The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 10, 1896

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js- TWO CENTS. vBEN TILLMAN ON DISPENSARIES. The South Carolina "Man of Iron" Talks to the State Journal Correspondent A On the Probable Result of In SAS SUGGESTED BY Believes It 'Would Be Far i" In Kroisas. 'vSenator Tillman Tells How the Jury Beat Him in the St. John Debate But He Won the Audience. rrosn the State Journal's Special Correspontlsnt Washington, Jan. 10. As the recent interview of Gov. Morrill of Kansas, in which he favors the dispensary system for the control of the liquor traffic has brought the various methods of dealing with this question again into promi nence, Senator Benjamin It. Tillman, of South Carolina, who might properly be called the father of the dispensary sys tem, was seen at his home by the Journal correspondent and asked to jrive his views upon this system, and the jrobable effect of its inauguration in a prohibition state like Kansas. Senator B. R. TILLMAST, TJ. S. Senator from Couth Carolina. Author of the Dispensary law, wnich places the sale of liquor In South Carolina In the hasds ot the state. His attempts to enforce the provisions of this act recently caused a revolution on a small scale at Darlington and other points, which was quelled by the prompt action of the gov ernor. He Is a populism-democrat, 47 years of age, and said to be an astute politician. In 1834 he loat an eye from abscess produced by inSammation resulting from hard study by lightwood knot fires. Tillman is unhesitating in hi3 belief that the state dispensary method is the best present possible way of dealing with the question, and that it is a vast improvement over prohibition. "Prohibition has proved," he said, "that it is impossible to extirpate the 'evil, and if the people of Kansas desire to redace and minimiza the traffic in stead of having the farce of absolute pro hibition the dispensary system is the way to do it." Before discussing the plan in its ap plication to Kansas, Senator Tillman de sired to recite the history of it in South Carolina in order to show how it might work in another state with all allowances made for the differences of sentiment and conditions. "You probably, know," he said, "that the tight in a Soma Carolina election is at the primaries or conventions. The man who is successful there is sure of election, so there is where the real strug gle comes. In the primaries of 1390 tie tight was between the Reformers or Tillmanites and the old oligarchy which bad been running the state ever since they got control of it after the reconstruc tion time, in 1876. We licked them then end the same fight caaae up again when I stoad for re-election in 1892. But at these same primaries the question of prohibition was to be voted on yes or no in a separate box. While there were 85,000 votes cast for candidates only 50, 000 persons voted on the question of prohibition. This was carried by a ma jority of 20,009 or thereabouts. "This expression was sufficient to cause the house in the legislature which was elected to pass a strict prohibitory law patterned after the Maine and Iowa laws. It was rock ribbed and sweeping. It prohibited the sale of liquors except by state dispensers and men only for pbarmacauiical, mechanical, and medici nal purpoaee. When this bill came to the senate there were only five days of the session left and all the bartenders were there to defeat it. I saw that the house measure with its absolute prohibition would not do and so taking it as a groundwork we fixed it over into what is virtually the present dispensary law. This was passed by the sanate and then by the bouse in the form of a substitute. This action was taken in December 1892. "The law provided for a state dispen sary commissioner who was to buy all liquor for the state and provide for its sale by county dispensaries. There are cow about seventy-five dispensaries in the state." DUp.asartas Look Llka Drag Stor.s. "A dispensary looks verv much like a drag store. It is something like a com bination of a drug store and a bar room. There are shelves all around the walls and a counter across the front end. When man comes in to buy whisky the dia- FRIDAY EVENING. jntrlacing State Dispensaries Ivausas GOVERNOR MOKRILL. Sunerior to tlie rresent bysteni penser says: 'What'll you have?' Then the man says: 'Give ma a half pint of XX corn, or XXX rye, or whatever it is he wants. He pays his money for it and that is all there is to it lie can't drink it on the premises and the bottles are sealed. While I was governor the cheap est whisky was $3 per gallon. "All the liquors are chemically tested and the idea is to keep all kinds on hand which are not unfitted for sale by adul teration and for which there is a suffi cient demand. "Well, the law was to go into effect the succeeding July, six months bain? given fur those having liquors on hand to dis pose of them. I had a state constabu lary to enforce the law. I began at once to have the dispensaries established so as to beg-in when the law went into effect There was an appropriation of $50,000 to start the thing off. "It may seem an easy task to attend to all these details, bnt I tell you it was the hardest job I ever had on my handi," said Senator Tillman with the air of one who had had hard fights before. "There was opposition at once in the cities where most of the political oppo sition toward me was centered. You see most of my followers were in the outly ing and country districts and the fellows who belonged to the old ring which had been in control were centered in the cities. They didn't believe that any good could come oat of Nazareth and as this was a Tillman measure they went into league with the bartenders and proprietors of blind tigers to obstruct its enforcement They patronized these fellows and aided them. "There was more or less trouble in en forcing the law in the cities, but tue sys tem was kept going from July until De cember, when the legislature met again. "Now politicians, you know, are the most cowardly .people in the world. They are afraid of public sentiment and al ways try to follow just behind it instead of leading it. But this legislature which had enacted the dispensary law with fear and trembling as an experiment in 1802, in 1893 re-enacted it and made it stronger by amendments which the previous five months had suggested. "Then in April, 1894, came the. Dar lington riot and I whipped them and two weeks later the supreme court de clared the law unconstitutional. "I at once ordered the dispensers to close the dispensaries, take an account of stock and guard the goods at a reduced salary. The decision of the supreme court was in regard to the law of 1892, and was so tnuddy and partisan and un reasonable that later, when another case was brought up they made another decis ion saying what parts of the law were unconstitutional virtually an explana tion of their explanation. The whole de cision was a reversal of a previous de cision, for the same court had refused an injunction brought by the bartenders against the law. One old judge who was superanuated was to be retired in July and I had the appointing of his succes sor. Now the dispensary law of 1893, which was stronger than that of 1892, which was declared unconstitutional, hadn't been acted on and I didn't intend this court should either. So I put it in my pocket and waited. "The court in its explanation of its ex planation, said the only part of the law which was constitutional was one little section which said the state should issue no licenses. But a previous statute on the books said, no one should sell liquor without a license. 8o.,hre was. a condi tion of absolute nncempromising rock ribbed prohibition, No liquor could be TOPEKA, sold for any purpsse legally, by drug stores or any one else. "The result was that there was a per-. feet inundation of drunkenness. Saloons ran wide open everywhere. Every cross roads opened up. Liquor was so free it almost ran in the streets." Tha Court Himself Took Drink. "The court which declared tha dispen sary lawunconstitutional walked down the street and went openly into a saloon and took a drink. I couldn't arrest anyone for my power had been taken away and no sheriff would. The liquor was bad, and drunkeness and debauchery became so prevalent that at the meetings throughout the state where I spoke the people would interrupt by crying 'when are you going to open up the dispen saries?' Even the Prohibitionists were sick of prohibition, for here if was simon pure, and admitted that the dispensaries were better. "ao when I had appointed the new supreme judge in July, I opened up the dispensaries under the law of 1893. We got a cuse brought under the law and the supreme court declared it valid. "Of course the old oligarchy said it was a party decision by a Tillmanite court, but the Tillmanites had said the same thing about the old court'd de cision. "So the system ran along and in De cember a new legislature fresh from the people and elected on the dispensary is sue, not only did not repeal the law but strengthened'it by the metropolitan po lice law, providing for a change of venue even when the grand jury didn't find a true bill, and for tha removal of sheriffs and other officers where they did not do their duty. The machinery for execut ing the law is now as strong as the inge nuity of man can devise. "In September, 1895, a constitutional convention met to revise the old consti tution. It was not elected on party lines but was composed ef man sent there for their ability and the fact that) they were representative. This convention wanted to embody the dispensary law just as it stood in the constitution. And here was presented tha singular spectacle of one who had been the champion of the law and stood in almost a parental relation to ir, laboring with the convention not to do it. "The reasons I urged were that if it should ba done and the supreme court of the United States, which has the om nipotent power to reverse itself, and act the fool. and do scandalous and reprehensible things generally, should declare it unconstitu tional, then we should have another case of absolute prohibition and it would be out of the legislature's power to remedy matters. "So what the convention did was to give the legislature power to provide for license, or prohibition, or the dispensary system, provided that no dispensary should be open after night or liquor sold by the drink. '-That is the way the question stands in South Carolina today. The bartenders fight it--because it destroys their busi ness and it is bard to enferce in tha cities because there is the head center of the opposition ta Tillmanites, but opposition is" gradually dying out, and when tha bartenders can be forced from the state the law will work quite smoothly. "The chief opponents of the law have been the bartenders and. preachers." "The trouble with the dispensary law in South Carolina as with the prohibition law Id Kansas, seems to have been in the cities. Do you think it was mostly on account of politics in South Carolina?" the correspondent asked. "Ye?, almost two-thirds of the opposi tion to the law was because it was a l'ill man measure. Many men said they didn't mind the dispensary law, and thought it was a good thing, but because it was passed by Tillmanites and I en forced it, they wanted to see it fail. "The quality of whisky down there is purely a political question," said Senator Tillman, laughing. "The anti-TiUman-ites say dispensary whisky is abomin able stuff; the worst liquor they ever pnt lips to. That it isn't fit for a dog to drink, that they wouldn't drink it if they were to die and all that, but tha Till manites say it is the finest in the world." Mil. Tilmaa's Camment. "Yes, it's all a matter of politics," said Mrs. Tillman, who was in the room, sharing in the laugh. "Sometimes the dispensary people would get it onto the antis by taking" a bottle with the name of an out of the state firm on it and put dispensary whisky in it," continued.Senator Tillman. "They would then give it to the antis to drink and they would say it was fine, that it beat dispensary whisky clear out. The dispensary people would then tell them what they had been drinking and have the laugh an them." "You think then that if Kansas were to adopt the dispensary system it would not be a step backward from prohibition, but a step forward?" "A long step forward," said Senator Tillman, with great emphasis. "A state which has stood prohibition would thank God for it, as a great improvement." "What do you think would be the effect if Kansas were to adopt it?" "It would have the most elevating ef fect on the morals of the drinking classes. It would enable them to get stimulants in an orderly, decent, legitimate and open way without having to sneak around a back way, and through dark hallways and up narrow stairs, or to swear to a lie. "I believe in lighting fire with fire and liquor with liquor. There is no better way to drive out the bartender than with whisky. It is a fact that dispensary whisky will drive out all other kinds. It is better, and' it is cheaper. Men who want whisky, and they will have it, as we know, would rather go openly, and in a respectable manner, to set it than to sneak around to. some blind tiger or joint and get it, and so those places would lose their patronage. "The advantage of the dispensary sys tem is that it destroys the bar-room for ever. "The difference between our way in South Carolina and yours in Kansas is that we recognize man as a miserable creature. There is a natural opposition to the idea of prohibition. The desire for stimulants is inherent in the nature of man. Some want tea, some take coffee and others want whisky. Ever since the time away back in history when men first found that fermentation would pro-, duce alcoholic stimulants, they have been used. You can't do away with the habit KANSAS, JANUARY of ages in a day. You can't legislate away the desire for Stimulants you must educate it out. It is not possible to ex tirpate and destroy, you must reduce and minimize. "One of the beauties of the dispensary system is that it does away with treating. You can't buy whisky by the glass or drink. That is the chief evil -of the present system A party of men go into a bar roon and take a drink. Then they pass on down the street and one of them says: 'Come in and have a drink with me.' And by the time they have visited three or four bar rooms they are- drunk, when that was not their intention in the first place and one-drink was, probably all any of them cared for or wanted.. "There is a danger in the dispensary system of getting liquor either too cheap or too dear. If too dear illicit dealers will flourish and if too cheap consump tion is apt to be encouraged. But there is a golden moan. It can be made cheap enough to make dealing in it unprofita ble, and yet not encourage its use as a beverage." How It Would Work in Kansas. "Suppose Kansas were to adopt the dispensary system, and that the liquor element should be satisfied with it (ex cept jointists, of, course, whose, business would be destroyed) and the prohibition sists should not make trouble, would there be any difficulty to enforce the law?" "Not the slightest in the world. In such a case as that every bartender could ba driven from tha state." "Djes the state dispensary system les sen the amount of liquors consumed?" "Wall, there was no way to determine just how much had been consumed bo fore the law went into .effect," said Sen ator Tillman, "and from a fair estimate of that it may be said that only about half as much is used now as under the old system." Senator Tillman said the system was conducted in South Carolina at a slight profit. The lowest price of whisky under his administration was $3, but his suc cessor has very greatly reduced the price in order he says to drive out all competition. There has been turned into the state treasury from the dispen saries since they have been running $240,000 of clear money. This is over and above the $50,000 appropriated to start the system out as this amount was paid back. The money is used for the support of the free schools. Under the law neither habitual drunk ards or minors can purchase liquors, and the dispensaries are not open alter night. The dispensers are paid salaries. There are three commissioners in each county to locate and control the dispensaries. Only one man in the state can purchase for the dispensaries and he is the etate commissioner. All liquors are chemi cally tested. Some beers had to be thrown out Senator Tillman said, during his administration because of the pres ence of deleterious acids. Senator Tillman told of his debates last '--summer with Oov. Dickey and St. Joha. in which he took- the side of the dispensary as against prohibition with the one and negatived-' prohibition with the other. He got the jury, which was composed of prominent men of and near New York, by a vote of 13 to 8 in his discussion with Oov. Dickey, and was beaten by St Joha. -"So it was a dogfall as far as the Juries were concerned." said Senator Tillman, "but while the juries were out I took a hand primary of the audience on prohibition or dis pensary, and I beat them two to one." Senator Tillman satd he dida'tsee how the sentiment of the state of South Caro lina could be shown any mora strongly in favor of the dispensary system, since it had been ratified by three legislatures and a constitutional convention. He be lieves that in about a year all illicit selling except moonshiuiug i n about three mountain districts will be done away with. Senator Tillman speaks with a strong southern accent, dropping his r's and using soft a's. He says fo'ce for iorce and ba'tenda', and whetha. He raises his voice to almost a shrill pitch when very much in earnest. His language is good and his vocabulary varied. He uses vernacular expressions frequently and in alluding to his first victory for governor, said he "didn't leave a "grease spot of the opposition." None could hear him talk and believe the report that he answered Senator Chandler's question in the senate as to what his politics was by saying "I aiut no Populist." He uses good English. M. F. M. SITUATION AT HAVANA. Oalputnt Hoyo Colorado, IS Miles From Havana Surrenders to Cubans. Havana, Jan. 10. It is announced that 123 wounded insurgents who were picked up on the battlefield at La Cebia are now in the Spanish hospital at San Antonio de los Banos. The garrison of Hoyo Colarado, consist ing of twenty Spanish volunteers, has surrendered to the insurgents, Hoyo Colorado is near Bauta. which is about twelve miles from this city. Private advices say that in Santiago parents are sending their children off the island to prevent their arrest based en unguarded expressions and violent language against Spain. The Isthmian Cuban organ says that Spain believes that Havana cannot be taken without siege guns. M'JBKIDE'S FAREWELL. Tbc Retiring President or the Federa tion or Labor Speaks Highly or bis Successor. Massillon, O. Jan 10 John McBride has written out his formal farewell to the American Federation of Labor. He speaks in generous terms of Samuel Gompers, and reiterate his determina tion, expressed during the heat of the late convention as follows: "I shall never again either seek or accept official life, or official responsibility in the labor movement; bat whenever opportunity offers, or occasion demands my voice and pen will be used to aid and relieve suffering humanity and oppressed la bor." A Fine Sew Telescope. Comi!B09, O., Jan. 10. A telescope to day was opened at the state university. It is a gift from Emerson McMillin, of New York. It has a 12 inch lens, 16 foot barrel,- transit and spectroscope on the model of the Lick observatory, though on.. reduced lines. 10, 189G. HOENSCHEIDT! That Magic Name, Now Strains tlie Kansas Trump of Fame. On Fair Topeka Marches He, For Whisky Straight AND WHISKY FREE. Flings Out HisCrimsonGonfalon to Lead the Whisky Forces on, For Resubmission Good Old Times, BEER FOR NICKELS, 'Skey for Pinies. Poor Prohibi tion's in For "Fuss," For' He Won't Do a Thing to Us. Topeka is to have a Mystic Brother hood. This city has been left for the last, and the organizer says that ha has organizations in every city of the first class in Kansas. The organization has started out with grips, signs and pass words to overthrow prohibition in Kan sas, and, as might be guessed, it origina ted in Wichita. An organization is to be made in Topeka tomorrow night Police Com missioner Charles K. Holliday is looking after the organization in Topeka, end has been circulating petitions to be signed calling a meeting to organize, but the support he has received has not been of the hur ricane order and a prominent Topeka re submissionist says he has not more than a dozen names. But Charlie is hopeful. He says that Topeka will have an or ganization with 4,000 members. John E. Hoenscheidt, who is the state organizer and one of the founders of the organization, waa in Topeka yesterday. He came unneralded and he did not stop at one of the big hotels. He canvassed the situation and gave instructions to the leaders here to "get a move on them selves." Ue said he would return to To peka Saturday night and he wanted a a goad showing made in this "hotbed of cranks," he called it. Mr. Hoenscheidt, as might be guessed from his name, is a German. Long years ago he lived in Topeka and pub lished a German paper. He went to Wichita, and published the Wichita Journal, which was run as a daily paper through the boom. He is a harmless looking individual, with blonde mustache and blue eyes. Like all Wichita people, he alludes to the prohibitory law as a "farce" and au infringement on civil rights. "We do not say anything about our membership" said Mr. Hoenscheidt to a Jouiinal reporter. "That is we do not tell who our members are but you had -better join us and you will find out all you want to know." "How many members have you in the state?" "I am not able to say now." "Is it true that you have 50,000 mem bers as is resorted from Wichita?" "No, it is not true. But we expect to have 125,000 members in the spring. In Wichita we now have 1,700 members and I expect to see the number raised to 5,- 000 in the city alone. We have twenty lodges in Sedgwick county and almost 5,000 members in the county now." "Then you expect to organiza in the country, too?" 'Yes, sir; wa are going to organiza in the country as well as tne city, in every school district, but so far we have organ ized ouly iu one county, Sedgwick. We intend to have sub organizers do tuat. It is my business to organize in the cities, and that is what I am doing now. We have organizations now iu every city of the first class in Kansas. I nnderstand that there is a very large membership in Kansas City, Kansas, but 1 do not know much about any lodge but that to which I belong in Wichita." "How many organizers have yon in the state?" "We have seven. One for every con gressional district, besides myself. I am suppossd to look alter the work in the cities and the other organizers wiil look after the business in the outlying portions of the state." "Who is the organizer in this dis trict?" "He has not yet been appointed. That will be done after the organization is made here." "How many members of the next leg islature do you expect to secure?" "At least 84. We will get enough to secure a resubmission of tue prohibitory amendment. That is what we are after." "Will you take a hand in the election of state officers?" "Yes of course. When we elect our men to the county conventions as we ex pect to do, it is natural to suppose that they will elect delegates to the state con vontein who will vote for men opposed to the prohibitory law. Ia that sense we will have something to say about the election of state officers. We will look after things way back at the beginning, and will see to it that the right men are selected as delegates to the county con ventions." Mr. Hoenscheidt saidj this with an easy confident air as if he apprehended no trouble whatever iu his secret organ ization capturing the primaries of all parties. "Our organization will be a power, continued the organizer. "We ara not troubling about the Germans, They are with us, anyhow. The order is being organized among the "Americans. We want to gat the people wuo are aouDtiui. We do not care about the men who have been for resubmission all along because thev are safelv on our side. "We carried one election in the state by an organization like this and we can succeed again," continued Mr; Honea schiedt confidently. "That was in 1882; FRIDAY EVENING. that was the way we elected Glick. We had an organization called the Resub mission league all over the state, and the result was that we won. The people were disgusted, but this time we will have the law annulled." Then the organizer talked of Wichita. "I wish the governor would appoint an assistant attorney general in every town. Nothing could be done that would help our organization more. Why in Wichita they summoned 362 witnesses to prove the sale of a single glass of beer. They were in court twelve days at $2 a day and then the man wasn't convicted. I feel safe in saving thati every one of those witnesses lias, or will, join our organization, for they see that the bills will have to be paid by some one, and they also see what a farce the law is. Let them appoint assistant at torney generals. Nothing could suit us better." The commander of the state organiza tion is C C. Smith, city clerk of Wichita. Another Wichita man, Frank Burt, is the state secretary, so that the organization may be said to be purely Wichitan. Commander Smith said in a recent in terview: "We believe that the prohibitory laws of the state, as enforced, are not only a farce and a political game, but that there is really more liquor conlumed than under some system where the traffic can be controlled. We believe that the so-called attempts that are periodically made in Wichita and other cities to en force the law. and which uniformly fail, create discord and engender an intensely bitter feeling that is exceedingly detri mental to our material welfare. We want to bring prosperity and peace to our state by re-establishing the conditions under which the attainmentof such ends is possible. Our candidates will be on the party tickets and my prophecy is that every one of them will be elected." WILL THERE BE WAR? The British Said to Be Strengthening Their Venezuela Forces. Chicago, Jan. 10. A special to the Journal from Washington says: The re port that the British are strengthening their outposts in Venezuela and advancing into Venezuela is true. "I have myself received to day a private dispatch from there corroborating it" so said Congress man Livingston of Georgia, this after noon. He said: "I cannot show you the dis patch; it is private. You can however relv upon it. I called on the Venezuelon minister this morning and asked him to use his influence with Creapo to keep back Venezuelan troops. Should they advance it would precipi tate a conflict at once.. That would ren- der our .Venezuelan commission useless. We would be compelled to back' dp Ven-; ezuela and we would be plunged into war at once." "Yon have seen denial of the statement-' by the British colonial office?" ':U "les, but the statement is true never theless. Unless Great Britain recalls her troops and reduces the outposts to their former strength, (Jreapo would be com pelled to go to war to prevent a revolu tion. "My resolution vesterday was not as Boutelle thought, a war resolution it was a peace resolution. It was a peace resolution by calling on President Cleve land to investigate the report and if true, to demand that Great Britain un do what she has done. Should Great Britain refuse war would result, but 1 don't think she would refuse Chairman Hitt promises to have my resolution considered immediatelv. I have suggested that if he likes, he amend it by inserting a clause calling on President Crespo to hold back troops and so avoid conflict or trouble of any kind with Great Bntian till the present situation be set right and our commis sion has made its report." TEX DECEIVED WOMEN. All Remand Separation from Their Husbands, bnt Some Back Out. The divorce mill was set in revolution this morning in the district court, but it soon ran out of material. Judge Uazen had intended that ten wronged wives should be avenged, revenged and paci fied, but only three of the number ac cepted his kind offer. All the cases set for this morning were brought by the gentler sex. The meu seem to be able to stand it, but the women cannot brook the woes of mar ried life. Mrs. Hattie Neeley was one who did not back out of the trial after she had brought the suit. She has been married to Charles Neeley for 9 years, but this morning she cast him aside because he no longer supports her. She lives with her father in Boynton's addition. Au old lady shook from nervousness and came nearly fainting while she was testifying about the "extreme cru elty" of her husband. It was Mrs. Celia B. Lord, of 32:4 Arter avenue. Judge Hazen'a heart was touched by the scene, and he granted the divorce. Her husband's name is Thomas J. Lord. The third wife who had the courage to appear was a colored woman,Mrs.Kmeline Spradley Her husband had abandoned her and slio anticipated the divorce by hav ing her name put in the new directory as a widow. The custody of her two daugh ters is given to her by the decree. Wil liam Spradley was her husband. Mrs. Spradley lives with her children at 1416 Chandler street. The remaining seven cases were dis missed because the plaintiffs failed to appear and prosecute.- Some of them have gone bak to live together again, some have left the state, while some, as in the case of Strouse vs. Strouse, did not prosecute because their parents have scruples against divorces. The t cases dismissed this morning were: Mrs. Minnie A. Conner vs C. B. Conner, teamster, 715 Locust street. Mrs. Mollis Haygood vs We Hay good. Mrs. Maggie Blinn vs We H. Blinn. Mrs. Eva L Diehl vs. Edwin A. L)iehl. Mrs. May C. Strouse vs. George L Strouse. Mrs, Emma Boding vs. Harry Bar-

Mrs. Artie M. Price vs. Jas. W. Price, TWO CENTS. MORGAN'S RAID On the National Treasury is Turned Back. Big New York Banks Abandon His Syndicate. AT LEAST 12 MILLION Withdrawn From the Gold Syn dicate Fund Today. Meantime, the People Are Com' ing Forward Bravely. Chicago, Jan. 10. A special from New York says: The Morgan bond syndicate has at last been shaken by the with drawal from it of the Chemical National bank. It is understood that the amount of the bank's subscription was $3, 000,000. George G. Williams, the pres ident of the bank, said: "Our sub scription simply represented those of our depositors and we do not want to tie them up in the uncertainties of the syndicate. We do not wish to stand in the way of the success of a popular loan. It was reported that the City National and possibly the United States Trust Co. and the Hanover National will follow the lead of the Chemical. The City National has $10,000,000 gold in its vaults, and its subscription was re ported $5,000,000. The subscriptions of the Hanover National and the United States Trust company wera each about f2.000,000. The lead of the Chemical National is considered an indication that the sell ing of the bonds directly to the public will be a success. Thirty Millions in Sight. New York, Jan. 10, The World says: "This is going to be a great popular loan. The World already has news from small, country national banks of "firm" subscriptions amounting to more thaa fifteen millions, and of other subscrip tions, amounts not specified in the des patches, which will certainly aggregate fifteen millions more. "This does not touch the national banks of any financial center, small or great. It does not include any of the great banks or bankers. It does not in clude any but national banks no private bankers, no state or savings bauks, no trust companies, and no pr.vate invest ors. Yet it represents about one-third of the whole Iohc; "pledged, through the World In a single dy: "Many of the banks responding an nounce that they already have ao gold in, their alts with whlcttTd rJay-for the bonds. "All of them offer the-rr subscrUi-' tioos on a 3 per cent basis cr at a little over 117. "To have the loan subscribed in this way will not only save the government a syndicate profit of twelve or fifteen millions. It will save the government lrom falling into the clutches of a syndi cate. It will make the plain people of the country the nation's creditors. It will give them a vested imterest in sound finance. It will make them jealous of the nation's credit. Nothing better than this could happen to the country, nothing that would more direcily stimulate patriotism and breed common sense upon all financial issues. "It is obvious now that the people out side tha great tinancial centers are going to bid for nearly if not quite the whole loan on a 3 per cent basis. It ought to go to them tven should a syndicate bid a fraction higher." IT IS CERTAIN. Ex-President Harrison's 3Iarriajre ta iliri, Uiiauiock Settled. Nkw YoitK, Jan. 10. The Morning Advertiser says positive announcements come from Indianapolis concerning the much-talked of engagement of ex-P'esident Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Dimniock, and though neither one of the contracting parties will say a word, it is nearly certain that the marriage will take place before Lent. It will be solemnized at Mrs. Dim mock's home and will probably be a very quiet affair. Won't Sny It Isn't So. Indianapolis. Jan. 10. Ex-President Harrison left for New York this after noon. His private secretary says he is going there to consult with other attorneys in the California irrigation cases, and thence will go to Waauington for the argument in the United States supreme court. His secre tary will make no statement regarding the stories that the ex-president is to marry Mrs. Dimmock. RESERVE 857,000,000. The Treasury Shorter r Gold Today and More Going Out. Washington, Jan. 10. Today's state ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $179,499,577; gold reserue, $57,932,104. Nkw York. Jan. 10. Lazard Frere3 will export $150,000 in gold bars tomor row. Heidelbacb, Ickelhimer Co., an nounce that they will export $51)0,000 gold by tomorrow's steamer. It is reported that the amount of gold deposited by Hardy Harman at the sub-treasury for examination up to date has reached $1,000,000 to $1,250,000. To B117 IIodiIi With, of Conrit. New York, Jan. 10. 3 p. m. Two hundred thousand dollars in gold coin has been ordered from the sub-treasury by Messrs. Watson Bra. brokers. It is understood that the gold will not be ex ported. The Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany, through its agrent, James L. Her ron, has paid me $375.29 in full upon tha life of my deceased wife, Jean S. Mus tard. David Mustard, 210 FairchildstrotW A

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rv bTATE JOURNAL., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1896. CROVEiTSJENIAL The President Writes a Letter About the Bond Issue, Administration Did Not Treat With J. Pierpont Morgan. CENSURES SENATORS. Says Their Accusations Were Malicious and Mendacious. Syndicate Scheme Always Op posed by the Administration. Washington, Jan. 10. The debate on the Elkins resolution in the Senate last Friday when the administration was accused by several Senators of liaving entered into an agreement with a syndicate to float the expected issue of bonds, is the subject of a letter written by President Cleveland to Sen ator Caffery, of Louisiana. The knowledge that such a letter had been addressed to Mr. Caffery was obtained last night, and the letter was made public by the latter. It is in the hand writing of the President and covers elz pages of closely written note paper. It is in full as follows: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C, Jan. 5, 1396. My Dear Senator: I have read to-day in the Congressional Record the debate in the Senate on Friday, concerning the financial situa tion and bond issues. 1 am amazed at the intolerance that leads even excited partisanship to adopt, as a basis of attack, the un founded accusations and assertions of a maliciously mendacious and sensa tional newspaper. No banker or financier, nor any other human being, has been invited to visit Washington for the purpose of arranging in any way or manner for the disposition of bonds to meet the present or future needs of the gold reserve. t No arrangement of any kind has been made for the disposition of such bonds to any syndicate or through the agency of any syndicate. No assurance of such a disposal of bonds has been, directly or indirectly, given to any person. In point of fact, a decided leaning towards a popular loan and advertising for bids has been plainly exhibited on the part of the administration at all times when the subject was under diseussion. Those charged with the responsi bility of maintaining our gold reserve, so far as legislation renders it Dossi ble, have anxiously conferred with each other and as occasion permitted with those having knowledge of finan cial affairs and present monetary conditions as to the best and most favorable means of selling bonds for gold. The unusual importance of a suc cessful result if the attempt is again made, ought to be apparent to every American citizen who bestows upon the subject a moment's patriotic thought. The secretary of the treasury from the first moment that the necessity of another sale of bonds seemed to be ap proaching, desired to offer them if is sued to the people by public adver tisement if they could thus be success fully disposed of. After full consider ation he came to the conclusion, to which I fully agree, that the amount of gold in the reserve, being now $20, 000,000 more than it was in February last, when a sale of bonds was made to a syndicate, and other conditions differing from those then existing, justify us in offering the bonds now about to be issued for sale by popular subscription. This is the entire matter and all those particulars could have been eas ily obtained by any member of the Senate by simple inquiry. If Mr. Morgan or anyone else, reas oning from his own standpoint, brought himself to the belief that the government would at length be con strained to again sell bonds to a syn dicate, I suppose he would have a per fect right, if he chose, to take such steps as seemed to him prudent, to put himself in condition to nego tiate. J expect an issue of bonds will be advertised for sale to-morrow and that bids will be invited not only for those now allowed by law, but for snch other and different bonds as congress may authorize during the pendency of the advertisement. Not having had an opportunity to confer with, you in person since the present session of Congress began and noticing your participation in the de bate of last Friday, I have thought it not amiss to put you in possession of the facts and information herein con tained. Yours very truly, Gbovee Cletelakb. Uncle Sam Heaai Business. Washington, Jan. 10. Unless the Porte makes prompt reparation for the burning of the American mission buildings at Harpoot the indemnity of S400,00o demanded by this government will be collected by foree. This state ment was made last night by a high ofHcial of the government. Pension Bill Reported. Washington, Jan. 10. The pension appropriation bill was reported to the House yesterday. The bill carries an appropriation of 141,325,820, which is about the sum appropriated last year and estimated by the commissioner of pensions to be necessary. The A. P. A. Downed at Memphis. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 10. The A. P. A. made a test of its strength yester day in the municipal election. -The contest was between the regular Dem ocratic organization and a citizens' ticket, the latter indorsed by the A. P. A., and the straight Democratic ticket won by about 1,000 majority. Premier Howell to Resign Soon. Ottawa, Oni., Jan. 10. Sir Macken zie Bowell will retain the premiership temporarily. Meanwhile Sir Charles Tupper will join the' Bowell cabinet and soon after Bowell will resign the jr;aaiei shio to-make room for him. HE WANTS TO KNOW. Mc Livingstone of Georgia Calls for Teneznelan Information. Washington, Jan. 10, An echo of the dispatches from Venezuela was heard in the House yesterday. As soon as the journal had been read Mr. Livingstone, Democrat of Georgia, sent to the clerks desk and had read the following resolution: "Be it resolved, by the House. of Representatives, the Senate concur ring. That the" President of the United States is forthwith requested to ascer tain whether Great Britain is advanc ing her outposts on the territory in dispute between her colony of British Guiana and the republic of Venezuela, or is reinforcing posts heretofore es tablished with troops, police or ord nance; and should the President be come cognizant of the fact that British military or police force is advancing to invade or reinforce, or since the 17th day of December last has invaded or reinforced poets formerly occupied within said disputed territory, he de mand the immediate withdrawal of said soldiers, and the reduction of the police force in said territory to not a greater number than were occupying the British outposts on the aforesaid 17th of December, 1895." Mr. Livingston asked for unanimous consent to make a brief explanation ot the resolution, but Mr. Boutelle, Republican, Maine, objected, and the resolution was referred to the com mittee on foreign affairs. December 1? is the date upon which the President sent his Venezuelan message to the house. After some minor proceedings, at 13:20 the house adjourned. TO ALL, CHRISTIANS. The Pope Expects to Soon Issue Another Encyclical on Cbnrch Unity. Rome, Jan. 10. The central object of Pope Leo's policy has always been to bring about or to prepare a grand reunion of the Cheistian churches. The holy father has already published two encyclicals devoted to that end. One was addressed to the princes ana the peoples. The other took form of an appeal to Angelicans. A third encyclical will shortly be made known. It is to be addressed "Ad omnes Christianos" "To all Christians." Thus one more innovation will be added to the others of the present Pope. In former times it was the custom to address the papal document "To the bishops and the faithful in com munion with the Holy Apostolic church." Leo XIII has defied tradi tion by dedicating his encyclicals to non-Catholics as well as Catholics. The next is really meant as an appeal to Protestants and chismatics. It will attempt to prove to them by theology and historical arguments that fiom the days of St. Peter on ward the pope has always been the proper primate of all Christian churches. MRS. DAVIDSON. Dr. Brown's Attorney Pnts Her Through a Rigorons Cross Examination. San Fbancisco, Jan. 10. At he con tinuation of the police court examina tion of Mrs. -Mary A. Davidson for alleged extortion from Rev. C. O. Brown, pastor of the First Congrega tional church, the defendant was again on the witness stand on cross examination. Her attorney tried to show by repeated questions that Dr. Brown was aware of the existence of the mysterious Mrs. Baddin, for whom Mrs. Davidson said she was col lecting the money from Dr. Brown. This point could not be developed, however, nor did Mrs. Davidson's at torney succeed in introducing evi dence as to the clergyman's alleged intimacy with Miss Overman. The prosecution tried to show by the de fendant that she had been convicted of a felony in Lynn, Mass., and had served a term in the penal institution. The witness could not remember if she had been convicted, nor could she recall the names of any persons whom she was charged with having swiudled, although their names were suggested to her. THE TARIFF BILL. It May Be Reported Adversely by a Republican Committee. Washington, Jan. 10. The Senate finance committee failed to meet yes terday, notwithstanding the instruc tions of the caucus, because it was dis covered that Senator Jones of Nevada would not act with the Republican membere of the committee in report ing the bill without an amend ment providing for a duty on sugar. The Republicans of the com mittee are in the minority without Mr. Jones. He takes the position that as the people of the Pacific coast are largely -Interested in the beet sugar industry any tariff bill passed should provide for the protection of this in terest. If he maintains this position and the Republican caucus does not re verse its instructions, it will be neces sary to report the bill adversely, if at all. More Gold Finds in Colorado. Boulder, Colo., Jan. 10. Intense excitement prevails in this city over the new gold fields situated between South Boulder creek and Magnolia, and there are rumors of riches being uncovered by prospectors in holes not over five feet deep. One strike is said to be worth $100,000 and an offer of this amount is said to have oeen made and refused. Perfect Digestion Is secured by taking Hood's Pills after dinner, or if digestion is impeded by change of diet, overeating or chills and con gestion in changeable weather. They break up a cold, prevent a fever, and restore healthy action of lie liver and bowels. At home or abroad Hood's fills are a safeguard and a friend. immk FILLEY FOR M'KINLEY. Sees no Reason to Change Bis Choice for the Presidency.' x Washington, Jan. 10. Chauncey L Filley is in Washington. He said to day: "St. Louis doesn't want the earth, but she does want both the Na tional conventions, and, having se cured one, she will make a big fight for the other. I think she will get it too." "It has been charged that yon favor Major McKinley. "I'll have to plead guilty to that. I have had no reason to modify my re gard for McKinley. He is in every way a fit man for the presidency. The people think so, for he is growing stronger with the masses every day." "Who will the Democrats be likely to nominate?" "You can't predict about them, but were I allowed to guess, I say they'd take my old friend and neighbor, William R. Morrison. Morrison is one of the best men in theiy party abso lutely honest, and though I differ with him radically, if a Democratic Pres ident had to afflict the country, I'd sooner have him than any other one." CRESPO'S FIRM STAND. Refuses to Consider the Urnan and Boundary Questions Separately. London, Jan. 10. A letter from Caracas, Venezuela, to the London Times, says it is evident that it is the present intention of President Crespo not to give any satisfaction for the Uruan incident and that he is deter mined to combine the Uruan and frontier questions, regarding them as one dispute. The Times correspond ent adds that this is directly contrary to President Crespo's previous assur ances to him and he recites at length how the change was brought about by President Cleveland's message to con gress and arrives at the conclusion that: "By hook or crook President Crespo and his friends hope to entan gle the United States and they will not leave a stone unturned to accom plish this end." THE PROSPECT OF WAR. England and Germany are Prepared but the Pretext Is Wanting. London, Jan. 10. No influential person in England believes there is any danger of war with Germany in the near future. Authentic advices from Berlin are unanimous that no in fluential person there believes circum stances will arise in the near future to provoke war with England. But there is no intelligent person in England who does not recognize that the Kaiser is prepared to provoke war in case of further aggressions by Eng land in South Africa, and that, indeed, he is in the temper to quarrel with England on almost any valid occasion offered him. And England is in the mood to accept the Kaiser's challenge whenever it comes. The Queen to President Kroger. London, Jan. 0. The secretary of state for the colonies. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, has sent the following dispatch to President. Kruger:.. "I have received the Queen's command to acquaint you that her majesty has heard with satisfaction that you have decided to hand over the prisoners to her government This fact will re dound to your credit and conduce to the peace of South Africa, and the har monious co-operation of the British and Dutch races, which is necessary for its future development and pros perity." Missouri Produce Dealers. Macon City, Mo., Jan. 10. The first annual state wholesale produce deal ers' convention was held here yester day. A number of representative merchants of the state are present and many sent letters expressing sympathy with the movement. There are also several commission men here and rep resentatives of transportation compa nies. C. R. Combs and A. F. Barr were elected temporary chairman and secretary respectively. Hayti Ripe for Revolution. New Yoei, Jan. 10. Mail advices from Port au Prince, Hayti, are to the effect that a revolution, far-reaching in extent and importance and its probable results, is again threatened in the black republic. The corres pondent says that if the plans of the conspirators do not miscarry, it will be under way by the latter part of January. They're Bound to Wear Bloomers. Wabbensbubg, Mo., Jan. 10. B'orty young lady students of the State Nor mal school have organized an athletic association and have openly de clared their intention of wearing bloomers and sweaters. The officers are Miss Edmund A. Nickerson, presi dent; Miss Grace Utley, vice-president: Miss Seina Achenbach, secretary; Miss Maud Hendricks, treasurer. Officially Denied. London, Jan. 10. The colonial office last evening published a denial of the report which reached here from Caracas, Venezuela, via New York, that British troops with cannon, from Demarara, had arrived at Cuyuni, a station at the extreme limit of the British claims in the disputed terri tory, and the scene of the Uruan in cident. Wants a New Leavenworth Prison. Washington, Jan. 10. Senator Baker and Representatives Brodericic and Blue are working together to secure an appropriation for the build ing of a new United States peniten tiary at Leavenworth. Missouri Claim Awarded. Wasginhton, Jan. !0. The court of claims has awarded S21? damages to Cornelius Boyle of Cass county, Mis souri, and S3 85 to Thaddeus Snyder of Greene county. Missouri, for corn furnished to United States troops dur ing the war. Boyle asked for $1,400 and Snyder for $750. Miss Culver Deeds the Promised Million. Chicago, Jan. 10. The execution of the deed by Miss Helen Culver, giving property valued at .$1,000,000 to the university of Chicago, has been com pleted and the deed filed. r. FEARFULQUAKES. Two Persian Towns Completely Swallowed Up. Kurds and Armenians Meet the Same Fate. THOUSANDS KILLED. Eight Hundred Lives Destroyed in the City of Goi. One Thousand Houses Com pletely Wrecked. Teheben, Persia, Jan. 10. Two earthquakes have occurred' in the district of KahlhahL The first was on the night of January 2. The large village of Janabad was destroyed, several others were partially ruined and 300 persons were killed. The second earthquake occurred the marning of January 5 and was felt over an area- of 100 miles. The town of Goi was destroyed and a thousand nouses were demolished. In addition, great damage was done to many villages. The loss of life was very great. There were 800 persons killed in Goi alone, and large numbers of cattle and sheep also per ished. The town of Goi, or Khoi, which has thus been wiped out by earthquake, wasjpne of the best laid out towns of Persia in its modern quarter. The district of Kahlkahl, in which the earthquake seems to have done the most damage, is in the province of Azberbijan, in the extreme north western portion of Persia, immedi ately adjoining the province of Van in Armenia. Goi lies in 38 degrees 35 minutes north latitude and 45 degrees and 15 minutes' east longitude, seventy-seven miles northwest of Tabriz and about as far south of Mount Ararat, and was before its destruction on the great trade route between the Euxine and Persia and on the Kotura, a trib utary of the Aras, which was crossed here by a seven arch bridge. It had quite an elaborate-system of fortifica tions, which were, however, in a ruin ous state, and an. jnner high wall flanked with towers, the intervening space being occupied with .gardens and mud hovels. It was in the cen tral portion of the city that its beauty lay, cool streams and lines of willows running along its broad, regular streets. There were a few good build ings, including the governor's palace, several mosques, a large brick bazar and a fine caravan serai. The chief manufactures were copper wares and worsted socks. In September, 1881, Goi was visited by a series of violent earthquakes,' the seismic waves run ning northwest and southeast in the direction of the main mountain ranges. 3 The population numbered about 30,000, including many Armenians who occupied a separate quarter of the city. The district about the city consists of an elevated plateau sixty miles by ten or fifteen, highly cultivated by a skillful system of drainage and irri gation, producing a series of fertile oases laid out in meadows, gardens and tillage and yielding, rich crops of wheat and barley, besides apples, pears, cherries, walnuts, chestnuts and unrivalled mulberries. The province of Azberbijan is one of the most fertile in Persia, and travel ers give enthusiastic descriptions of its orchards and gardens, and the de licious fruits which they yield. The population is of a very varied charac ter, comprising Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Tartars, Persians proper and other tribes, and is roughly esti mated at 2,000,000. The Persian army is largely composed of natives of Az berbijan and the province is under the government of the heir apparent to the Persian throne. ENGLAND IS ALONE. Russia Decides to Stand With Germany in the Transvaal. London, Jan. 10. A special dispatch from Berlin says that Russia's co-operation with Germany in the Transvaal matter has been assured, and that France will act with Russia. This ap parently tends to confirm the report of an antif British alliance, and that the action of Emperor William towards the Boer republic was a thor oughly weighed step. Portugal, it is announced, will re main neutral in the dispute and will not permit the Germans or the Brit ish to land troops at Delagoa bay or to traverse the Portuguese territory in South Africa. Applause in the Reichstag. Beri.in, Jan. 10. The Reichstag re assembled yesterday and proceeded to discuss the bourse reform bill. Count von Ka'nitz, the agrarian leader, dur ing the course of his remarks on the subject referred to the Transvaal dis pute, saying that the recent energetic attitude of the imperial government, in defense of the interests of the Ger man people had met with universal ap proval. This remark was greeted with loud applause. Ex-Governor Blarshall Dead. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 10. Ex-Governor W. R. Marshall, of Minnesota, died last night at Pasadena, Cal., where he went about two years ago for his health. William Rainey Mar shall was born in Boone county, Mis souri, October 17, 1825, and came here in 18-47. He was nominated and elect ed governor of Minnesota in 1849. Estimates of Deficiencies. Washington, Jrn. 10. Secretary Carlisle has sent to the house a letter transmitting estimates of deficiencies in apDropriations amounting to $4,343,456, required to meet the urgent demands of the government for the service of the current and prior fiscal years. Kev fork's Convention Movement. New York, Jan. 10. A meeting of the committee of fifty was held yes terday at Tammany halL the object being a move to have the National Democratic convention held in this lcity. NEWS AND VIEWS. Edith sessions Topr' Obssrvati. ml from the Mtroaoll. New Yobk, Jan. a The up to date Gotham woman appears to be a firm ad vocate of the apotheosis of the hideous in the 'way of ornaments. I sat opposite a woman in an "L" train the other day -who, irreproachably gowned and bon neted, wore among the laces at her throat a grewsome ebony coffin aa a brooch. A smart young woman who spent the summer in Paris called on ma one day last week. As she threw back her velvet cape I noticed a pin thrust among- the jet fringes of her bodice. It was a golden gallows tree, and from it dangled the golden corpse of a banged man. I expressed my horror at this mis guided freak of fancy. "Why, that's my mascot!" exclaimed the young lady. "I picked that up in Paris. Every other woman was wearing a gallows for good luck." Quite a recent fad in the line of or namentation is to have diamonds set for eyes in the head of the mink or sable of your fnr boa. I know a great swell who took her $400 diamond earrings and had them set in the head of her ermine boa. The boa was stolen about a week after ward. On'e of the gowns in the trousseau of Miss Emma Rockefeller, the daughter of the Standard Oil magnate, was shown me by an obliging modiste. It was an evening robe of palest turquoise satin. There was a deep bertha of cream duch ess lace falling over the shoulders. This was headed by a roll of turquoise vel vet, knotted here and there in butterfly bows. There was also a pointed belt of the pale bine velvet. It was a simple and exquisite robe. There is fashion in everything, even in eggs and butter. In those quarters of the town where wealthy people dwell are the daintiest dairy shops imaginable that cater to the swell trade. Here fancy butter, with the stamp of some famous farm, sells as high as $1.75 per pound. The eggs, each in a compartment of a dainty paper box, are also stamped "strictly fresh" and retail for 50 cents per dozen. The cream and milk from these immaculate dairy shops are usual ly delivered at fashionable houses by a servant in livery. Yvette Gnilbert, whose advent has been the theatrical event of the week, is not a pretty woman. She is ugly, gaunt and slovenly in gait. She sings remark ably nasty songs in a Parisian accent no Yankee can understand, however much he may pretend to. I think the pnblio will soon weary of this latest French freak. I saw her on Broadway a day or so since. She looks very like the carica tures of herself and would pass easily for a fin de siecle poster. Her eyes are knowing and her hair an extraordinary shade a sort of delicate ginger. That miserable, wretched little beast, the dachshund, that waddled its way for some time into fashion's ranks, has a rival now in the Aberdeen terrier. The fashionably young woman now parades Fifth avenue of a morning leading the spunky and hardy little Scotch dog, who scents an enemy in every other dog he meets, growling and snapping and car rying a chip on his shoulder. Fox ter riers, French spaniels and pugs are not in it these days. In fashion, as else where, every dog has his day. The dean of Barnard college, the woman's annex of Columbia, is Miss Emily James Smith, the youngest wom an to hold snch a position in this coun try. Miss Smith is fair and girlish look ing, with a most serious and intense manner. She was the second American girl to attend Girton college, in Eng land. She is an enthusiastic bicyclist, believing it to be the ideal exercise for students; is not a suffragist, but admits that the ballot is coming to woman and earnestly desires she should intelligent ly prepare herself to wield it. One sees droll things always in cable cars. I was greatly diverted a day or so since by a little episode in a Broadway car. A big, brawny fireman, in the pic turesque scarlet lined bine coat of his order, stood patiently for a long time. At last he got a seat and dropped into it with a long drawn sigh of utter ex haustion, and in a moment was fast asleep, dreaming, perhaps,' of last night's fire, when he battled with smoke and flame. His arm rested on the window sill, and his helplessly swaying hand dangled a pair of coarse bnckskin gloves. Next him sat Miss Manhattan, gorgeous to behold. Her gown was smart, so was her hat. and, lo, the hair of her was frizzed like sixty I She sat stiff, haughty, with a well bred, lady like expression round the mouth. Sud denly the fireman lurched a little, his hand dropped, and the buckskin gloves flapped against her exclusive back hair. That bright dream was his last. He awoke with a start, to meet a look be fore which a Numidian lion wonld have quailed and shivered. The poor fellow was so terrified that, stammering an awkward apology, he rose and went out on the front platform to cool his burn ing brow. Myself, I heartily wished he had knocked her bonnet off. There is a funny little Italian restau rant down town much affected by news paper men and women. Not long since a very well known editor took, mirabile dictn his Wife and his mother-in-law there to dine. As the cheap claret flowed the fun became noisy. At last, about 11 o'clock, a young stage dancer sprang np from the table at which she was dining with three artists, and lifting her volu minous skirts gave an extemporized series of high kicks. The editor's mother-in-law, a nice old lady, was natnrally very much horrified, and afterward said indignantly: "I thought the hussy was going to put her foot on my son's shoul der. Had she done bo, I should have got right up and shaken her soundly and said: 'Young woman, that is my son and he is a respectable man. How dare yon?' This story is convulsing Bohe mia both on account of the prominence of the editor and the desire of the dear old lady to protect her son in-law, who is by no means a spring lamb. Edith Sessions Tuppks. Snbscribefor the Daily State Joubnax. A PECULIAR FISH. Keraora or Sacking Fish tvhlclx Uvea Mostly ta Deep Water. A striped remora, or sucking flah, was found recently attached to the bot tom of one of the steam launches which, run around Glen Island, says a writer in the Boston" Transcript. It was trans ferred to one of the large tanks of the Glen Island Aquarium. The fish, though not rare, is a deep sea fish, and is hard to capture. It grows to the length of twelve or eighteen inches. The flat top of its head is surmounted by a large sucking disk extending from near the tip of its upper Jaw to the ends of the pectoral fins, or about one-third of the total length of the fish. The disk is made up of seventeen or eighteen pairs of bony laminae, the edges of which are furnished with rows of minute tooth like projections. With this disk the fish attaches itself to a shark, a turtle, or some other large fish, and is In this manner drawn through the water with out the exertion of swimming. Oc casionally it will release Us hold long enough to swim off and get something to eat, but immediately returns to re fasten itself. The South American In dians make use of this instinct of the fish to catch sea turtles. Thi-v fasten a ring around the remora's tal to which they attach a long line. The fish is then taken to sea, and when a. large turtle is sighted the remora is thrown over board. It unerringly swims to the turtle and makes fast. The line is then drawn in, and soon both turtle and re mora are in the boat. It is necessary, however, to wait until the fish feels in clined to let go, for It is impossible to detach it from the object by force with out injury. SAILING VESSEL'S FAST TRIP. The Helensburgh Crosses from t Hull In Twenty-one Days. The British ship Helensburgh, which reached this port on Monday at mid night, made the passage from Hull in twenty-one days, which is believed to be a record-breaking trip for a sailing vessel from that port, says a writer in the New York Tribune. Indeed, the average voyage of steamers from that city takes about seventeen days. The Helensburg is a full-rigged, three-masted steel ship. Captain Jefferson, her master, said he had strong, steady winds, varying from east to west, throughout the trip. Two or three gales overtook him, but under reduced sail his gallant Ship plowed along before them on her-course. She had no use for light sails at any time, and her skipper kept her under courses, topsails and topgallant sails. On several days 6he made 300 knots,. and on one day 320, at which rate she could have "shown her heels" to many a tramp steamer. Four days were taken in the North Sea and the English Channel, and the voyage from a point off Falmouth was therefore of only seventeen days dura tion. Captain Jefferson is proud of this craft, .and says that once on a voyage to Australia she covered ?50 knots in a day. Her present passage is the quick est made across the Atlantic in many a long day. In 1891 the Howard D. Thorp, a Yankee ship, surprised her consignees by anchoring in the Bay eleven days out from Glasgow. The record was made, however, under the more favorable winds of an eastern trip by the Yankee clipper Dreadnaught, in 1859, when she made Liverpool from here ic nine days. Such ships are no longer built, and from Hull the Helens burgh now holds the record for sailing craft. She brings 1,603 tons of chalk, and is under charter to take a cargo of case oil to Shanghai. A Recreant Bachelor's Punishment. The city was in a perfect uproar last night, caused by the Bachelors' club being out in force to "haze" A. H. Gil lespie, a member of the club, who re cently was married, in violation to the club's solemn rules and obligations. He was boxed up in a queensware crate and hauled up the main streets of the city; had his face blackened with a common shoe brush. The band played a solemn march as the procession went up the street. He was then taken to the hall, where the degree of "knight of the orient" was to be administered to him, but when about half way through he was overcome by the shock of the initiation ceremonies and re quirements and became unconscious. He is all right this morning. Cincin nati Enquirer. Coffee Rolls. Take twelve cups of flour, one cup of white sugar, one-half of.butter or lard, one of yeast, one of grated nutmeg and three eggs. Mix with three large cups of warm milk and let it rise over night; if well risen in the morning, knead and set in a cool place until afternoon; then shape into long rolls, and let them ri3e one hour and a half. Bake half an hour in a .moderate oven. When done glaze with a little milk, in which a little brown sugar has been dissolved, and set them back in the oven for two min utes. Ia Enduring; Unity. Between the mortal and immortal worlds no gulf Is fixed. Above all, and binding all In enduring unity, is the community of aim and spirit which keep3 those who love and are loyal hand in hand anfl foot in foot, though seas divide, there hangs between the im penetrable veil of death. She Thought of It. Maud "You are frightfully extrava gant. You never seem to think of a rainy day." Marie "Don't I? I bought a dozen pairs of silk stockings yesterday." New York World. The Old Kind. "Let's go on a bust," said one man at Key West to another. "What kind of a bust?" "Filibust." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

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STATE JOURNAL., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1896. THE EARTH IS NOT AM OURS But We Can Offer You a Few Bargains. 1 can Kaw Valley Corn 05 1 can Kaw Valley Peas 05 1 can Kaw Valley Pumpkins.. Oj 4 cans Sweet Corn 25 Good Broom 10 1 lb good Baking Powder 10 t 1 pkg White Oats 05 6 lbs Good Haisins 25 3 dcz boxss Parlor Matches 25 2 Loaves Bread 05 Pail Fancy Honey Drips Syrup 50 large Paii Jeliy 40 .2 boxes Lamb's Wool Soap.... 5 3 cans Good Salmon 2-5 1 can Warren's A 1 Salmon 15 2 lbs Country Eutter 25 t weet Potatoes, bu 60 Good Cabbage, lb 02 1 lb Lima Beans 05 9 lb3 hand-Picked Navy Beans 25 i NOTIONS. Pencil Sharp-ner Ol 2 Lead Pencils Ol 5 Slate Pencils Ol Currycomb 05 Scrub Brushes 10 and 15 Horse Brushes 25 3 pk.39 Toothpiek3 lO Tooth Brushes lO 3 doz Clothas Pins OS Meats and Lard. FRESH MEAT OF ALL KINDS. Salt Meat, lb 05 Good Lard, lb 05 3 lbs White Label Lard 25 Chipped Cried Beef, lb 15 California Ham, lb 07 Sliced Ham, lb 15 Large Fat Mackerel 10 No. 1 White Fish, lb lO Salt Salmon, lb lO 1 qt Kraut 05 lO-lb kit White Fish 50 lO-lb kit Mackerel 85 tSTWe also have Corn, Oats, Bran, Chop, Gluten Feed, Shorts, Oil Meal, Wheat Screenings Baled Hay and Straw, which we are selling as low as can be bought in the city. 401 Lafayette St. TELEPHONE 230. Great Western Steam Dye And Cleaning ks. 121 E. 7th St. FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS Beginning Jan. I, we will give 20 per cent off on all work brought in. C.F.Ho&iger C. F. MENNINGER, M. D HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Ojficm, 727 A antra Ao. Both 'Phonca 19. 425 Gretnmoad Acre. Both 'Phones 85. FOOLED THE MODOCS. Wrnt to Lawrence to a O. A. R. Camp fire Wnich Was a Ma;ic Lantern Show. There seems to be a joke on the Mo doc club, though the club deDies it; as but rightly constituted club would. Recently Mr. Holman of the club re- ceived an invitation to go to Lawrence to attend a G. A. R entertainment and sing. Their expenses would be paid, the letter said, and farther asked that the club give its lowest G. A. ii.'rate for that sort of an entertainment. Mr. Holman and the rest of the "boys" Baw a good time ahead with the old sold K iera and aaid they would be there, quot ing a rate very much lees than the club charges for other kind of entertain ments. They were to be there yesterday to sing afternoon and evening, so thirty of the members quit business early to catch the afternoon trains to Lawrence. And what do you suppose they found? It was a man with a stereopticon lec ture on the war, and he charged twenty V five cents admission. Of course the club felt rather taken iu, but it aang just the same, and got its lit tle money for it, because it bad agreed to. Get it now and you won't have to bor row from yeur neighbor when the cold wave gets here. Riverside Coal. Tope ka Coal Co., 534 Kansas avenue. Does your headache? Try One Min nte Headaohe Tablets. J. K. Jones, Druggist, Get it now and you won't have to bor row from your neighbor when the cold wave gets here. Riverside CoaL Tope ka Coal Co 534 Kansas avenue. i lie WIGHITAWON. Thousands of People Listen to Mrs. Lease's Xew Lecture On "Christ or tear" and Are Impressed. IT WAS THE FIRST Oration That Mrs. Lease Has Made in Wichita. Some of the -Eloquent Periods From It. Wichita, Jan. 10. The lecture "Christ or Citsar," delivered by Mr 3. Mary E. Lease at the Auditorium was the first this gifted Wichita woman ever delivered in this city. The building,, which holds 2,503, was packed, the audience being largely the best people in the city. Mrs. Lease was introduced by R9V. Dr. Wintefg, pastor of the' First Presbyterian church. The proceeds- of the lecture were devoted to a local charity. The BDeaker was at her best and fully met the heightened expectations of the great audience, that earnestly applauded the gifted orator, whose fame has crossed the ocean. She was dressed simply.yet elegantly,in jet trimmed black crepon, wearing a bunch of scarlet carnations and smilax. The following were some of Mrs. Lease's most striking remarks: "It must be borne in upon all whose grasp is strong .enough, to feel the throb bing pulse of the times, that we stand at the bejriunine of one of those periods which mark another step of progress, in the history of the race. We stand at the beginning of a period of reformation and readjustment. The problems that confront us are incomparably vast and dimculf, because through apatny, ignor ance, and prejudice men refuse to displace 'what is' for 'what might be.' This is the history of the race. Every truth, every new development comes into its ap pointed place only through friction and opposition. Every upward step in th e progress of the race has been over a thorny path. Each new advancement is cradled in a manger, and over and over again history records the declaration, 'There is no room in the iuu.' "So today civilization staggers beneath its burdens yet recoils from each newly discovered truth and development be cause they are new. In the slow march of the ages, humanity moves with halt ing, irregular yet ever logioal steps." "The world is profoundly discontented. The attitude of the race is one of protest against existing conditions. Navar be fore was the enginery of destruction bo terrible and so largely in the hands of the mob as at present. The crowned ty rants are marshaling their blood-fed armies for the mightiest war of modern time?, not because they fear each other, but because they fear the people. Aris tocracy may well start aghast from its slumbers as it dreams of the French rev olution and the fall of the Bastile." "Near-sighted prophets, who see in the unrest of the present but a struggle for a few more pennies a .day for less hours work or of what shall, our money bo made, know nothing of the real con test. The way is being prepared for an era of social justice and industrial de mocracy. Such a democracy as Christ typified when he declared the equality of all" men." "But human greed is not yet dead; consciously or unconsciously, we are to day taking part in that century-old conflict between human greed that would enslave the race, and liberty that would emancipate it. Eternal vigil ance now as in' the days of colonial struggle, i3 the price of liberty. That human greed that seated on the Brit ish throne watched the people's strug gles on a foreign shore and sought to levy taxes as soon as there was anything to tax; that human greed sought to en slave ibeir fellow man because God had given him a dusky cheek; that hid its cold in the hour of a nation's danger, that it might speculate in the blood of those who were patriotically shot; that human greed still lives. It may never come again with branding iron or lash or auction block on which to sell slaves to the highest bidder. But it is in the form the subtle and concentrated wealth which seeks, to make the Golden Rule subservient to the golden calf. It is here in the form of federated cliques and mo nopolies, that taking possession of na ture's gifts and bounties, rob men of their God given heritage. Greater forces for evil and social calamity than history ever knew are mustering their forces in a Heavec-bora conflict against world-old wrong.'-' "We build costly churches where the light falls softly through stained glass windows upon velvet carpeted aisles and richly cushioned pews, yet were the Son of God, the tramp Christ to come garbed as he came 1900 years ago, long-haired and barefooted, denouncing the rich and hypocritical, preaching the strange doc trine that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. think you he would be invited to the front seat or the best pew generally oc cupied by the boudholder or usurer?The spires of costly cathedrals greet the stars, while within the shadow of their mas sive walls, outcast hungry humanity swarm like Egytian vermin on the blan kets of our nineteenth century civiliza tion." LAWRENCE TO HAVE FEWER WARDS Cutting Some of Thnm. It is Said, Would Even Up Matter. Lawrence, Jan. 10. The proposition to reduce the number of wards in the city was called up at the meeting of the city council the other evening, and was laid over, the members desiring to ac quaint themselves more fully with the wishes of the people in reference to the matter. The law leaves it to the mayor and council, and it is but natural and right that they should want to follow the wish of the people. There is no longer a "North Law rence" and a "South Lawrence." There ia a Lawrence, in which all interests are one, all desire ia for the common wel- Were the Fifth and Sixth wards united atill there would be two wards iu the city with more population than the consolida tion would have, la view of thie, the proposed change does not seem to be en tailing upon that part of the city any hardship, or depriving it of any political rights. AND NOW THKT'SE SORRY. Jlimban of tlie I.!yal tteUo Experience a Feeling; of Keiuorn That They Droppad Mr. IngaHo. Lbatenwohth, Jan. 10. Gossip re garding the dropping of ex-United States Senator John J. Ingalls' name from the membership roll of the Loyal Legion of Kansas is by no means dying out. It is rather on the increase in certain direc tions. Some people cannot be convinced that there was no politics in it. Moat members of the Loyal Legion who live in Leavenworth and at Fort Leavenworth and also at the Soldiers' Home and Lansing, feel very much cha grinned now that all is over and it is ever lastingly too late to apply a remedy. Re action has come in the form of genuine regret, for no power on earth can ever make Mr. Ingalis a companion of the Loyal Legion again. Said a well known member of the Loyal Legion yester day: "We feel just about as badly over this matter as we could feeL It was very un fortunate for us as well as Mr. Ingalls that the thing came up at the time and in the shape that it did. Mr. Ingalls gave us no other way out; it was a vote to accept his resignation or nothing. I feel quite sure now, however, that if the matter had been deferred till the next regular meeting of the Loyal Legion Mr. Ingalls' name would not have been dropped. There were a number of noes when the vote was taken." WICHITA'S FKOSPECT WEE. I.. It ia Now 845 Ft and May Reach a Depth of 3,000 Feet. Wichita, Jan. 10. The drill at the prospect well is now down 645 feet in a white lime stone and marching toward the center of gravitation at a steady pace. Since last Thursday L. O. Martin, who is an expert at drilling, has been assist ing Mr. Austin and he has also become enthusiastic and predicts that oil will be struck. Ue assisted in sinking the oil wells at Neodesha and he says the form ation here ia practically the same as was found at that place. It is predicted that coal will be found by some, but City Engineer Jackson and the men who have the work in charge, are evidently looking for oil or gas. A few more days will tell who is right. The people who are footing the bill will not be satisfied until a depth of at least 2,000 feet has been reached unless some important discovery has been made before that depth has been reached. FOUND DEAD IN BIS BARN. Henry Westrop, a Prominent Citizen of Dickinson County, Dies of Henri Disease. Enterprise, Jan. 10. At noon today the body of Henry R. Westrup, a wealthy German farmer of this place, was fouad in his barn yard cold and lifeless. Ue was one of the county's first settlers and was a prominent figure here. Heart failure was the cause of "his sudden death. Mr. Westrup was aged 62 years and leaves a wife and large family of chil dren, all being grown to manhood and womanhood. lie came to Dickinson county in 1857 from Indiana and was one of the first settlers inside its boundaries. A STRANGE MIRAGE. Citizens of Newton Heboid a City In the Sky, Supposed to be Hutchinson. Newio.v, Jan. 10. A most beautiful and realistic mirage was visible at 8 o'clock this morning. The employes about the roundhouse were the first to notice the phenomenon. In the west there appeared a pretty city, with streets, trees and all the details as plain as if it were real. Even the sunlight glistened from the windows of the buildings, and the smoke curled gracefully from the chimney tops. The sun soon rose too high to allow the optical delusion and it vanished as quickly and mysteriously as it naa come. It is supposed that the mirage repre sented Hutchinson. PARIS CLUB AT NEWTON. Tonic Hon of That City Preparing; to See the Exposition in 190O. Newton, Jan. 10.- A number of young men in the city are contemplating form ing a Paris club, the object bainer to pre pare to attend the Paris exposition in 1UU. Meetings would be held every week, at which the great exposition would be studied as well as the historical spots in Paris and the surrounding coun try mat would do seen. Each member of the club would pay 1(T cents into tne treasury every day from now until 1900. The fund, if there were twenty members, would by fair time amount to more than f3,000, which would take the club in a body. Rates could be) obtained for transportation, ho tel accomodations and all other neces sary expenditures. KANSAS CREAMERIES, Farmers Will Start One at Pear and Busi ness Men of Oak Bill are Ereetine; One. Enterprise, Jan. 10. A company of farmers will soon begin work cn a build ing for a butter and cheese factory to be located at Pearl, a station on the Rock Island ten miles east of this place. John H. Taylor aud Clarence Taylor are the chief promoters of the enterprise, and each of the gentlemen will milk upwards of fifty cows. Both are wealthy young larmers. At Oak Hill, a small town to the north. a company of business men have already begun the erection of a creamery build ing. Both towns are located in rich ag ricultural sections. A NEW CYPSUM MILL A St. Louis Company Will Operate tne Largest One in the St it to Near Dillon. Enterprise, Jan 10. Ia this county four large mills, manufacturing plaster from gypsum rock which is nowhere found in the state in such large quanti ties as in this section, are doing a big business, it. J. Kenny, who for several years past has been superintendent of a St. Joe company's works located at Dil lon, has resigned his position and has organized a company of St. Louis cap italists who will build a mill with a capacity equal to that of all others com bined. The company has leafed lands underlaid with the gypsum deposit for twenty-five years and has placed in a bank a good sum as a forfeit if the mills are not built. Hundreds of acres ia south Dickinson county are under leases of this kind and many farmers have handsome incomes from this s 3 arcs. EPIDEMIC AT THE REFORMATORY. Thirty-five Cases of Contagious Sara Throat Reported in the Reformatory. Hutchinson, Jan. 10. During the past few days an epidemic of sore throat has been sweeping through the state reformatory, and no less than thirty-five of the seventy-five prWonors have been afflicted with it. It is not prouounced as diphtheria, but it is closely akin to that dread disease, and seems to be equally as contagious. From four to five of the inmates are afflicted with it from day to day, and no less than six new ca ses are reported today. Hone of the cases have as yet proven fatal. WINFIELD GETS CHEAPER GAS. The Winfield Gaa Company Will Furnish It for $3 Per Thousand Feet. Winfield, Jan. 10. The Winfield Gas company has. decided to accept the proposition made the city council Mon day night and for the next year at least the citizens of Winfield will enjoy $2 gas where more than 200 feet id used during the month. When 20J feet or lees is used an additional charge of 25 cents will be made for meter rent This means quite a concession to the patrons of the gas company, especially to the small consumer, wno Heretofore nas paid at the rate of $2.50 to $3 per thou sand feet. A LAWRENCE FAILURE. J. G. Sands, Harness and Saddlery Dealer Succumb to tile H iril Times. Lawrence, Jan. 10. J. G. Sand.?, the harness and saddlery man, last evening turned his stock of goods over to II. S. Clarke, being unable to longer stand the pressure of the hard times. It has not yet been determined what disposition will be made of the Btock, or whether arrangements will be made to have the firm conduct the business as usual at the old stand. NO GRAND JURY AT CONCORDIA. The Withdrawal of Eight Nimes From the Petition Knock It Out. Concordia, Jan. 10. The much ex pected grand jury of this county has gone by default. Eight names were withdrawn after the petition had been filed. The temperance people offered to get twenty-five more signatures. Judge Sturgis decided that names could be withdrawn but could not be added after the petition bad been filed. NEWTON GETS LILLIAN LEWIS. She is to Play Cleopatra There Tuesday Nicht, January 14, Newton, Jan. 10. Liilian Lewis will appear at the opera house in this city next Tuesday evening in Cleopatra. A. P. RECEIVER. Judge Collier Appoints Charles W. Smith Today. Albuquerque, N. M., Jan. 10. Judge Collier today appointed Charles W. Smith receiver of the Atlantic Pacific railroad, the appointment to take take effect Februaryjl. The order of the court specially stipu lates that no employes of the road shall be dismissed within thirty days there after, and that the new receiver shall assume all responsibilities resting on the old receivers, Aldace F. Walker and John J. McCook. W. W. Green of Alexander Green of New York, counsel for the Mercantile Trust company, W. B. Childers, associate counsel with them, and Neil N. Field, counsel for the United States Trust com pany left here on the noon flyer for Pres- cott, where a motion to consolidate both suits will again be urged. A similar mo tion was overruled here. MANSFIELD A SCOLD. He Gets Oir His Customary Roast of Ills Audience at Alauta. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 10. Richard Mans field, who appeared here last night in "A Parisian Komance, took occasion to make a speech which created a sensa -ticn. Mr. Mansfield, after bowing five times. said "I fuliy appreciate your kindness in applauding me so much. While an actor is devoted to his art, he is, never theless very appreciative of applause. "it is evident that tne people or At lanta do not appreciate the artistic plays which 1 have taken so much care to produce. I have brought a very expen sive company to Atlanta, but the total receipts from my three performances would not pay for raising the curtain in the first play. "I understand that my friend, Henry Irving, will soon come here and 1 presume he will carry away a great deal of your money." After this remarkable speech Mr. Mansfield smiled sarcastically and with drew. TOPEKA CLUB DIRECTORS. New Ones Elected at the Meeting: Laet Nicht. The Topeka Club held its annual meet ing last night and elected a new board of directors. Following is the new board: Edward Wilder, C. H. Guibor, C. F. Jilson, D. W. Mulvane, Jerrv Black, George F. Sharitt, M. W. Van' Valkenburg, A. S. Johnson, J. H. McKibben, J. W. Going. Col. A. S. Johnson has declined to serve longer as president of the club. Fire at Rock Creek. Rock Creek, Jan. 10. Fire was dis covered in the Rock Creek Mercantile comDaoy's general store here about 10 o'clock last night by George Hayden, a boarder at the England house just across the street. He gave the alarm and a crowd of men broke the doors in and soon had the fire extinguished. It is very fortunate that the fire was discovered be fore it had made mnch headway, as there are several wooden buildings adjoining, and most of the town would probably have been wiped out. The loss, which ws from 100 to $150 was covered by insurance. You do not need it now, but when it gets cold you will. Riverside Coal will keep you warm. Topeka Coal Co., 534 Kansas avenue main floor. Gavin's Cough Balsam- this week 50 cents per bottle for 25 cents at all drug stores. You do not need it now, but when it gets cold you will. Riverside Coal will keep you warm. Topeka Coal Co., 534 Kansas avenue, main floor. KING THEWINNER He Has Little Difficulty in De feating: the Texas Wrestler. A Largre and Enthusiastic Audi ence Witnesses the Contest. WOODS OVERTRAINED. The Texas Man was at Least Fifteen Pounds Too Light. An Injured Hip, Also, Slightly Handicapped Him. There are a large number of people in Topeka interested in athletic contests. That fact was proven by the large crowd which turned out last uight to witness the wrestling match at Hamilton hall, between Jack King of Topeka and T. H. Woods of Texas, which proved a victory for the Topeka man, There was never a more enthusiastic audience at the Olym pian games of Greece, for the crowd rose up and shouted when some unusu ally difficult feat was accomplished, a difficult hold broken or a clean throw made. The contestants are both giants. Woods weighed 192, while Kin was three pounds lighter. Woods showed the effects of a recent spell of sickness, which gave him the appearance of a man over trained. In fact he was fifteen pounds lighter than he should have been. He was suffering, too. from a hip which was wrenched in a contest five weeks ago, and which has not had time to become strong. King seems to have the advan tage in the arms and shoulders. His neck holds were almost irresistible, and his general work on the mat showed that he was quite the equal of the big Texas man in strength. King has reason to be proud of his victory. Woods is no mean antagonist and there is not a fine point in wrestling which he does not under stand. Both men went to the mat soon after time was called, Woods, being on top. Woods nearly turned his man with a half nelson but King broke away just in time to save himself. He tried other holds but failed to. accomplish his object gave it up and called King to his feet. After parrying for a hold both men grabbed for the head and down they went side by side. King broke Wood' hold and the fall went to the Topeka man in six minutes and eighteen seconds. Both men appeared fresh when they appeared on the mat for the second fall. Both were cautious and King kept drop ping to the mat to avoid a hold. .Woods made only a single attempt to turn him and then called him to his feet and he made no further effort to turn King. Both men were on the side of the mat next to the back of the stage when the Texas giant caught his man. King tried for a neck hold and failed, and Woods caught him on his hip and as he slipped off caught a grapevine and threw the Topeka man to the mat, fairly on his back. This was Wood's fall in ten min utes and fifty-five seconds. The third and last time out Woods seemed a trifle tired, but he freshed up when he left his corner. Then the au dience witnessed almost what they saw in the first fall. The same tactics and both men went down just as they did in the first fall, and again King turned the big Texas man and secured the fall Time ten minutes. There was one boxing bout of four rounds which was interesting. Art Long, a local athlete, and Walt Holtwick were the principals. Long was dressed in a pair of fancy tights while Holtwick wore his undershirt and trousers. He had a modest look and he looked as if he m?ght be afraid. The people on the stage called him "farmer" at once but he had a surprise iu store for the crowd. He stepped to the center of the stage and landed cleverly on his op ponent's face, who ducked when it was too late. His arm would shootout like a telescope and he bad things his own way when the round ended. For four rounds the boys kept the crowd interested and the "farmer" proved himself a match for Long. COLONEL POPE IN CHICAGO. The Bicycle Kins Predicts a Oreat Sea son Next Summer In thw Bicycle Trade. Caicago, Jan. 10. Colonel Albert A. Pope, the father of the good roads move ment, and it might almost be said the father of cycling, arrived in the city yes terday afternoon to look after hi3 firm's exhibit at the cycle show. The cycling magnate was too busy with his men to talk beyond dropping the information that next season would be the greatest ever known in the busi ness, and that good roads were the only salvation of the country. He also hinted darkly ut the merits of a certain bicycle with whose manufacture he is said to be connected. Mii.coulah Kennel Club Show. Chicago, Jan. 10. The seventh annual bench show of the Mascoutah Kennel club will be held in the lake front armory and Battery D from March 10 to March 13. To facilitate entries and general in formation an office has been established in the Monadnock building, where any information can be obtained relating to the coming show. Malone to Iff Again. Chicago, Jan. 10. W. L. Malone, the amateur wrestling champion, who stood off Dan McLeod Sunday, has agreed to give the Californian another chance to tumble him. The men will wrestle to night at Sam T. Jack's opera house, Mc Leod putting up a forfeit to throw the big local man. Hnrat May be Referee. New York, Jan. 10. Something that may be settled before Vendig leaves this city for Dallas for the south is the selec tion of a referee for the contests. It ia rumored that Tim Hurst will be secured to fill the position. COBURN RE-ELECTED. At the meeting of the state board of agriculture this afternoon F. D. Coburn and T. M. Potter were unanimously re-elected secretary and president re spectively. A. C. Shinn of Ottawa was made vice president. THE GREAT23 is No such smashing of prices has ever taken place in Topeka before. It is one of our business principles not to carry over one season's goods into the next. We are perfectly willing to sacrifice profits to accomplish our object. Our goods are all marked in plain figures and we have but ONE PRICE TO ALL. You can see what the former price was. We have no intention of abusing your confidence by exaggerated values and fake representations. tn Men's Suits Overcoats. AH Wool Suits, former prices $5 and $6, $3,95, $7.50' Suits for $4.95. $8.50 Suits for $6.45. $10.00 Suits for $6-95- $15.00 Suits for $9.85 Prices almost cut in two on all Overcoats. ,:-a 20 per cent. 20 per cent. Off on ail Boys' and Youths' Suits and Overcoats. Big Bargains ia price if O TO I Hi ALL. H i I BLACKBURN WILL WIN. Opposition Hik Given ITp the Fight Iu Kentucky. Cincinnati. Jan. 10. A special to the Commercial Gazette from Franfcfart, Ky.. says: Blackburn will Burely be re-nomiuated at the Democratic caucus tonight. Me Creary men have given up the fight but his name will nevertheless go before the caucus. Representatives Johns and Senator Wissinger, anti-Blackburn men, authorfze the statement that they will not go to the caucus. Blackburn has safely 40 out of 67 votes. Depend, on One Ulan. loath. Fbankfokt, Ky Jan. 10. Isaac Wil son, Democratic member from Nelson county is dying. McCreary has with drawn from the senatorial race and Brown has been entered. If Wilson dies the legislature will no longer be a tie po litically WORKING FOR STATEHOOD. Territorial Delegate. From Oklahoma, Artsona and New Mexico Working: Hard for Their Ra.pactiva Territories. Washington, Jan. 10. The three ter ritorial delegates, Messrs. Flynn of Okla homa, Murphy of Arizona and Cotton of New Mexico are waging a very vigor ous campaign in congress to secure favorable action upon their bills for the admission of the respective territories represented by them to statehood. More than two-thirds of the members of the territories committee are expected to vote for favorable reports. GREETING TO THE BOERS. An Alabama Congressman Xotrodnoa. a Resolution Today. Washington, Jan. 10. Senator Mor gan (Dam., Ala.) formerly chairman of the committee on foreign relations, in troduced a joint resolution in the senate today congratulating the republic of Transvaal in Africa for the stand for lib erty which it had taken and directing the president of the United States to trans mit the action to the republic of Transvaal- The resolution was referred to the foreign relations committee. BIG BANK CLOSES. Bank Dn Plnple ot Montreal Ooeln to Voluntary Liquidation. Montkeal, Jan. 10. At an adjourntnl meeting of the shareholders of the Bank Du Pluple today it was decided to go into voluntary liquidation; $400,000 has to be met at once and $4,000,000 of de posits in two yeara The directors have given a guarantee of $2,000,000 for the 400,000 deposited for which they are personally responsible The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. paid me 100.00 on the life of my de ceased son Walter L. Bennett. Marcus D. Bennett, 418 Buchanan street. Brunswick Company Oet a Receiver Brunswick, Ga, Jan, 10. The -Briins wick company, organized bere in 1887 and captalized at $5,000,000, was yester day placed iu the hands of a receiver by United States Judge Speer, at Macon, oa the application of the Knickerbocker Urust company of New York, holders of 300,000 first mortgage bonds. E S5 rl n sMLfe. in; FULL BLAST NOW. Any pair of nen's Pants in the store, $3 95. Any Men's Cloth Winter Cap, 49e- Any Boys' Cap, 490. Any Boys' Flannel Waist, 493. And a big discount off of cheaper grades. Boys' Knee Pants, 18c. Men's Percale Shirts, a collars, i pair Cuffs, 60?. Men's Percale Negligee Shirts, 35a. Unlaundered Shirts, 193-36X Wool Underwear, 243. Camels Hair Underwear, 35o. Derby Ribbed, 493. Fleece Lined, 40-. Big discounts on all Gloves, Hosiery, Etc. All Departments. S'JG 61)8 Ransis IN TROUBLE AGAIN. An Injunction M.-iy t A.ketl for br eastern aiaiiufacturerx W. W. Gavitt-. Ielioal Company i. .Now in a Hornet's est. W. W. Gavitt's Medical Co. is having a great deal of trouble in trying to sell their Cough Bilsaui at a reduced price. 11 uow appears tnai tne eastern manufac turers of cough balsam are going to ask ior an injunction Monday to prevent V. W. Gavin's Medical Co. from cutting the price on their Balsam. They say that since this company started their remeay in this manner they do not stand an equal show, as there is no demand for their remedies now. W. W. Gavitt, president of the comoa- ny, was seen by a Journal reporter this morning. lie said: '-I understood they were going to do something, but was not certain what: I am not greatly surprised at their move, as they will be compelled 10 uo Humuiuing it iney expect to sell their goods in this city. We now have an excellent start, several thousand bottles were sold last week and a larger number still so far this week. I have met a great many of the most promin ent citizens on the street this week and thev all speak highly of our remedy. If they do not ask for an in junction before Monday, it will be ail right witti us ana will do them no good, as Monday of next week we have beeu expecting to raise the price to the regu lar amount. 50c fjer bottle. The drug gists are selling our Cough Balsam this wees at Z5c" The reporter also called on one of the prominent druggists of this city. lie said. -1 understand the east ern manufacturers are going to do something to try to stop the sale of Gavitt a Cough Balsam. 1 do not blame them for wanting to do something a3 at the present time we are not selling one bottle of other Balsams where we sell over one hundred of Gavitt's. I can rec ommend Gavitt'e Cough Balsam, for I have heard many spean very highly of Its great curative properties." It ia expected that all our city drug gists will stand by our home institution. Get it now and you won't have to bor row from your neighbor when the cold wave gets here. Kiversida CoaL Tope ka Coal Co., 534 Kansas avenue. Iron Companies Combine. CLKVKLAND.Jao.lO. The Bessemer iron ore interests on the Mesaba, Vermillion, Goge bee, Menominee Marquette ranges have combined to limit the output of the Lake Superior mining region and give the iron market in all its branches a stability which it has not enjoyed for years. A secret meeting at which every producing mine on the range is repre sented, is now in session in this city. Injured at Raton. Raton, N. M., Jan. 10, Last night at 6:30 p. m a man, said to be Martin Mur phy, an ex-engineer, who attempted to get oa No. 4, slipped and was thrown under the wheels and bad his left arm mashed at the elbow. He ia said to have come from Topeka, but the Santa Fe claim department have been unable to locate him. You do not need it now, but when it gets cold you will. Riverside Coal will keep you warm. Topeka Coal Co, 634 Kansas avenue, main floor. H

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STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1896. sNJ!l N t "S. yfV f -V V. wfgw r?s. ra rrS yw .fs ers ."r" 4 J llMIIIM 1 t. JL.T i f (A Few of the Many Good Things that Help to Bring the People to the Always Busy Store. FEW OMLT VA Those Tables oi 25c, 39c and 50c Dress Goods Will catch your eye at once and your own good judgment will tell you that many of the pieces are worth double, and every one a great deal more than the price charged. Those Plaid and Striped German Flannels for which we ask 25c are all new and dainty Flannels. The price last TTTOOfTr" TITO a FOv- WA So soft to thft touch and fyj ings, ticketed 29c. Very A 1 A The State Journal TWENTY-THIRD TEAR. Br Frank P. UacLenkan. Official Paper of the City of Topeka. TEEMS OF SSBSCBIPTIOIT. Tally edition, delivered "by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kansas town where this paper has a oar rler system. By mail, three months .90 By mail, one year 3.60 Weekly edition, per year .50 1 jj JANUARY 1896. 1 Sun. Men. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat t) I 2 3 4 15678 9 i0 I 1h2 13H 5 16 17 18(E ij 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 j 26 27 28 29 30 31 iirTTTTf tT ipTT tTtt f Weailir Indicationa. Chicago. Jan. 10. For Kansaa: Fair tonight and Saturday; slightly cool er tonight southwest winds, Jcst when a more peaceful feeling than has existed for some time was set tling down upon the country Corbett has broken out again. General Harrison can now go on the shelf with David B. Hill. He alio has offended the women, by refusing to join the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and children. The city authorities of Little Rock hare discovered a better way of silenc ing Colonel Ingersoll than trying to answer his arguments. They refused to permit him to lecture in the city. Kansas is placed in a very peculiar position by the laws relating to the re apportionment of the. state. The legis lature doesn't want to meet and nobody wants it to meet, and yet if it does not, complications may arise in the future on account of its failure to do so. The bond syndicate doubtless deserves all the criticism it receives from the press and public, but it should be re membered that it could not do a thing in the direction of looting the treasury were It not for the connivance of the president and the treasury officials themselves, who, in effect, open the doors and Invite these favorites to help themselves. It seems that a fine distinction is made In Venezuela between revolution and treason. This is probably owing to the fact that revolutions are of so common occurrence as to be considered quite a matter of course. Now, however, when the country is on the verge of a foreign war, the president has declared the, par ticipants in the present revolt, guilty of treason. Boss Platt is keeping up the pretense that Levi P. Morton is an actual candi date for the Republican presidential comination. This is done in the interest f the Reed combine of which Platt is a member. Morton will be put forward as the candidate of the gold men. There will not be enough of them to nominate him and the opposition will be invited to compromise on Reed, who, so far as any expression which he himself has vouch safed on the money question is concern ed, is not known to have any opinion. In this way Platt has two chances at nam ing the candidate. so beautiful to the eve. SIX catchy. The United States courts will now have an opportunity to square themselves with the people and correct an impres sion which has taken possession of them to a considerable extent that these tribunals are partial to cer tain interests. The court will be asked to enjoin the thirty -two principal rail roads of the country from acting under the agreement which they have recently entered into for a pooling of their busi ness. An injunction issued out of the United States courts did effectual service in suppressing a combination of railway employes resulting in the Debs strike. It was alleged in justification of the court's action that this combination, known as the American Railway union, was injuring the public business, inter fering with the public welfare and vio lating the interstate commerce law. The same tribunal will now be confronted with another and vastly more powerful combination organized for the same pur poses for which the A R. U. was said to have been formed. Will the courts treat this rich man's combine la the same way that they did the poor man's com bine; or will they deoide after treating the public to a mass of fine spun theories and legal phraseology that the case does not come within the law, or that the law is unconstitutional? That there is a thorough understand ing between Mr. Cleveland and the gold gamblers of Wall Street there can scarce ly be any doubt. The play of offering the bonds to popular subscription was made with the full knowledge that the syndicate had already cornered the gold wherever it existed in any considerable quantities and that such a thing as gath ering up $100,000,000 from the interior, widely scattered as it is would be next to impossible. As a part of the plan to de ceive the people and to illustrate the widely heralded helplessness of the gov ernment always of course on account of the greenbacks the syndicate imme diately announced that it must have all the bonds or it would take none. That there might be no possible doubt of its getting them, Mr. Cleveland now is reported as considering the withdrawal of the offer to the public and closing with the syndicate, if it appears that gold is being withdrawn from the trea sury for the purpose of buying bonds. J. Pierpont Morgan and his partners may get the bonds, as it has been intend ed they should from the firjt Eves Debs has at last come to the con clusion that trades unions are a failure in the matter of remedying all the ills from which the laborers of the country suffer. Trades unions are all right as a means of maintaining wages, but they do not af ford work to the unemployed, and it is the vast army of the idle workmen from which the country is suffering. Men out of work can no longer be purchasers to any considerable extent, consequently other workmen who found customers in them for the products of their labor, are also forced into idleness. This is why the numbers of the unemployed increase so rapidly in what are called bad times. In an era of prosperity, work increases, wages advance, and business grows in the same ratio and on the same principle. When one class of laborers is set at work, they immediately become purchas ers, and thus afford employment to an other class and another, till the land fairly hums with industry and enter prise. This is what would surely follow the opening of the mints to silver. There can be no question about it. An expanding currency has never failed to bring these results, and a contracting currency has never failed to bring the results first mentioned. In moving for the enforcement of the prohibitory law in Leavenworth and Atchison, why do not the members of the State Temperance union include Fort Scott, Wyandotte. St. Marys, Marysville, Junction City, Abilene, Salina and a hun dred other towns ia Kansas, where there Those. $5.00 Suit Patterns Are moving fast. Why shouldn't they? Most people know a good thing when they see it. Cheney Bros.' dollar Faille Silks at 59c; seven colors. Will make a cheap but elegant dress. Ladies' Embroidered Handkerchiefs, soiled by the Xmas trade, the 25c ones will be 15c, and the 15c ones 8c. 25c Topsy black Hose will be 15c. 100 dozen Lace-edged Handkerchiefs, 3c each. 10-4 White Saxony Blankets, worth $7, will be $4. color- a t V is just as much reason to believe the law is violated as in then two cities? If the remedy of an assistant attorney general has been successful at Wichita, why do not they insist that it be applied all over the slate? PARKHU1WT, PESSIMIST. Tbe New York Reformer see no Bril liancy In tbe Mew Year. New I'ork, Jan. 10. Dr. Parkhurst, in his sermon at the Madison Square Presbyterian church Sunday incidentally touched on the prospects fur the coming year. "There is nor," said he, "the usuai New Year's exhilaration in the air. We are respiring everywhere an atmosphere of distrust. There is among all classes of people a sense of instability. Nobody knows what is coming. There is hardly an aspect of life that is not marked by some trace of doubt and unsettlement. The times are hard; there is a cloud over all prospects of the more prosper ous classes, and a feeling that the times will grow worse. All of us are aggra vated by the echoes of war projected a couple of weeks ago, and whose reverber ations have not died away yet. f "To this is added the coming quadren ial national election, and as a wind-up and consummation of our woes congress and the state legislature are in session, and however true it is at all times that we cannot tell what a day may bring forth, it is true with an acute emphasis when these two bodies are sitting, and when the entire gamut of leg slative possibility is spread out before them, upon which they can execute their in calculable extravaganzas ad libitum, with only craft or caprice as their in spiration. In view of all this it is not so easy a matter to face the future with se renity and confidence." In conclusion Dr. Parkhurst said that it was true that the popular current was setting in the direction of all that was superficial, sensual, corrupt, and vicious, and if not stopped it would end in putre faction It was better, however, to meet the issue now than let the scourge fall on tne next generation. "Whatever is be fore us this year," said he, "nationally or internationally, the end of the year will find the world twelve months nearer the fulfillment of its destiny and the com plete coming of the kingdom of our Lord." FOUND A 5 BILL. A Dos; Which Seems to Know tne Value of Money. George C. Stoker, who lives iu North Topeka, has a small terrier dog which he now considers very valuable. Yesterday the people in the house were attracted by something "scratching ou the outside of the street door. Mrs. Stoker went to the door and there Btood the dog with a five dollar bill in hia mouth. The animal seemed perfectly willing to give up the money. It is sup Dosed that while playiag on the sidewalk the dog picked up the bill which had been dropped by some one passing by. LOCAL MENTION. W. J. Johnson, of Topeka, who is In the United States prison at Fort Leaven worth, is teaching in the prison school. Col. Tweeddale has commenced on the final surveys and levels for the new bridge. These will be forwarded to the firm now making the plans and will en able them to complete the details. The eight year old son of T. F. Lan nan, of 418 Tyler street, while playing with companions Tuesday, fell and frac tured his right arm at the elbow joint. The arm was dressed last night, and the attending physician reports that the frac ture is not of a serious nature. J. E. Halstead, who resigned his position in Topeka as agent of the Phoe nix Mutual Life Insurance company and sold his business to A. J. Coe, has not yet left for his future home. There is a hitch in the arrangements being made for him to take charge of the Indianapolis office and he may not go until April. He sold his household goods expecting to go at once and is now living at a hotel. Oysters Are Too Cheap, Baltimore. Jan. 9. The Fait Stagle company, oyster packers assigned this morning to John S. Gibbs. Assets are given at $50,000; and liabilities probably exceed assets. The cause of the failure is excessive competition and the result ant low prices. Itinera! Water. The finest in the west. Come and try it J. W. Phillips, 613 W. Eighth ava. WASHBURN'S CONTEST. Tha Literary Socletle Will Debate To night at the Col lest. Following is the programme of the contest between the literary societies at Washburn college to-night: Hungarian Dance Misses Harrison and Ingalls Debate, question Resolved that Eng land has a better form of government than the United States. Affirmative Thos. Gray, E. G Goodno. Negative F. P. Strong, J. A. Newell, "Wind in the Trees" .Miss Townesley Closing speeches by the leaders, Mr. Thomas Giay and Mr. F. P. Strong. Music by the Glee club. Decision of judges. There is to be no charge for admission. PING11EE TRIUMPHS. Detroit Conncil Sustains His Action In tne Street Railway Controversy. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 10. The veto by Mayor Pingree of the Tom Johnson street railway ordinance was sustained by a vote of the common council. A great crowd was in attendance at the session. This s brings to an end a street railway war (hit has been waged for over four years in this city, and has end ed in a triumph for general 3 cent fare?, free transfers, and practical municipal control of the street railway corpora tions. A Remarkable Tree. There Is a wayward white oak tree near Laporte, Ind., that may puzzle na turalists with the vagaries of its growth. The tree is nine feet in circum ference at the base, and there are no branches of any size below fifteen feet from the ground. There the great bole divides into a number of limbs. Two, leaving the trunk about twenty inches apart, grow west, their lines diverging for some six feet, and then each rend ing toward the other. Twelve feet from the body of the tree they unite again, making a perfect oval, and out of thia grows two smaller branches. As if not satisfied with that expressed disregard for the laws of nature, this old tree has performed another feat. Six feet from its base grows another white oak, less than half its size, and no sooner doe3 the smaller tree arrive at the charmed circles of those branching limbs than one of them grows right into It, and Is absorbed. The second tree Is very much larger twenty feet from the ground than at its base. v Expensive Smoking. There are several wealthy men in London who are reputed to spend over $2,500 per year on cigars. This is con sidered very large over there, but sev eral American millionaires are said to exceed this. One of them is reported as spending $10,000 annually on cigars. An English nobleman who married an American woman, who brought a bag of money with her, has astounded Lon don with his extravagance in cigars. He pays about $500 monthly for them, and always trades with one dealer, who posts a sign to that effect in order to attract customers. Several prominent Englishmen, among whom is said to be Labourchere, buy cigarettes imported from Turkey, at a cost of 10 cents each. One of them smokes and gives away 100 in a day, which is probably the rec ord for expensive cigarette smbklng. Characteristics of tbe "Old Roman." "Thurman's most notable character istic in the senate," says ex-Senator Ed munds, "was his command of pure, strong English. He was powerful in debate, never mincing matters, but calling things by what he considered their right names. He was brave in hia convictions, and wis always work ing for what he thought the good of his country, and not for the hire. Al though I did not agree with him upon political matters, I could not help lik ing him for his earnestness. What he did was done because he considered it right." A Torpedo Boat Blown Up. Milak, Italy, Jan. 10. The boiler of a torpedo boat on Lake Maggpire ex ploded to-day, sinking the vessel and drowning twelve persons on board. doodwla Coal Co, 602 Kansas avenue 1 t nignest jmz.ou. LOWEST PRICE Every CASTILE SOAP 1 TEMPERANCE DAY. The Fourth Sunday la Febra iry to Be Set A part for Observance. At the executive meeting of the Kan sas State Temperance union following the general meeting of Tuesday, on sug gestion of T. E. Stephens it was voted to make the fourth Sunday in February temperance day. The ministers throughout the state will be requested to properly observe it as such. Sufficient data of a non-partisan char acter will be sent out, upon which intel ligent addresses can be based- The day will also be previously advertised through the press. During the past few weeks Mr. Steph ens has raised by cash and subscriptions nearly $690 to pay the expenses involved in a movement of this kind. The sur plus will be used in scattering literature broadcast throughout the Btate, in the prosecution of violators of the law, and in inaugurating movements to effectual ly arouse temperance sentiment in be half of tbe maintenance of the law and its more rigid enforcement, Helping Him Out. Briggs Strange what will sometimes happen to a man. You know Miss Pim lioo, don't you? Griggs Oh, yes, very Weill The girl from the south who is visiting here? Briggs Yes. Well, the other night I called on her, and hearing that she was about to return I asked her if could be of any service to her, and she said she would like to have me get her a railroad ticket, secure a section and so forth. Griggs And you did so? Briggs I did, old man. I put up $33 for that ticket. Griggs Didn't she offer to pay you? Briggs Certainly, at tho time. I suid no hurry to wait until I got the ticket. You know girls don't think about those things don't realize the value of money. Griggs Cortainly not. But didn't she pay you at all? Briggs Xo, she didn't. I saw her off last niRht, and the thing must have slip ped her mind. Places me in on awful fix. Griggs I see. Make's you short, doesn't it? Briggs No name for it. Don't know what I'll do, old fellow. Griggs But she's good for it? Briggs Oh, certainly. Tho merest hint. Griggs I see. A delicato matter. She will probably remember it soon, Cut you naturally feel that you don't want to re mind her of it. Briggs That's it. Could you Griggs Why certainly, old follow. I think I can help you out. Only too glad. Briggs By Jove, you are tho right sort of a friend. Griggs That's all right. I'll drop her a line and tell her to send me tho money, and I'll turn over what's left after I've paid myself what you already owe me. New York World. A Pious Wish. He had asked her at the wind up of a rather heated debate to leave him alone. In fact, he hinted that she was1 talking too much. You .don't deny my right of free speech?" she said. "Oh, no, not for a minute! I just wish one thing, though.'' "Well, what?" "That we lived in Chicago." "Now, what's that got to do with it?" "Why, they're suffering Sunday closing strictly there, you know. So your voice would get outlawed one day in the week, at any rate. Then fee fled to the club. American Commercial Traveler. A Reflection on Htm. Uncle George Got trusted for it? Very bad I When I was a young man, I always paid cash for everything I bought. Frivolous Nephew You don't mean to say that your credit was bo bad as that? Boston Transcript. A Horn Fighter. "No, sir, a man with a face like that Is never a coward." "How do you know?" "It's so homely that he couldn't have any fear of spoiling it." Chicago Record. Not Strictly Professional. "That young doctor makes an immense number 3t calls on Mrs. Oglesby. Is she very sick?" "No. She is very pretty." Truth. Sparrlnar With Barley Corn. H. Bradshaw, one of the young men who boxed at the Athletio exhibition at Hamilton hall last night was afterwards arrested by the police for intoxication. He pleaded guilty this morning and was flaed $5 which he started to work out. Dress Goods Remnants, Fr-5Sas. f iMm unei nira uit. m fll-.'lJ..,.). i -l---!-- o mmreu s ions' vioak.?. in o price sj8. fo., JMisses Jackets, in b lots, lowest price 3Sd.75: hie-hest price $10. 'Nothing reserved all must ero. Ladies Jackets, in 9 lots, lowest ft Fairy Floss z.epnyrs Saxony S8.50. HIGHEST One Below the Makers' CENT A CAKE.. W. N. STRATTON'S GUARD. Tne Colorado Springs Millionaire Wants Beggars Kept Oat. Colokado Springs, Colo,, Jan. 10. More or less apprehension has been cre ated in the minds of a number of ladies by the presence of a man who strode back and forth on the east side of Ne vada avenue, between Carwell and Bijou streets. There was an air of mystery about him which was solved for the first time today. An inquiry as to his busi ness elicited the response that he was an officer deputized to guard the resi dence of W S. Siratton, and to keep from entering on his premises a certain class of persons who have recently been causing the multi-millionaire a vast amount of annoyance by their begging and their attempts to get him interested in all sorts of schemes. The guard re mains on duty from dusk until the family have all retired. In Accordance With the Fuels. Before the English missionary was ball gone the king of the Ooglyzooks suddenly gapped, turned purple, and, falling under whnt would. have been the table if canni bals ever used such things, expired in great agony. Tha coroner's jury sat on him at once. "Diod from a foreign subject lodging in his throat, 'was tho verdict. New York Reoorder. Doubtful. Baglcy That's the young Englishman who came over to try to marry old Bocks ly's daughter. Gagley How is he getting along? Bagley He's not quite sure. He called on Miss Rooksly last night. The old man kicked him out, and she asked him to call again. Truth. She Was Well Posted. "Oh, isn't it interesting, Julia, about this Venezuelan trouble?" said a woman on the elevated train the other morning. "What Venezuelan trouble?" asked the other woman. "Why, don't you know? We're likely to go to war with Venezuela, and it's all on account of well, I declare, I've forgot ten just what it's on nccount of, but it's something or other to do with the tariff or the income tax or the silver question. Cuba's mixed up in it somehow, and so is Samoa, and I won't be sure, but I .think England has something to do with it. You just ought to read the papers. Oh, they're awfully thrilling! And, Julia, won't it be exciting if there really is war, you know? I suppose we shall spend all our time picking lint and' knitting socks and singing 'Rally Round the Flag, Boys,' the way my mother says they used to do in war times. Oh, I've always been so sorry that I wasn't living then I And to think that thero's actually going to be a real live war after all." "When will it begin?" asked the other woman. "Oh, they're not certain yet. But it'll be very soon. As I say, I think England's mixed up in it somehow, and you know Englishmen are dreadfully slow. I don't believe they'll begin to really 'scrap' until the holidays are over." "My, what a lot you know!" cried Ju lia admiringly. "I just wish I was as well posted on politics as you are, dear." "I have to be well posted," replied the first woman. "You know I'm chairman of the politics committee in our woman's club, and once a week I have to tell all the others about what's going on all over the world. Why, when our club heard of this Venezuelan affair they at once post poned tho meeting for the consideration of 'Is Browning Sincere In His Portrayal of Sordello? and appointed me to prepare a paper npon 'The Political Situation and How It Affeots Women's Clubs.' My dear, I did nothing but read tbe newspapers all day yesterday. That's the reason, Julia, that I know so much. You'd be just as well posted, too, if you'd studied Into tho matter as I have." New York Evening Sun. Smooth as silk is the way our collars feel now. Peerless Steam Laundry, 113 and 114 W. 8th. 1 -v r f TJ. i m f lots, lowest nrir.R xi..t ma 7 r "j rMi I ?f M Drice SI: highest urice KJ 1 oc skein. rys 3c ounce. 6c skein. ra PRICE S49.75. K V, Price. PIANOS Hardman Pianos, Kroesrer C o. Pianos. J Star Co. PluuosV Everett Pianos, With Harp, Mandolin1 Zither attachment. I call and hear ihtt wonderful effects pro- J duced on the Everett Piano. ORGANS XewmAD Bros.' Organs, V Story K l lari Organs. Latest styles, hand- some cases, entirely" new cones ana combi nations; lowest prices. SHEET Over 100,000 Pie-1 rea sneet Muif. All sold at O.NE- MUSIC HALF OFF. Musical merchandise; of all kinds at reduced; prices. Onitars at. 84.98 and m: Man dolins at as.Saiid up; Steel string's,1 2 for 5c: fine Har monicas, at Se to i 23e. i E. B. GUILD 713-715 Kansas At. J. M. KNIGHT Anti-Combine Undertaker. 404 and 406 Sansai Areine. Paess El lei 843 North Kaniso Art. f hone 25. la.f'r Anbiliire tm trains or any part mt tns city Day ar Nixaf. ESI will sell you COAL of any r kind, weighed on the city scales. Cobs also. 4 i 0 t t PETER. BROWERi 3i4 oi. BJJ. 49 aaai, Ave. Also at HOVi East Sixth St. FROST IS CHAIRMAN. The Santa Fa Haa Mad Chairman of tho State Irrigation Committat, The president of tbe Kansas Irrigation association, J. H. Churchill of Dodge City has named as the association's ex ecutive committee. John E. Frost, To peka, chairman; G, W. Watson, J. L. Bristow, F. D. Coburn, W. C. Eiwards, D. M. Frost, J. M. Hunger, P. T. Lan caster and J. Geiertler. Mt, Churchill saya the Watson law passed by the last legislature compelling farmers to plow fire guards has been a great success in western Kansas. A BlesMna; In Disguise. Eogan And do yez bear Clancy anny ill will for tho t'ump he gev yez? Grogan Oi do not. Snre, the tooth he knocked out was wan Oi had been wantin to hev polled for the pasht two months. Indianapolis Journal. One Insufficient. "And you seek a place to lay your Lead?" Tho wavfarer smiled wanlv. ""If "Places," she answered, for she wore wig and didn't care who knew it Detroit Tribune- y

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STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1896 5 THE STBR GKCSBRY POPULAR LOW PRICE GROCERY. If you exercise a due regard for your pocketbook and buy from those stores where the most for the least and of the best quality is sure to be obtai ned, you will buy here. Read the list and bear in mind that every article is guar, an teed satisfactory. SUNDRIES. 8 pkgs Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour 25 10 lba hand-picked Navy Beans. 25 8 lbs Lima Beans 25 Bcoth Oat per pkg 5 Lion Coffee per pkg 18 Arbuckle's Coffee per pkg 13 Mokaska Coffee per pkg 18 10 lba Green Peas 25 7 lba Snlit Peaa 25 18 lbs Hominy 25 35 lbs Hominy Grits 25 4 pkgs Buck wheat Tlour 25 4 pkgs Pancake Flour 25 3 pkgs Pettijohn's Bteakfaat Food, 25 2 sks Table Salt 5 66 boxes Parlor Matches 25 6 doz Clothes Pina 5 Galvanized Iron Pails 15 3 cans Eagle Milk 50 4 pkgs Mince Meat 25 6 cans Lye 25 Pork and Beans per can 5 1 lb threaded Cocoanut 20 1 lb Baking Chocolate 35 Van Houten's Cocoa per lb 75 Sweet Chocolate per pkg 5 Water Pails 10 5 boxes Toothpicks.. 10 Washboards 10 6 lbs pore N. Y. Buckwheat Flour, 25 1- gal pure Maple Syrup 60 Iowa Potatoes per bu 40 Colorado Potatoes per bu 45 Country Sorghum per gal 80 New Orleans Molasses per gal.... 25 Tubular Lanterns SO Brigg's Bushel Baskets 20 1 lb Star Baking Powder 15 2 boxes Shoe Blacking 5 1 lb New York Cheese 15 Kennedy's Crackers, per lb by box, 5V 2 lbs Ginger Snaps 15 Cream Crackers per lb 10 Pail Family White Fish 45 5 pkgs imp. Macaroni 25 C lbs good Rice .25 6 lbs Sgo 25 6 lbs Tapioca 25 Cox Gelatine per pkg 15 No. 1 and No. 2 Lamp Chimneys.. 5 Lewis Lye per can 10 3 pkgs New England Mince Meat 25 1 gal jug Catsup 50 1 qt Queen Olives 20 Kraut per qt 5 Pickles per qt 5 .'orn Starch per nksr 5 6 lb wood box Gloss Starch So 8 lbs bulk Gloss Starch 25 Ftu'iless Starch per pkg 5 Lea Perrins' Sauce per bottle... 25 Leinz's Catsup per bottle 10 Pint bottle Catsup 5 3 lbs strained Honey 5 3-hoop Washtubs CO Crosse Blackwell's Chow Chow, per bottle 25 Crosse Blackwell's Onions, per bottle 25 Crosse Blackwell's GirkiDf, per battle 25 Even Change Tobacco per lb 15 MRATS AND F.APD. Dry Salt Meat T H No. 1 Calfornia Hams per lb..... 7 No, 1 Sugar Cured Hams per lb... 10 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, lb. 9 Good White Lard 5 5-lb can AVhite Label Lard 40 10-lb can White Label Lard 80 Boneless Ham per lb 10 Cooked Ham per lb 12 Country Smoked Meat per lb 7 J. S. SPR0AT, Telephone 252. P5s3 GAVITT'S COUGH: BALSAM. THIS WEEK OXLT. THIS WEEK OXLT A full size 50 cent bottle for 25 cents. At All Di-nj Stores. TRY IT- GEO. R. PECK GOT $80,009. The "Journal" Secures the Complete and Correct Figures. THE PREVIOUS PARTIAL STATEMENTS or the Fees Id the Santa Fe Receiver ship 3iow Presented in Detail Other Railroad Kews. In the last record of the circuit court, which contains the orders and decree of sale of the Santa Fa read, and in which the amount of fees paid the different officials is stated, the exact amount paid in full to three of the participants, namely Wheeler H. Peckham, Rossing ton, Smith Dallas and George K. Peck does not appear, as their orders contain the clause "in addition to what he (or they) have received." The previous payments made to Wheeler H. Peckham and Rossineton, Smith Dallas, appear in former records of the court in connection with the Santa Fe receivership, and are two in number. On July 30, 1894, Wheeler H. Peck ham and Rostington. Smith Dallas were allowed $5,000 apiece, and on Jnly 20, 1895, they were allowed $10,000 each. This would be at the rate of $10,000 a year for their services, and when the final division was arranged, they receiv ed their share in a lump, mating- a total for Wheeler B. Peckham of $7u,0i0, and for Rossington, Smith Dallas $42,500. Whether these fees wera all the attor neys received is not definitely known, as there might have been a settlement made out of court as was done in the M., K. T. receivership. The previous payments made Georee R. Peck was in the way of a salary, be receiving the same salary, $20,000 a year as solicitor for the receivers as ha did when he was solicitor for the road. As he held the position of solicitor for bout one year and nine months, he re ceived $35,000 salary, which w'ith the $45,000 allowed at the final division makes bis total $30,000 from the Santa Fe alone, to say nothing of his fees re ceived as solicitor for the A. p, and St. Louis and San Francisco. DIDN'T LIKE CHICAGO. r. Phelps, ITerraer Secretary to It, celver Walker. Prefer Topeka. W. W. Phelps, formerly secretary to SUGARS. They are advancing right along. The wholesalers are charging the retailers 5Jc pound for Granulated Surgar. Tomorrow we will sell 19 lbs of the best fine Granulated for tp 1 25 Light Brown Sugar 1 00 FLOUR. 50 lbs Shawnee Fancy 50 lbs Crosbv No. 1 50 lbs Golde'n Bod 60 lbs Hackney Patent 5; lbs Lily 50 lbs Clover Leaf 50 lbs White Rose 50 lbs Leiter Patent 50 lbs Big 4 50 lbs Crosby's Best 50 lbs Topeka Patent 50 lbs Gold Dust 80 80 80 80 8 70 70 90 90 90 90 90 CANNED GOODS. 2-lb can California Jams 1 can California Table Lemon Cling Peaches 1 can California Table Apricots.. 1 can California Table Piums lean California Table Cherries... lean California Table Grapes.... 2 cans sliced Pine Apples 2 cans grated Pine Apples 4 cans Blackberries 3 cans Apples 3 cans Gooseberries 3 cans Cherries 3 cans Strawberries 3 cans Pie Peaches 1 gallon can California Apricots.. 1 can Sugar Corn lean Pumpkin 1 can Siring Beans 6 cans Marrowfat. Pets 2 cans imported French Peas..... 4 cans Vinton Corn 2 cans Loomis, Aliens Co. Cora 3 cans White Wax Beans Boston Baked Beans, per can..... Sifted early June Peas, per can... Mushrooms, per can 3 cans Mackerel 3 cans Salmon 8 cans Oil Sardiues 2 cans Mustard Sardines 4 cans Oysters Potted Ham and Tongue Lobsters per can Corned Beef per can SOAP. Kirk's White Russian, per box... 3 Silk-Soap, per box 2 Lenox Soap, ber box 2 Fairbanks' brown Soap, per box.. 2 Butter Milk Soap -per box Cocoanut Oil feuap. per box CALIFORNIA EVAP. FRUITS. 4 lbs Fancy Peaches 3 lbs large Prunes 4 lbs Blackberries 2 lbs Raspberries 5 lbs Seedless Raisins 1 lb Fancy Citron Fancy Orange and Lemon Peel, lb 3 lbs Pitted Plums 3 lbs Pears 6 lb3 Whole Cherries 5 lbs Whol Peaches 3 lbs Datw 3 lbs Apricots 6 lbs Raisins 3 lbs Figs Cleaned Currants per pkg 5 lbs Apples 6 lbs Grapes 10 10 10 10 15 10 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 5 5 25 25 25 25 5 10 20 25 25 25 15 25 5 20 10 00 75 9J 90 10 23 25 25 25 45 25 1". 15 25 25 25 5:5 25 i!5 25 25 5 25 25 The Star Grocer, 112 East 6 th St. the late Santa Fe receiver, Joseph C. Wilson, who took a similar position with receiver Aldace F. Walker, has resigned and will probably return to Topeka. As chairman of the board of directors, Mr. Walker witl not have as large an amount of work to perform as he did while receiver, and it was the intention to transfer Mr. Phelps to President Rip ley's office in Chicago. Although the position Buited Mr. Phelps, he disliked a residence in Chicago, preferring, if possible, to reside, in Topeka. Mr. Phelps is at present stopping in Kansas City, and says that he has no definite plans for the future. STABBED 111 A. TRAMP. Conduotor on Mo. Pacific Dangerously H art Near Independence. Missouri Pacific Conductor Bobrink, of Independence, Kas., was attacked by two tramps who were endeavoring to steal a ride on the freight train which he bad in charge, about 8 o'clock last Tuesday night, at a switch a short dis tance out of the Independence yards. Bobrink succeeded in knocking one of the tramps down, when the other, draw ing a knife, stabbed him in the neck, the wound extending from the base of the brain in the back in a downward direction to the windpipe on the left tide. The wounded man was taken to Indepen dence, where the wound was dressed, and was then sent to the hospital at Kansas City. The physicians say that although the wound is very dangerous, ha will probably recover. Descriptions of the men were sent to Missouri Pacific agents and city mar shals of the towns along the line, but np to this dale tney nave not Deen captured. Small Wreck on Rock Island. A small wreck occurred on the Rock Island about three tniles west of Hering ton yesterday afternoon, caused by the breaking of one of the axles of the loco motive. Engine 192 was pulling a heavy freight train out of the Heriagton yards, running at a slow rate, when one of the axles broke, throwing the engine from the track. As the engine left the rails, Engineer Collier. jumped from the cab, striking on a bank and dislocating one of his shoulders. Be was taken back to liar in g; ton where his injuries were dress ed. The wreck caused a delay of two hours in the arrival of Texas train No. 2 in Topeka. We can keep vou clean Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. Eighth. JELTZ'S COLORED MEETING Called to Denounce Rev. fir. Olden For His Sermon ADYISIHG SOUTHERN BLACK MEN To Eet Southern White Women Alone ir They Didn't Want to Be LyneBed- It Was Held East Xiffti t. There was an oratorical contest at the court house last night in which Col. Bill Jeltz jumped into the lead at the start and held his own throughout It was the indignation meeting of the colored people to denounce Rev. G. D. Olden of the First African Baptist church for preaching the sermon, "The Lynching and Burning of Negroes a Blot on the Nation." It this sermon while Mr. Olden denounced the brutalities of the whites toward the blacks in the south, he said that the outrages of white women by black men ought to stop. By eight o'clock there was a crowd of perhaps 150 colored people present. There were Philip Pickett, Nick Childs, and many others. Later Prof. Clinkscale, Rev. J. C. C. Owens, James Page, W. L Jamison and other prominent men of the race came in to see which way the wind was blowing. A great part of the crowd consisted of these who were simply cu rious to see what would be done, while members of Rev. Mr. Olden's congrega tion were sprinkled plentifully through the audience. Before the evening closed the crowd must have numbered 250. About 8:15, as the orator of the even ing, Col. John M. Brown, had not ar rived, Col. Jeltz's friends suggested that he spar a few rounds with the crowd to get it in a good humor. He explained that Col. Brown had a tea party at his home that evening and would probably be late, and agreed. A. Kuykendall called the meeting to order, and Col. Jeltz backed up against the bench pre sided over by Judge Uazen for the fray. The colored editor began in a high tenor voice which he later changed to falsetto. In impassioned moments he reached soprano. "We are here to rebuke the seulimenta expressed by one G. D. Olden on Dec. 16 (should be 15) which has caused the most bitter animation," said the colouel by way of preliminary. "This is why, iu touch as I am with the whole state, I have received general protests from the commonwealth." The colonel here read an article from a Wamego paper entitled "AMuckle Headed Preacher," which talked a great deal about "blatant blus ter." He also read a set of rules from the Atchison "True Eleven," which se verely condemned Rev. Mr. Olden. The colonel proceeded to the discussion of Rev. Mr. Olden's sermon as given in the Journal. "He says here the negro should not go into politics. I want to say toytju, personally, as an American citizen, that we have a right to get into politics. (Ap plause). Politics is all there is for us. What are we to do? Are we going to allow them to tax us without a word to say? I say, God forbid. (Applause). There is not euough work in the country for every one, and many men make a study of politics, just because they can't get anything else to do. Are we to be denied this? It is cowardice to claim it, a3 Rev. Mr. Olden ha3 done. (Prolonged applause). We are here to condemn such ror. He says the negro should devote his time to acquiring education and wealth, but must nut go into politics. We may have all the education under the azure sky, but without politics we are now not fit for anything but mockery. We don't see why we have no right to persist and pursue the pursuit of politics. I think a man is a coward who says we should not persist and go into politics. Applause There was a man in the south who wrote a book condemning the negro, and had to leave the country. His name was Tucker. The people now have a verse: "Tucker. Tucker, he wired in and he wired out And left the people still in doubt. "That's what Rev. Olden has done. We can't understand his statements. We want explanations of these enigmas (Ap plause.) He says the only cure for the lynching of colored men is to let the white women, the lily whites alone (Loud laughter.) The trouble is our people have been gulled, gulled and deceived by Fellows like this who think they know it all, and don't know nothing. We cannot hold office. We must resort to the cotton fields and the corn fields, or other dominions. Perhaps he wants us to go to Brahzeel," said Col. Jeltz wiping his fevered brow. "A man is very cowardly who was a slave for 20 years and says be loves his owners. Loves those who bound him and buckled him down, who made him come at their beck and go at their call. I can't understand it. It sounds to me like an echo in the valley. Do you old men here love your owners? (Cries of "No, no," from all parts of the crowd.) There are many here whose heads are hoary, whose heads are blossoming for the grave. "1 was reared up in this city. I taught ten consecutive scholastic years in the south and never witnessed the ghastly scene of a white hanging. I have solved problems. 1 have passed sixteen exam inations for teachers' certificates, but I cannot understand such rot. We 'come here tonight like a thundercloud in a clear sky to rise np and show onr in dignation against such a fellow. (Cries of "Put him out of the state." "Put him out." "Run him out..") I wonder where we are at? It is high time we were on the alert for such rot. That we do not tolerate no such stuff." At this point James A. Page came in and there were immediately great cries for Page to speak. This silenced the colonel for about two minutes, but like Casey, "With a smile of christian charity, CoL Jeltz's visage shone. "He stllleU the rising tumult, he made the game go on." "When we were thrown out" started the colonel, but he was immediately drowned out by cries for Page. "Col onel John M. Brown is master of the situation tonight," roared the colonel. "I am not speaking." The audience got restless again. "I kindly (Page! Page!), thank (Page!) you for your (Page! Page! Page!), at tention. (Page! Page! Page! Page!), Whatever (Page!) is your sentiment (Page! Page! Page! Page! Pae! Page!), I'm in favor (Page! Page! Page! Page! Page! Page! Page!), of this meeting going on," screamed the colonel above the tumult. Kuykendall here moved to elect a chairman and Andy Jordan was chosen unanimously.. "I want to clearly and sincerely thank the audience for the honor preferred upon me in making me chairman of this meeting. I think it will be quite a row before it is ended. Laughter. "Where's our leaders tonight? Where's CoL John M. Brown? Where's W. 1. Jamison? Where's Thomas? Where's Guy? None of them are here. We might talk all night'and be no better off than we are now. Any of us can sur round a herd of cattle or a swarm of mules. If our leaders are too cowardly to appear, we had better disband and go home. Applause and cries of "You're right." This was immediately rebuked by James A. Pa.ze, and the crowd which had a moment before been on Jordan's side, swung to the opposite and howled and yelled its approval. Nick Childs responded to repeated calls and told of his recent southern trip. He "acted it all out" and had the crowd convulsed with laughter. He called Kansas heaven and the south hell. Rev. J. T. Leonard next claimed at tention and was speaking when Colonel John M. Brown entered the room at ex actly 9:16. A shout went up, which must have been pleasing to the colonel. Colonel Jeltz jumped up and down in the west end of the room, with his arms above his head, flourishing his hands to ward the colored hero of the moment He immediately ran to take off the col onel's overcoat and assist him to a seat Brown made an interesting speech, which lasted from 9:30 to 10:30. Resolutions condemnatory of Olden were drawn up and adopted. They were as follows: Whereas, on the 15th of December, 1895, the Rev. G. D. Olden, in a so-called sermon on the lynching and burning of negroes in the south, instead of using his position of teacher and preacher in awakening a healthy public sentiment in favor of the overburdened and cruelly oppressed negro, took advantage of the eccassion to hold the negro up to the world as a criminal, guilty of the many fiendish acts with which he is charged in the south, and, Whereas, We stand for morality and the sanctity of home, and condemn any attempt to invade its sacred precincts; therefore. Resolved, That we, the colored peo ple of Topeka, in mass meeting assem bled, condemn the so-called sermon as a slander upon the race, and its author an unscrupulous demagogue, seeking to gain the favor of the other race by ma king a sacrifice of his own. Resolved, That Mr. Olden's almost tearfuly solicitude for the white women of the south, and his failure to say one word for the protection of the poor ne gro women and girls who are daily made the victims of the white man's lust in the south, shows a species of deceit that will win but little applause in this community. Resolved, That we look on the low, vulgar jest uttered in the' sermon as be ing demoralizing- to the young, and would recommend that all present who are interested in the future of their children be careful how they surrender them to such baneful influences. Resolved, That we denounce the Rev. G. D. Olden as an enemy" to the negro, and his presence in this community as detrimental to the best interests of the race. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. Since Jennings has said (And the same ha-s been printed.) Tliat he doesn't wear over Coats, it has been hinted. That in changing his name, Taking alt cuiiigs tojreiuer, He should be called "old Man-Kot-Afraid-of-His Weather." F. B. It costs about $300 a year to belong to the Topeka club. The farmers will shake Topeka to night and tomorrow. People are still predicting a blizzard as a result of the warm weather. Gormley's band gave a concert at the insane asylum Wednesday night This is such nice weather that it is not expected to last more than an hour. Edward Wilder will probably be the new president of the Topeka club. Mr. and Mrs. G F. Shaffer of 506 East Fourth street are the parents of a boy. Dick Cooley will commence training next week. He will take up wrestling. Charley Tunnell and Dennis Dumford have been sent from the county jail to the Hutchinson reformatory. Col. W. P. Tomlinsoa is opposed to the Mystic Brotherhood. He says sscret political organizations never succeed. That Topeka can have contests without betting was proved at the wrestling match last night There was no betting. Before the Unity club this evening Mr. C J. Evans will read a paper on "Recent Progress of Municipal Reform in Europe," The ladies of Grace cathedral gave a tea this afternoon to their friends. Bish op Miilspaugh and Dean Bodley deliv ered addresses. A party of Topeka young men had 'figured on" taking their wives to the wrestling match last night but were afterwards glad that they didn't. The Knights and Ladies of Security are preDaring for au entertainment at Hamil ton' hall, January 14, in honor of the delegates to the national council. Col. C. K. Holliday has been sued for $100 by the Mid-Continent Woolen Mill association for $i0J which he subscribed for the Oakland mill and did not pay. It is said that Johnny Collingsworth is running one of the biggest gambling houses in Kansas City, and that he re cently married a girl with relatives in Emporia who has money to burn wet dogs with. The Painters and Decorators had a very pleasant dance at Trades' Assembly hall last evening. It was preceded by a musical and literary programme of ex cellence and a sapper of the same kind. About forty couples were present J. W. Johnson, of the state live stock sanitary commission, who has returned from Pratt country, Bays the new disease which is killing horses a.od cattle in that section, is not a contagion, but that it is the result oi pasmriug auia uu wu&u uoiwa. A Difference of Opinion. "Aha!" said Mrs. Strongmind, as she and her husband sat in one of the Paris cafes listening to the band. "See there there is a woman playing in that or chestra. She Is gradually getting her rights here In France, anyhow." "Think so?" laughed Mr. Strongmind. "I don't. That woman Is playing second fiddio.' SOME OF. KANSAS ERRORS Pointed Out in a Powerful Manner by Andy Felt IH HIS SPEECH LIST BIGHT A the State Board or Agriculture Meeting John T. Crisp Telia U To peka is the Storm Center of Ibe IjuI tea States. Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. J. Felt of Atchison was present at the meeting of the state board of agriculture last night and made one of his characteristic speeches on "Kansas." He said: "There has been sufficient waste, abso lute, wilful waste of rough feed, fruit, farm machinery, fertilizers, vegetables, etc., iu the eight counties of the First congressional district of Kansas, every five years, duriug the past three decades to have paid every dollar of farm in debtedness in that district. "Poverty resulting from waste, indo lence or vicious habits, is, worse than a misfortune, it is a crime. Prudence is the real prosperity for the farmer as well as the merchant or banker. We have bought too much and saved too littie, Credit has come to us in the garb of a friend and has proven our worst enemy. ''Haste to get rich has made us borrow ers and the borrower has made booms and booms made men wild, and Kansas became a vast insane asylum covering over 8J,000 square miles. Allah be praised; the season of insanity is over. "Common sense has returned, We had our spree, our delusions, our headaches, our heart-breaks, our convalescence. We are badly disfigured, but still on earth. We have learned something. The man who is whipped knows more than the other fellow. We had too much credit and abused it. We borrowed too much money and wasted it. We flaw too high and fell in hard spots. "No outside force plunged us into the depths. We walked in of our own free will and accord. No outsider can force a Kansari to do anything; but when the Kansas man saw fit to become rich in ninety days he did so, and when the boom broke and he found himself at the bottom of the well, he kept his eye on the sunshine dimly visible above him. He will yet climb to the stars but he will find them close to bis own broad acres, and not beyond the skies. We hive had poetry enough to last for a thousand years. VV e have learned that one brood mare will do more to lift the mortgage than all the lofty flights of Pegasus. "We know now that resolutions will not pay debr, and that partisan platforms will not clothe the children. The age of buncombe has passed. We can resolve that we are rich and die paupers. We can make laws that promise to aid the poor, but no statutory enactment can dis charge the duties of good citizenship. Personal honor must be preserved at all hazards. Men can not be made better by legislative enactment The statute that puts money in the purse of the few takes it from the pockets of the many. It ia time to dissolve the partnership be tween the federal treasury and the Shylccks of Europe. It is time to say that the mines of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico need as much paternal care from Uncle Sam as the coal and iron mine.s of Ohio and Pennsylvania or the forests of Michigan and Maine. It is time to declare that the farmer of Kansas has as much right to demand a hearing at Washington as has the man in New England who lives upon the interest paid by Kansas soil. Citizenship makes the state. 'Kansas cannot be poor when in thirty five years it has built live thousand churches at a cost of six million dollars. Kansas is not poor; it pays less than $120,01)0 to support paupers, but it has built in thirty-five years 8.0U0 school houses and owns nine million dollars in public school property. No people can be poverty stricken whose homes have two million volumes in private libraries, and where more magazines and newspapers are read at the farmers' fire sides, than under any other sky. Kansas farmers had in 1895, including grass lands fenced, 21,576,704 acres in cultiva tion. The total production was $73,000, 000 in live stock, showing an average of about nine dollars per acre, including nearly six million acres in prairie grass. Let us pause to count our blessings." In the afternoon Mr. Crisp, of Mis souri, talked on "Fish and other things." In referring to Topeka he said: "This city is the political storm center of the United States. You are liable to do any thing at any time, but the United States would be pleased. They all know that whatever is done in Kansas is the best that could be done. It was here' that John J. Ingalls was defeated for the United States Senate. "I look on Ingalls with just such a feeling as a man gazes upon Pike's Peak, Mount Hood and other great works of nature. "If John J. Ingalls would look np to God and think of his family; cease to prostitute his ability in favor of any pol itical party, what a Moses he would be for the whole people of this country." T. A. Hubbard of Rome read a paper about swine breeding, and W. S, Tough of the Kansas City horse market at the stock yards, gave an interesting talk on horse breeding In which he said he pre ferred good dams to good sires and pre dicted a great advance inbreeding in the next five years. The vice president, J. E. Hoagland, presided in the evening and othor papers were read; "Bee Keeping," by E. T. Ab bott of St. Joseph, ex-president of the North American Bee Keepers' associa tion, and by Dr. Deborah Longshore of Topeka on "Sanitation for the Farm Home." An interesting popular science lecture wi!l be; given at the high school assem sembly room Monday evening, January 13, by Prof. Burt G. Wilder of Cornell university, who has made the study- of the brain of men and animals his life work and who is probably the best au thority in the country upon his subject, "Tke Brains of Men aud Apes; Their Resemblances and Differences." Indi cations point to a large attendance as the topic is not only of interest to all our professional people and students and teachers, but to all who have braius and desire to know why. Admission zo cents. Tickets on sale at high school, public li brary, book stores, eta, etc. A Distant Neighbor. The distance to the nearest of the "fix d" stars, as computed by Astronomer Jail, is 20,000,000.000,000 utiles. TEN UNMATGH ABLE s "V-EVERY ONE A Bargain No. We place on sale tomorrow a number of youths' and men's choice ulsters and over- t coats, not one in the lot but would be cheap at $3. We close Saturday for............ Bargain No. Men's black, blue, gray and tan Ulsters and Overcoats in Chinchilla, Beaver, Kersey and Cassimere, actually sold this season for $10 and $12 50. We close Saturday for............ 2 Bargain No. Men's very fine stylish Dress Overcoats in Kersey and Melton long cut,with wide velvet collar, full clay-worsted lining, good $15 values. We close Saturday for 3 Bargain No. Men's tine Dress Overcoats and Ulsters, grand good garments,every one worth doable the price we now ask for them. We close Saturday for Bargain No. Men's line gennine imported Irish Frieze ana uoiccama uisxers ana overcoats, no finer or better garment in this town at any price. We close Saturday for 5 Bargain No. Men's all wool Pants, strong, serviceable, 6 neat and desirable. We close Saturday Bargain No. Men's fine stiff Hats very latest black colors, black r4 and brown, all full silk trimmed, fine satin lined, no L. J a y matter what they sold for. 1 i 1 1 We close them Saturday for Jr J J Bargain No. Men's fast black regular Men's extra wool 35c Hose Men's 50c work Gloves Bargain No. Men's and boys' 35c Caps lOo 9 Men's ani boys' 50c Caps 25 O Men's and boys' 75c Caps 39 3 Men's and boys' $1 Caps 50a Bargain No. Boys' 50c, 75c and $1 Undershirts, all go at..." 23o f. Men's 75c or $1 Underwear, remnants 39.3 j All winter Underwear at greatly reduced prices. .1 II I -TIII.H 3 flStlgf-t---'- '-I- r iiiniiiii-i nut nr 1" i 709 KANSAS AVE FEBRUARY 4 FIXED As tha Data For tha Meeting of the State Central Committee. February 4 was the date agreed upon at 12 o'clock last night for the meeting of the Republican state central committee to issue a call for the state convention to nominate delegates to the national con vention. The following is the call for the meet ing of the committee which is to assem ble for the first time since it was organ ized: Topbka, Jan. 9, 1896. The Republican state central commit tee is requested to meet at the parlors of the Copeland hotel, Topeka, Kansas, on Tuesday, February 4, 1896, at 7 o'clock p. m.. for the purpose of calling a state Convention to elect six delegates and six alternates to the national Republican con vention and to nominate three candidates for presidential electors and transact any other business that may be deemed proper. Cyrus Lslasd, Chairman. J. L. Bbbtow, Secretary. NEW DEPOT AT UALVESTON Gnlf, Colorado and Santa Fe Will Build One to Coat 8175,000. Gaive3TON, Jan. 10. The Gulf. Colo rado banta Fe railroad management have completed all arrangements for the erection of a new $175,000 depot in this city. The depot will-occupy two blocks, fronting on btrand and running from Twenty-fifth to Twenty-sixth streets; will be three stories high, and built and furnished with all the modern conven iences. There will be room for six paral lel tracks under the shed, aud all the Other roads running into Galveston will use the depot. REAL ESTATE CHANGES. John R. and Joab Mulvane have deed ed a oortion of their ranch near Ross ville to Mrs. Nora Ross. The price is eiven as $5,000. Alice E. and B. D. Mileham have sold to Thomas W. Andrews for $1,662 a tract of land on Cross creek. Numbers 514 and 516 West Eighth street have been sold to M. E. Bterne of Topeka for $2,000 by Wm Sterne of San Diego, Cal. Fifty-four lots on Polk and Tyler streets in Armstrong's addition have been sold for $3,000 by Albert C Merntt to J. Merritt of Cass county, Mich. Christian Chnreh Revival. Mr. Boyle discoursed on the words from Paul, "I beseach you. brethren, that yon Dresent your bodies a living sacri fice.""to which he had marked attention by a large audience. The song service, with a solo by Mr. Dawdr, are very inter esting features of these nightly meetings now being held. Better Late Than Never. Parent (at the breakfast table) "Willie, where Is -the morning paper?" Willie "I let Freddie Jenkins take it. He said that he would fetch it back to-morrow." Exchange. Speed of a Cannon Ball. A cannon ball fired from one of the great Krupp or Armstrong guns travels at the speed of 2,887 feet per second. ...BARGAINS. MONEY SAVER.- Men's very fine stylish, dressy $2-80 trousers, fit for the best dressers. We close Sat. for 20o Hose So 19o 19o AUERBACH GUETTEL. NORTH TOPEKA. Items of Interest From the North. Side of the River. Judge G. W. Carey is confined to hia home on Kansas avenue with sickness. Several Menoken residents, amon? them William Fry, spent today in town. Mrs. Delia Ohmor of Council Bluffi. Ia., is the guest of Miss Emma Oglesby on Tyler street. Miss Virginia Hunt of St. Marys has returned to her home after visiting this wee it wua bus. duuil A prominent grocer's clerk has not vat recovered from Christmas. He received a great shock on that day. Misses Mary and Kate Watkins went- to Kansas City this afternoon to remain over Sunday visiting friends. Miss A. G. Fallis has arrived from Geneseo, Rice county, to make her home with her sister, Mrs. A. W. Brewster. John C Madoulot, who has been snend- ing the holidays with friends, has re. turned to his home at Raton, New Mex ICO. John Hale is now travel in sr for the Wyeth Hardware company of St. Jospeh. uis territory is in JNew Mexico and Ari zona. J. H. Heller, 1002 N. Kansas avenue. grocery and meat market. Good treat, ment and fine meats and groceries; you can do better here than elsewhere. The Magnet Restaurant and Short Or der house, A. J. Prudfit, 850 N. Kansas ave. Wholesale fruits and confectionery. Geo. J. Graves Sons, 115 and 117 West Laurent street, North Topeka, for buggy tops, cushions, wagons, and bug gies built to order. Bell 'phone 333. Items and advertisements for the Journal should be left at the drug stora of A. J. Kane Co., 826 Kansas avenue. Next Wednesday afternoon the Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. J. U. Todd on Jackson street. The shortest move of household goods on record was that of John Kohl and family yesterday from 1124 Kansas ave nue to the next door, 1120. After being in Christ hospital for some time Mrs. L. C. Betts has been able to leave it and is now at the home of Mrs. T. N. Davis, 804 Topeka avenue. Notice of Dissolution. All persons will take notice that the firm of Nystrom Bros., composed of Jno. Ny strom and Eric Nystrom, Is dissolved, Eric Nystrom withdrawing. The busi ness will be continued by Jno. Nystrom at 816 Kansas avenue. All accounts of the old firm are in the hands of Joo. Nystrom for collection. All persons in debted are requested to call at once and settle, as the accounts must be settled at once. Tonng Girl Killed. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 10. Eoss Shepherd, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Shepherd, of Seventh street and New Jersey ave nue, was run over and instantly killed by an electric car on the "L" road, yesterday afternool The car passed over the body and left it in a fright fully mangled condition. Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless Steam Laundry. 1 $3.95 $5.75 1 $9,501 (a $12- t

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6 STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1896. THE v EIills4dams s REMEMBER When Out Shopping TOMORROW Our SALE. Our Clearance SALE. Our Underwear SALE. (All Winter Underwear Marked Down.) Our Semi-Annual SALE Of remnants and odd" lots. Our Cloak SALE Began last Thursday. SALE Continues Saturday. A SALE For the economically in clined to profit by. SALE Continues next week. (D LAST CALL ON Toy Baskets And I Clothes Hampers. We offer these useful and beautiful goods for the next few days at 1 4 0b b i The Mills-Adams Co. f oooodooo soaooooo !03B0 I WIGGI HARDING k 625627 Kansas Ave. E3 O E3 o o o -FOR. S$S 71 M -ii. s, 1 X. T H M Gloves Our best Pique street Gloves C which O means the very best in the E3 For Tomorrow $1.50 r-i Our fine' Pique Street q for $1.5 pair. j-iaaies i-iinea ivia jioves, iur top, were O pair For Tomorrow $1.38 pair. Children's Kid Mittens, fur toD. were 50c Dair i-m O v Tn m- O O Handkerchiefs Ladies' Embroidered and q Lace Edge Handkerchiefs; Ladies' Embroidered China Silk Handkerchiefs; Gents' fine Initial q q Handkerchiefs, were 15c and 18c each For To-g q morrow all lOc each. g Ladies' fine Embroidered Handkerchiefs, were 3 25c and 35c each For Tomorrow 19c each. El E3 f Ladies' very fine Hand-Embroidered Hand-j O kerchiefs, were 50c each For Tomorrow 39c O each. 13 O O O Hosiery-Ladies' fine quality, ribbed and O plain Cashmere Hose, were 25c pair, for 19c pair;gg O 35c quality for 25c pair; 50c quality for 39c pr. Ladies' Combination Suits, were 50c each H For Tomorrow 39c each. O o O Gent's Fine Ribbed Underwear, were $1 and a $1.25 each, for 75c each. Ijg p Ladies' Coats and Capes and Dress Goods atj q special inventory sale prices. OODOOOOOQO GOOO OOOOOOOOOOOP ESTATE JOURNAL 10c a Week. IN THE SOCIETY WORLD. Marriage of Mr. Henry Guettel and fliss Martha Auerbach IN CHICAGO AT THE AUDITORIUM. General Xotes or Society and Per sonal Items or Interest Abo tit To pelt a People and Visitors In Town. fl'ersons sendins social Items to this depart ment will please give tlieir name and address In order to secure publication. J The Chicago Times-Herald gives an account of the marriage of Miss Martha Auerbach and Mr. Henry Guettel. Miss Auerbach is the sister of Mr. Henry Auerbach of the Palace Clothing com pany of this city, and Mr. Guettel is himself a partner in the same firm, though at present looking after Kansas City business interests. The Times Herald of January 8 says of the nuptials: Kansas City, Mo., and TorJeka, Kan., seventy-five miles apart, were brought to gether in the parlors of the Auditorium hotel n a marriage ceremony, at 6:31) last evening, which united Henry Guettel and Miss Martha Auerbach The groom is a business man, of Kansas City, and the bride, whose home was at Topeka, is a niece of A. M. Rothschild, of this city. Dr. Joseph Stolz, of Isaiah Temple, officiated. The bride was gowned in an imported cre ation of duchesse satin, trimmed with rare lace, and the long veil was the same her mother had worn when a bride. She was attended by Misses Mamie and Amy Rothschild, as bridesmaids. The groom's best man was Henry Auerbach, a broth er of the bride. Henry Simons, 31. L, Rothschild and Jame3 E. Well were ush ers and M. S. Rosenwald was master of ceremonies. The ceremony took place under a flora! bell, and the parlors were beautifully decorated with palms and odorous flowers. After the marriage the wedding party of 100 or more repaired to the banquet hall, where they dined. Among those at the wedding were: Messrs. and Mesdames A. M. Roths child. Nelson Morris. H. M. Vaughn, L. N. Ilermon, C. Radelsheimer, Andrew Work,' 'J. Auerbach, M. Morgenthau, L. Lippman, David Maver, S. B. Auerbach, of Milwaukee, J. S. Auerbach, D. S. Simon, Des Moines; N. Guettel, Harry Guettel. Misses A. Rotbscbild, M. Rothschild, I. Rothschild, Rosa Guettel, H. Auerbach, Daisy Levy, Jennie Meyer, T. Rothschild, Carrie Simon. Meears. M. L. Rothschild, Ed Roths child, E. Rothschild. M. Rothschild, Monroe Rothschild, Melville Rothschild. Harry Simon, Phil Goodhart, Charles Sachs, J. Rothschild. The groom a gift to the bride was a magnificent diamond pendant. iuc vouug ujuuit;, hiber a onet Honey moon in the east, will make their home in Kansas Lit v. Mrs. M. W. Tan Vaulkaiibarg Entertains. The unusual beauty of the afternoon. with its soft sunshine more like that of Indian summer than mid-winter, invited society people out yesterday, and seventy of the eichty ladies invited by Mrs. M. VV V an Valkenburg to spend an after noon at thimbles, responded. They felt well repaid for coming to enjoy an af ternoon in the rjrettiiv decorated rooms. In the parlor a remarkably pretty effect WK Si&& A W la M. In. T j w f) city), were $2.00 pair E3 pair. Gloves, were $1.50 Pair, E3 $1.63 and n n I 1 8 m uUi o O S J o 9 Vm o O 63 was produced by a long pendant spray of asparagus plunnosus, whioh was re flected in the tall mirror before, which it hung. A vase of red carnations also sat in front of the mirror and other plants and flowers were scattered about the room. The next room was effectually hung everywhere with mistletoe, its clear berries gleaming amid the green leaves. Palms were also used and two tall vases of odorous narcissus perfumed the air. The third room had palms, white and hyacinths, with a few red carnations to give the needed bit of color. The ladies were introduced' to Mrs. C. W. Fort of Kansas City, for whom the entertainment was given. Mrs. P. H. Adams and Miss Bessie Gibson, entertained the company with music. Mrs. Van Valkenburg will entertain at six o'clock tea this evening, and fifteen tables at cards afterwards. General Social Xotes. Mrs. M. C. Hammatt entertained sixty young people at a seven o'clock tea last evening for her son, Mr. Theodore Ham matt, who is one of the young men en tertaining at a series of teas. Mr. Wal ter Noble will be the next host. Mrs. Richard Gundry entertained a few friends informally at luncheon today complimentary to Mrs. C. W. Fort of Kansas City. Mrs. Walter Horner has issued invita tions for next Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at cards. Miss Margaret Dudley will entertain at cards next Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. C W. Fort of Kansas City is the guest of Mrs. Ellis Thompson on West Sixth street. Mr. and Mrs. D. Atwood will leave tomorrow for Kew Orleans, to be absent two weeks. Mrs. Atwood, who has not been well for sometime hopes to be benefited by the trip. Miss. May Horton has the chorus for the "Mikado" in charge. The Occidental club which is now studying Bulwer met with Mrs. J. K, Hudson at the Copeland Tuesday after noon. The club will study Mrs. Brown ing next. On Tuesday the club will meet again with Mrs. Hudson. Miss. Nina Thomas will play Katisha in the Inglesido "Mikado." Miss. lulu Boone of St Joe is visiting Mrs. L. Deppe in North Topeka, Miss Ssaton'i Idea. Miss Nellie Saaton, daughter of Capt. John Seaton, suggested a leap year par ty in Atchison, and her father offered his pretty theater lighted and heated for the use of the ladies. The Atchison Globe speaks thus of the result:Beauty and splendor held sway at the new Atchison theater last evening, which, for the first time in its history was utilized for dancing. The occasion was one of especial importance in Atchi son society circles, the much talk ed of leap year party, which brought together all the small circles in to one large assemblage of handsomely dressed and attractive young people. By themselves they would have made a pic ture, but the beautiful surroundings which the interior of the theater afford ed, added to it so much that the invited guests, who were spectators, applauded the scene as the dancers moved grace fully to and fro in the first lanciers. The staire manager had taken a hand, and as the action of the lanciers changed, he threw yellow, red and purple lights upon the. dancers. lhe etLect was so novel that the monotonous sameness of the or-, dinary'' daucing party was entirely lo3t sight of. Pcrsonftl and Social Items. Mrs. Margaret Johnsou has issued in vitations to the marriage of her daugh ter, Mrs. Clara Johnson Wicffin to Mr. Louis Wood Willitts, the ceremony to take place at her home, 906 Quincy street, at noon, next Tuesday, January 14. Mrs. and Mrs. Willits will be at home after February 1, at Q'i South Ox ford street, Brooklyn. Dr. J. E. Alinney visited Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Minney at Paxico, Kansas, yes terday. Miss Kitty Jordan, of Chicago, is visit ing her brother, E. P. Jordan, at 1215 Polk street. Misses Nellie Clough and Frances Moon, Messrs. John Waters and Walter Cuit were at the guest table on Monday evening when Miss Wort entertained her whist club. Mr. Rankin Mason spent the day in Lawrence Tuesday. Mr. U. A. Sibiey attended the Iroquois club party at Lawrence Monday nigut. Mrs. Delia Moreland and daughter, Miss Kathleen, who have been visiting Mrs. A. A. HurJ, Mrs. Moreland's sis ter, will leave Sunday, Miss Kathleen re turning to All Hallow academy at Wich ita. Mr. Charles Lautry is at Hot Springs, Arkansaa Mrs, Lantry is wintering in Texas. Paul B. Palmer has returned to Ken yon Military academy. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Holicraft have re turned from the south. They visited Atlanta, Florida, and Texas. The Sans Pareil club will give its fourth party of the season at Library hall on St. Valentine's day. Miss Alice Hood came up from Em poria to attend Mrs. Abram Hammett's tea last evening. BRISTLE AT THE PORTE. XVm llijr Set a Heftvy foot la Europe De spite Monro. Doolrine. Chicago. January 10. A special from Washington to the Times-Herald says: Unless the Turkish porte makes prompt reparation for the burning of the Amer ican miisioa building at Harpoot, the indemnity of $4J0,G(K) demanded by this government will be collected by force, o This statement was made by ahigh of ficial of the government. He' accom panied it with the priviso that it is be lieved the porte will make the demanded reparation when it perceives that the United States is not to be trifled with. GOOD NEWS FOR HAYS CITY Th Committee K. ports Favorably on GrantiDr th. Baiorvation. From the State Journal's Special Correspondent Washisgton, Jan. 10. Representa tives Curtis and Baker appeared before the public lands committee today in the interest of the Fort Hays reservation bill and the committee instructed a fav orable report, giving the reservation to Kansas for western branches of the state agricultural and normal schools, j Deatb of 9100,000 Horse. Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 10. Pilot Medium, the celebrated stallion owned by Walter Clark of this city, and valned at $100,000 died suddenly today of in fUmmation of the bowels. AKRESTS MADE. Leading Citizens or Johannesburg Tulea Into Custody lor Treason. Johannesburg, Jan. 10. Twenty-two members of the reform committee in cluding Colonel Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, Sir Drummond Dunbar Mr. Lionel Phillips and Dr" Sausr were arrested at their club last evening on the charge of high treason and convey ed under escort to Pretoria, Perfect quiet prevails here. The pop ulace Is indifferent and the Uitlanders are disarming. II a. Koujfht Delueoa Bay.'" j London, Jan. 10. The most import ant developments in the South African situation today is the fact that in spite of all denials it is now believed in many quarters that there is some truth in the rumors that Great Britain has purchased Delagoa Bay from Portugal. If this be the case an entirely new com plexion will be thrown upon the political situation and it may turn out to ba the excuse of the assembling of such a pow-i erful British fleet as the one which will be anchored off Portland on Tuesday next. In the Transvaal itself the Uitlanders numbering about 30,000 more or less well armed men, have been given Until 6 o'clock this evening in which to disarm, and all those who I do so except the leaders of I the recent disturbance will be pardoned. As the Uitlanders are sur rounded by about 20,000 well armed Boers, it may be presumed that the sur render will take place before the hour specified. President Krueger, it was announced today, has sent the following telegram in reply to Sir Hercules Robinson, the governor of Cape Colony, for transmis sion to Mr. Chamberlain. After acknowl edging the receipt of the queen's message President Krueger says: "It is my in tention to hand over the prisoners so that Dr. Jameson and the British under him may be punished by her majesty's gov. ernment. I will make known to your excellency my final decision in the mat ter as soon as Johannesburg shall have reverted to a condition of quietness and order. "In the meantime I request yonr ex cellency to assure the queen of my high appreciation of her words and in proffer ing my respectful good wishes to express my thanks for the same." Big; Ships at Portsmouth. Portsmouth, Jan. 10. It is reported here that a second special squadron of war ships, consisting of fast cruisers, has been toid off and will be held in readi ness for commission at a moment's no tice. BY RAIL TO ASIA. A Line Projected Through Alaska to lieurinz Straits. Seattle, Wd, Jan. 10. Dr. W. L. Henock. chief engineer of the lrkutsch and Vladivostock division of Russia's great railroad, says that feeders wiil be built from the main line on an under standing with the Persian government, to Herat, another into Afghanistan, over the Thibet mountains, a third into Beloo chistan and Afghanistan and Persia. Th 3 will bring the Russian road into the center of the Asiatic powers and right at the door of India, "You will be interested to know," said the doctor, "that the Russian gov ernment is building, several merchant men to ply between Vladivostock and some port in Alaska. We are now build ing three of them at Vladivostock and three more are to be built at Cronstadt. They will be finished within a year or so. "United State3 capitalists will build a line north to Sitka, cross the Behring sea islands as far as practicable.and from that point make connection with the ships Russia is. building, making the journey from Alaska to Vladivostock in 24 hours." MINNIE A DUCHESS. slinnle Palmer Eafirncil to he Married to Dulce D'Cttrella of Xavarre. Baltimore, Jan. 10. Miss Minnie Palmer, who is playing an engagement at the Lyceum here, announced last night that she will be married on May 15, in London, to the Duke D'Estrella, of Navarre, whom she met at Trouville last summer. After the wedding she intends to re tire from the stage. IRRIGATION SESSION. The State Board nf Agriculture Talks of Irrigation This Morning-. Two To'peka people talked at the state board of agriculture meeting this morn ins, H. V. Hinckley on "The Underflow us Related to Irrigation Development," and E. B. Cowgiil on "Pumping Equip ment for Irrigation." C. D. Perry of Eagle wood read a paper on "How We Irrigate with Water;" Secretary W. B. Sutton of the state board of irrigation told about the work ot the board for the past year. The election of officers will take place this afternoon. MIOWERA IS SAFE. Tbe Snpposed to Be Lost Ship Hear llonnl ill n and all Well. Seattle, Wn, Jan. 10. A special dis patch received from Vancouver to-day states that the Warrimoo from Hawaii arrived at 4 a. m. and reports as safe the Miowera, the steamship which was sup posed to be swamped while endeavoring to save the Strathnevis. The Warrimoo spoke the Miowera January 2, about 100 miles south of Hon olulu, bound for Australia and all was well. To Return the Bnrclcn Jewels. New York, Jan. 10. The Press this morning says: I. Townsend Burden, whose home was robbed on December 7 of diamonds worth about fifty thousand dollars, has received a letter from the thieves, in which they offer to return the gems intact, providing Mr. Burden sticks to his promise of immunity from arrest and gives them f 5,000 reward. 'Venezuelan Commission. Washington, Jan. 10. The Venezue lan boundary commission will meet in the diplomat room of the state department at 10 o'tlock tomorrow for the purpose of perfecting its organization. Among those mentioned as secretary are Mr. William M. Curtis, former ly director of the bureau of American republics and Mr. Partridge of Vermont formerly solicitor of the state department and minister to Venezuela under Presi dent Harrison. TODAY'S JKARKET REPORT. Furalsaed by the Associated Press to tl State JooraaL Chicago, Jan. 10. Wheat opened de cidedly lower today, lhe pacific nature or foreign news, big northwestern re ceipts and indifferent cables, all contri buted toward making a bearish market. May opened c lowdr at 59, went to oyg and reacted to dU4. Corn was lower with wheat, opening i tf j quuisLiuua snowing ;8o uecune. si ay started at 29c, went to 285 and reacted to 28. Oata were easier with other grain. May opened Jgc lower at 19 and reacted to iy2'?5 Provisions were lower, on large hog receipts and in sympathy with the grain markets. Pork opened 17Jc lower at $9.75 9.80. Lard 10c off at 5.75 and ribs 10c off at $485. Hogs Receipts. 40.000: left over. 6,000. Market moderately active, and 5c lower than vesterday. Light, $3.60 3.8714; mixed 3.60&97; heavy $3.55 3.87; rough $3.5d3.t5. Official re ceipts yesterday, 39,616; official ship ments, 713. Cattle Receipts 6,500. Market quiet but steady. Beeves $3.30 g 5. 00; cows and heifers $4.004.50; Texas steers $2.904.15; stockers and feeders $2.70Q3.90. Official receipts yesterday 4,913; shipments 2,413. dheep Receipts 15,000. Market, weak to 10c lower. Official receipts yester day 15,854; shipments 1,015. Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow 23,000 head. Kansas City Markets. Kansas Cit?, Jan. 18. Cattle Re ceipts 6,200; shipments, 1,800. Market steady to strong. Texas steers $2.75 (3.50; Texas cowa $2.002,60; beef steeis $3.004.40; native cows $1.758 3.35; stockers and feeders, $2.80$3.75; bulls $2.00340. Representative sales Texas steers 27 head, averaging 1,120 pounds, $3 50; Tex as cows, 24 head, 963 pounds, $2.60; beef steers, 18 head, 1,569 pounds, $4 40; na- tive cows, 12 head, 1,042 pounds. $2 35: stockers and feeders 15 head, 1152 pound?, $3.70; bulls, 3 head, 1,792 pounds, $3.40. HoaS: Receipts, 10,600; shipments, 400. Market weak, 5c lower. Bulk of sales $3.253.55; heavies $a40a60; pack ers $3.503.60; mixed $3 35a60; light3 $3.303.50; yorkers, $3.453.50; pigs, $3.45. Sheep Receipts, 2,600; shipments, none. Market strong. Lambs $4.004.50; muttons,$2.003.50. Wheat About Jc lower; No. 2 hard 57; No. 2 red, 69c; No. 2 spring 56 5Bjc; No. 3 spring 64c; reject ed, nominally 4350c. Corn Lower,dull;Na 2 mixed 22fs' c; No. 2 white 22c. Oats Unchanged; No. 2 mixed 17c; No. 2 white, nominally 1818c Rte Duil; No. 2, 30a Hay Weak; timothy, $10.00012.50, prairie, $6.007.00. Butter Steady and firm; creamery, 18J21c; dairy fancy. 1314. Eggs Weak, lower; fresh 17c. CHICAGO HABSEI LETTER, Furnished by Topeka Orain and Stock Bi changre. 526 Kansas Avenue. Chicago, Jan. 10. There was an ab sence of war news this morning and holders made a rush to liquidate assisted by Brosseau selling short. Cables came lower, consols higher, and a lack of outside support. The announcement of additional gold engagements for tomor row and heavier Northwest receipts than expected was also rather dis couraging to holders. On the other hand commission houses were good buyers, late cables strong with Berlin wheat one mark higher than opening, bad crop news from Argentina, and good clearances from the seaboard was rather encouraging. Chicago re ported 11,000 bushels wheat taken for shipment this morning and exporters had good buying orders' from the conti nent. Several attempts were made to break the matter still further, but offer ings were quickly absorbed and the clos ing was steady at the decline. Corn and oats experienced a slight de cline in sympathy with wheat on lower cablea Commission houses moderate buyers of May corn and the market was quiet but firm and fluctuations within a narrow range. Oats quiet. Provisions. Pork opened lower on large hog receipts and slightly lower prices at the yards. The market held firm and closing prices show a slight gain over the opening. Cudahy was a good buyer of May pork. open. JUgii Low. Cloie Y's CIS Wheat- 57 57 57 57 57 May 59 59J 59 59 60 July 60)4 60 6J 604 60J Corn 263 26 26J4" 26 26 May 29 9 28 28 ?6 9 July 29 29 29 29 29 Sept. 31 31 30 30 30 Oats 17J 17 17 17 1714- May 19 19 194 19 19 Pork 9.57 9.5o 9.5u 9 50 9.60 Mat- 9.75 9.82 9.75 9.82 9.95 Lard 5.45 5.47 5.45 5 47 5.55 May 5.77 5.82 5.75 5.77 5.85 Rib 4.6'i 4 60 4.6C 4.60 4 65 May 4.85 490 4.8j 485 4.93 hicao Market (ioaslp. Chicago Primary receipts and ship ments, wheat 20,800-55.157; corn 252.43J 127,755; oats 174,550-163.227. Liverpool 3:15 p. m. Wheat un changed, corn June lower, balance unchanged. Chicago Reported 11,000 wheat al ready taken here for shipment east this a. m. Chicago Primarv receipts and ship ments wheat 556,763-118,412; corn 570,-376-229,549. New York Consols closed 106)4. New York Half million more gold taken. A private cable reports ship ments from River Platte are likely to be small this reason, very wet weather. Total goid engaged for tomorrow 1 million. Chicago Estimated cars tomorrow: Wheat 53; corn 510; oats 180. Chicago Estimated that Minneapolis and Duluth will show increase of 275,000 and that visible will decrease mill ion. Chicago Market very dull scalpers getting frequently whipsawed on slight fluctuations. Market now at opening price. Higher consold offset the wheat engagements. Closing- on Popular Stocks. The closing today was as follows: Sugar. 103: Uas, 6634; C.. a Q., 74J; Atchison, 14; R t, 65J; W. U., 844; Ma P., 2414-; U. P., 3. St. Paul 67. Everybody takea the journal. fire You VMi FOR a chance to replace those old worn out Shoes. If so, here is your opportunity. We pro pose to inaugurate a sale that shall reduce our im mense stock of Boots and Shoes, and the first of the year appears to us to be an excellent time to begin. Uur reputation for nrst class goods and low prices is established as our. holiday trade attested. We shall keep this lively business right up if you will take advantage of the offers we make. Notice a few specimens. Can You Hatch Them? 100 pairs of Men's Fine Dmss Shoes: latest style, pointed toe. tip, lace; good value at J5 per pair. For this sale we hare marked them at .the low fi T pr v Price of t5sOU Men's Fine Enamel Calf rb(a e shoe, regular $4...; .v.. 100 pairs Men's Shoe. Congress and Eals broad and narrow toe, tip and r e plain; regular vaJuB $1.75. Spec. fOC Men's cork sole. Yale toe. f f" a good fitters. Keg. price $4.. cpt We Guarantee Satisfactory wear in all our Goods. BOSTON SHOE CO., Good Goods for the Money. RESH MEATS GROCERIES HSFOR 1896 6 lbs Lima Beans 25c .7 lbs Native Lima Beans 25c 9 lbs Navy Beans. 25c 1 lb .Rice 5c 15 lbs Cracked Hominy 25c 12 lbs Oat Flake 25c 1 pkg Oat Flake 5c 1 can Peas, corn or Pumpkin 5c 4 lbs Cal. Evap. Peaches.... 25c 1 lb Good Raisins 5c 1 lb Bakicg Powder 10c 1 lb Lard Compound good, 5c 1 lb Lard Compound poor, 3c Dry Salt Pork, per lb 5o Breakfast Bacon, per lb 9c Good Mince Meat, per lb.... 5c Home-made Mince Meat, extra per lb 10c 2 sacks Cora Meal.... loc All High Pat. Flour, per sack 90c Shawnee Fancy, Hackney pat and similar grades, a sack. 81c Pop Corn, per lb 2c 1 25-oz can K. C. Bak, Powder. 15c Only Grocor.T and Meat market on south side of Ot la hiwen the Avenue and -iuiiicy. T CLAIRETTE SOAP. S 6 SAY BOSS! Them People i eC. 1 1 tnr if f4 ill VW4sriWJ ajal v 1 tr t 1 GROCERIES i II. K.BROOKS. (Established 1878.) 6. W. BROOKS. W Capital iron worKs: (Two blceks south of Santa Pe depot on Seventh Builders' Iron work of all descriptions. Machinists, Iron and Brass Founders. Engines and machinery repairedPattern wsrk and difficult repairs a specialty. Shafting, pulleys, hancers and brass fittings of all descriptions In stock. Steam, gas or electric powers furnished. MUlwrighting and gas engine repairs a spe cialty. "w'V'ti,' 'tV'Vtfc- '-'Qva. E. 0. DE MOSS. ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, We buy our goods from tns best factories on eana. UNDERTAKERS. Our prices are 25 per, cant lower than any combine or anti-combine. Harrisea 'Phone 77. 'Phone 108. DE MOSS PENWELL TOPEKA WEATHER. What It Was For the Month of De- cember. Weather Observer Jennings has com pleted his report of the weather of To peka for the month of December, and al?o his annual report for 1895. The report for Decembrr shows that tbe total rainfall was 1 77 inches, and the total snowfall 3.7 inches. The mean 75 pairs Ladies' Fine Dress Shoes, button, pointed toe. tip and neat fitting r PL shoe, and worth $1.75 per pair.. oOC Our Ladies' Columbia Fina O f Shoe latest out. Kegular $5. sJVivFvr Fine line of Ladies' Needle Toe in lace or button, cloth, leather top, tf S Qfl regular price 5.. p At CP 3 Largest Assortment of Children's Shoes in cue city, irom 7JC up. Ladies' Felt Shoes and Slippers, real value $1. 00. Per pair 50o 011 manias Avenue. a 1 lb can Manhattan Bak Powd 15c 1 lb can Columbus Bak. Powd, 1 Oc lb can Columbus Bak. Powd 5c Evaporated (Hetland) Cream, 20c can 10c 1 lb pkg Silver Shield pow dered Starch, good 6c 2 pkgs9 o'clock Washing Tea 5c Good Teas from 25c per lb up. A good roasted Rio Coffee, best in the city at the price, per lb... 20c 1 lb best Rio 25c Call in and see our line of high grade coffee. 1 lb Young Hyson Tea 25o 1 lb Sun Cured Jap 25c 1 lb Gun Powder. 20c And good Teas for 25c up. 1 gal pure N. O. Molasses.... 50c We call special attention to our line of Syrups and our country Sorghums as cheap as anyone can sell the same quality of goods. R. I. JONES. Won't Take This oap They Want m o 4 s t t

m m Q 9 Everybody wants Clairette Soap who knows the good ness of it. Try it once and you will refuse all other kinds, too. Sold everywhere. Made only by ;Ti:E K. K. FAIRBAN9C COMPANY, ST. LOl IS. t.) L. II. P2n7ELL. QUINCY temperaiuro for the month was 33 de grees above. The maximum J"0?" ture was 60 degrees above oa the lfllh inst., and the mmimum temperature 0.4 degrees above on the 2d inst. Tbe pre vailine direction of the wind was north. The temperature for the month was 1 degree below normal, and the rainfall .76 degrees above normal.' The total rainfall for 1895 was 30.23 Inches, and the mean temperature 54,3 depress. LAIKeIIe 1 STREET. S tl. n ii I n

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