, took the floor. 'lhe situation that confronted the treasury and the country, ho said, had not come suddenly npon us, nor without ample warning. A finance minister of France had once remarked, sarcastically, that God was good to drunken people, little children and the people of the United States. Was the United States to go out of the business of furnishing currency tor the country as a baus of ihsue, Mr. Hendricks asked. If not what was it going to do iu order to avoid the financial bad lauds. Were the people of tlie United States to keep on transgressing every law of finance, defying tho world, and continue to do what every other nation had failed to do? To illustrate the results of the present system, Mr. Hendricks pointed to the large accessions of gold made by fue Bank of France aud the Bauk of Eng land at our expense. The former yesterday held 2,90i million goM fraucs, "the latter 33 million pounds iu gold. The cipital aud the gold bullion f t!:: world was resting in these great pools waiting to see wiiat this country would, do, see. whether it wouid become a bankrupt unable to meet its obligations. Anyone, Mr. Hendricks said, who would glance at the frank statements of the treasury, showing its small reserve could not but marvel that it had uot been sooner confronted with great peril. IX THE SEN AT K. Senator Lode Talks on the Withdrawal of a War Ship from Honolulu. Washington. Jan. 4. Less than twen ty senators were in their seats today when Vice President Stevenson culled the senate to order. After the journal had been approved aud the routine morn ing business transacted, Mr. Lodge (Rep. Mass.) addressed the senate upon ,un resolution of inquiry as to why the Uni ted States war snips had been withdrawn from Honolulu. At 2 o'clock the Lodge resolution went to the calendar and Senator M organ re sumed his speech on the Nicaragua canal bill. On motion of Senator Stewart, the senate adopted a resolution making inquiry of the secretary of state as to whether Hon. J. W. Foster had any con nection with the American goverutnent in his mission to China and Japan. Pooling Kill Will Pas. Washington, Jau. 4. Representative Patterson of Tennessee, who has chargn of the railway pooling bill, is still watchful of the interests of the but since it has gone to the senate. rHe says there is no doubt of its pas3,ige there. He has talked with many sena tors and finds them agreed for the meas ure with no elemeutof opposition yet ap parent. A Promising; Eoy. A rharp snip of a br.y went into the of fice of ft business house on Jefferson ave nue and delivered a noto to tlie manager. He read tho note and looked the boy over. "Your father," he said, "says you wanfi to goto work." "I've heard him say that a good many times," responded the boy carelessly. "Is that sot'" "Yes, sir." "Well, that's what he has written in this note." "Did he write that?" asked the boy ia considerable surprise. "Of course. 7 "And sign bis name to it?" "Certainly. Look for yourself," and the puzzled manager haDded the note over to the youngster. He read it over carefully and noted the signature. "Well," he exc!aimed, "I wouldn't 'a' thought the old gent would 'a' done it." "Done what?" asked the still more puz zled .manager. "Put his name to that, of course," re plied the boy. "It ain't so bad," he con tinued, "when a body tells what ain't so, but when he puts it down in black and white and feigns his name to it it"s about time he was having somebody to watch him." Then it began to dawn on the manager and he took the lad in, and though he never did want to work he was always strictly honest, which is not to be sneezed at in these days of modern methods. De troit Free Press. 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STATE JOURNAL. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY" 4, 18U5 SUGAR TO THE FROflT. ElForts to Bring it Before the Senate Again. It is Proposed to Abolish the Differential Duty. MORE AMENDMENTS. A Modification of the Income Tax is Suggested. Washington, Jan. 4. A movement was begun in the senate yesterday looking to the amendment of the ur gency deficiency bill, which has not yet been reported from the commit tee, by adding1 several amendments looking: to the improvement of the present tariff law. Among the amend ments proposed is one for the abo lition of the one-tenth additional dif ferential duty placed on sugar im ported from countries paying- a bounty and for the correction of the error made in regard to the tax on alccfhol used in the arts, and a third relieving corporations of the provisions of the income tax law requiring" that they shall furnish lists of their employes to whom salaries of less than $4,000 are paid. Democratic leaders are especially anxious that the two amendments first mentioned should be enacted into law during the present session. It was the purpose of the Democratic members of the finance committee to have dropped the one-tenth, additional discriminating1 duty on eugar from the tariff bill in conference, but the acceptance of that measure by the house prevented this. The action of the European countries to which the duty applies in excluding American meats has had the effect of causing this change to appear still more im portant than it did before the bill became a law, and the Democratic leaders would feel especially gratified tf it could be accomplished. The duty of preparing these amend ments has devolved upon Senator Jones of Arkansas, but it is under stood that they will not be presented unless there appears little doubt of their acceptance by the senate. Con sequently Mr. Jones and other Demo crBtic senators are canvassing both sides of the chamber for the purpose of getting at the sentiment. If they become convinced that the amend ments can be agreed to they will be introduced within the next two or three days. They say, however, that if it becomes evident that the Repub licans will make a fight on them, they Will not present them at all, as with only two mouths of the congress left their passage could be prevented and the appropriation bills would be im perilled to no purpose. IOWA SCOTCHES THE SNAKE Some of the Saloons, Eat Not All Closed Undar the Mulct Law. Oskaloosa, Iowa, Jan. 4 There were seventeen licensed saloons running in this city up to Monday nigh. Dec. 31, at 10 o'clock, since which time until this moralng they all closed their doors ac cording to the mulct law. This morning thirteen of the seventeen Filuons opened under licensed for 1895, and the remain ing four stand closed, not to open again. 0;.9 of them is closed because of an in-, junction, it beiugupon a lot less than 800 feet from a church building, and the others closed because it was a losing venture. Crkston, Iowa, Jan. 4. The first fail ure hers under the new mulct law oc curred today, "when three saloons failed to pay their quarterly license and were closed. Nominations' by the President. Washington, Jan. 4. The presi dent yesterday 'sent these nomi nations to the senate: Herbert W. Bowman to be consul general at Bar celona, Spain; Andrew J. Patterson of Tennessee, consul at Demarara, British Guinea; T. Frank Clark, of Florida, attorney of the United States for the Southern district of Florida; Walter P. Stradley of California, to be immigration commissioner at the port of San Francisco; Colonel G. Nor' mal Leiber, assistant judge advocate general.with the rank of brigadier general; Frank M. Berry, postmaster at Muskogee, I. T.; George W. Huck er, postmaster at Brunswick, Mo.; J ohn S. Preston, postmaster at Shel bina. Mo.; John C. Kesterson, post master at Falrbufy, Neb. Another Bond Issue Comln. Washington, Jan. 4. The gold out flow continues under peculiarly de pressing promises for the immediate future. The treasury is advised that there will be heavy shipments throughout the greater part of tha month. Another bond issio about February 1 appears to be absolutely tmavoidable and officials at the de partment do not even care to conceal cheir conviction that the public debt must be increased witnin another month. A Jury's Long Siege. Perry, Ok., Jan. 4. The jury in the sase of Joe Morris and his son-in-law, Fred Schwartz, who have been on trial for the murder of W. W. Klaus for twenty dayss, have been locked up in their room for eight days. It is said that it stands sight for convic tion and four for acquittal. Frye Renominated. Augusta, Me., Jan. 4. At a joint caucus of the legislature United States Senator William P. Frye was unanimously renominated. Consul McLnre Dead. Belgrade, Jan. 4. Mr. Alfred Me I dure, the United States vice consul v general here died yesterday after 8 long illness. Fp Over Fifty Years, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for teething. It soothes, softens he gums, allays pain, cures colic. Best remedy for diarrhoea. 25 cents a bof.ie Read the "Wants." Many of them are as interesting aa news items. See if it U not so, JIILL AND CLEVELAND. Mr. Hill Invited to Dine Tntn the Presi dent, Whereat Many Tongues' Waff. Washington, Jan. 4. When this list of names of guests at the presi dent's dinner to the cabinet was given, out last evening. the appearance among them of the name of Senator Hill, of New York, was received with, some incredulity. There had been no intimation that the New York sen ator was to be present, and when it became known about town that Mr. Hill was the guest of the president the fact .was at once the subject of the greatest speculation. There had been rumors that an understanding had been reached between the presi dent and Mr. Hill, but the presence of the latter at the White house was the first tangible evidence that the rumors were probably authentic The meeting between the president and Mr. Hill is said to have been very cor dial. Indian Territory lease Bill. Washington, Jan. 4. The Indian territory lease bill introduced by Senator Jones on the last legislative day before the recess was suppli mented yesterday by Mr. Coc-krell by a measure which provides that all coal and mineral leases heretofore made in srood faith or hereafter to be made for lands in the five civilized trihps shall stand ratified and an- I proved. It went to the committee on Indian affairs. Mexico's Demand on Guatemala. City of Mexico, Jan. 4. The Mexi can government has made a. spacifi demand on Guatemala for $1,8'J. 544.14 damages inflicted by invadhv Guatemalans. BRIEFS BY WIRE. Several barrels of provisions and clothing have passed through Phila delphia, en route to Kansas and Ne braska, where they will be distributed among the deserving poor. Specials from various parts of Ne braska indicate that considerable snow fell Thursday throughout the I Brate. Bids have been opened at the agri- I cultural department for the purchase i of an experimental sugar factory at Medicine Lodge, Kan. There was t but one offer, by A. W. Walburn of Chicago, ine amount ot his bid is not given out. A bill to provide for an increase f the public revenue has been intro duced in the house by Representative Money of Mississippi It provides for a tax of $3 per barrel on malt brewed or fermented liquor for barrels con ta'ning not more than thirty-one gal lons, and a like rate for other quanti ties. Plymouth, Ind., citizens have shipped a carload of merchandise to the Nebraska sufferers, the destina tion being Lexington, Dawson county. The ctr contained several hundred suits of clothes, three tons of flour and oat-meal, many bushels of vege tables, a large amount of old clothing and provisions: Word has been received from Rome by Rev. James Hoeffer, S. J., presi dent of St. Ignatius college that the pope has conferred the title of count upon John A. Creighton of Omaha in recognition of thelatter's beneficence to education and charity. Only two other Americans bear the dignity. Ex-Governor Sylvester Pennoyer of Oregon has endowed Williams col lege, Massachusetts, with a scholar ship of $34,500 in memory of his son, who died there last term, ihe money is to be usad for the support of needy and deserving students, preference being given Oregon students when such are in college. v The secretary of the treasury has sent to congress an estimate of a deficiency of $7,000 in appropriations for Indian police. One hundred and twenty thousand dollars was the amount appropriated for the fiscal year, and rendered necessary the discharge of many police. The announcement tliat Police Cap tain Schmittberger will be arraigned for trial on Monday in the New York court of Oyer and Terminer has brought from the captain's counsel aa allegation of breach of fa:h on the part of the district attorney. In South Enid, Ok., Mr, Rhodes, proprietor of the Wichita hotel, seri ously if not fatally shot C IV. Parker of the law firm of Haven,Orner Parker. Attention to Mrs. Rhodes was the cause. In O'Neill, Neb., Milt Roy and James Pinkerman have been arrested charged with being members of a mob which is supposed; to have lynched Barrett Scott. The; leader is under surveillance. The 'prisoners aeny tneir guuu ecott s iate is stui a mystery. In Decatur, Ala., the post-office was robbed of postage stamps, registered letters and packages and money be longing to the government The loss is about SI, 000 Burglars blew open the safe and rifled it of its coetentsi. John Milligan, the convicted negro murderer, who escaped jail at Okla homa City New Year's night, was cap tured Thursday morning, lie will be bung on the 11th In Birmingham, Ala., the boycott of the Woman's Christian Temperance union and the threatening weather combined to reduce the audience that, heard Colonel W. C. P. Breckiaridge v lecture to about 200 persons. Mrs. Breckinridge was the only woman present. In St. Louis, Mo., George Lampkin, -j a meat seller, was shot down on the street and killed by J. S. Reap, an- other meat dealer, who bred two shots into his victim. Reap gave him self up and was placed in iail. The strike at the Homestead Steel works has been about settled by the Carnegie Steel company agreeing to pay the employes of the ll9-;inch,mill. the only department on strike, at the rate of $1.10 per ton, by which they can mate si.su per day. The Stat Journal's Want and Mi. cellaneous columns reach each working, day in the week more than twice s.s" many Topeka people as can be reached hrough any other paper. This is a f act. This la u Advertisement Of Snow's Pine Expectorant, guaranteed cure for coughs, colds and all bronchial troubles. Price 25c and SOo bottle. For sal by all druggiata. The Loss in the Coffey ville Blaze Was $50,000. One Man Was Hurt so Badly He Will Die. FOURTH TIME BURNED The Business Portion of Adrian, Mo., Damaged. Coffe ville, Kan., Jan. 4. One of the most destructive fires in the his tory of this city occurred yesterday morning at 3 o'clock. The large pari of what is known as the Masonic block is in ruins. The contents of nearly all the buildings were also burned. A strong wind was blowing from the south, and for a time it looked as though the main business part of the city would be destroyed. Perry Easly of kiatook, Ind. Ten, was caught by a falling wall and crushed so badly that he will die. The Joss on the buildings and contents will reach $50,000: partially covered by insurance. This is the fourth time, inside of three years, that this same block has been partly destroyed by fire. ADRIAN, MO., HAS A BLAZE. Several HuHdingj, Including- Contents, Destroyed YVitn. a Loss of 815,000. Adrian, Mo., Jan, 4. Fire was dis covered in the rear of Woods, Gilmore Co.'s drug store at 2:30 yesterday morning, which soon spread to the building of A. J. Hoover, dry goods and groceries, and to Lansdowne's drug store, causing total destruction to the buildings and contents. Esti mated losses: Woods, Gilmore Co., $3,500; insurance, $2,900 on stock; on building, owned by Herman Murphy, 2,500; insurance, $i,50T); A. J. Hoover's loss on stock, 5,000; insurance un known; Miss Cora Turtle's millinery store, loss, $350; no iusurance; Lans downe, drugs, loss 83,500, no insurance on stock, some on building, but amount unknown. Estimated total loss, $15,C00. The building of Dear man Brown, groceries and hard ware, was badly damaged, also post office building, badly damaged from falling walls. WORLD'S FAIR FIGURES. Keport of Secretary Dawson of the Mis souri Commission. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 4. Sec retary William Dawsos of the Mis souri World's fair commission made his report to the governor to-day. It is shown by this that the general ex pense of administration was $34, 657.63 or nearly 30 per oent of the entire ap- propriation. The woman's auxiliary board cost $7,003.65; the educational exhibit, $4,303.95; mining exhibit, $15,203.95; horticultural, $9,799.14; ag ricultural, $0,139; forestry, $3,7(59.17; state building aud grounds, $47,762.35. A foot note shows that $34,000 was was paic to contractors. The total expenditures were 8149,735.85, leav ing a balance of $532. 39, which, with the sale of fixtures and with $350 re ceived for the stata building, makes the total sum turned into the treas ury $1,421.04. AN EDITOR ASSAULTED. Breckinridge's Ltw Partner Attacks Charles C. Moore. Lexington. Ky., Jan. 4. Yesterday afternoon John T. Shelby, law part ner of Colonel Breckinridge, as saulted Editor Charles C. Moore of the Blue Grass Blade with a cane, breaking it over his head. He then tore out a bunch of Moore's whiskers. George S. Shanklia, another lawyer and Breckinridge supporter, stood by aud looked on while Shelby assaulted the editor. Moore published in his paper an open letter to Madeline Pol lard, requesting her to go on the lec ture platform with .him, now that Colonel Breckinridge is lecturing. He said that she had more sense than. Breckinridge and all his lawyers, mentioning Shelby among the rest, and that she did not lie like all of them had done. BUILDING OF LOCOMOTIVES Business Shown to Have Fallen Off Tre mendously Daring the Tear 1894. New York, Jan. 4. The Railway Gazette says: "Locomotive building is shown to have fallen off tremen dously in the past year, according to our reports of the outputs of the var ious contracting works. The de crease in the number built is fully two-thirds, as compared with the previous year. Reports from thirteen companies make the total 625 locomo tives for 1894, against 2,011 built in 1893. Three companies building near ly ninety locomotives in 1393 did not turn out a single new one in 1894. The record of the car-builders ia even worse than that of the locomotive-builders. In 1894 only seven com panies have reported as having built any freight cars, the output being 17, 029 cars. In 1S93 50,249 freight cars were built by forty-three companies. Texasi Ask for Territory Openings. Washington, Jan. 4. A petition signed by a number of citizens of Northern Texas, urging the opening of the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache and Wichita lands was presented in the house to- day by Mr. CockrelL Mrs. I.athrop Dead. Jackson, Mich., Jan. 4. Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop.state president of the W. C-T. U. for the past nine years, and a widely known temperance lecturer, died from the effects of a cancer. Bnrrovs for Senator. Lansing, Mich., Jan. 4. Congress man Burrows was nominated for United States senator on the second ballot by the Republican cancus. New neck bands put on your shirts at Topeka Steam Ladnbkt. HIS S O URI JLEGIS LA.TURE. j Democratic Senators Nearly Caught Napping; Permanent Organization. Jeffersos City, Jan. 4. The bouse was called to order yesterday morn ing by Temporary Speaker Petti john, and proceeded immediately to estab lish a permanent organization. Lit tle interest vas taken in the roll call on the different officials, as the cau cus, had settled what tha outcome would be. The vote on each of the nominees stood about eighty fur the Republican candidate and fifty-four for the Democratic, a strictly partisan division of the members present. In the afternoon session of the bouse little was done save listening to Speaker Russell read from a type written copy his speech of accept ance of the speakership. The session of the senate, although short, came near surprising the old time Democrats, who had never be fore had anything to fear on account of small Democratic majorities. No sooner had the senate been called to order than Senator Gash nominated G. T. Dunn of Lincoln, named by Democratic caucus, temporary presi dent. Senator Kennisu placed in nomination Senator O'Bannon of Dal las county for the same position as the Republican choice. A vote was about to be taken when it was noticed that four Democratic members were absent, giving each party fifteen members present. After rustling about the corridors another Demo cratic member was found. This was enough to demand a recess uutil 2 o'clock, when the officers named by the caucus were elected by the party vote of nineteen to fifteen. STOLE HIS OWN DAUGHTER An 1 Reno Man nidiiap His Child at Wabash Ind., und Kscapes. Wabash, lhd., Jan. 4. A bold case of kidnaping occurred here yesterday. Phillip Scott of El Reno, I. T., came to Wabash and stole his 4-year-old daughter from his divorced wife. Scott married his wife in Kansas five years ago, and they soon after moved to El Reno. There he is alleged to have maltreated her, and she pro cured a divorce and the custody of the child, and was brought to Wabash by her relatives. Scott came here and charged his ex-wife with im proper conduct. Last Monday he as saulted William McClellend because of jealousy, giving him a terrific, beating. Yesterday morning he loi tered about Mrs. Scott's home until the child appeared, when he ssized her and ran for the Big Four train, southward. Officers are after him. Much excitement was caused by the kidnaping, and the mother of the child is frantic. HOLCOMB INAUGURATED. Nebraska's Governor is Formally In ducted Into Office. Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 4. Silas A. Holcomb was formally inducted into the office of chief; executive of the state of Nebraska yesterday after noon at 3 o'clock. The inaugura tion ceremonies were of the simplest and most informal character. Ia fact, there was but little of the ceremonial in the prooeedings. Governor Crounse's message was of more than usual length, and occupied more than an hour in its delivery. After he had finished a committee escorted Chief Justice Norval to the hall and the oath of office was ad ministered to Governor Holcomb and the other state officers. Gover nor Holcomb then proceeded with his inaugural message, which was listen ed to with the closest attention. MAY BE A SPECIAL MESSAGE Mr. Clereland Ursred by Carlisle to Send One No Conclusion Reached. Washington, Jan. 4. President Cleveland lias not yet determined to send a special message to congress on the currency question. It was learned Secretary Carlisle had mentioned the matter to the president and it had been discussed in a general way. There has been no con elusion reached, however, and up to the present time the president has not framed such a message or, in fact, determined to send one. ECounty on Sugar. Washington, Jan. 4. Senator Caf fery has introduced a bill for "the re lief of the sugar producers," provid ing for the payment of a bounty on the present years' crop of 1 cent a pound on sugar testing 90 degrees by polariscope, and of nine-tenths of a cent on sugar testing below that figure. The bill also provides for the payment of a bounty, on last years' crop to those who failed to collect before the present tariff law' went into effect at the rate of 2 csnts a pound for 90 degree sugar and of 1? cents for a sugar of less deg-ee of purity. y Elkins Yl ill Have to Fight. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 4. Nelson Whitaker, the millionaire iron manu facturer, has issued a public letter an nouncing his candidacy f or the United States senate. Whitaker's friends claim he is certain of not lest tha-n fifteen votes. The announcement if Whitaker's candidacy simultansousty with the formal announcement of Floyd and Hutchinson indicates a well planned and wide spread move ment to defeat Elkins. The Fight Was a Draw. Cleveland, Ohio., Jan. 4. A twelve round match was fought between Johnnie Lavack of Cleveland', and Georee Siddons of Philadelphia, at the Cleveland athletic club last night. It was decided a draw at the end of twelfth round. Banqaet to Lady Henry Somerset. Boston, Mass Jan. 4. The .W. C. T. U. last night gave a grand 'recep tion and banquet to Lady Henry Som erset at. Music halL There were 750 people present. Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 Kaus. Ave. We put on new neckbaadi on shirts Peerless Steam Laundry,, Hi aud 114 West Eighth street. TWO COWARDS. I was a coward, and we were both cow ards. Leban Adams and I were lawyers on opposite sides of a case. Adams' case was weak, and I ridiculed it, winning for my client. We met soon after and quar reled. He called me a liar. A3 that harsh word fell upon my ear passion-overcame me. I struck Adams In the face. His friends drew him away, and I went out into the open air. On the following morning a friend named Watkina called upon me and pre sented a note from Adams. I opened 16 and found it to be a challenge. What should I do? What I ought to do was very plain. The lesson of life which my mother had taught me did not leave me to doubt. X ought to have gone to Adams and made such offers of conciliation as one gentle man may honorably make to another, and if he had rejected that I could have simply turned from him and refused to do a fur ther wrong to right the wrong already done. But I bad not the courage to do that. I was a coward. I accepted the challenge. "The sooner it ia over the better," re marked Watkins. "Certainly,"! responded. "Let It be this very day, at sunset, upon the river's 'bank. I will send a friend to you to make further arrangements. "And the weapons?" "Pistols." And so it was fixed. An hour afterward I found John Price, a young physician, who agreed to act as my second. He did not urge me to aban don the idea, nor did he enter upon the work as though he loved it, but he did it because he fancied I was determined. I knew that Adams was a good shot, and he knew that I was the same, for we had practiced together, bo there was no advan tage to either in the weapons. After dinner Price came to me and told me that all was arranged. After Price had gone I sat down and wrote two letters. What a coward I was to write them! One was to my mother and the other to the girl who had promised to be my wife. As I sit now and think of that hour I 6hudder the hour when I wrote to my mother and to my betrothed. White Heart ledge was a high, perpen dicular wall of granite rising above the river, the top crowned with dark trees. It received its name from a peculiar mark, where a mass of white quartz appeared, half way up the ledge, in the form of a heart. Late in the afternoon I waa upon the sandy shore beneath the ledge, and almost at the same time Adams made his appear ance!. We were both anxious to be thought brave men. He did not speak to me, nor did I f peak to him. Our seconds conferred awh'le together, and then Price came to my Aide. f "Must this thing go on?" he asked. I told him I did not know how it conld be stopped. I lied, for I did know. Ha informed me that if I would make the least overture of peace he felt sure that Adams would accept it. "I think," he said, "that Adams is sor ry for what has happened. You struck him, and he cannot retract." "And he called me a liar." "You are both good shots, added Price, "and if you fire together you may both fall." But I dared not offer the hand of con ciliation. I told him I was ready. Ha went back to Watkins, and pretty soon they measured off the ground 12 puces. We were to stand back to back, those 12 paces apart. We were to turn at the word one, raise our pistols at two, and at the word three we were to fire. I caught the eye of Adams as I took my po sition, and I was sure that no angry pas sion dwelt therein. For an instant the im pulse was with me to throw down my pis tol end offer him my hand, but I had not the courage to do it. Our seconds hesitated as though they saw what was passing in our thoughts, but we offered no word, and they proceed ed. The word "One!" was given. I cannot tell all the feelings that came crowding upon me at that moment. I thought of my mother in her distant home. I thought of the scenes of my early childhood. J thought of my college days, when Adam "had been my friend and chum. I thought of the holy love which had beamed upon me since I had grown to man's estate, and I thought that in one short minute mora the black pall might cover it all. Watkins was a long time in pronounc ing the word "Two!" He evidently hoped that one of us would relent, but he hoped in vain. Only a breath held back the last fatal word. As we raised our pistols a sharp, agonised cry, as from a breaking heart, burst upon the air, and in another lno "nient two light shadows flitted upon the jscene. I was a prisoner. Adams was a prisoner. Our pistols lay undischarged upon the sand. The two girls who loved us better than we loved ourselves had guessed our secret. Love has sharp eyes. Clara Wolcott knew Laban 's hot temper. She had only to whisper her suspicions to Mary, and two sleepless sentinels ware upon us. In an instant I resolved to be a man. With the arms of my beloved still encir cling me, I stretched forth my hand, but I waa not in advance of Laban. As though one spirit moved us, our hands met mid way. "I have been a fool," said Laban. '.'And I have been a fool and a coward," I said. We returned from the dark ground just as the day was softening into twilight, and from that hour Adams and myself were fast friends, and they who had saved us from the great crime entered upon the life path with us and have blessed us ever since. Cincinnati Post. Korean Traits. i;orean boys and men are good look ing, even handsome, but the women and girts are hideous. But it must be remem bered that a traveler only sees the lower classes of the latter, who have to labor from early morning till late night in the fields, the gardens, the bouse and the sta bles, while, except during the four months of seedtime and harvest, .the male peasant does nothing but gossip and smoke. A man's chief sources of expense lie in his clothes and his pipe. The former, being white, are soon worn out by washing, and their hats are very dear. A Korean, though he has a distaste for personal ab lution, will have his clothes scrupulously1 clean and beautifully glazed. The mandarins are remarkable for scru pulously clean, carefully tended, well shaped, soft, white hands, without the long nails affected by the Chinese. They lay great stress upon small hands and feet as points of beauty and showing high breeding, and Koreans are said to be great pedestrians and lovers of scenery, the men often making pilgrimages to places whence ft fino view ntay be had. Spectator. ODD FEU.CWS. Membership or the 'Butcampvatuxt Bbek all Degree K&tes. The encampment, or, as it is more generally- known, the patriarchal,"" is ths higher branch of the oder foacause the de grees conferred upon those wfc-a bava pre viously been admitted to subordinate lodges, consisting yf three, designated M the patriarchal, golden ruls sad royal purple, are the final dagrees ceaf sired by the inferior bodies. The grand encamp ment is composed of the elective clToia, past grand patriarchs end repDasentatiTOa from each of the subordinate encamp ments, who must be p-ass chief patriarchs that is, those who have regularly served in the four principal offices cf their respec tive subordinates. There are 2,657 en campments, with a membership of 1SU, 000, under the jurisdiction of the sovereign grand lodge, which extends over this aud foreign lands. The board of trustees of the Missouri Orphans borne will open the home near Liberty on March 1. The buildings are capable of accommodating 500 inmates. The twenty-fifth anniversary of Beulah Bebekah lodge of Lynn, the first lodge in the state of the Itebekah branch, was re cently observed. There are about 20,000 Rebekahs in Illi nois. About $3,000 was expended for re lief the past year. A sister who marries a man not a mem ber of the order and who Is dropped for nonpayment of dues either before or after her marriage cannot be reinstated so long as her husband is not an Odd Fellow. Golden Rod Rebekah lodge 133 was in stituted by the grand officers at Taunton, Mass., recently with 16 charter members, three by card and 185 initiates. A lodge has the right to expend money for a band on the 2Gth of April, but at no other time. It cannot pay for music at a dance. There are 128 Rebekah lodges In Massa chusetts. Indebtedness by a brother is not to he deducted from funeral benefits. There are 85 subordinate lodges with a membership of 2,951 in Delaware; encamp ment membership, 3S7. The new Odd Fellows' temple in Cin cinnati is a large structure seven stories bigb. With the exception of the city hall, It is the handsomest edifice in the city. Odd Fellowship, like the venerable order of Masonry, has come to stay in this coun try and to spread itself throughout the civilized world. UNITED WORKMEN. A Hostler From the Pennsylvania Juris diction Notes and Gossip. We heard recently of a member of the crder in Philadelphia, says The Keystone Workman, whose assessments and does have not cost him a cent for over a year. The prize of $3 for each new member se cured has paid all of his expenses of mem bership during that time. A chango has taken place in the office of grand recorder of British Columbia. H. Voudall, New Westminster, B. C, is now grand recorder. By a vote of the lodges in Nebraska the regular session of the grand lodge has been postponed for a year, and the esti mated cost, $8,000, of such meeting is to be used in relieving the distress of breth ren in the drought stricken districts of the 6tafce. Members in good standing Nov. 1, 1891, S33.708. The average death rate of all the orders reporting to tbe national fraternal con gress was 10.42 for 1863, while that cf the A. O. U. W., the oldest of all, was only 10.11. Grand total beneficiary fund disbursed by the order from organization to Nov. 1, 1894, $57,132,046.86. RED MEN. Make the Order Known Among Palefaces. Alonjr the Trail. Nothing will strengthen your tribe and increase its influence for good, says The Wampum Belt, more than a social gather ing of members and palefaces, at which in a quiet way the excellencies of our crder can be made known and the permanent good will of the palefaces gained. Igno rance of the origin and history of our order is one obstacle to' its growth. Use all le gitimate means to properly instruct pale faces and avoid everything that tends to bring ridicule upon the order or encourage the idea that it is a mere burlesque. Re spect the order yourself, and others Will do likewise. Remember in making your choice for junior sagamore that you are probably electing your future sachem. Degree work as now exemplified in our order is far superior to that of past days. It is not thought necessary to half kill a paleface in order to properly adopt him. Indiana Is one of the few reservations showing a net gain for the fiscal great sun, ending SOth Iadt hot moon. Her groat chiefs believe in a wise and judiciously' liberal expenditure of wampum and in paying for good work well done. Knights of Honor, New York has one commandery and Brooklyn three in the uniform rank. New York has 67 lodges and Brooklyn 81! At this ratio New York should have at least seven commanderies. The review and reception tendered to: Grand Dictator M. H. Harte by tbe com manderies of the department state of New York, uniform rank. Colonel John F. Smith commanding, was a brilliant affair. Schuttenberg lodge, No. 3503, of Brook lyn offers a $100 gold watch to the mem ber introducing 25 candidates between Nov. 1, 1894, and July 1, 1895. uniguts or volambu. This order was instituted in 1892 at In dianapolis, and the home of the supreme lodge of the United States is in that city. The order is getting a strong foothold in various parts of the United States. It is distinctively American, and although citi zens of foreign birth are admitted the con stitution provides that no lodges nre to be Instituted outside of the United States. A Secret Order of the Past. Perhaps the most ancient ritual of a se cret order was that of the priests of Isis and Osiris in Egypt, old probably when Moses was born. The object was to teach religious ideas. Not all could be admitted, and the society seemed to be an intellec tual and religious club or aristocracy. It must have ceased to exist before the Chris tian era. Ths National Provident Union. The fact that a less number of assess ments has been called this year than in 1893 has given tbe union a material in crease in xnembershin.

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3 EWS OF KANSAi A Colored Child is Burned to Death at Ottawa. Two Dikes Are to he Built at Leavenworth. STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4. 1895 A NARROW ESCAPE! How it Happened. The following remarkable event in a lafly'j life will interest the reader: "Kora Iodk time I had a terribie pain at my heart, whiitli liut tered almost incessantly. Iliad no appetnr and could not sleep. 1 would he compelle;! to sit up in hed and belch sras from my sjtor.i ach until i tijought every minute would hi my lat. There was a feeling of oppressici anoutmv heart, and I was afraid to draw i full breath. I couldn't sweep a room with out sitiiri? down and resting: but, than.; r.od, bv the help of New Heart Cure all lli:;'. 1s past'and I feel like another woman. Be fore usin? the New Heart Cure I had taker, different so-called remedies and been treat e:i by doctors without any benefit until I war both discouraged and disgusted. 51y husbant bousht me a bottle of Lr. files' w Hear Cure, and am happy to say I never reirrette It. as 1 now have a splendid appetite am sleep well. I weighed 12o prunds when I be gan taking the remedy, and now I weigh lliO!-.; Its effect in my case has been truly marvel ous. It far surpasses any other medicine J have ever taken or any benefit I ever re reived from physicians." Mrs. Harry ttari Pottsville, la., October 12. 12. Dr. Miles New Heart Cure is sold on n posi tive guarantee by all druzsisfs, or by the Dr. Miles Medical Co.. Klkhart. Ind., on receipt o price, $1 per bottle, six bottles ?5. express pre paid. This great discovery by an erami'i:. specialist in heart disease, contains lieithel opiates nor dangerous drugs. For Sale by all Jrasstit. T E SUN The first of American ITe-wspapers. CHARLES A.- TANA, Editor. The American Constitution, the Amer ican Idea, the American Spirit. These first, last, and all the time, forever. Daily, by mail, $0 a year Daily and Sunday, by mail, $8 a year The Weekly, $1 a year The Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price 5c a copy. By mail, $2 a year. Address THE SUN, New York. CLASS for lidies and L'ontlemen SCHOOL DANCING 5 Mr. Mrs. J. H.Wetherell, MONDA'V evenings, 8 p. m. Social par ties FRIDAY TAB ings. Invitation required. Masonic Building. 623 Jackson Street. ANDIDflTES For positions in connection with the com ing session of the Legislature will do wel! to call and look at the neat ixwue That can be bad in lots of 500 for $1.25, from Cherles BBTWFWSB 807 Kansu ill f iVAM AV. Areuuea SPECIAL L BLANKET K E T SALE AT THE LITTLE STORE ABOUND THE CORNER. J. L. SHIVELY OTHER STATE NEW3. The Wichita National BankYVill Not Resume Business. Ottawa, Jan- 4 Manuel Walker, a colored man, quarreled with his wife the other day, and a separation fallowed, he retaining possession of the home and two children. The little ones are re spectively about one and three years of age. According to cu9tom, it is said, Walker left the children in the house and went away to work; the small child was tied in a chair. During the day a neighboring woman saw a blaze through a window and directed attention to it. A colored man ran to the house and through the window observed that the chair in which the child was was on fire. The door being locked he burst it open, and seizing the chair drew the child out of doors. The little one. was fearfully burned, particularly about the face, and died yesterday afternoon.- It is supposed that the elder child played with matches, anc in some way set fire to the cloth cushion of the chair. TO PIPE GAS TO KAXSA8 CITY. Kansas Gas .Fields May ?Be Utilized in That M'ay; Kansas City, Jan. 4. Frank Playter, now a Kansas City lawyefr, but until re cently actively engaged in tua manage ment of the Fort Scott, I'an., gas works, has received several letters during the past week from agents of Guffey Ga ley, at Neodesha, Kan., asking for in formation in regard to tjie consumption of gas in Kansas City. Tjhe gas wells in and around Neodesha have boen used for supplying gas for fujgl and lighting purposes among the smaller towns in the vicinity. The supply seems to be large, and Guffey Galey of Pittsburg, Pa., to gether with some local capitalists, have conceived the idea of piling it. to Kan sas City. The distance; is ahout 130 miles. They have been junking wells to ascertain whether their;suppiy is large enough. Indications ar;s that it is, and they are now seeKing lnlortnaucyi with a view to ascertain whether they" can dis pose of the gas to advantage .'f they lay the pipe line. CHARGED WITU W1LPIL MCRDIiP.. Coroner's Jury Finds Such a Verdict in the Case of Ir. Mullen. Emporia, Jan. 4 --Dr. Mullen,ihe Lebo physician who killed Bill Blakelduring a quarrel in an Arvouia joint last week, was captured at Strawn, twelve miles south of Lebo, and the coroner's, jury has returned a verdict of wilfulj murder against him. His preliminary examina tion has been commenced beiore Justice of the Peace D. N. Thomas, and is likel' to last several says. 'Ihe greatest inier est is being taken in the proceedings. Dr. Mullen comes of a good Kentucky family and was very popular in the com munity, lie is a Mason and a member of various other secret societies. Bill Blake, the man whose life he ook, left a wife and five chiliren in vei;y poor circumstances. WILL KITED TWO DIKES. Secretary of War Approves ihe Recom mended Work at I.eaveiijlvorth. Leavenworth, Jan 4. E. W. Snyder, president of the Terminal Hallway and Bridge company has received a letter from the secretary of the Missouri River commission saying that the Secretary of war's approval of the commissioner's recommendations regarding work at Leavenworth has been received. It pro vides for the buiKing of two dikes on the east side of the river, between Ft. Leavenworth bridge and the aew bridge at Leavenworth. J i; The improvement will costsibout $15, 000. The proposed dikes afe-to break the force of the current beforp it reaches the bridge dike aud approach, and will also confine the current to a narrower space as it sweeps by the city. Died of Slis Injuries. Leavenworth, flan. 4. Benjamin F. Talbot died in the Missouri Pacific hos pital at Kansas City as the result of in juries sustained in falling from a Missouri Pacific freight train just south of the old bridge opposite th fort. Mr. Talbot was about 48 years old- and had been in the railroad business over twenty- years. For a long time he w?.s conductor on the Rock Island. Of Jate he has i een with the Missouri Pacific as brakemaa and extra conductor. A "eir Kej-eiver Wayted. Fort Scott, Jaa. 4. Attcj-neys Dick and Smith of St. Lbuis, representing the Atlantic Trust company, htive filed in the United State? district court in this city an application, for the removal of C. F. Coffin, receiver. of the Fot't Scott wa ter works, and tha appointment of an other. The application will be heard by United States Judge Thayer of St. Louis next Friday. A Kansas Pioneer Gone. Syracuse, Jan.: 4. Dr. J. T. Collier, aged 69 years, a old pioneer of the west, died with kidney trouble at his home six miles west of the city, lie owned large tracts of land in western Kansas and eastern Colorado, and was also an extensive stock dealer. He was taken to Pueblo, Colorado, where he will be buried. lEQ-INNING- Tomorrow, to mtke a clear road for our annual stock-taking. The most ruthless annihilation of prices is made to close out every vestige of winter goods. Almost every article we name would be invoiced at the nrices quoted and auite a num ber of them are offered at considerably less than that. If these prices are not simply astounding then our best reasoning would not be convincing. Early attendance at this sale is advisable. We must not be censured if quantities are closed quickly. That is exactly what we desire to accomplish. Besgs' Little Giant Pills Are the most complete pill on the mar ket, besides being the cheapest, as one pill is a dose, and forty doses in each bottle. Every pill guaranteed to give satisfaction by W. R. Kennadv. Peerless Steam Steam Lauadry. Laundry Peerlea Wichita National Won't Resume. Wichita, Jan. 4. The Wichita Na tional bank has given up hope of re sumption and has gone into the hands of a permanent receiver. The' Sedgwick County bank has leased the corner for merly occupied by the Wichita bank and will move in tomorrow. 3,O0O Bushels of Potatoes Burn. Atchtson, Jan. 4. Three thousand bushels of potatoes, the property of I. N. Vickery were burned yesterday. The potatoes were put in a pit while green and spontaneous combustion caused the lire. five Inrhea of Snow ttt Nice. Nice, Jan. 4. Five inches of snow has fallen here and a further downfall is threatened. 2,000 yards regular staple check Ginghams, inventory price 3f c. Ladies' extra heavy all wTool, western make, seam less Hosiery, regular 25c quality, inventory price 15c a pair. Balance of a large lot of Unbleached Cotton Flannel, inventory price 3c. 2r-yard wide fine brown Sheeting, inventory price 13c, a figure that has never been quoted for such goods. 3,000 yds standard dress style Prints, inventory price' 3Ac. 4fe 10,000 yards fine brown Muslin, extra fine quality, inventory price 4c. Also 5,000 yds of better quality, very soft finished and fine thread, brown Muslin, in ventory price 4f c. Sixty dozen Gents' finest Cashmere Hose, very soft and warm; colors, navy, cardinal, natural and camels hair, regular 35c quality, in ventory price 19c a pair. Clothing department. 1,000 yds Curtain Scrim, excellent .patterns, regular 7Ac kind,1 inventory price 3Jc. 4V r isiJl ifr-TS.-Sl 4. 500 bxs of choicest highly perfumed and fine quality Toilet Soaps, worth 23c cake. We will close out at inventory price 12Ac a box each box holding 3 cakes Boys' Cassimere Caps with roll band, suitable for school wear, regularly 25c, inventory price 12c. Ladies' fine Cashmere Hose, Merino heels and toes, black and dark Oxford mixed, regular 30c and 35o kind, inventory price 21c. Gents' all wool knit Gloves in dark colors, regular value 50c, invoice price 29c. Note the magnificent opportunity we offer you during this sale to buy Dress Pattern and Trimmings. Such ridiculous prices are sure to result in empty shelves. At $1.98 Less than Inventory Price. At $3.13 Le8 than Inventory Price You can buy a whole Dress Pattern of Worsted Novelties, Wool Mixtures, Illuminated Suitings and Plain Henriettas, including Silesia, Cambric, Canvass, Binding, Stays, Hooks and Eyes and thread, free of cost. There is not one of these patterns including trimmings worth less than 33.50 to $3.75. You can buy a complete Dress Pattern of all wool fancy Mixed Dress Goods, Fancy Plaids and Checks, or all wool plain Henriettas and Serges and including free of cost Silesia, Canvas, Cambric, Binding, Stays, Hooks and Eyes and Thread. These patterns have retailed at $5.50 and $6.00. Underwear Mercilessly Cut. Did You Ever Expect Such Prices? Childrens' natural Vests and Pants, a splendid qual ity, inventory price for size 1G, 8-ic; rise 2ic a size. Men's Camel hair Shirts and Drawers, heavy, soft and fine, regular value $1.25, inventory price 88c. Children's all wTool scarlet Tests and Pants, soft and fine, inventory price for size 1(5, 10c; rise 5c a size. Ladies"'natural Vests and Pants, Swiss ribbed, good value; at 40c, inventory price lie. Men's groy Random Shirts and Drawers,worth 50c and 65c, inventory price 39c. Ladies' extra fine quality Swiss ribbed Vests, silk neck and front, value 88c, inventory, price 66c. m lit We shall close out exery dollars' worth of knit goods such as hoods and faciua tors at less than actual market cost. Ladies' fine white Merino Vests and Pants, soft finish, silk tape front and neck, pearl buttons.ribbed sleeves, inventory price 38c, worth 65c. 1 From now on and during the continuation of this sale we shall make a discount of ONE" QUARTER off on every Ladies', Misses' or Child's Cloak or Cape. On Men's and Boy's Overcoats from now on a discount of ONE-THIRD off, which will bring our prices down to a point LOWER than tfcie LOWEST. 617 and 619 J Kansas Avenue. MORE BATTLE SHIPS. The Saval Bill Calls for Three at a Cost of $4,000,000 Each. Washington, Jan. 4. It is practically settled that the naval appropriation bill as reported to the house will contain provisions for two and possibly three bat tle ships at a cost of about $4,00J,000 each. This will be by far the most im portant item of the bill. Representative Talbott, who is making the tirst draft of the bill, is heartily in favor of battle ships, and the report on the bill, which will probably be written by him, will make a strong showing of the merits of the battle ship as an arm of the naval service. CHOKER'S HORSES TO RUN. ORANGES WON'T GO UP. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. He Enters Four in English Racing Events in Newmarket and Ascot. London, Jan. 4. Mr. Richard Croker of New York has entered faur horses, including A ontauk, for the Ashley Plate and other races at Newmarket and Ascot. For the gold cup, he has entered Dub bins by cable. IsiDglassv Throstle and other cele brated English race horses have also been entered for the gold cup. Ladas,' the Derby winner belonging to Lord Rosebery is not entered. Stay Visit the 1'nlted. States. London, Jan. 4 The Globe says this afternoon that rumors are current that a visit f English cricketers and Rugby footballers to the United btates next fall is projected. California Dealers Don't Intend to Take Advantage of the Florida Freez. Los Angei.es, Cal., Jan. 4. Judging by the action of the executive committee, the southern California Fruit exchanges have no feeling that because there' has been freezes in Florida; they are going to take advantage of te Consumers and get fabulous prices for their fruit Up to yesterday the frutt exchangee had made no quotations except for the holi dav trade, which is generally limited, and the prices realized are no criterion of the market for the geniral trade. General quotations heretofore, nave been made about February 1, when the usually heavy shipments were made This year the exchanges are prepared for business a month auead of the regu lar time, notwithstanding the fact that the fruit is a little late in Ripening. The executive committee of vthe ex changes met at the centfal office in the Phillips block and fixed prices for the opening of the season as follows: Fancy Califormas free on board cars, if per box; choice $1,75; standard f 1.20. Compared with the opening prices of previous years, the exchanges do not ap pear to be taking advantage of the con ditions in the tast brought about by the Florida freeze. It may bo, howevpr, that as the season advances, and it becomes apparent that the trade will stand it, these priceB will be raised. Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 ixana. Ave. Furnished by the Associated Press to ths State Journal. Chicago, Jan. 4. Wheat opened easy today and Jc lower at 57. The mar ket was wituout visible means of sup port. The country commission houses were selling and considerable of the wheat of yesterday was for sale. New York bought moderately early but sold freely later. The buying was principally by scalpers. May touched 571 and re acted to 378- The opening orders in corn were gen erally to sell. There was little demand. May opened c lower at 47jg, touched and reacted to 47,38- Cits were dull and followed corn. May started unchanged at and declined to 31ij;. Provisions were easy on hog receipts in excess of the estimate. May pork opened 5c lower at $11.67, and declined to fll.6ij, reacting later to til 6o iav lard sold at $6.93. and May ribs at $j.92. Estimates for Saturday Wheat 50 cars; corn 330 cars; oats 160 cars; hogs 22,000 head. Barley Choice, 55c; medium, 53c; common, 5051c. Rye Cash 48c: Jan. 48c; May 52c. Hogs Receipts today, 35,000. official yesterday 46,616; shipments 12,488; left over, 9,000. Market active; beat higher, common to light 5 cents lower. Sales ranged at $4.35 for light; $4.004.55 for mixed; $3.90470 for heavy; $4.004.20 for rough. Cattle Receipts, 9,000. Market,seu to 10c lower. V. Sheep Receipts, 1,000. Prices gen erally 10c lower. Estimated receipt of hogs for tomorrow, 22,000. Knnnai City larlte. Kansas City, Jan. 4 Cattle Re ceipts, 4,4 0; shipments, 2, Mil), pest grades steady; others slow. Colorado steers oU28o.4 Texas steers $3.;;j5 3.6J; Texas caw $L752.6J; bef sters, $2.80gl5.25; native cows. $1.15KS0; stockers and feeders, $2.3')i.15; Snili and mixed, $1.5i)3 6,J. Hogs Receipts, 11,100; shipments, 2,000. Market opened steady; ciwsed weak and 5c lower. Bulk of suies 4.00 430. Heavies, $4.154.45; packers, $4.054.4o; mixed, $3 90ig4 3 1; lights, $3.5l)&95; yorKers, $3.90(3.95; pigs, $3.0J3.6J. 5 Sheep Receipts, 1,930; shipments, 800. Market steady and unchanged. Wheat jlow but firm; Na 2 hard 52c; Na 2 red, 51D2c; rejected, 46, u, 47c Sales by sample on 'chang-e f. a b. Mis sissippi river. No. 2 hard 07jJc; Na 2 red,57J58c. Cobn slow and 14c lower; iNa a mixed 4J41c; No. 2 white 4lc. Oats Slow; Na 2 mixed, U31Jc; No. 2 white 33c. Rtk Firm. No. 2, 52;53j. Bran Firm at 68fc$69a Hay Steadv. Timothy, $&009.50; prairie, $7.008 50. Eggs Dull and weak it IGa

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STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, jS95. The State Journal CSoial Paper cf the Citj of Tepafca, By Fbank P. MacLknkas. TESE3 07 5?SSS5IPTICSr. Eaily edition, delivered fey carrier, 13 cents a week ta any part of Topek or rohurbs, or at the same price in any Kansas tsvn Trhsre this paper has a car rir system. By mail, three months .93 By nail, one year 3.63 Waskly Edition, per year 60 GREATEST IN KANSAS. AVER ACS DAILY CIRCULATION: 8,8o6 Per the three dull summer months of 129 an increase of oyer fifty per cent in one y:ar. OIR PKOOFi The issues of the Toprka Datlt Statu Journal for the three months, viz., from the Ut day of June, 18M. to the Hist day of August, 194, inclusive, have been as follows: June July August 1.. a. 8. 4. 6. 6. 7. 8. H. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 'M. 8,4:3 8,312 8.308 8,f)H0 9,500 9,700 8,401 8,W3 8.390 8,643 8.947 8.470 8..W2 8,502 8,523 8,410 8,380 8,403 8,452 8,485 8,473 8,49-2 8,4li3 8,492 8.4.12 8,402 720 842 752 720 943 ,022 ,120 ,952 540 ,023 94 ,000 ,8.")3 ,860 210 .923 ,892 998 ,792 ,781 222 74G 800 2$. '-It. SO. HI. 740 720 Totals. 222,508 241,173 I 231,993 Sunday; no Issue. The total a umber of copies printed in the three mouths named above. ti9;i.6T9. divided by 79. the number of issues, shows the average to be 8,806. This is a correct report of the issue of the Top eka Daily Statu jo, itXAL for ttie three mouths as Hated. (Signed Editor and Proprietor. Sworn to and subscribed Sept.-ll. 1894. StALj S. M. i!ardexhire, Clerk of the District Court, Shawnee County, Kansas. t-The STATS JOURNAL is the only paper in Kansas recsivinsj the Full Day Associated Press. tafHernher American Newspaper Pub lithers's association. jSTThe STATS has the handsomest and most complete vreh ster eotype perfecting press. Eastern office, 73 Tribuna Building, New York, Perry Lukens, Jr., manager. Weather Indications. Washington, Jan. 4 Forecast for Kan sas: Fair and warmer tonight; Saturday fair; southeast winds. The women of Memphis seem to have stuck to their resolution to boycott Col. Breckinridge. There were but nine present in an audience of 700. Congbes3 does not seem to have learned anything during the holiday re cess. The house has resumed consider ation of Carlisle's currency bill. Empokia Gazette: The business men cf Kansas turned out and restored the Republican party to power. That is one reason why Major Hood will be sent to the United States senate. He is a special representative of the business interests of our state. The Wichita Beacon prints the fol lowing pertinent paragraph regarding judicial matters in Kansas: Two suggestions have been made in reference to judicial matters. One is to increase the number of supreme justices because the supreme docket is so far be hind. Another is to cut in two the num ber of district judges. It has not oc curred to any legislator that the latter course may remedy the former difficulty. Ths following extract from an edito rial article iu the Atlanta Constitution, would indicate that that paper is far from being in accord with its party, or the present administration. It says: "When the people of the United States compel their official servants to restore silver as a part of the primary money of the country then they will have perma nent prosperity and not before." The movement to abolish the fee sys tem in state, county and municipal offices has struck Missouri In commenting editorially on the subject the St Louis Republic prints the following: The fee system has been one great source of corruption and evil wherever it has existed. It has always carried in its train more or less discreditable deeds at which honest men learned to wink. It has done more, perhaps, than any one mistake to debauch the people and event ually ruia many who tried to serve the publio under its corroding influences. The New Orleans Picayune asserts that the low prices of wheat and cotton are not due to cheap silver but rather to overproduction of those staples, and un dertakes jo prove its assertion in a long and labored editorial It is surprising that there is still anybody left who hon estly believes ia the overproduction the ory. Ia face of the fact that millions of people ia the world do not have a suffi ciency of clothes the Picayune says there is more cotton raised than the world needs. Notwithstanding the fact that there are millions of people in the world who do not get enough to eat, that paper ays there is too much wheat raised. If U Picayune's assertion that all corn- mercial values have not declined with those of wheat and cotton, were true, it3 position might be tenable; but is is not true. Not only have all commercial values declined but wages also and the opportunity to earn any wagea at alL Lack of ability of the people to buy is what i9 the trouble with the wheat and cotton market. Thia lack of ability cornea from a paralysis of the industries of the country as a result of placing the finances of the country on a gold basis. The Picayune will probably never see its eiTor until silver coinage is restored. OK PASSES. The Leavenworth Times takes up the pass question which the Statb Journal n as been agitating for some months in the following: It goes without saying that the raid made on txie railroad pass business, in the proportions to which it has grown, will go on to its extinction and that no more willing assistance will be given than Lby the railroads. Since the position taken by Mr. Justice Johnston, of the supreme court, before the late election, neither he nor the other members of the supreme court can ride on passes, and if they i;aa not afford to do so, how can other public officials? But it is not as to the supreme court jus tices, state officers and district court judges, where the greatest wrong exists. It has grown to be the rule ttf a.t all pub lic officers, from city clerk up, shall have annual passes, and that they bhall nave "the pull" for their friends for ."trips,'' and so with legislative members and offic ers and directors of the dilterent state institutions, all of which are allowed and collect mileage for every mil they legi timately ride on passes, and sj embezzle (or worse) from the publio treasury, just So much money as they draw on their sworn statements for mileage. But the worst of all is in .-the passes got for delegates and lobbyists to conventions. It has got so that only candidates who have a "pull" on the railroads can gather into a convention, outside of his own county, enough 6up port to stand any show of success, aijd, of course, it grows worse every year, sad there is subserviency to or hostility against the railroads depending upou whether the favors were ample or not as desired. .Every interest involved suuars from this evil; the candidates have so many more "bums" to otherwise provide for, influence not merit makes the nomination, and the railroads lose their legitimate revenue and filch in other ways to get even. Should net this thing be stopped from top to bottom? One road cannot act alone and in any effort at concert of actiu the chauos are that there would be under cutting to its de struction. There is one remedy that ought to be effectual require monthly publication in the paper having the larg est circulation in each county where the holder of a "complimentary"' residesof the name and number of all pusses is sued during the month preceding, and the railroads would find ample reason for refusing applications. It is perfectly plain to all intelligent readers of history and students of politi cal phenomena, that not only is a change impending in the issues in American politics, but forces and factors are at work throughout the whole of our west ern civilization, which show th.it an era, that following mediaevalistn, is closing, and society is about to assume new rela tions, new aspects, and to accommodate old traditions and customs to new condi tions. Salina Republican-Journal. Carroll D. Wright, tha United. States, commissioner of labor, voiced the same sentiment recently when he said that we are in the midst of a silent revolution. The contention is between two great modern ideas of government, both of which are bent on crowding out the orig inal design. The contest is between paternalism on the one hand, as illus trated by the Pacific railroads, the nat ional banks and the protective tariff; and fraternaliam on the other, characterized by a demand that the government shali own and operate all public utilities for the common interest of the people. Be lievers in both theories are to be found ia all political parties at present, but whenever these opposing .sentimentd shall crystalize in the form of two oppos' ing political parties, then the question will be settled. KANSAS PARAGRAPHS It only takes four tailors to make a man in Pleasaaton, because there are. that is all P. B. Dunlevy, of Wisconsin, hus been made professor of science ia Wialeyan college at Salina. j Crap shooting is the only industry at Pleasantoa which has felt the stimulus of reviving business. Ia a suit for the possession of a'hog at Powhataa five lawyers were employed and the case cost $200. The Wichita Eagle has a brand new head and headline letters that gre&tly im prove the paper's appearauce. t Mrs. Iloyle gave a euchre party at Junction City, and all disputes abaut the rules could be settled right there.' The Globe suggests that all Atchison young men callers leave early 'so the young ladies can write in their diaries. Beloit has a music club called the Spasmodic Quartette, so-called becausa you can't tell when it is going to break out The Goldea Belt Medical society met at Junction City yesteraay. It has no connection with the eleotrio belt frater nity. An Iola man got seven Shetland ponies in a trade the other day, and evhry boy aad girl in town wishes he was their papa, Salina naturally begins to hibernate with the first cold weather. The mer chants will hereafter close their stores at 8 o'clock. Mr. Esse cf Iola, is a man that the La ia students ia the high school think ought never to be troubled about "to be or not to be." Two newly married couples of young Germans paraded the streets of Marion the other day in a wagon drawn by twb gorgeously decorated horses. j Somebody or bodies put themselves bd yoad the reach of the agonizing pangs cf hunger by stealing 100 chickens and two barrels of sorghum from a farmer living near Leavenworth PASSES ARE SCARCE. Scarcely Any of the Incoming Politicians Have Them. THE CARDBOARDS A RARE SIGHT. The Ant I-Pass 'Agreement Seems to be M'orkinx Money fa It for tbe Kailroads. There never was in the history of the state such a scarcity of railroad passes as there has been since Tuesday morning. Members of the legislature coming ia from the remote corners of the Btate, say they failed to see any passes ou the trains which brought them here. W. H. Kelson, editor of the Smith County Pioneer, who came in from Smith Centre said he did not see a single pass all the way into Topeka and that there was a noticeable absence of the large number of passengers who are known to ride iree when they ride at all. In the crowd of politicians at the CopelanI there is, aside from the mem bers of the legislature themselves, who came on trip passes, net a single man who will admit that he came on a pass, aud most of them say point blank that they paid their fares because they failed to get passes. Tne great crowd of "hangers on" who have during the last decade been in the habit of coming to Topeka at such times as these just because they had nothing else to do and could come free, are not here this time, and it is generally agreed that their absence is a good thing. The railroad officials who handle the pass business are being bored to death just now by some of the people who have been refused passes the first time in their lives, but tne anti-pa33 agreement seems to be a reality and if everybody pays fare the railroads will soon be re lieved of the free transportation fiends and the paaaeuger receipts will be in creased. It is true that some people never travel except when they get passes, but there are a large number of persons who have to riae and if they can't get passes they will put up the cash. The pass agreement is all right as far as it goes; now let us have a law which will make it a misdemeanor and fix a penalty for a judicial, state or county of ficer who takes or uses a pass and the in fluence of free transportation will soon cease to be a political bug bear ia Kan sas. SOLON IN TWO STATES. George Coulson" Goes From the Kansas Legislature to the Oklahoma Legislature. George II. Coulson, one of the leading Populist members of the houses of 1890 and 18D2, is now in Oklahoma, and is having his seat, in the territorial senate, to which he was elected, contested. Mr. Coulson's family still reside near Anthony, Harper county, but he has for several months been on his claim near Pond Creek, and was elected to the sen ate from the Tenth senate, or council, district by about thirty majority. A. II. Rurtia, one of the Republican candidates for sergeant-at-arms of the Kansas legislature who has some inter est in Oklahoma, today called at the of fice of the secretary of state and asked for a certificate showing that Coulson is still a member of the legislature and has not resigned. A certificate was given him showing that Coulson was a member of the last house and that his resignation had not reached the office of the secretary of state. The Republicans have a big majority ia both branches of the Oklahoma legis lature and Mr. Coulson will no doubt be unseated. FINALLY GOT TO IT. Steward Butler Says He Sow lias Those r Receipt. Topeka, Kas Jan. 3, 1895. To the Editor of the State Journal: Dear Sin: In your paper of yesterday appeared an article referring to me which was not fair or based on facts, and I wish to make the following statement: I did receive contributions to the cam paign fund from o'licers and employes of the institution, and I turned over every dollar received to Chairman lreidenthal. Mr. Breidenthal sent me receipts for each individual who had paid money. I have not handed all thue receipts to the par ties to whom they belong, as 1 have been very busy with my own work. No per son has called on me for the receipts and some of them are yet in my possession. 1 am confident every dollar paid to Mr. Douthet or myself has been turned over to the committee. I challenge my ac cusers to show me one person who paid me money who will sav it has not been turned over for the purpose for which it was paid. Yours for equity. Jambs Butler. Stewart Butler may be right in saying he has all the receipts in his possession, but it remains a fact that on account of a press of other business. Chairman Breidenthal did net until yesterday se cure the signature of D. C. Zercher, to a large number of these receipts and they could not have passed into Stewart But ler's hands until yesterday. Chairman Breidenthal says the state central committee did not levy an assess ment on anyone, but that ail the contribu tions were voluntary. If any person levied an assessment it was unauthorized. NEW CORPORATIONS. Companies Organized To do Business iu Kansas Granted Charters. The following charters have been tiled with the secretary of state: The Cummings Creamery company of Cummings, Atchison county; capital stock 3,u00. Directors B. W. Btoue cipher, J. P. Judah, Frank Caraea, Chad. Lanze and Geo. C. Butler. The Pioneer Cemetery association of Graham county. Directors M. V. .Mc Kesson, J. C McFarlaud, J. W. Mahuria, George Clark, J. W. Jenkins, B. C Kea you aad W. LL Miller. The Overbrook Creamery compaay of Overbook, Osage county; capital stock $10,000. Directors D. S. Fairchild, Ja3. G. Kiikwood, Albert Radcliff, W. W. Ware, Wm. J. White, Wm. Clark and Marshal Dodder. The Fish, Tower and Doyle Commis sion company of Kansas City, Kan.; cap--ital stock $100,000. Directors Frank Q Fish, Horace Tower, Patrick Doyle, E. Q. Cox aad C A. GrambilL Stoves at Cost. Having rented apart of my store room will close out my entire line of "Gold Coia" aad "Stewart" stoves at actual cost. Marion Sheldon, 702 Kansas ave. I TWO SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. How Katzer and Wcttnore Endeavored to Kestore Ex-Queen LiliuokalanL. Hawaii, since the downfall of Queen Liliuokalani, has been invaded by a large number of political adven turers and sol diers of fortune who have been active in numer ous plots lookng to tbe restoration of the deposed queen. Two of them Stephen M. Katzer, an ex corporal of the United Stattes Stephen M. katzer. army, and Claude H. Wetmore, au ex-American newspa per man were identified with plots that failed and were compelled to leave tbe islands. Katzer is an Austrian and served for a time in the Austrian army. Ho then came to America, enlisted in the United States army aud was until August, 1894, a corporal in Light Bat tery F, United States artillery, stationed in San Francisco. After his discharge last August Kat zer thought there might be gold and glory for a soldier of fortune in Hawaii, and consequently he sailed for Honolu lu. On the steamer he became acquaint ed with Samuel Parker, one of Queen Lil's prominent partisans, and began plotting for a royalist uprising. Upon his arrival in Honolulu he was to assist in the capture of one of the island steamers, but the provisional govern ment frustrated the plot. From that time the air was filled Tvith plots and rumors of plots, partic ularly the latter. Katzer was deep in tha confidence of the royalists and join ed the provisional government's police force in order to spy out the weaknesses of the defenses of the palace or execu tive buildiug. He concocted a scheme whereby the palace could easily be cap tured, but She royalists lacked nerve, he says, and as the provisional govern ment became acquainted with his plans he left Honolulu in disgust and return ed to the United States. Wetmore, the other American plot ter, doubtless hoped to overthrow the provisional government and make him self King Claude. He was born in Ohio, made a reputation as a newspaper man by giving early and graphic reports of the Johnstown flood and has at different times occupied important positions on many of the great newspapers of the country. Ha was a borrower, a bigamist and even a forger, it is said, and was as able ao he was unscrupulous. He went to Honolulu as the correspondent of two New York and Chicago papers. Upon his arrival he began plotting to restore the queen and was soon at tho head of 200 would be revolutionists. The government learned of his plans, however, and informed him that ho must leave the island at onre or ho would be cast into jail. He left. TERRELL AND THE TURK: Various Qualifications of the American Minister at Constantinople. Alexander W. Terrell, envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey,; who is Unole Sam's mouthpiece in the'negotia- A. W. TERRELL. tions between the United States and the sultan arising out cf tha recent massacre of Armenian Christians, is a native of Virginia, but an adopted son of Toxas. He is 69 years of ago and has one of the finest residences in Austin. He is also tho possessor of a magnificent ranch of about 8,000 acres a dozen miles from the city. He is a graduate of the Uni versity of Missouri, has enjoyed the benefit of a special course at Heidelberg, Germany, and is a very cultured and well educated man. He speaks several of the modern languages fluently, and as he has been at his post over a year he is probably able to exchange the time of day with the "unspeakable Turk. For a number of years Mr. Terrell was a reporter of the Texas supreme court, and he has served as a state sena tor. He was at one time a candidate for the United States senate and was beaten by John H. Reagan. In April, 1893, President Cleveland eppointed him to fill the Turkish mission, and the appoint ment caused considerable newspaper comment owing to the fact that about 30 years ago Mr. Terrell wrote a poem eulogizing John Wilkes Booth whan the actor assassinated President Lincoln. Considered purely from the literary standpoint, the poem shows imaginative and constructive ability of a high order, and its gloom and imagery are some what suggestive of Edgar Allan Poe. One verse will suffice to show the char acter of the poem: Give him a sepnlcher Broad as the sweep Of the tidal wave's measureless motion. In the arms of the deep Lay our hero to sleep, 'Mid the pearls of the fetterless ocean. Mr. Terrell is a man of considerable wealth and is thus able to properly sup port the dignity of his high office at Constantinople. The present negotiations in the matter of tha proposed Atmenian investigation will doubtless give him ample opportunity for the exercise of his talent for diplomacy. XirSl Ml. prawn .,TV r JAMES B. BTTDD, KNTTTE NELSON.

fees tpy f -swA H. CLAY EVANS, A GROUP OF GOVERNORS. Mr. Bufld, the newly-elected democratic governor of California. Is forty-three years old. Is a native of Wisconsin, but was taken by his parents to California whrn he v-as six years oli. Ha was graduated from the Berkeley university In 1873, and then studied law. He was a frited States commissioner for many years. Ho was elected to congress in 1882. Governor Knute Nelson, re-eleeted in Minnesota by the republicans, is a native of Norwav, coming to this country with his parents in 1&49. whoa six years old. Thev settled In Wisconsin, where Knute obtained an incomplete education during the winter months. He served in the Fourth Wisconsin regiment during tbe war, studied law at its close, served in the legislature In 1868-9, moved to Minnesota in 1H70. whera he served as prosecuting attorney of Dougla county. He has also served his district in the state legislature end in congress. Mr. Evans, the recently-elected republican governor of Tennessee, is a native of Pennsyl vania, but was reared ond educated in Wisconsin. D'iring the war he was a soldier in a Wis consin regiment. When he was mustered out in 1834 he settled in Chattanooga, Tonn.. where he has siuce lived. He has held local offlces, and has been twice mayor of his city. He wp.a elected to the Fifty-iirst congress, and was a candidate again in 1890. Mr. Mclntlre. the successful republican candidate for governor In Colorado, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Yaie college in 1(373, and from the Ycle Law School in 1875. He ha been in Colorado twelve or fifteen years, and has practiced his profession success fully, though he has also been at the same time a farmer aud ranchman in the San Luis Valley, along the Conejos river. He has for several years been judge of a court of record la his hocia OflimLv. GETTING EVEN. "How b tHscavded Miss Revenged Herself on Her Mother. "Oh Beattie, what a dear, delightful llittlebat! What is it?" "Beaver." "Trimmed with those sweet little tails. Now take it off and come and sit down ;by the fire and tell me all the news. Why, it must be six mouths since we last ;met just when you got engaged to Reg gie, you know. Give me your gloves, dear. That's ri oh, Beattie!" "What's the matter?" "Where's your ring?" "My engagement ring?" "Yes." "It's'off." I "I see it Is. Have you lost it?" ''I'm not speaking cf the ring, Mab. j I'm speaking of the engagement." j "What tbe engagement's off?" "Yes." "Goodness gracious! What's hap pened?" "Ah!" "Have you thrown bim over?" "No." ''Then he's thrown you over?" "Yes." "Who for?" "You'll never guess." "Then I won't try. Who is it?" "I'll tell you presently. "Shall you have him up for breach?" "No." "No? You don't seem to mind much." "I don't mind at all." "Oh, Beattie I Can you sit there and tell me that you don't mind losing ever so many thousands of pounds?" "I'm not sitting here and telling you anything of the sort." "Then wasn't it true that Reggie would come Into heaps of money when his father died?" "Quite true, and that's just it." "What do you mean? Why can't you spi;ak out and tell me instead of being so mysterious?" "Well. I wilL Reggie is going to marry my mother." "Wha-at!" "My mother Iia3 cut me out." "Gracious goodness!'.' "She's only 35, you know, and" "But does she love Reggie?" "Ah!" "Does Reggie love her?" "He's smitten, fascinated, I believe." "How long has he known her?" "Only since she returned from Cannes about a month." "Reggie's only a boy. However did your mother manage it?" "She's much prettier than I am, and well, there you are." "Reggie'H be your father instead of your husband." "Isn't it funny? But funnier things may happen than that." 'When did you know?" "Last night. My mother knew I wasn't desperately fond of Reggie, and she then told me that she was, bo I just gave him to her." "And his money." "And his possible money." "Well, his possible money. But what puzzles me is that you take it all so quiet ly." "I'm perfectly satisfied." "You seem quite to lose sight of the fact that Reggie Is th3 only son of a very rich father." "That's just what I don't lose eight of. That's why I'm so satisfied." "I've no patience with you." "My mother has certainly cut me out" "Well?" "But I've cut her out" "How?" "And Reggie out." "Hew?" "I'm engaged to his father." "Goodness gracious mel Then yon will be Reggie's mother." "In a way." "And he'll be your father, and you'll be mother-in-law to your own mother, and, oh, dear me ha, ha, ha!" Buffalo Six press. A Free Lunch Plot. "Excuse me," said the seedy man, si dling np to the well dressed citizen, "if I don't mistake, yon are just going into the sploon to buy a drink or a cigar or some thing?" "I am going to buy myself a drink," arswered the citizen, with an accent on the nronoun. "Oh, I didn't want to brace you for no A. W. MCIXTIEE. ball! What I want you to do ia to take this here nickel and ask me to have a beer with you." "I I don't quite catch on." "I'll tell you. If I go Jn and drink with a fine, well fixed man like yourself, I kin afterward stand there and stow away all the lunch I want to. If I fei In lookin as I do, with'my little old one nickel, I'd get throwed out before I had a chance to take more than four or five fork fuls of the beans and a sandwich or two." The deal was made. Cinciunati Trib une. At the Sifn cf the Hand. She was a guileless, innocent thing, and as she passed a sign which read, "Glyves cleaned and repaired," she thouh of something all of a sudden and went into the Fhop. i "I believe you clean act repair giOves here, don't you?" she said to Uie clerk. "Yes, miss," he replied. "Well, I haveone at home that I'll sonu down to you. It doesn't need dealing very much, but I want it repaired. I've lost the mate to it." Then she retired, and tho clerk is wait ing and wondering how he will getsqwara with that sign. Detroit Free Press, f Proved. "Do you loved me, mamma?" "Yes, my child." "But not so much as I love you, l;am sure." "Why not?" "Because you have to divide your love between me and my two sisters, whije I have only one mamma to love. Figltro. Whither Are We Drifting? Lawyer (in 1994) You want a divorce from your wife? On what ground? Husband (sobbing bitterly) Nonsnp port, ma'am. I have had to earn my .'liv ing for a whole year. And 1 was rai'ed, oh, so delicately Chicago Tribune. Accustomed to Something Like It "It's all wonderfully interesting," said one of the fair visitors at the big packing house, "but the odors are very trying.'' "Why, I don't observe any odors," Paid the one whose husband is a naturalist. Chicago Record. A Modest Effort. Teacher I will award the medal to thb boy who suggests the most appropriate motto for the schoolroom. Dick Hieks We study to please. New York World. Save the Pennies. But what to do with them has been the problem. The Savings Loan Associa tion, 110 West Sixth street, has solved the problem. They are furnishing their depositors with a pretty little bank that can neither be picked nor unlocked ex cept bv the secretary. They pay 6 per cent interest upon deposits and when it amounts to one hundred dollars, 7 per cent. The plan is especially attractive to ladies and children. That Camden Coal. Best fuel in the market aud costs less. Topeka Coal Co. A. F. Horskr, Agent Good work done by the Peerless Tbt 1895 ...5tatior?ery ...We can please you... Adams Bros. MODERN PRINTERS. 711 KANSAS AVENUE.

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STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1895. 5 REFORMS ARE NEEDED. They Are So Numerous in Muni cipal Matters THAT IT TAKES MUCH SPACE Merely to Detail Them-The Pree Fossilixed tatote a the Subject of Citie fall or flaws. About the first thing done by the rep resentatives of cities of the first-class when they assembled late yesterday afternoon was to name themselves: '"The Kansas Municipal association." Some wanted to call the organization a "league and Mayor Barnes thought "congress" would be better, and "association" was adopted aa a compromise. A code of by laws was adopted. The city attorneys formulated their re port and it was presented early in the cession. There was no minority report and the suggestions of the committee were a compromise of ail the demands. The report a3 adopted suggests the passage of the following laws: Recommending a settlement between the county cleric and county treasurer as suggested by City Clerk McFadden of Tope k a. A sidewalk law which shall provide Bome sufficient meacB for building and repairing sidewalks. For a law providing that all damage actions shall be brought within sixty days, and a verified account of the dam ages be presented within thirty days. For the issuing of bonds to build water works. That bridges that cc -t more than f 1, 000, whether within the city or county, ehail be built by the county; upon an au thorized vote when the cost exceeds $2,000. The board of county commissioners to be deprived of the right to vacate streets. To abolish the office of commissioner of elections. Providing for work houses. That all contracts in excess of $100 be let to the lowest responsible bidder city printing excepted. At 6 p. m. the association adjourned and a short session was held at 7:30 after which those present left oil thinking of la '3 and were conducted to the banquet halL The following delegates were present: Kansas City X. Barnes, mayor, J. M. Reese, counselor; K. P. Snyder, attorney; C. A. Ellis, city engineer; B, L. Short, clerk, and B. S. Smith, O. B Trower, G. T. Twiss, John Davidson, B. Pullman and U. V. Widener, couucilmea. Topeka T. W. Harrison, mayor; C. A. Fellows, M. C. ilolman, J. D. Pattison, F. I Stpvens, W. C. Stephenson, S. B. Brad ford, James Burgess, J. T. Fulton, coun cilrneu; D. C Tillutson, attorney, S. S. McFadden. clerk; G. D. Hale, county as sessor, and J. L. Knight, chairman of the board of county commissioners. Wichita C. S. Smith, clerk; J. D. Cald well, assessor, and P. A. Rohrbaugh, rep resentative for the Sixty-eighth district, Leavenworth C. P. Rutherford, attor ney; J...W. Hausserman, clerk, and D. A. Hook and G. E. McGill, councilmen. Atchison M. J. loyes, mayor; T. B. Gerow, clerk; J. F. Tufts, attorney; J. F. Chisham. treasurer: C. W. Jackson, J. D. Waggener and S. O. Berseman, council men. Fort Scott W. P. Dillard, attorney; G. T. Wilson, P. C. Hessaraud B. F. Othick, couneilmen. This Morning's Session. At 10 o'clock this morning Mayor Har rison again called the Municipal associa tion to order in the council chamber. The control of the primaries was the first subject d!sciied, and City Clerk McFadden offered a resolution providing that the registration books be used at primary elections. Councilman D. A. nook of Leaven worth said that many people did not reg ister until on the eve of election, and they would be deprived of their votea at the primaries. Councilman John Davison of Kansas City said that the use of the books would prevent hack loads of people from Mis souri from voting in his city as they had been doing. City Attorney Snyder, of Kansas City, and Captain J. Lee Knight, of Topeka, thought the use of the books would pre vent fraud. Representative Rohrbaugh, of Wich ita, said he was in favor of the resolution because it was only a suggestion. He did not think the Australian ballot systen wa3 practical for use at the primaries. C ity Clerk Short, of Kauaas City, said that it was impossible uader the present system to prevent illegal voting. The resolution was adopted without opposition. C. 8. Smith, city clerk of Wichita, was elected treasurer, and the other officers elected in Kansas City will hold over. Wichita was selected as the place' for the next meeting, on the second Wednes day of November. The city attorneys wer made a onm. mittee to draft the laws recommended bv v. the association. The following pointed: committees were ap- On eehlature Atchison, J. F. Tufts, J. WT. Waggener; Kansas City, J. m! Reese, G. J. Twiss; Ft Scott, B. F. Othick, W. T. Wilson; Topeka, S. B. Bradford, J. Lee Knight. On administration Atchison, Mayor M. J. Cloves, C. W. Jackson;Kansas Citv John Davison, K. P. Snyder; Ft. Scott J W. Hamlin, IL B. Brown; Topeka, Y. C tphenon. Go. D. Hale. The committees from Leavenworth .and Wichita were not named. The convention tendered a unanimous vote of thanks to the State Journal and Capital for their reports of the meeting iiwuuu tmu, iviuam ura mando lin club and to the city council of To peka and ladies of the U. A. R. for the entertaiment After the association adjourned Chief Wilmarth showed the visitors how quick ly the fire department can turn out and explained the mysteries of our fire alarms. THE BANQUET. A Long Prograinma of Toasts Briefly and Happily Uelivere.I. The banquet tendered by the ladies of the G. A. It to the Municipal association commencing at 10 o'clock last evening was a really elaborate affair. The coffee was excellent, while the other parts of the banquet were all that could be aaked and the visiting aldermen showed their appreciation of the spread. After the board had been cleared Sen ator Dillard, city attorney of Fort Scott rapped for order and after a song by the Modocs, which was encored, introduced Jlajer Uarrisoa of Topeka, whose toast was Paving the Way," said: "There is one delightful things about toast talks. One is not confined to his subject If I attempted to pave the way for all who are come no one else wili have time io talk. This convention tray not pave the way for grand results but it will result in much good, for I have learned more about city government ia the ttvo meet ings we have had than in all the rest of my Ufa If we can pave the Way for bettering our cities we will beneiit the whole state. Mayor Nathaniel Barnes of Kansas City, Kan., then talked on "Mui-.icipal Improvement" He called Kansas City the gateway of the state. "The (Whole industries of the state pass through our city," he said. "Many people have a mistaken idea about our city. Nearly all the big industries in Kansas City ure on our side of the river. e eiaim to have the second largest stock ex change in the world and hope before long to rival even the wirdy city." He explained thatKansa3 CityKas-.was different from Kansas City, Jla City improvement means city pride. A3 much as I love my city aud people 1 hope to see you all prosper said. Mayor Barnes in closing. Representative Rohrbaugh of Wichita responded to the toast, "Police Power." lie said he could not understand why Wichita should always be twitted about her police. He said that the police power was most dangerous and without warrant, though necessary. "In our town," he said, "we have an excellent police force. We are charged with hav ing joints but there is cot a policeman who can tell you where one of5 those places is. They never go there for they do not drink themselves. You will be safe if you come to W"icaita for our po lice never ruoiest any oaA. Mayor Barnes has talked about the advantages of Kan sas City, but they should look well to their laurels for we are growing in a business way and Kansas City had best look out." r The Lotus quartette sang a selection and were encored. Councilman George E. McGill of Leav enworth -responded to the toast, "Muni cipal Government" He said that he had received much benefit from the meetings of the muni cipal association. He 6$ id Leavenworth was in exoellent financial condition, but he felt that there was too much tendency to economize. He got in; a word for rais ing the salaries of councilmen. He mod estly told how much work the city fathers have to do. He said he was the only one in his ward who would dj the work, aud and he had to sacrifice himself for two years more for thirteen rants a day. One of the best received speeches of the evening was that on the topic "Pub lic Health'! by Dr. J.'B. Hibben, city physician and secretary oi the board of health of Topeka. Th9 subject was tersely considered in a scholarly talk of several minutes. He bxid that while other cities near us had .been scourged with small-pox, been obliged to close public schools on account of diphtheria and suffered from fatal cases of other epidemic diseases, Topeka had concluded one of the healthiest years in its history. Schools had proceeded as usual. Not a smallpox case entered the city. Not a,cabe of diphtheria now existed Rere. TVhj was this? It was because of the vigilance of the sanitary authorities and their action on the principle that he who prevents disease is far greater than he who cures it Children are vaccinated in Topeka before smallpoic arrives, and every child mnst be vaccinated before ad mitted as a pupil in the schools; the al leys and the city generally are kept clean and conditions inviting health created. In this manner many fatalities are abso lutely prevented, sickness shortened and malignant cases made mild and curable. Incidents were related how tpards of health had saved thousands of lives and where the temporary abolition of such boards had been followed by dreadful epidemics which states with 'efficient boards had escaped. "General Revenue" wag the subject of the toast by Representative IL J. Butler, of Fort Scott "I came to Topeka," he said, "to find out whom to vote for for United States sen ator. When I was a .member of the city council all I found cut f?bout general revenue was that we dion't have any. There are only two:ways of raising revenue, one is to tax; the jtjiutj and the other by assessments. J. F. Tufts, city attorney of Atchison, had for his subject: "The City of Atchi son." He said that Atchison was fortun ate. "It never was affected by tie boom. Never had a newspaper war. Ua;S the greatest of statesmen. I had ?ieard of Wichita and Topeka, but I never knew anything of Kansas City, except wEtat I have read in the statute books. In going to Kansas City, Mo., I have seen a few warehouses along the river and some beautiful barns and I suppose that is what they call Kansas City." Councilman Bradford's subject was, "Secret Service." He gave the essential qualifications of police officers an? said that not enough attention wae paid to the police forces. There is too much politics connected with the police service." City Counselor Reese of Kansas City, took the toast assigned to John R. Mul vane, "Ways and Means." He said that he now knew something of the, ways of the committee and he thought they were mean ways. He said that he had been imposed upon, and told how he was expected with the other legal officers of the cities to devise ways and means to come to Topeka and work for legislation for cities of the first class. Toastmaster Dillard introduced, City Attorney Tillotson. He pronounced the name Till-ot-son, and the Topeka people laughed. He was to talk about "Sewer Legislation." but he did not Representative Goodnow of Bronson, Bourbon county, said he would tell how to make a city of the first class out of a city of the third class. He said he had about concluded that he was not in favor of having his city, which is" happj and out of debt, become a city of the first class. Captain J. Lee Knight Wk-,s expected to wrestle with the subject "Ancient Philosophy." He said he was not an after dinner speaker, so he! recited "A Jolly Old Pedagogue." City Attorney K. P. Snyder'of Kinsas City, complimented the ladios and-proposed the toast, "The Ladies of Ameri ca," and said he hoped to soon set the day when they are given the ballot and their rights extended. F. P. MacLennan was assigned theTsub ject of "CitT Printing." lie said tjaat a conference like that of the cities of- the first-class could not, but be a good tiling. He said that Topeka newspapers had, when in want of something to fill space let a stray paragraph find its wa? into X their pages finding fault with her Uter cities, but he was satisfied that they were nothing now but what they claimed to be cities of the first-class. "In Topeka the city printing is given only to papers of the first class," said he, "but the Topeka dailies must all belong to that class, for they have all been the organs of tne best city in the best state of the union." Major T. J. Anderson closed the toasts by a talk on the -kindergarten." He told how money was raised to entertain gath erings in Topeka, and he favored a small tax levy for the pnrpose. The ladies were given a unanimous vote of thanks for the banquet ABOUT CITY ASSESSORS. The Wichita Assessor Gives His Ideas on Them at the Municipal Meeting-. City Assessor Campbell of Wichita knows all about city assessments, and he has some schemes for changing the duties of the assessors which he would like to have embodied into laws. Mr. Campbell thinks that the city as sessor should be paid a stated salary, and he thinks $1,200 would be a fair compensation. He says that the wages paid the city, assessor now amount to about that sum. "The office should be made permanent," he said, "and the as sessor should keep an office where the taxpayers might know where to find him when they wished to see about their as sessments." Mr. Campbell is something like Ten nyson's brook, and it was with some im patience that the mayors and council men listened to his eloquence on his hobby. AGAINST LOTTERIES. The Kansas City Delegation Wanted Stringent Lottery Lawi Recommended. The Kansas City councilmen are anti lottery and policy before anything else. Many of the councilmen in that city were elected on the lottery issue aud if they are not in favor of stringent anti lottery laws they are very careful not to say so. They want the running of a lottery or policy business made a felony and when Councilman McGill of Leavenworth, said that the association was not here to con sider moral questions and that such a provision might defeat all legislation asked for by the cities, there were three or four councilmen on their feet in an in stant. U. V. Widener was recognized. 'Is it possible," he said, "that we are not here to secure the enactment of laws which will save our children and benefit the whole people of our cities. I would j rather see all legislation defeated than to not raise my voice in opposition to this monstrous vice." Councilman Widener is one of the men elected to the couacil on an anti-lottery issue. City Attorney Z. K. Snyder and Coun cilman G. T, Twiss also let the associa tion know that they were opposed to lotteries. When the proposition to rec ommend the passage of a law making the running of lotteries a felony came up, Councilman Smith, the colored mem ber from Kansas City and City Attorney Snyder almost fell over each other in writing a resolution against the lotteries. Snyder's resolution was adopted and Smith's was defeated because it de nounced the state administration for not suppressing the lotteries. SO LARGER SALARIES. Ft. Scott Wanted the Pay of All City Offi cers Increased. The Ft. Scott delegation which was headed by State Senator W. P. Dillard. city attorney, wanted the salaries of all the city officers increased and they found ready support in Councilman George McGill of Leavenworth, who is to be sac rificed on the altar of his city for two more years so he says and he doesn't like to do it for $50 a year. Senator Dillard asked that the salary of councilmen be made not more than $100, but Councilman McGill wanted it made $300. Mayor Barnes and the whole Kansas City delegation were afraid of the meas ure and Topeka did not say a word. "We did not come here to raise our salaries," said Mayor Barnes. "I do not think it would be policy. Our motives are too high." Senator Dillard said that he did not ask the raise in salary on his own ac count, for he never expected to hold his office again, but he was working for his Republican successor. A motion to make the increase apply only to Ft Scott was defeated, and so was the entire measure, and Ft Scott and Leavenworth officers will have to worry along on their present salaries. TROUBLESOME NON-RESIDENTS. Atchison Finds That They Stand in the Way of Improvements. Atchison was not represented at the first meeting in Kansas City, but it did not fail to have representatives at this session. They only wanted one thing, and they succeeded after a first defeat in getting that Atchison has troubla Its non-resident property owners do not behave just right When the city council of that city wants a street paved the non-resident property owners some times refuse to sign petitions for the paving and so defeat the measure. Councilman J. W. Waggener came over with blood in his eye. He was go ing to have a bill recommended allowing the council to decide by resolution what streets should be paved and give the property owners the right to protest afterward. The other delegates did not agree with him and the measure was voted down. He then introduced a reso lution declaring that non-residents should have no right to sign petitions or remonstrances, and his resolution was adopted. Councilman Waggener then took his k,at and marched proudly out of the hall at the head of his delegation and left last evening for home. THE MAYOR A MEMBER. Representative Kohrbaugh'i New Police Commissioner Law. Representative P. A. Rohrbaugh of Wichita is one of the most enthusiastic members of the association. He has a scheme which he has embodied into a bill and while the association refused to endorse it he will introduce it at the en suing session of the legislature any how. His bill provides that the mayor of each city shall be a member ex-officio of the board of police commissioners the other two to be appointed by the gover nor. The governor is to have no right to remove the commissioners and they can only be ousted by the council after written charges have been filed and a trial had. In case of removals the gov ernor is to fill the vacancy. 182 calls up the Peer lew, SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. There's a gang now at the C-peland tverv dav. 'There Is plotting at the Copland, I so tney say. Every caucus makes a slite. But it's busted while the wait. And the schemer sets histtbait For every jay. S. J. P. There are eight cases of .Scarlet fever in the city. i A chess club is being organized in the Y. M. C A. Governor Lewelling's general saluta tion is "Howdy." It looks as if Jim Buzzard ought to have his wings clipped. Lawyer Thomas W. BaiA is talked of for a place on the board o? police com missioners. At least twenty-five people get their dinners daily at the Associated Charities headquarters. t B. M. Cockrell, clerk of' the district court, has moved his family to the city for the winter. Miss Lou Eastham has returned to St Louis and the firm of Drs. Long and East ham is dissolved. The Alhambra Mandolin club furn ished the music for the Municipal asso ciation banquet Even our Mr. Jennings misse3 it some times on the weather, but not so much so as those Washington fellows. The delegates to the convention of city officers of the first class left Topeka to day, after having a "first class" time. While a confession may be good for the soul, Frank Nevels evidently thinks it wouldn't be very wholesome for his neck. A tramp, who secures medical treat ment by committing some petty crime which will send him to jail, has struck Topeka. A Topeka man is going to move into a house today Friday that is No. 913. Add the digits together and the result is IS again. The presidents of the Topeka banks were invited to respond to toasts at the Municipal banquet last night, but not one was present A fine looking woman entered a Kan sas avenue barber shop today and inquir ed whether any one could curl a pompa dour. No one could. "Yes," said the young bachelor, as he got out needle and thread to repair his. best trousers, "I may not be very fast, but just now my name is Patchen.'" Frank Nevels' old father arrived in Topeka yesterday on the "blind bag gage," and went back to W'inneld last night on the top of a box car. The Epworth League Of the First Methodist church will hold a social in the church this evening. A literary and mu sical programme will be rendered. A Topeka young man who was given a diamond shirt stud for Christmas has thrown all his four-in-hand ties away and suddenly conceived a liking for the plain bow. A. B. Poole of Kansas City, of the Columbus Manufacturing company,sends each week to the Associated Charities of Topeka one dozen cans of baking powder and one half dozen quarts of bluing. Judge J. W. Goodman of Ohio is in' Topeka having his eyes treated for a cataract by Dr. D. T. Long. The judge is seventy years of age and Dr. Long, used to go to school to him years ago. Senator Dillard, in talking about Fort Scott at the Municipal banquet, pointed out the greatest glory of the city in be ing the home of Eugene Ware and AI-" bert Biglow Paine, but Eugene Ware lives in Topeka now. The Central Congregational churchy Rev. Charles M. Sheldon pastor, will have its annual election of officers this evening at the church building. After. the election there will be a sort of family. supper of the members. In a private letter to a Topeka friend Actor Charles Dickson admits that "A; Jolly Good Fellow" isn't a very good: play and he is going to give it up. "1 have a splendid new one," he writes. "It is 'Other People's Money,' and I hope to get some." George C. Sperry, late of Jhe Santa Fe telegraph department, left for the City of Mexico yesterday afternoon, where he( will become superintenaeat or trans portation of the Mexican Central road under Mr. A. A. Robinson. He has been succeeded here by Luther M. Jones. LAST MONTH'S WEATHER. Chancellor Snow Compare December With Those of 26 Years. In the weather report for December, 1894, prepared by Chancellor F. IL Snow of the University of Kansas, from Obser vations taken at Lawrence, he says: In twenty-six years but five Decembers warmer than the past month, have been, recorded at this station: 1875, 1877, 1881,; 1889,1891. The maximum temperature' of 71.5 degrees has been exceeded but three times The rainfall was hardly two-thirds the average; the cloudiness unusually low and ihe barometer re markably high. s Mean temperature 36.93 degrees, which is 6.20 degrees a'oove the Decem ber average. The highest temperature wus 71.5 degrees, op. the 7th; the lowest was 0.5 degree3 below zero on the 28lh, giving a range of 72 decrees. Mean temperature at 7 a. m. 29.9$ degrees; at 2 p. m. 44.95 degrees; at 9 p- m. 36.40 de grees. Rainfall, including meltea snow 0.96 inch, which is 0.5S inch below the De cember average. Rain or suow in meas urable quantities fell on four days. The entire depth of snow was three inches. There were no thunder slfowers. The entire rainfall for the twelve months of 1894 now completed has beea 3J.01 inch es, which is 6.06 inches be'ow the aver age rainfall for the preceding 26 years. em I- Anthracite Smoktleti Coal. Analysis: Water s 1.99 Volatile Matters 17.77 Fixed Carbon..': 72 87 Ash 4 68 bulphur 2,68 Excels all others for Range, Cook Stove and Furnace use. Will last as long as the best of anthra cite, at one half the cost. Will make a more inteft.se heat than the anthracite. Will hold lire longer than any other coaL Contains no gas, makes no soot, has no bad odor. Government Tests show Semi-Anthracite Smokeless Coal to be the Best Steam Producer in the United States. Topeka Coal Co. A. F. Horses, Agent Call np Phone 153 and have our wagon call for your bundle. Topeka Shah Lausdet. SA1S IT'S THE TRAMPS. Chief Lindsey Wants Every Vagrant Caught Fined at Least $35. Chief Lindsey of the police depart ment is getting desperate about the numerous burglaries that have been committed in Topeka of late. "It's these tramps," he said today, "I think the best thing to do is to put every tramp caught on the rock pile for from twenty-five to fifty days. "There is an unusual number of the pests in town just now and sometimes we have to take care of twelve or fifteen over night The number is seldom less than five or six. "There were half a dozen small burg laries night before last and there will be a great many more if some way is not found to stop it and that quickly. I am in, favor of having every vagrant serve so much time that when he gets out he will want to get away from Topeka and never come back. The tramps that are headed this way will hear of it, too, and stay away. "I would advise people to look out for their valuables this winter. The police force can't cover every part of town all night long and there is not so much pro tection in the force after all at night" Chief Lindsey is evidently not alto gether in sympathy with Governor Lew elling's tramp circular. One may be sorry for the tramps but personal safety demands that they be hold at arms length. RUSSELL TOMORROW NIGHT Louie Beck Will Flay a Violin Solo In the "Railroad Ticket." The yearly dropping around of Sol Smith Russell is always looked for with a sort of peculiar aud confiding delight by theater goers everywhere and in To peka the sentiment is much the same. The name of Sol Smith Russell ha3 brought crowded houses all over the Un ited States for years and none of the au diences were ever disappointed. He will play his success "A Poor Re lation." here Monday night and will as sume the part of Noah Vale. The "Railroad Ticket." which will re turn to the Grand Monday night, is Tope ka's kind of a farce comedy. It is full of good music and bright wit Louie Heck, a Topeka young man, is the musical di rector, and will play a violin solo from the stage during the second and third acts. The coming of Murray and Mack in the farce comedy "Finnegan's Ball" is expected to be a good drawing card on Tuesday night Murray and Mack are said to be a very clever team in Irish comedy, and the play is said to be very good. It is full of singing and dancing specialties and burlesque acts and car ries a large company. A MUCH TANGLED CASE. An Eighty Acre Tract With Fifty Heirs Clamoring For It. Judge Hazen is at preseut engaged in trying to solve a very difficult and com plicated legal problem. It is the case of William Matney against James L. Lynn, involving the title to eighty acres of valuable land in the south part of the county. As near as could be learned from the immense quantity of evidence and agreed statement of facta the case was about as follows: .Mr. William Matney was the second husband of Mrs. Harriet E. Matney, and she in turn was his second wife. Mrs. Matney obtained the property from her first husband at his death. About twenty five years ago Matney and his wife were divorced and after living apart for sev eral months were re-married, The divi sion of the property at the time of the divorce is said to affect the deed. Mrs. Matney died in 1893 and there are said to be forty or fifty relatives with claims on the property. Mr. Matney is old and feeble. J. G. Waters, a B. Isenhart and C. A. Starbird are the contesting lawyers in the case. JOTTINGS ABOUT THE CITY. The gross earnings of the Rock Island for December were $1,201,751. a decrease over a year ago of nearly $200,000. I I. S. Curtis, deputy clerk of the dis trict court, desires it stated that he isn't the Curtis arrested for killing Mrs. A. D. Matson. Fifty-eight officers of the Santa Fe re ceive an average daily salary of $18.98, while 4,87'J trackmen receive an average daily salary of $1.24. Deputy County Attorney Arthur Mc Cabe accompanied Sheriff Burdge to Lansing yesterday, when nine convicts were taken to the penitentiary. Next Monday the city council, school board, ministerial union and board of couutv commissioners will meet. The next day comes the legislature. Sherman Rowles is now a Pullman conductor on the Santa Fe between Kan sas City and Galveston. lie eats four times a day at Harvey's eating houses. Isabella Greenway has sued the city of Topeka for $5,0J0 damages for having follAn into "Hunn'a can!" in th Fir.it ward last September and sprained her One ToDeka merchant received a car- load of bananas today. They are cheap now, the best ones selling for 20 cents a dozen and fairly good ones for 10 cents a dozen. One night this week a drummer's satchel was stolen at the Rock Island de pot The valise has been recovered, be ing found near the Rock Island Y. The alleged thief is under arrest. The Topeka Theatrical Mechanical as sociation has elected W. II. Culp as dele gate ana vv imam uoyie as alternate to the national association which meets in St. Louis on July 23. The Topeka asso ciation now has forty members. An amusing incident occurred when Sheriff Burdge started for Lansing yes terday with his prisoners. The men were handcuffed together, and it fell to the lot of Burglar John Hogan to be chained to J. L. Longdon. Uogan thought he was too good to be chained to Longdon and protested. He even went so far as to hit Tom Wilkerson on the right cheek. But he is now in the penitentiary, and he was chained to Longdon all the way over. Thieves entered the house of W. W. Mills on Polk street and stole Mrs. Mills gold watch. She offered a reward of $25 and "no questions asked" for its return. Last night Detective Wiley found the watch in the Santa Fe yards, where some tramp had evidently lost it. As it had Mrs. Mills' name on it, it was returned at once. Wiley was offered the $25 re ward but refused it He was then given a box of cigars and gloves. Rock Island Playing Cards. Ko. 601 Kan. Ave. CAPITAL GROCERY, Popular Low Price Grocery. Retail Goods Wholesale Prices- 100 East Sixth St. We "want to increase cur sales for Saturday and th a coining "week and thsss ar8 the prices ve are quot ing to you. Can you af ford to stay a"way. Roll Oats, per packag3 usual size S 05 100 lb sack bust Gran ulated Sugar 4 25 100 lbs Flour, better than Shawnee Fancv at I 1 25 (This flour Is warranted to you tot)'! better, i 9 lbs Navy Beans J. Large pail White Fish" Large pail Strawberry Preserves Large pail Blackberry Preserves Large pail Quince Preserves Large pail Pineapple Preserves 20 lb pail Jelly Pre serves 1 lb can Cocoa (worth 85c) at 25 45 90 90 90 35 35 25 8 lbs Pure Buckwheat 1 can Pure Maple Svrup 20 4 lbs 30c Coffee 1 00 Japan, Oolong, Gun- powder Teas, 25c lb, 5 lbs 1 00 25 1 75 5 lbs good Rice (worth 3 lbs 25c) now at 5 gal keg Fancy Syrup 1 5 gal keg Fancy N. O, Molasses 2 5 gal keg Fancy Soi ghum i 2 1 lb can Cream Baking Powder I 5 lb can i 25 00 25 90 gal Vine- -eg ure gar 1 1 15 4 6 cans gooci orn 25 bars Grand-Pa s lai? Soap 4 lbs Large Prunes. t 4 lbs Large Raisins. G lbs Good Raisins. 23 lbs Finest Granu lated Sugar 2 lbs Butterine 4 lbs Mixed Candy. 100 lbs Flour, better than Shawnee Fancy 25 25 25 25 1 00 25 25 1 25 25 2 lbs Butterine 30c Coffee, 4 lbs 1 00 3 10c cuts Tobacco. 1 lb Smoking Tobacco 10c cans Lye, 5 for. 2(M 15 25- 25 20 15' oy 8. r 9, oo: i j- ir(TS Rnli OaK O PKg' AOll VtALS. Gallon Cans Pic. Fl Ult I 1 iTalloil SaUCl Kraut. 18 lbs Lard Best Sugar Cured Hams Best Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon. 100 lbs Family Flour. This sale will continue;; until these goods are all? sold. We have a good sup-i ply, but they won't last long, at these prices. First comes first served. S. SPH0AT KAIL 023DSSS SHIPPED SAY &3SJV2. The Capital Q y

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6 STATE JOURNAL,, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1895. 17 117 The I I ANSPEAKER ?TL H 1! lie LCduum t 1 lllli Grocery House In Kansas. 23 -Lfrg. Fins Standard Granulated Sugar $1. Ezstra ITo. 1 Pink and Whits Colorado Potatoes 65c per Bushel.

We have five Hundred cases of Golden Gate California Canned Fruit, White Heath Peaches, Lemon Cling Peaches, Pears, Egg Plums, Green Gage Plums, Nectarines, White and Black Cherries. Will sell at cost for Ten days. Try a one pound box ARMOUR'S Sliced Star Breakfast Bacon SOME THING FINE. SPEAKER MER. CO. Telephone I 148 I 711 Sans. Av. Will the Santa Fe Borrow to Build. The story cornea from Texas that Judge Caldwell has approved the scheme of the Uulf, Colorado Santa Fe officials to mild a line of road from Fort Worth, Tex., to the coal fields in that state. Judge Caldwell is said to have approved ;he plan to secure a loan of f 1,000,000 to build the road. la Your Hair lry ana Brittle. Fall ing Out or Torain; Gray! These are only indications that the fol licles or roots of the hair are getting weakened or diseased. Beggs' Hair lienewer will strengthen and invigorate the follicies and the hair will regain its natural color and become soft, glossy and healthy. Sold by V. R. Kenuaiy. Word comes from all quarters that the neatest and most satisfactory dye for col oring the beard a brown or black ia Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers. OPEN! OPEN! dThe Boston Shoe Company has just received from .the Eastern manufacturers $10,000 worth of FINE F00IWSAE in the latest novelties, which will he SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST. Ladles' nne French Kid, hand welt, razor toes, $6.00 Shoes at $2.75- Ladies' fine French Kid Dongola button Con gress $5.00 shoes, $2.75. Ladies' fine French Kid, in hand turned and hand sewed $4.00 Shoes, $2.50. Ladies' fine Cloth Top, in turned and welt ewed $3. 0U Shoes, Ladles' fine Dongola Kid $2.50 Shoes, $1.59. Ladies' fine Dongola Kid and Goat Shoos, 95 cents. Misses' and Children's School Shoes, 5c, 75c and $1.00. Children's and infant's Shoes. 15 to 25 cents. Misses' Rubbers, 15 cents. Men's fine Kangaroo and Cordovan $S Shoes, $2.75. Men's fine Fatent Leather Kazor Toe $7 Shoes, $4.00. Men's Dongola and French Calf $5.00 Shoes, S2.50. Men's fine Calf Shoes, heavy double sole, for Work shoes, worth $3, for S1.75. Men's welt sewed $2.50 Calf Shoes, S1.40. Men's Self-acting Sandals, fresh rubbers, 50 cents. Men's Arctics, HSe, 75c by the case. Men's fine Opera Slippers, SO cents. This Immense Stock Must 9 Moved. The Boston Shoe GL 511 Kansas Ave. i&U 51 Qr$ers Vrqmjtly Attended to. o If o lIJi JVjER. fo. W. W. MA IN SOCIETY ClKCLESi The Camera Club Ha3 an Interest ing Programma Mappad Out. GENERAL BOTES OF SOCIETY-. Personal Items or Interest About To peua People aud Visitors in Town. The Topeka Camera club can now boast of the honor of belonging to the National League of Amateur photogra. phers, having joined'at their last meet ing, which occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Willard in Potwin Place on Wednesday evening. The members hope to see as a result of this step on their part a state organization, of the American League, though, so .far as known there are now no other camera clubs in Kansas.. There were twenty tive members present on Wednesday evening and five new ones were ad mitted: Mr. and Mrs. C. R. O'Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hall and Mr. F. II. Ayres. Some excellent work was displayed and discussed ani the entertainment committee reported that it had been decided to have for the next meeting child study, when each member would be expected to bring pic tures of children in various poses, and for the next "interior views." Messrs. Swift, Tuckerman and Willard, recep tion committee reported that they had arranged for a reception to be held at. the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baker oh February 6. Each member of the club will be entitled to invite two people fc this reception. A novel innovation will be photographed invitations iu blue prints, platinotypes and platinobromides. The club will meet January 16 at the home of Mr. Frank Thompson oa To peka avenue. Mrs. J. H. Wetherell and Miss Mamja Smith gave a reception to their pupils and their little friends Wednesday even ing. The children looked like little fairies in their pretty little frocks and most thoroughly did they appreciate the evening's enjoyment. About forty chil dren danced to the music of Steinberg's orchestra. Eighteen of Miss Saidee Minneyts friends held a watch meeting at her home Monday night Music and gamC3 occupied the time till the clock strucjs twelve. Then the front door was throwa open to admit the spirits of good lucls and the back door was also opened to let out the spirits of bad luck, and the gaV crowd departed wishing the hostess and each other a happy new year. The O. R club received with Miss Minney on Tuesday afternoon, the curtains were drawn, and the lights made a mellow, beautiful effect. The decorations were of holly-moss, evergreen, mistletoe and ribbon. Three of the young ladies wore pink crepe du chine, and three of them blue. The favors were orange leaves. Cards have been received in this city announcing the marriage of Miss Alice C. Thayer to Mr. Cleo M. Shaw at Wood hill, 111. Mr. fcfhaw was formerly em ployed in the stationery department of the Santa Fe. Miss Daisy L6vi has returned from Kansas City, where she assisted Mis Martha Auerbach in receiving New Year's calls. Mr. and Mrs. S. Greenabauui enter tained a party of forty friends very pleas antly at cards 'luesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Kuypers entertained friends at high five Tuesday evening. Those present were Messrs. and Mes dames Hanna, Dee, Misses Bessie and Fannie Sargent, Mrs. Sligal. Miss Ada McKee, Jlr. Fraker, Mr. Suephard, Mi.sa Babcock and Miss Bessie Babcock, Mr. Chase and Mr. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. John McBee entertained friends at a 6 o'clock dinner on Monday evening. A game of high five was en joyed after dinner. Those prasent were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Soule, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Trowbridge. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McClure, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Betts, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bush. Miss Bush, Mr. W. E. Pennington and Mr. S. II. Friend. A very pleasant surprise was given to Miss May Jurrens at her home on .Mon roe street, New Year's Eve. A delight ful evening was spent with music a id Buciai conversation unm a late lio ir when refreshments were served, Lie party remaining to welcome the new year. Those present were Misses Blanche, Sinah and Florence File, Hettie and Flora Atkinson, Lydia and Flora Fiecher, Lillian Winsted, Nettie Jurrens and Villa Patterson of Carbon dale; Messrs. Horace File, Fred Fiecher, Percy Winsted, Earl Tyler and Warren Jurrens. Miss Margaret Mulvane entertained the Duplicate whist club yesterday after noon. The Browning Class meets with- Mrs. L. H. Crandall Friday morning. A Pleasant Event. One of the pleasant social events of the week was the reception tendered last evening to the pupils of the private danc ing class of Mr. and Mrs. J. IL Wetherel and Miss Mame Smith. The pupils pres ent were. Misses Helen Louise Smith, Helen Wilson, Helen Walker Hazel Fass ler, Lee Redden, Mary Colby, Isabella Thompson, Emily King, Ilila Hinckley, Maud Bates, Ella Smith, Bessie Hayden; Messrs. Dan. Hammatt, Guilford Dudley, Leslie Guild, Dave sibley, Tom Frost, Dorr Norton, Torrence Ewart, Albert Patton, Frank Shellabarger, Ever ett Dallas, Will Wikidal, Joe Wil son. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. George M. Noble, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Shellabarger, Mr. and Mrs. Char.es Blood Smith, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. King, Mr. and .Mrs. Bateman; Mesdames M. C. Hammatt, A. L Thompson, H. Y. Hinckley, Chanley; Misses Celeste and Annie Nellis, Cleo, Arlie and Lulu Ewart, Marie Dixon, Ele anor Wilson, Edna McClintock,Jessie Shellabarger, Jean Frost, Gertrudo Dev ereaux, Norma Smith, Josephine Colby, Bessie Stewart, Lillian Bowes, Lou Tay lor of Leavenworth, Ethel Peck of Chi cago, Bessie King of St. Louis; Messrs. Horner, Penfield, Nellis, Whitmer, Rog ers, Hazlett, Medlicott, Dennis, McMas ters, Trapp, Kenderdine and Council. Master George McArthur entertained a number of his friends at games and music last evening. Those present were Misses Grace Foote, Mamie Pelton and Laurie Anderson; Masters Earl Bosarch, Irving White and Wallace Chesney. Miss May White has returned to Miss Cannan's short hand school. Mis Millie Denby returned to her home in Chanute yesterday, after a visit with Miss Stella Young and Mrs. F. J. Fink. Minor Social Mention. The Ladies' American History club will hold its next meeting on Wednes day. January 9, at the residence of Mrs. John E. Lord. r Today is the twelfth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. C C Baker. Col. George W. Veale returned from Emporia last evening. Little Gretchen Sharp, grand -daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Baker, has been quite ill at her home in Denver, but is better. For the first time in forty years CoL George W. Veale did not go calling New Year's day. He called on the Woman's Relief Corps, but nowhere else. Major Hood of Emporia paid his re spects to Topeka ladies who kept open house. Mrs. A. B. Jetmore and daughters, Mesdames Marburg and Gardenhire and Miss Jetmore formed the only receiviLg party composed of members of but oue family. They received ninety -seven cal.s and their favors were two tiny bells at tached by baby ribbon to a card bearing the names of the ladies. One of the pleasant things observed on New Year's day was a father calling with his sixteen-year-old son. It is a bet ter thing for a buy to learn the usages of society from his father than from harum scarum companions. W. O. Rigby will entertain friends at high five on the evening of Jan. 10. Governor and Mrs. Morrill and Mis3 Grace will occupy apartments at the Copeland next Thursday. Mr. Ralph Ingalls was in the city yes terday. The Epiphany party for the members of the clergy and their wives, and the vestrymen and their wives, to have been given by Mrs. P. G. Noel Saturday even iug has been postponed till Monday even ing. A number of ladies who kept open house Tuesday required their guests to register, which they did, in some cases adding their ages; and shades of tra dition 1 it is said that some of them ar rogated to themselves the privilege supposed to be the prerogative, solely, of the weaker sex and turned Father Time back in his flight till he might hare mated with the young year. It is said forty was the maximum number af years appearing on the regis ters and twenty was the average age of the callers. The real young crowd in the "swagger', set enjoy the sobriquet of The Kinder gartens, bestowed ou them by the older set the members of which will in a few years envy them their youth, no doubt The favor which the ladies of the Cope land hotel receiving party bestowed on their friends was a piece of black ribbon bearing at the top a large capital C for Cros3 the name of the single young lady of the partv; then came a perpendicular row of letters W. T. O. M. N. P. F. and below them 1895. Ihere are two trans lations of these letters: they stand for Webb, Troutman, Overholt, McFarland, Nichols, Pounds, Freeman; and also for "Welcome To Our Merrv New Year Party For 1895." She Had Him. He was an English lord of the bluest of blue blood. Sho was a rich New York heiress, with enough rich relatives under the sod to make life well worth living a6 least from a financial point of view. Ha had proposed the day before, and she was hesitating. They sat now in a box at the Metropolitan whispering in undertones, unconscious that over 100 opera glasses were leveled at them at tho moment. "Why do you delay your answer?" he pleaded. "You must know, my dear Miss Stoeksandbonds, that this suspense is very painful to me. She was thinking what cruel delight she was taking in this ardent noblo lover's impatienco of love, whereas ho was think ing of his $40 a clay board bill at tho Wal dorf all this time. "Besides," ho continuod, "you must know that it is a great come down for a real British earl of noble ancestry to mar ly an unknown foreigner" Tho maiden straightened haughtily. "A comedown for you, is it?" ehe re torted. "I think it is a great come down for me. I havo to corao down with a cool 51,000,000 in hard cash. What do you comedown with, pray?" But his lordship didn't come down with anything but a sickening thud, and the orchestra roared worse than ever. New York World. Thought It Was Peter. The baldheaded man ventured a chaste anecdote. "A man was telling me a good one on Young Griffo, tho Australian fighter," said he. "It was when Griffo paid his first visit to New Orleans, and a3 be had a great reputation as a pug, why, of course the sports gave him a good time. Some of tho officers of an athletic club took him out riding and showed him the sights of the town. On the way down to tho levee they passed the old square with the monu ment in the center. 'A very fine monument, Mr. Griffo, one of the men said. W'o's the bloke on top of it? "'Jackson.' "'Peter?' "He thought he had struck the paradise of prizefighters." And with that the session broke up. Chicago Record. Uncertain. They stood still and looked at her. "Do you not," they asked, "want to bo a lady when you aro grown up?" Their child gazed into tho:r faces won dcringly. "Forsooth," sho answered, brushing the tangled curls away from her sad, sweet face. "Tho way styles are going I know not what to say." No, she would not commit herself in advance of the fashions. Detroit Tribune. He Showed Him. Policeman (to wheelman who is riding on the side path) See here, young man, you can't ride there. "Can't, eh? Well, you just watch me." And he shot out of sight. American Wheelman. The Faithful Sisters. She I I think I like you, Mr. Trotter, but I cannot marry and leave my twin sister alone. Wait until she is engaged. He Yes, but er that's just what she said when I proposed to her. Harlem Life. Perfectly Safe. Miss Parse Don't you consider it un lucky to get married on the 13th of tha month? Miss Rose Not so unlucky as not to be married at all, dear. Boston Courier. Snfficient Reason. "What is the trouble, Wadleigh, be- tween you ana Miss Hopson?" "I caired her 'Sweet Alice,' and she or dered me to Bolt." Detroit Free Press. Stoves at cost. 702 Kansas ave. HOW TO SHOOT WELL. Hints for Women Who Would Hanoi Rifle or Revolver. There are some secrets or rather points in regard to shooting a revolver that are worth while considering. Possibly, however, the tiger in the jungle and the bear in tne mountain as targets do not allure you; but yon may have the misguided midnight burglar to contemplate. It may be well just here to remark, in parenthesis, that the efficacy of pistols in the jun gle is open to doubt, but the burglar is always with us, and we ought to know the very best and most fin de siecle way of snooting him. The following hints are given on the authority of a jrentleman who is an ex pert shot: How to stand and how to hold the weapon is of greatest importance. The body must be balanced equally on each foot (even if your burglar escapes meanwhile) slightly facing the target, and the arm held perfectly straight out. The arm should never be bent. The hand grasps the revolver high on the butt, with the thumb well around to the inside and straight, and the trigger finger entirely free. This throws the work of holding the revol ver wholly on the outer fingers. The object of this position of the hand is to CORRECT POSITION FOR SHOOTING. get the barrel in exact line with the arm when extended, thus bringing the target, the sights and eye in one line. This position also minimizes the effect of trembling and rotating the arm. The weapon being properly aimed it should be held there, and the trigger very gently and steadily pressed. The mind should forget the possibility of an explosion, and the whole attention devoted to holding the sights of the revolver in exacty the proper position on the target. Above all things should the shooter keep up steady pressure with the trig ger finger, and on no account yield to the temptation to add just a little more force suddenly. The technical terms expressing these qualifications are "good holder," and "good trigger pull." The revolver is peculiarly an Amer ican weapon. The Americans have made scores never approached by any other nation. Not only are they first but they occupy every position be tween that and the twentieth. The weapons in use are the quick firing or self-cocking and single action. What the self-cocker gains in rapidity of action is more than lost by lack of accuracy. Still there are records where one has been able to put five shots in a space of one foot square at a distance of thirty six feet in four-fifths of one second. Such work is exceptional. There is a certain class of individuals who cannot put three bricks in line on a table. Such of course can never learn to shoot. Further, the sight of a pistol may send the cold shivers down your back. In this case also, you will have something to overcome before you can become an expert shot. "I always expect them to go off whether they are loaded or not," I overheard a young girl say recently, speaking of pistols. "I am quite sure they can go off without regard to cartridges." CUSHION FOR PINS. Suitable for the Toilet Table of Any Woman or Girl. Though this looks like a big, bright blossom, it is only a rosette made of a strip of soft bias satin folded over a roll of soft cotton. The satin strip is a yard long and three Inches wide; it is CUSHION FOB PUIS. folded double (over the cotton), gath ered and sewed round and round, to a J padded and covered circle of crinoline or thin canvas. The center is filled with knots and stitches in coarse yel low silk floss, to resemble the center of a flower, and a narrow ribbon loop is sewed to the back to hang it up by. It is pretty in any shade of pink, yellow, wine, terra cotta or old rose, and re sembles a rose, a little double holly hock or a zinnia blossom, according to color. It is a pretty ornament when stuck full of little fancy pins. Any woman or girl would like one for her toilet table. American Agriculturist. The Oleantlc Medici Raffle. The huge ruff was brought from Itaby to France by Catherine de Medici. It became so wide that spoons, with handles a foot long, were provided for ladies at dinner, so they could get tbeir victuals to their mouths. The Qihnjlif POPULAR LOW PRICE GROCERY. The leading grocery leader in quality leader in quantity leader in lowest prices. Not an article sold that we cannot guaran tee, and none sold that you cannot return and get your money in exchange for if it fails to prove satisfactory.

100 pound sack finest Granulated Sugar $4 30 23 pounds for 1 00 Small No. 1 Sugar Cured HamB. per pound 10 Dry Salt Meat, per lb. 07 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per pound v JO California Hams, per lb 08 Boneless Ham, per lb 10 4 lbs White Lard 25 H, 5 and 10 pound cans White Table Lard, per" lb... 10 28 lbs N. O. Sugar 1 00 Ginger Snaps, per lb 05 Soda and Oyster Crackers, per lb., by box 03 2 cans 3 lb Tomatoes 15 2 cans Sugar Corn 15 2 cans Loomia, Allen Co's. Corn.. 25 5 lbs California Seedless Raisins. 25 5 lbs L. M. Raisins 25 3 lbs Prunes 25 4 lbs Pears 25 Monarch Canned Fruits and Vegetables at low prices. j We. have all brands and all kinds of Flour at low prices. Quotation sheets and order blanks mailed free. Country orders packed and delivered to depot free. J. S. SPROAT, TilE Tele. 252. i mare We have been short of tinware since Xma?. Were so busy for a month that we had no time to order, and there is so much more demand for it this year than over before; at the same time we want to tell you of some of our snaps we have picked up in this line. We have just plankad dawn the cash for over a car load of it. and got an extra 10 per cent discount for so doing. Ws Trill astonish you on prices nsxt wesk. W3 have dish pans as low as 15 cents, and a heavy retinned article at that. The light, tin grade will be in next week and will be 13 cents. We are making reductions in prices averaging 25 per cent on everything in the tinware line. One bill of lading calls for 11000 lbs. of nothing but PANS. We are safe in saying we own thesi 10 per cent cheaper than any that were ever brought to Topeka be fore. Best 32 gauge copper tea kettles only 95o You know the price of this article at the hardware stores ia $1.50 to f 2.00, JSarae thing nickelplated, we offer at $1.25; other stores ask $2.00 for it Full size pie tins are 2 for 5c, and the extra large 3 for 10a Large size dinner pails 19c; square dinner pails 30c. We will have more to tell you about prices next week. Don't buy any tinware till you gee our new stock. And remember it pays to trade at x The 423 Kansas Avenue. ACTORS ORGANIZE. They Di'iiianil Protection Against Prize Fighters and Such People. Chicago, Jan. 4. An Actors Protec tive union will be organized in Chicago today with headquarters at the rooms of the Brotherhood of Theatrical Stage Em ployes, No. 121 Fifth avenue. The new union will start, the organizers say, with a membership of over 40A It will be affiliated with the National organization of actors and the American Federation of Labor. In speaking of the general plan of the union Mr. Hampton said: 'We demand an entire abolition of dramatic agents; the exclusion of the two weeks' clause in contracts; the payment of salaries Saturday night; the exclusion of prize fighters and other such ilk as dramatic attrac tions and women, whose only claim to public attention -is infamy; Sunday and holidav performances must be paid for extra, all contracts to the contrary not withstanding: and, finally, we demand that the laws for the protection of people employed in buildings from fires must be enforced." The St at is Jourxais Want and Mis cellaneous columns reach each working day in the weei more than twice as many Topeka people as can be reached hrou'gh any other paper. This is a fact Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 6.01 Ivans. Ave. Topeka 'rtani A.aui4rx. 625 Jackson street met 4 lbs California Plums Vi 25 3 lbe K Pitted Plums 25 4 pkg Self Rising B. W. Flour 25 4 pkg Rolled Oats 25 2 lb can Pure Apple Butter ..i. 10 2 large cans Boston Baked Beans.. 23 1 can Dr. Price's Baking Powdeir., It Honey, per lb. JO Maple Syrup, per gallon (53 5 gallon can Maple Syrup 8 00 2 cans California Table Fruits, ia Sugar Syrup 25 3 cans California Pie Fruit, peeled, 25 5 lbs California Rice r 25 4 cans Oysters SS 3 cans Columbia River Salmon 25 6 eake9 Grand-Pa's Wonder Tar Soap 25 1 quart Imported Queen Olives. 20 2 sacks Table Salt 05 1 pound Star Baking Powder 15 2 gallon pail Sugar Syrap. 50 Large pail Jelly 4(i 112 East 6th St. Smoke Klauor's I! ganufrrtwi tt 603 San. Avs. Tepeka. i 1 v. 1 t.miroud. I Denver, Jan. 4 Engineer J. T. Mc W.,, s counseled Ue survey or railroad route from Flagstaff, Ariz., o tje neareit point on the grand canon tf tie CoiorodJ thirty-five miles away. Aaother new railway project that is un uer uous.aeration is the construction of a rjad from some point on the Fort Worth .Denver near Amaruiu, c '"-s the Pecos valley to Koswell, N. M. I'eixoto fsiuklnit i'at. -v..Diz .Tan A A soecial to the World from ...ontevideo, dated January 3, eays: President Peixoio is sinking. l- u.., -xrt,A tho lt Bxcr&ment. n is re- ported, and it is expected thai he wUid.e during the night. Curbett Cliallense-.tl To prove "Snow's Pine Expectorant" will not "Knock Out" any cold or cough. -,x is guaranteed. For sale by. all drug gists; price 25 an! Oue DotUe. ct!lc? rairB

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g STATE JOURXATi, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1S9 5. Li 1 1 ''jyijL 11 1 -11, BENTS! SITUATIONS! REAL ESTATE! AUCTION SALES! OTHER CLASSIFIED ADS. Thi Topika State JotrRAi. guarantee, every day it is prime 1, to glva a local circula tion mere than double that of any otherAope ka paper, and by far More than U lM' Dalies Combined. This makes this paper the cheapest, as well as the best daily advertis ing medium in Topeka. the classified advert! tuenu below costing but FIYE CENTS A LINE, or 20 cents a line for a week; 60 cent by the luonth. City circulation everyday exceeds 6,000 total circulation over 8.000. Sworn detailed statements of circulation pr seated on application. JdB'-Calland see any afternoon between 4 ana 6. the handsomest, fascest, most perfect Pje cfiprinting machiner y in Kansas a Web Ferfec hat press, which prints from two to three ooso luete 8-page papers a second. SITUATIONS WANTED FREE- Are yeu In need of work? If so. you are at liberty to use these columns for assittanoe in tiiat direction. While this notice appears the fcTAT Joi tt.viL will publish tree on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, for Topeka cr Kansas people, all notices ol "Situations Wanted," not exceeding flvo lines, or thirtv-nve words, in lengtn. Provided that all advertisements of this nature are handed in previous t ten o'clock Saturday rooming; also on Wednes Cay, Thursday and Friday, all advertising of tins class handed in by ten e'olock Wednesday luorning. No advertisements of this nature to be starte4 J except on Saturdays and Wednesdays. No ob iganon is incurred on the part of the advertis er. No worthy and needy man or woman need hesitate to- take advantage of this offer. No one In business or having employment is expected to take advantage of it, but all others invited to avail themselves freely. WANTED H EL P. f AM K1J-A lady bookkeeper; one who is a emu tie tent accountant aud can furnish good, references; wiil pay salary in accordance with ttie times: state references and salary wanted. Address 11.. care Journal ollice. "WANT Kl You to know I furnish pood help for private families and hotels; have cooks and men for ail kinds of work. 80j Kansas ave. "YV ANTED Five experienced dining room v girls for Hot Springs, South lakota. Ap pty Ohmer Bros.' ollice, Koom 22, (J., K. I. P. depot. TANTED A frond active man who is com- patent to drive bus, take care of team and be usei'iti around a hotel. Apply to F.athburn, No. 410 Kansas avenue. Y T A NTED Active salesmen to handle our sine, no peddling. Salary f73 per month, and expenses gsid to all. Uoods enarely ua. Apply quickly. P. O. Box 53ua, Boston, Mass. YYANTED Salesman; salary from start; permanent place. Brown Bros. Co.. Nur lerymen, Chicago, 111. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. 7 ANTED Good driving horse for the keep- ing. E. B. Whaley, 2ls East Fifth. "TANTED A Kood set of double work har- ness. Address, "Harness," this office. "llTANTED I-'ins in any amount on city property and farms. Kates low. 1. 1 Better. S19 Kansas ave. Dudley's qank. "YYANTEDr-Application for loans on good city or farm property. Bates six to seven yer eent interest aecor4;ng"to size of loan. Milo Norton, ageue. J.10 west Sixth ave., Tope ka, Kans. WANTED To move, STOKE or ship housa- T hold goods, freight, etc. Sain Skls.vkk, 13 E. 6tli St. MERCHANTS' Tit AN SEEK 6i SXOiiAGE CO. FOR IOK HKNT Modern eight-room house; laun drv and firnA.i. Aililrne 'Mnna n.i- ollice. ('"R KENT A 7-room house, near Lowman Hill. Dr. D, Kogers, 811 Kansas ave. 701i KENT Houses in Oakland. P.C. Moore. 4!0 Kansas ave. FOR RENT-ROOMS. II'OK KENT Three unfurnished rooms. 312 East 8th st. TpOK KENT Furnished rooms with or with out board. Corner F ourth aud Jackson. "IOK EF:NT Two large connecting furnished rooms, pantry, kitchen and closets; ail on ground floor: good location; to man and wife without children. Address "Home," this office. "IOK KENT Furnished and unfurnished rooms tor light housekeeping. u21 Monroe. "jl'H KENT Three unfurnishod rooms suita ble for light house keeping. Inquire 61U Jacksuu st. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. IOK SALE Small stock of groceries. Ad L dress "lirocerynieu," care Journal. TOK SALE A fine mandolin very cheap. Address "Mandolin," Journal office. IOK SALE Adjoining city on the west be tweeu 10th and liuntoon streets, choice suburban tracts, either five or ten acre lots from $lm to per acre, one third cash aud long time on balance with privilege of paying at any time. W. M. Forbes, ill west 6th st "IOK SALE -Two east front lots with nice -a- three room cottage, good cellar and we. 1 nice shade trees, a nice home for SToo. F or this and other special bargains see V. M. F'orbes ill west Gth st. SALE Tinware at Sheldon's, 702 Kan sas ave. IOIt KEAL estate or rental property see Benedict Co.. 601 Kansas ave. MISCELLANEOUS. 1 'S"T on Huntoou street betweenclaTand Western ave. a lace handkerchief. Finder please leave at Fillmore and claim re ward. S )Voou CO. buy, sell or exchange all kinds of real estate, stock or merchandise; make uaw loans on real estate; loans cn life in suranwe policies: keep remai list; wiil make in vestments for outside capital, lsus wiil be a good year for you all to visit Kansas aud invest. V a are bound to grow. Call cr writa us y IX wants. 5J4 Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. TFlli0 PartT who hauled the straw from the C. M. Kesler farm will cUi and settle for it he will save liimseif from further trouble. J Brown. mo EXC AN OE Wanted to exchange 120 acres -1- unimproved western Iowa laud, price $3 000 for Kausas or Missouri property. D. Hunt' liorton. Kas. ATOl lCE-IOWHOJl IT MAY CONCERN De it known that my petition is ou file in the ouiee of the probate court of Shawnee coun ty, Kausas, asking for a permit to sell intoxi cating liquors at No. 03 on Kausas avenue. To peka. Kansas. Hearing of said petition is set lor the loth day of January, lsas. at 10 o'clock a. m. o. a. KkN. lorgKA, Kan.. December 25. 18t4. I31 TUN1NU-A. J.King. 503 Kansas av. Has charge of pianos at Betliany college. d ENERAL repair shop 410 east 4th st. Ke pair firearms, locks and clocks. Powder shot and siortiug goods for sale. I FASHIONABLE DK ESS-MA KING Mrs K. M. F isher will give you good work- a oer fect lit at reasonable prices. 417 Kansas ave nue, up stairs. VO'llCE-TOWHOM IT MAY CONCERN x' Be it known that my petition is on file in the office of the probate court of Shawnee county, Kansas, asking tor a permit to sell in toxicating liquors at No. 731 on Kansas avenue iopeka, Kansas. Hearing of said petition ii set for theothday of January, 18S, at 10 o'clock a. m. EIWABO OXitKICHXa. .loruA. Kan., pee. 8, S9. CARPENTER, and repair work. Address. Win; Reedy. boxSsM. North Topeka. Kaa-t. JUST found the placo where you can get your furniture repaired and also packed for ship ment. Cleaning and laying carpets a specialty. All kinds of general jobbing work done ou short notice. Work guaranteed by a ifoud. lneciianio. Ivo. 9034 Kansas avenue. AKNESS AND REPAIR WOB1C Hsrnesi and shoe shop; patent leather polish for buggy tops; repairs hi all kinds of leather roods; shoes half soied forty cents. F. Hen derson. West Sixth street. MONEY TO LOAN. MONEY to loan, long or short time. March Co., 706 Kansas ave. MONEY LOANED on horses, pianos, housa. hold goods and ail kinds of chattel securi ties. L. Bisooe, ui Kausas avenue, room A dim EQUITY LOAN CO. loans money at reasonable rates on pianos, organs, fine musical instruments, jewelry, etc., and Vsir on personal security. 713 Kansas ave. PARTIES wishing a safe aud paying invest ment for their money, caU at once oa S. jL Wood Co.. Kansas ave. INARMS FOR SALE Parties wishing to buy A farm or city property will do well to consult Robert Dietrich. HU East 8th St. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. "tSSSC1 SPECIALIST. Omoe Hotel Throop. a. VVAKD, A.M.. M.Q.. Hours: 2 to 5 p. m. Private hospital for women R. MARY E. STEWART. 634 Harrison Street. Consulting hours 10 a. m to a p. m. C F SHELDON. M. D., J bUUOKHV AJfIDI3KA3BS OF WOMB!?, With private hospital. Oiliua: No. 720 Kansas AVd. Office 732 Kan. Ave. Residence, 13th and Clay. Uiiiee Hours 9 a. in. ui U a. in .and sp. m. to C p. m. Phoue M. IK, J. K. MULVANK opeclai attention given to chronlo dlseasas. Oaioo open ail hours, eoo Kas. Ave. Phone 83. L. A. RYDER. M. D-. OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon street anl Central ave.. North Topeka. Phone tflt. Uses the Brinkeriiotf system of Rectal treat ment, a successful and paimess treatment fur piles, Ustuia, llsnure, ulceration, etc MUSIC. CEO H. HUGHES, teacher of banjo. Banjos, strings and music for sale. 922 North Har rison st. First published on the 27 day December, 1391, in the official city paper. NOTICE. CITS' OF TOPKKA, Dec. 27, 1494. f To whom it may concern-. Notice is hereby given that we, the under signed residents and free holders of tho city of Topeka. Kansas. F C. Bowen. T. L. Stringham and S. C. Garrard, were duly appointed by the mayor and council of the city of Topeka, and haviag duly qualified as appraisers to ascertain the actual value of the land proposed to be tak en under ordinance dumber 17i2, approved De cember loth. mi4, for the purpose of opening aud widening Western avenue or Taylor street, between Thirteenth street and Douthitt street, in said city, and also to assess and appraise the damages and benefits arising therefrom to the lots aiid pieces of property lying and situated in the benefit district created and established by said ordinance, which is described as follows, towit: Commencing on the south line of Thirteenth street at a point in the center of the alley be tween Polk street and Western avenue; thence west along the south line of Thirteenth to the east line of F'lllmore street: thence south along the east line of F'lllmore street to the south line Of lot numbered live hundred and thirty; thence west along said south line produced to the west line of the storr's tract: thence south along the west line of the said Storr's tract and said west line produced to tho north line of F'if teenth street; thence east along the north line of F ill more street to the west line of Western avenue; thence north along the west line of Western ave nue to the north line of Douthitt street; thence east along the north line of Douthitt street pro duced to the center of the alley between W est ern avenue and Polk street; theuce north along the center of said alley to the place of begin ning. Ail being in the city of Topeka, Shawnee county. Kansas. And also to matte a true value and appraisement of all the lots and pieces of ground situated in said benefit district without regard to the buildings or improvements there on. And notice is hereby given further that we will meet as such appraisers on the 9th day of January, 1x95, at 10 o'clock a. m.. of said day. at the corner of Thirteenth street and Douthitt street in said benefit district for the pnrposa of ascertaining tile actual value and making ap praisement of the property aud assessing the damages and benefits as aforesaid. F C. Bowes, T. L. STRINGHAM. S. C. Gakraku, Appraisers. Q RAND OPERA HOUSE ..Saturday, Jan. 5 ENGAGEMENT OF IEE. Sol. Smith Russell In a new version of his great play, "k Poor Relation" Prices: 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50. G RAND OPERA HOUSE HURRAH I HJEEAH EETHEN ENGAGEMENT. Monday Evening, Jan. 7. Freeman's Fun Makers, presenting the -funniest show on earth, A Railroad Ticket Note By special request, Mr. Louis Heck, the well known musician of this city, who is the musical director of the company, will play a violin solo between the acts. QRAND OPERA HOUSE TUESDAY, JAN. 8. TUB MERRY MONARCH9 OF MIBTF MURRAY U1D MACB, C Presenting the King Bee of Farce Comtidy, 11 Finnigan's Ball!" Fca, Pure and Simple, "If Casey -lances I'll blow out the gas.-" The Parrot 8 aid A"wilui, will, yooi What do you thiak "about it t iPiRHElDjlECf f PLUG TOBACCO. Consumers ofchewrtokccoKb are willing to pmj a little more tfen fiie price charged forllie ordinag trade tokecos. will find this, brand superior to all others BEWARE Of IMITATIONS. First published January 2, 1895, In the To peka State Journal. OFFICIAL NOTICE. Office of Commissioner of Elections, V Iofeka, Kan., Jan. 2, 1895. T. Frank Herald, Commissioner of Elections of the city of Topeka. Shawnee county, Kansas, do hereby in conformity to section three, of an act of the legislature entitled, "An act to pro Tide for and to regulate tlte registration of vot ers; to regulate elections, and to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Elections in cities of the first class, approved March anl, 1889, do proclaim and declare that the bound aries of ail the wards as made by the council thereof, and the division of said wards into precincts as made by the Board of Supervisors of Elections, are as follows, to-wit: First Ward. All north of the Kansas river. FIRST PKECINCX. All east of Kansas avenue. SECOND PRECINCT. All west of Kansas avenue and south o Gor don street. THIRD PRECINCT. All west of Kansas avenue and north of Gor don street. Second. War. All south of the Kansas river, east of Kansas avenue and north of Eighth street, except Alets ker's third addition. FIRST PRECINCT. East of Kansas avenue, west of alley between Monroe and Madison and north of fourth street. SECOND PRECINCT. East of alley between Monroe and Madison streets, west of Washington street, aud north of Fourth street. THIRD PRECINCT. East of Washington street and north of Fourth street. FOURTH PRECINCT. South of Fourth street, east of Washington street, and north of Eighth avenue, except ilets ker's third addition. Fifth precinct. South of Fourth street, west of Washington street, north of Eighth street, and east of Kan sas avenue. Third Ward. All south of Eighth avenue, except Metsker's third addition; north of Eleventh seet to Washington avenue, theuce nrth of Tenth street and the north line ot the nortneast quar ter section G. township 12. range 16, north lineot Douthitt tract and Euclid avenue. first prbcixct. All that part of said ward east of Kansas avenue, SECOND PRECINCT. AH that tart of said ward west of Kansas avenue and east of Tyler street. THIRD PRBCIXCT. Alt that. part of said ward west of Tyler street and north of Twelf th street. FOURTH PRECINCT. All that part of said ward west of Tyler street and south of Twelfth street. Fourth Ward. All west of Kansas avenue, north of Eighth avenue and south of Kansas river. FIRST PRECINCT. West of Kansas avenue, north of Eighth ave nue, east of Tyler street, and south of Fifth street. SECOND PRECINCT. West of Kansas avenue, north of Fifth street and east of Tyler street. THIRD PRECINCT. West of Tyler street and east of Western avenue. FOURTH PRECINC'JV All west of Western avenue. Firth Ward. AH south of the south line of the Third ward, including Metsker's third addition. FIRST PRECINCT. All of said ward south of Seventeenth street, (or Euclid avenue.) SECOND PRECINCT. AH of said ward north of Seventeenth street, (or Euclid avenue). Including Metsker's third addition. FRANK HERALD, Commissioner of Elections. THE CHICAGO ALTON R. Ft. 0KLT STOIS BALLASTED TBACSL NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN KANSAS CITY axd CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY and ST. LOUIS, ST. LOUIS and CHICAGO. Ko Extra Charge for Passags ia Palace Reclining Chair Cars NOR IN Fast Tes'iTidiefl 1MM" Trains. Ask your own Home Ticket Aftent for tickets Tia the Chicago Alton Railroad, or write to D. BOWES, Genl Western Passenger Agtu 218 KOKTH BROADWAT, ST. LOCIS, XO. JAM EM CHARLTON, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, CHICAGO. ILL ARCHITECT. JOSEPH MARSHALL, Architect and Superintendent. 1001 'KANSAS AVZ17JE. EEARD St. Albans is coming' here," said Isabel Marsh, a brig-ht smile lighting' up the soft, languid beauty of her "Colonel S t Albans!" cried Annie Grey, the young and lovely cousin of Miss Marsh. "How de lightful! It is five years since he went away to that horrid India, and I was just fifteen then a mere schoolgirl but still I remember that he was one of the handsomest men in the city! How pleased his sister Helen will be!" 'Certainly. This note is from her, saying that they herself and Colonel St. Albans will do themselves the pleasure of calling here day after to-morrow." "Splendid! Til set my cap at once!" cried the gushing Annie. "Don't be absurd, cousin! Mr. St. Albans is a traveled man, and quite familiar with pretty faces by this time. Besides, he is an artist of no mean ability, and his character for gallantry in action stood very high when he was in the army." "Heigho! well, I only wish there had been a hero in our family! But what makes you look so grave, Aunt Letitia?" addressing a serene-faced, brown-haired woman of past thirty, who sat by the window engaged in sewing. Miss. Letitia lifted her sad brown eyes, soft and beautiful still, and glanced at her young relatives from beneath the long black lashes. "Oh, let Aunt Letitia alorje!" cried Isabel, half pettishly; "she is sewing and dreaming dreams, as visual. And she is too old to care anything about brave ana handsome gentlemen like Colonel St Albans." Letitia's pale cheek flushed rose red; her eye gleamed with fire; for the moment she was far more beauti ful than either of the girls beside her. She made no reply, but directly gath ered np her work and left the room. Annie gazed after her with wide eyes. "Good gracious! what have I said? She looked like a young girl who has just met her lover. Did you see that rfed on her cheek, Isa? Brighter than the rouge in my toilet case. Letitia must have been handsome once." ""She was the beauty of the city. She is elegant now, though every body knows she is passe. There was some gossip about her and this Col onel St. Albans once, you know. Sue saved him from drowning on one oc casion, and he was the prince of de votion for a week; then, manlike, he forgot his gratitude, and sailed for India. Men are very consistent creatures, ma belle." Meanwhile, Letitia Marsh, who was the sister of Isabel's father, went to her chamber, and laid her work carefully away in its neat basket, for she was an old maid, and old maids, you know, always do everything with care, if we may credit tradition. She unlocked a drawer, and took from thence a small escritoire, which opened to the touch of a key, which HIS HAND CAUGHT HERS. she always wore attached to a slen der gold chain around her neck. The lifted lid displayed a few let ters, a bunch of faded flowers tied with a blue ribbon, and a miniature case of dead gold. The case she did not open perhaps even yet she could not trust herself to look upon the face hidden there, but she pressed the faded flowers to her lips, and held the yellow letters a moment against her heart. Then, with nervous haste, she flung all those souvenirs of a dead day back into their receptacle, and snapped the casket together rudely, hiding the key again in her bosom. "Yes," she said, wearily, turning away, "I am too old. And yet, de spite it all. I love him utill. Oh! Ger ard! Gerard! why did you win my heart and then cast it back to me desolate and unblessed? Oh, Heaven! why are women created with these intense longings forlove, love, always love and then suffered to drag out a dull existence, missing always all tnat can make existence life?" She paced the floor softly, her eyes weeping tears bitterer than those which come to younger eyes, her woman's heart wrung with a pain fiercer than anything which comes to her sex in careless girlhood. But when the storm was over, aud that was soon, for Letitia Marsh's was a well-disciplined nature, she went dowa to the rln iut a serene, and quiet, and self- poaasssed as usual. And when, three days later, Colonel St. Albans called, and was devoted to the young ladies, and coldly eonrte ous to herself, Miss Letitia met him with stately grace, and no feature of her faoe betrayed that any old sweet memory of him lay hidden in her heart Nobody minded her, and after thva first polite greetings St Albans did not address her. She was very glad of this, inasmuch as it saved her from the necessity of talking, and she knew that there would be a sus picious tremble in her voice; and, be sides, she wanted to soothe her sore heart with watching St Albans. He had grown very handsome in those five years of absence, but she saw that there were wrinkles around his eyes, and white hairs among the brown on his temples. Time had not left him untouched. This first visit was like all the others, so far as Letitia was con cerned. He was courteous to ber, but never friendly, and some fine self-consciousness of her weakness for him made Letitia avoid him. He visited at Mr. Marsh's fre-' quently, and Miss Isabel Marsh was very generally supposed to be the at traction. Indeed, tue young lady her self was very sanguine of her success in winning the gallant colonel, and on 'one occasion she was gushingly girlish enough to assure Aunt Letitia that when she was mistress of the new house which the colonel was building at Salisbury Point, nothing could afford her more pleasure than to give her "dearest aunt' a home there. When the snow fell and there was sleighing, Colonel St Albans invited a party of his friends' to the new house for a sort of "house warming" supper, Letitia among the rest At first she thought she would not go, but Isabel declared it would look "odd," and people would think that she had not forgotten that "old ro mantic episode;" and Miss Letitia de cided not to give "people" any chance to talk. Isab jl went with the colonel in his own sleigh, and was as happy as a queen, and all the other girls were ready to die of envy. The sleighing was none of the best, for a new snow had fallen and the weather had not yet cleared. The wind was blowing furiously, S'.-l the air was thick with flying snow. Somehow, in the dark ness, the colonel's horse managed to upset the sleigh, and in consequence, a half dozen more sleighs shared the same fate, and half the merry party were miy-sd up together in inextrica ble confusion. The re-embarkation was of course hurried, particularly on the part of Colonel St Albans, who had a restive horse, and one quite indisposed to wait patiently for passengers in such a furious wind as was then raging. They had gone fully a mile, the colonel holding the reins with both hands, when he heard a low and tremulous voice say: "Pardon me, Colonel St Albans, but I fear you have taken the wrong passenger." "Good heaven!" he cried, in strong agitation; "Letitia!" "Yes. Do not be offended. I was not to blame for it The snow blind ed me and I thought surely you were brother John." Through the robes he had wrapped around her, St Albans was sure he felt her tremble. He drew closer to her side, moved by soma uncontrolla ble impulse to speak what was in his heart "Letitia" he said hoarsely, "once we were not strangers'." "But that time is past" "Yes," he said, bitterly. "Your ca price ruined my happiness and made me a dissatisfied and useless wan derer." "My caprice!" she said, slowly. "I do not understand." Letitia was growing dizzy, and the world of snow spun around before her bewildered eyes. He turned upon her sharply: "You do not understand? Then let me explain. Why did you not answer my letter? The letter in which I told you that I loved you in which I asked you to be my wife? I was a coward, Letitia. Love made me distrust my self, else I should surely have spoken to you instead of. writing. But I wrote, and I asked you to answer me as you felt, and I told you that if you rejected me, you need only keep silent And you kept silent." "That letter never reached me," she said, faintly. "It did not! But if it had? If it had:" His hand sought .hers, all unmind ful of his horse; and the animal took the liberty of deciding, his own cour s and went off in the very .opposite di rection from the right one, but St. Albans did not observe it He wastce intent on Letitia to observe his horse. "I loved you, Gerard," she said, softly. "My answer could have been nothing but that" "My darling! change that form of expression," he cried, eagerly; "Say 'I love you, Gerard!' And she said it, with- his lips hold ing hers so close they dared nut make a mistake in the words he dictated. But she added, immediately: "It is too late to dream these dreams, Gerard. I am too old!' He laughed gleefully. "Just four years younger than year Methuselah of a lover!" said he. press ing her closer to his heart "It is all right now, dearest, and I thank heaven for sending me the wrong pas senger, for she is the right one, after ail!" Of course, the girls were all greatly surprised at the turn affairs had taken, and were ready to exclaim against the impudence of that "aw fully designing old maid;" but Letitia was so happy she could afford to be talked about, and love, the great r j uveas tor, made her yonojf aala. For Colds, Coughs, Croup, Influenza, and Bronchitis, use CHERRY PECTORAL the best of all anodyne expectorants. Prompt to act, Sure to Cure SAX TA F2 03 T J. TRAIXS TO BIDB OX. In Kffect on nd aftor Dec. 19, ia4. v WESTBOUXD, jt, I Ltiave o I Trains. Wichita Tex. Express- Den. Tex. Llm California Lim.. 'Kansas City Ilg Night Express.. M. A. ft. Acc. Ex. Sunday... 1131 :15 a M t:00aiul. 31 1:50 pm 109! 4:80 pm 7 9:L"0vm :40 t. 11:35 ptu 16a Between Kansas City and Topeka only. EASTBOUND. I T:3u am Arrive l.nve Arrive Trains. 9 Topeka. Topeks. Kansas City. K. O. Ixical 114 1:50 pm 8:00pm 4:20 pm Columbian Lim. 4 2:15 pm 8:40 pm 5:00 pm Chicago Llm 6 5:45 pm 6:0. pm 8:00 pm Night Ex 8 3:25 am 8:35 aru 5:43 am Atlantic Exp.. 2 4:00 am 4:10 am 6:10am Kansas City plug no 7.80 am 9:40am Man. B. Acc. Ex. Sunday... 154 9:00pm Between Kansas City and Topeka only. ATCHISON AND ST. JOSEPH. Trains n Leave Leave i Arrive -tralnSl 0- St. Joe. Atcuis'nlTopeka. Day Express 105 S-.OOam :00'am!l0:55 am Klght Exp 107 8:35pm 6:10 pmll:16 pm Leave Arrive Arrive Topeka. Atchis'n St. Joe. Morning Exp... 108 4:15 am 6:15 am 7:20 am Evening Exp 106 6:06 pm 7:5o pm 8:56 pm Buy railroad, Pullman or steamship tickets of ROWLEY BKOS., Agents Santa Fe route, southeast corner Sixth and Kansas avenue, Topeka. Or W. C. Garyky, Agent at Depot, Or AKXOLD SON, Agents, North Topeka, ROCS ISLAID E0UT2. In effect on and after Dee. 2, 1S94 WESTBOUND. Leave Kansas City. Train. Ho. Arrive I Leavs Topeka. 'Topeka. Througn Fast; express B Chicago, Texas Express A South we s tern ExDress A 9:00 pm 11:10 pm 12:55 pm 11 :20 pm 1:05 pra 10:50 am i i r 9:33 am ,12: 50 pm Lv S.J. 7:40 pmlll :05 pm Southwest Night express a 11:20 pm EASTBOUND. Arrive Trains. No. Arrir Leave Kansas Topeka. Topeka. City. Bolld Limited Vestibule Ex press A 2 3:15pm 3:20pm 5:25pm St. Joseph and Eastern Ex- Ar S. J. prens A 14 8:25pm fi: 60 pm Express end Mail via St. Ar S. J. Joseph C 4 5:35am 6:40 8111 9:25am Express and Mail via Kao- bs City A 28 5:85 am 5:40 am 7:45am A Daily. B Daily, except Saturday. C Daily, except Monday. For tickets, sleeping-car berths and gennral Information, call at City Ticket office. 601 Kan das avenue, corner Sixth street, (telephone 430): at .Passenger Station, corner tirst street and Kansas avenue, (telephone 384); or at fosloDico, North Topeka. (telephone 3C1. H. O. GARVEY. City Passenger Agent. UIIOH PACiriC. Chang of Time. In Effect December 16, 1 894. UNION PACIFIC EASTBOUND. Arrive Trains. No. Leaves Leaves Kansas Denver. Vopeka. City,. Eastern Vesti buled Express, Limited 8 8:20 pm 2:50 pm 5:00 pra 2 12.50 pm 6:47 am 9:00 am UNION PACIFIC WESTBOUND. Leaves Trains. No. Kansas leaves Arrives City. I'fopeka Denver. Denver Pacific Vestibuled Express 7 6:45 8:55 pm 1:40pm 1 9:00 am 10:50 am 8:80 am Dally, except Sunpay. All others dally. Train No. 8. solid vestibule to Chicago, dinins car. lree chair ears, etc., running over the Chicago Alton from Kansas City, lias through sieeper for 8t. Louis via Missouri Pacific. Train No. 7. solid vestibule for Denver, mak ing direct connection for Pacihe coast, through Pullman car for Sa.t Lake; through colonist car to Portland. et!.. etc. City ticket office, am Kansas avenue. MISSOURI PACIFIC. Train. No LT' Topeka Topeka and Fort ttcott ac commodation. 285 10:60 a, m. A'v'sTopek' Toneka and Fort Scott avi eommodstlon.. i I 0:30 p. m. LT. 4S. W. EAfcT. I T,.v. 1 via Merlden and l Leave Topeka. i oskaloosa. f 7:80 -m Arrive Leavenworth ll:00a.ui WEST. Leave Leavenworth, via Oskaloosa.. 4:69 p.m Arrive Topeka S :20 p.m Accommodation, daily a Sunday. VINLWOOII HIGHLAND PARK R. R Trains will leave Quinav street station we.t.i days for Vinewood as follows: 6:4,11:51, 3:07. 6:41. Trains win leave Vinewood for Qulncy strea; at 7:57. 1:02, 4:19, 6:50. Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 Kans. Ave. Stove at cost. 702 Kansas ava. Biobbr Waits at Elcberg's, 716 Kansas tvenue. Stove at oust, 702 Kaasaa ays,

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STATE JOURNAL,, FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 4, 1895. 1 .4 1 i i 4 4 f Awarded Jlijhest Honors World's Fair. CREAM immmrm MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL, State Librarian James L. King has a Hew typewriter. E. B. Fisher of Florence wants to be -assistant doorkeeper. J. M. Miller of Council Grove, ia here. He ia one of the Iiood men. Senator Dan McTaggart will room in tho Yeale block this winter. Rev. A. S. Einbree has been appointed chaplain for the inaugural ceremonies. W. T. Cannon, the new member from Hingman county, arrived last evening. The members of the state executive council had their pictures taken yester day. A Topeka mac has secured the privi lege for running the house restaurant this winter. John G. Johnson of Garnett, who will be one of the young lawyers in the house is at the Copeland. George S. Smith, Ottawa county's rep resentative, is here, lie is interested in an assessment and tax law. The tallest man around the Copeland la A. II. Burtia of Garden City, who wants to be sergeaut-at-arins of the house. An application has been made to the state board of pardons for the release of Ralph B Turner from the penitentiary. W. L. Brown, of Kingman, who waa secretary of the senate two years ago, and wants to fill the same position this year, is here. Judge Frank Doster and several other Populist leaders, spent last evening at the Copeland. They did not loaf there two years ago. P. A. Rohrbaugh, who succeeds George L. Douglass in the Wichita district of Sedgwick county, will be one of the tall men in the house. Representatives Morrow of Washing ton county. Price of Nemaha and Lough of Cowley will ail introduce text book bills in the house. Mrs. E. II. Munsey, an old soldier's widow, and B. II. Bunn, of Rush county, are contesting for the position of post master of the house. John Shouse, of Chautauqua county, keeps his own counsel. No one knows for whom he will vote for senator, speaker or anything else. J. M. Foster of Republic county, the blonde member of the house, arrived last i evening. Mr. Foster was one of the lead- I era in the Douglass house. Before George C. Sperry left for Mex ico yesterday he was presented with a master mason's charm by his friends in the Santa Fe office building. The heating apparatus in some parts of the state house won't work at all. A new grate ia being put in the bank com missioner's office in the south wing. D. W. Eastman of Emporia, who waa a I candidtae for state treasurer before the la3t state convention, is here ana is a candidate for railroad commissioner. Colonel Alexander Warner ia here, but 6ay he don't expect to have as much f un as he had two years ago. Colonel Warner ia not happy when not in a tight Fletcher Meredith, of the Hutchinson Interior Herald, and J. W. Dix, the two men who will represent Reno county in the house this winter arrived last evening.- W. H. McBride came down from Os borne yesterday afternoon. He did not walk, as he ia an attorney in his county for the Union Pacific and gets a pass on that acore. The Taylors are hard after the railroad nmmiasionershiDS. O. B. Taylor, of Leavenworth, and H. C. Taylor, of Lyons, are the men who are doing the moat rust ling for the jobs. Rillv Nelson will help F. L. Vande- rrrift tairA r of the Kansas City Star during the session and Tom McNeal will assist Frank Montgomery with the Kan- i sas City Journal work. It ia now nroDOsed to have the house caucus on organization Monday morn ing, in order that the officers selected will have time to get their office equip ment ready for the opening session. William Campbell of Stafford county, the middle of the road Populist who was in the legislatures of 1890 and 1892, has arrived. Mr. Campbell is likely to be the leader of his party forces in the house this winter. Politically the legislature will stand on joint ballot: Republicans, 106; Popu lists, 54; Democrats, 3; Fusion Demo-Pop, 2. The senate stands: Republicans, 15; Populists, 23; Democrats, a, ana tne house stands: Republicans, 91; Popu lists, 31; Democrats, 1; Fusion Demo Pop, 2. The Smith family will have three members in the legislature thia winter. State Senator George E. Mnith, of Ger mantown, Smith county, who is a Popu list; Representative George S. Smith, of Delphos, Ottawa county, a Republican, and F. H. Smith, of Goodiand, Sherman county, a Demo-Pop. They are all good fellows. After Stock be nventory Clearing The Peerless Power of Cash was never so clearly demonstrated as now closed out at once Grand Bargains are yours. all Sale! small lots must i t mmmm Men's Suits, Overcoats and Ulsters of which we have but few of a i lot that always sold from $12.50 to $20, to close them out your choice now si Mens All Wool TR0USERS made of very finest CassU meres, Worsteds, Cheviots, Tweeds, that sold from $3 to $5, of which we have but few of a lot, your choice now .mm mm I II 'IffiV W? ill' 83 -"jr ijjr -'jtuy mi n iir- 'n I ml fn-A w M 709 KANSAS AVE. Auerbach Guettel '1 NAUTILUS CLUB'S WORK. JJR. HOLMES' COPYRIGHT. It is Claimc d a Chicago Finn is Infringing on It. Chicago, Jan. 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr-, administrator of the proper ty of his father, "The Autocrat," by hia attorney, filed a bill in the United States court today to secure an injunction to re strain the firm of Donahue, Henneberry Co., of Chicago, from publishing an edition of "The Autocrat of the Break fast Table." The bill charge3 that since January 1 the firm has been printing and selling an edition of the work, which is an infringe ment of the copyright secured by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 18S6. CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH. NORTH TOPEKA. it

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THE RELIABLE GROCERS. CONSUMERS Should bear in mind that thp.rft are TWO grades of Granulated Sugar on the market. They are so near alike in appearance that the average buyer would not notice the difference, yet in fact the one is only an imitation of the other. We Carry Both. It Proposes to Start a Co-operative Laun dry and Oakery. It will not be very long until Topeka will have a full-fiedged co-operative laundry and bakery, ihe members of the ZS'autilua club discussed the project at the regular meeting yesterday after noon at the home of Mrs. W. W. Gil lespie, corner of Fifteenth and College avenue. Ihe Nautilus club ia a literary organ ization composed of about thirty College hill ladies. Tne main oojectot tne ciud, of course, is the study of literature, but the ladies have several novel schemes which they propose to put into use, and this one of a co-operative laundry and bakery is one of them. A house, centrally located as to the members, v ill be rented and a competent woman placed in charsre. All the bak ing and the laundry work for the mem bers will be done at this house, and the ladies will take turns at supervising the work. This ia not a money making scheme however. In this wav the work will not fall heavily upon any of the ladies, and the work will be done fully as cheap, if not cheaper, than it couid be done at home. At the meeting yesterday the scheme was thoroughly discussed. At the next meeting, which will be held at the home of .Wrs. G. L. Humphrey, 1332 Mulvaue street, steps will be taiien toward socur ing the house and the woman to take charge. The literary part of the programme yesterday was devoted to a study of the poems or Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mrs. Martin Alohler read an excellent paper on the "Religion of Holmes' Poems," and Mrs. Stewart Sheldon told of "Holmes as a Physician." The programme was varied a little by a most interesting essay by Mrs. Trayer. Her subject was: "How to Util ize the Time Per Day." She told of how she systematized her household work and recommended that all the members adopt a similar plan. This subject was one in which all seemed to be much interested, and the ladies en joyed a long discussion upon it. The club will next take np the study of Emerson. Abe Curtis, Supposed Murderer of airs. IMatson Suffers From Clironic Mendacity "Abe" Curtis, the Copeland waiter, now in the county jail, for being impli cated in the murder of Mrs. A. D. Mat son, has proven himself to be a falsifier at least. He has "taken back" all he has said about having been given Mrs. Mat son's watch by J iui Buzzard, and claims now he got it by burglarizing a secjnd hand store. This may have a tendency to clear Buzz ird,but it don't help him a par ticle. It is impossible for even a shrewd and experienced officer to tell when Cur tis is telling the truth. Simply say "Cur tis, vou know you lie; now tell us the truth," and he will reply, "I know it,;' and tell another story. He has told so many conflicting stories that the officers have about given up for the present try ing to get any satisfaction from him. Buzzard is still held. John M. Wilkerson did not bring Nathan Wood over from bt. Joe. There are reasons to believe that Wood, when he recommended Curtis to Mr. Lytton, did so in good faith, and was not other wise involved in the plot. Sheriff John Skinner of Cowley county is in Topeka today. He knows Frank Nevels of old and Bays he is the most complete all-round scamp and scoundrel he ever knew. Ha was tried once for murder in Cowley county but the charge against him was not proven. AN ASYLU31 RURNS. Items of Interest from the tike Itiver. North Side of 0 24 lbs. 100 23 100 La ?6 u,ted be st s 0 Geo J "ood box Soda u.rater r Had Cinr, -uer CJoves PePper A raj Oi "Pice. staro agee Pacfca, Oll. T- 3 -o-etffo n oc. o, i a trrajjd P 'StSnr.. s ""Vonrf A t. v 4 n r "orated ea. "-Pplea DON'T FORGET -v r o li oo Z 8Tr t Inn i Craclc i oo -5 5 i oo I 2 ib or" 1 00 lite. n A 2 x i e(i 25 P 10 4 s 25 4 k per quart 25 f t 20 t 10 0 .7 10 777"- 10 S S :7:7 St 1 S ft WARMER TOMORROW. The Indications Are That It Will Be War mer and Fair Tomorrow. If Mr. Jenning3 doesn't miss his guess on the weather again it will be slightly warmer tomorrow and fair. The low barometer in tne panhandle of Texas and in Colorado yesterday morn ing has moved northward into Wyoming and Montana, and the high barometer has moved southeastward trom Montana and is central today over Dubuque, Ia. The warm wave that was in Colorado yesterday has moved north and is now central in eastern Montana, while it has been replaced in Colorado by a cold wave of equal intensity. The cold wave yesterday in Montana has moved eastward and is central today over northern Illinois. Clear weather prevails in Colorado and Wyoming with cloudy weather in Mon tana, South Dakota. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and the Indian Territory,: in which area a little snow has been general. Southerly winds are prevalent today across Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. The Illinois Hospital Having fil0 Inmates Destroyed by I'ire. Anna, I1L, Jan. 4 The center build intr and south wing of the southern iln- nois hospital ror me insane nas ueeu burning since 11:50 p. m. last night. The building contained nearly 6(J0 pa tients, all of whom, it is thought, were gotten out safely, with one exception, that of a lady, who is supposed to have perished in the flames. She was ob served on the fourth fljor tit' the center buildings, dressed only in her night clothes. None of the attendants or patients had time to secure their clothing and the snow worked a great hardship in trans ferring the patients to other quarters. They were crowded into a new building, -already nearlv fulL The loss will ex ceed $300,000." Terrible confusion prevailed during the fire and it is miraculous that many lives were not lost. The north wing is all that remains standing. The fire was under complete subjection before day light. The asylum has its own water I works, but for some reason the system was ineffective in fighting the fire. The plugs seemed to have been frozen. JOHN L.'S COMPANY FAILS. Breaks Up at Paris, 111. The Champion" Too Iruiik to Stand. Paris, 111., Jan. 4 John L. Sullivan's combination, known as "A True Ameri can," practically disbanded here last, night. Sullivan made an attempt to give an entertainment at the opera house, but could not stand upon the stage without' support. lie was so abusive mat seven memoera of the combination resigned their posi-' tions and the remainder departed for Monmouth. SANTA FE MINES CLOSE. Postmaster A. J. Arnold is confined to his room by a slight attack of peritonitis. A shoplifter was caught in the act of stealing a coat from Voiland's store last night. Joe Cromwell has accepted a clerkship at the National, and will begin work there next week. W. V. Parmeter has returned from a long visit among friends and relatives at Eagle Grove, Ia. 1890 Daries at P. O. Book Store. 10 per cent off on Banquet cook and Oak heating stoves for Christmas pres ents. J. II. Foucht. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sanderson, of 623 Van Buren street, are the parents of an infant daughter. The Sweet Sixteen club will be enter tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Kistler this evening. The Needle Ten met at the home of Mrs. C. N. Lyon yesterday. They are having more calls for help than they are able to 6upply. The Kaw Klub, which started recently in the most auspicious manner, will give the second number of their series of en- ertainments on Monday evening at the oome of Mrs. Tuttle on Gordon street. Miss Isabella Frisbie, after spending the holidays here with her parents, has returned to Manhattan, where she is tak ing a past graduate course in the Agri cultural college. MAY USE STATE PASSES. Our Men's And Boy's Skates Are only Eft pi 44s PAIR. I New York Railroad Commissioners Pro vided for by Secretary of State. Albany, Jan. 4. Judge Parker of the supreme court, has decided that the rail road commissioners can use railroad passes issued by the secretary of state and that the new constitution does not pro hibit the legislature from providing that passes may be issued to state officials when travelling ou official business. Come and see Them at Tfc? Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co., 108 E. 6th St. t HAllPElt'S BAZAR HARPER'S WEEKLY ARGUMENTS FOR DEBS. The to last night When you buy cast your votes favorite charity. At the close of business stood: Orphans' Home, 208; 159; Christ Hospetal, 97; Ingleside, 81 of us .to for your the vdte Associated Charities Judge Groitscup Is Hearing Motion Quash Indictments. Chicago, Jan. 4. Judge Grosscup in the United States court began hearing arguments today on motion to quash in dictments in the case against President Debs and other officials of the American Railway union. Arguments for the defendants were made bv T. W. Harper of Terre Haute, Ind., and S. S. Gregory of Chicago. Ihe arguments for the government were made by ex-District Attorney T. E. Mil christ and Attorney M. Rosenthal. The arguments were completed this afttr noTm and a decision will be rendered next Tuesday. WANT NO MORE DEBT. Cerillos Coal Mines SUut Down, Throwing lOO Men Out. Albuquerque, N. M., Jan. 4. Thi; Santa Fe railroad company, operating" several coal mines near Cerillo3, hao I closed down the Wallace and the An, thracite coal mine, throwing out of em ployment a huudred men. It is learned that the company will close down other mines and discharge all men employed except those that art married. Tnrli.iih Paper Deny It. Constantinople, Jan. 4 The TurkisU newspapers deny the reported assassina; tion of Tahsiu Pasha, governor of Bitli. saying that the story arose from thfe death of Hielmi Bey, the Vali of bavas, which it is claimed was due to natural causes. ROCK ISLAND EXCURSION TO TEXAS OKLAHOMA. For That Reason, the Nicaragua Bill Slay 3ot Pass, Washington, Jan. 4. The judgment of those senators who have remained in the city during the recess, is that the Nicaaazua bill cannot pass at this ses sion. "It is not a favorable time to urge such a measure," said Senator Davis, of the foreign relations committee. "Times have been so hard and the people do not like the prospect of increasing expenses, or of creating an additional debt. 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