The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 31, 1896

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j if TWO CENTS. FRIDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 31, 1896. FRIDAY EVENING, Xow Depends Whether Topeka Has a Bridge. The Attorney General lias an Opportunity TO EARN FOR 1II3ISELE The Everlasting Gratitude of Topeka People, As Well as .to Make a Good In vestment. If the Shawnee county bridge bonds are not sold tomorrow there will be no bridge built this year. The levy must be made before Monday or no provis ions can be made to take care of the in terest and consequently the sale would have to be deferred until next year. The commissioners hope that a deal can be made for the bonds with the t.ate school fund commissioners and have received assurances that the bonds would be taken. Attorney Gen eral Dawes asked for time to examine the bonds and he was furnished with data which will enable him to make all the investigation required. It has been reported that General Dawes did not wish to take the bonds but those who know say that the at torney general has shown no disposi tion to turn them down since the su preme court has decided that they are legal. The commissioners would rather see the bands go to the state than any place else. The money would be kept at home in that way and the bonds could be paid off at any time. Much more than the So. 000 premium offered would be saved by paying off the bonds before maturity. Contractor Keepers is waiting to see whether the bonds will be sold tomor row. In case the deal is closed he will superintend the preliminary surveys at once and make arrangements to have the old bridge moved. From the min ute the bonds are sold Mr. Keepers will do all he can to push the work of con struction. The bridge cannot be com pleted before cold weather, but he promises to complete it as soon as pos sible. KANSAS GOLD DEMOCRATS. Five of Them Meet in Topeka to Form a Party. The "'Sound Money" Democratic par ty of Kansas, five in number, arrived In Topeka today to consult with their manager in chief, Sam Kimble of Man hattan. Mr. Kimble says that there was no call issued for a conference. He was simply requested by the "Sound Money" national committee, which met in Chi cago to name a provisional national committeeman, to meet with the na tional committee at Indianapolis on August 7. He wrote to several "sound money" Democrats that he would be in Topeka today and hence the meeting. Those present are Sam Kimble and J. Q. Sheldon of Manhattan, Sam Maher of Kansas City, Eugene Hagan and C. J. Lantry of Topeka. The conference will consult about what steps it will be best to take with reference to a na tional ticket. Mr. Kimble says he has received letters from several gold standard Democrats who do not think It wise to have a separate ticket. They say that they desire to vote for McKin ley and will vote for him anyhow. Mr. Kimble himself wants to keep up an organization to perpetuate the Demo cratic party after "the wave has rolled over," as he expresses it. It is probable that there will be a gold standard Democratic organization in Kansas. They will not try to head off fusion for all admit that is a fore gone conclusion, but they will make an effort to keep as many Democrats as possible from voting for Bryan. The conference this afternoon is not to discuss the question of a separate state ticket. Mr. Kimble says that is of secondary importance, but it is likely If they receive the support they hope to, that there will be a "sound money" Democratic ticket in Kansas contain ing a full quota of candidates. ABOVE 100. The Hot Spell Continues, With Promise of "Cooler." St noon today the thermometer reg istered 102 degrees, at 1 o'clock 101 de grees .and at 2 o'clock 100 degrees. The wind is blowing but seven miles an hour and the day Is a first-class scorch er. Fair weather today and tomorrow with cooler weather tonight is the pre diction sent out today by the weather bureau. If the bureau will kindly see that a good breeze blows tonight in ad dition to the reduced temperature, it will be appreciated. The weather is reported generally clear and hot throughout the state to day. The temperature ranges from 93 to 104. The weather in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas is today reported similar to the weather in Kansas. K. C, KAN., COMPLAINS Bays the Santa Fe Is Making "Unjust Hates There. The mayor and city council of Kan- Kan" have filed a Petition with the state board of railroad com missioners against the A T S F rirr,aAall?finS a discrimination" in KaannsarsatC?t,byKanhe raUrad &SinSt thelrSaifladaU"& grai" Islt trar.sportation of grain f om Kansas points to Kansas City than it does fro thesame points to St. Louis and ChU The petition further states that inlS94 the state board of railroad commission ers investigated this question and made an order in regard to rates and that r0araah;dorTardinS 43 KILLED, 43 INJl RElJ. I That is the Result of Last Night s Wreck at Atlantic City Atlantic City, N. J.. July 31. The list of killed in last night's railroad acci dent foots up to forty-three and 43 in jured. Following is revised list of the dead: Charles Muta. Bridgeton. John Griver. Bridgeton. Charles Eckler, Salem. Charles P. McGear, Bridgeton. Mr. and Mrs. Trenchard, Bridgeton. S. P. Murphy, Milleville. Joseph Peters, Bridgeton. J. D. Johnson, Bridgeton. Charles D. Burroughs, Bridgeton. Body supposed to be Charles Soly, Bridgeton. H. F .Bell, Bridgeton. W. C. Looper, Bridgeton. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Goldsmith, Bridge ton. Samuel Thorne, Atlantic City. Franklin Debois, Clearfield, Pa. J. Earnest, Bridgeton. Woman's body, supposed to be that of Miss Jennnie Shepard, Bridgeton. Mory Wentzell, Alloway, N. J. I. idie, Carr, Bridgeton. Pearl Muta, Bridgeton. Mrs. Elmer May, Palatine, N. J. Mrs. H. F. Bell, Bridgeton. Annie Freis, Bridgeton. Edward Farr. Reading railroad engi neer, Atlantic City. Man. supposed to be Charles Sebert, Bridgeton. Charles May, Palatine, N. J. D. E. Wood, shipping clerk, Camden, N. J. G. B. Taylor, address unknown. James M. Batteman, Bridgeton. Part of a shirt found with name stamped "A. H. Fox." There are nine bodies at the Excur sion House, where the dead have been gathered not identified. A boy about 12 years supposed to be A. Peters. Reva M. Looper, 12 years, of York town. N. J. Philadelphia, July 31. The crossing where last nights accident occurred has long been a bugaboo to travelers between this city and Atlantic City. It is located about two and a half miles from the Atlantic City terminal of the two rival railroads and a block tower occupied by an operator is placed as close to the crossing as safety will per mit. This tower is occupied by an op erator who is charged with the duty of seeing that the train having the right of way crosses first and that the other train is flagged. There is a difference of opinion as to which of the illfated trains had the right of way last night, but Telegraph Opera tor Wm. Thurston and Switch Tender Hauser are in the Atlantic City jail now and will remain there until an official investigation definitely places the re sponsibility. The competition between the West Jersey and Reading railroads for Atlantic City business is very keen and both roads run "flyers" which aver age nearly a mile a minute between Camden and Atlantic City. There are frequent races across the stretch of open country a few miles out side of Atlantic City, known as the "Meadows" and passengers on the rival trains who are not timid regard the race on the home stretch as one of the exhil irations of the trip to the seashore. The timid ones, however, are always apprehensive that something will hap pen as dangerous grade crossings are approached. Last night the long look ed for accident occurred with fatal re sults. A railroad man who came to this city from Atlantic City today is reported io have said that the Reading train which ran into the Bridgeton excursion train was racing across the meadows with a train on the Camden and Atlantic rail road which left Philadelphia at about the same time. Railroad orncials, how ever, deny that there was a race. J. Ohl, of this city, a bartender, was a passenger on the ill-fated train on the West Jersey road. He had secured a seat in one of the cars before leaving Atlantic City, but seeing a lady with a child he surrendered the seat to her and went to the rear car. This act of courtesy saved his life as that portion of the train which he first occupied was completely wrecked. Tile horrible experience of Miss Lydia Pancoast of Bridgeton almost resulted in her prostration. She was in the fifth car and after the collision she scram bled for the door at the front. A man staggered against her from the rear door with a stream of blood gushing from his mouth and his head laid open by a deep cut. Miss Pancoast's dress was covered with the blood and as she stepped back, the man in front of her fell dead. North Dakota Populists Nominate. St. Paul, July 31. The nomination committee of the Populist state conven tion did its work with deliberation for it was 3 o'clock before it reached the following: Governor. R. B. Richard son of Pembina: auditor, J. T. Enger of Stutsman; secretary of state. J. B. Hogson of Sargent; railroad commis sioner, Oliver Knudson of Nelson and F- L. Walker of Dockey; commissioner of agriculture, G. S. Reishus of Ward superintendent of public instruction' Laura J. Eisenhuth of Foster cZ,heJCSVfntion adjourned to meet at tl?0rks Au&'ust 12. the date of the Democratic convention. uinvrt rc a I VIUIUMiA T0RETIRE. The British Queen Will Abdi cate in Wales' Favor, So Says a Persistent Humor in London. HER HEALTH FAILING. And the Queen Feels the Cares of State Too Heavily For Her Advancing Years. London, July 31. The rumor that Queen Victoria intends to retire in fa vor of the Prince of Wales is again cur rent today, and it is added that court circles are greatly troubled regarding WALL STREET PATRIOTISM. the condition of the queen's health. Such reports have frequently appear ed of recent years only to be semi-of-ficially contradicted later. But it now seems that there may be some actual foundation for the statements made. It is added that hr majesty has decid ed to spend her time in future at Bal moral, or at Osborne, and that she will give the Prince and Princess of Wales the use of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. There is no doubt that the queen seems to feel greatly the weight of her years and bereavements, and her maj esty is quoted as having repeatedly re marked during her stay in this city at Buckingham Palace upon the occasion of the recent marriage of Princess Maud of Wales to Charles of Denmark: "This is my last visit to London." Color is given to the rumors in circu lation by the deep emotion displayed by the queen as she bowed in reply to the enthusiastic cheers of the multi tudes which lined the route from Buck ingham Palace to the railroad station where she took the train for Windsor after the marriage ceremonies. JOINTISTS FINED. Have Been Running in a Building on East Seventh Street Fritz Durein and Pete Callahan, two of the most persistent violators of the prohibitory law in Topeka, were fined $:J00 each in police court this noon. Over 40 witnesses were subpoenaed in the case. Attorneys S. B. Isenhart and Otis Hungfite represented the defendants. They demanded that the city attorney elect on which count he was to rely for a conviction. Mr. Bird did so, and Judge Furry said that he' considered each of the men guilty of violation of the prohibitory law. He fined them each $200, and they were committed to the city jail in de fault of bond. The county has a simi lar charge against these two jointists, and as soon as the city fine is settled the county cases will be tried. It was the sheriff who raided the joint at 114 East Seventh street, and the city war rant was served on them while they were in the county jail. Both will ap peal the city cases to the district court. The building on East Seventh street, which is the home of the jointists, dis orderly characters and some of the most disreputable people in the city, belongs to the Shelton estate, the own er having died sometime ago at Burlin game. The Topeka agent is George D. Hale, ex -city assessor and one of the radical prohibitionists In Topeka. The place has been occupied for many months by joints and other "resorts." State House Bids. The executive council this afternoon opened the bids for finishing a number of rooms in the state house. The bids on the whole job were as follows: Thomas Bowers $23,365 Henry Bennett 18.19.5 Fellows and Van Zandt 17,418 E. F. A. Clark 16,740 Constantine's Plunderers. Five colored people, two men and three women, are held at the city jail on suspicion. The police think that Lo gan Justice and Anna Dupree are two of these colored toughs who held up the Rev. John Consiantine, the Armenian, Wednesday night in Smoky Row. Min Saunders is held but it is supposed that she is not directly connected with the robbery. George Buckner and Ella Buckner are suspected also. Queer Time to Fail. New Tork, July 31. Henry Vogel, manufacturer of refrigerators and ice boxes, confessed judgment today aggregating- $35,000 and his assets $15,000. Frank Bovey, a machinist employed at the Santa Fe shops in this city, was prostrated by the heat while at work this morning. He was taken to his T0 NOT T-flT PP v XJ Only Use Him as a Club to Lfeat Re publicans. United States Senator Wm. Peffer says 'n his paper, the Topeka Advocate that there is no good reason why Wm. J. Bryan should be asked or expected to accept or decline the Populist nomina tion. "Mr. Bryan is the regular nominee of the Democratic party," says the sena tor, "and will be expected to indorse his party platform. That platform is not a Populist declaration, and does not satisfy the demands of the Populist party. Let the reader compare the platform adopted last week at St. Louis with the Democratic platform agreed upon at the Chicago convention, and he will at once note that the Populists take much higher and broader ground than the Democrats. The two parties are essentially different." Senator Peffer says that the nomina tion of Bryan at St. Louis was made, not as a party measure, but solely be cause of the universal desire of the Populists, as of the Democrats and silver Republicans, to combine their voting strength to defeat a common enemy. "Populists," he says, using his own language, "have no thought of now effecting a permanent union with men of other parties. Therefore, it is un reasonable, as it is unnecessary and unimportant, that Mr. Bran should have anything to do with the affairs of the Populist party. We are competent to manage our own business. What we want and all we want now is to effect such a combination with men of other parties as will secure the best effect of the united vote of men opposed to the Republican gold standard policy. "Let us unite our votes and wait for a calmer time to discuss points of dif ference in party creeds. Patriotism knows no party. The country now de mands our united support. Let us give it freely and question not the politics of our temporary leader. "Mr. Bryan ought not to be weighted in this mighty conflict with Populist affairs as such. Not a word ought to be spoken or written that will divert a single voter from the path of duty.The Democrats have enough to do to take care of their own party matters. They have already done wonders. Let us en courage and aid them, and not em barrass them by intruding our party plans upon their attention at a time like the present, when free institutions are at stake and popular liberty in peril." TOMORROW MAT TELL. Whether Morrill is to be Renomi nated or Not. The gubernatorial canvass has not materially changed since last Saturday in either the Republican or Populist camps. The claims of the Republican candi dates are just about the same as they have been all along. Leavenworth, Gove, Norton, Labette and Osborne counties have held conventions this week: Rooks holds today and Barber, Barton, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Harper, Johnson, Kiowa, Lincoln, Meade, Mit chell, Miami, Russell, Smith, Stafford, Thomas, Trego, Wilson and Sheridan hold tomorrow. The Morrill managers claim to have gotten all the delegates elected this week so far, which added to their former figures gives: Morrill 3S6 Opposition 122 Doubtful 17 Total 525 The Morrill men claim that with the results of tomorrow's conventions the nomination of Morrill is assured and that he will have over one hundred more votes than enough to nominate him. They claim that out of the one hundred and sixty-one delegates elect ed this week they will get a great many more than a majority, nearly all in fact. The Troutman men say as they have said all along that the estimate of Mor rill s strength given out by his men is grossly exaggerated and that out of the delegates chosen this week they and Potter and Peters will get more than Morrill. The contest among the Populists is attracting less attention and none of the managers will hazard an opinion as to how many votes his candidate has. About fifty-two counties have held conventions already. Leavenworth county (Harris' own county) holds to day and some forty or more hold to morrow, all in fact, except Nemaha, which will select on Monday. The latest figures stand: 133 for W. A. Harris, 87 for L. D. Lewelling, 54 for L. P. King, 22 for John W. Leedy and 11 for W. L. Campbell. -f HULTONRACES. Five Thousand People Attend on Topeka Day. Free-For-All Pace a Disappoint ment. IS A BREAK DOYFX Of One of the Favorites and Other Wras Beaten. A Large Attendance From To peka. Holton, July 31. By means of special trains being rim from various points, the management at the Holton races succeeded in getting a very large at tendance, which was about 5,0u0. Ev ery business man in Holton took an ac tive Interest in the success of this meet ing, and by all pulling together they ob tained, considering the size of the town, a phenomenal attendance. The special train from Topeka hauled five coaches, and they were well filled. The great free-for-all pace for the $1,000 stake proved to be a disappoint ment and the most uninteresting race that has been given so far. From the records of the horses entered in this race, it was expected that the track record of 2:03, held by Laura T., would be lowered, but the fast pacer Strathbury was lame and Ella T. was not in first class form. These two were the favorites and much was expected from them. The 2:29 trot was a pretty race. The Topeka people expected Mr. Randell's horse "Reckless" would be able to win, although Tall Leon was an unknown quantity to most of them. He was in fine form and showed a capacity to trot this track in 2:15, so that he landed the first money in straight heats easily, al though Reckless trotted him hard in the third heat. While Reckless is not one of the horses noted for extreme bursts of speed, he is an honest race horse and always wears well in the race doing his best work usually in the fourth or fifth heat. The summary of the races is as fol lows"; First race 2:29 trotting, purse $500. Tall Leon, b. h., by Talmage, (Sain) 1 1 1 Reckless, g. g. (Ransdell) 3 5 2 Lucy Cotton, b. m. (Speer) 2 3 6 McBeach, b. h. (Daily) 4 2 5 Shadeland Norward, g. g. (Rob inson) 6 7 3 Helen, b. m. (Jarvis) 5 4 4 Czarina, b. m. (Boomer) 7 6 d Time, 2:21; 2:21; 2:21. In the free-for-all pace, which was the next race called, Ella T. took the first heat handily, although closely pressed by Strathbury. When they came up for the second heat, Strath bury was so lame that his driver was unable to get him on his stride. He seemed very unwilling to go, but when the word was finally given after much scoring, he started off very courageous ly for a short time, but before he reach ed the half mile pole he gave it up and jogged in without attempting to save his distance. Daisy Despain was left at the pole. She acted very badly as usual in scoring, and Mr. Delaney was unable to move her away at all when the word was given. Ella T. took this heat in the fastest time in the race. Judge Hurt took second place. Otto W. third, Billie the Twister fourth, and Dandy O. fifth. In the third heat Ella T. won again with Billie the Twister a close second. In the fourth heat Ella T. and Judge Hurt cut out all competi tors. Judg3 Hurt moved up to the front and took the next three heats. The following is the summary: Second race, free-for-all pace. Purse $1,000. Judge Hurt, b. h., by Wil liam M.Hill (Campbell). 3 2 3 1 1 1 Ella,T., g. m. by Almont (Tilden) 2 112 2 2 Billie the Twister, s. h. (Perry) 7 4 2 d Otto W., b. s. (Tapp) ...4 3 dr Dandy O., b. g., (T. Er- vin) 6 5 d Strathbury, by Rose berry. (Tyler) 1 d Daisy Despain, g. m. (De laney) 5 d Time, 2:11; 2:10; 2:16; 2:13; 2:19; 2:13V;:. As predicted yesterday there was trouble in the 2 year old trot. When the first heat was trotted in 2:3t the judges at once knew something was wrong, exactly what, they were unable to decipher, as they knew that both Silverine and Lady Bird could handily beat 2:30, but Silverine was allowed to take the heat in very slow time. Hastings went out the second heat to win, and when he landed the heat in 2:27, with Lady Bird a close second. both going the mile better than 2:30, it was clear that both Silverine and Lady Bird had been pulled during the first heat. Their drivers were warned to do better the next heat and the bets were declar ed off. The judges seriously considered tak ing both drivers down, but concluded to await the result of the next heat, and if they were convinced that there was any more fraudulent driving, that they would declare the heat off, calling it no heat and put up nev drivers. This was not what either Bannerman or Leach wanted, as they did not care to have strangers up behind their colts, and they went out for the third heat and drove all the way round. Hastings won the heat in 2:25. Silverine went the mile in 2:28 and Lady Bird in 2:29. The following is the summary of this race: Third race, 2 year old trot, mile heats two best in three. Purse S150. Hastings, b. s., by Norcatur (Tapp) 3 1 1 Silverine, b. f., by Pilgrim, (Leach) 1 3 2 Lady Bird, b. f., (Bannerman) .2 2 3 Duke Russell, s. s., (Sutliff) 4 4 5 Edward F. Bell, b. h., (Bliss) 5 4 4 Helen Hill, c. f., (Campbell) 7 7dr. Time, 2:37; 2:27; 2:25. The mile novelty was not well under stood by the audience, as the score card makers, by mistake, called it a mile dash, and when the horses got strung out and many of them quitting after trying to get to the half, as they had a right to do, it was thought to be a farce and but few of the horses when they started intended to drive for the full mile, as it is rarely that a running horse is good for both a quarter and mile dash. It was a pretty race to the quarter, when a number fell back after failing to win the first quarter, and when the three quarter pole was reached Dr. Malcolm was so far In the lead that the .rest of the field gave up the fight. The following is the summary: Fourth race, running, novelty mile dash Money at each post Purse $100: Drew Martin won at the quarter and half. Dr. Malcolm at the three-quarters and mile. Black Tom and Glador also ran. Time, 1:51. TOPEKA VISIT0R& Those Who Are Present at the Races From Topeka. Those who were present at the races from Topeka were: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Veale, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. TJ. B. Mo Curdy, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Updegraff, Mrs. Updegraff of Maple Hill. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Coe, Miss Zimmerman and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Samson, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkerson, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Crockett, Mrs. James Martin and sister, Mr. and Mrs. U. F. Klingaman, Mrs. W. O. Nevill, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brott, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Steele, Geo. H. Schofield of Lincoln, Neb., Cyrus Whitney of Dayton, O., George II. Matthews. Neal Wolfe, Hal Hazlett, Chas. Eagle, Dean Low, G. W. Bainter. E. M. Duncan, Frank Peacock, Guilford Dudley, Dan Small, Peter Smith, Al Voiland, Chas. Steele, Rome Colvin, R. I. Lee, Frank Foster, John Van Vech ten, Lee Jones. Opcar Woolverton, J.M. Knight. Geo. Hai twell George. Wilson, C. B. Wingett, W. A. Morton, J. L. Dunham, F. B. Crocker, Fred Stone street, J. L. Flint, R. H. Delahay, Rob ert Cowdry. Fred Webster, Dr. George Pritchard, Dr. W. C. Hamilton, Walter Richards, J. L. Mulholland of Kansas City, Abe Steinberg, Mr. King, E. W. Kline, Fred Driesbach, C. M. Walters, Remus Atwood, H. C. Speer, Charles Payne, C. E. Filley, J. L. Callahan, N. A. Cramer, J. E. Dolman, C. B. Max well, R. W. Blair, W. S. Burgundthal, Will and James Hanley, F. W. Wolfe, A. E. Hickerson, J. C. Kellogg, Ed. R. Bennett. Amos Morris, Nels Newton, J. C. Tulloch and James Haller. VISITS PIERFOXT. Marc Hanna Confers With J. Pierpont Morgan, But Keeps Mum. New Tork, July 31. Chairman Marc Hanna returned from his visitto White law Reid at White Plains early today, but he had nothing to repeat of what was said there by himself, or by either of the guests, J. Pierpont Morgan and D. Ogden Mills. "It was only a social call. He had a pleasant time, a good night's rest and plenty to eat. That's all." he said. Mr. Hanna's attention was called to the re port from Chicago that because of al leged Republican factional difficulties there, he had determined upon a move of the national headquarters thence to Cleveland. "That," said he, "is untrue. You may say there is not a word of truth in it." BIG FALL IN GOLD. Costa Rica Prohibits Importation of Silver, Which Causes It. New York, July 31. A special to the Herald from Panama, says: Costa Ri ca advices say that the government has passed a law prohibiting the importa tion of foreign silver. All now in the possession of private parties must be disposed of within 30 days, after which time the government will require that it be sent to the mint, and exchanged for Costa Rican curren cy. The measure has caused a big fall in gold. MISS BREWER'S REMAINS. Daughter of Justice D. J. Brewer to be Interred at Mount Muncie. Leavenworth, July 31. Associate Jus tice D. J. Brewer of the United States supreme court, accompanied by his family, arrived in Leavenworth yester day, and will remain until Saturday evening. Their visit nere at this time is for the purpose of permanently placing at rest the remains of Miss Fannie Brewer, daughter of the justice, who died last spring in Texas. For several months the remains of Miss Brewer have lain in private vault in Mount Muncie cemetry, but they will be finally interred in Judge Brewer's family lot in that cemetry this morn ing. Judge Brewer is one of the origi nal corporators of the Mount Muncie Cemetry association, and is yet one of the directors. LEE JONES, CHAIRMAN Of the Shawnee County Delegation to Democratic Convention. The Shawnee county delegation to the state Democratic convention has organized by electing Lee Jones chair man. The delegation is for Harris for governor and for some fusion scheme with the Populists. An effort is to be made to elect Lee Jones secretary of the Democratic central committee and the indications are that he will be named. The delegation has agreed to reeom nend Frank Thomas for member of mend Frank Thomas for memeber of the state central committee from Shawnee county and S. B. Isenhart for member of the executive committee. The delegation will leave for Hutchin son Sunday evening on the Rock Is land. J. J. FREY BOLTS. General Manager of the Santa Fe Can't Support Bryan. General Manager J. J. Frey of the Santa Fe has bolted the Democratic party. Mr. Frey has been a life long Democrat. "Have I arrived at a decision on the political question?" said Mr. Frey in re ply to a query. "Yes, sir; I have. I have no hesitancy in saying that I am not in favor of the free silver idea. I don't think that it would be the best for the country. I have been a Demo crat all my life, and have always voted the Democratic ticket, and I am sorry that I can't stay with the party this fall. This would be impossible, howev er, holding the ideas that I do." Mr. Frey says that the interview pub lished in a Denver paper in which he was quoted as being in favor of free silver, was incorrect. This Mrs. Riordan. Poor oid Mrs. Susan Riordan, who left the city yesterday, returned again, and last night got on her usual drunk. She was arrested and this morning fined $10 by the police judge. There is no use in fining this woman. She ought to be shut up. Lawrence shipped her back to Topeka. Lawrence people needn't imagine they can unload their crazy relatives on Topeka. The chief of police should write to the relatives of Mrs. Riordan at Lawrence and in form them that they would have to take care of her. It isn't Topeka's task. Garrett Was Worth $5,000,000. Baltimore, July 31. Mr. Garrett, ex-prt-sident of the B. and O., it is under stood left no will. If that is the case, his estate, Valued at $5,000,000, will probably be divided between his wife, his sister, Mary Garrett, and the heirs of his brother, the late T. Harrison Gar rett. 0T FOR 6 YEARS lias It Been So Hot &s Last Night, Except Once, and Then a Breeze Bleiv. MERCURY STOOD AT 90 Indoors and SO Outdoors Nearly All Night. How Observer Jennings Pre served His Life. While suffering humanity in TCpeka last night sweltered and psrspirsd, changed from beds to floors, and porch.' es and hammocks, seeking for a cool spot to lay their fevered brows a;ul gasping for a breath of refreshing ail-, the wind and the mercury remained at rest. That is, practically so, for their movement was so slight as to be imper ceptible. When the mercury reached the height of 101 degrees at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, it was apparently satisfied with its day's work, and commenced an easy and gradual decline. By 11 o'clock last night it had reached to 80 out doors, but Indoors it was 90. Here it rested for the first time, and at that temperature remained for two hours. At 1 o'clock in the morning it dropped one degree, at 2 o'clock one more, at 3 o'clock another one, and at this point sojourned until 5 o'clock, when it made another degree drop and out doors registered 76. But four de grees in six hours, a change for the better, which was not perceptible in. the least. But the mercury was not wholly to blame. The wind was a fellow con spirator. Had there been a strong breeze from any quarter the tempera ture would probably have fallen several degrees, in imagination, U" not in fact. From 11 o'clock until midnight last night the wind blew but three miles an hour, a rate which would barely move a feather. During the succeeding hour it gained one half mile, and at 1 o'clock made a grand spurt in the cause of charity and blew a breeze at the rate of five and one-half miles. This lasted but one short hour. At o'clock it dropped to two and three-quarter miles, and at 3 o'clock the three-quarter had faded away and left the rate but two miles. Happily this continued only until 4 o'clock. At that hour a fair breeze sprung up which has continued dur ing the day. With one exception last night was ihe warmest night which Topeka has ex perienced in the past six years. The exception was the 2Uth of July, 1394. On that date the temperature reached a point five degrees higher than it did last night, but this was offset to a con siderable extent by a good breeze. Owing to an ingenious arrangement adopted last night, whereby every breath of wind sailing over the Colum bian building was cornered and forced to blow over his placid countenance. Weather Observer Jennings was able to make a few remarks today on the condition of the weather during the night. Before preparing for bed last nfrrht. Mr. Jennings opened the door leading to the roof of the Columbian buildincc, placed a screen at the door of the bed room, which is almost directly below the roof door, in such a manner that air passing through the hall would be turned into the room, and then placed the head of his bed in front of the door in a direct line with the windows on the other side. In this manner he;slept comfortably during the night. "It was certainly pretty hot last night," said Mr. Jennings. "That is. it was not so very hot bur v didn't htive enough wind. If we had a good wind we wouldn't have felt it. "What caused such a condition ?Why the crops did indirectly. I don't mean to say that the crops made the hot night, but it is the same condition which insured good crops that cause3 warm nights. This condition is a damp atmosphere. We a:.-e compelled to sac rifice ourselves for the good of the crops." A Tale of the Darkness. It was midnight. Or most any hour or minute last night. Stealthily he crept out of the back door and arou.,J the corner of the house. All in white he was so far as he was in anything which he wasn't much. His face was bathed in a fiendish grin that would have been washed off if it hadn't been screwed on. To each of his feet was tied a cake of ice that sizzled and sputtered at each step he took on the smoking boards. In his hand he carried a large life sized club that he had cooled previous ly in the Ice chest. Stealthily he crept. There it was now on the side of the house by the porch post. Ah, ha. One fell blow and it would all be over. He swung his club. Crash. The thermometer lay broken and crushed at his feet. The mercury had taken a decided fall. But it was no cooler. Such another night as was last night Topeka has seldom seen. Beds were as hot boards to bare skin. The man or woman that remained in one position more than a moment or two during last night must have been tied. People threw modesty to the calm, after vainly looking for a wind to throw it to, and took out their win dows, blinds, curtains, screens, and all, and wished for a power with which to knock out the side of the house. It was awful. Folks in different parts of town sat up with nothing on and fanned them selves the greater part of the night. There didn't seem to be a breath stirring. The babies suffered most. Men who are ordinarily too stingy to buy a toothpick swore that if they grot through the night alive they would -ut In an electric fan the next day. V.

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3 1 Mir "The North Pole made use of at last.' fi n Always at the front and wherever "BATTLE AKft soes it is the f biggest thing in sight. It is as re markable for its fine flavor and quality as for its low price A 5 cent piece t of "BATTLE AX" is almost as large as a 10 cent piece of any other equally good tobacco POPULISTS 3IADE MONEY. They Saved Out of Convention Ex penses for Campaign Purposes. St. Iouis, July 30. The late Populist convention in St. Louis seems to have "eosn metre than it came to." St. Louis, througn the officers of the Business Men's leaRue. promised to put up $10, OuO to g-tt the convention. That prom ise has been faithfully kept. Monthly payments of Jl.UOO were made for six months before the date of the conven tion, and the balance was paid in a lump sum. It is fig-ured up by those familiar with such things that the tickets, badges, etc., cost not more than $1,000. Some thing like SSOO is estimated as the amount paid to doorkeepers and at tendants, and there we have about I2.0') as the actual expenses of the con vention. Mr. Taubeneck admits that the cost of the convention will not consume the $10,000. By his own admission, the ex penses will not exceed $5,000, and of this amount lie accounts for less than $3,000 attributing the balance to gener al expenses. Mr. Taubeneck says the balance of the money will go into the Populist campaign fund. IOWA U0LD DE3I0CRATS. They Are Invited to Attend a Confer ence at Des Moines August 4. Marshalltown, Iowa, July 30. L. M. Martin, state committeeman, issued a call today for a conference of gold standard Democrats at Des Moines, August 4, for the purpose of organiza tion and to select a representative to attend the Indianapolis meeting Au gust 7. Mr. Martin says in the call: "The honor of the ration as well as the preservation of the principles of true Democracy are at stake; and I invite the individual Democrats of Iowa who are loyal to their faith to attend this Des Moines conference." M'KINLl'S ACCEEPTANCE. His Letter Won't Be Issued Islonth Yet for a Canton, O., July 31. Major McKinley will be at home again this week, and expects to begin work on his letter of acceptance wichln ten days, and may have a draft of it completed within a fortnight. It is not his intention to make it pub lic for a month or so, however. He wants to see what turn events will take and needs something to determine the ultimate cast which he shall give to th? issues of the campaign. The letter of acceptance will be a sort of final, sup plementary, up-to-date platform, and the great work of the campaign will be done on the lines which it indicates. Major McKinley will prepare this doc ument with great care, and it will be one of the most important utterances of the campaign. CADET RAND PUNISHED. Given a Tsi' Confinement at West Point for Razing. West Point, July 3L Cadet Rand, who was tried by court martial here on Wednesday for taking part in the haz ing of Cadet Harris, was found guilty and sentenced to a year's confinement to the limits of the barracks. Cadet Rand, when questioned by the judge advocate, denied having taken any part in the hazing, but admitted that he asked Harris why he changed his position when strict orders had been givn to him not to do so. To St. Paul and Minneapolis Via"Bur lington Route." Two splendid through trains each day from Missouri river points to the north via the old established "Bur. ling Route" and Sioux City line. Day i train has handsome observation vesti buled sleepers, free chair cars and dininy cars (north of Council Bluffs). Night train has handsome sleepers to Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sioux City, and parlor cars Sioux City north. Consult ticket agent. L. V. WAKELET, f General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Ma, LA a e a FORT SCOTT'S REBELLION. Temperance Citizens There, Will Not be Sat Down On. A citizen of Ft. Scott has writiten a letter to the state temperance union, giiving some inside facts concerning the Republican convention in that city which indorsed Governor Morrilil. He says: "The anti-Prohibitionists represented by the Mystic Brotherhood took great offense at our church action against the police commissioners, and with a view to vindicating themselves and humil iating us, went to work with tremen dous, vigor to roll up an immense ma jority at the primaries for the Morrill delegates. "The primaries were packed and our best people were contemptuously howl ed and hooted down. Their advantage of organization through the Mystic Brotherhood and the fact that our town is strongly in sympathy with Morrill's policy of nullifying the law in the interest of violators and city revenue, gave hfm the solid strength of such sympathizers. "In the Firsjt ward a caucus of Mor rill's friends was held in the saloon of one of Ft. Scott's most offensive and persistent jointists. and a company of men, 35 or 40 in number, went to the primary with Morrill delegation bal lots. Among those selected as mem bers of the delegation was the above jointist, and another engaged in the same business." COULDN'T FIND BOLTERS. Senator Lucien Baker Saya He Didn't Discover Any. Leavenworth, July 31. United States Senator Lucien Baker returned to his home in this city yesterday after a par tial tour of Kansas, where he has made several speeches in favor of the Re publican national ticket. He reports unprecedented earnest ness and eagerness on the part of the people to hear and listen to the Re publican doctrine of protection and sound money. In the matter of the al leged silverite bolters, he says they are always in "some other town" away from the speaker, and he did not, in his tour, encounter any of these bolters. Especially amorrg the old soldiers did he find great enthusiasm and loyalty to the national ticket. Mr. Baker spoke at Nortonville Tuesday night to a large audience. When at the expiration of two hours" talk, he was about to quit, he was com pelled by repeated calU to proceed, and he was required to talk on for an addi tional half hour. Senator Baker has dates for almost every day up to August 14, after which time his services will be at the dispos al of the state central committee. He will speak at Pleasanton, August 5. at Emporia, August 8, at Atchiwon. Aug ust 13, and Junction City, August 14. BUST OF M'KINLEY. Republican Club of Chicago Universi ty Makes a Presentation. Canton, O., July 31. Yesterday a committee from the University of Chi cago arrived in this city to call upon Maj. McKinley. They came as the representatives of the Republican clubs of that school to pay their respects to the Republican candidate, and to present to him a life sized marble bust of himself. The bust was made by Hans Hirsch. the noted sculptor of that city. The bust is fin ished in American Parian marble, mounted on a mahogany plaque. It was intended to send the bust here by the Republican club of Chicaero uni versity, but it was found impractica ble, and a committee was chosen to bring the bust to Canton. SANTA FE ROUTE The Home Road. Salt Lake and return, one fare plus $2.00. Tickets on sale August 7th and Sth, good to return August 31st. Dr. A. P. Sawyer: I have used one box of your Pastilles, and they have helped me more than anything else that I ever used, and I have tried al most everything. Mary Johnson, Bush nell. 111. Frank Sim, Pharmacist. 607 Kansas avenue. CALL ONSVTKINLEY McKinley and Hobart Club of KnoxTille, Pa., Call. Tell the Major He Is Going to Be Elected. MR. M'KINLEY SPEAKS. Says Republicans Are for the Present Gold Standard, And They Intend to Keep It the Same. Canton, C.July 31. Perhaps the most enthusiastic delegates that yet have come to Canton arrived here from Knoxville, a suburb of Pittsburg, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. They had traveled one hundred miles in heat and storm, but were enthusiastic with band and banners. Their spokesman, John P. Everhard, president of the McKin ley and Hobart club and who is also president of the Glass Workers union, acted as the spokesman. He put the tariff issue above all others. In part he said: "We come from that wonderful hive of industry, that mighty workshop composed of Pitts burg and its neighboring boroughs. We are Republicans and we believe in our partv and its principles. We are proud of its record and the result of its policy in the past. We have faith in that party as being the only medium through which we may hope for a return of prosperity to the people, both in the agricultural and manufacturing indus tries of the country. "We believe in bimetallism and we recognize in the Republican party and its platform the only real true and safe advocate of that policy, namely, the use of both gold and silver as money; each interchangeable with the other; each dollar as good as every other dol lar. We do not and we feel assured that you do not believe in monometal lism, or the use of either gold or silver as the only money.and knowing this we know you will and must oppose the visionary ideas of those who would seek to create value by the legislative fiat of thisnation alone and the attempt of those who seek to place us upon the single silver basis, thereby driving our gold out of circulation, and out of the country. "We believe you will use all the powers you mav possess as the chief executive of the United States to bring about by international agreement which is the only manner in which it can be accom plished, the restoration of silver as money metal on a fixed ratio with gold. We believe, sir. that wise legislation on the tariff question for the protection of the people and to the end that it will yield an abundant revenue for the ex penses of the government for the pay ment of its debts, for the improvements of our rivers and harbors for the up building of our navy and for interna tional improvements of various kinds will restore our country to great pros perity and will solve the money pro blem about which so many of our peo ple seem to be concerned. "We recognize in your public career and in your private life, those noble qualities of mind and heart that give us the assurance that the great inter ests of this country over which you will shortly be called to preside, will be in safe hands and that you trusting in the strength and guided by the coun cils of the supreme ruler of nations will be able to discharge the grave respon sibilities and execute the duties of your high office so as to lead us a people into the path of duty and up to more glor ious achievements than have marked our wonderful past." After a storm of applause which fol lowed Maj. McKinley's appearance, he said: "Mr. Everhard and My Fellow Citi zens T am glad indeed to meet and greet the Knoxville McKinley and Ho bart Republican club in this city and at my home, and I thank you most cor dially for traveling so long a distance to express your personal good will to me and your devotion to the princi ples of the Republican party. "You are right, Mr. Spokesman, in saying that the Republican party stands now as it has always stood, for a sound and stable currency, and for the maintenance of all its money of ev ery kind at parity, and always equal to the best money of the most civilized nations of the world. (Applause.) A depreciated currency, as you have so well said, would work disaster to the interests of the people and to none more than those of the working men and pro ducers. "Long years ago Daniel Webster said that they are the first to feel it and the last to recover from it. 'A disordered currency, said he, is fatal to indus try, frugality and economy. It fosters the spirit of speculation and extrava gance. It is the most effectual of inven tions to fertilize the rich man's field with the sweat of the poor man's brow." "That we call money. My Fellow Cit izens, and with which values are meas ured and settlements made, must be as true as the bushel, which measures the grain of the farmer, and as honest as the hours of labor which the man who toils is required to give. (Long ap plause.) The one must be as full and complete and as honest as the othe (Applause.) Our currency today is good all of it is as good as gold and it is the unfaltering determination of the Republican party to so keep and maintain it forever. (Cheers.) It is the duty of the people of this country to stand unitedly against every effort to degrade the currency or debase our credit. (Cries of 'They will.') They must unite now as they have united in the past, in every great crisis of our country's history. When the country seemed wildly bent on inflation pre ceding the resumption of .specie pay ments, the sober sense of the American people without regard to party, united and stemmed that threatened tide of irredeemable paper money and repudi ation and placed and kept the nation on the rock of public honor, sound finance and honest currency. "You have rightly stated, sir, that the Republican party not only believes in sound money and the highest public faith and honor on the part of the gov ernment of the United States to all its creditors, but also that it believes in a tariff which, while raising enough money to conduct the government econ omically administered, will serve the highest and best interests of American labor, American commerce, and Amer ican citizenship. (Cheers.) Some of our political opponents are given to saying that the tariff question is set tled. If we are not wrong in interpret ing their meaning, I think they are right (Laughter) and thank them for the confession. (Applause.) We be lieve that the tariff question is settled settled in the minds and hearts of the American people, and settled on the side of protection. (Tremendous cheer ing.) "But however firmly it may be settled in the public mind, it is not yet settled in public law. What is in the hearts and consciences of the people touchicfc any public question Is not effective an- til it is written in public statute and this can only be done through the exercise of the elective franchise in the choice of congress of the United States which makes our public laws. No one. I take it. will regard the present tariff law as a last and final settlement of the ques tion. Whatever may be our differences about the economic principle, upon which tariff legislation should be made all agree that the present tariff law is a failure even as a revenue measure. "So without discussing the principle of free trade or protection everybody must appreciate that no law is a set tlement which creates every month a deficiency in the public treasury (Loud applause and cheers). The people of this country are not satisfied with such an enactment and will not be satisfied until a public law shall express the public will in a statute which will pro vide adequate revenues for the needs of the government, full security for its credit and ample protection of the la bor, capital and energy of the Ameri can people (Applause). "I thank you my fellow citizens, for this friendly call and I assure you that it will give me pleasure to meet each and every one of you personally." (Tre mendous applause and cheering). After the speeches there was singing by a glee club and music by the band. A DANGEROUS MOB Of Colored Toughs in This Town That Must be Suppressed. The band concerts which have been given by Gormly's band on Kansas avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets have drawn together all of the tough element of the city. It has come to the point that ladies cannot walk along the sidewalk in that block with out being subjected to some sort of insult. A gang of colored toughs and street walkers swarm to that block and when a fight occurs an officer of the law takes his life in his hands when he attempts to make an arrest. When Ticklin Harper made the big resistance to arrest on Tuesday even ing no less than 20 pistols and revol vers were flashed in the air in a threat ening manner, and divers threats were made that the officers were to be dis sected and chopped into fragments. Gormly's band gives but one con cert a week now, on Tuesday evenings. Heretofore three policemen have been detailed to the band concerts, but it is evident that a large force is needed. The question comes up: Where are the other officers to come from? The pay roll allows for but a small police force. As it is. only one officer is sta tioned in Smoky Row. his beat being from the river to Third street on Kan sas avenue. North Topeka needs her two policemen, and more too. The peo ple in Parkdale, South Topeka and in the western part of the city demand some sort of protection in their neigh borhoods. It has gotten to be a serious question. Topeka is now infested with the tough est gang of colored desperadoes and street walkers that has ever been known. Even the tough gang that used to in habit Redmondville years ago fades in to insignificance before this lot of dis reputable characters. Not a night pass es but some sort of a robbery is com mitted in Smoky Row. The same crowd attends the concerts, too, and takes part, and starts various kinds of disturbances. Of course lots of nice people go to head the Gormly band concerts. This is all the more reason why the leaders of all these insulting actions and dis graceful fights should be suppressed. Topeka has prided herself on being a model city, with a high moral senti ment prevailing in all parts of it. If these street walkers and drunken thugs are allowed to carry on their dis graceful brawls on the public street3 during the band concerts, the law abid ing people will not dare venture out of their doors after night, and it will re quire a dozen extra policemen to con trol them. There has been in the past too much "letting out of jail" by the county commissioners. The lawless element must be govern ed with a firm hand, and it must never be relaxed. DOWN THE GRAND CANYON. The Dangerous Undertaking of a Col orado River Steamboat Captain. New York, July 31. Captain J. A. Mellon, who has commanded a steam boat on the Colorado river for thirty years, ha3 prepared to descend the Green river and then go through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in a small dory. The boat was built to or der, is pointed at each end and has a wide fiat bottom, which prevents it drawing more than four or five inches of water. Four Indian boatmen will accompany him. The region which he intends to ex plore is little known, and is thought to be rich in mineral wealth. The dis tance is about 1,300 miles, and he thinks he could make it in ten days if he did not stop to look for game and minerals. MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN. Construction of Denver Festival Floats Already Begun. Denver, July 31. Already a number of prominent business firms are pre paring their floats for the Festival of Mountain and Plain: as many as twen ty are already finished. Secretary McNamara, who keeps tab on every movement made in this direc tion, is of the belief that next year's pageant will dim if it does not com pletely obliterate that of last year. Every large firm wants to float a sur prise on its neighbor and from pres ent indications a great many of the right caliber will succeed. The Slaves of the Silver Serpent are foremost in enterprise at present. The Zang Brew ing company and the wholesale paper firm of E. A. Peters Co., have their floats in the course of preparation. WATSON SE WALL MUDDLE How the Ticket Will be Voted in the South. Washington, July 31. Those In charge of the Democratic congress committee profess to believe that the entire Popu list vote has been secured for Bryan by the vice presidential straddle, which plays Sewall in the north and Watson in the south. With Bryan running on two tickets in North Carolina and Alabama, for instance, it is said the Democrats and Populists will vote for the same presi dential electors, but will divide on the state officers. The party which wins In the state election will be entitled to the electors. As both sets are for Bryan, the re sult will not affect him, although it will decide the local patronage, and Watson may get the votes of the two states. W aim to please our trade. Peerles Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. U THEIR LIVES CRUSHED OUT. Two Trains At Atlantic City, N. J., Crash Together. Nearly 100 Persons Are Killed or Injured. SCEXES ARE SICKENING. Arms and Legs Were Torn From Their Soekets. A Woman When Told of Her Hus band's Death Drops Dead. Atlantic City, N. J., July 31. A rail road accident horrible in its details and sickening in results occurred last night just outside of this city and as a result about 100 persons are either killed or injured. The Reading railroad express which left Philadelphia at 5:40 last evening for Atlantic City crashed into a Penn sylvania railroad excursion train at a signal tower about four miles out from here. The Pennsylvania train was run ning to Bridgeton with a party of ex cursionists from that place, Milleville, and neighboring towns. It was loaded with passengers and a rough estimate of killed and injured places the number a hundred. At this signal tower, the tracks of the two roads diagonally cross. The Read ing train was given the signal to stop, but it either failed to work or the speed of the express was too great to be checked in time. It caught the excur sion train broadside and ploughed through, literally cleaving it in twain. The engine of the Reading train was shattered to pieces. Every car on the excursion was jammed to its fullest ca pacity. As soon as the news reached Atlan tic City, the utmost consternation pre vailed but the authorities were equal to the emergency. Relief trains were dis patched to the scene, loaded with cots and bearing staffs of surgeons. As quick as the bodies were reached they were carried 'nto the local hospitals and undertake, s' shops. A general fire alarm was sounded and the department promptly responded and aided in the heartrendering work of digging for the victims. Fear grew into despair and horror as the vigorous work of the re lief gangs revealed the awful extent of the disaster. The first Reading relief train bore into this city 27 mangled corpses of men, women and children. The next train, not an hour later car ried 15 of the maimed and wounded, and two of them died soon after reaching the city. As train after train plied to the scene of the wreck and came back with its ghastly load to the sanitarium which does duty as the city hospital its ca pacity was overtaxed. Meanwhile oth ei s of the dead and injured were taken to private hospitals at Ocean and Pa cific avenues. Edward Farr. engineer on the Reading train was killed out right as was another railroad man who rode on the engine with him. This man whose name has not yet been learned, saw the collision coming and leaped from the cab an instant before the crash. Almost at the same instant the engine cut its way through and caught him directly in its path. His body and that of Farr were found under a heap of debris but the engineer lay in what remained of the cab and his right hand still clasped the throttle. He had been faithful unto death and met it at his post. The fireman on that train leaped a few seconds before and escaped with trifling injuries. The excursion train was made up of 15 cars, the foremost of which was a baggage car. This and the next two coaches caught the full force of the crash and were utterly de molished. The third was tumbled in a ditch at the roadside. The responsibil ity for the accident cannot be fixed. Chas. C. Rynick of Bridgeton, who was in the excursion party was in one of the rear cars. He escaped with several bruises and so far as his agitation would permit told the story of his ex perience. "When we saw that a collision was unavoidable," he said, "the scene in our car was terrible. Women fainted and men rushed in mad panic before the door. But it came almost before we knew it. The third car was cut in two and the lower portion of it lifted bodily from the track and tumbled over. Every- car was crowded and it is horrible to think of the numbers who must be lying under those ruins. The roof of one of the cars fell in and every one in that car was buried under it. It simply dropped In on the people. I know many of those aboard but I will hope for the best." An Associated Press reporter was on one of the first relief trains sent out by the Pennsylvania railroad and he was the first newspaper reporter on the scene. The train was in charge of a number of railroad officials and Prose cutor Perry of Atlantic county. Stag gering in and out of ditches and stumb ling over masses of broken timber, with only a few fitful lanterns to help their straining eyes, the rescue gang set bravely to work. Axes and shovels were placed with the greatest vigor and almost at everj' half dozen strokes a mangled form was brought up and laid tenderly on the waiting pallets. It was a gigantic and sickening task and the strongest of men turned aside, faint from a revelation of the work for spades. A heap of blood stained timbers turn ed aside by one of the rescuers brought to sight a woman's arm. It had been wrenched off almost by the roots and nothing remained but a dripping stump and the hand was gone. It had been clad in a dainty white linen glove, the sleeve of which still clung to it. Not five minutes later, a chance blow from a pick revealed a still more ghastly remant. a human heart that only a few short hours before had been throbbing with life and love. One woman whose body was recovered still held in her dead hand a plate bearing a picture of Atlantic City. It was unbroken. Scattered about the ground near the wreck were many pieces of clothing which had been torn from the bodies of the victims hats, dainty parasols, fans and gloves. Just as one of the relief trains reach ed the Pennsylvania depot with its terrible load, one man who lay in a corner horribly injured, regained his senses for a moment, and clasping his hand to his head, cried in heart rend ing agony: "Who did this? My God, where are my wife and children?" A later report states that 14 of the In jured have since died at the sanitari um. Superintendent I. N. Sweigad of the Philadelphia and Reading company places the number of dead at 37 and the injured about the same number.He sent a telegram to Philladelphia last evening which said: "There were 37 persons killed as fol lows: Twelve women, 21 men, 2 boys, ii. nun. Invites the pub&lc to give them a call; Will try and please your body, soul and all. It you only try to buy your goods once there, We are sure after that you will not go elsewere. Try us this very day, As the place looks so cheerful and gay. You can purchase a great many goods tor so little pay. and 2 girls. About the same number I imured." The ringing of the fire bells gave the Atlantic i.:ity public the first intimation they received of the disaster. The ut most excitement prevailed. The board walk was deserted and crowds that sur rounded the two railroad stations rendered the streets almost impassible Mrs. Farr, wife of the Reading engi neer who was killed, when informed of his tragic end. threw up her hands with a frantic shriek and fell dead at the feet of her informant. Seventeen unidentified women, four men and a female child, all dead, were brought to the excursion house after midnight. Fireman Kelley of the Read ing train was fatally injured. It is said that the Reading signal was displayed and that the whistle of the train was sounded. The Reading has the right of way at the crossing. The excursion train bore five tribes of the order of Red Men with their wives and children. The known dead are: P. S. MURPHY, Millville. J. D. JOHNSTON Bridgeton. C. B. TAYLOR, no address. P. H. GOLDSMITH. Bridgeton. SAMUEL THORN, baggage master Reading train, Atlantic City. D. E. WOOD, shipping clerk, Phila delphia. JOHN GRIENER, Bridgeton. CHAS. EACKLER, Salem. CHAS. McGEAR, Bridgeton. FRANKLIN DUBOIS, Woodruff. MRS. JOSHUA EARNEST, Bridge ton. MIDDLE aged woman with ring "G. to V." in initials. SMALL boy about 4 years of age. FRAZIER BELL and wife of Bridge ton. MR. AND MRS. RICHARD TRENCH ARD, Bridgeton. EDWARD FARR, engineer of Read ing train. The list of seriously injured is as fol lows: Howard Woodland, Bridgeton, bro ken arm. Samuel Muta, Bridgeton, internally injured. Howard Smalley, back broken. David Freise, neck dislocated. Albert Taylor, Bridgeton, three scalp wounds. Jacob Hitchon, Bridgeton, badly bruised about head. Thos. F. Morrill, Bridgeton, com pound fracture of the arm. Chas. Horner, Bridgeton, compound fracture of the arm. Harry Watson, Yorktown, N. J., leg broken and head injured. Lizzie Muller, Bzidgeton, concussion of the b.ck. Charles W. Horner, aged 12, fractur ed leg. internal injuries.. Frank Morrell, Orange, N. J., dislo cated shoulder and lacerated head. Albert Taylor, Bridgeton. head cut. Wm. Boughton, Bridgeton, Internal injuries. Edward Zeetey, Bridgeton, head cut. Chester Liguerse, Bridgeton, hip in jured. Ex-Judge Jacob Hitchner, Bridge ton, internal injuries. Mrs. Hitchner, concussion of the brain. Mrs. H. A. Abbott, Bridgeton, leg broken. W. H. Spaulding. Philadelphia, inter nal injuries and head hurt. Mary Shimp, Freesborough, head cut. nearly torn ofl". Wm. Baugham. Bridgeton, back hurt and head severely cut. Chas. G. Renick, Bridgeton, badly cut about head. W. C. Hemslay, Bridgeton, badly In jured. Lizzie C. Hemslay, wife.badly bruised. Mrs. E. A. Abbott, Rhodestown, N. J., leg ar.d arm broken. Lizzie Smalley, Bridgeton. Caroline Smalley, arms and legs se verely injured. C. D. Frazier and wife, Bridgeton, both badly cut on head. Irwin Dubois 12 years old, head cut and badly Injured. Mrs. M. K. Eiger. Elmer, N. J., back badly hurt and head cut. Jacob Johnson, Shirley, N. J., head cut. His wife supposed to be dead and child badly hurt. Stanley Wensolt. Alloway, N. J., scalp Fred Sheney, Bridgeton, back hurt and internally injured. Mrs. Suana Johnson, Shirley, N. J., shoulder, head and breast injured. B. B. Fisher and wife, both seriously hurt. Harry Green, head hurt. M. Weiss, neck twisted. Mrs. Laura Pierce, Bridgeton, badly cut head and badly bruised. Wm. S. Tompkins, Salem, head lacer ated. Mason Worth, Philadelphia, back In jured. Wesley Lee. Bridgeton, internal In juries, concussion, contusion of face... Fred Cheney, Bridgeton, internal in juries and scalp wound.. Mary Pitney, aged 1. Yorktown, N. J.., lacerated and wounded head. Mrs. Faunce Fralinger. Philadelphia, broken leg. have to be amputated. John D. Kelley, Camden, N. J., com pound fracture of the femur, internal injuries, probably fatal. Rachel Abbott, Rhodestown, N. J., broken leg. Atlantic City, July 31. William Thurlow, telegraph operator in the tow er house, was arrested late last night and held pending an inquiry. COTTON BALE MOTTOED. Shipped North With Gilded Hoops, Inscribed "McKinley and Gold." Savannah, Ga.,July 31. The first bale of new Georgia cotton was reeeiived here today and was immediately pur chased by a prominent Republican to be shipped north with gilded hoops, inscribed: "McKinley and Gold." Dr. Roby has moved his office to 730 Kansas avenue. CHARTERS FILED. The following corporations have filed their charters witih the secretary of state: The Bushong, Lyon county. Building and Investment company witih a cap ital of $1,000. The directors are: A. E. Leek, B. F. Williams, J. S. Lamming, J. G. Shafer and J. B. Cables. The Royal Mystic Legion, a fraternal secret order with headquarters in To peka. The charter is perpetual. The trustees are: Chas. D. Brenner of Doniphan, P. F. Remington of Law rence, and J. P. Grinstead of Morrill. The Andale, Sedgwick county.Cornet Band association. Capital $100. The directors are: Simon Krause, Joseph Englebrecht and R. B. Hieges. The Anglo-Mexican Gold Miining company of Kansas City. Kan., and Pinos, Mex. Capital St.000.0tw. The directors are: Walter Barkley, J. F. Aigler, G. D. Long of Kansas City, Kan., C. E. LaForge, W. H. Montague, Jas. Follens, and R. H. Stewart of Kansas City, Mo. The Larned Water Supply company. Capital $33,700. The directors are: G. W. Currier, Nashua. N. H.;F. A. Faulk ner and Hiram Blake, Keene, N. H.: C. B. Perry, Fitzwilliam, N. H.; C. T. Sim and E. D. Kimball. Wichita; and F. K. Robinson, Winfield. The Kansas Interstate Coal and Feed company of Kansas City. Kan., capital $"i,000. W. H. Paramore is a member of the board of directors. Other members are A. J. Harshbarger and W. H. Lit tick of Kansas City. Kan., W. H. Og den and A. T. Martin of Kansas City, Mo. The Land, Claim, Guarantee, Title and Collection company of Kansas City, Kan., capital $300. The officers are as follows: Myron W. Reed, president and business mana ger; A. F. Bell, secretary: directors, Addie B. Reed, Julia A. Smith and C. L. Wardruff. HOME-SEEKERS' EXCURSIONS. Cheap Rktes via Burlington Route On August 4th. 18th, September 1st, 15th, 29th, October 6th and 20th. the Burlington Route wil' sell excursion tickets at very low rates to points In Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming. Utah, Black Hills and other territory. Asfc: your ticket agent. L. W. WAKELEY, G. P. A., St. Louis, Mo. Emancipation Celebration, Alma, Au gust 1. The celebration of Emancipation day this year by the colored people of To peka and vicinity will be held in the city park. Alma. There will be lots of fun, including base ball game. Topeka. vs. Alma: horse races, foot races, sack races, street parade and good speaking, etc. Dancing will commence at 5 o'clock p. m. Music by Topeka String band. The Manhattan colored cornet band will also furnish music during it, 3 day. Train will leave Santa Fe depot 8 a. m. Everybody should go. Tickets SI, children 50 cents, to be had of D. F. Mallory. A Look Through South Missouri for Four Cents. The Kansas City, Fort Scott Mem phis Railroad Co. has Just issued a magnificent book of sixty or more photo-engraved views of varied scene ry in south Missouri. F-o:n theje views n accurate knowledge can ba obtained as to the productionsandgen eral topography of that highly favored section that is now attracting the at tention of home-seekers and investors the country over. The title of the book is "Snap Shots In South Mis souri." It will be mailed free upon e celpt of postage, four cents. Address, J. E. LOCKWOOD. Kansas City, Mo. One Fare. One Fare for the Round Trip to Abi lene, Aug. 3d, 4th and 5th, and to To peka, Aug. 9th. 10th and 11th. via the Union Pacific from points In Kansas. For full information call on or ad dress F. A. Lewis, City Ticket Agent, Union Pacific System, 525 Kansas ave nue, Topeka, Kansas. Mineral Water. The finest In the west. Come and try It J. W. PHILLIPS. 12 W. Eighth Ave. We can launder ladies' shirtwaists to suit the most critical customer. Peer less Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W"it Eighth. !oticc. On and after th; date we will during the rest of the summer season, put on the market to meet other prices A DOLLAR ICE CREAM. Vanilla t oo per paL Lemon XI OO por val. Artificial Strawberry SI OO per sal. ChocoiaiB Sa a.i per gal. Our extia Vanilla... I an per (jal. Chocolate bl 75 por gal. And our best grades of Creams in proportion. SOLICIT FATSOtfAaF. Hat man Clarlr, 821 Kttna3 Ave.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1896. 3 o 95 on fin 75c Forttcof any IpU.OU Fryour choice of any pair For Your Choice of Any White or MEN'S PANTS. Men's Spring or Summer Suit. FANCY VESTS. BOYS' WAISTS BOYS' PANTS, SWEATERS Hemstitch Handkerchiefs 15"c. 3SC quality 223. 193- 4c. All Mother's Friends a: cost. Eeduced Prices on betier Pants. All Bicycle Goods at Cost. Fast Colored Sox 3c pair. Great frTr HfIlSj V 9 l earance u tins -Ja-j jhu m j nv alp Ik"" -rf Sale. $3795 ST. 45 95C All Thin Summer BoFv sT-tumr EgS l?o pS&pSE For your Choice of any fatS VCStS Suit? or Summer Suit. Boys Wash Suit, at Cost. Reduced Prices White Duck Pants Reduced Prices Men s working ..for.. -on.. SKIRTS, Chambray and Cheviots, Underwear. 69c. Negligee Shirts. 24c. OSBORNEJTORM. Destroys Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property. Two Lives Lost By Lightning's Work. POIiTIS IS WRECKED. Many Business Buildings Blown Down or Unroofed. A School House and Stone Church Blown Away. Osborne, July 31. The -wind storm which passed over a portion of Osborne county Tuesday afternoon was more disastrous to property than was first reported. In places it proved to be of a cy clonic nature. The Mayflower school house and a stone church near the Smith county line, are among the build ings destroyed. While the partial de struction of farm houses, barns, wind mills and crops will foot up many thou sands of dollars. The farm house of a man named Car ter, near Portis. was struck by light ning, killing him instantly and his wife was so badly shocked by the bolt that Ehe cannot recover. Another man in the same neighbor hood is missing, and fears are enter tained that he was killed and buried under the rubbish of some of the wrecked buildings. At Portis, in Osborne county, ten miles north of this city, nearly all the buildings are more or less wrecked. Among- them are the stores of Amos Bartlett, the drug- store and residence of Dr. K.O. Henshall. Methodist church, school house, Missouri Pacifie depot, the old bank building-, the stores of E. W. McKay and G. B. Kirkham. a liv ery stable and many other buildings, some with their roofs blown partially off. It is said there is hardly a building Jn the place that has not suffered some loss. MONEY LOANEKS WORKED. Bert Carter Gives Mortgages on Stock He Soever Owned. Ft. Scott, July 31. A few weeks ajo Bert Carter, the young man now in jail at Iola for stealing- a set of harness from Thos. Kitzmiller. near Bronson. came to this city, visited several of the leading- Joan brokers and secured some $50 or $,5 for his trouble. He put up the same story at each place and in security for the money grave his note and a mortgage on cat tle, mules and colts which he never owned. It was not until he had been arrested for the harness stealing and taken to Iola that the money lenders discovered they had been worked. JOCKEY REIFF SUSPENDED. A Wichita Rider in London Accused of Crooked Work. Wichita, July 31. Jockey Reiff. who It will be remembered visited his par ents here last winter and who has many friends in this city, is in trouble in Lon don. England. accordn,r to a cable dis patch received here today, which savs- Reiff, Duke and Wishard's American Jockey, was today suspended for a fort night by the Goodwood stewards upon the complaint of Capt. Greed, owner of Kilcock. who claimed that Reiff, while riding- Ramapo yesterday in the race for the Steward's cup which was won by Mr. Ryan's bay colt Chasseur, interfe red, or "bored" Kilcock to the extent cf causing the latter's jockev to pull up in order to avoid serious collision. EMPORIA BURGLAR SHOT. Thieves Meet a Warm Reception at the Home of Captain Morris. TIf JUly 31 About 1 o'clock ?J tty m!T,ng tw burglars en tered the residence of Captain J. T. Morris, 427 Cottonwood street One of them went to the side window and in tearing away the vines prepara tory to raising the screen, mad. suffi cient noise to arouse Captain Morris The captain jumped out of bed Tab' ted his revolver and made for the"win flow. He saw the form of a man on the outside and without speaking leve'ed his gun and fired through the screen The burglar cried. "Oh, Jack, I'm Bhot," and the two broke and ran. In the morning Policeman Dryer and hu Lucas followed the trail by the blood to Fifth and Market street, but there all traces of the men were lost, M. W. A. CELEBRATION. A Camp to Be HelcTat Osborne Sep tember 3. Osborne, July 31. The Modern Wood men camp of this city have decided to celebrate the anniversary of their order by holding a picnic here September 3. Neighboring camps will be invited to participate, and eminent speakers from the state will be here to talk on woodcraft. EHRSAM SHOP FORECLOSURE. A Stockholder Brings Suit for a Large Sum. Abilene, July 31. A foreclosure suit for $28,673.75 has been brought against the Ehrsam Machine company of En terprise, by Guilford Smith of South "Windham, Conn., through his attorney, T. E. Dewey. This mortgage is one of the princi pal items of the company's indebted ness and the action is not antagonistic to the present plans of the receiver but is intended to help him. The plaintiff is a stockholder and interested in sav ing the property. BAXTER REUNION. Captain Lew Hanback Will Have Charge. Galena, July 31. Capt. Lew Hanback has been selected to command the Bax ter reunion this year. Thousands of real soldiers will visit Camp Logan this year. Quartermaster R. P. McGregor says that something like 1,300 tents had been engaged up to date. LITTLE, OVERSIYER, LEEDY To Speak at the Free Silver Ratifica tion at Emporia. Emporia, July 31. The Bryan silver forces -will ratify here August 8. The speakers will be E. C. Little, David Overmyer and J. W. Leedy. John Duff Killed By the Cars." Horton, July 31. John Duff, a young colored man w ho had been in the em ploy of the Windsor hotel, attempted to board an outgoing midnight freight in the Rock Island yards for Holton and had his leg so terribly mashed and cut that death followed. The Wounded Convict Dies. Leavenworth, July 31. George East, the federal prisoner who was riddled with buckshot Tuesday afternoon while leading a break for liberty on the pris on farm, northeast of Fort Leaven worth, has died of his wounds. Tramps Should Avoid Herington. Herington, July 31. Tramps became such a nuisance here that the citizens organized. Three were taken to the edge of town, given horsewhippings and told to leave. One returned but was made to board a freight train. Kingman Victor at the Harper Ball Tourney. Kingman, July 31. The Kingman club won the first place at the Harper ball tournament just closed, defeating Attica, Argonia and Kiowa. Large McKinley Club at Salina. Salina, July 31. A McKinley club was organized here with 136 members. Judge usoorn was the speaker of the evening. I. S. Bower was chosen president and T. B. Chapman secretary. LargeNumber of Reformatory Inmates Hutchinson. July 31. There are 115 inmates in the state reformatory now, the greatest number which has been there since the institution opened. Robbers Get Four Cases of Bser. Salina. July 31. The Missouri Pacific freight house was broken into last ev ening. Among other missing articles are four cases of beer. THEIR EMBLE3I A WOMAN. The National Party's Executive Com mittee EEeets St. John There. Cleveland. July 31. The national ex ecutive committee of the national party was in session at the Forest City house ail day yesterday. The members present were L. B. Lo gan of Alliance. O., chairman; John P. St. John of Olathe. Kan., D. T. Thomas of Alliance. O.. the secretary; R. S. Thompson of Springfield, and John L. Thomas of New York. Chas. E. Bentley of Lincoln. Neb., the candidate for president, was also present. Plans were laid for a vig orous campaign. Ex-Gov. St. John will at once begin a month's canvass of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Mr. Bentley will speak up to election his first appointment being in Indiana. Mr. Thomas. Mr. Southgate. the can didate for vice presiident, and others whl also begin work at once. The figure of a woman wearing the cap of liberty and holding- aloft the scales of justice, was adopted as the party's official emblem. A resolution was adopted declaring strongly against a compromise with any other party or party faction. Col. J ohn Dabney Morrison Dead. Di,-PinvnIe' Ky- July 31. Col. John Jrf k Morrison died yesterday. He T!Tr?,,o0rn11cI?Hanover county, Virginia. Tt J lf16' He was a member of the eraTwhH,IreSS and also attorney gen eral w hile Texas was a republic. In the awar,he was a colonel and he was also a colonel in the late civil war. i. THE OMNIPRESENT CHUMP Has Now Got His Misspelling of "Greeley" Carved in Stone. Kansas City, July 31. If the dead can know what happens on this terres tial ball, the shades of Horace Greeley doubtless gave expression to some terse vigorous and expressive language when the first of a series of tablets, on which are inscribed the names of famous Americans, was lifted into place at the public library building yesterday. The first tablet was intended to perpetuate the name of the famous editor, but his name was spelled "Greely," the "e" in the "ley" being omitted. The blunder was discovered by J. L. Norman of the board of education. The name is carved on two tablets, which are unusually large slabs of costly granite. A new tablet will have to be substituted for the one which contains the letters "eely." Proofreaders and others who have fought with all classes of writers over this name will appreciate the mistake. It seems to be impossible to beat it into the average writer's head that it isn't spelled "Greely." RATE WAR CERTAIIST. Passenger Rates From Chicago to Salt Lake to Be Cut. Chicago, July 31. The threatened western passenger war over rates from Chicago to Salt Lake City on account of the fire chiefs meeting in that city, AUKUSt 10 is now assured. Chairman Caldwell of the Western Passenger association made strong ef forts to persuade competing lines to ig nore the Milwaukee and St. Paul $30 round trip Chicago-Salt Lake City rate but was unsuccessful. The Alton gave notice that it will meet the rate and other roads will do the same. Of course the St. Paul say they will not withdraw the $30 rate un less the Union Pacific agrees to cancel its diverse route arrangements. The Santa Fe and Northwestern roads are opposed to the low rate and want the executive officers to consider the matter. The round trip rate from Chicago to Denver will probably be re duced to $25, and the one way rates will be half of the round trip. SEWALL WILL HANG ON. Has No Thought of Resigning in Favor of Watson. Bath, Me., July 31. Arthur Sewall, Democratic nominee for vice president, was interviewed as to the story that he intended to resign in favor of Tom Watson. He said: "Any man who for a moment enter tains such an idea is not worthy of an answer. I do not know whether Mr. Bryan will retain a place on the Pop ulist ticket. He will come to Bath with Mrs. Bryan directly after the notifica tion, which will take place in New York. They will make their headquar ters at my house while in Maine." Rainbow Trout in Ice. Denver, July 31. In the window of the Denver Gulf railroad at Seven teenth and Curtis, there is on exhibi tion an object that wdll make every fisherman yearn to untangle his lines and prepare for work. This incentive is a 3 pound rainbow trout, frozen in a block of ice.which was caught, without the ice, however, at Pine Grove this week. Americans Visit Gladstone. London, July 31. One hundred mem bers of the Manufacturers' club of Philadelphia paid a visit by appoint ment to Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden yesterday. Large Tennessee Firm Fails. Jackson, Tenn., July 31. W. P. Rob ertson Sons, the largest dry goods and clothing house in the city failed yesterday. The liabilities are $55,000; assets about the same. Citizens, Attention! Many strangers will be in the city during the Republican state conven tion which holds its sessions in Hamil ton hall, beginning August 11th. These people are in a certain measure our guests, and all can not be accommo dated at our hotels. We desire to ha?e them entertained at the lowest possi ble expense to them. Will each person who can accommodate any of these visitors please send a postal card to J. S. Warner, 123 East Sixth street, be tween this date and the 5th day of Au gust, stating your name, your address, your rates per day, and the number you can care for. Kansas Silver Sunflower. John Radford, a Topeka jeweler, has originated a new silver badge which is attracting considerable attention. It is a representation of a Kansas sun flower with 16 silver petals and a gold center. Across the bottom are the words "Sixteen to One." Mr. Radford is manufacturing the badges himself. He is well known in local Populist cir cles and has frequently made Populist speeches. Ladles' shirt waists laundered so that the colors will not fade by Peerles9 Steam Laundry. 112 and 111 W. 8th, EMPIREJXPRESS Outrun By Six Brawny Athletes on a Sextuplet, Cinder Path Four Feet Wide, Mile and a Half Long. SCEXE OF THE RACE. The Cycle Boys WTon By About Four Lengths. A Bridge Interfered With the Contest. Syracuse, N. Y., July 31. When the westward bound Empire State express was about two miles west of Syracuse yesterday it raced with six athletic young men on a sextuplet. Arrangements for the race were quietly completed several days ago. At this point is a stretch of cinder path about four feet wide and a mile and a half long. As soon as the Empire hove in sight, the sextuplet got under way. The Empire was soon abreast and the race began. For a quarter of a mile it was an even thing. At the end of the half mile the sextuplet was four lengths ahead. The sextuplet was then obliged to slow down, owing to a short bridge a quar ter of a mile ahead. A number of rail road officers and bicycle men witnessed the event, and four pictures of the race were secured. NATIONAL LEAGUE. BROOKLYN 4; WASHINGTON 4. Brooklyn, July 31. The game between the Brooklyns and Washingtons did not begin until long after the schedule time, owing to a severe wind and rain storm which for a time created quite a panic. The game eventually resulted in a tie at the close of the ninth inning when it became too dark to continue the play. The score; R. H. E. Brooklyn 01000021 0 5 0 Washington .001201000 4 4 11 1 Batteries Brooklyn: Abbey and Washington: Mc James and McGuire. BALTIMORE 10; BOSTON 5. Boston, July 31. Baltimore won in the last two innings by a streak of hard hitting. R. H. E. Baltimore ...0 0002003 5 10 12 2 Boston 10022000 0 5 11 5 Batteries Baltimore: Hemming and Clark. Boston: Stivetts and Ganzel. PITTSBURG 8; CNICINNATI 4. Cincinnati, July 31, The Pittsburgers, profiting by the absence of Smith, who was forced to quit the game in the sec ond inning after being hit by a pitched ball, won Without difficulty. Attend ance, 1,800. Score: R. H. E. Cincinnati ...0 0300100 0 4 5 2 Pittsburg 0 0400010 3 8 14 1 Batteries Cincinnati: Foreman and Peitz. Pittsburg: Hawley and Mer ritt. CLEVELAND 4; ST. LOUIS 3. St. Louis, July 31. A long and close game was played by the Browns and Spiders, neither making a run until the seventh inning. Attendance, 2,000. Score: Jl. II. E. St. Louis 0 00000012 03 13 0 Cleveland.. 000000040 0 4 13 3 Batteries St. Louis: Kissinger and McFarland. Cleveland: Cuppy, Young and Blake, Zimmer. PHILADEL'A. 11; NEW YORK 9. Philadelphia, July 31. The oppressive heat served to make the game between the locals and New York a listless one, though at times both teams livened up somewhat and played a sharp game. Attendance, 2,300. Score: R. H. E. Philadel'a... 01140032 011 13 4 New York ..2 0203100 1 9 12 2 Batteries Gumbert and Clements; Sullivan, Clarke and Wilson. National League Standing. Played. Won. Lost. P. C. Cincinnati S9 61 28 685 Baltimore 81 54 27 667 Cleveland 85 55 30 647 Chicago 90 52 32 573 Pittsburg 84 45 39 536 Boston 82 43 39 524 Philadel'a S3 39 44 70 Brooklyn 84 39 45 464 Washington 80 34 46 425 New York.. 82 33 49 402 St. Louis 85 27 58 318 Louisville 81 21 60 259 WESTERN LEAGUE. R. H. E. Detroit, July 31. Score: R. H. E. Detroit.. 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 49 10 5 Milwaukee ...10200000 00 3 7 6 Batteries Thomas and Twineham; Jones and Spear. Columbus, July 31. Columbus-Minneapolis game postponed; rain. Grand Rapids, July 31. Score: R. H. E. Grand Rapidsl 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 8 11 5 Kansas City..0 1 2 1 1 0 2 2 9 11 6 Batteries Welters and Hodges; Cal lahan and Lake. Indianapolis, July 31. Score: Indianapolis 00000000000 8 5 St. Paul 2 5 0 0 3 0 0 0010 11 2 Batteries Cross and Wood; Frickeu and Spies. WOODLIEF'S GOOD WORK. Now Riding on the Illinois Circuit, But Will Come West Ottawa, July 31. A letter from H. H. Hewitt, trainer and manager with Arch Woodlief, dated at Sycamore. 111., states that Mr. Woodlief is riding with great success on the Illinois circuit. He is riding against 12 men who last year rode on the national circuit and is beat ing them easily. Mr. Hewitt says that Woodlief is a better rider than any he ever saw, but has no head in a race; he is a poor general on the track. The expectation is that Woodlief will come on to the Kansas circuiit August 11th, if not ordered on to the national circuit at Louisville, August 10th to 15th. CONNEFF A PROFESSIONAL. The Champion Mile Runner to Race in England. London, July 31. Sporting Life this morning has an interview with "Tom my" Conneff, the champion mile run ner of the United States, in which he says that he concealed his intention before leaving the United States of vis iting England because the Xew York Athletic club opposed his becoming a professional. "I was displeased," he continued, "at the manner in which the New York Athletic club treated me and further more I sympathize with Bacon and others who have been expelled from the amateur ranks. My experience of am ateur athletics in America was such that I would not hesitate to join the professionals." MINNEAPOLIS TAKES ONE. The Blues Lost the First Game by a Narrow Margin. The first of the series of state league games between Topeka and MinneaD olis yesterday afternoon at Athletic park resulted in a victory for the vis itors. But the score was tied until the ninth inning when Minneapolis forced a man over the home plate. Redmond and Hall were the battery for Topeka; and Taylor and Loman for Minneapolis. There was a fair crowd for the first day. The score: TOPEKA. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Sawyer, 3b 3 2 2 I S 0 Gettman, lb 5 0 0 12 0 1 Hall, c 5 1 3 1 1 0 Cooley. cf 5 1 3 3 01 Driscoll, 2b 3 0 0 4 4 0 Perry, ss 4 1 1 2 7 1 Beauchamp, If 4 0 2 0 0 0 Clarke, rf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Redmond, p 4 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 36 5 11 24 16 3 MINNEAPOLIS. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Loman, c 4 1 2 5 2 0 Smith, rf 4 0 0 1 0 1 Outland, 3b 4 3 1 2 1 1 Peterson, If 4 0 3 0 0 0 Kackley, 2b 4 0 0 2 3 0 Morgan, cf 4 1 1 4 0 0 Taylor, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 Shaw, ss 3 1 0 1 2 2 Agnew, lb 3 0 1 12 0 0 Totals 33 6 8 27 9 4 The score by innings: 123456789 Topeka 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 05 Minneapolis 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 6 Today Will Stanley, the young Law rence pitcher who has been playing for St. Marys, will be in the box for Tope ka, while the battery for Minneapolis will be Stricklett and Loman. Emporia Defeated at Junction. Junction City, July 31. An excursion from Parsons brought up 500 visitors to look at Ft. Riley and witness the open ing game with the Emporia Maroons. The game resulted in a victory for Junction City by the score of 10 to 4. Wilson was in the box for the Imperials and gave the Maroons but eight hits. He struck out eight men. Jamison pitched for Emporia and was touched up for eleven hits. TO RECEIVE BRYAN. Silver Elements in Chicago Make Preparations to Welcome Him. Chicago, July 31. Active preparations are being made for a reception to Wm. J. Bryan, Democratic candidate for the presidency, on the occasion of his visit to Chicago, August 9 and 10. Local sil ver Democrats will meet Saturday or Sunday to prepare a reception. A committee of 26 composed of represen tative Democrats and Populists, and from the trade and labor assemblies, will be named to go out and meet Bryan's train and act as escort to the city. Arrangements for the reception had been held in abeyance pending a re ply by the candidate to whom Robert E. Burke, secretary of the Cook county central committee, sent a letter a few days ago asking if the proposed recep tion would be agreeable. Mr. Bryan's reply came yesterday, thanking- Secretary Burke for the invi tation and accepting. Only informal speeches will be made. There will be no formal opening of the campaign as Gov. Altgeld has advised that it be postponed until after the Cook county convention is held, which will be about August 18. WOMAN SCORCHER HELD. Angeline Poopel, Believed to be the Chicago Woman Who Killed a Man. Chicago, July 31. Angeline Poopel, a type writer, and Bert Fish, a clerk in the Nickel Plate railroad office, were arrested yesterday. Miss Poopel is al leged to be the woman bicyclist who ran into Wm. Klink last Tuesday night resulting in his death. Fish is said to have been with Miss Poopel at the time of the accident. BLACKS WERE IGNORED. Louisiana Sugar Planters Meet and Call Themselves the Republican Party. New Orleans, July 31. The sugar planters' wing of the Republican party had its convention here yesterday. The request of the regular or black wing of the party for a conference was com pletely ignored and the convention sim ply declared itself as the Republican party of the state, declared for protec tion, McKinley and Hobart and fair elections. It was a large and representative gathering numbering several hundred white delegates from all over the state. M. H. Pharr, recent nominee for gover nor, and General A. B. Badger, hereto fore a regular Republican leader, were named as electors at large. CLEVELAND DENIES IT. Declares He Did Not Say There Would Be Another Bond Issue. Buzzard's Bay, July 31. President Cleveland in an interview yesterday said there was no truth in the statement which it is alleged he made to a New York financier regarding a bond issue in December or at least before the close of the administration. Beyond making the denial the president had nothing to say. Missouri Popnlists' Night Session. Sedalia, Mo., July 31. When the Pop ulist state convention reassembled last night a permanent organization was effected, S. A. Wright of Springfield be ing elected chairman. M. V. Carroll secretary and S. A. Pike sergeant-at-arms. The committee on resolutions tian err e in witTi a long address and declaration of principles which were 1 u-u 10 uie uoufeauua but not acted upon, an adjournment being taken until 8 o'clock today. Strayed from pasture in Highland Park, on July 30th, one black mare 8 years old, about 1,200 pounds; one bay mare 4 years old, strip face, black points, about 1,400 pounds; one bay year-old filley. Any person seeing the above is requested to take them up and notify Green Coal Co., 621 Kansas ave nue, Topeka. Broken edge collars made smooth bf Peerless Steam Laundry. M TLLI!-n Thai 14 does ibinqs by halv&5 I r. fenmsHAW-ffo, not if hs- does things: &s he- dosrs People GOT THE WRONG BUTLER. Missouri Populists Go to Meet Sena tor Butler and See M. C. Butler. Sedalia, Mo., July 31. The delegates to the Populist state convention suf fered a rude shock last evening when they adjourned their convention and marched to the "Katy" depot, having been informed by telegraph that Sena tor Butler and they knew no Senator Butler but the chairman of the Popu list national committee would pass through on the evening train. They met "Senator" Butler, but he proved to be ex-Senator M. C. Butler of South Carolina who arose to the oc casion and informed the Populists that he appreciated the honor and that but i for a press of business, he would be pleased to stop over in Missouri and see his old Democratic friends, Sen ators Vest and Coekerell. Silver Men Talk Fusion. Omaha, Neb., July 31. Last evening there was a conference of the leaders of the free silver forces in Omaha. There were representatives of the Democrats, Populists and free silverites among them. The purpose of the meeting was to devise some way of getting the var ious free silver elements of the district united on a candidate for congress. No plan of fusion was agreed upon. 1 TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, July 31. There was a lively market in wheat at the opening today. September started at 58V2c or c over yesterday's close. It eased off to 58c on large northwestern receipts and wa vered for sometime at 58c and 58c. Then came the renewal of bad weather reports from Nebraska and Iowa and cables showed no decline, though the American wheat markets yesterday lost c and the price advanced to 59e. Corn was Influenced by wheat. It opened ic off for September at 24c, but the advance in wheat soon sent it up to 25c. Oats for September opened c off at 17c, then in sympathy with wheat went up to 18c, reacted to 17c, and then revived to 1814c. Provisions were affected by the bull ish tendencies in the grain market. September pork opened at $6 17, over 5c over yesterday's close. It eased off to $6 15 and then reacted to $6 27. September lard started at $3 17 and firmed up to $3 22, or 7c over last night's close. September ribs -opened 5 cents above yesterday's close at $3 25, advanced a point and settled back to the starting point. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, July 31. HOGS Official receipts yesterday 16, 762; shipments 6,632. CATTLE Receipts 7,099; shipments 3,340. SHEEP Receipts 10,659; shipments 2,311. Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow 8,000. Estimated receipts of hogs today 11, 000; left over 3,500. Market active and prices 5 cents higher. Light $3 10 j 3 40; mixed $3 103 30; heavy $2 65 j 3 20; rough $2 65(5 2 85. I CATTLE Receipts 5,500, including 2,000 Texans. Market best native steers j shade higher; others steady. Beeves $3 354 60; cows and heifers $1 40 4 00; Texas steers $2 503 25; stockers and feeders $2 6o3 75. SHEEP Receipts 6,000. Market best lambs 5 to 10 cents higher. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, July 31. CATTLE Receipts 3,800; shipments 2,900. Market steady to strong and ac tive. Texas steers $2 152 90; Texas cows $1 252 85; beef steers $3 25?B 4 25; native cows $1 153 15; stockers and feeders $2 603 65; bulls $1 50 2 55. HOGS Receipts 5,000; shipments 900. Market strong to 5 cents higher, fairly active. Bulk of sales S2 753 00; heavies $2 602 85; packers $2 752 95; mixed $2 853 00; lights $2 903 05; yorkers and pigs $2 953 05. SHEEP R eceipts 500; shipments none. Market steady. Lambs $3 00 5 00; muttons $2 003 40. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr 47 Texas steers 1070 $2 90 WAY.- felloW Scfelcjy 'fiev4S 31 Texas cows 1046" 2 85 42 Beef steers 1 1460 4 25 21 Native cows 1142 3 15 32 Stockers and feeders 541 3 65 7 Bulls 1141 2 55 Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. July 31. WHEAT Rather slow, steady; No. 2 hard 53; No. 3, 49W51; No. 2 red nominally, 55 56; No. 3, 53(5)54. CORN Fractionally higher: No. 2 mixed. 22022; No. 2 white. 22ST224. OATS Firm; No. 2 mixed nominally, 20; No. 2 white, 24. RYE No. 2 nominally, 25. HAY Steady: unchanged. BUTTER Weak; creamery, 12 13; dairy, 10:512. EGGS Generally steady; 7. Market Gossip. New York: The four ports cleared wheat and flour 319,623. Chicago: Estimated receipts tomor row; wheat 155 cars; corn 1,058; oats 326; hogs 8,000. Minneapolis 155 cars today gainst 25 last year; Duluth 115 cars today against 39 last year. New York: London doing nothing on account Monday next being a bank holiday. Chicago: Inspections: Wheat 157-33; corn 1210-30S; oats 235-59. Chicago: Grain out of store, wheat 150,000; corn 365.000: oats 1,000; receipts canal wheat 15; oats 64. Chicago: Puts, September wheat 58, calls 59c; puts, September corn 2ic. calls 25c; puts, January pork $6 80, calls $7 10; curb, September wheat 59c bid. Today's Range of Prices. Op'n. High. Low. Cl'se. Thur. Wheat Cash 57 58 57 58 58 Sept 58 59 E84 58 58 Dec 60 61 60 61 60 Corn Cash 23 24 23 23 23 Sept 24 25 24 Vi 24 v8 24 May 27 28 27 27 27 Oats Cash 18 18 18 18 18 Sept 17 18 17 18 17 May 20 20 20 20 20 Pork Cash 6 12 6 22 6 10 6 20 6 05 Sept 6 .17 6 30 6 15 6 25 6 12 Jan 6 87 6 95 6 87 6 92 6 80 Lard Cash 3 12 3 17 3 10 3 15 3 10 Sept 3 17 3 25 3 17 3 20 3 15 Jan 3 50 3 55 3 47 3 55 3 37 Ribs Cash 3 20 3 25 3 17 3 22 3 15 Sept 3 25 3 32 3 25 3 27 3 20 Jan 3 42 3 47 3 42 3 45 3 45 Range of Prices on S tocks. Topeka Grain Exchange. 526 Ks. Av,2p. rn. Today's range of prices on New York Stocks furnished by Topeka Grain and Stock exchange: Op'n. High. Low. Cl'se. Mon. Op'n. High. Low. Cl'se. Thur. Sugar 103 105 103 105 103 Tobacco 58 59 58 59 5S Leather 47 487 47 48 47 D. C. F 10 10 10 10 10 Rock Island.. 53 50 55 56 55 St. Paul 68 68 67 68 68 Atchison 11 11 11 11 11V- W. U 78 79 78 79 781 Mo. Pac 17 17 17 17 16 U. P 6 6 6 6 6 A. G. Goodwin, President. W. L. Chamberlain, Sec. and Treas. TOPEKA GRAIN STOCK EXCHANGE 526 Kansas Avenue. Private wires to Kew York, Chlcaeo and St. Louis. Reference: Bank of Topeka. Trades TSaced in Grain, Stocks and Provisions. 1,000 bushels and up: 10 shares and up; 50 bbls. and up: margin same as any re sponsible commission house. Correspondents: Kennett. Hopkins Co., New York. Chicago and St. Louik. Correspondence solicited. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. IriOK KfcN'i Large, nice house of seven rooms with barn in Beii V ewadditlou, Tory chaai). J. B. Larimer, 8 Columbian buiidinK- 1,'OK HALE Great snap. 8-roora house. 2 east A front lots Western ayo, $675. Barnes, 113 E. 4th st. M. BAIED. hot air furnaces, galvanized and tin rooting. H, phone k& 216 W.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1S96. The State Journal TWENTY-THIRD TEAR. BT FRANK P. MACLENNAN. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town whra thia paper baa a carrier system. By mail, three months J 90 By mail, one year 3.60 Weekly edition, per year... 60 TEMPORARY QUARTERS: IH and 113 East Seventh Street. PERMANENT HOME Topeka State Journal Building, S09 and S02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business Office Bell 'Phone 107 Business Office Topeka 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 10714 Washington Office: 1519 K St. N. W. New York address: 206 Potter building-, care American Newspaper Pub lishers' association, where files of the paper are always open to advertisers or readers. JULY 1896. San. Man. Tue. Wad. Thur. Frt. Sat. i 2 3 4 5 67S910 U 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27) 28" 29 30 A Great Showing. CIRCULATION STATEMENT First Six Months of Year 1896. The Topeka Daily State Journal has now distanced all competitors. No daily or Sunday paper published In Topeka or Kansas has a circulation bo large. The daily average for the first six months of 1896, ending June 30, 1S9S is IO,625. The circulation for each day of the first half year is given beiow. The issues of the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL for the six months, viz., from the first day of January, 1S96, to the thirtieth day of June, 1S36. in clusive, have been as follows: Day. 1 2 3 4 Jan. Feb. Mar. 620 710 .700 655 10,050 10.150 10,250 10.350 10,400 10,310 10,200 30.400 10,400 10,4o0 10,500 10,475 10,475 10,450 10.500 10,500 10.510 11,220 10,570 10,550 10,500 10,500 10,530 10,525 10,500 10,600 10,525 10,625 10,530 10,925 10.675 10,700 10,700 10.700 in 650 10,600 10,600 10.S25 10,750 10,700 10.750 10,700 10,600 10,700 10,650 10,700 10,600 10.675 10.650 10,750 10,750 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 21 9, 9, -10, 9, .10, .10, 9, 9, 9, 810 480 850 .120 010 S10 S10 S30 850 .850 910 9, 10. ......10, 10, 10, 10, 300 140 100 300 000 100 100 060 160 050 ...10. ...10, ...10, ..10, ..10, Totals 269,005 261,365 277,650 Day. Apr. May. June. 1 10,650 10,725 2 10.700 10,650 3 10,700 4 10,700 10.650 5 10.725 6 10.700 10,650 7 10,700 10,750 8 10,700 10.909 9 10,700 10,825 10 10,600 10,750 10.750 11,100 10,800 10,800 11,000 10,800 10,800 10,700 10,700 10,700 11,000 10.S00 10.875 10,950 11,200 10,850 11,000 10,800 10,750 10.750 10,750 10,750 11,000 11,000 11,000 11 10,600 10, 700 650 650 675 825 900 120 S00 000 850 750 400 soo 800 .700 225 ,800 .300 12 10,65 13 10,650 10, 14 10,650 10, 15 10,650 10, IS 15,650 10, 17 10.650 IS 19 20 21 10.650 12, 10, 10.700 11, 10.700 10, 10,700 10, 10.700 11, 10,600 23 24 25 10,645 10, 26 10, 27 10,650 10, -8 10,650 13, "9 10,650 10 20 10.750 11, 81 Totals 282.395 284,820 282.375 Sunday; no issue. The total number of copies printed in the six months named above, 1,657,610 divided by 156, the number of issues! shows the average to be 10,625. This is a correct report of the issues of the TOPEKA. DAILY STATE JOURNAL for the six months as stated. Editor and Proprietor. Topeka, Kan., July 1, 1S96. HOW WE GREW: In 1S85 the circulation was 800 January 1, 1891, were printed 3,125 Daily average for year 1891 4.3S0 Daily average for year 1892 5,069 Dally average for year 1893........ 6.213 Dally average for year 1894 8,418 Dally average for year 1895 8,217 Pally average 1st C months, XS96.. 10,625 THE GOLD RESERVE. A subscriber at Scranton writes the State Journal asking when the law was passed creating the $100,000,000 gold re serve and why the reserve was created. No such law was ever passed and there is no warrant whatever for the maintainance of a gold reserve of $100, 000.000 or of any other amount. On January 14, 1S75, a law was passed entitled "An act to provide for the re sumption of specie payments." This act after providing for replacing fraction al paper currency with fraction al silver coins reads as follows: "And on and after the first day of January anno Domini eighteen hun dred and seventy-nine, the secretary of the treasury shall redeem in coin, the United States legal tender notes then outstanding, on their presentation for redemption at the office of the assist ant treasurer of the United States In the city of New York in sums of not less than fifty dollars. And to enable the secretary of the treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is author ized to use any surplus revenue from time to time in the treasury not other wise appropriated and to issue, sell and dispose of at not less than par in coin, either of the discription of bonds of the United States described in the act of congress approved July 14, 1870, enti tled 'An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt,' with like quali ties, privileges and exemptions, to the extent necessary to cary this act into full effect and to use the proceeds thereof for the purpose aforesaid." It will be seen that nowhere In this act is there anv mention of a gold reserve or any other kind of a reserve. It will also be noticed that the word "gold" does not appear. The law expressly says that redemption shall be made in coin and that bonds shall be sold for coin for the purposes of redemption. Coin at that time was gold and silver. It is implied by the language of the act, however, that bonds shall be sold only when there is no surplus coin not otherwise appropriated. The idea of a reserve for redemption of government notes is a pure assumption of author ity never granted by congress and the redemption of these notes in gold alone is another. The secretary has no legal right whatever to sell bonds as long as there is a dollar of surplus coin in the treasury, and when he does sell bonds he has no legal right to discrimi nate in favor of one kind of coin and against another. The reserve could as legally have been fixed at one million or at 500 million. OH! WHAT A CHANGE. This is the financial plank of the Re publican party of Kansas in 1S90 only six years ago: "The practical operation of the silver act now in force, recently passed by a Republican majority in both houses of congress, is rapidly increasing the value of silver, is a good step in the right direction; but we, the Republi cans of Kansas, demand the free coin age of silver." "Will Tom Watson back down? We guess nit; he has red hair. This seems to be a Trilby campaign, every convention has "Ben Bolted." The gold Democrats in the outness of their outitude are grasping at every faint hope. Campaign speakers can make them selves popular this kind of weather by presenting a big array of cold facts. If those Wall street bankers would make a raid on the mercury and bring it below the 100 mark, that would be patriotism. There are a great many Republican candidates who have "made records for themselves" who wish now they were well rid of them. C. H. J. Taylor, now of the District of Columbia, formerly of Kansas, frankly says he doesn't know what he thinks of the Chicago ticket until he has heard from President Cleveland. Since Mr. McKinley still insists that the tariff is the issue, the Republican national committee had better allow him to travel away from Canton a lit tle and absorb some information. EJlinwood Advocate: Oh, yes, this is to be a campaign of education. The Lyons Republican is always referring to the free silver leaders as "Brine and Swill." Just how many votes will be won over by this bit of education is just now rather hard to conjecture. In a speech delivered in the senate, John A. Logan said: "I can see as a result of this legislation (the demonet ization of silver) our business opera tions crippled and wages for labor re duced to a mere pittance. I can see the beautiful prairies of my own state and the great west, which are blooming as gardens with cheerful homes rising as white towers along the pathways of improvement, again sinking back to idleness. I can see the hopes of the in dustrious farmers blasted. I can see our people of the west groaning and burdened under taxation to pay debts of states, counties and cities, incurred when money was abundant, and bright hopes of the future were held out to lead them on. I can see the people of our western states, who are producers, reduced to the condition of serfs to pay interest on public and private debts, to the sharks of Wall street, New York, and of Threadneedle street. London, England." ME. BRYAN ON RAILROADS. New York Journal, Most of our local contemporaries are undergoing a novel experience. The Chicago convention surprised them by furnishing matter for controversy not only upon the money question, with which the majority of them, without having studied it very profoundly, are sufficiently familiar to be able to patter some presentable phrases, but upon a number of other economic and social topics about which they know abso lutely nothing at all. It is rather en tertaining in such circumstances to see these bewildered organs accusing spe cial students of these matters of "ig norance," as they are doing now. Our ancient Federalist contemporary, the Commercial Advertiser, for instance, quotes these appalling statements from an old speech of Mr. Bryan's: There is no more dangerous monop oly than a railroad company. I am one of those who believe that there may be in those great enterprises which are virtually natural monopolies a better principle for the public than competi tion, namely, legislative regulation. There is economy in monopoly, but that economy must be used for the benefit of all the people and not for the bene fit of those only who have charge of the monopoly. Upon this citation the Commercial Advertiser comments: In other words, this juvenile orator is an advocate of state socialism in its most complete form. His assertion that a railroad company an organization formed and maintained for the useful and laudable purpose of transporting passengers and freight is a "danger ous monopoly," from its very nature, is a revelation of ignorance which brands this man as unfit, not alone for the presidency, but for the duties of the humblest legislator. Now it happens that the axiom that railroads are natural monopolies Js one of the commonplaces of political econ omy. That the ordinary principles of competition do not work in this field, and that some form of government regulation is a necessity, is recognized by such conservative authorities as Charles Francis Adams, formerly pres ident of the Union Pacific. Most coun tries carry this regulation to the ex tent of having at least part of their railroads operated directly by public officials. None, so far as we are aware, leave them entirely uncontrolled. They have more liberty in the United States than in any other important country in the world. The reasoning of the experts on this matter is simple and conclusive. If the towns A and Z be connected by a single railroad which is abundantly able to handle all the business offered, the construction of another line to share the same business will be, from an economic point of view, a pure waste of the resources of the commu nity. It will be employing two dollars for plant and running expenses to do the work that could just as well be done by one. And it will not even se cure competition, for the two lines, after a preliminary trial of strength, will inevitably combine on a basis of securing and dividing "all the traffic will bear." It is much better to recog nize the essentially monopolistic char acter of the service at the start, and allow the original line to do all the work under such public regulation as will protect its patrons from extortion. In the July number of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which has just come to hand, the public nature of the work of transportation is emphatically asserted by Interstate Commerce Commissioner Martin A. Knapp. "It follows, there fore," observes Mr. Knapp, "from the fundamental office of transportation, that to provide the highways of travel and the agencies of inland exchange is a function of government not merely legitimate, but primary and inherent. To regard these agencies as private property, subject to the rules which govern the management of other pos sessions, is a mistaken and misleading conception. Upon this point there is much confusion of thought and a sur prising want of correct understand ing." Especially, we might add, in some local newspaper offices. The Populist convention at St. Louis had its lessons. Chairman Rozelle of the Missouri state committee warned the state convention yesterday that they were not there for talk alone. No one need foar of not getting near enough to hear when John M. Thurston speaks in Topeka. He has a voice like a tuba. CINCINNATI'S RAILROAD. Voters to Decide About Selling the Line for $19,000,000. Columbus, O., July 31. A peculiar election will be held in Cincinnati next Monday. Cincinnati owns a large railway sys tem known as the Cincinnati Southern, now operated by the Queen and Cres cent company, running from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. It was built by the city soon after the war, when it was thought that the only other road by which the southern trade could be reached, the Louisville and Nashville, was discriminating in favor of Louis ville. It has proved an expensive piece of property and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway company having offered to give $19,000,000 for it, the prop osition to sell the property for that sum will be submitted to the voters of the city, who are the real owners of the road. Hoke Smith to Speak for Bryan. Augusta, Ga July 31. A telegram from the Interior department today is to the effect that Secretary Hoke Smith will accept the invitation to be one of the speakers at the Bryan and Sewall ratification meeting on August 12. We can launder ladies' shirt waists to suit the most critical customer. Peer less Steam Laundry. 'Phone 32, CYCLERS MIU CYCLlffG. A Complex Machine That Will Carry an Entire Family. SIX SHOOTERS FOR WHEEL VY031O. Railroads That Transport Bicycles Tree Racks in Iaeu of Hitching Posts A Tactproof Tire Dis covered Too Many Events at Race Meetings. One of the latest things in cycles Is the triple tandem sociable. The machino is especially adapted to the uses of small parties of cyclists who wish to keep togeth er during an outing. By means of it, also, people who are unable to ride an ordinary TRIPLE TANDEM SOCIABLE. bicycle can enjoy some of the delights of a trip awheel, provided, of course, that some of the seats are occupied by experts. The triple tandem sociable, though of composite build, weighs only 125 pounds. It has seven wheels, the one in front be ing used to steer by. The power that can be applied by the six operators Is sufficient to send the machine along at a rapid rate despite the retarding force of considerable friction. It is expected that the triple tan dem will be found very useful in parades. On it can be mounted musicians whose at tention not being centered on balancing or steering themselves can play any kind of instrument, and thus the problem of how to mount a band on bicycles will be solver. Eeirinners, too, may be taught the bicycle stride and genially familiar ized with the wheelman's tactics by taking a safe mount in the midst of experienced cyclers. Wheelwomen who live in the country or in the suburbs of lcrge cities are frequent ly annoyed by vicious dogs or terrorized by tramps and footpads. For their pro tection a bicycle holstar containing a good sized revolver is suggested. The holster can be made of covert cloth, crash or wool en material and attached to the belt by means of loops, the same as the ordinary bicycle bag. Woman's proverbial though absurd fear of firearms may make the re volver habit one of slow growth among feminine cyclists, and the question of the granting of pistol carrying permits may have to be decided before they take to these little protectors, but it is not unlike ly that wheelwomen will eventually equip themselves for the annoying encounters which are of almost daily occurrence. The bulletin recently issued by the com mittee of transportation of the L. A. W. in reference to the bicycle baggage matter is very encouraging to wheelmen. It shows that mere than a dozen of the big railroads of the country are now transport ing bicycles free of charge when accom panied by the owner and at the owner's risk. The bulletin closes with the follow ing very reasonable appeal to wheelmen: "The transportation committee is en deavoring to secure the free wheel conces sion from all railroads in the United States, and, with that object in view, it is absolutely necessary that a proper under standing of the rights of the railroads as well as those of the wheelmen should bo considered. The committee would request all wheelmen having grievances against railroads to present same through the com mittee on transportation. Some one suggests that, since hitching poets are provided for horses, some sort of arrangement should be provided for the safe keeping of wheels while their owners are in stores temporarily or engaged in business. Now and then a business roan applies for a permit to place in front of his place of business a rack for wheels. This necessity for some means for securing cy cles is felt in every city of the country, and in the course of time it may be adequately provided for. Ever since the first mean man put tacks in the road for the undoing of innocent wheelmen inventors, and many victimized cyclers as well, have been trying to devise a tire that would resist the insidious sharp ness of the pests of the cycle path. And now a young man of Syracuse comes for ward with a rubber contrivance which he claims will put at defiance tacks and all SOLID A TACRPEOOF TIRE. other puncturing things. This affair can be attached to any tire and will only add a few ounces to the weight of the machine. Inside it is a strip of light, thin steel, which protects the tire. An able authority on the subject says that race promoters, especially those in large cycling centers, should avoid pro gramming too many events. With the immense number of entries that are now attracted and the great num ber of heats that arc necessary, five races and the usual time trial are ample. Two hours and a half of such entertainment is sufficient and will usually enable the spectator to sit through it all and then reach home in time for supper. It is pos sible to have too much of vensuch a good thing as cycle racing. CYCLING CHAT. Swell London cycle schools demand $1. 75 per lesson. John Jacob Astor has joined the League of American Wheelmen. A course in the compilation of road maps is obligatory upon any cyclist in the Austrian army. In France cycle thieves are given three years at hard labor. They should get the same reward here. The successful racers in the recent Simp son chain matches were each paid from $750 to $1,000 for their afternoon's riding. Complaints are made that many men who act as bicycle instructors at riding schools and academies do not know how to ride correctly themselves. Pleasant Opera Title. "Jack the Ripper" is the subject of a new opera about to be produced at Verona, music and words by an Italian named Giom. m n m b We carry a full line of the Celebrated Spalding Bicycles. Also the National, Columbus and Ide. COLD llDUi) u HANLAN'S GREAT RACE. The Famous Oarsman's Strong Pull in a "Death Trap." Halifax, N. S., July 31. Early yester day morning, Edward faanlan, the ex champion sculler, was out for practice in Bedford basin, in a shell that had been improperly mended. When the oarsman was a third of a mile out, the glue melted, the gunwale parted just aft the seat and water poured into the boat. Hanlan bent to the oars and drove the shell towards the shore with strokes that never fal tered, although every second the stern sank deeper in the water and the bow rose higher in the air. It was a deli cate matter to keep the boat on an even keel; too strong a pull on either oar meant an overturn, making Hanlan's task a test of skill as well as of strength. The boat sank at last in four feet of water and Hanlan waded ashore. "They built a death trap for me," said he, "but I beat them out in the greatest race I ever rowed." BATTLE OF LOCOMOTIVES. A Coney Island Show That Will Out shine the Streets of Cairo. Brooklyn, July 31. Brooklyn is to have a practical illustration of a favor ite wild western form of amusement. Since the World's fair the larger cities of the east have been deluged with many pleasure-producing enterprises that were genuine novelties to residents of this section of the country on their sight-seeing tour to Chicago in 1893. The promised invasion, however, dis counts anything that the west has yet sent here. It is nothing less than a bat tle of locomotives. Coney Island is to have it. It is promised that the two engines, each weighing thirty-five tons and each drawing two passenger coaches will be jammed into each other head on, at the rate of fifty miles an hour. SHOOTS THE CHUTE. Daring feat of a Cyclist at Bockaway Beach. New York, July 31. The chute at Sea Side station continues to be a great at traction at Rockaway Beach and yes terday the number of persons who passed through the turnstile was close on to 10.000. Prof. Richardson, the daring bicyclist, who rides down the chute hourly on a wheel and dashes head first into the water, was the main attraction to the crowds in the chute inclosure. The feat is a novel as well as a daring one. There is no trick about the dash down the chute. The siim built, young man sits on a broad saddle and astride of a heavy wheel without pedals.and when the pis tol shot that signalises the start is fired he glides down over the cleats on the chute. The pace is a tremendous one and the rider and wheel meet the water with resounding force. The rider is shot over the handle bar as the wheel sinks under the water and he strikes on his chest and face. MR. SEWALL'S BROTHER Is Pastor of a Swedenborgian Church in "Washington. Eoston. July 31. Rev. Frank Sewall. brother of the Democratic candidate tor the vice presidency of the United States preached in the Swedenborgian church of the New Jerusalem on Bowdoin street. Rev. Mr. Sewall is the minister of a recently established Swedenborgian church in Washington, D. C, and is one of the ablest clergymen in his de nomination, having achieved considera ble reputation by his literary work, as well as by his pulpit efforts. SWIM OF SEVEN MILES. E. B. Perry Follows a Whaleback Out in the Lake. Chicago, July 31. E. R. Perry, cham pion swimmer of the Evanston life sav ing crew, left the station at S:40 o'clock yesterday morning and swam in a di rect line towards Michigan. He went to the track of the Christopher Colum bus, three and one-half miles out, and the big1 whaleback passed within a few rods of him. He could see the faces of those about the deck. "No one saw me," Perry said, telling of his experience. "I did not yell or try to attract attention, because I was afraid they would stop the boat for mc. I lay on my side and watch it pass, and in a few moments the swell of the boat raised me quite high above the lake level." Perry then turned towards shore and arrived at the life saving station at noon. He was three hours and twen ty minutes in the water, having swam seven miles. W. P. Kay of the crew watched Perry through glasses. The latter's head was barely visible when he was farthest from shore. We do mending and sew on buttons freeof charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. Constipation Causes fully half the sickness in the world. It retains the digested food too long in the bowels and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indi- n n gestion, bad taste, coated rnnip Qipk hparliiche. in somnia, etc. Hood's Pills i nil ita cure cuu&ui'iihjuu .u ,w results, easily and thoroughly. 25c. All druggists, c. hv f t tTnnrl To.. T.owell. Mass. i The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla mt ut iH ey t: We have a very fine line of Up- to-date Carriages, Surreys, Phae tons, Traps, Road wagons, Har ness and Sundries. DGGY CO, P. J. HINDMARSH, Manager. SALE TK71 1 y TT "ccis leuuueu uuiii ?w.uo uavc taken so a line of 575.00 wheels on $50.00 Spot Cash. d Prices on all second-hand wheels reduced v nearly one-third. v Q $31.25 sale continued colors. Royal Blue, 0 Green, Maroon, Black and 9 9 115-117 East fcfHuiaSgff TILL THE 10th OF AUGUST OUR High Grade Cabinet Photos AT A GREAT REDUCTION. "A HANDFUL OF DIRT MAY BE A HOUSE FUL OF SHAME." CLEAN HOUSE WITH THE Westers hmk Maohins Works ESTABLISHED 1 8TS. (Fomerly Topeka Foundry and Machine Works, Estab, 1855.) Tbe only place in the city where you can get a complete power plant from a stexm engine to a set-collar from stock. g GET PRICES BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. g HSeEOBBOa8aaB2EB3S(BBBaBeBBBffl9E Topeka, Kas. L COFRAN, Proprietor, mmn ubsss' college axd gomsehvutghy. I Founded b? Ex-Gov. Hardin. Unurocednted success. Patrons in 23SttRu X. VJ flh, professors from 12 Colleges tod UniverFitie. Conwrvaiory Sr har jj wenKtt, rennapr oi ueriin t oh nerval orv, tonri rianisi, to taa 1; Kmperor, It oval Prussian Prolensor, Director Of-neml. lO Fro- (Several of the Faculty wore profs3ore in th(?se Conaervctories. Jiplomal x equal lu value to tbow of Berlin. A l,(KK) Prize Pi a no at M tjjFeawv!. Addros A K.. YANCEY, Mexico Mo. BRYAN'S EASTERN TOUR. He Will Visit Sewall and Speak at Portland and Boston. "Washington, July 31. In Democratic circles at the national capital it is un derstood that Bryan will be notified of his nomination on, August 11 in Madi son Square Garden. This is the pro gramme of Senators Gorman and Jones, who will manage the campaign for the candidate, who has an assortment of vice presidents to fit the section of the country in which they belong. Senator Jones of Arkansas is in Ne braska deciding with Bryan on the out lines of his speech of acceptance, which, it is intended, shall be of the sensation al character that made such an impres sion at Chicago. Bryan is known to be full of the Idea that he can do mission ary work in the ea.st, a3 he maintains that the silver question has never been presented there In the proper spirit. The excuse for working- north of New "Fork and Into the benighted region of New England will be a visit to Mr. Sewall, the Democratic wheel horse of the vice presidential team. A week in Bath at Sewall's house will give oppor tunity for speeches at Portland and Boston. on mm 11 i: i W OF J t CAfWl Un-rrrt well this week I will place sale at Orange. Q TRYLR, I Seventh St. d ROW IN A BRYAN CLUB. Populists Want the Name of Watson Substitued for Sewall. Emporia, July 31. At the last meet ing of the Bryan and Sewall club here the Populists predominated and at tempted to change the name of the club to "Bryan and Watson." This was vehemently opposed by the Democrats, and a lively wranele en sued, .during which E. S. Waterbury, a noted Populist lawyer, reached up to the president's stand and with a pen full of ink, blurred out the name of Sewall. This nearly precipitated a riot. Tha Democrats being too few- in numbers, the meeting was captured by their an tagonists, although the records were saved by the president and Sewall's name again inscribed above the form er place. Hall's Hair Renewer cures dandruff and scalp affections; also .all cases of baldness where the glands which feed the roots of the hair are jnot closed up. Try ns on collars. We can make them look like new. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and U4 W. 8th st. 'Phono 3 at

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1896. IT Cutting prices in to reduce stock at THE TOPEKA CASH 108 East imm RAILROAD MEN. Graud Chief Clark of the Con ductors Sow Coming To Investigate the Trouble on the Santa Fe. I tenia of Interest About Kansas Eail road Matters Personals and Miscellaneous. E. E. Clark, grand chief of the Order cf Railway Conductors, will arrive in Topeka this evening- in company with Grand Chief Morrissey of the Brother hood of P.aiiway Trainmen for the pur pose of hoi lira: a conference with Gen eral Manager Frey of the Santa Fe to morrow. Mr. Clark comes to this city in place of A. E. Garrettson, grand senior conductor, who was here a. week ago and expected to return. Grand Chief Clark ranks second in prominence to Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers as the head of a railroad order. The fact i hat he will frive his personal at tention to the grievance now up for ad justment between the Santa Fe train men and tlie company, ."hows that the rnatu-r is considered to be of great im portance. RAILROAD STATISTICS. Interesting Ones From the Interstate Commissioners' Report The eighth statistical report of the in terstate commerce commission, recent ly completed, contains much matter of interest to railroad men. The report shows that the total railway mileage in the United States on June 30, li'.)5, was lSv.657.4T miles, an increase of 1.9IS.92 miles. The territory and states in which the increase in mileage exceeds 100 miles are Arizona, 247.41 miles; Illinois, 1SS.70 miles: Pennsylvania, 15T.00 miles: Maine. 1S2.S6 mils: Texas. 110.41 miles; and Montana. 105.79 miles. The asrgrre srftte length of all tracks in the United States on June So, liy5, was i3ti,ii4.i:6 miles. The number of railway corporations on June 30. is:.r,, ,Vas 1.96a. of which 1.013 maintained operating accounts, and SX linaneial accounts. During the year 14 roads were abandoned. 9 merged, 32 reorganized, and 25 consolidated. From the summaries given pertaining to the equipment of railways, it appears that the increase in number of locomo tives in service was 2u7. the total num ber on June lf:r,. being 3r..6'.rJ. The number of cars of all classes reported, being those owned by railways, was 1.270,oUl, which indicates a decrease of 7,517, as compared with the previous year. The number of tons of freight carried per freight locomotive in 1:5 was 34.S17. showing an increase of 2. 90S when compared w ith the corresponding figures of l?y4. The number of ton miles per freight locomotive was 4.25S.521. the increase over the previous year being 242.1J0. The iigures indicate increased economy in transportation of freight. The number of men employed by rail ways shows an increase of 5.426. as compared with last year, the number of employes being 7!s5.034 on June 30. ls::i. Tile amount of railway capital on June 30. lsnn. is shown to be $10.95.5.203.-l-'fi, or $03,330 per mile of line. The in crease during the year was $153,729,212. The number of passengers carried by tlie railways during the year ending June lS'.G, was 507.421,:M2. which shows a decrease of 20G.S.3T. The num ber of paserirer? reported as carried one mile was 12.15.440.271. a decrease of 2. loO.SL.V.':22 being shown when compar.-d with figun-s lor previous year. The number of tons of freight carried as i e ported by railways was 0!'6.71,171. which gives an increase of 5S.574.61S for the year. Tlie number of tons carried one mile was returned as 8.".22T,515.S9l, indicating an increase of 4,S32.411.1S9. The gross earnings of the railr.-avs of the United States for the year ending June 30. l5!5, were $1 075.371.4ti2, an in crease of tJ.Ontt.tJcr, ijr l!le year being thus shown. The expanses of operation for the same peri. id -r $725,720,415, which were $r.6!.9oT less than for 1SH4.' The number cf railway employes killed during the year ending June 30. 1S95, was 1,811. and th number injured was 25.606. The Iigures compared with those of the previous year show a de crease of 12 in number killed, and an in crease of 2.274 in the number injured. Tlie number of passengers killed was 170, the number injured 2.375. These figures give for the yea.- a decrease of 154 in the number killed, and 059 in the number injured. The number of pass engers ki!U-d is remarkably small. The smallest number killed in anv of the preceding seven years was 26." in 1SHO One employe was killed for each 433 employed and one emplove was injur ed for each 31 employed." Of the cla-s of employes known as trainmen, that is engineers, firemen, conductors, and oth er employes whose service is upon trains, it appears that one was killed for each 155 in the st rvice, and one in jured for each 11 in the service The number of passengers carried for each passenger killed during the vear was 2.9S4.S32, and the number carried for each passenger injured was 213.051. The liability of passengers to accidents is better shown in the fact that 71 6&d 7 passenger mile were accomplished for every passenger killed and 5,131,977 for Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report We move Tuesday, August 4th, to 713-715 Kansas Avenue, next Crosby Bros. every department the old stand. DRY GOODS Sixth. CO., every passenger Injured. A compara tive statement shows that considerable advance was made during IStia in re spect to railway casualties. It is sug gested that beneficial results were de rived from the fitting of equipment with automatic appliances as well as from the raising of the character of railway service and grade of railway equip ment. CHANUTE ITEMS. Personals and Notes Among the Em ployes of tlie Santa Fe. From Our Special Correspondent. Engineers J. M. Jones and John J. P. Powers has returned to Chanute from the Xew Mexico divisioin. Engineer G. C. Scott is in Colony re lieving Engineer S. E. Webb for a few days. Engineer T. J. Leabo has been sent to Cherryvale to relieve S. B. Traugh ber on the switch engine for a week. Mrs. John Plake, wife of Fireman Plake. will fro to Argentine to visit witli friends for a week. Engineer J. It. Vansandt is laying off on account of sickness. Engineer A. Murry is running his engine. 319. Mrs. J. T. II anna has gone to Chica go to visit her mother for a week. Reduced Rate3 Kansas Meetings. The following reduced rates affecting Kansas meetings have been authorized by the western passenger association: A rate of one and one-third fare for the state circuit meet of the L. A. W. to be held at Lawrence. August 17. A rate of one and one-third fare for the annual meeting of the Central Pro tective association at Argentine, Sep tember 2 4. A rate of one and one-third fare for the state circuit meet of the L. A. W. to be held at Emporia, August 24. "Wabash. Enters the Rate War. Kansas City, July 31. The Wabash railway entered the grain fight yester day by reducing the rates from Kansas City to Chicago and St. Louis to meet the competition of the Missouri Pacific. On Friday the Wabash will put in a rate of 8 cents on flax, 7 cents on wheat and 4 cents on corn and other grains to St. Louis. On August 2. the Wabash will make a rate to Chicago of 13 cents on flax. 12 cents on wheat and 9 cents on other grains. Chanute Water Contract General Superintendent Mudga of the Santa Fe has informed the city clerk of Chanute that the company will ac cept the proposition made by the city council for the extension of their water contract, and that an addition of ten stalls will be made to the roundhouse and another water tank placed in the yards. The addition to the roundhouse will be built either this fall or early in the spring. Trainmaster Strohm. C. B. Strohm, trainmaster of the eastern portion of the Chicago division of the Santa Fe, has been appointed su perintendent of terminals to succeed W. C. Xixon who has been assigned to oth er duties. W. B. .Scott has been ap pointed to succeed Mr. Strohm as trainmaster at Chillicothe. The ap pointments become effective August 1. Elect a Delegate. The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen have se lected Mrs. W. A. McGirk os delegate to the national meeting of the order in conjunction with the national conven tion of the B. of L. F. at Galveston, Tex., in September. Fireman E. D. Webb will represent the B. of L. F. Mora Train Crews. On account of the present immense freight traffic over the eastern division of tile Santa Fe. four additional train crews, twelve men. were taken into ser vice yesterday by Trainmaster Tice. The men are from Argentine, and are extra train men who were relieved last fall on account cf light traffic. The Auxiliary's Social. The ice cream social under the au spices of the Ladies' auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, which was to have been given ten das ago but was prevented on account of rain, wili be given next Tuesday even ing at the residence of Mrs. Robert Barnes at 311 Hancock street. REQUISITIONS Issued By the Governor for Criminals of Various Kinds. Governor Morrill has Issued the fol lowing requisitions: On the governor of Illinois for the ar rest and extradition of Busten Bush, wanted for assault with intent to kill, in Montgomery county. F. C. Moses, sheriff. On the governor of Oklahoma for the extradition of John Jackson, charged with murder in the first degree. in Craw ford county. John T. Deets, sheriff. On the governor of Oklahoma for the extradition of James and Samuel Hen mnger. wanted in Kiowa county for embezzlement. John T Sidener, sher iff. Governor Morrill has honored a re quisition of the governor of Illinois for Marion Bowman, who was arrested at Oskaloosa on Tuesday for the abduc tion of Mattie McKinley of Springfield, Illinois. Ayer's Pills lead all aperients and purgatives. Their action is gsntle ajnd thorough. ELDER BRANT'S FIGHT On the Joints and Kesuhmlssion ists At Fort Scott, and Some of the Features of It. Other Political News of an Interest ing Nature Conventions, Speeches, Etc. A' contest between Governor Morrill and Elder Brant over the Fort Scott police commission is in progress. Elder Brant is determined that J. J. Stewart, the president of the board shall either close the joints, resign, or get out of his church. Governor Morrill does not want Stewart to resign. Stewart's res ignation is in the hands of the governor but has not been acted on yet and in the meantime people who are mutual friends of the governor and Stewart are trying to persuade him to reconsider his determination to resign anu vm.u draw his resignation. Some few days ago a Topeka man jokingly wrote Elder Brant a letter in which he called the elder's attention to the fact that Fort Scott had a number of joints in operation in excess of her quota as allowed by law. The letter went on to state that under the statutes of Kansas a city was allowed to have one joint for each 1 00ft inhehitanis. and as Ft. Scott only had 11,000 inhabitants as shown by the spring census, and as she had is joints it suggested that the elder ought to have two of the joints closed. The elder immediately brought the matter ud before the church and made things so warm for Stewart, who was a member of the church, that he ror warded his resignation to the govern or. Several applicants have filed their petitions for the place, DUt tne gov ernor will probably not take action un til Stewart makes up his mind as to what he wants to do. ALL ARE IDIOTS. More of the Arguments That Eastern Press Turns on Kansas. The followinsr is from the New York Tribune and is another specimen of New York political argument which no doubt will win votes for the gold cause LIKE ATTRACTED LIKE. An Amusing Incident in St. Louis Sound Political Sentiment in Kansas. Washington. Julv 26. (Special) Sur geon O. C. McXary of the United States military post at Leavenworth, Kan. .ar rived in Washington yesterday with 26 unfortunates for whom he procured aa mittance in St. Elizabeth's insane asy lum. "An incident happened on our arrival at St. Louis." said he, that caused no little merriment to all our party out side of the poor fellows from whose mental faculties all setose of humor has long since fled. We were lying on a sidetrack prior to entering tne station, and all about us were passenger coach es bedecked with Populist banners and mottces of the People's Party. Pres ently some urchins came along, and one of my guards gave one of them a quarter to steal a Populist fag and place it alongside the car we were in. In a little while thereafter a number of long-whiskered Reubens sa.unte.ed over to exchange greetings and swap views on the advisability of standing by Bryan. They had engaged in con versation one of the least crazy of my patients, a poor Vjld fellow that had not lost all intelligence, and the visi tors had no suspicions touching his sanity. The rest of us listened eagerly to trie questions put by the spokes man: 'Where are you folks from?' 'From Leavenworth.' 'And where are you bound?' 'We are going to Washington, where all good Populists go.' "Just about this time the discovery was made by the strangers that they had tackled a car bearing a lot of lun atics east, and they took French leave amid the jeers and laughter of a lot of people, who thought it was dead case of like attracting like." A POPULIST'S IDEA. He Suggests a Way for Populists to Act in the Present Campaign. We read your clear statement in the Journal of the 2Sth that "the Populist mix" would result in the election of Mc Kinley and Hobart, let me suggest a solution of the difficulty, for it seems to us that the election of McKinley and Hobart will surely be prevented if the following plan is adopted. In states where there is a fusion of Democrats and Populists on the state ticket let the state conventions agree upon the same men for presidential electors and for whom they shall vote, and in states where there is no fusion on the state ticket let the electors be the same persons but who shall be in structed to vote for Bryan and Sewall if the state goes Democratic and for Bryan and Watson if the state ticket of the Populists is elected. This would compel the Democrats and the Popu lists to work, each for the success of their own ticket, and would promote enthusiasm, and make the election of Bryan certain with either Sewall or Watson for vice president, as the state might vote. Very truly, A. F. THAYER. Vera, July 31, 1S96. OSBORNE AGAINST MORRILL. Desperate Efforts Made to Instruct for the Governor. Osborne, July 31. The Republican convention held here to select delegates to the state convention, appellate court convention of the central northern di vision, at Junction City, August IS and the Thirty-fourth senatorial convention comprising the counties of Ellsworth, Lincoln. Russell and Osborne, to be held at Russell, August 20, was entirely har monious. The delegates to the state convention are: S. P. Cmmpton, M. F. Hudson, Ed McFadden. E. O. Henshall. P. W. Kenyon. G. W. Wilson and Wm. Clem mons. The delegation is uninstructed, and understood to be anti-Morrill. The resolutions indorse the St. Louis platform, but don't say a word for or against the state administration. The delegates to the senatorial con vention are: R. R. Hays, E. M. Jone3, John Cronk, W. C. Brown. D. R. Wor ley. Charles Armsburg, Ed Hahn, and Charles W. Landis. The delegation are not instructed, but are favorable to the nomination of E. W. Wellington of Ellsworth for state senator. The appellate court delegates are: F. F. McBride. Israel Moore and O. Greg ory, not instructed. J. R. Burton and W. B. Sutton, can didates for United States senator, ad dressed the people both afternoon and night. A big effort has been made to get the Osborne bounty delegation Instructed Set? y Mt Js&h B.-'llii'f 6 for Morrill. Besides Capt. C. M. Cun ningham, the governor's appointee for commandant of th? Soldiers' home at Fort Dodge, is a resident of the county. Neither he nor his friends were strong enough to carry instructions. HARRIS IS CONFIDENT. Thinks He Will be Nominated and Populists Will Endorse Sswall. Leavenworth, July 31. Ex-Congressman W. A. Harris of Limvood, arrived in Leavenworth last night to attend the Popuiist county convention today. In an interview he said he had ad vices from all parts of Kansas, and there was no doubt about his nomina tion for governor by the Populist state convention. He said he favored fusion and that the Populists would endorse the Bryan and Sewall electors put up by the Democrats and in return the Democrats would endorse the entire Ponulist state ticket. He said: "I don't want to appear as though we are acting in bad faith towards the St. Louis Populist convention or the south ern people, but they seem to be acting in different states, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, just as it seems best for them in regard to state mat ters. They are threatening to divert their voUs from Bryan whenever it seems necessary to them in orrer to gain an advantage for a state ticket. I regard Bryan much mure the real choice of the St. Louis Populist con vention than Wftson. It was conceded on all sides that the Populists should do nothing to jeopardize Bryan's suc cess." BURTON AND LONG TO SPEAK. The Republicans of Anthony Organiz ing for the Campaign. Anthony, July 31. The Republicans of this city met last night and organ ized an enthusiastic Republican club with a membership of 100. The following officers were elected: T. A. Nofzger. president: E. D. Davis, vice president: J. E. Hutchinson, sec retary: P. G. Walton, treasurer. Committees were appointed to make Saturday's meeting a success and to secure new members. Chester I. Long and J. R. Burton wiil address the Re publicans at their convention in An thony next Saturday. LITTLE AT HSRINGTON. Draws a Large Audience A Promi nent Republican Presides. Herington. July 31. Edward C. Lit tle addressed a well filU-d opera house liist evening on free silver. A misguid ed goldbug endeavored to confuse Lit tle with a series of questions and af forded the orator an opportunity to amuse his audience at the goldbtig's expense. M. D. Herington, an old Re publican and the founder of the city, presided. A very large number of Re publicans here have decided to stand by free silver. O. L. Thisler for Representative. Abilene, July 31. O. L. Thisler was in the city last evening and announced that he had finally determined to stand for re-election to the legislature a?id that his name would be before the coun ty convention. Mr. Thisler was in the last legislature and made a clean and valuable member. Hutchinson McKinleyClub 200 Strong Hutchinson, July 31. The McKinley club held its second meeting here last night to a crowded house. The club now has a membership of 200as reported by the membership committee. Garden City M'Kinley Club. Garden City. July 30. A McKinley club was organized here last night, 1S6 strong. Good speeches were made by Brown, Mason, Hopkins and Burtis. EIGHT CENTS A BUSHEL. What Oklahoma Farmers Will Get for Their Corn. El Reno, O. T.. July 31. Corn this year in Oklahoma will b so plentiful that It will probably not bring more than 8 cents a bushel. Aside from a few districts where the crop was injured by hail an unpreced ented average yield is reported and it is thought that there will be a surplus of about half a million bushels in the territory to ship. ADVERTISING ALONE WON'T 5 ELL, GOODS. ADS. MAY SET YOU THINKING, BUT THEY DON'T CARRY THE FORCE DEEDS DO. THE GREAT EVERYTHING READ THESE RSSViAREt ABLE LOW PR1GEO-- AfJD JOm THE THRONG TOMORROW. ALL $10 MEN'S SUMMER SUITS, Clean Sweep Sale One Lot Men's CO to 2.00. TO PENSIONERS. Pension Agent Glick Makes a Sug gestion to Them. Pension Agent G. W. Glick desires to say to the pensioners who get their checks through the Topeka agency, that if they will agree on some place to meet and have their pension papers made out and will have a notary there to certify to them, he will send some of the clerks from the pension olTice up to make out the papers. This will insure the correctness of the papers and will facilitate rapid work in getting the checks distributed. Goxernor Glick will ask Postmaster Arnold to make the same arrangements for delivering the checks to the pensioners that were made at the last payment. Assistant Postmaster Eugene Wolfe said to a reporter this morning that the same arrangements would be made for handling the crowd as were made last time. THROWN FROM A CART. Mrs. J. Rey and Her Daughter Badly Eruised. Mrs. J. Rey, residing about ten miles east of Topeka on the the Lawrence road, and her six-year-old daughter were thrown from a road cart and badly bruised while driving into To peka yesterday. While in the suburbs the hores which Mrs. Rey was driving became frightened at a bicycle, which passed them going in the same direc tion, and comenced to run. Instead of stopping his wheel, the bicyclist kept alongside of the horse, which became more thoroughly frightened and un manageable at every jump, and ap peared to enjoy the race. At an alley the horse swerved and overturned the cart, throwing Mrs. Rey and her daughter to the ground. The bicyclist saw the accident but continued on his way without offering any assistance. His name is not known. The little gifl sustained a number of very painful bruises. Mrs. Rey's in juries were but slight. WILL NEVER WITHDRAW. Democratic Candidate for Vice Presi dent Announces His Determination. Mew Tork, July El. "The Herald" publishes a special dispatch from Bath, Me., in which, in reply to the question as to whether he would resign from the Democratic ticket, Mr. Sewall says: "Resign? I never withdraw and 1 never resign. I was nominated by the Democratic convention, and I am a Democrat." Blackweli's Durham Circus. The Blackweli's Durham Tobacco company advertising which appears in the State Journal offers a number of premiums upon certain conditions. Among these premiums is a remark able series of colored cards which may be cut out and r.iade to represent an actual circus, affording great delight to children. For additional information in regard to these premiums will be found by watching the advertisements, or by writing to the Durham company, Philadelphia. For Sale. I have for sale for a customer 100 shares of stock, $100 each, of the Bank of Topeka, Topeka, Kansas. In order to close it out quickly, I will sell all or any part of it, subject to sale, at 80. M. J. Harrington, 521 Xelavax St, Kansas City, 2a. CLEAN SWEEP BALE GO EXOEPT OUR GOOD rJAfllE. ALL Si 2 MEN'S SUMMER SUITS, Clean Sweep Sale $3.00 ALL Si 5 MEN'S SUMMER SUITS, Clean Sweep Sale 10.00 Thin Summer Coats and Clean Sweep Sale Price $1.50 Men' Pants now go for $2.50 Men's Pants now go for 95c $1.45 BOYS' SUITS AT 50c Crakaiack 50c Mother's Friend Waists now go for Knee Pants r UWV now go for now go for $1.25 Fine Negligee Shirts A&S28?&T.? 65o FURNISHING GOODS At Can't Help Buy Prices. 1GC Lawn Neckwear. CLEAN SWEEP SALE 20c Fast Black and Tan Half Hose, CLEAN SWEEP SALE S0c White Handkerchiefs, CLAN SWiiEP SALE 5c 8c 9c 25c Fine White and Fancy Handker chief -m O j CLEAN SWEEP SALE i 5'2 25c 4-pIy Linen Cuffs, all stvles, CLEAN SWEEi' SALE 10c CLOTHING CO. 709 Kaus. 55E2Z3i3l223 SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS Marshall's band went to Holton at noon today to play at the races. Crosby Brothers will add a shoe de partment to their big store this fall. There is a man in Topeka who claims to be a cousin of Senator Till man. Real estate men say this is the dull est month of the year in real estate business. Adjutant General Fox has gone to Manhattan to participate in the Repub lican primary. The Populist county convention will open at 10 a. m. tomorrow at Liberty hall, 420 Kansas avenue. Prof. Worrall is having trouble to find a vacant store room in which to build a section of the Festival dragon. The Wyandotte county Democrats have sent Topeka delegates resolutions thanking Major Shreve and others for courtesies. Old timers say that the temperature reached 116 degrees in Topeka one sum mer. If it keeps on at the present rate it is liable to break the record. A new Populist campaign badge has arrived. It is a silver pitchfork upon whose tines are empaled tfu'ee gold bugs representing McKinley, Roth schild and Hobart. A Santa Fe official, who is contem plating a hunting trip to Colorado, is busy trying to decide on the manner of camp tent to take along. Each of his friends recommends something dif ferent. If the employes of the Santa Fe gen eral offices would decide on one of the number of pretty young lady steno graphers in the building as queen of the Floral Festival, and vote solid, she would probably receive the crown. Here Prof. Worrall As Topeka means potatoes, you should prepare a monster potato for your "night pageant." Let a muscular man appear on a float rep resenting Atlas: but instead of bearing the world on his shoulders let it be a Kaw valley potato. STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Will Ba Addressed By Geo. R. Peck January 20. The following members of the exec utive committee of the state bar asso ciation met yesterday. W. R. Smith of Kansas City, Kan., and Judge John Day of Topeka. M. B. Nicholson of Council Grove and T. B. Wall of Wichita. George R. Peck will deliver the an nual address to the association. Judge A. Bergen will discuss Lincoln's career as a lawyer. In addition will be the president's annual address and ad dresses by other speakers. The annual meeting will be held In this city on January 20 and 21. Stenographers to Organize. A meeting of the stenographers of Topeka was held last night to discuss the advisability of organizing an as sociation of stenographers in this city. A resolution wa3 adopted favoring such an organization, and it is expected that the association will be formed early In September. There are at least thirty stenographers in this city ready to en ter the association as soon as formed. The object of the organization will be the mutual advancement of its mem bers. It is proposed to establish a lib rary, and to conduct speed and educa tional classes. BIRTHS. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pound3. of 335 Harrison street, are the parents of a daughter. Mr.and Mrs.Lewis Frost, of 1030 Lime street, are the parents of a son. Dr. A. P. Sawyer: I have used on box of your Family Cure for a. severe pain in my side, and was cure'd from all pain. Mrs. Mary Jane Marshall, Galesburg, 111. Frank Sim, Pharma cist, 637 Kansas avenue. THE TOWH TAL.I1- ALL $18, $20 SUMMER SUITS, Clean Sweep Sale $12.00 Vests, were $3.50 Men's Pants now go for $5.00 Men's Pants now go for $3.45 $2.45 HALF -PRICE- 25c 98c Child Wash n p suits, ages 3 to f. 4UV 6, now go for fSJ B0c Genuine Ouyot Suspenders, CLEAN sWEfcP SALE 60c Finest Silk Neckwear. CLEAN SWEEP SALE BOo Fine Leather Beits. CLEAN SWEEP SALE 60c Thin Calfskin Glove. CLEAN SWEEP SALE 60c Balbriirgan I ntlerwear. CLEAN SWEEP SALE 1 1.25 French Eon Bon Ha!lri(r?:in Underwear. Clr.iu Seep Sale 25c 25c 25c 25c 25c 50c Av. Auerbaeh Gucttcl. GEN. CAMPRELL RECOVERS.' Writes a Letter to a Topeka Friend Indicating a Clear Mind. P. H. Coney has received the follow ing letter from Gen. A. B. Campbell, who is now confined in an insane asy lum in California: "I am well and all right again. Will soon go to work once more in the rtruf gle of life. Please tell my friends so and remember me especially to Torn Anderson and James A. Troutrnan ar.d all who 'nquire. "A. B. CAMPBELL." The letter relates principally to some business transactions, and is written in a firm even hand. It is evident that Gen. Campbell has recovered his men tal equilibrium. Low Excursion Rates to the East Via "Burlington Route." HALF RATES. N. E. A. meeting, Burtalo, N. T., July 7th to 11th. Christian Endeavor mestlng, Wash ington. July 7th to l?th. Baptist Young People's Union of America. Milwaukee, Juiy ICth to 13th. National Republican league, Milwau kee, Aug. 25th to 27th. Democratic convention, Chicago, Ju ly 7th. Ask ticket agent for tickets via Ves tibuled "Eli" to Chicago, and via Ves tibuled Limited to St. Louis. Both trains supplied with the most modern equipment. L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Asent. St. Louis. Mo. Fort Saturday and Monday. :o lbs Finest Oil. Granulated Sugar SI OS 21 lbs Kest Granulated Husjar 1 O 27 lbs Nice Brown Kugnr 1 OO 1 "2-ozcan K. C. Baking Powder (sells at 5c) only 15 1 16-oz can Koyal or Price's Dak. Powder 40 1 box Buttermilk Soap 04 10 bars Silk or Ladies' Friend Soap 23 WE WILL NOT BE BEAT ON FLOUR. MEAT DEPARTMENT. Dry Salt Pork per lb Smoked P,acon per lb Pure Leaf Lnrd per lb California liains per lb.. 'ood Steak, 2 lbs for E-oiling Meat 3,o 7c 7 7o lSe 4c A little off the avenue, but we can save you money. THE NEW &a&rar.t?ci STORE. Kemper z Pasrtons, SIXTH 0 QUINCY. v

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31. 1896. k.. 'tv 1 S ALL SUNDAY SCHOOLS I The Mills-Adams Co. Of Sbawnee County Want to March at the Festival. p P TIio tallest Poppies in our merchandising J garden for Saturday are t WHITE CHAMOISE 1TATTI7Q SKINGLOTES. IjLU I lifJ i THE GENUINE WASHABLE FOR y&mfH KINW. Our regular S1.00 j'a.Wra quality. "We hare too many, Vi4" Jl5sizes G 1-2 and 6 3-4, and to 'S' SM dispose of them quickly, we seii them Saturday f$ Xiadiss' Muslin Underwear. rKJ J ODI5 LOTS SLIGHTLY SOILED- S teAyU 5".:3S Gowns for 75c ea. Vt f Gowns for 45c ea. f v Korsct lovers Tor 35c ea. f tOTM 25c Corset Covers. 15c 25c Chemise 15c 4 r:yir: 35c Skirts 25c 50c Chemise 35c i-s 50c Skirts 35e 75c Skirts 45c J 50c Ladies' Knit Underwear for 35c. Ladies' Swiss 5 Ribbed Lisle Vests, V or Square Neck, White or Ecru, our 50c article. Saturday 30c EACH, 3 FOR S 1 .OO sa-ALSO ssx Ladies' Swiss Ribbed Tests, Ecru and White, Square and V Neck, our 25c quality. Saturday ISc, 2 FOR 35c Childrens' White Ribbed rants 19c, our 25c quality. 25e 31 en's Underwear for 18c. 3Ien's lialbriggan Shirts and Drawer, a superior 25c article. Saturday 18c, 2 FOR 35c. The IN THE SOCIETY WORLD. General Kotes of Society Personal Items. and Recent Social Events in Topeka and Vicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Hibben and son gevery, have returned from Cascade, Col. Miss Mabel Chase, who has been ill is much improved. Miss Edith Scott of Holton will arrive tomorrow to visit Miss Lu Shumate. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Lewis will return from the City of Mexico tomorrow after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kertch er. Miss Susie Gay and Miss Gertrude Devereux of Los Angeles, will arrive Wednesday to visit Miss Isabel Thomp son. They are now visiting with rela tives in Lawrence. Mr. Theodore Thomas has returned from Leavenworth. Mr. David Lakin returned today from Wamego, where he visited his brother Burr Lakin. Miss Helm and Miss Clay of Bel vue, are the guests of Miss Charlotte Lyman, 213 East Seventh street. Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Popenue and son Paul left today for Glenwoood Springs, Col., to be gone three weeks. Geo. Stoker, Justin Bowersock, Hal Hazlett, and Dean Low attended the races at Holton yesterday. Miss Myrtle Davis will entertain in formally tomorrow evening for her friend. Miss Kate Pennell of Atchison, Who arrived today to be her guest. A large number of people attended the band concert at Garfield park last night. The band will go to Holton to day. Miss Antonia Krauss was pleasantly Furprised by a number of her friends IWednesday evening. Mr. Theo. D. Hammatt will go to Col orado Springs next week. Mrs. E. B. Merriam will entertain the Bradley-Merriam wedding party this evening. Mrs. M. F. McMahan will leave today for Indianapolis, lnd., having been call ed there by her mother's illness. Miss Nell Wetherholt and Miss Edith Bmith returned yesterday from a two Reeks outing at Excelsior Springs. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black went to Chicago yesterday. Miss Gertrude Babeoek spent Wednes day and Thursday in Kansas City. Mr. C. M. Merriam will go to Em poria tomorrow and spend Sunday with Mr. A. H. Plumb. Mr. W. A. Hagadron of the City of Mexico, will arrive tomorrow. Mies Mame Barrett of Otttawa spent yesterday in the city on her way to 34olton. Mr. Theo Hammatt gave a dinnner last evening to Mr. C. M. Merriam. Mr. .George M. Crawford. Mr. M. F. Mur Ihy, Mt. Ned Osborn and Mr. Harry -Weaver. Mr. T. P. Culley spent yesterday in lawrenee. Mrs. Walter Littlefield and daughter 5Wiss Franc Littlefield, leave Monday for Petoskey, Mich. Mr. Littlefield will ?eave the same day for a trip to Cali fornia. Mr. Chas. A.:Roehr has returned from three weeks trip to New York. E Mrs. James Brewer and sister, Mrs. WOhas. D. Pierce, leave tomorrow for i'Denver. A tennis tournament of doubles will Le played tomorrow afternoon on the (courts, corner Tenth and Fillmore streets. The games will begin prompt ly at three. Thte drawings took place iaet night with: this result: Herbert .Armstrong and S. Stoddard against H jIohler and A. Lanch; Lu Bronson and U3eo. Stoker against Ed McBride and iJake Mohler: Justin, Bowersock and H fX.awrenee will also play. Hall's Hair Eenewer cures danflniff md scalp affections; also all cases of aldness where the glands which feed ne roots (or the hair are not closed up. Rook like new. Peerless Steam Laundry, ana u. vv. sin st. -.fnone 332. We do mending and sew on buttons efel.caa.rae. ieenleiis Steam Laundry. s 7 5c I Mills-Adams Co. YIOLA ALLEN. A Prominent Actress Who Refuses All Offers to Go Starring;. To the average actor or actress the op portunity to become a star is the one great hope in life. In dreams the 24 sheet stands, with the name in letters four feet high, ap pear nightly t-o torture and encourage the victim to redoubled effort to reach the cov eted goal. The caws are lew indeed wherein a performer has refused as offer to aban don the ranks for the eminence of star hood. Still there are some examples of good hard sense among the members of the theatrical "profession. It is proba bly within bounds to say that Miss "Viola l?n bus had more opport unities to star, witn ample pecuniary backing, than any womia on the American stage. She has, however, steadfastly put vanity in the background, to the end that siie might continue in the course long since marked out for herself. She realizes that every actress has limitnt ions, and that she is no exception to the rule. She is also sensible enough to recognize that while she is pe culiarly fitted to be a leading woman she is not perfectly adapted to the require ments of starring. And this, too, despite the fact that Miss Allen's career would seem to warrant a young woman in form ing an exalted opinion of her own abilities. She made her debut in 18S2 as Esmer alda at the Madison Square theater, New York. The next season she supported John McCullough at the Lyceum theater, where she was a deserved favorite for her fine representations. During the season of 18S5 acd ltiS6 she supported Saivini, showing an intellectual conception of a very high order of tho characters of Bes demona and Parthenia. She then returned to the Madison Square theater and did the leading business until the season of 1887, When she was engaged t-o play in "Hood- if' 'jr 'TIT -li-ta-'J Z.- -3 VIOLA ALLEN. man Blind" with a traveling company. It was in ''Hoodman Blind," at the Grand Opera House, Boston, that she first ap peared before a Boston audience, and while there Mr. Field, manager of the long fa mous Boston Museum, saw her and en gaged her for the season of 1888 and 1889. She was leading woman of the old Mu seum company until she joined Joseph Jefferson to play in standard old comedies in casts comprising such famous people as William J. Florence, Mrs. John Drew, Frederick Pnulding and Mr. Jefferson himself. She added to her reputation by this engagement and left to create the role of the heroine in Bronson Howard's Shen andoah. She next appeared in the same author's "Aristocracy" and was then en gaged for leading business in the Empire Theater (New York) Stock company. There she has been ever since, having orig inated a number of characters and built up a large following in that and other cities. She is generally admitted to be the foremost leading lady of this country. And still Miss Alien sensibly refuses to become a star. Lotto's FlnanoM. A successful bachelor maid is Lotta, who has wooed a goodly fortune from the fickle goddess. She is credited with hav ing $3,000,000 well invested in a hotel in Bosten, next to the Park A ven ue theater, which she also owns. In New York she !ias a fine apartment house, and she owns real estate all over the country. She ami her mother, Mrs. Crabtree, make all of th( investments without the halp of men. He: father was an unsuccessful miner, and i: was from a log cabin on Babbit creek. California, that the actress made her de I US, x- i .-V. y If f: J Will Go to the Old Sol diers Camp And "Wave Flags for the Soldiers and Listen to Patriotic Speeches Meeting of the Commit tee of Fifteen. By a proposition submitted to the Committee of Fifteen at its meeting last night the Sabbath schools of To peka and Shawnee county will be given an opportunity to show their combined strength. J. H. Foucht and R. F. Glascow ap peared before the committee and asked to be heard. Mr. Foucht We are here as repre sentatives of the Sabbath school ele ment of Shawnee county. It has been suggested that tlie Sabbath schools of the city and county could make a good showing here during festival week and give a parade and demonstration on some day not later than Thursday. We might gather at the state house and march. We would probably not need more than three hours from 9 to 12 in the morning. Mr. Rodgers I believe this would be a good idea and move that it be ac cepted and that Mr. Foucht and Mr. Glascow be made a committee to see that all arrangements are made and that Thursday be made the day. The children can have their speaking and exercises on the west steps of the state house in the shade. Mr. Bradford I think we are making a mistake about this. The zouaves are going to parade on that day and so are the school children and that will take pretty nearly all of the children and leave mighty few of the Sabbath school parade. Now if you will make it some other day and give my boys an oppor tunity to do just what they want to do, parade twice, I think it will be better. Major Anderson I think it would be a good idea to take some special day, a forenoon say, and gather the Sabbath school children together and march to the fair grounds and honor the camp. This will greatiy please the old aoldiers. Mr. Glascow Mr. Bradford must re member that the children from the country Sabbath schoools will be in cluded. Thousands of them will march and I don't think a march of a mile is too much for a five-year-old Mr. Titus Why not have each Sab bath school have a float full of children in the lioral parade? Mr. Bradford As an amendment to Mr. Rodgers' motion I move that the date for the Sabbath school demon stration be left open. This carried. A member of the committee suggests that it must not be forgotten that the old soldiers themselves are going to parade on the morning of Thursday. There are two morning dates open Tuesday and Friday. THAT MANY LEGGED. DRAGON, Which It Will Take 200 Men to Man ipulate, is Begun. Capt. Titus, as chairman of the com mittee on amusements and displays, re ported to the Committee of Fifteen last night that Prof. Worrall had been emplcryed to give all his time to the preparation of the dragon and other features of the big parade of the week which is to take place on Thursday night, and further that a competent machinist, a Mr. Brubaker. had been engaged to help him, and that the work would begin immediately. "The whole business will not cost to exceed $1,000," said Mr. Titus. Mr. Doran That's just what the peo ple want. They want to know that work is going on in earnest on the pro cession. There are lots of merchants in this city who want to put floats in the big parade, but they will not make a move towards it because they cannot see that something is being done. Capt. Titus We don't want anybody to know what is being done until the animal and the rest of it appears on the street. It is a fact that work is be gun, but we can't give the mystery away and spoil the parade by having everybody know all about it before hand. Mr. Doran The Kansas City people have been at work on their floats for three months. Maj. Anderson Yes, and not a soul knows what they are doing, either. Mr. Titus There need be no doubt in the minds of tne business men who want to have floats that work has been begun, and that everything will be on time as advertised. WE MUST CARE FOE. THEM. Arrangements Must Be Made for Not Less Than 50,000 Visitors. Tia thousands of people all over KaiTKts who are expecting to attend the F&J1 Festivities and Reunion at Tope ka, September 2S to October 3 inclusive, are asking what accommodations they can have after they get here. It seems necessary to throw open even the pri vate doors of the city to them that they may have sleeping and eating places. The matter was brought before the Committee of Fifteen last night by Mr. Green wald. He said: "I think a committee ought to be appointed to attend to this. It is one of the most important of our duties." Mr. Samuelson I move that Mr. Mc Fadden. the city clerk, be appointed as a. committee of one to see to this. He has his office here in the council cham ber and it would be little trouble for him to register the names, locations, and prices of such rooms as are offer ed. Maj. Anderson This is certainly im portant. At one time when there was a big crowd here we succeeded in get ting accommodations for 18.000 stran gers. Lawyers and doctors threw their carpeted offices open and wherever there was a room that could be used it was left unlocked and a red lantern hung in the hallway. Mr. McFadden was made the regis tering clerk and every person in town who has a room that can be used dur ing the festival should let him know all about it as soon as possible. BADGE QUESTION DISCUSSED. Not Yet Settled Satisfactorily to the Committee. The weekly recurrence of the official badge question agitated the Committee of Fifteen at its meeting last night. J. E. Larimer, who has been looking the badge matter up reported that he had found a company that would fur nish the committee with 500 official badges at ten cents each. Mr. Larimer if the committee sees fit I will put these badges on sale for the committee at different stores in the city at 25 cents each, taking five cents for my share of each badge sold, and the committee can have the remaining ten cents for its fund. Mr. Greenwald I don't like this. I don't want to place this committee in a They jSM Mi I l3-1 f I VP THCR tlATioNAL. poet iJvATofVAi. credit position of speculating. If any man wants to sell an official badge and let the committee have a commission, he to take all risks, all s ight. Mr. Bradford I see no better way than to adopt an official badge and sell the privilege of selling it. Major Anderson We had better sim ply buy what badges we need to give to the folks we want to give them to and then adopt an official badge as Mr. Bradford suggests. Mr. Rodgers I move that we lay this badge matter on the table. This was the shortest way out of it and it was done. NOTED MEN INVITED. Who Are Expected Here to Attend the the Reunion. At the meeting of the Committee of Fifteen last night General Bradford was able to announce that he had cor responded with a large number of dis tinguished men about speaking to the old soldiers during the reunion week be ginning September He presented a list of men that had been invited, most of whom will be here. All the Kansas senators and con gressmen, the two candidates for the presidency. Major McKinley and Mr. Bryan, Major General Nelson A. Miles. Brigadier General Sickles, General Prentis, General A. K. Smith of St. Louis. General C. W. Blair of Leaven worth. John P. Tracey of Springfield, Mo., A'idney G. Cooke of Herington, Ma jor William Warner of Kansas City, Congressman Crowther of St. Joseph, J. D. Hill of Fort Scott. W. P. Hepburn of Iowa, Lander Stillwell of Erie, and John J. Ingalls. J. R. Burton. Bernard Kelly, Jerry Simpson, and Powell Clay ton of Little Rock are included. A TASK FOR THE QUEEN, Which It Was Feared Might Come Out Amiss. Captain Titus had a new idea which he handed out to the Committee of Fifteen at its meeting last night. Mr.'Titus Since something has al ready been said in a similar vein I wish to say that I think it would be a very handsome idea for Flora's Festival if the mayor of the city during the parade at some appropriate time should turn over to the queen of the festival who ever she mav be the keys of the city and if on her arrival at the fairgrounds she should at Camp Miles turn over the kevs in turn to the old soldiers. Mayor Fellows That would be on Wednesday afternoon and pretty late in the week. I turned over the keys of the city to a meeting here some little time ago after the meeting was all over and got pretty thoroughly roasted for it. And the matter was dropped. ADDITIONAL MONEY. Contributions to the Fall Festival Fund Up to Date. The Committee of Fifteen began to worry about its finances again last night and expressed a desire to know how it stood and Mr. Greenwald of the finance committee and Mr. Doran, sec retary were instructed to report the list of apropriations made and the general financial condition at the next meeting. Mr. Greenwald reported the following new donations: Noble Merriam $15 00 N. F. Morehouse 15 00 J. S. Collins 10 00 Ott Tewksbury 10 00 S. Hindman 5 00 MOKE NEWSPAPER ADS. Committee Appropriates Money for the Sending Out Matter. At the Committee of Fifteen meeting last night it was decided that not enough advertising for the Fall Festi val was being done in the 600 newspa pers of Kansas. Mr. Edwards There can be no more effective advertising than this and a special effort must be put forward to see that the editors of outside papers, who are to attend the reunion are treated in the very best manner possi ble. Mr. Adams has had charge of the newspaper advertising feature of the work heretofore, but it has lagged be cause of lack of funds. We still have eight weeks and the postage on 600 printed notices sent out each week will be $48. I move that $50 be appro priated to Mr. Adams for this work. This was done. OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE Marching Companies From Outside of Topeka to Be Here. That a good many outside associa tions will contribute to the success of Vf the Fall Festival and Reunion parades was shown at the Committee of d ifteen meeting last night. Mr. Bradford I have asked the Re form School Military company, the St. Johns of Salina. military company, the Agricultural College Military company and shall ask several more uniformed school companies to take part in the parade. This report was highly satisfactory. Fast Horses. People who like blooded racing stock will have an opportunity to see some at the Fall Festival. At the Committee of Fifteen meeting last night Captain Titus reported that he was correspond ing with a view to getting Joe Patchen and John R. Gentry here during the Festival for an exhibition or two and that he thought he could get them. Masons Decline. Communications were read at the meeting of the Committee of Fifteen last night from two Masonic lodges, thanking the committee for invitations to take part in the parades of Festival week but declining on the grounds that it is not in accord with the custom of Masonic bodies to take part in parades and displays other than their own. Army of the Cumberland. A communication from J. J. Jackson of Newton, was read to the Committee of Fifteen last night saying that the Kansas Department of the Army of the Cumberland had not had a reunion since John A. Martin died and asking that it be allowed a place on the pro gramme of reunion week. This met with approval and was referred to re union committee. Water at the F&r Grounds. On suggestion of Mr. Greenwald of the Committee of Fifteen, last night. Mayor Fellows and Secretary Doran will make the arrangements to have city water and plenty of it at the fair grounds during the Reunion and Festi val. It can probably be secured for nothing from the water company but it will take sometime to do it. No Gambling. A resolution suggested by the G. A. R. Reunion committee of which D. C. Tillotson is secretary, was read to the Committee of Fifteen last night declar ing that no gambling devices or "fakes" be allowed on the grounds during the week. It carried. To Map the Programme. On motion of Major Anderson the Committee of 'Fifteen resolved last night that at its next meeting next Thursday night, the matter of the week's programme would occupy the entire evening. Straw and Wood. After a short discussion last night the Committee of Fifteen decided that it would want at least 25 tons of straw for the reunion and that the kind of wood used be hard wood. Secretary Doran was instructed tq change the ad vertisement for bids in accordance. Posters for the Festival. Mr. Edwards of the printing commit tee reported to the Committee of Fif teen last night that a contract had been closed with the Hall company for 1,000 two sheet lithographs and 1,500 one sheet lithographs at $184. This was ap proved. To St. Paul and Minneapolis Via "Bur lington Route." Two splendid through trains each day from Missouri river points to the north via the old established "Bur ling Route" and Sioux City line. Day train has handsome observation vesti buled sleepers. free chair cars and dining ears (north of Council Bluffs). Night train has handsome sleepers to Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sioux City, and parlor cars Sioux City north. Consult ticket agent. L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. HOME-SEEKERS' EXCURSIONS. Cheap Rates via Burlington Route On August 4th, 18th, September 1st, 15th, 29th, October 6th and 20th, the Burlington Route will sell excursion tickets at very low rates to points in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Black Hills and other territory. Ask: your ticket agent. L. W. WAKELEY, G. P. A., St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Roby has moved his office to 730 Kansas avenue. miuiiiiiniinifl.iiuiiirjiiK.'imiii: BICYC Not Mlig On hi TAYL0I I will be here next week; yes, and next year, too, and I will stand back of every Bicycle I sell, and I guarantee no one is selling equal quality goods less than I am. You know TAYL g Salesrooms 115117 E. 7th Street i inn liiiiniiiiiiniuiiiiiniiiiiiiiinsiHiiniiirEiinigiuiiiuHnii fiiniisiiifiiiiiifiiiinl An Actor's Treasures. Melancholy interest attached to a sale in Pall Mall recently, says a London journal, when, by direction of the executors, the contents of the chambers of the late Mr. Henry Howe, who was for years associated with Sir Henry Irving's Lycaum company, were dispersed by auction. There were a number of books, etchings and eE graving;?, a quantity of decorative furniture and a perfect little museum of Dresden and oth er china, which found ready purchasers. Other lots of comparatively little worth intrinsically were keenly competed for Ire cause of their history. For instance, there was a gold band signet ring, set with cur neiian, presented to Mr. Howe by Macready on his playing Mark Antony to Macready 's Julius Cajsar. The metul was formerly excavated from the rains of Hereuluneum, and the lot passed into the possession of a new owner for 4. A 10 inch old English blue and white ewer, known as "the Haymarket jug," presented to Mr. Howe by Buck stone, fetched 27s. 6d. Nine and a half guineas was bid for three walking sticks, one with a horn crutch handle once the property of .Edmund Kean and used by him in the character of Sir Giles Over reach, another with carnelian top, orig inally belonging to Buckstone, and the third formerly the property of Ellison. Apart from these, however, it can hardly be said that outside prices were paid for what may be called professional properties. One parcel containing bundles of eld plays and a number of autograph letters froiu theatrical celebrities Buckstone, Chip pendale, Byron, V. A. Gilbert, Herman Vezin, S. J. Clark, Swanborough and oth ers changed hands at the modest figure of 1. E. J. Henley's Good Story. The famous actor, E. J. Henley, tells the following story of a man in straitened cir cumscanci:s, who, as he put it, "preferred to be help:jd to make his own way in the world by commendable industry rather than be an object cf charity." "It was in the winter of 1891 and a bit terly cold night. A lot of actcrs and other bohemian;; were gathered around the big stove of a rather rough and tumble saloon in Chicago. A hungry looking fellow walked into the place. Some one in our party said; "'We have no money to give you, for we're all ilat broke. "The stranger looked up and quickly re sponded: 'I was not going to ask for money, gentlemen, but I wanted to know if one of you would lend me a sandbag, so that I might go out and make a little. i:ni:!!!iii!!!!ii!!!!iiii:miii!n iiuiiiimmiDiii K0B01a8lllEflIEeSi OUR FIRST SUMMER. H

ea H S3 m H e ti o (j (9 sa U o S3 9 ea 6 CLEARING SALE.... Note bargains we offer for this week. f 16.00 Refrigerators. ..-..$13.50 12.00 10. CO 8.00 3 Eurtier Qasoiiiie Stoves 3-7S Hammocks 3.50 2.50 1. SO 6.50 4.00 2-75 2.O0 -75 1 1 f 1.00 75 I AT COST Ice Cream Freezers Water Coolers o B a a a 9 SB 0 m w 9 is Our stock of above articles is limited. Call early. n 0 Ei f M O 9 m m n TAYMJ-OBEHLEY EDW. CO., 702 Kansas Ave. Phone 575- Low Excursion Kates to the East Via "Burlington Route." HALF RATES. N. E. A. meeting, Buffalo, N. 1.. July 7th to 11th. Christian Endeavor meeting, Wash ington. July 7th to 13th. Baptist Young People's Union of America, Milwaukee, July 16th to 19th. National Republican league, Milwau kee, Aug. 25th to 27th. Democratic convention, Chicago, Ju ly 7th. Ask ticket agent for tickets via Ves tibuled "Eli" to Chicago, and via Ves tibuled Limited to St. Louis. Both trains supplied with the most modern equipment. L. AY. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis. Mo. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It J. W. PHILLIPS. 612 W. Eighth Ave. We can launder ladies' shirtwaists to suit the most critical customer. Peer less Steam Laundry. 113 and 114 WeBt Eighth. We aim to please our trade. v Peerlesmi Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. 8th at LE AUCTION SALE L L, J.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1896. P. p n ASTS,BEXTS,SIT U Vj UATIONS, REAL A ESTATE, AUO U U TIOS SALES AND OTHER CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Ats you !n reed of work? If so. you areat iiterty to tise these columns for assistance In that direction. Whlie this notice appears the tuir. JoruSAL will publish free on Saturday, VoDtfayand Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas recp'- !1 notices of "Situations 'WanteaV'not exceeding five lines, or thirty-Are word. In length, provided that all advertisements of that tstcre are hundfd In previous to ten o'clock I'aturciay morning: also on Wednesday. Thurs day and Friday, all advertising of this class bonded !n by ten o'clock TVednefday mornlnsr. 'o advertisements of this nature to be started eTcept on Saturdays and Wednesdays. No obll ration Is incurred on the part of the advertiser. To worthy and needy man or woman need hesi tate to take advantage of this offer. No one In tustnees or havine empiosment Is expected to take advantpeof it. but all others are Invited to avail themselves freely. Thi: Toffka Ftatf .i-.cfinai, puarantees verv day it Is rrinted. togive a local olrculat'ton ryfsr mars tban all otl,r I3llle mm Lined. This makes this paper the cheapest, us well as the bet. daily jidvertlslne medium In Topeka. the classified advertisements below costing but Fitfe Cents a Line, er ro cents a line for a week; eocantsbytbe month. Average dally circulation for May. S896, IO,954. Fworn detailed statements of circulation pre texted to advertisers on application. Call and ee any afternoon between and" e 'clock the handsomest, fastest, most perfect piece of machinery In Kansas a Web Per fecting; press, which prints from two to three complete 8-page papers per second. WANTED H EL P. "W,r.ATPP Twn rood men for so'.lettine and 'V collecting reference rein ire.1. cli S'nr flav A M. 33 Office Block Building. W. G. Hay dn. Piipt.. VANTKP-A piaco tr he'n with housework. 502 raranmre and Jefferson. TANTFP-Vorl( in small family as ho'ise- keener or situation a3 nure: rtor of ref erences furnished. Address S. M., 723 Hancock st., city. W NTFTi- Fsniiv fewlnp. I.I'tip bovs suits a specialty. Mrs. Groit, 213 Harri son, city. TTTANTFn Permanent "sit" In a eonn'rv prlnrintr office vrith privilege to put mv j-fesrs under the table three times a dnv. Wnsres respectfully deciinod. Eefs. J. N. H.. New Trn. SoUih Haven, Kan. TV J A NTFP A n ehloriv lady tn takf rnr of invat'll child. Address A- W. Journal. YXTAVTFT T!y a. younor mnn capable and ImriRst. d res to work for hi- ho.ird 'n omf ofiVo or tTR. References furnished. H. F. Panlan. Oxford, Kan. AY rA NT FP ituitlnn for irnnral housework by a young woman. 423 Monroe st. city. TANTFP A white girl for bouse work None but 1st class need app'.v. 1211 West ern ave. TTANTI"P Ky man and wife a heme with and to cam for a family of old pennle. We are clean, industrious p.nd good natured. Address A. J. care State Journal, Topeka, Knn. "V1T A NTrp-Br youne lady, pl.ice to work mornlnT and evening for board and room. Address K. B.. Journal. YV ANTFn One solicitor. Salary paid. Call at 7J6 Kansas ave. AGENTS WANTED. "W AN'TFP-Sole a?ent reat sellini? cam paie novelty: f25 capital make 2,ooo before election Particulars J. H. Russell, 62 Mechanic st.. Newark. 2. J. VC ANTFP B.roi Acents for Tnsseirs an- thorized "IVKS OF McKJM.KV jnd FB A FT." KM) paes. elesrantlv illustrated. 1'rlee only SI.oo. The best and the cheapest, and ouNpIIs all others. 50 per cent to apfcnr. and freights paid. f-Rooks now roadv. Snve Miie by scndinir R0 cents in stamps for an out fit at once address. A. D. WuBTHlXtiTON' A CO.. Hartford. Conn. C7 K to ir,o a month and expenss paid siesrrien for cigars; e:ierienee un pecessary: I.ittle Clerk civar mncnino free to each customer. Bishop Klino. St. Louis. r AN 'I l-.J 0un2r man in every K ansas town to sell merchants the "I.edjreretre" I'lll Flie. Sells for '.25 each. Kvery business house wants it. c.ood comniissiou. Address Wm. Kandolih Ad:ms. M'fe Stationer, 711 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. WTTEJD-WUS L 1 A N E O U 3 "TANTFD You to call onuTTor'Ttovefr stove renairs and Hull's heavy adjust able cook stove castings. Hull Stove'and re pair Co.. 1!6 East i;ihth street. WANTED 2 to unfurnished rooms for lieht housekeeping near transfer station. Address 16 to 1, care State Journal. "ITTANTKD All our patrons to know that Pond's Business College makes provision for boys and ttirls who have fp.'icn out of the praded schools. Writing, readmrr. arithmetic mental arithmetic, plain English, letter writing pcograpby and speliinjr, will be taught to th.iso who wish a short one year's course, riyht t the point. This school will be in charge of u ex perienced teaiher college graduate. Call VV TF.r our razors, clippers, aud In v struments to grind and hone. Macliinerv. Implements, tuns and everv ihinir to repair. 1 he -feoldon Iiuie." ai7 Kansas ave YY V"2LIf IJ,Ti?tr-s ;T"etins FKKIGHT te v, r 1 'atiins, or call uj by .vh. l rou. "lTANTEn-Your carpets to clean onlv machine carpet cleaner in c'tv iD-riin7 Tapestries and body Brussels ma.-h.ne cleaned JHcyardi carpets refit, fewed and laid S ccured on the floor. Feierence l roshv Br H. H. Mills Son. s. Baraum Co.. M c Hoi n an. National and Throon hotels. Boin YWe. fl9. Toiwka Carpet Cleimin Works. fctren street. YY ANTED Your freight te nauZ Your household goods to pack. ihip. move or stor. bam a hkuiner. fJ,tJ','AKTs 1 ranster A fatoraa Co. ia east Sth. Telephone I8t. FS F T-De,,rab!e furnished room: or 2 or 3 rooms en suite, furnished for liht bouse keeping. 421 yuincy st. FOR RENT Pleasant furnished rooms cheai: board if nWira V. 'ls v xurtsu. -pop. KKNT Furnished rooms, modern con J veniencfcs. cool aud pleasanlL giaQuinc?. ROOMS AND BOARD. z-iEMKAL iiOUl. and Kestauraut. W O. V rig", Prcp'r.. 5-8 Kansas ave. Jueals 15c. 75c auo$l per day. Also milk depot. FOR KKNT Pleasant furnished rooms, mod ern conveniences; board if desired. At 1021 Cumcy it. I7"OR KENT An elegant suite of unfurnished rooms on nrst floor, toman and wife with out children. Modern conveniences. Refer ences given and required. 715 Harrisun St. mK B N T Ir?e. pleasant, unfurnished modern rooms, board if desired. At lOvil Quincy tt. JOREJNTHOl VOE ht-M'-S room house. No. 12t Llncoin, A. C. Elder, 611 Kanas ave. Ob" KENT K room house. No. 700 Madison su A. C. Klder. til 1 Kansas ave. Iroi: flM OK SA..K Desirable homes In Oakland. P. C. Moore, 4-0 Kansas ave. LOST AND FOUND. 1- c CM 1 1 e j.. ace to jtet jour umbrella cov ered and re) aired; or youi clock or watch cleaned for 75c. to Kan. ave., upstairs. REUNION PROPOSAL3. Hicuure t?ieoeir?ecrotiicyotlSieTohim ittee of Fifteen wiil receive sealed bids up to 12 o'clock n:.. August -0. as fouows: First Bids lo- furnishing, delivered on the fairgrounds in the city of Topeka not earlier thru the 21st day of ireprember, 1K)6. 50 cords of wood, to be used during the Keunion for camp file purposes, etc. second Lid ior lurmshing. delivered on the fair grounds in the citv of lopeka. not earlier tliau the lilst day of September. lsSrj. 25 tons 01 clean, bright straw, either baled or loose; baled uraw preferred. Bids wili bo opened at the council chamber, city of Touekaats o'clock p. m., August M, 18U& IIKI.MASlUlllHA.N. Sec. Coiiiuiltt.ee of Fifteen. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. ICIION SALK Saturday, a: 1 o'clock, j chamber suit, liasoiiuo stove, sewing ma chine, rockers, p.ctures, du,h safe, every tiling. Quiucy and Sixth. 1?OK SAI.K I ine Jersey cow. young, eentlo and irood milker. liutiuire about her at W. 1. Miller's Lumberyard, 213 cast 6i.il at. or see cow alter u p. 111. at 1263 Polk st. FOR PAT. K One "Hairless show mare,'' "Siiver Queen;" ono thoroughbred. "Jesse James." and 1 elettant saddle aud harness horse "Bob Daltoa," at Watson's Parlor stable. 7th st., between Jackson and Van Bu ren, Topeka. "Oli SALE Walnut extension table hard coal beater, at 1357 Dillon St. and IOP. SALi: Old papers at 10c per hundred at Journal otllce. FOB SAI.f- A FKW COPIES OF WILMR'S ANNA J. S of Kansas. liSHi pages; a.00 book sent free to any address for i'2,60. Kan sas State Printing Co., Topeka. Kansas. i: CK S M.K On easy payments, best sewin' A mach.ue madn. the btandaJd. i. W. Hurhes.iu; Las; 5th street. DRESSMAKING. FASHIONABLE Dressmaking M. Moore's, 624 1'olk st. at Mrs. X. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. IOR SALE All our 8-burner Inch Junio gastiine stoves S5: stoves, rauges and ovens. Hull Stove and Kepair Co.. Ho K. 8th. 101 SAI L 2 fine east front lots. Lane St.. '4 block from th ave.. $-00. monthly pay ments or long time at 0 per cent. Great oar liaiu. Scolt F'ergusou. agts., 615 Kan. ave. IOK SALF-Quarter of an acre of sugar cane. Bargain for dairymen. Call .805 Kansas ave. 1,'Olt SALE 40 acre farm 12 miles from To peka: 12 acres in fruit, about 5 years old: 3? acres in cultivation; 8 acres in pasture. A rood bargain for some one; owner oblired to leave on account of his wile's health.; oflered for what the truit aioue is worth. F'or particu lars see W. M. Forbes, 111 W. tin St.. lopeka, Kansas. iPOIl SALF On monthly pavments, several small properties. Why not own a home instead of pajing rent? W M. Forbes, 111 W. f 'll .-ive. 3L you want To son jl' you want to buy IF jou want tor-.nt F jou w;:nt to trade IF you T aut a loan on CALL ON OR WRITE. REAL ESTATE T. G. Shlllin?la, 115 Fast 5th St.. Topeka, Kansas. FUEL AND FEED. rpHOS. KING, wholesale dealer, flour, feed, coal and grain. 210 W. 6ih st. LEAVE your orders for COAL. Flour. Feed and Seeds with Van Slyck, 509 W, loth. V' K- CANNON. i33 Kansas ave., full line feed and f uel ;t lowesl. ories MISCELLANEOUS. FiX HaNcE ir..oo dru? stock, fresh -1- and clean, for farm or hardware. Dlcka son Ansoi, 111 Last oth. I'ASITa, the gypsy palmist, has Just arriv ed, and will give scientific palm readings of the past, present and future. One week oalv. Private readings L5 cents and up. Satisfaction given. S32 Quiucy, corner Ninth. I JASTUKE Very best within 2 mites of To peka. Address Malcolm L". Hughes, North Topciia. ri'HE TAILOR square-inch svstc Cutting is taught by Mrs. A. B. m of Dress Arnott, 615 jxausss avenue. "JCSniCK cleans carpets, iace and chenille curtains (Harmola process). 933 Kansas av. VITKIF'IKU Brick walks laid cheap. Joha Kitchle. iioc yuincy st. BICYCLES. 'JHiftKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. Elgil Bicycles and sundries; bicyclos a th St. and tan- aems torrent; repairing 01 all Kinds. UPHOLSTERING. "YANTFD To make your old lounges and chairs over into elegant latest styles, and take old carpets and stoves in exchange. Allen's 1. pbolitery, 320 Kansas avo. 'T'HF. KEILAM EOOK STATIONERY CO, -f- 603 Kansas ave. Latest books, correct sta tionery. Isewest wall paper. Artistic frauiins. lenms and bitse ball supplies. MONEY. M EY to loan on real and personal prop- j ..uuirtu, nenomst. T)titY?.t:IR own bankng by renting a box In the Safety Deposit Vault, at 107 W. 6th St. Inquire of J. M. Kirkpatrick. T fONEY ADVANCED-To P. employes of gooa standing at reasonable rates Small leans a specialty. No callateral required. All transactions strictly confidential. Call and see vs at S22 NorLb Kansas ave. Bed phone 367. I JOP.EKTS McFADDEN. r-27 Topeka ave- uv J ""l UU.lUiUg. TAMr.SB. HlVbKN ...,h .wiin silTrw'et? 6i?ck of matches, diamonds. property nttedT "uea ana spectacles Prompt money, lowest rates IVrFow u trai, etir, ftt nsxai proiiexiua. is Lid Gone. M. M. Nicholson, who Iive9 at the corner of Cnrran and Anderson Sts., At lanta, Ga., had a cancer for years. It first appeared on his lip and reseln bled a fever blister, but spread rapidly and soon began to destroy the fiesh. His father and uncle had died from Cancer, and he sought the best medical aid in different cities, but it seemed im possible to check the disease. Several operations were performed but the can cer always returned. This continued for years until the partition in his nose and hi3 entire up per lip were eaten away. All treat ment having proved futile, he looked upon death as the only relief. vf "Some one re- commended S.S.S." '1 he says, "and 7 few bottles aSord ei some relief; thus J encouraged I con- I 1 11 U C u il, ti it was not long be fore the progress of the disease seem- checked. I persevered in its use, and remarkable as it may seem, I am completely cured, and feel like I have new life. S.S.S. is the most re markable remedy in the world, and everyone will agree that the cure was a wonderful one." A Real Blood Remedy Cancer is in the blood and it is folly to expect an operation to cure it. S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable is a real remedy for every disease of the blood. books mailed free; address Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. MINERAL WELLS. THE P.OON MINERAL WATFR cures stomach, kidney and bladder troubles; pro cure analvsis and consult your physicians: sold in bulk or bottles. W. G. Boon, 618 Fillmore st,, Topeka. Tel. 235. MONEY TO LOAN. MONEY to loan on chattel morfjraues. Deitrlch Rtanhilber. 810 Kansas ave. MONEY LOANED on horses, pianos, house hold coods and all kinds of chacfol securi ties. L. liiscoe. 523 Kansas avenue, rooms. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. MLLoTTuiaTw??Dr UKXEKAI. SUBOKilY Ol'rtce AM) KISmSKSl OF WOMEJT. btormont Hospital, lopeka. Han. Both Phones. L. A. RYDER .M. D. OFFTCF and residence cor. Cordon street and Central ave.. North Topeka. Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of Bectal treat ment, a successful and painless treatment for piies. fistula, lishure, ulceration, etc. DA C. BAKN'JiS, 21. D. Office 73" Kan. Ave. Residence 13th and Clay. Office hours 9 a. m. to u a. m., and 3 p. m. to r.p. m. Harrison telephone 93 residenoe, and 19 oniee. K. JtVA HARUIXO, HOMKOPATHTST. Harrison phone 83. i Kansas ave. Bell toiepiions Ui. O E. SHELDON. M. T.. sl'HGSltl' AND DTSKASltS OP WOMKN, With private hospital. Ofiice: No. 72J Kansas Are. BS.M Ai:Y McKINSTRY. maanetic healln? S35 Jackson. Harrison phone 408. MILK DEPOTS. CALL UP H. "Phone 2S0 for milk, cream or ice. Fresh butter and eggs a specialty. 121 W. 6th st. Missouri I?&eiHc TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM.. No. V J.esve Topeka 8:00 a. m 1 OPE KA FT. SCOTT ACCOM.. No. 230 Ar; ve Topeka. 6:30 p.m. IAN IDEAL FAMILY MEDICINE 5 For JniMffeailota, KUIsbf-, B 'ora-le" Ion Otlcnr-i "e Jtruih tE 0.T1A ail disorder? oi tao SCAizutcia. Liver and 1Atc13. eR'I'P-A-N'8 TA8ULE8 u act Brently vet promptly, itarfect rti-.rent cn f,)ilo-s thoir trie. Sold E tJ (U uTii-ists or s?nt by mail. B rrir e cut crnts a oot:. r-auresB ;RIIA.M4 CHM1CAI OO.. lO ftpTiroe St.. 1C.T tovis Van DKPf Msaafsetarsr ml O Galvanized Iron Cornices, w 1 a sad mil klaila 4 LlglltS -rTi. Wla. aar-Katiiuaiea Ovmr tfca Rtate CnnrfullT A 3 TCM To Colorado, Montana, Black Hills Puget Sound Pacific Coast Via "Burlington Route." Take the shortest line with best through train service from Missouri River Cities to the far West. Daily train leaves Kansas City 10:40 a. m., arrives Billings, Mont., 1030 miles dis tant. 5.40 next afternoon: free Reclin ing Chair Car from Kansas City to Billings; Sleeper Lincoln, Neb., to Bil lings, Connects with Northern Pacific Trans-Continental train to Montana and Pusret Sound; time from ten to twentv-tive hours shorter than any other line from Kansas City. Slpepers and Chair Cars Kansas City to Denver, Rio Grande scenic line be yond for Colorado, Utah and Califor nia. Ask Agent for tickets over the estab lished lines of the BURLINGTON ROUTE. L. W. WA K E LET, Gen. Pass. Agt, St. Louis, Mo. Dr.A. P. Sawyer: After using one box of the Pastilles I find myself en tirely cured. My case had been treated by several doctors. Lucy Bitner, Kan sas, ill. Frank Sim, Pharmacist. 607 Kansas avenue. LA- J JS?SIt I. ,ll ,i' ed I I EASTERN FA31ILY JAKS. Keat and Coy Koine Tor m Family ef Moderate 9is Two Room In Attic Copyright, 1899, by George Palliser, 83 Park place. New York. J Tn the days of Jonathan Trumbull and la that era "just previous to the American Revolution that worked out the leaven that has since leavened the whole country Into ono grand mass this cottage would have been considered a marvel of neatness and taste, and if it could have been built In that age would have been the embodi ment of everything in the style then known as English classic and would have been pointed to as the highest attain ment of the architectural possibilities of a new country. In those days the men woo PKRSPECTIVB VIEW, built houses ware mechanios who knew how to do aud make any and everything in their line. They were artists in their way, and the good work they left behind them prove this conclusively. Then the carpenter was the man who did everything he planned as well as built with his hands. He cut down the trees in the woods. He squared them into logs with his broadax, had them placed on his saw pit, and with the frame or whipsr.w he, standing on the top, and with his apprentice below, they were the motive power that worked the saw up and down, followed the chalk lines and thus converted the beams into boards, planks and timbers for the different uses and pui-pooes required. This was slow work no doubt, but it was work that re quired both staying and lasting qualities, and time has proved the latter. The timbers sawed tip and seasoned and the work duly prepared, the framing waa quite a job. None of your balloon busi ness in those times. Then every stick was selected for its place and the whole frame was mortised and tenoned together and the braces framed in and the whole pinned together. Then a frame of a largo house could be put up and the whole set up and fastened in place without the use of a nail. When a now house was raised those days, they had a raising bee and the neighbors for miles would turn in and help the good work, everything being ready ahead. Then by main force they would raise one side at FIRST FLOOR PLAIT. a time and fasten and pin together. After this was done came the finishing part, and how carefully this was done can be attest ed to by any one who has pulled down an old house of 100 years ago. The nails of wrought iron seemed to hold forever; no give or break to them. The oak and chest nut boards and beams as hard as iron seemed determined to stay where they havo been so long. The shingles on the roofs, made by hand and secured to oak lath by wrought iron homemade nails, were then in shape to last as long as the house. I have myself, 25 years ago, taken shingles of this kind off a roof where they had been over 300 years and had the butts cut off and replaced and they were then better than any new ones the market could supply, and they are good for years yet. Stability was the great watchword, and it was a good one, and we would do well if we could get a little more of it infused into our modern work. Build good and strong first and be sure you use only good, sound materials, and time will then prove the wisdom of so doing. This cottage for a small home to fit these modern times is a model. It is 80 feet front and 28 deep; cellar 7 feet, first floor 9 feet, second floor 8 feet high. With two good attic rooms finished it makes a cozy home for quite a lurge family. The hall and parlor combined are very effective and such as to give character and contentment to any one upon first entering and are a fea- SECOND FLOOR PLAN, tnre we could use more in our domestic architecture in future to good advantage. The house is heated by a furnace in the cellar, as this is the best method for a small house yet devised, giving plenty of fresh air and warmth at the same time. The plumbing is compact, all on one line, easy to care for and inexpensive for the best work. The finish may be in a variety of woods cypress for the main rooms and whitewocd or pine elsewhere, all to be fill ed and polished. The exterior, painted in colonial yellow, with ivory wu'te trim, with sashes painted dark green and blinds medium green, grrec an eHeci that will pass muster in any crowd and be an orna ment to any locality. When yju build be sure to get a good contractor, not the cheapest always by any means, but one who will do all he agrees to do. The best is the cheapest in the long run ever- tima, Iff Knoirn tf J 4 I I Din pah H i -in I ffffl pi 1 I to as Ui r THE OUTCAST. r He couldn't tell exactly where he was going or why he waa going or where he would stop. He was just going. That was all. It was a long time since he had started a long time. And it was a long time since he had been a man. He was only an utcast, only oh, no, no; he was a iuan still, and a good man at that. Why should he work when others wouldn't? Why shouldn't he be a loafer if he wanted tof Why shouldn't he rob as well as the rich robbed? Why everything? He was walking in the middle of tht railway track. The rails were stretching and gleaming in the hard sunlight. Befort him, behind him, to his right, to his left, was the prairie a great, lone plain. What a strange place it was, this prairi. the veTy outside of the world I Nothing but grass grass everywhere. And a blu sky that became dark and hard when th eye looked straight up into it. Sky, steel, grass And silence, watching grim silence that held within it something threatening, something that was here, there, every where, that hovered about him, that lay off in the distance, that was by his side, that was up over his head. Ho could feel this thing was about just as surely as fci could see the sky and the grass and th rails between which he waa walking. He was so alone, so away from every thing. True, something waa here, but it was something outside himself. It was not akin to him. It was something hs could not understand, something to fear, a thing unreal. Boing here was worse than being in th cell of a prison. There at least things thai were real wore near one, if only the dark ness and the bars. Voices were there, U only the harsh, cold voices of the warders. He had often thought when he was in prison what a fine thing it would bo to get out into the free open air, to get right out on the outside of everything. Well, he was on the outside of everything here, and ht felt afraid. For how was it that he never seemed tc get any farther? He was walking, alwayi walking, and still he made no headway", or at least he appeared to make no head way. He had been going on for five days. He was as far now as when he started. Here was. the same sky, the same grass, the same clear, sharp horizon. Perhaps ht was not moving at all. Ah, he had it He was moving all right, but he was moving only in one place. That was it, sure enough. The sky, the graps, the horizon moved from him as ht moved. To h 1 with it all 1 Things wen playing a game with him. He was hungry, but he had gone past the stage where hunger gnaws. He felt a lightness and ease in his power of move ment. It would be easy for him to jump over places or to run or to carry heavy weights cr to fight. His senses were worked up to a high pitch. He could see better. He could hear Oh, yes, he could hear very much better, for now he noticed that the prairie wai filled with sound, an odd sort of low sound that lay in the depths of the watching si lence. He was trying to think wiat this sound was. It was sound lying in dead silence. It was something Ah, could it be that it was Ho smiled. Sixty hours had gone by since he had eaten his last piece of bread. He would never eat bread again perhaps. Well, what of it? He felt better without it. Bread was hard to get, after all. Every body wanted to get it. Everybody grasped after it. They said that they were grasp ing after gold, but really they were grasp ing alter bread. You had to be a slave tc get bread. You had to be a robber to get bread. You had so sell, humiliate and de grade yourself to get broad. Bread, bread, bread! And now he wanted it not. He felt bet ter without it. He was here in the middle of the terrible sounding silence because ol the struggle for it. Bread I You had to kill yourself that you might get it and live. Bread You had to work the life out to keep the life in. But still "Cheer tip!" said a voice. He started. It was distinctly a voice, a voice behind him a sneering voice. He did not look around. It could not be any one, liecause if it were any one he would have known of it long ago. Besides, the:e was no sound. He walked faster. But it might be a man. But, then, If it were a man he would have heard. He would have known of it long ago. The sun was hot, but he felt cold. Oh, 11 he could only look around! But what was the use of his looking around? It was nothing but a voice after all. And who could see a voice? Besides, the prairie was full of sound that dead sound. The best tiling for him to do was to pay no heed. It could not be a man, and it could not be a ghost, for ghosts don't come in the broad glare of sunlight What was it then? Just a voice. But if no one were there, there could be no voice. He had heard nothing alter all. He felt relieved to find that the whole thing was only the working of his mind, but he was nervous for all that, and he walked more quickly. And now he remembered that he was walking from the west to the east. He was going from the setting to the rising sun going to tiie east whence came the glori ous, kindly light. In the east there lay the calmness and rest of death, or, perhaps, life and a chance for achievement and forgetfulness. In the west there lay the cell of the prison and despair and black, terrible memories. He was surrounded now by silence and pharftoms. He was an outcast The hun ger ghoul stalked by his side. He was going from crime from crime to what? Aud the great prairie was widening out before him. He moved on. On. Bart Kennedy In London Sun. Eai d scd Soft Coal. A simple characterization of the differ ence between anthracite and bituminous c klI was given recently by Editor Weeks of Pittsburg at a hearing before the gas com mittee of the Massachusetts legislature. This difference, he remarks, is practically in the amount of volatile substances that can be driven off by the application of heat Thus, anthracite coal contains from 5 to 10 per cent of volatile matter, the remainder being carbon and ash, while bituminous ;oal has from 17 or 20 upas high as 36 per Cent, and good Connellsvillo blast furnace coke shows from half to three-fourtlis of 1 per cent, these coals being at one time practically the same that is, the anthra cite was at one time a bituminous coal, as the coke was, the volatile matter having been dirven out of both, this being, in the case ol the anthracite, by the pressure of the strata of earth imposed upon it and by the heats generated by such a great weight of surface above them. New York Sao. COLONIAL COTTAGE. Pets Ulce ThoM In Whicn the X'artr Thieves TVere Pickled. When the clever servant of Ali Haba broug'b.t the redoubtable "Forty" to their untimely ends, It will be remem bered that each one of the two-score thieves wa squatted inside a Jar of. huge dimensions in the courtyard of the man they bod come to murder. The manner of their taking'-ofT, it will also be recalled, was decidedly oleaginous (with, strict regard for the etymology of the term), as tihey were drowned in a bath of bot olive oil. Whether the oil smothered tiiem or the beat killed them has never been satisfactorily as certained by the readers of the "Arabi an Nig-hte;" but one thing baa at last been established beyond a doubt that the 'thing- was possible, so far aa the size of the jars was concerned. To an occidental mind, wibJch has sever been AN EASTERN NURSERY JAR. called upon to grasp the conception of a jar much bigger than, a bean pot, th apparently exaggerated dimensions of these in which the thieves came to grief is the least credible part of the story. But even to-day, in regions of the ori ent where western customs have not prevailed, such as Turkey in Asia, Al giers end Morocco, a well-to-do family would not consider itself at all well equipped without a jar or two biy enougb. to contain at least 40 gallons of oil or wine. Not alone in the far east, But in old Spain which is in many thing's a thou sand years behind the times the peo- A CART LOAD OF SPANISH TINAJAS. pie cleave to the earthen antiquities of their ancestors. In that country they ere known as "tinajas," and are manu factured in Valencia and along' the eastern coast of the peninsula. Jars equally large and of similar shape have been found in the graves of Peruvian Incas, containing the re mains oi royal personages who "went to pot" hundreds of years before tho Pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth rock, and before Boston became famous for the production of that esculent which can only be baked to perf eotJoa in an earthen receptacle. THE PERFECT MILLINER. Orig;iKB.litx ud NMtnoM Ar in Tlitngs That Count. Originality in designing and individu ality in style are qualities which count for most in the milliner of to-day. Variety is now the keynote. Instead of one particular style there are many. The day of "one idea," in a season has passed. To discover some new arracyemenfc for prevailing' trimmings, to put a new curve into a popukr and becoming shape, these are marks of genius. Just such ideas as these or the lack of them, simple and insignificant as they may seem, make the difference between the high-salaried and poorly paid milliner, and bring vucoecs or fail ure to the department in which she is employed. Perfection in. detail 1s another essen tial to the successful milliner. To be artistic the trimming on a hat must in effect be carelessly and gracefully arranged. Stiff and prim looking bats are rare ly becoming, yet at the same tims, how ever careless the ai rangement miv seem, the must be no slighting of tie work. The most loyal patrons will become disgusted with stitches that loosen after a few times wearing, leaving flow ers tumbling off, feathers awry, ami Bibbon bows at "sixes and sevens." To genius in designing and pains taking work add artistic taste for col ors, which must include not only a 1- nowledge of harmonies and contrasts, but also good judgment as to becom ing shades for individual types. Combining these three qualities in one individual, you have what is rare indeed, the perfect milliner. Chicago Inter Ocean. Keeping; ISutter ia Summer. To cool butter in warm weather, place a deep earthenware pan in a box, surround it with wet sand, place the butter in the pan. cover it over, and place the lid on the box to exclude the air. Eeep the saad wet with plenty of cold water. For small quantities of butter a small tin will be found useful. 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Atk your own Horns Ticket A rant for ticket 1 tte Chicago i Alton Railroad, i writ ta D. BOWES, -6sI Western Patsseatrer A a eat. ai Xrn Bra.dwiy, Ht. L-oula, Mm, JAMES CHARLTON, Chnaewart Panr and Tleave A groat, lklcn(s, 111. (Mala E4a U. mm K. at J SEA535 ttm Ml 222. 1353. FnrnUh.d cottajei wW faolMles for Iwua koapiag. if aoilrad. Tor Carau apply to D. C. JONES, Camden Station. Baltimore, Md. Great Western Steam Bj& Geanis! Works. Work raaranteed and a! reaionablo ptiooa, Aiao, Flae iaJloring, Kepalrmg and rrwiiiie. lai East Seventh Street. C. F. RODIGER. First Class Up-to-Date.... DRESSMAKING At Mrs. E. M. Fisijer's Dress Making Parlors, aryoarc experience. 117 Kai At. th Ave. Stables NEW STONE BARN, Cor. Topeka Ave. and 8th St. lOUfl SPECIALTY: Boarding Horses. Wo keep a few citT broke hordes to biro to lart'OB bv the day or rnoctli. frltm la tlri with til time, tali and see ui. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31. 1896. 1 HIS AJJ Men's Suits, $7 and $8 quality, on sale TOMORROW Young Men's Suits, $5.50, $6.50 and 18 quality, TOMORROW Men's Underwear, Shirts and Draw ers, the 35c quality, TOMORROW Derby Ribbed Underwear,Shirts and Drawers, 75c quality, TOMOR ROW Gold, Silver and Bimetallic Xegligee Shirts, collars attached or de tached, the $1, $1.25 and 11.50 quality, sizes 14 to 18, TOMORROW S. ETTLINGER, Manager. Kansas Avenue. REVENGE OX CAUXEGIE. An Ex-Homesteader X-S ants Rifles Used If Occasion Requires. HaTerhill, Mass., July SI. John Mc Luekie, ex-burgess of Homestead, Pa., epoke before the Central Labor union here last night. His purpose was to agitate the bring ing of an indictment against the Car negie company for furnishing the Uni ted States government witu defective armor plates for war ships. He was bitter in his utterances. He said that he was not doing his Tvork for the love of the country, but lor revenge, and added: "In 1832 the men at Homesiad had S00 Winchester rifles, now they have 3, 00, and they are ready to use them if occasion requires." TELLER AT R0ULL-E3. He Does Not Think Watson Will Withdraw. Boulder. Colo., July 31. Senator ifflenxy M. Teller of Denver was in the (city yesterday on business connected with his farming interests east of Htown. When asked if he thought "Watson (Would withdraw from the ticket he said he did not think he would, but that this would not affect the. result. He believed Bryan and Sewall would be elected without a doubt, and that some ort cf a compromise would be effected with the Populists by which the Popu list votes would be cast for Bryan and Bewail. Killed By the Chutes. Knoxville, Tenn., July 31. A terrible fatality occurred at Lake Ottozee, a Bummer resort five miles from this city yesterday afternoon. A Sunday school picnic was in progress and the recently erected "chutes" were doing good busi ness. As one of the boats came down the chute, having aboard 13 small chil dren, a row boat crossed its path as it etruck the water and four occupants of the row boat were killed or injured. Dr. A. P. Sawyer: I think your med icine one of the grandest discoveries that was ever made for women. We can never thank you enough. Re Fpectfully, Llda C. Bradshaw, Fairfield. 111. Frank Sim, Pharmacist. 607 Kan sas ave. Wholesale THE STAR GROCERY A huge trade won by merit and he!d by the high standard of the goods and the low notch of the prices. No other house in town enjoys such unexampled facilities for buying at low prices. Consequently no one else can approach our prices. A sample order will make you a permanent patron. 0 lbs finest California Gran. Sugar $1 00 25 lbs dark C Sugar 1 CO 1 doz fresh country Eggs 7 2 lbs fresh country Butter 25 Oinsier Snaps per lb 5 8 lbs cans California Fruit 5 Bait Pork per lb 3 6 pkg liolled Oats 25 S sacks fine 'table Salt 5 Arbuckle's Coffee per pkg 19 Lion Cofiee per Pkp 19 Coffee per pkii 19 Iflnkaska Coffee per k 19 2 lbs Crushed Java Coffee 25 S Ids Japan Tea Sittings... 25 J7 lb pall Jelly So large wood pail Table Syrup 40 Good Teas per lb 25 2 lb roll Armour s Kutterine! 25 8 cans flat Salmon 05 a cans Warren's Al Salmon..".. 25 MEATS AND LAED. No. t California Hams per lb No. 1 Sugar Cured Hams per lb Bologna per lb 'o. 1 Breakfast Bacon per lb Good Breakfast Bacon per lb Bait Pork per lb ALL KINDS OF FRESH IXOUR Even If we have to pay the combine prices, we will ALWAYS sell Flour as cheap as our competitors, and some grades cheaper. Have you ever used LUXURY? It is the best high patent sold in Topeka, so Ib sacks 90 cents. Try it. BO lbs Crosby's Best RO lbs Topeka Patent 60 lbs Loiter Patent 60 lbs Gold Dlltt BO lbs Jack Frost 60 lbs Luxury 60 ib 8. A G. Best 60 lbs Big 4 tsr II AIL 0HDEES SHIPPED PROMPTLY. THE STAR .fTc&shcno 252. I oppin prig ffflflftTH yiMlMj full iiyLM. $3.50 $3.50 19c 39c T9c Orders and Inqnirln by TCall Solicited I and Pivmptlf Auanered. STICKS TO HIS WHEEL. Hoke Smith Likes His Cycle Better Than Politics. Washington, July 31. Secretary ofthe Interior Hoke Smith still refuses to say whether he intends to resign from the cabinet or to remain a member of it while carrying on a free silver cam paign in Georgia. .Mr. Smith has determined upon one thing, however, and that is he will learn to ride a bicycle as gracefully as he does his famous horse "Possum Fat" regardless of whether McKinley or Bryan shall be elected president. The thermometer registers 95 de grees in the shade in Washington these days, but Mr. Smith is still at it just as he has been for the past two weeks. As he entered a corner drug store last evening to get a glass of soda water he was a sight to behold. His 260 pounds of youthful avoirdupois parboiled by the heat and exertion, was clad in loose fitting, brown golf breech es, a thick red sweater, as red indeed as the secretary's face after his long struggle, a loose fitting tow coat and a gray golf cap. GOLD DEMOCRATSMEET. Kansas City Gold Men Hold a Meeting and Denounce the Chicago Convention. Kansas City, July 31. A big meeting of gold Democrats under the auspices of the national Democratic club, was held last night at the Coates house. Ex-Chief Justice Black presided over 200 Democrats who were in attendance. The meeting adopted a declaration of iJiiuLipics repudiating ine Chicago plat form and characterizing it as "a men ace to good government, an assault up on the honor and credit of the nation, H.iiLi injurious to the welfare of the people. The meeting also adopted a resolution demanding the calling of another na tional convention to "adopt a Demo cratic platform and nominate Demo cratic candidates for president and vice president." Appleton, Minn. Dr. A. P. Sawyer: Dear Sir I have used your Family Cure and can safely say I have never used anything better for kidney trou ble. Mrs. J. H. Craig1. Frank Sim, Pharmacist, 607 Kansas avenue. The Kinc of Pills, Beechams BEECHAM'S. and Retail. Knox Gelatine per pkg 10 Cream Cheese per lb jo Potted Ham or Tongue 5 1 can Chipped Beef 20 1 can lioast Eeef 10 1 can Lunch Tongue 25 1 lb Boyal Baking Powder 40 1 lb Price's Bakinsr I'owder 40 10 lbs hand-picked Navy Beans 23 10 lbs Kice -jj 1 box Kirk's White Russian Soap.".'!.'."."..'." 3 00 1 box silk Soap 2 75 1 box W hite Spanish Soap 2 GO 9 bars White Spanish Soap 25 3 cans Anderson Jams 25 3 boxes Buttermilk Soap 25 1 lb Star Baking Powder 15 1 lb Bait-e Ax Tobacco "0 1 lb Kven Change Tobacco 15 Best Ciackers per lb by box 654 Ham Sausage per lb Boneless Ham per lb.. 3 lb can White Label l ard 5 lb can W hite Label Lard 10 to can Wiiite Label Lard S lbs good White Lard 10 10 25 35 3IEATS AT LOW PRICES. sxoira 50 lbs White Loaf 50 lbs Shawnee Fancy 50 lhs Golden Rod 50 lbs Crosby's No. 1 50 lbs Pearl "0 lbs Liiy 50 lbs Silver Leaf fO lbs Hackney Patent 90 80 so 80 so 80 85 80 GROCER. 113 East Sisth. St, this mm IS ASLQQn. Do You Know That 300 Women in Topeka Are Mating Flowers, and 27 More Joined 1 esterday A Thousand Women Are Wanted, and a Thousand Dollars Worth of Pa per for Making the Flower Enthusiasm Everywhere. A" brand new idea -was sprung at the meeting of the general committee of the ladies of the Fall Festival flower parade yesterday. It was the idea of Mrs. W. H. Wilson. "In addition to the float of Flora," she said. "I think it woulcV be a very good idea to have another float with two of the handsomest young ladies we can get and have one represent Kansas and the other Topeka. We can have Kansas dressed in sunflowers and To peka in rosea." This was just the idea the ladies had been looking for and they were enthus iastic. "But," said Mrs. Wilson, "I want you to think it over for a week before you act on it." Mrs. Wilkie, who was in the chair in place of Mrs. Miliken who could not be present, said potato blossoms would be lovely for Topeka's decorations since the name meant "Small Potatoes," but since we have outgrown the name per haps roses would do just as well. The matter will be acted on next week and there will probably be a few more com mittees appointed to take charge of it. The railroad men's wives are not slow to assist in a good thing and a com mittee was at the meeting yesterday consisting of Mrs. J. Galletley, Mrs. W. C. Sherman and Mrs. Bernard Tobias, from the ladies' society of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen to offer their services in making flowers for the parade. "There are 27 of us," said Mrs. Gal letley, "and many of us already know how to make flowers and the rest of us are not too old to learn." The offer was accepted with thanks. This example should be followed by the other societies of ladies who have not yet offered to take part. A motion was made by Mrs. Wood that the treasurer of the society, Mrs. C. E. Stoker, furnish bond in the sum of say $300. The arrangement was en tirely satisfactory to Mrs. Stoker but the proposition was voted down. That the ladies are thoroughly inter ested and in earnest about their share of the Kali Festival was unmistakably demonstrated at the attempt of Mrs. Stoker to lessen the number of meet ings. Mrs. Stoker said It is so hot that I move we don't have these meetings quite so often and that when we ad journ today it be for two weeks. Mrs. Todd I am not in favor of that for an instant. We should lose inter est if that were done. Mrs.Wilmavth I think we would too. It will never do to meet less than once a week. Mrs. Todd We have lots of work to do and no time to lose. The proposition to skip a week was put and unanimously lost by a rising vote. The matter of storing flowers was discussed and Mrs. Todd and Mrs.Raub were made a committee to see the mer chants and a3k for empty pasteboard boxes in which to store flowers that are made. The committee is furnishing the ma terial to any ladies who desire to make flowers for the Fall Festival flower pa rade and a room on the third floor of the court house is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons of each week for the purpose of giving out the material, after 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Remley's free class of 20 girls will meet at the court house room at 2 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon, beginning tomorrow. Mrs. Karr of Auburndale is teaching a class of 15 girls at her home in Au burndale. Miss Diment is also teach ing. A good many others are teaching little neighborhood classes. STILL. ANOTHER IDEA. Feast of Lanterns for the Children on Tuesday Night, September 29. To Editor Topeka State Journal. While others are making many sug gestions about the Fall Festival, I wish to offer one. Hundreds of Topeka children of late years have been making peculiar lanterns with transparent figures of birds, beasts, butterflies and other ob jects upon them. These they carry about in the even ing and many of them are very pretty. Some times on a summer evening one can see as many as 20 children together carrying these lanterns. The thought has occurred to me why not organize this amusement among the children for one night of the festi val, say Tuesday, which is at present untaken, and let 2.000 or 3.000 children of the public schools parade on Tope ka avenue or Harrison street one of the darker streets, with their lanterns? These lanterns could be interspersed with Japanese lanterns in order to heighten the effect. The lanterns should be carried on poles four feet long in or der to be properly displayed. A prize of $10 might be offered for the most gorgeous lantern. The parade should be restricted to children under 16 years of age. If the teachers of the different schools take up the matter, it could be carried through with little trouble and would make one of the most taking features of the festval. S. T. SCORES PROSTRATED. The Intense Heat Causes Many Peo ple to Succumb. Cincinnati, O., July 31. Twenty-nine prostrations were reported yesterday, five of them being fatal. This makes 52 prostrations in three days, eight being fatal. Work in the streets had to be sus pended yesterday. Many horses are dropping in the streets. Letter car riers who have five and six daily trips are let off for the present with four and five trips respectively. St. Louis, July 31. At least 30 vic tims of the sweltering heat were treat ed at the city dispensary and various hospitals throughout the city yester day. Five of these victims have died. The total number of prostrations so far reported is 70. Indianapolis, July 31. The Intense heat yesterday resulted in two deaths from prostration. SANTA FE ROUTE The Home Road. Salt Lake and return, one fare plus $2.00. Tickets on sale August 7th and 8th, good to return August 31s L. T03I WATSON AGAIN. Out in an. Editorial Declaring: He "Won't Withdraw. Atlanta. Ga., July 31. Thomas Wat son is out in a strong editorial in his paper stating his grounds for accept ing the nomination for vice president from the Populist national convention. He refers to Mr. Sewall as an individ ual of standing and a free silver Dem ocrat, but adopted the argument elab orated on at St. Louis that the nomina tion of a Populist for second place was necessary to preserve the autonomy of the Populist organization, especially in the south. The editorial is accepted, not only as a letter of acceptance, but also an official ultimatum that proposi tions for withdrawal will not be consid ered by Mr. Watson or the Populists and that the case now rests with Mr. Sewall. This announcement is made in a sign ed editorial. It virtually demands the withdrawal of the Democratic candi date for vice president. Throughout the editorial insinuations are made and where it seems to analyze the situation develops the fact that Mr. Watson is making a strong demand for his im mediate recognition as Bryan's run ning mate. In part it says: "With such a large number of ex perienced workers organized and well equipped, striving for the endorsement of both Bryan and Sewall, the fate of the party was in the highest degree critical. The 'middle of the road' men were the more numerous, but less uni ted. They could not agree upon lead ers. In the vice presidential nomina tion, they were divided between sev eral different candidates, while the Sewall men were a compact body which threatened to become a majority by the mere failure of the opposition to con centrate. "It was this chaotic condition of things which I witnessed with keen anxiety and which caused members of the Georgia delegation to telegraph me to allow my name to be used to restore harmony and save the party. Upon that express condition, I consented and the object was obtained. Sewall was de feated, the Populist factions harmon ized, and the Democratic programme checkmated. This condition of things was not of my seeking. If now the Democratic managers should refuse to make any concession at all it would show that our efforts toward unity have all been thrown away. If they continue to demand that the Populists shall go out of existence as a party, they will prove to all the world the idea in adopting our platform was not so much to get free silver as it was to bury the Populist party. "A correspondent of the Atlanta Journal attempts to make it appear that there has been a collusion between Senator Butler, chairman of the Popu list national executive committee, and inysen.. .inis.is an wrong. Ttiat cor respondent in company with several other gentlemen called on me at my residence and we had what I supposed to be a private conversation. Something was said about the plan of campaign ana l was asked it 1 had heard from Senator Butler. In reply I stated that I had a telegram from him suggesting that I go at once to Alabama, and sta tin gthat a letter explaining matters would follow. I remarked that it seem ed to me we had better wait awhile and see what the situation was going to be. Mr. Bryan would have to re spond to our nomination in a few days or the executive committee would meet on August 5 and take some action con cerning his silence. Besides this rea son there are others. One of them is that our convention meets on August 6th and it might be well to wait and see whether the party will endorse what was done at St. Louis. It is by no means certain that the party will do so. There are mutterings of discontent all along the line and if Mr. Sewall de clines to retire for harmony's sake the rank and file of our party may break away from the leaders and. refuse to vote for Mr. Bryan at all. Therefore, my own opinion is that we had better go slow until the atmosphere clears it self a little. "THOMAS E. WATSON." MIN SAUNDERS IN DRAMA. A Theatrical Scene When She Sleets John Constantino. Yesterday was an uneasy day for the inhabitants of Smoky Row, for nearly every .;ored inhabitant who possessed a police reputation was taken to the police station, there to be showed to I John Constantine, the Armenian min ister who was robbed Wednesday night in Smoky Row. No less than 20 of the colored people whom the police knew well were taken in charge. Mr. Constantine sat in the police court room, and the colored men and women were taken in one at a time to be shown him. Min Saunders, who is tall and angular, was taken before him. When she entered the room Mr. Constantiine arose quickly and stared at her closely. She stood and glared at the Armen ian. Presently the latter slapped his hands together and said: "Yes, you one, you one." Min Saunders laughed heartily at the man and told the chief that he had better lock her up if he thought she had robbed the Armenian preacher. "You Christian?" asked Mr. Constan tine of the notorious colored woman. "You believe in God?" "What's that your business, man?" 6aid Min. "That aint what I'm here for." Mr .Constantine turned his eyes up ward and raising his arms aloft called on the Almighty to witness that she was the woman who had assisted in robbing him of the gold he had collect ed for the suffering Armenians. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. I 1 MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, M.O YEARS THE STANDARD. 1 If UNBUTTON THEIR COATS Don't Make a Policeman's Lot a Hades on Earth. The Rule Requiring Them to Keep Their Coats Buttoned Ought to Be Abrogated, or Else They Ought to Be Provided 'With Thin Summer Uniforms. To make a police patrolman walk on his beat these hot days with his coat tightly buttoned up seems cruel. To let him walk along with his coat gap ing open looks undignified. What are the rules in the case? It seems that there is no explicit rule which applies directly to this except the one which orders that all patrolmen shall main tain a neat appearance while on duty. The uniforms of the city policemen are of heavy cloth.and the coat is made to be buttoned up close to the neck. It does not set well when unbuttoned. Owing to the weight of the cloth none of the policemen wear vests during the hot weather. President A. K. Rodgers, of the board of police commissioners, in speaking of a rule to this effect said to a State Journal reporter: "I wouldn't draw the line too close. In other words I wouldn't see it. Anything that hurts them physically, you know, shouldn't be noticed." As Sergeant Frank Ellison sat at the police station with the perspiration running off of him, he answered the reporter's question emphatically. He was in his shirt sleeves and he looked decidedly hot. "If you saw a patrolman on his beat with his coat unbuttoned, would you speak to him about it?" asked the re porter. "No, sir, I wouldn't. It would be an outrage, "and the portly sergeant wiped his brow with his handkerchief. Chief John Gardiner thinks it wouldn't be very bad if a patrolman shouldn't button his coat. Chief Gardiner's ad herence to discipline is admirable, but in this hot country some allowance should be made. "I don't know of any written rule for the patrolmen keeping their coats buttoned, but it has been the custom. I know that there is a rule that they shall keep themselves look ing neat, and probably that covers this point." The patrolmen themselves fairly swelter in their heavy coats buttoned on them. Those on the beats on Kan sas avenue during the day, watch the east side of the street very closely in the morning and the west side in the afternoon. Sometimes when it rains, it Is said that those who have been on the force the longest and know a thing or two will stand in a stairway and let their helmets get wet so that it will appear that they have been patrolling their beats in spite of the rain. But President A. K. Rodgers says that he thinks the present police force is a pretty good one. It is a good one. But that is just the more reason why the men should not be illtreated. If this were Brazil or South Africa no one would think of forcing the policemen to dress up in such a manner as to positively injure their health. While Kansas is not a tropical country, it is "away south." Only 150 miles from here they raise cotton. Policemen should be dressed to suit our climate. If lighter uniforms can not be provided, the Journal moves that the poor fellows be allowed to un button their coats. KILLED WIFE AND BABIES. A Texas Man Murders His Family and Throws Them in a Cistern. Austin, Tex., July 31. The wife and two children, aged 4 and 2 years, of W. E. Burt were found dead this morning in a cistern on the premises occupied by the Burt family up to Saturday last. Burt is a brother of Roscoe and Silas Burt, prominent shoe dealers. Early last week Burt told his broth ers he was going to Dallas to live. Sat urday he sold his household goods and on the same night called on his broth ers to inform them that he would leave on the midnight train and that he had left his wife and children with his mother who lives in a different part of the city. Tuesday it was discovered that his wife and children were not there and yeserday the matter was put into the hands of a detective, who searched the premises recently occu pied by the family. He found nothing, but the mother of Mrs. Burt insisted that another search be made and this morning her daugh ter's body, with those of the two chil dren, were found as stated. The heads had been crushed and after death they were thrown into the cistern. The body of Mrs. Burt was carefully wrapped in a blanket which was tied with a rope coiled around her body from the neck to the ankles. The governor this afternoon offered a reward of $500 for his arrest. His brothers have also offered a reward of $100. KATE FIELD'S REMAINS. No Disposition of Them Has Yet Been Made She Died in Debt. Honolulu, July 23. Per steamer Mon owai to San Francisco. July 31. No final disposition of the remains of Miss Kate Field has been made. A Miss Lil lian Whiting of New York has sent a written request that the casket be for warded for interment at Mt. Auburn, beside Miss Field's mother. Miss Whit ing states that George Riddell, the elo cutionist, is Miss Field's surviving rel ative. In her dying moments Miss Field re quested that letters announcing her decease, be sent to various friends in the United States. No responses to these letters have been received. Miss Field left no es tate in Honolulu; in fact she died in debt. It is said she left some personal effects in Washington, D. C. To Begin a Mexican Railroad. El Paso, Tex., July 31. About a hun dred head of horses and the parapher nalia of a large grading outfit were started across the river irom this city by the Sierra Madre Construction com pany yesterday to be given work on the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific railroad to run from Juarez, Mex., to Mazatlan, on the Pacific, via Corralitas and Guerrero. Dr. A. P. Sawyer: I have used one box of your Pastilles, and they have helped me more than anything else that I ever used, and I have tried al most everything. Mary Johnson, Bush nell. 111. Frank Sim, x'haxm&cist. b07 Kansas avenue. The Sale of Tomorrow Puts the Keystone in the Arch ....OF We must make a clean thing of it and an addi tional cutting of prices becomes expedient to do the work. If there is anything in our Specials for To morrow which will fill one or more of your wants, you surely will be pleased immeasurably with the price. j Navy blue Serge ready-made Skirts, sold at $4 and $4.50. The last we have of these will go to- CJ fbA morrow at iplitfU 1 Lot very nicely tailored ready-made Wrappers, which sold at $i.5 $1.75 and as high as $2.00 You can take them to-morrow 7 5 O To-morrow we close out the re mainder of our stock of Dotted Swisses. In order to do this we know that a sharp reduction is nec essary. We will sell them at over Qne-third off the regular prices. Avery nice soft finish bleached Mus lin, yard wide, regular price at all times 7ic. i To-morrow.... J2 The balance of our stock of children's and misses' Silk Mittens, were sold at 25 and 30c. To-morrow iftf will close them at lULr A dozen or so of ladles' Blazer Suits, made of cool cotton fabrics, were $1.50 and J.75- Rflo To-morrow lit w 1 Uot ladies' shaped and nicely fin ished Swiss Ribbed Vests in white or cream, short sleeves or sleeve less, were 35 and 40c. To c Q. close out, choice at i jv Wash Goods To-Morrow. SPECIAL CLOSING PRICES. ioc Qualities at 5c I2C 7iC 15c IOC 3 35c iSc Embracing the very choicest and newest of this stiason's cloths. Kvery yard we sell at these prices is a sacrifice of just so much cash. But Uioy must go. 5 0& mMp 617-619 Ilansas Avenue. CARLISLE OX SILVER. Under Free Coinage the Government "Wouldn't Be Obliged to Mam tain Farity. Little Rock, Ark., July 31. A state ment was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. L. Greene, of the Connecticut Life In surance company of Hartford, had is sued a circular letter to persons noti fying them that in the event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver the company would be com pelled to pay all claims in "depreciated silver coin." Mr. F. W. Alsop of this city sent a clipping of the statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle, with a re quest for an expression on the subject. He received a reply from Mr. Carlisle which in part is as follows: "In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country, I pre sume insurance companies and all oth er institutions would continue to make their payment by silver and drafts on banks as heretofore; but in my opinion the whole volume of our currency would sink at once to the silver basis and these checks and drafts would be paid in silver dollars or their equiva lent in gold, or its equivalent as is now the case. "I presume no one supposes for a mo ment that it would be the duty of the government to attempt to keep the standard silver dollar coined for pri vate individuals and corporations equa in value to a gold dollar; cr in othe words that it would be the duty of the government to attempt under any sys tem of free coinage to maintain the parity of the two metals. The dollars would be coined on private account and delivered to private individuals and corporations as their own property, the government having no interest in them and being therefore under no ob ligation to sustain them by guarantee ing their value. "Under our existing system all silver dollars are coined on account of the government and are issued by the gov ernment in payment of its expenditures and obligations, and it would be an act Clearing Sale AT TUB Blue Front SHOE STORE. Hew 1( your chance BARCASSye. Crittenden Danielson, SIS Kl AW, TS. Taptka. OUR.... In the Clothing Depart ment these are some of the chances that await your acceptance. 1 Lot Men's Mohair and Flannelcta Coats and Vests, which sold at $3, $4 and up to $5. We ticket them for tomorrow 51.48 But must at An almost incredible cut. sell them. AH our Men's Dress Straw Hats, Bal timore makes, were 75c, if 1, $1.25 Your choice of entire lot yQ- tomorrow at xC? L All our finest Children's Straw Sailor Hats, which were 65c and 75c, ele gant new styles, choice 39 C We have some beautiful straw Tarn o 5-hanters, which will be sold at ab solute cost. Balance of Boys Duck Sailor Suits, with cord and whistle, sold J Q at 75c, tomorrow lOb You can get Boys' Waists cheap if you will take advantage of this sale. 50c and 65c Waists will be.. ..39a 75c Blouse Waists will be. ...43.3 $1 and $1.25 Laundried Mother's Friend make, will be Waists, 69c Waists All Fauntleroy Blouse greatly reduced in prices. Men's best quality Fish Net Under shirts, were 50c, E will be uJC 1 Lot Men's Knit Shirts and Drawers, were 35c, for this sale IVC SSHS BCBI9B B9BII e 1 WE LUV 3 WANTS. m 0 it 1: work. TO MEET TOIJ, Y Ol' TO SEE Ol It WORK. For an "indefinite length of period' we will make our hieh prade hln.t Phoin for 81. -TO, 82.OO and Si 00. your mwiiay ba'cit if you want it. m o 80 o M a m H n H 629 KAXSA ATE. of bad faith, therefore to permit them to depreciate. "Very truly "J. G. CARLISLE." Emancipation Celebration, Alma, Au gust 1. The celebration of Emancipation day this year by the colored peopla of To peka and vicinity wilt be held in the city park. Aima. There will be lots of fun, including base ball game, Topoka vs. Alma; horse races, foot races, sack races, street parade and good speaking, etc. Dancing win commence at 5 o'clock p. m. Music by Topeka String band. The Manhattan colored cornet band will also furnish music during the day. Train will leave .Santa ire depot 8 a. m. Everybody should go. Tickets $1, children 50 cents, to be had of I. F. Mallory. A Look Through South Missouri for Four Cents. The Kansas City, Fort Scott Mem phis Railroad Co. has Just Issued a magnificent book of sixty or more photo-engraved views of varied scene-i-y in south Missouri. From theja views an accurate knowledge can be obtained as to the production" and gen eral topography of that highly favored Eection that is now attracting the at tention of home-seekero and investors the country over. The title of the book is "Snap Shots In South Mis souri." It will be mailed free upon re ceipt of postage, four cents. Addres3, J. E. LOCK WOOD. Kansas City, Mo. One Fare, One Fare for the Round Trip to AM lene. Aug. 3d, 4th and 5th. arid to To peka, Aug. 9th, 10th and Ilth, via tho Union Pacific from points in Kansas. For full information call on or ad dress F. A. Lewis. City Ticket Agent, Union Pacific System, 5i5 Kansas ave' nue, Topeka, Kansas. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It 3. W. PHILLIPS. 612 W. Eighth Ave. We can launder ladies' shirtwaists to suit-the most critical customer, peer less Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West Eighth. W aim to please our trade. Peerlewa Bteam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. 8th at.