The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 22, 1897

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rf TWO CENTS. FRIDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY 22, 1897. FRIDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. Sty RIOTSJEARED. Chicago Unable to Furnish Food to Worthy Poor Who Are Out of Work and Must Be Cared For. SAID TO BE PLENTY Of Food In Charge of County Commissioners But No Means of Getting It Is sued Fast Enough. Itich People Have Ceased Con tributing to Charity. "THEY TOTED RIGHT," The People In Chicago Tried to Restore Prosperity According to the Fairy Stories of Chicago Newspapers, But Now There Are 3Iore Men Out of Work Than EverBefore. Chicago, Jan. 22. Men, women and children are starving in Chicago in Bight of relief because the county com missioners, blind and deaf, do not allow the county agent enough help to dis tribute supplies. There are 26 assistants where there should be 50 in the agent's office. There is a county treasury, rich in its surplus, and there is an accumulation cf the appeals from a thousand cold and hungry families. Hundreds of these applications are more than two weeks old. Heads of families were discouraged then, and as a last resort appealed to the county for aid. These men are desperate now. The county agent is helpless to save these famine-stricken men, women and babes. Warning is given that the deserving poor are becoming dangerous and that their hunger is likely to drive them to riots, in which their terrible cry will be "Bread:" Men -who give this- -warning know whereof they speak. They are mem bers of the overworked force of Counts Agent Olson. They see gaunt hunger at its worst. Hunger has invaded even Michigan and Prairie avenues. Poverty has come to homes that knew only comfort be fore and has filled them with misery. The wolf has driven scores from aris tocratic streets to beg for bread. They are the proud poor. They have suffered in silence until starvation stares them in the face. They are among the honest poor. They are too honest as well as too proud to ask for charity as long as they can find work. Luck has been against them. "Work has given out or is insufficient. They have been forced to join the throng of miserables flocking daily to County Agent Olson's quarters to clamor pit eously for food and fuel. Mr. Olson is overwhelmed by the flood of appeals. With his 26 assistants work ing under tremendous pressure he is unable to keep pace with the demands. He is now so far behind that it takes ten days or more to act on applications. He demands more clerks in order that he may give prompt relief and still the cries of the suffering. Applications for aid received January 6. 7, 8 and even later were uncared for January 19 because Mr. Olson, already overburdened with relief work, had not the force with which to speedily dis charge all of his duties. The winter is terrible over the entire country owing to the number of unem ployed. In Chicago it finds more good men and women out of work and hun gry for bread and labor than ever be fore. f The force at the county agent's office is limited to 26 men. and that force is divided so as to furnish a few to the Englewood branch of the office. No wonder that Olson said, when speaking of the situation: "I tremble when I see it snow and turn cold. If we have four weeks, or even two weeks of steady, severe win ter weather, the hungry and unem ployed will be storming the doors and windows of this office." "Yes," added Assistant Agent Charles Pasdeloup,"ten days of bad weatherwill send them to the doors of the city hall clamoring for bread." "Never before in the history of Chi cago," said Secretary McNichols, "have there been so many deserving poor, and the rich are little aware of it. The poor that the county is supplying today with food are not professional beggars, but the respectable middle classes, whose names would astound the charitable if they knew them. Bad weather will tnean a serious uprising unless relief is soon forthcoming." Mr. Olson talks freely of his work and the terrible condition of the worthy poor "Bread riots are more than probable if we hr.ve any kind of bad weather, and I need more help here. I think and hope that the commissioners will give it to me after they get through with the appropriation bill. That is not passed yet, but will be soon, I guess. I could use six or seven more-men at once, and if we had the quarters suitable still more than that. Many good people are out of work and have been for some time. They are com ing to us now. There is a small store keeper who has his all in his stock, but cannot sell the stock, cannot sell the store and has no patronage. He has been a good citizen and has helped the citv aTid county, but he is without fuel now. without food and without income. He is one of the new class which is now com ing to us and which deserves the little aid we can give. It is not much, it will not last long, but it tides helpless ones over a short period. Men and women with good clothes are coming here, and their stories prove to be true that thev have no fuel or food. They want work. The crv is not so much for charitv as it is for work "Think of it when I 'tell you that apnli cations for aid are coming from Michigan and Prairie avenues. They are coming from districts where supposedly well-to-do people have lived. I wish all fear of winter cold was over, for if we get it there will be great trouble here, and my place certainly will be stormed in the cry for warmth and sustenance. "I do not think the wealthy classes are alive to the situation this year. The or ganized private charitable bodies are not doins; as much work as they might. They are throwing more burdens on us. I wish the authorities could be aroused to the situation and immediate action taken for affording greater relief than has been given. "We who are here work all the time, and it is almost impossible to keep up. We start early in the morning, and it is 10 o'clock or later at night when we finish. I broke down last week and was sick, due to the strain. The bookkeeping is intri cate in order to prevent cheating and to account for the money. There is an im mense amount of detail that cannot be avoided, and it takes time and labor to perform it. In our coal work alone, we sent out on Monday 219 tons, all of which had to be checked through every book and accurately accounted for. "We take up every case just as fast as we can, but cannot keep abreast of the rush now on us. Cases will get behind, and we have to take a little time for in vestigation where there appears to be doubt of the worthiness of the applicant. Cases got behind on us. More help would enable us to avoid this and keep up. I re gard the situation in the city as very ser ious, more serious than it ever has been." SCENES IN SOUTH CHICAGO. BTan Turned Off by the Illinois Steel Company Cold and Hungry. Chicago. Jan. 22. The keenest poverty is being felt by many of the 1,200 employes of the Illinois Steel company who were thrown out of work Tuesday. Groups of idle men wander about in the snow' and rain, and their sad faces gave evidence of what they suffer. Without money or employment and almost without hope, the day was to many the bitterest of their lives. Poorly clad children wept in the streets for food and begged of the passer-by for money and clothing, while their fathers sought at the grocery and meat market for food on credit and were turned away empty handed. Already in debt, and with neither food nor fuel at home, entire fam ilies are in a pitiful state. The merchants and business men of South Chicago are also sufferers from the cut. At the reopening of the steel works in November many, in anticipation of in creased business, laid in heavy stocks of goods, and with such yesterday was a day of apprehension, enable to extend credit or to sell their goods for cash, they were considering the advisability of clos ing their doors at once and going out ot business. In the rail mill, where 600 or TOO were laid off Tuesday, a few were last night reinstated, but in this department there ia not now employed a third of the force that went out. The companv is said to be hopeful of soon giving employment to several hundred of the idle men. but to the men there is not much encouragement in this, as they feel unable to weather the shut-down even if it lasts only a few weeks. $350,000,000. Is the Output of Concerns Now United in a Huge Clothing Trust. Chicago, Jan. 22. A special to the Tribune from New York says: After years of quiet but persistent effort the clothing manufacturers of the country have finally organized a com bine, to be known as the National Clothiers' association. The association begins operations un der a consolidation having this pream ble: "The purposes of this association shall be to foster and promote the clothing industry of the United States, to promote uniformity and certainty in its customs and usages, and harmony of action among those engaged therein; to reform abuses in the trade and to se cure freedom from unjust exactions; to acquire, preserve and disseminate ac curate, reliable information relative to the clothing trade and to promote a more enlarged and friendly intercourse among those engaged therein." The officers elected are as follows: President, Samuel Rosenthal of Bal timore; first vice president, Alf red Hock stader of New York; second vice presi dent; Adolph Nathan of Chicago; treas urer, Jacob S. Cheur of Cincinnati. The board of directors includes Abraham J. Katz, Rochester, N. Y. Marcus M. Marks, New York; William S. Peck, Syracuse; Robert H. Wickes, Utica; William Cushir.g, Boston, and Louis H. Kahn, Chicago. The firms pledged to the scheme have an annual output of $350,000,000. The avowed purposes of the combine are to do away with long credits, ex cessive rating and cancellation of or ders, and to promote harmony where rabid competition has heretofore pre vailed. According to the organizers, it is to serve purely as a board of trade, so to speak, for the clothing industry. They assert with vehemence that prices are not to be tampered with and that each manufacturer will be at lib erty, as heretofore, to conduct his busi ness as he pleases. STATE BANK NEWS. Two Banks Liquidate, One Will Bp gin Business. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has gone to Anthony to superintend the opening of a new state bank, which has been organized with a capital of $5,000. I. N. McDonald ofVinfie!d has com pleted arrangements for the opening of a new bank at Baxter Springs, to take the place of Colonel Alexander War ner's bank, which recently failed. The new bank will be capitalized at $3,000. A state bank at Hollenberg, Washing ton county, has notified the bank com missioner of its intention to go. into voluntary liquidation. Stackpole Tobey of Washington, Kan., have placed their private bank in voluntary liquidation. Caught After Three Weeks. Under Sheriff Bert Lucas last night ar rested Jerry Beecher on the charge of ob taining money under false pretenses and locked him in the count v jail. Beecher passed a $20 Missouri militia bond at the Topeka Packing House market, securing therefor goods and cash in change. This was three weeks ago. Officers have been working on the case and yesterday found Beecher and took him into custody. Miss Mabel Baker IIL Miss Mabel Baker, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Baker, of Thirteenth and laylor streets, is very ill at her home. V? w.as one ot th graduates at the high school commencement last evening and her chair upon the stage with the class was vacant. Her name was called with the rest of the class and no explanation ot illness made. She will receive her di ploma, having passed the examination. Stolen Goods Found. This morning Chief Gardiner received a telegram from the police department of Kansas City, Mo., notifving him that they had arrested two crooks named David Harrington and E A. Abbott, who had the goods stolen from Walter Noble's residence. Chief Gar diner and Detective Zeller went to Kan sas City this afternoon to brink back the burglars. FIGHT TIT BEGIN. On the Constitutional Conven tion Next Week. Senator Forney Will Start it in the Senate. POPULISTS DIVIDED. Lewelling Opposes, and Harris, Forney and King Faror the 'Measure A Lively Time Anticipated. A joint resolution submitting the question of a constitutional convention will be introduced in the senate by Sen ator Forney early next week. The upper house of the legislature is about equally divided upon the ques tion. Many of the Populist senators, among them ex-Gov. Lewelling, are op posed to the calling of a convention. In speaking of the convention. Gov. Lewelling said: "If we can pass the initiative and ref erendum amendment, it will, in my opinion, do away with the need of a constitutional convention. All ques tions can then be referred to the people direct, and in this way the same end accomplished without the enormous ex pense of a convention. If this amend ment can't be passed, then I am in fa vor of a convention." Senator A. G. Forney, the probable author of the resolution, said: "Our present constitution is weak and defective, and a convention to frame a new one, is, in my opinion, a necessi ty. There is a certain element holding back on this question simply on account of prohibition. "This I hold to be of less importance than almost any of the other portions of the constitution. I think it is imma terial whether the subject is resub mitted or not. Everybody that -wants liquor in this state, has it. There are joints in every town and drug stores where it can be procured, and in some of the larger places like Wichita, there are a number of wide open saloons. The prohibitory law, as it now stands, is a farce." Senators W. A. Harris and L. P. King say that the present constitution is weak and defective in many parts, and that they are therefore in favor of framing a new one. Senator Hanna of Clay county, -who was instructed by his constituency to oppose a constitutional convention, says that the least possible expense of call ing the convention would be $700,000. TO MAKE FEWER OFFICES. A Republican Introduces a Resolu tion to Put Elembers on Record. Resolutions which were introduced in the house today by Finney, Rep., of Woodson, will put the members on rec ord, on the proposition of abolishing useless boards, and demonstrate wheth er or not the Populists mean what they say about economy. The resolutions went over until to morrow, under the rules, are as follows: Whereas, There is a well founded complaint among the people of this state that taxes are too high, being not only a burden to the taxpayers but a serious hindrance to immigration and investment of capital in the state, rais ing the rate of interest and in many instances causing the loss of homes, and Whereas, The people look to this leg islature for all the relief that is possi ble to be given, therefore, be it Resolved. That we pledge ourselves to oppose the expenditure of any money for any new boards. That we are in favor of abolishing all boards where the expenditures are out of proportion to the benefits received by our people. That the committee on state affairs be and are hereby requested to present bills for the abolition of the offices of grain inspector, board of irrigation, the labor bureau, coal oil inspector, fores try station, silk station, the board of public works and any others that seem to be more ornamental than useful. That they also present a bill for the management of all the penal institu tions of the state by a single board and all the elemosynary institutions by one board of charities and all the education al institutions by one board of regents. DON'T INSTRUCT GOVERNOR. Governor Lewelling Says the Legis lature Ought Not to Try It. When house resolution requesting Gov. Leedy not to appoint commission ers of election, coal oil inspectors, for restry commissioner and members of the state board of irrigation until cer tain bills now under consideration by the legislature in reference to these po sitions be passed upon, came to the sen ate this morning, it was opposed by ex-Gov. L. D. Lewelling. Gov. Lewelling said: "I am opposed to this resolution be cause I don't believe the senate or house of this legislature has any right to instruct the governor of this state on business of his office any more than the governor has a right to instruct the legislature as to what it would do. Gov. Leedy has the right to exercise his judgment in regard to these posi tions, and I don't think the legislature should attempt to instruct him. We can go ahead and legislate and at the same time let the governor go ahead with the business of his office without interfer ence." The opposition of Gov. Lewelling was responsible for the resolution being re ferred to the committee on state af fairs. CLERKS NOT NAMED. J. M. Senter Will Probably be Clerk of Railroad Board. A meeting of the executive council has not yet been called to make a clerk and stenographer for the state board of railroad commissioners. Miss Jessie Lewelling has been sug gested as the probable appointee for stenographer, but the young lady says that under no circumstances would she accept it. It is generally understood that J. M. Senter, who was lcerk of the former board, will be reappointed. The place pays $1,200 per year and is now occupied by R. M. Fulton of Topeka. DOSIUS BOTKIN'S BILL Please Take Notice Tnat the "Fool Pop Legislature" Didn't Originate It. A bill introduced today by Represent ative Theodosius Eotkin of Keno (Rep.), provides that men who are convicted of crimes against the weaker sex by means of physical force, shall, in addi tion to the punishment by imprison ment at hard labor already provided, be subjected to the treament in vogue at the imbecile asylum at Winfield un der Dr. Pilcher. The crime covered in this catalogue is defined in section 32, chapter 31 of the general laws of 1868, as amended by section 2 of chapter 150 of the session laws of 1SS7. Had this measure emanated on the Populist side of the house no doubt it would have been heralded abroad as an indication of the unmeasured foolish ness of the Populist party. CO. SUPERINTENDENT BILL C. I Brown's Measure to Reguiate That Office. Representative C. L. Brown has in troduced a bill providing that county superintendents shall be elected by the voters of the county exclusive of the voters in the cities of the first class, and shall enter upon his duties the first Monday in April following the elec tion. No person shall be deemed eligible to the office who is not a graduate of the normal school or state university or shall hold an "A" grade certificate in full force, and who shall have taught 30 months, 12, of which shall have been in the state and within four years of the time of election. Where no eligible candidate shall present himself or herself, the present incumbent shall continue to discharge the duties of the office. The bill also provides that the coun ty commissioner shall levy a tax on assessable property, exclusive of the cities of the first class, and all revenues derived in excess of the amount re quired for the salary of the superinten dent, shall be converted into a county normal. The bill does not specify the amount of salary the superintendent shall re ceive. MEASURES RECOMMENDED. House Judiciary Committee Report on Several Bills. Chairman Hackney of the judiciary committee made a report this morning. The committee recommends that house resolution relating to the investigation of the state school fund commissioner's action in purchasing bonds in King man and Cowley counties with the amendment providing for an investiga tion of the coal oil inspector be adopted. The house will elect a committee of three members to do this work. This committee has recommended for passage the bill making husband and wife competent wintesses in divorce suits. Also, the house bill empowering city clerks to administer oath3. WHAT ARE MINERAL RESERVES House Sends Bill to Committee for a Definition. The house went into committee of the whole this forenoon to consider Represen tative Trueblood's bill providing for the taxation of mineral reserves. Brown of Pratt occupied the chair. Mr. Lobdell and Mr. Weilep doubted the strength of the measure- as it stands be cause of the omisHUjn tti7 definition of "mineral reserves." A brief discussion showed that the house deemed a more explicit definition necessary, and on motion of Mr. Lobdell, the committee rose and reported, recom mending that the bill be sent to the com mittee on judiciary with instructions to report another measure, not later than next Tuesday, containing the provisions of the pending bill and the amendments suggested in committee of the whole. Senate Changes Its Help. The formal resignation of D. M. Fer guson, as reading clerk of the senate, was submitted late yesterday afternoon and the name of L. A. Hanshew ten dered for the appointment in his place. Mr. Hanshew has been performing the duties of reading clerk for several days. The resignation of S. E. Robertson as chief journal clerk was also presented yesterday afternoon. Mr. Robertson found that he was unable to attend to the duties of the position after a trial of three days, and since that time J. L. Root has been doing the work. The ap pointment of both Mr. Hanshew and Mr. Root was referred to the committee on employes, and both will be formally installed by recommendation of that committee. The committee on employes has also been instructed to inquire into the need of employing additional help in the senate. To Stop State Printer Fight The bill introduced by Senator For ney (Pop., Sumner county) in the senate this morning provides that the state printer shall hereafter be elected by a majority of the joint session of the leg islature instead of by a majority of each house, as at present. This will prevent fights over the office like the Snow-Hudson contest. To Lease Franchises. A bill was introduced in the senate this morning by Senator Hanna Pop., Clay county) to prohibit the giving away of franchises by the city councils of cities of the first and second class, and provides that all corporations granted franchises in these cities shall pay a rental for the privilege. The amount above 6 per cent earned by the corporation on the capital invested is to constitute the rental, which will be ap propriated to the city funds. Waiting on Committees. The house disposed of all pending business by noon today and because of nothing to do adjourned until 4 o'clock this afternoon to give the committees time to prepare reports. Now that the preliminary business has been disposed of, there is nothing left for the legisla ture to do but work. The committees are all hard at -work and there will be many bills recommended for passage by the first of next week. $10,000 Gone Already. Members and employes of both houses of the legislature this morning received vouchers in payment for their work during the first ten days of the session. This was made possible by an appro priation of $20,000 passed by the senate and house this week. For salories alone one-half of the amount of the appro priation will be used. The remaining $10,000 will be used in defraying the current expenses of both bodies. Will Get Pay From the Fir3t. Employes of the senate who were sworn in several days after the opening of that body .were made happy yester day afternoon by the passage of a res olution. The resolution provides that their names shall be placed on the pay roll of the senate as drawing pay from the opening day of the session. Free ticket to Food Show with $1.00 purchase. Tayman-Oberley Hardware Co. The King, of rills Beechams Beeehama. GOES UPON A KITE Lieut. Wise Makes the First As cension in America. The Wind Blew Fifteen Miles an Hour. ASCENDED 42 FEET. lie Looked Orer the Tops of the Houses And Descended Safely Without a Parachute. New Tork, Jan. 22. Lieutenant Hugh D. Wise of the Ninth infantry, U. S. A., on Governor's island, has Just niade the first kite ascension ever successfully at tempted in America. For six months the lieutenant entire ly on his own responsibility, has been studying and experimenting with kites as a means of assisting armies in war fare. The tandem system of specially constructed kites is intended to sup plant the use of balloons, which cannot live in gales. The lieutenant's kites are cellular. They consist of rectangular frames of spruce. Cotton string and cotton cloth in strips are stretched around the edge or the frames, leaving both ends of the rectagular frame work open, and also an open strip in the center. Thus four lifting surfaces and four guiding surfaces are presented to the wind. When the breeze freshed to a 15 mile an hour gait, the lieutenant was safely hoisted 42 feet, so he could see over the eaves of the officers' quarters and down the bay. The force represented by the pulling of the four kites is estimated at 400 pounds. 1 "I have studied the systems of Prof. Langley of the Smithsonian institute; Prof. Marvin of the weather bureau, and Civil Engineer Chanut of Chicago, who are making special experiments in aerial locomotion with aeroplanes, "said Lieut. Wise. "The success of my ex periment demonstrates that kites are serviceable in a gale which would tear a balloon to pieces where it is desired to observe the sourrounding country and inspect the manoeuvers of an enemy. I attribute my success to a close follow ing of the methods of those who have studied the subject rather than to my own efforts." Capt. T. H. Baden-Powell ascended nearly 100 feet in England, but he took a parachute with him. Lawrence Har grave was hoistd by kites 40 feet high in Australia in 1SS5. There are only three instances of aeroplane ascensions on record. BLIZZARD IX DAKOTAS Worst Snow Storm of the Season Rag ing to the North of Us. Fargo, N. D., Jan. 22. A blizzard raged in this section all day yesterday and at midnight the situation was almost as ser ious as during any of the former storms this winter. Railroads will be badly blockaded. WOOLEN MILLS START UP. A Great Revival in Woolen Manufac tures at Pascoag, R. L Pascoag, R. I., Jan. 22. The industrial situation in Pascoag and vicinity which has been depressed for months, is im proving rapidly and many of the wool en mills, which form the chief industry are increasing their production. The starting of W. F. Slade and company's mills temporarily this week, has been followed by that of others, among them being those of A. L. Sayles Son, who announce that they are making prepar ations to run on full time. W. H. Pendergrast's mills have al ready been making goods at their full capacity and the management says that if the market sufficiently improves there will be no need to reduce the running time for several months at least. Wag ner Bros, are increasing the number of their looms daily and will operate stead ily. A NEW SEABOARD LINE. It Will Extend From Chicago to Nor folk, Va, Chicago, Jan. 22. Acting President Monsarrat of the Columbus, Hocking Valley Toledo railroad confirms the reports as to a railroad deal, the con summation of which means a new line from the great lakes to the Atlantic seaboard at Norfolk, Va., by which the product of the Lake Superior iron mines and of the grain fields of the northwest will find a new outlet to the ocean. The roads to form the new lines with the Columbus.Hocking Valley Toledo are the Wisconsin Central, Flint Pere Marquette and Norfolk Western. Ex tensive terminal facilities at Chicago for the use of the lines are said to have been arranged for. The Wisconsin Cen tral Norfolk Western roads are both in the hands of receivers at the present time. PLAGUE REACHES RED SEA Two Cases Reported on the Island of Kamaran. New York, Jan. 22. A special to the Herald from St. Petersburg says: Two cases of the bubonic plague, which is raging in Bombay, are reported from Ka maran. Kamaran is an island of the west coast of Arabia in the Red Sea. It is a. British possession and one of the landing stations near the city of Mecca. A severe quarantine has been establish ed by the Russian authorities. WOMAN ARE SHUT OUT. None but Qualified Electors to Hold Office in Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 22. The Ar kansas stale senate has passed a bill introduced by Senator Witt providing that hereafter none but qualified elect ors shall hold any position within the gift of the Arkansas legislature. The army of women who besiege the members at every session to secure voles for clerkships is responsible for the action of the senate. Photographs the Brachial Artery. New Tork, Jan. 22. Superintendent Knoll, at the Hudson street hospital, has completed an x ray photograph clearly outlining the brachial artery in the right arm of Thomas Saltmann. This is said to be the first time such a feat has been accomplished. SUMMONED TO COURT. Eugene Hagan Commanded by His Majesty to Appear at the White House. The following dispatch has been sent out from WTashington: Washington, Jan. 21. It is under stood that the administration has sent for Eugene Hagan, chairman of the gold wing of the Democratic party in Kansas, for the purpose of consulting with him in reference to the Kansas appointments which are now pending in the senate, and those which are still to be made between now and the 4th of March. Hagan is now on his way to Washington, and is expected to arrive this evening. The fact that he comes in response to a summons from the White House indicates that the admin istration is determined to fill the offices becoming vacant with gold Democrats, and desires to have Hagan at hand to furnish reliable data to guide it in mak ing appointments. Mr. Hagan was found at the Topeka club and shown the dispatch, and he appeared very much surprised: "Why," said he, "I do not suppose that President Cleveland knows that there is such a man as Hagan in Kan sas. I expect to go to Washington, but I will not go until next Wednesday, and then it is on entirely different business. Mr. Perry and I are interested in the Texas fever cattle cases, which come up before the supreme court at that time, and that is what is taking us to Washington. There is positively no truth in the statement that President Cleveland sent for us." Mr. Hagan shows a disposition to be little his own influence with the na tional administration, but it is a well known fact that he and Mr. Perry are consulted before anything is done in the way of removals or appointments. It is more than likely that both gen tlemen will see President Cleveland while they are in Washington, and it is possible that there will be some polit ical changes as a result of the visit, though they are going on other busi ness. ANTI-BURTON BOLT. Twenty-Two Republicans Will Stay Out of Tonight's Caucus. Acting upon the suggestion that it would be unwise for the Republican members of the legislature to hold a caucus and indorse a candidate for United States senator at this time, twenty-two Republicans have an nounced their determination to remain out of the caucus to be held at the Copeland tonight. It was suggested that the minority of about twenty-nine members go into the caucus and make an effort to pre vent the indorsement of J. R. Burton. In the event the majority should de mand the indorsement of Burton, it was suggested that the minority walk out of the caucus, but, to save friction, the twenty-two members decided to remain out of the caucus. Senator W. E. Sterne and Represent atives McKeever, Larimer and Brooke, the Shawnee county delegation, are among those who will not participate in the caucus. Others are as follows: Representatives John Seaton, C. C. Mc Carthy, Bacon of Jackson. Gates of Jack son. Bradley of Hodgeman. Burkholder of Marion, Baker and Henley of Doug las. Smith of Brown, Senator Wallack, Senator C. F. Johnson and others. Should the Burton men muster 30 votes, the nomination will probably stand, but even the Burton men assert that unless 30 votes are secured, a majority of the Republican members, that they will not consider themselves bound by the action of the caucus. AGAINST BTJRTOIT. Lincoln Post Slakes a Request of the Republican Caucus. At a large and enthusiastic mass meeting of ex-Union soldiers held at Lincoln Post hall this Friday morning, January 23, 1897, it was Resolved, First, that the Republican members of the legislature be requested to select for United tSates senator some ex-Union soldier who may fitly repre senat the great soldier state of Kan sas, if such selection be found possible. It was further resolved as the sense of the meeting that the selection of Gen. J. C. Caldwell from his distinguished record as a soldier, and eminent quali fications, as well as his unswerving loy alty as a Republican, would preserve the harmony of the party, honor the state through his representation ,and meet the approal of all good citizens. Resolved, Further.that a copy of these resolutions be presented to Senator Sterne, with the request that he lay them before the Republican caucus, and a copy be furnished to the Topeka State Journal and Daily Capital for publica tion. GEO. W. CAREY. Chairman. ALEX R. BANKS, Sec'y. HAMMERSTEIN ARRESTED. Indicted for Giving a Representation of the Seeley Dinner. New York, Jan. 22. Oscar Hammer stein, manager of the Olympic Music hall, was indicted today for maintaining a public nuisance. The specific offense charged is that upon the stage of the music hall there is being given nightly a representation of scenes alleged to have transpired at the now famous Seeley bachelor dinner a few weeks ago. Judgment Against Ferris Wheel- Chicago, Jan. 22. A judgment for $84,000 in favor of the World s Colum bian Exposition company was entered today in Judge Burke's court against the Ferris Wheel company. The judg ment is for the World's Fair company's share of the gate receipts during the exposition. The Lloyds are Barred. Columbus, O., Jan. 22. Hon. William Matthews, state superintendent of in surance, today barred the Lloyd's In surance company from doing business in Ohio. St John's School Principal Dead. Great Bend. Jan. 22. James A. Brady, principal of the St. John schools died at his home here this morning of quick con sumption. He was considered one of the n er s of young educators in western Kansas. BRYAN JALLANT. Presents a Lady at Houston With a Flower Accompanying it With a WTell Turned Compliment. TEXAS fcT0WST ELATED At Having theDemocratic Lead er in Her Mist. Delivers a Lecture There On Non-Political Matters. Houston, Tex., Jan. 22. William J. Bryan's autograph adorns the register at the Bristol. He came in by the Southern Pacific; accompanied by his private secretary. Mr. F. R. Rose, to fill his lecture con tract here. Owing to the inclemency of the weath er the crowd at the Grand Central de pot was not as large as it otherwise would have been, but the several hun dred people there cheered lustily as the great commoner stepped from the rear end of the last drawing room car of the long train. He met their greetings with a smila and shook with a hearty grasp every hand that was extended him. Mr.Comstock. accompanied bv Messrs. Ellis and Bryan, together with Alder man Cronan of the reception committee. were present to receive the distinguish ed visitor and under guide of a detach ment or police headed by Deputy O'Leary and Sergeant Higgins, Mr.Bry- an was hurried to a carriage and im mediately driven to the Bristol hotel. where room No. 28 had been assigned him. This room is next to the parlor in the northwest corner of the building and anticipating its occupancy by so dis tinguished a guest several handsome floral offerings had been tastefully ar ranged about the room, one of a partic ularly handsome design, bearing the compliments of Mrs. Presley K. Ewing. Quite a crowd had gathered in the ro tunda of the hotel, the most conspicu ous figure there being Mr. C. M. Coop er of Indiana, a member of the Chicago convention that nominated Air. Bryan, and who in the recent election was a Democratic candidate for congress. Mr. Bryan immediately recognized Air. Cooper and grasped his hand with his proverbially hearty shake. The lady guests of the hotel, headed by Mrs. Rosine Ryan, had waited in. the parlor, where was assembled several other guests and before Mr. Bryan had time to shake the train dust from his garments the ladies demanded an aud ience, Mrs. Ryan claiming the pri-ilege of being the first lady in Houston to shaie the hand of the honored stranger. sue welcomed nim most graeeruny to Houston and noticing a pretty camel lia upon his coat lapel, she remarked coyly:- "Were I a young lady, I should claim that pretty flower as a talisman." Mr. Bryan retorted gallantly: "You are certainly not too old. mad ame, to do me the honor to accept it." saying which he removed the flower from his coat and gracefully presented it to Mrs. Ryan. After a brief reception in the parlor. Mr. Bryan repaired to his room not to rest, but to work. Mr. Bryan has not yet completed hte book and works upon it day and niKht. "He is the most indefatigable worker X ever saw," remarked his secretary to a Post reporter later in the evening. "He has written four chapters on his book while on the train from Chicago. He com poses by dictation. I take it in shorthand and transcribe it on a typewriter. Asked as to his trip. Mr. Bryan replied: "I had so much work to do that I trav eled incog as far as practicable, and in coming through Texas I really felt guilty in seeking to hide myself from a peop;& who treated me so kindly. "They found me out, however, and all through the state of Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas crowds were at the depots wherever the train stopped.' At this juncture the clerk of the hotel brought up the register for Mr. Bryan to sign. After placing his familiar signature upon the book he resumed his conversa tion about his trip. "We received a great ovation at Beau mont," said Mr. Bryan, "and everywhere along the route, except at New Orleans, and by some good luck I managed to get through that city without my presence being known." K. C. GROCERS FAIL. Campbell-Eaton Grocery Co. of Kan sas City Goes to the Wall. Kansas City, Jan. 22. The Campbell Eaton Grocery company, one of the largest concerns in Kansas City, failed today. The store and fixtures being ta ken possession of by the Citizens' Na tional bank under a chattel mortgage for $12,500. The assets amount to $37, 000; liabilities estimated at $22,000. MURAT HALSTEAD HERE. Says the Country is Watching Our Legislature. Murat Halstead. the noted Journalist and correspondent, is in the city. He arrived this noon from the east and was seen at the Throop hotel by a re porter: "The eyes of the people are upon this legislature now in session," said he. "The people of this state make the mistake that they are disposed to have too much confidence in restrictive and repressive legislation. The people of this country are looking with great in terest to this legislature to see what the character of legislation will be. Re sults of this legislation will be studied in the eastern stares with great inter est." Mr. Halstead has never visited Kansas before. "But I know Kansas' history from beginning to end," said he. "For I read it in telegrams in my work." This afternoon special resolution was introduced in the senate inviting Mr. Hal stead to address the senate for a snort time. He accepted the invitation and went there with President Hemrk of Washburn college. This evening at V, ash burn college Mr. Halstead will deliver his lecture on Cuba. Governor Leedy will in troduce him to the audience. McKinley Sends a Man. Columbus, O., Jan. 22. Senator Silas J Williams of Alliance, is in Cuba and it is stated here today that he is there to study the situation for McKinley. Surplus Down Gold Rsserve Up. Washington, Jan. 22. Today's state ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $--8, 631,824; gold reserve $143,182,755.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22. 1897. HILL JOINS QUAY. He, Too, Has Become a Reformer, And In Future Will With the Reformers Stand. HE OPPOSES TRUSTS. Makes a Bitter Attack In the Senate On All Forms of Monopoly and Trusts. "Washington, Jan. 22. The' senate was on the verge of a deadlock yesterday and for a time there were prospect3 of 'a protracted test of endurance, extend ing the session late Into the night. Mr. Morgan, in charge of the Nicaragua ca nal, was determined to secure a time for a final vote.This was resisted, however, by Mr. Turpie and Mr. Vilas. There upon air. Morgan announced he- would ask the senate to "sit out" the bill, re maining in session until a vote was forced. This brought forth sharp crit icisms. Mr. Turpie concluded his speech against the Nicaragua canal, the third day being a continuance of the former bitter invective directed against the measure. During the day Mr. Chandler present ed the credentials of John Edward Ad dicks, claiming the vacant seat as Sen ator from Deaware. The claim of Hen ry A. Dupont for the same seat has al ready been presented. In the course of a discussion of laying electric conduits in the Washington streets, Mr. Hili (Dem,. N. Y.), spoke against trusts and monopolies in general as a serious men ace to the public welfare. Mr. Hill (Htm., N. Y.), called up his bill, recently introduced, establishing a term of four years for postmasters. It "was about to pass when Mr. Sherman interposed and said there should be time to examine the measure as it establish ed a fixed tenure of four years and compelled removal after four years. Mr. Chandler said the bill had no po litical significance and had the approval of senators of both parties on the post office question. I fear It will lead to a scramble for these postoffices at the close of every1 four years service," sug gested Mr. Hale. "I call the attention of the senator," replied Mr. Chandler, "that there is a universal scramble now.Whenever there is a change of politics we see such a scramble, as the presiding officer of the senate very well knows." There was suppressed laughter In which the vice president joined, at the reference to Mr. Stevenson's former service as assistant postmaster general. The bill finally went over. The con test over electric light conduits In the streets of Washington was then resum ed. Mr. Hill speaking at length. The senator arraigned the old com pany as a monopoly and then branched off to a general arraignment of trusts and the vast aggregations of capital throughout the country. The people were rising against these vast syndicates, notwithstanding they were formed by many eminent men. in cluding members of the church. And yet. every time a voice was raised against such a monopoly some gentle man arose and protested against any disturbance of business interests. It was the same plea entered In behalf of the sugar trust and every other trust. TUCKER IS CONFIRMED. The Republicans Divided and Lost. Washington, Jan. 22. After a two days debate, in the course of which con siderable partisan passion was aroused and an ineffectual attempt to filibuster for the purpose of gaining time, the house decided the contested election case of Yost vs. Tucker from the Tenth Virginia district by denying the seat to Mr. Yost and confirming Mr. Tucker's title thereto. The Republicans were badly divided, four of them joining with the Democrats and supporting the claims of the Democratic contestee. When the supporters of Mr. Yost's contentions found they were defeated by a narrow margin of eight votes The vote 119 to 12. against him), they inaugurated a filibuster in the hope of gaining time, and for two hours there was succession of roll calls but were finally overpowered and the resolutions confirming Mr. Tucker's title to his seat were adopted. A SHIP BOTTOM UP. Evidence of a Collision is Seen at S ea New York. Jan. 22. Officers of the Gali leo, which arrived .today from Rio Jan eiro, report that on the night of January 16. while In latitude 2D.S4. longitude 61.46, they came close to a larere wooden vessel, bottom up. A short distance away stood a big iron ship and it was evident that the two had been in collision. The night was so dark the lookout could not see the name of either craft. Pension for Senator Perkins Widow. Washington, Jan. 22. The widow of Senator Perkins of Kansas applied for a pension Nov. 20, 18!5. but it was re fused on the ground that her husband's death had not been due to disease con tracted in the line of duty. Mrs. Per kins still sought relief, setting forth that she was needy, and yesterday Sen ator Peffer of the pensions committee favorably reported a bill for J2Q a month. Kyle is Losing. Pierre, S. D., Jan. 22. Kight more ballots taken for United States senator in the Populist caucus last night show no perceptible change except the loss of a few votes to Kyle, who went as low as 20 in one ballot. Bradshaw,hand-made harness, 810 K.A. is far ahead of any biood remedy on the market, lor it does so much more. Be sides remo'ing impurities, and toning tip the run-down system, it cure any blood disease, it matters not how deep-seated or obstinate, which other so-called blood remedies fail to reach. Tt is a real blood remedy for real blood diseases. ir. Asa Smith, of Greencastle, Ind writes "I tail such a bad case of Sciatic Rheumatism that I became absolutely helpless unable to take my foodornandlo mvself in any way. I took many patent medicines, bus thcr did not reach my trouble One dozen bottles of S. S. S. cured a aound and well, andlaow weigh 1T0." Books on blood and skin diseases nailed free kl Swift Bptai&c Company, Atlanta, (ia. SPANISH BARBARITIES. A Cuban Family Almost Destroyed. New York, Jan. 22, A Tampa, Fla., special to the World says Senora Maria Teresa Miguel, who has come here from Cuba, having been forced to leave her home near Artemisa, tells a story of great suffering and barbarous treat ment at the hands of the Spaniards. She and her husband with a family Of five two boys and three girls, lived ten miles from' Artemisa. They had a plan tation of 400 acres and employed more than 100 hands on the place. General Weyler's first order scared all the white men off. Alnjost daily bands of Span ish troopers would stop there, insulting the family and taking what they pleas ed in food, provisions, clothing and even day Senora Miguel's little boy resented the thefts. Shortly afterwards he was shot dead near the house, as the troopers rode off. Complaint was made to the commandant, but he refused to entertain it. Other raids were made and one day .her husband was killed before Senora Miguel's eyes, as he resented an insult to her. Two daughters were caught away from the house and ill treated by the Spaniards. The little boy was shot while attempt ing to prevent the soldiers from taking his pet pony. All the women servants were abducted one night three weeks ago and the house was fired. Senora Miguel and her daughters then started for Havana. They managed to get on a sail boat, but were chased by Spanish guerillas and fired on, the youngest girl being wounded in the arm. After be ing on the water three days they were transferred to a fishing vessel and trans ferred near Key West to an American craft, which brought them here. WILL REQUIRE 50,000,000. Wall Street Will Raise That Amount to Buy Pacific Roads. New York, Jan. 22. The Press pub lishes the following: Minor .details are yet to be arranged in the agreement made between the government and the purchasing syndi cate to adjust the debt of the Union Pa cific Railroad company which is due the government. Attorney General Har mon returned to Washington yesterday after a conference with ex-Governor George Hoadley. Mr. Hoadley, who is the special coun sel of the government in matters per taining to the .Union Pacific road, said: "I must withhold all information con cerning the affairs of the Union Pacific. The full details will be announced with in a week; that is, I believe that will be the case." The syndicate includes almost every prominent banker in Wall street, as the total amount of money required will be about $50,000,000. It is believed 10 per cent of the subscriptions have already been called. UNCLE SAM MUST BEGIN If a Bimetallic Monetary Standard is Desired. London, Jan. 22. The Daily News says this morning that Senator Wolcott of Colorado had an interview yesterday with Sir Wm. H. Houldsworth, conserv ative member of parliament for the western division of Manchester, and who was the British delegate at the Brussels monetary conference in 1S92. The interview was private and infor mal. The bimetallists in parliament, the News says, are not disposed to take any active measures, but they believe that time is on their side, and they are warmly interested in Sir Samuel Mon tague's proposal that to secure the adoption of the dual standard it would be necessary for the United States to begin and then to offer a 10 per cent tariff rebate to all nations following their example. WORSE THAN THE PLAGUE. Over Half the British-India Army In capacitated. London, Jan. 22. The Calcutta cor respondent of the Times expresses the hope that parliament will induce the government to deal in a practical way with the problem and prints an unusu ally outspoken article from the Pioneer declaring that only 24,000 of the whole British garrison are free from conta gious diseases in some shape or other and that 522 in each thousand are actu ally incapacitated. The disease, it is said, is becoming more destructive than ever, and even the bubonic plague cannot compare as a human affliction. "A squeamish reserve, veiled by dubious hints," says the Pioneer, "is no longer appropriate to the emergency." CARNEGIE IS HONORED. He Tells Johnstown People What the Trouble Is. Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 22. Andrew Carnegie is the guest of Johnstown, and his reception on the arrlvel of the spec ial train from Pittsburg, was the cor dial and hearty tribute of honor by a grateful people. The reception was prompted by the fact that Mr. Carnegie rebuilt the public library here after the flood and was the largest individual contributor to the relief fund. In a speech last night he declared that the depression in business during the past three years was due to the ag itation against the gold standard. FREE BRINKS AT IVORY'S. He Cables His Barkeeper to "Set 'Em Up." New York, Jan. 22. J. Edward J. Iv ory's saloon, "The Municipal" at 123rd street and Lexington avenue, is decora ted with evergreens and bunting in honor of the proprietor's release. The cornice of the saloon is festooned with small American flags and the pillar at the entrance is wound with wreaths of green foliage and streamers of the na tional colors. Posted on the inside of the show win dow is the cablegram received from Ivory which brought the good news "released. Set them up." Irishmen are preparing to welcome Ivory on his return. Quarles May Get a Long Term. NThe Rev. M. Quarles. who was pastor of the Mount Zion (colored) church of North Topeka, was yesterday found guilty of violation of the age of consent law by a jury in the district court. Lulu Robinson, a 17 year old colored girl, was the complaining witness. The trial extended over two days and attracted large crowds of colored ppople. The jury was out but IS minutes when it returned a verdict of guilty. The pen itentiary penalty for this offense is from five to 21 years. May Irwin's Theater. New York. Jan. 22 May Irwin, the actress, is to have a new 'theater built for her on Broadway, to be called "May Irwin's Theater." She will organize a stock company of players and present comedy during the season. Halstead. Cuba and Leedy at "Wash burn tonight. OEMANIAX, NEW ARMENIAN PATRIARCH. The new Armenian patriarch. Mgr. Maghahia Ormanian, has; signalized the be ginning of his term of office by seeurins the release of 4,000 Armenian prisoners and the remission of all death sentence?. The new head of the Armenian church joined it in 1878, together with many families who had belonged to the Roman church. He has filled many Important positions and often has been sent on mis sions in the Armenian provinces and knows thoroughly the condition of his fellow countrymen. THE BEST SHOTS. Results of Target Practice in the Army. Washington, January 22. The war department has published the results of the rifle, carbine and revolver firing of all the troops of the army during the past year. The table shows the leading departments at the various ranges were as follows: Two hundred yards with rifles, de partment of Missouri; with carbines, department of the Platte: 300 yard ri fles, department of Columbia: with car bines, department of the Platte. Five hundred yards, department of Columbia; carbines, department of Texas. Six hundred yards, rifles, department of the Columbia; carbines, department of the Columbia. Eight hundred yards, rifles, depart ment of the Columbia: with carbines, department of the Platte. One thousand yards, rifles.department of the Platte: with carbines, depart ment of the Platte. As skirmishers with rifles.department of the Platte: with carbines, depart ment of the Platte. In volley practice 800 yards, the de partment of Texas led with the highest per centage of hits with the rifle and the department of the Platte with the carbine. Curiously enough, the latter's carbine score was higher than the form er's rifle score at these long ranges. Of all the cavalry regiments, the Eighth stood first at every range from 200 to 1.000 yards and as skirmishers. The infantry regiments divided hon ors. At 200 and 300 yards the Fourth stood first: at 500 yards the Fourteenth led; at 600 yards the Sixteenth: at 800 yards the Seventeenth: at 1,000 yards the Seventh and as skirmishers theTwenty second infantry led. In revolver shooting the Seventh cav alry took the palm. AMERICANS IN LONBON. Mrs. Curzon, Senator Wolcott and Others at Duke of Devonshire's Reception. London, Jan. 22. Lord Salisbury, Mr. Arthur Balfour, the Duke of Devonshire and other political leaders attended the usual parliamentary banquets last even ing. Afterwards the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire gave a brilliant reception at Devonshire house. A thousand invita tions were issued, and the guests includ ed Lord Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, the ambassadors of London, all of the leading aristocratic personages, the government ministers and members of parliament and their wives. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough (born Vanderbilt). Mr. and Mrs. George N. Curzon (born Leiter), Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, and Mrs. Wolcott, Henry White, formerly secretary of the United States legation, and Mrs. White were among those present. The beautiful staircases of Devonshire house and their approaches were adorn ed with potted palms, bamboo, tulips, etc. The scene was splendid, with the uni forms of the ambassadors and military men and the tasteful gowns of the wo men, adorned with jewels. PICTURE OF JEFF DAVIS. Arkansas Legislators Love it More Than One of Washington. Litle Rock. Jan. 22. Six years ago this month the Arkansas legislature passed a bill apropriating $:50 for the painting of Jefferson Davis, and instructed the ser-geant-at-arms to hang it over the speak er's chair, a place formerly occupied by a portrait of George Washington. Today. Jacob King, of Stone county, introduced the following resolution relative to the picture: "Be it resolved, by the house of repre sentatives of the state of Arkansas, That Hon. Jefferson Davis' picture be removed from where it now hangs and placed to the left of the speaker's stand, where Gen. George Washington's picture now hangs, and that Gen. Washington's pic ture be placed over the speaker's stand, where Hon. Jefferson Davis' picture now hangs." The house, by an overwhelming major ity, rejected the resolution. Mr. King says he was in the c;ufelerate army, and with lien. Lee at the surrender of Appo mattox, and that he introduced the reso lution at the urgent request of his con stituents. A Message From the Ladraa. St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 22. A bottle was picked up on South beach, seven miles below here, this morning which contained a message stating that the bark Ladras had foundered at sea on January 15. The message was writ ten on several small sheets of paper and was signed by Captain Gonzales. It was a log of the vessel from the time she left port until she foundered. A Cure for Lame Back. "My daughter, when recovering from an attack of fever, was a great sufferer from pain in the back and hips," writes Louden Grover of Sardis, Ky. "After using quite a number of remedies with out any benefit, she tried one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and it has given entire relief. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheumatism. Sold by druggists. Lexow is After the Trusts. Albany, N. T.. Jan. 22. The senate today adopted the resolution presented by Senator Lexow providing that a spe cial commission investigate trusts and report to the legislature by March with a bill intended to remedy the alleged evils. MUSK OXEN FOR CHICAGO. Twelve Specimens of the RareAnimal May be Purchased. Chicago, Jan. 22. The Field Colum bian museum may soon be in possession of the largest collecticyi of musk oxen in the country. Chief Taxidermist C. E. Akely of the museum returned yesterday from a trip to New Bedford, Mass., where he has inspected 12 specimens of the deni zens from the north, and he will rec ommend the purchase of the lot. The museum will be compelled to buy the whole lot, as the owner will not sell them singly. As there are only ten or twelve specimens in the country out side of those in Massachusetts, the mu seum stands a fair show of being able to corner the market. The skin of the musk ox is more val uable than that of any other animal on the American continent and is eag erly sought after by the collectors. The Field museum has the only one speci men of the animal, and Prof. Elliott has been anxious to secure more. SEND CORN TO INDIA. Methodist Ministers of Chicago Go to Work to Relieve Famine Sufferers. Chicago, Jan. 22. At a meeting yes terday of the Methodist ministers it was decided to co-operate in a plan originated by the Rev. R. O. Hobbs, secretary of the Illinois conference and pastor of the Centenary church at Jacksonville, to send corn to the starv ing people of India. Mr. Hobbs has asked the farmers in the vicinity of Jacksonville to make contributions of corn for the. relief of the famine suf ferers and met. with a ready response, the farmers even loading the corn on the cars. The plan was submitted to Dr. W. B. Leonard of New York, secre tary of the Methodist Foreign Mission ary society, who suggested that the Il linois corn should be shipped to Chicago and sold and the proceeds used to buy old corn in New York for shipment to India. Mr. Hobbs adopted the change sug gested and asked the Ministers' asso ciation to handle the corn when it ar rived here. A committee was appoint ed for that purpose. RUSH OF GOLD SEEKERS. Alaska and Puget Sound Merchants Expect Big Crowds. Tacoma, Wn Jan. 22. Alaska and Puget Sound merchants and the steam ship companies are preparing for an influx of ten to fifteen thousand miners into Alaska this spring. Last year about five thousand men went north in search of wealth. The success of many of these, coupled with strikes made on Cloudy Creek, a tribu tary of the Yukon, late this season, and the systematic advertising now be ing done is having the effect of at tracting thither gold seekers from every part of the country. SMALLPOX RAGES IN CUBA. Death Rate in Havana is Thirty-five Per Day. Havana, Jan. 22. (Via Key West) The epidemic of smallpox here contin ues and the daily death rate from all diseases is 35 per cent or more. It is calculated that there were 5,000 cases of smallpox In Havana some time since. All of the- physicians paint the pic ture of the sanitary condition in awful colors. The mortality is frightful and for several days past has increased to 45 per cent. Jeruco also reports an epidemic of smallpox, with many vic tims. JUST LIKE SILVER. An Alteration in the Astronomical Day Must bs Settled by Interna tional Agreement London. Jan. 22. The secretary of the aclmiralitv. Mr. W. Ellison McCartney. M. P., replving in the house of commons to a question whether the government proposed to act on the suggestion ot the royal secretarv of Canada and secure a unification of time, ."aid that any alter ation in the astronomical day must be preceded by an international agreement. He added that the foreign powers in had rejected the proposed change, and hence the nautical almanac for 1901 would be calculated upon the existing system. Edmonds Likes the Treaty. Philadelphia. Jan. 22. C. C. Harrison, trrovost of the University of Pennsylvania wrote a letter to ex-United States Senator Geo. E. Edmunds asking his views in re lation to the arbltraticn treaty with Great Britain which is now pending. Mr. Har rison todav received a reply in which Mr. Edmunds answers in detail the criticisms of the treaty and gives it his hearty ap proval. The Metric System Again. Washington. Jan. 22. It is the inten tion of the public committee on coin age, weights and measures to author ize a favorable report on a bill provid ing for the metric system in the United States. Chairman C. W. Stone has in vestigated the practical working of the system in Europe and Will probably in corporate the result in the report. Try us on collars. We can make them look like new. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. 8th st. "Phone 332. WORSE AND W0RSE. The Most Disgraceful and Seri ous College Row Of. the Year Takes Place at Champaign University. A WOMAN'S EYES GONE Students Smash All the Win dows In the Building. The Fire Department Turns on the Hose. Champaign. Jan.22. The annual clash between the freshman and shophomores of the University of Illinois occurred last night and was attended with ser ious, results. It leaked out late In the afternoon that the- freshmen were to have their sociable in Busy's hall, at Urbana, and at 7 o'clock the sophomores began to fill the street in front of the hall. They smashed all the windows in the dining hall and drove the freshmen out by the use of foul smelling chemicals. Miss Delia Rodenbaugh, of this city, in com pany with a freshman, was about to en ter the hall, when chemicals werethrown upon them, and the young lady will lose her eyesight as a result. The. sophomores were finally dispers ed by the fire department which turned several streams of water upon them. ROBBERS LOOT A TRAIN. Take Valuable Express Packages and Liquor. Birmingham. Ala., Jan. 22. Three un known masked men held up train No. 35 on the Southern railroad at 7 o'clock last night near Berry station, 70 miles west o Birmingham and robbed the Southern Ex press company's car. It is the second time within a month that the same train has been robbed in that locality. The bandits uncoupled the express car from the rest of the train and then compelled the engineer to pull ahead to a secluded spot, where they forced an entrance to the express car and overpowered the messen ger. His safe keys were secured and the lo cal safe quickly opened and rifted. The express officials say the loss amounted to $50. Before leaving the car the robbers selected from among the freight packages a four gallon jug of whisky and took it. It is supposed the robbers had horses in waiting in the woods, upon which they made their escape. The entire time of the robbery, shown in the conductor's re port is 15 minutes. The robbers are be ing pursued by bloodhounds from the Coalburg penitentiary. DELAWARE'S 4 SENATORS. Higgins, Dupont, Kenny and Addicks All Claiming Seats. Washington, Jan. 22. Considerable In terest was manifested in the senate yes terday over the arrival in the city of Senator-elect Kenny of Delaware, whom it was said would, during the day present his credentials and ask to be sworn in as a successor to Anthony Higgins on the strength of the recent election in the Delaware legislature. This interest was heightened by the fact that Mr. Addicks was known to be in the city with the in tention of antagonizing Mr. Kenny's claim. It looked for a while during the early hours of the session as if there might be a sharp clash between the Democratic senators and their free silver allies on one side, and the Republicans on the oth er, but a compromise, which temporarily at least, defers this crisis, was arranged before Mr. Kenny's arrival. It was decided to postpone action on Mr. Kenny's credentials until after next Wednesday, when the committee will make a report on Mr. Dupont, who claims a seat in the senate. ORGANIZING FOR CUBA. Cuban Leagues are Being Formed in All Cities of the United States. New York, Jan.22. The Cuban league of the United States is organizing branch leagues in every town or city in this country of 5,000 or more inhabi tants. There are 500 such towns and cities in the United States. The object of such league is to call forth an ex pression of the unanimous sentiment of the American people in favor of Cuban independence. An effort is also being made to secure the passage of a resolution in every state legislature demanding that such action should be taken by the govern ment as will end the war in Cuba and insure the independence of the island. The league is receiving letters daily from all parts of the country suggest ing ways and means for promoting the cause of Cuba. 'LEXOW' COMMITTEE COMES Kansas Oity is to be Given a Thor ough Overhauling. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 22. The "Lex ow" committee recently appointed by the Missouri house of representatives arrived last evening from Jefferson City and will begin in its work today. The senate committee, appointed for the same purpose will arrive next week and in the meantime the grand jury is carrying on a "smelling bee" of its own. Over 50 witnesses have been before the jury including police officials and gamb lers. Crew of Groningen Saved. New Orleans; Jan. 22. The Lugger Pharon arrived today having on board Capt. Kngleman and 13 men, being offi cers and crew of the Dutch bark Gron ingen, lost Jan. 12 one the partly sub merged Lost island. The bark belong ed to her commander. She hailed from Sabine. Paris, Jan. 10. with a cargo of timber for Schiedam, Holland. Prof. Samuels Will sell solid gold frame Glasses, finest lenses, for the low price of This price includes a test of the eyes free of further cost. nail Orders Promptly Filled. Oflire: 6o6 Kansas Avenue. Each. PIIILIL For Bilious and Nervous disorders such as Wind and Pain In the Stomach, Blek Headache. Blddlneus, Fullness and Swelling after meals, Dlzilness and Drowsiness. Cold Chills, i riushlngsof Heat, Loesot Appetite, Shortness of Breath, CostlTeness, Blotches on the -kin. Disturbed bleep. Frightful Dreams, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensetions,c. when these symptoms aro caused by constipation, as most ot them are. TUf FIRST nF WILL 6IVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. This Is no fiction. Every iSffeYer law- -neatly invited to try ope box ot these fills, and they will be arknvwicdsed to be A WONDERFUL IXEDICINE. BEECHAM'S PELLS, taken as directed, win quickly restore females to com plete health. They promptly remove obstructions or irregularities of ihe system. Fore WEAK STOMACH, IMPAIRED DIGESTION, DISORDERED LIVER they act like magi a a few doses will work wonders npon the. Vital organs; strengthen ing the muscuiar system, restoring the long-lost complexion, bringing back the keen edge ot appetite, and arousing with the Bowbud of Health the whole physical energy of the human frame. These are facts admitted by thou&aads, in all classes ot society, and one of the best guarantees to the Nerrousand PebUltated Is that Heeea am Pllla have the Lrs;tc Male of any Patent Medicine In tho World. WITHOUT A RIVAL. Annual Sale over 6,000,000 Boies. S5c at Drug Stores, or will be sent by V. 8. Agents, B. F. ALLEN CO., 366 Canal St., Mew York, poet paid, upon receipt ot price. Book tree upon application. DREW THE BRITISH FLAG. And He id it on the "White Marble at the CapitoL "Washington, Jan. 22. Edward Mon roe is now languishing in the work house because yesterday he offered a grave insult to the mighty government of these United States. According to Special Policeman Hamblett, Monroe visited the capitol grounds and was proceeding to mar the immaculate whiteness of the marble of the coping with vari-colored chalk, when inter rupted by the majesty of the law. The most damaging feature of the case, however, was the fact that Mon roe was reproducing the British flag. The patriotic blood that flowed through Policeman Hamblett's veins fairly boil ed with indignation as he witnessed such brazen effrontery, and no time was lost in placing Monroe on the other side of a cell door. "I was merely drawing a diagram of the excavations that are being made for the electric lighting extensions," pleaded Monroe. "You selected a very costly founda tion for your drafting," replied Judge Kimball. "You will have to pay a fine of $10 or go to the workhouse for 30 days." "You may as well cut my throat or hang me as to fine me $10,"' remarked the prisoner. "I can't pay it." A COLONIZATION SCHEME Of Large Proportions is Projected in California. San Francisco, Jan. 22. Some fifteen large land owners in the upper Sacra mento valley are pressing to comple tion a big colonization scheme they have been considering for the past seven or eight months. It is the intention to put 200.000 acres of land into a pool, so to speak, organ izing a joint stock company and issu ing shares in proportion to the ap praised value of the land pooled. Prac tically all the land involved has been already appraised. The next step Is to agree upon the incorporation of the company and the number of shares that shall be issued. The land in question is situated on both sides of the Sacto river in Glenn, Tehama, Colusa, Sacramento and Butte counties. Attorney D. L. Chambers of St. Louis, who owns 20,000 acres in Co lusa county, is interested. Ten thous and acres are to be surveyed into 40, 60 and 100 acre farms. Over 50 or 60 of these farms will have frame dwellings and barns erected and agents will be se..t east to induce farm ers in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and throughout Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas to come out and settle on these small homes. When people from the east take up these farms as legitimate settlers they will be given the land at a Very low price on long term contracts at a rea sonable rate of interest. The overland roads will be asked to give them cheap rates. The receipts from the sale of the small farms, principal and Interest will be applied for dividends on ihe stock. The expense of putting the company on a proper footing will range from $100, C0O to $150,000. WILSON'S FUTURE HOME. Probable Plans of the Postmaster General After March 4. New York, Jan. 22. Postmaster Gen eral Wilson reached New York today from Washington on his way to Alba ny. Of the Wilson tariff bill he said: "It is hardly fair to hold me to its paternity after the way it was muti lated in the senate in so many of its reform schedules. The commercial stagnation in the country has not been calculated to show the best results at tainable even under the bill as changed." Mr. Wilson said that he had made no definite plans yet as to what he would do after the Cleveland cabinet retired in March. It was learned, how ever from other sources that he will probably take up his residence in this city. Several legal firms have made him substantial offers. He has given no positive answers yet, but has the mat ter under consideration. KENTUCKY EXTRA SESSION Legislature Will be Called Together Early in March. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 22. An inter view between Governor Bradley and a friend which took place in the execu tive office this afternoon sheds much light on the prospective extra session. The friend said: "Governor, it is of much importance that I should know when you will call the extra session, so that matters can; be adjusted accordingly." Gov. Bradley replied: "It is my purpose to call the session before Match 4. It will assemble by March 8 to 10." "How long will they remain?" "Perhaps 60 days; maybe longer, I cennot say as to that definitely." Gov. Bradley said that he would let the legislature take care of the senator ship. H03IESEEKERS' EXCURSION Via Santa Fa Route The Home Road On January and 19, February 2 and 16, March 2 and 16. April 6 and 20, May 4 and 18 .the Santa Fe route, the home road, will sell round trip tickets at one fare plus $2.00 to points in Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory, Louisiana, New Mexico. Oklahoma and Texas, good fifteen days going, to return any Tuesday or Friday within final limit of twenty-one days. For additional Information call at passenger depot, foot of Fifth street, telephone 682, or on Cromwell Jef fers at postoffice. North Topeka, tele phone 364. W. C. GARVEY, Agent. The Paiges. The Paiges, one of the strongest rep ertoire companies on the road. 16 peo ple at the Crawford Opera House ev ery night this week. Change of play nightly. Prices 10, 20 and 30 cents. MRS. ASTOR'S COTILLION. Favors Were Distributed From a Sleigh of Roses. New York, Jan. 21. In a sleigh of American beauty roses, with cushions of red satin and arms of gilt, propelled by servants in gorgeous liveries and ac companied by the retinue and staff of her household, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, crowned with diamonds and covered with a ma-ss of sparkling jewels," dis tributed to her guests at her cotillon last evening posies of bridal whjte and bunches of orchids of brilliant hue. Although announced only as a cotillon supper, there have been few more mag nificent entertainments given in Njew York. The decoratidns were much more profuse than those given at Mrs. Astor's ball of two weeks ago. A peculiar feature of the ball room itself was its utter lack of floral deco rations. The vestibules and stairway and drawing rooms were filled with palms -and potted plants. The floral scheme, however, was wonderful in the dining room, where the great buffet with 'its gorgeous service of plate was covered with masses of pink bride roses. The-supper. was served at small tabl s embedded in American beauties. It was a very late dance and the guests had hardly assembled at mid night. Mrs. William Astor, resplend ent in black and white brocade, with her magnificent diamonds.received with her daughter-iri-law, Mrs. John Jacob Astor. There was. but little general dancing until after supper, when the cotillon began, led by Mr. Elisha Dyer, Jr., and Mrs. John Jacob Astor. The sleigh figure was the third of ths dance. The sleigh itself was gilded, the upholstered parts were red and the back was formed of corsage bouquets. It was filled with fancy wands, sachet bags, fans, golf sticks, tobacco pouches and silver bound blotters. From the vehicle, moving on invisible casters and propelled by servants in livery, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, like a fairy Kris Kringle, distributed the various favors for the dance. BEER AT 50 CENTS A KEG. The Anheuser Busch Interest Will Cut the Price of Lager at Galveston. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 22. A lager beer war is imminent in C-alveston.The Galveston brewery, which will soon put its product on the market, has of fered to supply the saloonkeepers at $2 per keg. The present price is $2.30. There are at present seven breweries supplying the local market. They are the Christian i.Moerlein company, the Magnolia, the Pabst. Lemp, New Or leans Brewing company, Anheuser Busch and American. The Anheuser Busch people have a good-sized inter est in the Galveston brewery. To get control of the trade now in the hands of the above breweries, the Galveston brewery will have to assume many obli gations, as a large number of saloons are owned by foreign breweries. Two of the agents of these breweries say they will meet the cut of the Galveston brewery and sell beer at 50 cents a keg if. the Galveston company cares to sell at that price. The prospective war is creating quite a commotion among the saloon men. Specialties by The Paiges. Hake sisters. Harry English. Geo. W. Paige, Walter L. Potts, Lillian Paig-. Frances Florida. Hen Hake, Walter C. Steely and others at the Crawford Op era House every night this week. Prices 10, 20 and 30 cents. INTENSE SUFFERING From Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble Initantly Relieved and Prrmanmllj Cared by Stnnrt'n Dyspep sia Tablets. A Scir Discovery. 15 lit Xoi m Patent 31 etl lclnc. Dr. Redwell relates an interesting ac count of what he considers a remark able cure of acute stomach trouble and chronic dyspepsia by the use of the new discovery, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets. He says: The patient was a man who had suffered to my knowledge for years with dyspepsia. Everything he ate seemed to sour and create acid and gases in the stomach; he-had pains like rheumatism in the back, shoulder blades and limbs, fullness and distress after eating, poor appetite and loss of flesh: the heart became affected, caus ing palpitation and sleeplessness at night. I gave him powerful nerve tonics and blood remedies, but to no purpose. A3 an experiment I finally bought a fifty cent package of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at a drug store and gave them to him. Almost Immediate relief was given, and after he had used four boxes he was to all appearances fully cured. There was no more acidity or sour, watery risings, no bloating after meals, the appetite was vigorous and he has gained between 10 and 12 pounds lit weight of solid, healthy flesh. Although Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are advertised and sold in drug stores, yet I consider them a most valuable addition to any php?ician's line of rem edies, as they are perfectly harmless and can be given to children or inva lids or in any condition of the stomach with perfect safety, being harmless and containing nothing but vegetable and fruit essences, pure pepsin and Golden Seal. AVithout any question they are the safest, most effective cure for indiges tion, biliousness, constipation and all derangements of the stomach, however slight or severe. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are made by the Stuart Co. of Marshall, Mich., and sold by druggists everywhere at fifty cents per package. Little book on stomach diseases mailed free. Address Stuart Co., Mar shall, Mich.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22. 1897. N W i i ir i ft r- j ra r: km ta ei n n huh hi n h That will convince the most skeptical jury, that while other sales have been tried and found wanting:, THE HUB'S REMODELING SALE 15 A GRAND AND GLORIOUS MONEY SAVER. There's nothing fictitious about "THE HUB'S" Sales 1Th.ere's nothing fictitious about "THE HUB'S" advertisements There's nothing fictitious about THE HUB'S" prices. One Price To All. Yoar Money's Worth or Your Money Back. We need more room. We have teased the Furman Building. Alterations commence soon. Rather than move the stock we will sell it for 30 DAYS at less than COST. 35c Underwear at 50c Underwear at 73c Underwear at 8 1. OO Underwear at 75c eml $1.00 Dress .shirts lor 81. SO Shirts at 15c 'Wool Sox at S5c Cashmere Sox at lOc Handkerchiefs at 15 Celluloid Collars at S.lc K. W. and I'eyser.s J.ineii Collars at 81. 50 Cloves at 81. OO Gloves at mm mm Kansas Ave. SCHOOL SWINDLE Districts in Franklin and Ad joining Counties Are Tictimized By Shrewd Chart Agents. 3IAPS NEVER CA3IE. Now the Districts Go Into Court and Protest. Touchers Turn Vp In Banks For Collection. Ottawa, Jan. 22. Sometime last summer a smooth gentleman who gave his name i as W. H. Harrison drifted around through Franklin and adjoining counties, claiming to represent the Arm of Worthman Co.. letianee, O., publishers of certain school supplies. He carried a most desirable school chart, which he succeeded in sell ing to various school districts notably districts No. 9, 47. 51 and Hit. of this coi'li ty. In the sale he simply took the order of the district, receiving a voucher for the amount, payable when the chart was delivered, which time was placed at Aug ust in. Time ran on and the charts never turn ed up but the vouchers did. in the hands of a bank which is now pressing for pay ment. Certain of the defrauded district have thought tiie easiest way out was to pay the vouchers, but others will mrko :t light. Mr. Green Richardson, an official of district No. 9 was in the city this morn ing to confer with the attorney as to what course to pursue. He claims that the Worthman company has repudiated the agent, claiming that he was unau thorized to act for them and thev. there fore, decline to send the goods. The bank that holds the vouchers appears aa an innocent purchaser. BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT. Statistics From Leavenworth ofBirths Deaths and. Marriages. Leavenworth, Jan. 22. The secretary of the board of health completed his annual report yesterday and submitted it to the city council last night. During? the year 1896 there were 27.: marriages, 4ti2 births and 323 deaths, which, based on a population of 22,000, makes the death rate between 14 and 15 per cent per thousand. Of the deaths 31 were clue to heart troubles; consumption claimed 25, pneumonia 23, diphtheria 17, cholera infantum 15 and old age 14. Other complaints claimed from 1 to 12 each. Unmarried persons died more thata twice as fast as married people, there being 95 deaths of the latter to 218 of the former. The deaths among the whiles was more than five times greater than among- the blacks, the fig ures being, whites, 270; colored, 53. Of these deaths 1S8 were adults, 133 minors, 6C of them 'being under 1 year of age. Diphtheria entered into 101 houses during the year and there were 123 cases, 17 of which proved fatal. The statistics for the month of December place the marriages at 28, deaths 25 and births 49. WILSON COUNTY JAIL BILL. Pays Several Hundred Dollars to Have Prisoners Cared For. Independence, Jan. 22. County Clerk Class yesterday received from the commissioners of Wilson county a draft for $159.40 in payment for the use of our jail for the safe keeping of Wilson county prisoners since the Wilson coun ty jail was burned. A charge of 10 cents per day for each prisoner was made and allowed. In addition to this the sheriff had a good bill for board, which, with the expense of transportation back and forth of prisoners and officers, made the hiring of a jail in another county a little ex pensive to Wilson county taxpayers. IMPLEMENT MEN ELECT. Dealer3 of Missouri, Kansas and Texas Eleci OrScera. Kansas City. Jan. 22. The implement dealers of Missouri, Kansas and Texas who have been in session at the Grand Opera House for the last two days, adjourned last evening. The election of officers consumed the greater portion of the forenoon, al though the convention did not forget to go on record on the insurance question. C B. Bowlin of Columbia, Mo., was Mm 606 ill 608 Ill There's New Evidence Every Day 15c 35c 45c 5c 4zO c 75c 5c 125 03c 5c lOc 70c 5c MEN'S SUITS, MEN'S OVERCOATS, BOYS' SUITS, BOYS' OVERCOATS, All must Go. Cost not considered now. Our loss is your gain. $1.50 9"KK? 95e bi.45 Jeans Pants. ..75C Any pair Pants in the GJQ rtC store for rpli.I J Looking costs nothing;. Come and S. C. HEYMATJ, M-maser. elected president of the implement deal ers' association; Sanford Topping- of Ottawa, Kan., vice president, and A. L. L. Scoville, of Seneca, Kan.. F. K. Allen of Craig, Mo., T.J. O'Neilof Osage City, Kan., and J. V. Paulin of Fre donia, Ivan., were elected directors. The hold over directors are J. C. Cunning ham of Noboorne, Mo., and John Lyons of Everest, Kan. "TIGER BILL" -WAKRAMTS. Old Police Board Bills Finally all Paid by Wichita Wichita, Jan. 22. The old police war rants issued by the Tiger Bill hoard of police commissioners have all been paid except two, which have never been presented and cannot be found. One was for $6. issued to Ben Hatch er, and another $12, issued to the same party. They were Nos. 438 and 439. It is supposed that somebody bought them and have either mislaid or lost them and they may yet be presented. The whole amount of indebtedness left by the Tiger Bill administration was $11,334.22, which has all been paid with the exception of that above named. GOV. SMITH WORRIED. Head of tho Leavenworth. Soldiers Home Leaves for Washington. Leavenworth, Jan. 22. -Governor A. J. Smith of the Soldiers' home has left for Washington, having telegraphed the congressional investigating committee that he would be in that city Saturday night. He also notified them that he desired to take up the charges seriatim, and that he would refute them and fur nish testimony to prove their false hood. He has been advised that the testi rnoney produced before the committee, and especially that of Heirs Powell, which concluded yesterday. is very damaging and that should the commit tee report at once they would recom mend his removal. KANSAS HAN PRESIDENT. H. C. Taylor of L yons, Head of the Tripple State Lumber Association Kansas City. Jan. 22. After electing offi cers ami passing a number of resolutions the annual meeting of the Missouri, Kan sas ami Oklahoma Association of Lumber Dealers adjourned sine die. H. C. Taylor of Lyons. Kan., formerly vice president, was chosen president: Judge J?sse Child, of Richmond. Mo., vice president: George D. Hope, of Kansas City, treasurer, and the following direc tors A. A. White, of Kansas Citv, K. C. Robinson, of St. Louis. R. L. AVhaley, of .Albany, Mo.. M. R. Smith, of Council Grove. Kan., and Will Pickering, ot Springfield, Mo. All the old directors were re-elected except Mr. Pickering, who serves in lieu of Judge Child, chosen vice president. PAINTED HIS CHURCH. An Aged Ottawa Minister Solves a Financial Problem. Ottawa, Jan. 22. While the new pas tor is pushing the work on the addition to the Methodist Protestant parsonage on North Main street, he is also giving to the church a new coat of paint, so much needed. This church and society had become so reduced by removals and otherwise that thess improvements were out of their reach, and the doctor, at an age when most men retire from work, is pushing these improvements with skill and energy worthy of all commenda tion, and that, too, without stipulated salary. RAILS FOR THE H. S. Eight Carload3 Taksn O-zer the Rock Island to Cameron. Hutchinson. Jan. 22. The Hutchin son Southern yesterday commenced laying the rails on the Medford exten sion. E ghl car loads of steel rails were taken to Cameron today and II. ju. Jackson, chief engineer of the line, is now in Missouri superintending the shipment of more raih,-. Thes i rails are sent to Medora over the 'Frisco and -are brought from there over the Rock Island by the Hutchinson Southern engines. WATERS SCORES UB3. MAYES. Sensational Scene, in the Williams I'lurder Trial. Olathe. Jan. 22. A. E. Williams was yes terday bound over to appear before "the district court to answer for the murder of his daughter in the sum of Jl.fiOO. The. hearing of the case of Mrs. Maves was continued until next Wednesday. Attorney J. G. Waters scored the court in bitter language for admitting tho evi We need more room. We have leased the Furman Building. Alterations commence soon. Rather than move the stock we will sell it for 30 DAYS at less than COST. "Look. 606 mm ancac WM dence of Mrs. Mayes, declaring she was demented. Mr. Waters said "Never in my many years of practice at the bar have I seen such a dirty scala wag and lying hellion as this Mayes wo man: she will say anything you want her to. and swear to it. Both she and her husband are murderers. They are a fair sample of the class which fills up our im becile institutions and state penitentiar ies." He then charged Mayes as being an accomplice in the murder of little Anna Belle Williams. Attorney Waters also scored the county commissioners of Shaw nee county, charging that their refusal to take care of the demented child led to the subsequent tragedy and that her death should properly be laid at the com missioners' door. Women Visit the Joints. Pittsburg. Jan. 22. Last night two par ties of women, members of the W. C. T. C. one of which was headed by the Rev. Mrs. Edith Hill Booker, visited the prin cipal joints of the city on a. tour of in vestigation. A short sermon was delivered and hymns were sung in each place. There are about twenty joints, and the citv's revenue frotn them is over $1,000 a month. A temperance crusade by the churches may follow. Soldiers Home Case to Close. Washing-ton, Jan. 22. The special committee examining the Leavenworth Soldiers' home will close the hearing with an examination of Colonel A. J. Smith of the western home, who will probably come to Washington this week. Norwegians Leave Kansas. Atchison. Jan. 22. Seven Norwegian families, whose children numbered forty, passed through this city last night en route to North Dakota. They were from southern Kansas, where they said, the climate was too warm for them. K. S. XJ- Contest Tonight Lawrence. Jan. 22. The local oratorical contest at Kansas university for the se lection of a representative for the school at the state contest that will take place in Topeka in February, will take place tonitrht. There are six contestants for the honor. To Investigate Lamed First National- Larned. Jan. 22. John C. Fry has been appointed special examiner to invest i pate the records of the First National bank here. He begun investigation to day. WARM WEATHER SPOILS IT Ice Barbican Can't be Built for the Pure Food Show. The spring-like weather has destroyed one plan of the Pure Food association, which was to build an ice barbican in front of the building- so that it would look like an ice palace. All the arrangements had been made with the Moeser Ice company for the manufacture of the ice and the wall would now be under process of con struction if the warm weather had not continued. It would have taken three or four days with the plant running to its full capacity to supply the ice necessary to build the proposed structure, and even though it should turn cold this evening it would be too late to do anything to ward carrying out the project. So the ice barbican has been abandoned. OREGON'S MUDDLE. The Benson House Will Wow Seek Recognition From the Senate. Salem, Ore., Jan. 22. The deadlock in the organization of the house has been transferred to the senate. The Mitchell men will make a fight in that body for recognition of the house, organised yes terday. In the event the senate should not recognize them, they claim that since they have created a de facto house, they can now proceed to vote for United States senator and their nominee will be seated. If the senate should not recognize tho Benson house, the situation would only be a senate and a house not working in harmony. Notwithstanding this they claim the Mitchell men in the senate can enter a joint convention with members of the Benson house and vote for United States senator. Broke Jail at Syracuse. Syracuse, Jan. 22. William Fay, Frank Adams and Charles Collins, the three men who were convicted nt the last term of the district court in this county of robbing the lunch ount u- anil ticket oflice at Coolidge last October, and who were awaiting sentence on February S, broke jail here last night about 11 o'clock. They stole three horses belonging to freighters, from a livery barn and made their escape. There is a large posse in pursuit. With blood in their fists and their eyes doubled up, two little pickaninnies will box four rounds at the T. A. A. entertainment next Friday evening, February 5. RAILR0AD NEWS. All Officials of Western Roads Are Warned Xot to Solicit Traffic For the C. E. Convention OR MAKE CONTRACTS, Until Chairman Announces Methods and Rales. Union ATenue Ticket Offices at li. C. to Be Moved. Chicago, Jan. 22. Orders have been sent out to all the passenger officials of the western roads to keep their hands off the traffic for the Christian Endeav or society to San Francisco. This was in accordance with a reso lution adopted by the trans-continental passenger association, provinding that pending announcement by the chair man as to methods and regulations to govern in the division of this business, all the lines pledge themselves to make no solicitation or effort to contract for the business, and that no concessions of any kind or character be printed in connection with the business. ABOLISH "EC C. OFFICE. Union Avenue Ticket OrHc93 to Go Santa Fe No Longer Opposes. Kansas City. Jan. 22. Local passen ger men now generally concede that the branch ticket offices on Union avenue are "bound to go." Their abolition was again considered at a meeting of in terested lines in Chicago Wednesday, and it was found that all were in favor of the proposed change. There are a few difficulties in the way but it is believed these can be adjusted satisfactorily. Nearly all the roads having offices there hold them by virtue of leases and are therefore liable for the rent. The Pittsbuig tJulf and the Chicago Great Western railways maintain offices on the avenue, al though they do not enter the union de pot. They are willing, however, to close, if they can put their tickets on sale in the union depot. They further agree to pay their proportionate share of the expenses of the union depot ticket of fice. The Santa Fe railway, which has heretofore opposed the closing of the Union avenue offices, is now said to be heartily in favor of it. It is furthermore stated that the business of the Union avenue offices has been steadily de creasing and the uptown business in creasing. The proposition will come up again next week, in all probability, and it is believed decisive action will then be taken. In this event Union avenue will then become a depopulated thorough fare, devoted to eating houses and ticket scalpers' offices. WELLINGTOM NEWS. Short Items of Interest Along South ern Kansas Railways Wellington,' Jan. 22. A car load of creamery butter was shipped from Har per this morning for Chicago. I. G. Lawrence, ex-cashier at the freight depot, left yesterday for Car- rolton. Mo. A. E. Wallace, Santa Fe bridge in spector, went to Attica this morning and will inspect all bridges between that point and Wellington. L5en fcharpstein and F. J. Hart will make immediate arrangements for sinking new piles beneath the bridge near Alva, across Salt Fork. They left for there this morning. The Rock Island would need more side track here if the present amount of business should continue throughout the year. They have had trouble side tracking their trains to allow a clear track for the passenger during the last few mornings. A. H. Smith, car auditor for the K. T., is here checking up his cars in the freight yards. Conductor Beckwith and family left last night for Chicago and Danville, 111., to be gone ten of 12 days. Five cars of cattle came in from Wynnewood, I. T., last night and were taken to Medicine Lodge on the local. They were feeders. The Wellington engineers who are running out of Arkansas City at pres ent are: Pryor. Snyder. Carpenter, Lupher and McCarthy. Fireman Kel lar and Fountain are also over there, and Blake goes over in the morning. CORPSES NOT BAGCAGE. Action of General Baggage Agents at Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va., Jan. 22. The Ameri cas association of general baggage agents, in convention at the Jefferson hotel, decided by a vote not to allow corpses to be checked as baggage, but to let the existing rule, requiring a passenger ticket, remain. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: G. E. Sipple, general baggage agent Delaware Ac Lackawanna, Hoboken, N. J., president: S. F. Wood, general bag gage agent Chicago, St. Paul, Minneap olis Omaha road. St. Paul, vice pres ident; J. E. Quick, general baggage agent Grand Trunk, Toronto, secretary and treasurer. The executive committee are W. A. Smart, general baggage agent North ern Pacific. St. Paul, chairman: H. H. Towle, Maine Central Portland. Me.: A. Traynor, Union Pacific, Council Bluffs. The body adjourned last night to meet in Denver. Colo., Oct. 13, 1S97. GRAND TRUNK DISMISSALS. Employes to Bring Up th3 Matter Be fore Railway Unions. Toronto. Jan. 22. Changes and dis missals are daily occurring on the Grand Trunk railway tinder the new management, and aggrieved employes will bring up the matter before the railway unions. The employes are strong in their de nunciations of the dismissal of Canadi ans. It will also be askd why Ca nadian labor unions contribute to tho support of international bodies when such international bodies assist in the passage of alien labor laws against Ca nadian workmen. To Rebuild tho Grand Central Depot. New Tork, Jan. 22. The Grand Cen tral railway station in to he practically rebuilt at a cost of SSOO.noo. Work will be begun as soon aspossible. The man agers of the Vanderbilt lines have de cided that the increased travel has made immediate action necessary. Two stories will be added to the present structure. Union Pacific Earnings Last Year. Kansas City.Jan. 22. The gross earn ings of the various' branches of the Union Pacific system for 11 months of 1896. according to the report of the re ceivers, just issued, amounted to $13. 206,698, an increase of $12,838. As the expenses increased $188,249, the compar ison showed a decrease in the surplus of $17o,410. The earnings of the leased branches for the first 11 months of 1896 were $52,464 more than those of the same months of 1895. Des Moines Strike is Settled. Des Mninca. T.T Jan. 22. At a meet ing of the mine operators in this dis trict today, it was agreed to pay the price demanded by the 1,000 miners, who contemplated a strike that is 70 to SO cents per ton. The miners ac cepted it and the threatened strike will be averted. Brakeman Thrown From a Car. Nickerson, Jan. 22. H. Mulholland. a brakeman for the Santa Fe, received painful injuries at Nickerson yesterday. He was standing on the top of a box car when a sudden jerk in the train precipitated him head foremost to the ground. He was badly bruised about the head and houlders. U. P. Officials on a Hunt. Hutchinson, Jan. 22. A party of Union Pacific officials consisting of A. L. Wil liams of Topeka, H. P. Dillon, N. H. Loomis and Mr. Thompson of Topeka, will put in two days hunting jack rab bits and quails. BUT ONE MAN ESCAPED. Two Membsrs of Benin Expedition Living on Plantains and Dew. London, Jan. 22. Out of 2o0 carriers with Consul Phillips' expedition, only one escaped, and brought the news to the coast. A relief party sent up the river in a canoe found Boisragon and Locke, who had been hiding in the buph for five days, living on plantains and drinking dew. Six men of war are now lying off the Niger coast protectorate and troops are massing at Brass. A steamer has gone to Sierra Leon to fetch the West India troops. A late telegram from Lagos, received last night, gives a still further detail of the massacre at Benin on the Niger. The expedition, it is said, was greeted in a friendly way at every town along its course, and received peaceful mes sages from the king. But upon approach ing Benin City, the members were fired upon from an ambuscade. Acting Con sul General Phillips, Dr. R. H. Elliott and Mr. Powers fell dead on the spot. Major P. W. J. Copland-Crawford, was wounded. Captain Boisragon and Mr. It. F. Locke carried him off. but he was wounded again, so that he died in a few minutes, after imploring his companions to seek their own safety and leave him to his fate. Mr. H. C. Campbell, of the consular staff, was captured and taken to Benin City, but the king had him ta ken to an adjacent village, where he was killed. No authentic news has been received as to the fate of Mr. Gordon, one of the civilians with the party, but he is be lieved to be dead. Mr. Locke, who escaped, had a revol ver in his possession and shot several natives who attacked Capt. Boisragon and was himself shot in the arm while heating back a party of natives with a stick. The two eventually came to a friendly village, where their wants were attended to and they were sent down a creek in a covered canoe, being met on the way by the relief launch. All the Europeans who were killed were afterwards beheaded and the king has sent the finger rings belonging to Acting Consul General Phillips back as an act of defiance. TROTTERS SELL LOW. The Sale at Madison Square Garden Developes Little Interest. New York, Jan. 22. There was a fair at tendance at the sale of trotting horses in Madison Square Garden yesterday, and occasionally there would be a- burst of spirited bidding, but for the most part the trotting horsemen present were slow to make offers. Some of the sales were: Nellie McCrory. b. m., 7. Legal Tendei Lucy, to A. H. Gilmore. Canada. $2.3ft. Germaine. bh, 9. Membrino King Ver dant, Henry Fleischman, Vienna, Aus tria, $1,575. Jubilee, ch. m., Melbourne King tin traced. Carl Schurch, Brooklvn, $9(A). Clifford, bg. 6. Ormonde Nina, W. H. Baggs. Springfield. Mass., $S50. Blue Bird, rm. 6. Eagle Bird TTelment, L. S. Grant. Providence. R. I.. $1,225. Don I,., br g. 6. Col. Tom Valotta,Ham ilton Busby. New York. $1.G30. Marie Wellington, br f, 4. Gen. Welling ton Russellviile Maid, John Maguire, New York. $1,000. The evening sale opened with a con signment from United States Senator Stewart's establishment in Nebraska. They were an indifferent lot and fetched low prices. Later some high class ani mals were- brought out and more satis factory prices obtained. The best sales were Red Lady bra. S. Red Wilkes Sev eren, to J. H. Osterhoult, Troy, N. Y., $810. Winne Baron, b m. F. Baron Wilkes Winnie Davis, to W. If! Titus, Spring field, Mass, $1,100. NICARAGUA CANAL CORPSE. Turpie Says United States is Asked to Pay $100,000,000 for a Corpse. Washington. Jan. 22. In his speech in the Nicaragua canal bill yesterday, referring to Mr. Morgan's statement that there was a race between the Uni ted States and Great Britain as to who should build the canal, Mr. Turpie said it was a very languid and indolent race. It was a race in which the books had been open 150 years and there were no entries yet. It was one of the delightful features of this subject that the Nicaragua ea- r.al company would die in 90 days by the expiration of the terms of its concession from Nicaragua. That was the reason this scheme of confiscation made a final and desperate charge. Would the Brit ish parliament consider for a momment the purchase of such a cporse, as had been suggested by Mr. Morgan? The idea of one hundred million dollars for a corpse. Mr. Peffer, Populist, of Kansas, spoke briefly in opposition to the bill. Mr. Vi las, Democrat of W isconsin. urged Mr. Morgan not to adopt any unusual course to advance the bill to a vote. There should be no snap judgement. FATHER WANTED TO DIE. So Nellie Curran Did Not Call a Phy sician. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 22. Knowing that her aged father had taken poison with suicidal intent. Nellie Curran, 23 years of age, went to bed without calling a physician, and arose in the morning at the usual hour to find the old man cold in death. "This i3 a psciiliar case," said Coroner Baldwin. "This old man's daughter told my deputy when he visited the house that she knew her father had taken poison, but did rot call a physi cian because she thought it was too late, ahd then her father wanted to die anyhow. The young woman will be given a chance to tell her story to a coroner's jury. Broken edge collars made smooth by Peerless Steam Laundry. Clearance Sale Prices-w. SHOES AS -SHOWN IN 0UH N0HTE WINDOW. Every shoe in the stock reduced as the plain figure prices will prove. ALLREADY. The Pure Food Show Will he Opened to the Puhlie With Music, Speeches and Other Ceremonies at 2.30 Tomorrow; THE HALL IS A HIVE. Exhibitors Working Hard Complete Their Booths. to Everything Will Be Keady For the Crowd Expected. Tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. the Topeka Pure xood Exposition will be formally opened. The exercises will be brief and will be held on the stage in the upper room. President Edward Wilder of the Pure Food association will make the open ing address, preceeded by msic from Watson's orchestra, which will be sta tioned in the northeast corner of the hall on a stand erected for their use. Following the address of President Wilder, Mayor Fellows will make a short talk on behalf of the city and will declare the Food Exposition open to the public. Then there will be more music and the procession will start on a tour of inspection of the booths. In the evening Marshall's band will furnish the music for the promenade. R. S. Brigham, who is the commission er of music, has made arrangements to have musicians on duty all the time. The Apollo Mandolin club. High School orchestra, Watson's orchestra, the Mid Continent band and Marshall's band will all be on duty at different times. The exposition will be open all next week at 3 p. m. and the doors will not close till 11 p. m. The Grocers' associa tion will hold their meetings in the cooking school auditorium when that place is not in use. The cooking school will open at 3 p. m. and will continue from one to three hours. The cooking school will not open till Monday. Miss Emily Marian Colling of Phila delphia, demonstrator and lecturer of the cooking school, arrived last evening to make the preliminary arrangements for the work of the week. A gas stove will be put in and the stage which has been tastefully decorated by Mrs. C. S. Sutton, will be turned into a miniature kitchen, in which Miss Colling will ex plain and demonstrate the science of cookery. On Friday of next week the Social Science Federation of Kansas, under the direction of Mrs. Willis Lord Moore, of Hutchinson, will celebrate Kansas Day with appropriate addresses con cerning the relation of Kansas to pure food products. These exercises will be free to every one and will be held in the auditorium on the lower floor. On Tuesday afternoon it is expected that a large number of Kansas editors will visit the Pure Food Exposition. The State Editorial association meets here then, and Manager Adams has made arrangements to entend to the editors the courtesy of the Pure Food association. President Hanley of the Retail Gro cers' association places the number of grocers in the state who will attend during the week at 1.000. The fact that the railroads have granted a reduced rate will have much to do with increas ing the attendance from out of the city and especially among the grocers who will hold their first state meeting dur ing the week. The management of the association is satisfied that there will be a large attendance from surrounding towns. The fact that a United States senator is to be elected on Tuesday will stimu late the attendance, and people will be able to "kill two birds with one stone." Hamilton hall is the busiest place in Topeka. The improvements in the hall were delayed until this week and a large force of men and women have had more than their hands full to lit the rooms and booths up for the opening tomorrow. Plumbers are busy making connections for a large number of booth owners who will bake bread, biscuits or pancakes. Linemen are stringing the wires which will furnish the electricity for the large number of arc lights that will be put in. Carpenters are working like Turks to complete the frame work for the booths. Sign painters are trying to fill the orders for signs. The Kindergarten association is looking after the erection of many of the booths and over all is the master eye of Mrs. Sutton, who personally superin tends everything except the minute decor ations of the booths in the upper room. The hall is a hive of industry. All the exhibitors are making a strenuous effort to have everything ready when the doors are thrown open tomorrow afternoon. The orchestra stand on the lower floor has been artistically decorated with pop pies and bunting in appropriate colors by Mrs. Sutton. There is also a pretty nook on the same floor which is to be used for an office. More time and money has been spent on the decorations of the halls than was ever known in Topeka and they show the result of the hard work. The stage of the upper room which will be a reception room where the tired lady may rest a few moments has been bankeu with palms. The arches from which hang white doves with "Pure Focd" banners in their bills have also been beautified with palms. There will be flowers everywhere and a visitor might think ho was in a garden of palms. The advance sale of tickets for toth the cooking school and the Pure Food ex position has been flatteringly large. The 5.000 advance tickets issued by the Pure Food association have been disposed ot and people have been clamoring tor more. The officers of the association place the attendance for the week at 20.000 and many hope that it will greatly exceed that number. Fire Marshal Wilmarth will take extra ordinary precautions to prevent accidents by tire during the Pure Food exposition. The booths are made of inflammable ma terial so that a (ire once started would spread rapidly. A vestibule has been built around the front doors which would greatly retard a rush from the building were it not for the fact that Marshal Wil marth has had the structure built so that ON the end may be pushed out. It is fastened only by hooks. Fire Marshal AVilmarth has also forbid den the use of gasoline in the building and he is carefully inspecting the connec tions and arangements of the gas jots which in all cases are placed as far away as possible from inflammable material. In addition to all this Marshal Wilmarth will station one of his most trusted men at the building during the progress of th exposition to see that no risks are taken. He will also keep a close watch on the? building hinAelf during the progress ot the exposition. All the exits will be left free so that in the event of a panic the greatest possibi freedom in leaving the building may be had. CUBANS EED AR3IS. Three Thousand Insurgents Hava Ho Guns. Cincinnati, Jan. 22. A special to the Commercial-Tribune from Tampa, I'la., says: Emanuel Silvero. a wounded Cubarff arrived here tonight from Key West, having escaped from Cuba on a fishing vessel. He comes from th? field near Artemisa. He states that General Ri vera is sadly in need of ammunition and arms. The machette is the only weapon that hundreds are armed with. In ambuscade the machete is the Cu ban's ready weapon and is a terrible one. He confirms the story of Janu ary 9, w hen a Spanish band came upon a Cuban hospital, near San Cristobal, containing TOO wounded insurgents, and put to death all of them, even the at tending physicians. Colonel San Martin's troops are raid ing all that section, though very sel dom going into the hills near Rivera's camps. One of his band.t was am bushed two weeks ago and out of 45 men in it only three escaped. They are bloodthirsty and are credited with more murders of women and pa-jiMccs than any other band. They raided a small town 20 miles from Palacios on New Tear's day and abducted all the women in the place, some 50 in number. Only 10 of them have been seen or heard from, and they were captured by a Cuban band Janu ary 10. Silvero urges the Cuban leaders here to send an expedition at once as the army in Pinar del P.io needs arms im mediately. CHICAGO'S FIRST CASE Under the New Law Aainsi Expec toration in Public Places. Chicago, Jan. 22. A. Forlan, chief en gineer of the Grant locomotive works, enjoys the distinction of being the first man taken into custody under the new hea'th department rule against expec toration in a street car or other public places. The police did not lock him up. but merely secured his address that lie might be arrested on warrants if the street car company sees fit to push the case. Forlan left his home last night to go to a friend's house and boarded a Jef ferson and Urban electric car. His fing er nail was broken and he bit off the rought edge with his teeth, afterward? ejecting the particles to the floor. Con ductor Fresneon warned him to desist and he repeated the operation. Police man Swenie was summoned and escort ed the passenger and conductor to the police station. Desk Sergnant Martin wanted to protect the city against pos sible action for false imprisonment and the street car company from the loss of its defendant, so he made certain of the prisoner's residence and turned him loose. Mrs. A. L. Bennett Appointed. Dr. Frank H. Smith of Sherman, chairman of the house committee on en grossed bills, has tendered Mrs. A. L. Bennett of Emporia the position as clerk of the committee on engrossed bills. Mrs. Bennett occupied a similar position two years ago and was so suc cessful in the work that she was reap pointed without any solicitation on her part. N. Y. Stock Letter. Furnished by Goodwin Chamberlin, Brokers, successors to Topeka Grain and Stock Exchange: Nw York. Jan. 22. All things considered the situation is far less complicated than it was a few weeks back. The outlook is more hopeful. Better reports come from all sections of the country and in uptown dry goods dis trict there is evidence, of general im provement. Under these circumstances Wall street will soon become the bright spot in the country and anticipation of better times will be the order of the day. Stocks are not likely to go off more than fractionally. Our market will be dullrand featureless in absence of any encourag ing news. We would advise sales on ral lies, although we are bulls for long pull. Long stocks came out yesterday in the Grangers and this with the weakness in soft coal stocks has encouraged the bears and they will probably continue to work for a decline tem;orarily. Sange of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by Goodwin Chamberlin, Brokers, successors to Topeka Grain and Stock Exchange: iOp'n High "117 AjOW 'Cl'se Yes. Sugar Gas Tobacco Leather Pfd Am. Spirits E. G. 10. Con. Gas Rubber Com Bav State Gas C. B. Rock Island St. Paul Atchison C. N. W Omaha Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific Wabash Pfd Un. Pacilic Reading Jer. Central D. H.' T. C. I M. K. T No. Pac Pfd L. N Pacific Mail 110! 7S 76". i U I 34 MTV,! 2-J"i 111 7u GT! 70 M'.il 101 '4 1 si1-.! 2I;ii W's I 6'jl 2fiV, loo'ii it'u! 29 ."."ii SriHI 25 1117 ,Uv-s 7'i K-a in1 G2', K2V, G-'H l.'5i 13-,: -3 34 t. 34-,t i4'i 147 147..J 24! .2.V.J 11V Hi '1H 74 Vi TV--,! 7:.', 6TH V,. O'i """"ii ""T-i 14 1 1: M 101 j lotU.l''T r:i"-i ;t7-a PlV.1 'l"v. !'1'. S4--i'i I """St 21Tsi 22! 2: 15 I Vi'i', 10 f.'il T'-j: 2m 20' t! 2 Hi SKUi: l-O. l.TPij 30Ts:HS JO' 33;;i 3:;,; 3"! rl 51 Vi 25 i 23i 23r 14 35'4! 34TJ,'; nii 7-V.i;

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4r TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22. 1897. Remarkable Results Reached. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL Has Averaged a Growth of 1,000 a Year in Cir culation in the Last Ten Years. THE DAILY AVERAGE FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1896 WAS IO,625. In the fifteen months last past these are some of the results that have been reached: Made a showing sworn detailed statement of circulation exceeding that of any other Topeka daily; Paper enlarged from six colum quarto to seven column quarto. Four Linotype machines installed. New Building double front, three floors, prominent corner erected for the exclusive use of the publica. tion and business of the STATE JOURNAL newspaper no job office or side issues. Reached a daily average for first six months 1896 of 10,625. The new STATE JOURNAL home Is one of the neatest and most unique buildings In the state a model newspaper structure. Its fast web press and its linotypes are on the the ground floor, behind plate glass, affording a never ceasing attraction to the passerby on the sidewalk. The public can see and time the printed papers and know that over ten thousand are issued daily. The STATE JOURNAL has forty three regular route carriers in To peka and suburbs. These carriers alone are paid over f 10,000 a year for circulating the paper In this community. The American Newspaper Directory each year gives the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL a guaranteed cir. culation. The directory for 1896 guarantees that the circulation was larger than that of any other Topeka daily. There are no secrets about the STATE JOURNAL'S circulation. A detailed statement, signed and sworn to, is issued annu ally, showing the circu lation for each day i the year. The statement is sent to directories and furnished advertisers. HOW WE GREW. In 1885 the circulation was. 80O January 1, 1891, were printed 3,125 Daily average for year 1891... 4,380 Daily average for year 1892. 6369 Daily average for year 1893... 6,213 Dally average for year 1894... 8,418 Daily average for year 1895. 9,217 Dally average 1st 6 moos. '96. .0,625 The State Journal TWENTY-FOURTH TEAR. BY FRANK P. MACLENNAK TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same priej in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier system. By mail, three months 90 By mall, one year 0.60 Weekly edition, one year r. 60 PERMANENT HOME Topeka State Journal Building. 800 and 802 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business Office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room Beli 'Phone lOTii New York address: 206 Pottr building, care American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, where files of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. t il J, Ji Ji I, A 9a X JANUARY 1897. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Tbur. Frl. Sat.

3 A567Z9 10 U12 13 14 15 16 t7 Z19 20 21 22 23 J 24 125 26 27 28 29 30 t 3 31 T-r-r-i-T-r-f-r-r-r-i--irT--rT-rTT t tttU Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. V2. For Kansas: Gen erally fair tonight and Saturday in east portion; variable winds. Senator Wolcott is the guest of Baron Rothschild. Of course that means that the baron is to be converted to bimetal lism at once. If all the normal schools are started that bills have been introduced for. teachers fen soon be had for about $15 a month. The teachers of Kansas ought to form a trades union. Eugene Hasan's arduous labors of dispensing all the Democratic patron age in Kansas does not seem to prey on his health. Two months more will bring him great relief before he gives way under the strain. It is announced by John H. Atwood of Leavenworth, that the new police commissioners would continue the "business administration" of the 200 sa loons there. With the city well nigh bankrupt and the citizens organizing "taxpayers leagues" it would seem that a business administration of the saloon business comes as near wrecking a city as anything could. The Wine and Spirit Gazette, which is supposed to be the organ of the liq uor trade for the whole United States, has become so deeply involved in the Raines law fight that it is in reality only a local New York whisky paper. It is a good thing to see every mouth piece of the whisky business so busy struggling at its own doorstep that it has no time to make trouble else where. A LITTLE SLOW. The New York Mail and Express is about seven years behind the times. It has just made the discovery of John J. Ingalls' sonnet, which was written long ago. It says: 'The Hon. John James Ingalls of Kansas, while awaiting election as Uni ted States senator in 1900, has dropped into poetry and it must be said that he is turning out a' first class article, as this bit of verse entitled 'Opportunity,' clearly shows: 'Master of human destinies am I; Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late. I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise be fore I turn away; it is the hour of fate. And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate. Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more. "Those lines contain strength and tone. They vibrate with spirit and feeling. Mr. Ingalls has been squan dering his genius. The thing for him to do is to write more poetry and let poli tics slide. THAT FIVE CENT CIGAR. From Harper's Weekly. The attention of persons who smoke five cent cigars is respectively directed to the statements made by Mr. H. S. Frye, of Windsor. Connecticut, on Jan uary 4. before the ways and means committee of the house of representa tives. The committee was trying to get inlormation as to proper tariff for to bacco. Mr. Frye told them that the Connecticut tobacco growers did well until it was discovered that Sumatra produced a wrapper leaf with which they could not possibly compete. In 1890 they went to Washington, got a duty that they thought would be their salvation, and did fairly well for a year or two, until the duty was lowered, and the Sumatra wrapper began to surge in again. "What New Englanders need," frankly disclosed Mr. Five, "is a really protective duty, which will enable us to furnish tobacco for the five cent cigar the grade most commonly used. It is absurd to say that we cannot raise enough tobacco wrapper leaf in this country to supply our factories." All that the American growers desired, he added, was a duty which would enable them to wrap the cheap five cent cigar. There would be no objection to the American growers wrapping the five cent cigar if they would also smoke it. The trouble with their case is that they insist upon wrapping for another to consume. If the sun shines longer per diem in Sumatra than in Connecticut, and tobacco grows better there, it seems hard that the five cent cigar of American commerce should be barred from such amelioration as the superior ity of the Sumatra wrappers might in duce, more particularly as Uncle Sam's revenue would be decreased by such a prohibitory tariff as Connecticut clam era for. ADVANTAGES OVER, OTJR FARMERS. The Philadelphia American says: Russia is alive to the disadvantages un der which the people of gold standard countries labor in competing with the countries. We have heard much lately of the preparation of the Russian gov ernment to adopt the gold standard. Russia is now nominally doing business on a silver basis, but in reality on a pa per, which is at a discount of some 33 per cent as compared to gold. The re sult is to confer a bounty on the Rus sian exporter of grain of approximately 50 per cent. In other words the Russian selling for gold in England realizes in Russian currency 50 per cent more than the price paid in England in gold. Where our farmer gets 70 cents a bushel for wheat, the Russian farmer gets in ru bles the equivalent of $1.05. The ad vantage of the Russian is obvious, for though the rubles he gets are depreci ated as measured in gold, they are not depreciated as measured in produce, but are worth just as much today as some years ago when our farmers were getting $1.05 a bushel. One great rea son for this is that our farmers are obliged to give many more bushels of wheat to meet their fixed charges today than ten or 20 years ago. The Russian is not. In short, our dollar has appre ciated, which has resulted in placing a tribute on our farmers that has gone in great part into the pockets of our British creditors. The Russian ruble has not, and consequently the Russian producer has not been placed under a steadily growing tribute. THE WORD COMING IN. Under the heading "Be True to Us" the Louisburg Herald (Populist) echoes the State Journal's article of Wednes day as follows: "The sooner this scramble for office at Topeka ceases the better it will be for the cause that triumphed last fall. We hope all these appointments will be made as soon as possible, to that end. The great mass of people who voted for Governor Leedy and his assistants did not do so simply that one set of pie eaters should be turned out and another in; that is but an incident. The gover nor and the legislature must get down to the business for which they were elected. Lop off useless boards, cut down expenses, reduce fees of the state printer, do what they can towards just laws that will make the pursuit of life and happiness in Kansas an easier road to travel." The editor of the Herald writes the Journal: "The above reflects the senti ment of 'the folks down on the farm." WHY HER NAME CHANGES. From the Commercial-Tribune. The practice of a woman changing her name on marriage originated from Roman custom and came into use after the Roman occupation. Thus Julia and Octavia, married to Pompey and Cicero, were called by the Romans Julia of Pompey, Octavia of Cicero, and in later times women in most European countries signed their names in the same way, but omitted the "of. On the other hand, at the beginning- of the seventeenth century, the usage seems doubtful, since we find Catherine Barr so signing herself after she had twice married, and we always hear of Lady Jane Grey (not Dudley), Arabella Stu art (not Seymour), etc. Some persons think that the custom originated from the Scriptural teaching that husband and wife are one. This was the rule of law so far back as Bracton, and it was decided in the case of Von vs. Smith, in the reign of Eliza beth, that a woman by marriage loses her former name and legally receives the name of her husband. The cus tom, however, is not universal. In Spain and Portugal married women do not take the names of their husbands, but continue to be known by their own. In many parts of the United States a woman never relinquishes her maiden name and is called by it as often as by that of her husband. Even in the rural parts of England one often finds a mar ried woman called by her maiden name. and in country districts of Scotland it is sometimes found that both names are used. In many parts of France and Belgium the husband's and wife's names are used together when either of them is mentioned. CHILD GOVERNMENT. From Washington Home Magazine. Does the child appear so volatile that it seems almost impossible to hold him to stability or soberness? Because of the variety of his inheritance, let the mother look for assistance in the rea soning faculty which surely ib mio.... Exercising patience and tact, it can be employed to control, not destroy, the light-mindedness so that it shall become a cushion easing the burdens which time lays upon every individual. Un Huo fierlousness or a tendency to de spondency may be relieved, may be overcome by the cultivation of the hu morous element which exists in some form in the child, and which will help to carry him over hard places or lighten dark ones. Obstinacy and fickleness are often found together, and the former, if worked with, not against .the grain, can be transformed into perseverance and aid in converting' fickleness into stead fastness. A tendency to moods, great buoyancy and depression, call for the exercise of the dormant power of self control. The child unconsciously ad mires that quality and can thus be stimulated to its increasing exercise, and we find an even nature produced. A child of impulse, sympathetic, intense, imaginative, generally possesses a hard vein of common sense or matter-of-factness: these qualities recognized and wisely directed form a wholesome, strong, well balanced character. It is not nec essary to multiply examples. We know the power of love to change a selfish nature into a self-sacrificing one. and there is hardly an attribute of character that might not be greatly changed. ANY OLD HAT WILL DO. Kansas City Council Decides That Women May Wear What They Please. TTonsaa Citv. Mo.. Jan. 22. The city council decided last night that there shall be no restriction or limitation as to the character of headgear which women may wear in the theaters of Kansas City. By a decisive vote in the lower house the anti-hat ordinance recently intro duced by Alderman Wolff was killed be yond resurrection. Rock Island Changes at Horton. Horton, Jan. 22. It is announced that H. Horton has been appointed superin tendent of machinery of the Chicago and Alton.with headquarters at-Bloom-ington. to succeed Jacob Johann.resign ed. Mr. Horton is at present an official of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa cific. Halstead, Cuba and Leedy at Wash burn tonight. ENGLISH SOCIETY. Geo.W.Smalley in Harper's Magazine. Society, whet her English or American, is a word which means several different things. It has never been defined to the satisfaction of everybody; nor is it certain that any two men or women, whether inside or outside its magic cir cle, would give exactly the same defini tion of it. The nearest approach to such an accpunt of the matter as might please everybody may be found in an epigram by the late Mr. Abraham Hayward a man not given to epigrams except in quotation, and certainly .one of the most competent authorities on most social questions. He was for 40 years an im portant and sometimes a dominant fig ure in London drawing rooms. I once asked him to define society. He answer ed, "Society consists of the people we know." From Mr. Hayward this was a suffi cient explanation. The merit of it lay. in part, in its authorship.' In the mouth of an outsider it would have meant nothing, or would have been limited to the company of his fellow outsiders. Yet even in Mr. Hayward's mouth the phrase lacks precision ;or perhaps re quires, like a difficult classical text, a good deal of comment and elucidation. The subject is less simple there than here, if only because London is so much larger than New York, and because London has undergone within a gener ation a social transformation. Go back a century, and the contrast is still more striking. In the days of Walpole and Selwyn. society consisted of three or four hundred people, and was perhaps at that period, both in England and in France.the most agreeable and brilliant collection of human beings anywhere to be met. You had, however, to take the precaution to be born into this set.-'. UTILIZING ROADSIDES. (From the Farmer's Voice.) Land is not yet so rare in this country that we are obliged to cultivate that along t'ne border of our highways, but the time is not fur distant when conditions here in this respect will more neuly approximate those of older countries than they do at present, and we may then learn a lesson from the thrift of some of these "effete despotisms." In an article in "La Na ture" Emmanuel Ratouin tells how the roadsides in many parts of Germany have been made to yield a rich return to the state or municipalities by being planted with fruit trees. In foreign countries orchards of fruit trees along the roads have given the best results. In Wurtemburg. Saxony. Bavar ia, Hanover, the Grand Duchy of Luxem burg and in Austria the fruit tree roads have brought in important sums to the treasury. In Saxony the fruit tree bud get is especially satisfactory, and the benefits realized by the state under this head have been estimated at nearlv 2, tXH.OW francs ($400,000) for the last four teen years. In AVurtemburg the planting of forest trees along the roads lias been entirely given up. A law has been passed apply ing to ail fruit orchards and systemizing their working. The owner of the neigh boring land lakes charge of the orchard, and the road officials see to their protec tion and care. This service is very well organized, and does its work economical ly. It has been established under almost identical conditions in the Palatinate and in Bavaria. In these localities each roads- man has his corresponding 'sylvicultor.' Every facility is given these agents for increasing their agricultural knowledge. They are placed under the surveillance of rural inspectors, who direct their labors. This special corps is recruited, in part, by competition. These road 'sylvieultors' pass an exammanon and follow courses of instruction. They sometimes are given the necessary funds to complete their studies. OUTBURST OF REFORM 1825. (From the January Atlantic.) The second quarter of the century was remarkable for the earnest efforts made by men and by associations of men to bet ter the conditions of their fellows. Robert Owen preaching communism and found ing his communities in the western states, in the twenties: Brisbane, the deciple of Fourier, covering the free states with his phalanxes in the early forties: the Ameri can Bible society sending the word of God into a million homes; the great temper ance crusade rescuing 600.0)0 drunkards, and leading the way to prohibition, to high license, to local option: the outburst of humanitarianism which formed the penal codes, which abolished imprison ment for debt, which turned the jails from brothels and seminaries of crime Xr reformatories, and covered the Ianl wirV homes, asylums, lodging houses, houses of correction, penitentiaries, and institu tions for the reform of juvenile delin quents: the abolition societies battling nobly in the cause of the slave: Sylves ter Graham preaching his reformed diet of bran bread and water; Mrs. Bloomer struggling for dress reform and illustrat ing it with the garment that still bears her name. these are but a few of the In numerable manifestations of the efforts for social betterment. A SILVER HEADSTONE. A Michigan Man Leaves Money for the Cause of Free Silver. Laporte. Ind.. Jan. 22. H. N. Koch, a farmer living near Union, Mich., has executed his will. Its provisions are strange and unique. Koch is wealthy and eccentric, and during the recent campaign made school house speeches for Bryan and free silver. Koch directs that at his death a silver headstone be erected on his grave, and further provides that the sum of $500 be given each campaign, to further the in terests of the political party which de clares for free silver. The campaign contributions are to be withdrawn when free silver is made the basis of the country's monetary system. BRAZIL WAS TOO HOT. Canadian Colonists Couldn't the Climate. Stand New York. Jan. 22. The Lamport and Holt steamer Buffon, arrived tonight from Santos. Brazil, with r3 stranded Canadian emigrants who left the cold climate of their native homes to estab lish themselves near Santos. The warm climate of Brazil was too much for the colonists and they were unable to toil with their usual energy. They were nearly destitute when the British consul became interested in them and by his aid they embarked for home. Banquet for George T. Nicholson. St. Louis. Jan 22. The Chicago and St. Louis general pasenger agents will give George l. Nicholson, ot the aanta Fe, a banquet in this city January 26. On February 1 he comes to the Frisco as its general passenger agent, with headquarters here, succeeding Mr. D. Wishart. Chicago Railway Consolidation. Chicago. Jan. 22. Negotiations are under way for the consolidation of all the elevated roads in this city under the management of Charles T. Yerkes. This will make him the biggest surface and elevated magnate in the world The receivership of the Metropolitan elevated road is the first step in the new deal. Harrison Goas Home. Washington, Jan. 22. Ex-President Harrison left this city last night for his home in Indianapolis. The Paiges. The Paiges give a grand family mati nee Saturday afternoon at 2:30 for la dies and children. A Jo gold piece given to the little boy or girl holding the lucky number. A number with every ticket sold. 10c Everybody 10c. Broken edge collars made smooth by Peerless Steam Laundry. CUPID AND POLITICS. HOW COLONEL TANNER CONDUCTED A CAMPAIGN AND A COURTSHIP. EnccoMfal In Both, the Governor Elect of Illinois Will Install a Eeaatiful and Ac complished Bride In the Executive Man sion at Springfield. It is not every politician who can con duct a campaign and a courtship at ona and the same time and with snob mark ed success in both directions as Colonel John R. Tanner, governor elect of Illi nois, has done. On. Deo. SO Mr. Tanner will become a Benedict, and ten days la ter he will become governor of Illinois. Needless to remark, he looks forward to the future with a somewhat lively JOHN K. TANNER. interest, and, as for the people of Illinois, they are as tickled as Sunday school children at picnio time with the pros pect of having the executive mansion at Springfield presided over by a young and beautiful bride. Miss Cora Edith English, the fiancee of the governor elect, has been for sev eral years one of the most popular lead ers of Springfield Rociety. She comes from one of the oldest and most distin guished families in the conntry, one which has resided in Sangamon county for several generations. Her father is Tnrney English, a Springfield real estate dealer, and her grandfather was Gen eral James Tnrney, one of the early cir cuit judges of Illinois. She is consin and most intimate friend of Mrs. Wil loughby Walling of Chicago, and among her other relatives who are more or less prominent are the late Dr. ETorvin Green of the Western Union Tele graph company; the late General J. B. Fry, TJ. S. A. General Daniel M Clure, assistant paymaster general, U. S. A. Governor Peter Tnrney of Tennessee, and Jndge W. B. Hoke of Louisville. Miss English is a highly educated young woman, having been graduated at the Betty Stuart seminary, and finished her studies abroad. She went to Europe with Dr. and Mrs. Walling when the doctor was appointed consul to Edin bnrgh, and she traveled extensively on the continent. Miss English and Colonel Tanner have been acquainted about eight years, but it was not until a few months ago that their friendship ripened into some thing stronger. A very pretty little ro mance i3 told concerning their engage ment, but whether it is founded oufacf. or is merely the exuberant invention of a Chicago reporter is not certain. At any rate, it is said that before Mr. Tan ner had thonght of either becoming gov ernor or getting married again for he has been a widower for nearly ten years he was talking over his political pros pects with Miss English. At that time he was looked upon as the probable can didate for state treasurer, and the guber natorial nomination was in doubt. "Why don't you run for governor yourself, John?" asked Miss English. Mr. Tanner laughed at the suggestion then, but the young lady insisted that she was in earnest and finally made him promise to try for the place. As his prospects for getting the nomination in- MISS CORA EDITH ENGLISH. creased so did his regard for the person who had given him the ambition. By the time he had formally been pat on the ticket be had asked Miss English to share his chances of residing in the ex ecutive mansion. Mr. Tanner is about 52 years of ag and has two married children, a son and a daughter. His bride elect is a tall, handsome blond who dresses with ex quisite taste and takes a natural pride in social leadership. Tha wedding oere- mony vriii take place in est. raui 8 church, Springfield, where Miss English was christened and where she has al ways worshiped. It will be a noon wedding, and after a wedding breakfast the couple will take a ten dayB honey moon trip through the south, returning just in time for Mr. Tanner's inaugura tion. Their friends will welcome them back at the inaugural ball, which prom ises to be a most brilliant affair. The gubernatorial mansion, a large red brick house which stands in the cen ter of a square, is being refitted and elaborately furnished for the reception of the new governor and his bride, and it is expected that they will entertaiD cn a lavish scale during the season. Annetts Crawford. THE Crockery and Tinware Department Contains the LATEST PRODUCTION of the LARGEST POT TERIES IN THE WORLD Alfred Meakins, J. G. Meakins, Johnson Bros., Bishop Stonier, and Henry Aleoek Co. Eng lish Tnderglazed Decorated Dinner Sets are marvels of beauty, and at the lowest prices the world has ever known. See our Com bination Dinner Tea and Breakfast Set at 86.90, and Chamber Sets at 81.75 ENGLISH UNDERGLAZE DECORATIONS. Decorated Cuspidors at 10c each; 1-2 gallon Glass Pitchers at 18c; Footed .Glass Fruit Bowls at 15c each; Preserve Dishes at 10c; Celerys 10c, Decorated Salts and Peppers, 5c each. GROCERIES. 23 lbs. California Granulated Sugar J1.00 24 lbs Extra C Sugar loo Lion Coffee, per package 15 Arbuckle's Coffee, per package 15 McLaughlin s XXXX Coffee.per pack age Mokaska Coffee, per package 2 lbs. Rio ajid Santos Coffee Pure Java Blend Coffee, per lb Crushed Java Coffee, per lb 12 lbs. hand-picked Navy Beans Tibs. Lima Beans S packages Tea Siftings 15 13 35 25 10 buc japan 'l ea tor 5 lbs. Young Hyson Tea 5 lbs. Gunpowder Tea 1.00 1 lb. Java Blend Coffee 20 lbs Cracked Hominy 20 lbs. Hominy Grits 6 lbs. Pearl Barley 3 packages Imported Maccaroni Tapioca or Sago, per lb Best Stiredded Cocoanut, per lb 6 lbs. Good Rice 10 lbs. Green Peas S Ibs. Hominy Flakes 1 package Columbia Rolled Oats 10 lbs. Bulk Scotch Oats 2 packages King's Buckwheat Flour.. 3 packages Pettiiohn's Breakfast Food 05 20 25 05 25 15 25 Wheatling. per package 10 Ralston Breakfast Food, per package. 10 10 lbs. Pure Buckwheat Flour 25 Corle's Selfrising Buckwheat Flour, per package 03 3 packages Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour 2. 3 packages Ralston Pancake Flour. 23 10 bars Silk Soap 2 lobars White Spanish Soap 2; 10 bars Monday Morning; Soap 2' Dars AirK s v nue Russian soap 8 bars Clairette Soap 6 bars Ivory Soap 6 bars Grand Pa's Wonder Soap 7 bars Old Country Soap 15 lbs. Sal Soda 8 lbs. Gloss Starch 1 package Fairbank's Gold Dust Scouring Soap, same as Sapolio 2 cans Warren's Al Salmon Mustard Sardines, per can 25 25 25 25 25 03 a cans u fcaraines z 4 cans Oysters 25 lean Solid Pack Tomatoes lis l can bugar Corn 4 3-lb. cans Pumpkin 3-lb. can Apple Butter 3-lb. can Peach Butter 1 can Blackberries 4 cans Goosberries 1 gal. can New York Apples 1 sal. can California Peaches 05 25 10 10 05 25 IS 1 pal. can California Apricots 21 1 3-ib. can Table Peaches 30 1 3-lb. can Table Apricots 10, 1 3-lb. can Table Pears 10 Mail orders filled from this list, boxed and delivered to depots without charge. The Star Grocer. Wholesale 1 and Retail. PUT SCHOOL BOOKS AWAY. Fourteen Graduates at the Mid-Win-tar Commencement of the High School. The Rev. Chas. B. Mitchell of Kansas City last evening- delivered the address to the graduating class of the Topeka high school at the mldwintercommence ment of the school. He is a highly cultured man, a bril liant orator, and at times extremely dramatic. He spoke to the graduating class upon the subject "Success In Life" for two hours. Tis address was appreciated by an audience which filled the high school auditorium. The class colors, Vermillion, were draped about the large auditorium pro fusely. On the east wall was hung the class motto. "Et Puis Apres." There were fourteen members of the graduat ing class, of which but four were boys. The following is the list of the grad uates with the titles of their essays and orations: ENGLISH LATIN COURSE. James William Dansey, "Every Inch a Man." Jessie Marguerite Marsh, "The Orient of Life." John William Marsh, "The Champion of a Dark Period." Grace Alta McClure, "A Crown of Wild Olives." (Salutatorian.t Gertrude S. Morton, "Prophet, What of the Future?" Cora Lucinda Silvernail, "A Constel lation of the Nineteenth Century." (Valedictorian.) Nannie Smith, "Nature's Sweet Mes sengers." Susie M. Wilder, "One Day." Winifred Wellcome. "Characteristic Women of aakespeare." ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC COURSE. Lizzie B. Conkling, "The Sweetest Thing God Ever Made and Forgot to Put a Soul Into." Elder George Scott, "Just Begun." ENGLISH GERMAN COURSE. Mary Eleanor McGiffin, "When Day Is Breaking." Mabel B. Baker. "Will It Pay?" LATIN SCIENTIFIC COURSE. Louis Frank Valentine, "The Devel opment of Man." President Priddy of the board of edu cation presided at the exercises and W. C. Campbell distributed the diplomas. Music was furnished by Miss Florence Townsley. the Lotus quartette and the Aeolian Mandolin club. The new term at the high school and city schools begins Monday, at which time 108 new students will enter the high school from the eighth grades of the city schools. Lizzie Raymond is Sued for Divorce New York, Jan. 22. Sam Bernard. the well known variety actor whose name in private is Sam Barnett, today brought suit for the annullment of his marriage to Elizabeth Reardon, or" as she is called professionally. Lizzie B. Raymond, the actress. Bernard al leges that the defendant was already, married when she became his wife. Bread Riots in Spain. London, Jan. 22. The Daily Mail dis- Datch from Madrid says: The severe weather has resuled in great distress and especially in the province of Se ville. Bread riots have occurred at Luisiana, Viso del Alcor, Arahal and other towns. Taken after dinner, Ayer's Pills pro mote easv digestion. Have you seen -Ayer's Almanac? 1 3-lb. can Table Green Gapes 10 6 cans California Unlabeled Fruit 25 I.oose Bros. Ginger Snaps, per lb 05 Loose Bros." Soda Crackers, per lb.... 00 Loose Bros.' Soda Crackers, per lb., by box Ei Kennedy's Soda Crackers, per lb., by uy uox Mixed Candy, per lb 4 lbs. Stick Candy Hand-made Chocolate Drops, per lb Iowa Potatoes, per bushel Kansas Potatoes, per bushel 05 25 15

2-t 3 lbs. Dates 25 Horseshoe Tobacco, per lb 3. Star Tobacco, per lb 35 Battle Axe Tobacco, per lb IJ Even Change Tobacco, per lb 15 1 gal. Table Syrup 20 1-quart can Maple Syrup 20 Holland Herring, per keg SO Large Pail of White Fish 45 No. 1 Salt, per barrel f5 25-lb. sack Corn Meal 23 2S lbs. Brown Sugar 1.0) Eagle Milk, per can 15 HEATS AM) LARD. Sugar Cured California Hams ,per lb Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per .lb Dry Salt Meat, per lb No. 1 Sugar Curt'd Hams, per lb 10-lb. can White Label Lard 5-lb. pail White Label Lard Pure Leaf Lard, per lb 5 '4 07 01 10 60 39 03 CALIFORNIA EVAPORATED FRUITS. California Black Prunes, per lb.... California Peaches, per lb 3 lbs. Fancy California Peaches 3 lbs. California Apricots 3 lbs. California Nectarines 4 ibs. Fancy F.vaporated Apples 4 lbs. California Raisins 2 lbs. London Layer Raisins Evaporated Raspberries, per lb 3 lbs. Kvaporated Blackberries 3 lbs. California Pears 2 packages Cleaned Currants 6 lbs. California Figs 25 2n 25 13 23 TIXHARE. Large Tin Wash Basins 9-inch Tin Pie Plates 8-hole Muffin Pans 2-quart Covered Tin Pails Nutmeg Graters Match Safes Hunter's Sifters 2-quart Coffee Pots 1-quart Coffee Pots Milk Pans 05 0 12 US 02 03 10 12 US 03 Large Basting Spoons 04 Quart Cups Biscuit Cutters Cookie Cutters Solid Iron Coal Shovel 02 0J 04 112 East Sixth St Telephone 252. IVORY IS COMING BACK. He was Too Sharp for the British Po lice. London, Jan. 22. Edward J. Ivory of New York, who was discharged from cus tody at the central criminal court, the crown prosecution having withdrawn the charge of conspiracy to cause a dyna mite explosion, called at the office of the Associated Press here today and said: "I have documentary proof that the Brit ish officials offered to release me if I confessed to the charge of conspiracy. I am satisfied that the police did not have any power, but professed to have It in order to entrap me.- "1 can not say anything regarding Ty nan and the other. 1 have never had any connection with any dynamite plot. "I must say that my prison experience was not pleasant. I go to Dublin tomor row to visit relatives and iail for New York on the steamer Majesiic, on Janu ary 27." OREGON HAS TWO HOUSES. She Follows the Example Set by Kan sas and Delaware. Salem. Ore.. Jan. 22. As an outcome of tffe fight for United States senato-here were two different organizations 'TI the house in the same hail. The Benson men, supporte-s of Senator Mitchell, organized a rump assembly with thirty-three members present. Smith or Marion, took the place of temporary speaker, beside .Davis, previously cbosen to that office. Chief Justice Moore swore the members in and permanent organiza tion was effected by electing H. J-u Ben son speaker. Armed With Daggers and Pistols. Prague, Bohemia, Jan. 22. The police have discovered the existence of a secret association named the Revolutionary Czechia. The programme of the members is partly Czech and partly AnarcHist. The members, who are mostly apprentices arp armed with dasreers ana revolvers. Seven of the conspirators have been ar rested. Knighthood for Canadian Mayors. Montreal. Jan. 22. It is announced here that on the occasion of. the queen s juui- lee. her majestv will Knigni lire iiuivuia of the five largest Canadian cities. Mon treat, Toronto, Quebec, Hamilton and Ot tawa. GOOD FRIENDS. Keep the Heart of Humanity Warm. The following extract from a letter may be published without a breach of courtesy, as it refers to a matter which will interest some readers who have been considering the dismissal of cof fee in their families and the adoption of Postum, the health coffee: Grand Rapids. Mich Postum Cereal Co., Lim., Battle Creek. Mich. Gentlemen: I am pleased with the sale and the satisfaction given to our customers in the use of Postum Ce real I did not wish to venture out on this article, as I had no faith in it when first shown me. To my surprise the first case sold readily, and a little esti mate shows a sale of 462 packages in 7 days. I am using it in my own home with perfect satisfaction. Since the use of Postum in place of coffee, neither wife nor myself have the old heartburn. Please find enclosed, etc.. etc.. etc. MARTIN C. GOOSEN. A reliable grocer will never offer a cheap or weak imitation of a genuine original article because he happens to make a little extra profit. But it is well to observe that when genuine Postum Cereal coffee is ordered, that you get Postum and not a spurious imitation offered as "just as good."

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TOPE K A STATE JOTJRNAIj, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1897. 5 stitutions, I am in' favor of giving it to the Wrinfic-ld home for imbecile and id iotic youth. There are at present over two thousand applications for admit tance of persons into this institution, and it is now crowded. I think this is a greater demand than that made on any other slate institution." HOUSE BILLS PENDING. Davis BOOKS DIRT GHEAP. A Great Seduction of Prices Made By Proposed Bill SPOT CASH Successors to DAVIS SHEETZ, HAVING changed the system of doing business by the old firm, we are now ready to sell our customers goods at the lowest possible prices for strictly cash only. 23 Tbs Granulated Sugar $1.00 3 Tt can Cal. Pears 10 3 It can Cal. Peaches 10 3 lb can Cal. Apricots .10 1 can Corn .05 1 can Solid Tomatoes .05 1 can 3-lb Baked Beans .05 2 cans French Peas .25 3 cans Early June Peas 25 2 cans Al C. R. Salmon .25 3 cans good Salmon .25 1 can Mustard Sardines .05 8 cans American i Sardines...... .25 Dry Salt Meat, per lb .04 Best Sugar Cured Hams, per lb 10 All Package Coffee 14 1 lb bulk Coffee, very good .15 Soda Crackers, by box .06 20 rbs Pearl Hominy .25 12 lbs best hand-picked Beans .25 12 lt3 Green Pea3 .25 10 rbs bulk Scotch Oats .25 WE ARE SELLING QUEENSW ARE AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. "DSL 1 828 "N. Kansas Ave. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Murat Halstead lectures this evening at Washburn college. Four of tiie state officers of the Farm ers' Alliance are women. President Edward "Wilder of the Pure Food show has gone to Kansas City. The Washburn Glee club entertained the inmates at the asylum with a concert last evening. O. P. FpdegrafE of Topeka has become a member of a Kansas City firm of horse dealers. The family of J. F. Cummings about whom inquiries are being made live in Denver. The Golden Rod store will make a dona tion to the Salvation Army hospital today based on the day's business. Major J. K. Hudson is chairman of the rereption committee to receive the Kan sas editors next Monday evening. Beulah chapter Order of the Eastern Star wil give a social at the residence of Mrs. Wellman on East Eighth street to night. rTomorrow afternoon at 3,o'elock Albert Griffin will deliver an address on "Free Silver'' at the silver headquarters in the Keith block. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stephens of the colored industrial institute will lecture before the Washburn college Literary so ciety next Monday evening. Wm. H. Craigue. the cocaine unfortu nate who has been in the custody of the police for some davs. was vesterday sent to his parents at Enid. O. T. Geo. W. Crane Co. have furnished the members of the legislature with a neat handbook containing short biographical sketches of each member of both houses. It took but an hour and twenty minutes yesterday afternoon to empanel a jurv to try Dick Justice for the killing of Milton Harmon. There are no colored men upon it. On Monday the Free Silver headquarters will be moved from the present location in the Keith block to the rooms above the Paoitlc express office at 525 Kansas ave nue. A Social will be held at the residence of Mrs. Bessie Wellman this evening under the auspices of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Wellman is worthy matron of the order. There is no class of people in Topeka more bitterly oposed to the appointment ot Henry Steele as chief of police thsn the criminal element of Smoky Row and Redmond ville. It is said that Governor Leedv will see that Sergeant Tim Donovan ot the police force is made captain. The office of po lice captain was abolished two years ago in the interests of economy. The Silver Sheen Dramatic-compan v will present "Tony the Convict" at the A. O. V. W. hall, 723 Kansas avenue, tomor row evening. The proceeds of the pro duction will go to the benefit of the order. Miss Ellen Beach Yaw. who ten dav ago was reported to have died on tiie stage in a most thrilling manner, and re ceived free advertising from one end of the country to the other, will be at the Grand Opera House next week. The Topeka Equal Suffrage society met at the rooms of the Commercial club yes terday afternoon and entered on a studv of municipal laws. A municipality was organized by the members in accordance Just Received a Special Snap in DECORATED CHAMBER SETS. We have picked up 5 crates, Wedgwood's English Porcelain, io Piece Sets, Like Cut, This grade costs $1.08 per set in New York, and the freight to Topeka is 25 cents a set. The usual retail price is $3.5o per set. Saturday and Mon day only, we will sell them for $1.98 per set-choice of three decorations. Remember, this Price will not hold good after Monday. 'W'e have inst rpci-irT r; TT-nso r.r tv-o. Egg Beaters to sell at 7c each. Ask to see our English Rockingham Tea pots at 19c each. You will And they are the same others ask 35c for. We have a lot of regular 25c wire cook ers to sell at 10c each. China marbles, 25 for lc. Agates, 2 for 5c. One lot of 8-inch decorated German Valentines at Wholesale At 6o and 5 per cent discount from regular list. Remember It pays to trade at THE FAIR, 618 Kan. Ave. GROCERS; 1 package Rolled Oats 3 pakcages Pettyjohn's Cal. Break fast Food 5 lbs good Rice 4 lbs fancy Evaporated Apples.... 3 lbs Evaporated Apricots 5 rbs Cal. Evaporated Fears 5 rbs Evaporated Cal. Peaches...... 5 Tbs Figs 3 cans Anderson's Jams 1 pail Jelly 3 doz. boxes Parlor Matches 10 bars Silk Soap 9 bars White Russian Soap Sugar Syrup, per gal Sugar Syrup, large pail 2 doz. fresh country Eggs 2 lbs country Butter 1 r Horse 'Shbe Tobacco 1 It Star Tobacco 2 rbs Battle Ax Tobacco Potatoes .05 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .23 .35 .25 .25 .25 .20 .35 .25 .25 .35 .35 .35 .25 O with the rules governing such organiza tions. A Topeka hotel proprietress who still has the pictures of McKinley and Bryan on the walls in the hotel office, said that a drunken man came to her place and she wouldn't let him have a room be cause he always insisted on tearing down Bryan's picture. City Attorney W. A. S. Bird has nollied the case of the city of Topeka against Anna Wright on the condition that the woman shall pay all the costs in the case. More appealed cases have been won by the city in the district court during Mr. Bird's administration than for many years previously. At the time of the recent snow a To peka business man sent word to Police Matron Thorpe to send a very needy man to his place to shovel off the snow from his sidewalk. Mrs. Thorpe sent a man who had a starving family and he eagerly shoveled off the snow. When the work was dene the gentleman handed the man an old pair of slippers saying to him: "They cost me $1.50 when they were new." During the colored trial yesterday In the district court the gallery was crowd ed with colored people who were anxious to hear all the testimony given. Sheriff Kepley went up and saw the crowd. feared the gallery would not stand the immense weight. "I'm afraid she will break down with all those people on there." he exclaimed. "Well, if it does." remarked Larry Sheehan, "the county will go Democratic." RACING MEN ARE LOSERS. All but Three on the Pacific Coast are Behind the Game. San Francisco, Jan. 22. Such a disas trous season as that which the heavy bettors are experiencing here is unpre cedented in the history of racing in California. With but three exceptions, the noted plungers now wintering on the coast, are many thousands of dol lars behind. The exceptions are George Wheelock.Eddy Gaines and Joe Tillman who are about even.or somewhat ahead of the racing game at present. Among the principal losses so far recorded are the following: R'ley Grannan. $40,000: Ed Purser, $30,000: John Coleman. $20,000: George Rose, $20,000: Hugh Jones, $16,000: Hen ry Harris, $15,000; Abe Stein, $16,000; Cnley Ullman. $12,000: Will Wallace, $10,000: Charles Quinn. $10,000: Barney Schreiber, $10,000: Eddie Maloney, $8, 500: Dave Gideon, $5,000: Fred Cowan, $5,000: Ed Wallace, $2,500: John Humph rey's, $2,500; total, $206,500. Delaware Sees the Light- Dover. Dela.. Jan. 22. Mr. Aldrlchs has introduced a bill in the senate abolishing the whipping post and pillory in Dela ware. Dandruff is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spreads and dries, forming., squrf and causing the hair to fall out. Hall's Hair Renever cures it. Bear in mind the entertainment given by the T. A. A. at the Grand Opera House, Friday evening, February 5. Tickets now on sale by the members. containing 40 sets each, of So we can Sell them for Less Than Regular Cost.......... China dishes, regular 50c goods, to sell SPIHIAL. A lot of patent hump hooks and eyes to sell 2 cards (4 dozen) for 5c. IIEKE'.H A KNAP. 50 sets silver plated knives and forks, same grade we have always sold at $1.98, for !tee per set. Tele- 425. Teachers' Association Commit tee Report Against Measure. It is Withdrawn From Their Consid eration but Will be Introduced in Legislature, Anyway. The legislative committee appointed by the State Teachers' association has killed State Superintendent Stryker's bill for district ownership and adjourned without further action. Mr. Stryker's bill provided for dis trict ownership, set the price at which the books should be 'furnished to the districts, provided five year contracts, made all books subject to the approval of the state board of education and provided safeguards against the pur chase of worthless books. The prices arranged by the bill were as follows: Spelling book, 10 cents; first reader, 10 cents: second reader, 15 cents; third reader. 20 cents; fourth reader, 25 cents; fifth reader, 35 cents; arithmetic, inter mediate, 25 cents; arithmetic, complete, 40 cents; geography, elementary, 30 cents; geography, complete, 75 cents; English grammar, elementary, 20 cents; English .grammer, complete, 35 cents; physiology, 50 cents; history of the United States, 50 cents; copy books, 5 cents each. The bilt also contained this proposi tion: "If any competent author or au thors shall compile any one or more books of the first order of excellence and shall offer the same as a free gift to the people of this state, together with the copyright of the same and the right to manufacture and sell such works in the state of Kansas for use in the pub lic schools, it shall be the duty of the state board of education to pay no money for manuscript or copyright for such book or books on the subject treat ed of in this manusciipt so donated." Prof. Guy P. Benton of Baldwin of fered the principal objection to the bill which received the sanction of the re maining members of the committee. He said: "It is unjust to require the taxpayers of the state to furnish books to children whose parents are better able to buy them than the already over burdened property holders. In many of the towns and cities of the state there are railroad men, clerks and men in other business lines who do not pay taxes and every poor widow who owns a small home and every poor farmer struggling under a mortgage must con tribute to buy books for children of these well paid men. "It is paternalistic. If children must be furnished by the state with books, why not require the state to furnish them with clothing and shoes? It wipes out all competition by limiting the book business to one firm. W herever state publication or district ownership has been tried as a state policy it has failed. At the prices suggested in this bill no first class books would b? offered." President; Taylor of the state normal school said: "Under the district owner ship plan disease would be transmitted from one family to another by the changing of books. These books would, in passing from one child to another, become vermin breeders. W here the books are provided by the state the same care will not be taken as when furnished by parents." Every member of the state board of education and the legislative committee opposed the bill. Superintendent Swingle of Manhattan moved to substitute a bill to provide free text books to indigent pupits, but this was not adopted. Finding the committee a unit against him, Mr. Stryker asked permission to withdraw the bill, which was granted. Some member of the legislature will introduce the bill anyway. The committee recommended the ex tension of the term of office of county superintendents and the admission of graduates of common schools to city high schools on payment of tuition in counties where county high schools do not exist. PRICE THOMAS IS SMART. A Republican Gets Two Jobs From the Populists. A committee appointed by the Pop ulist house caucus to investigate the po litical record of Price Thomas who was elected as a janitor in the house of rep' resentatives has asked further time and it has been granted. Since the appointment of Thomas by the house he was elected as one of the state house janitors by the executive council. This has caused great indig nation among negro politicians in Kan sas Citv as indicated by the following letter which has been received by Gov ernor Leedy from Horace Bell, secre tary of the Negro Peoples' Party club in that city: "We desire to call your attention to the political record of P. C Thomas who has been elected as. one of the state house janitors, as a Populist from Wyandotte county. He was known during the last campaign as an earnest hard-working, enthusiastic, sound mon ey Republican and was a delegate to the state convention which nominated K. N. Morrill for a second term as gov ernor. He was also a delegate to the Republican convention which nomina ted Jack Harris for congress. We pro test against his recognition for bulldoz ing us for advocating the cause of Pop ulism and demand his removal." Neither Governor Leedy nor the exec utive council has taken any action in this matter yet. It is extremely proba ble that Thomas' days are numbered as an employee of the state. WOULD PAT BONDS. Senator Householder Thinks We Should Take Up $200,000 of Our Paper. Senator Householder wants to make a record for his party this year. He is chairman of the committee on charita ble institutions, and stales that in his opinion the funds of the state are not sufficient to stand extensive appropria tions for such institutions. On this mat ter Senator Householder said: "There is $200,000 of the state debt coming due before the end of the fiscal year, and I am in favor of paying it. The eastern press claim that the Popu lists of this state are repudiators, and I believe in taking advantage of every op portunity to prove that we are not. Two hundred thousand dollars will be a big slice out of the state funds, and its payment will necessarily mean reduc tions in all appropriations. "The general sentiment is in favor of economy, and I don't believe this senate should make an extravagant record.The charitable institutions we have already must be maintained, and at present I think the state is too poor to increase their number. "If an appropriation is to be made for as addition to any of the charitable in Some of the Interesting Measures That Are Proposed. Among the bills pending in the house are the following: No. 203, by Tapscott (of Hamilton), to repeal section 286 of the code of crim inal procedure and limit the number of special findings. No. 214, by Marks (of Jefferson), an act to increase the duties of the state board of railroad commissioners, chang ing the name to railroad and ware house commissioners, j providing for the organization of warehouses and regu lating the warehousing, Inspection and weighing in of grain in public ware houses. No. 216, by Poison (of Roley), makes the necessary appropriations for the state agricultural college at Manhattan for the fiscal years 1897 and 1898. Nos. 222 and 223 makes the necessary appropriations for the state normal. No. 225, by De Witt (of Allen) will compel the cutting of hedges along pub lic highways. No. 22fi, by Seaton (of Atchison), by request, will prevent the oppressive garnishment and the transferring of claims for the purpose of depriving debtors of their exemption rights. No. 230, by Fell (Pop., of Pawnee), requires the recording of transfers of real estate mortgages and provides pen alties for the violation thereof. CUBBISON CONTEST ENDS. C. B. Hewlett Asks the Committee to Dismiss it, Which is Done. W. A. Snook, who, unauthorized, filed a contest case against Representa tive J. K. Cubbison, before the house elections committee, has withdrawn the case. C. B. Hewlett (Pop.) of Kansas City was defeated by Mr. Cubbison and he accepted it gracefully. However, Mr. Snook filed the contest, claiming that the power so to do under the law which provides that any qualified elector may proceed in this manner without refer ences to the wishes of the candidate. Mr. Hewlett himself came to Topeka and filed an affidavit before the com mittee of which C. W. Fairchild of Kingman, is chairman, reciting tne fact that the contest was brought with out his knowledge or consent and ex pressing a desire that the proceedings end and the case be withdrawn. Mr. Fairchild stated that the com mittee had neither time nor inclination to waste money ssttling personal or lo cal grievances and permitted Mr. Hew lett to withdraw the contest. The pa pers will be returned to Mr. Snook. HOUSE EDUCATION BILL. Children Must ba Sent to School Truants to Reform School. Representative John Shouse has intro duced a compulsory education bill which provides that all children between the ages of 8 and 16 shall attend each year one term of the regular school period or a private school for the same length of time. Parents who do not comply with this measure in the event it becomes a law will be subject from $10 to $50 fine for each offenye. This bill provides that confirmed tru ants may be sent to the reform school. The teacher of the school is required to keep the district boards informed as to the attendance of their pupils and in cases where the law suffers violation the board will furnish the information to the county attorney who will insti tute proceedings. In cases where parents are too poor to buy books and clothing the bill pro vides that the county shall furnish them. TAPSCOTT'S CATTLE BILL. Non-Resident Cattlemen Will Have to Pay a County Tax. Farmers and cattlemen in western Kansas have contended for 20 years against the encroachments of non-resident cattlemen who bring their stock into the state in the spring- and "run them," in some instances assuming the prerogative of building fences promis cously across the country under alleged peases. This has been going on for years and has caused great difficulty for the small cattle raiser. The non-resident owners secured all benefits and escaped all tax ation. To remedy this Representative Tapscott of Hamilton county has Intro duced a bill providing that all non-resident cattlemen having stock on pas ture, shall pay into the county treasury a certain sum. It is not intended by the measure to gain heavy revenues but to keep the interlopers out. CUBBISON SNUBBED. Populists Say He Doesn't Stay Here Enough and Work. Representative Cubbison of U'yan dottee has not yet been placed on a sin gle committee In the house. Some of the Republicans suggest that perhaps the Populists are secretly freezing- Cub bison out on the good things and ac count for his' non-recognition in this manner. However, one of the Populist mem bers said today: "Cubbison is absent from his seat more than any member on the floor of the house, and in making up committees the speaker wants men who will attend the meetings and push the business referred to them." Wichita Normal School Lobby. Twenty-five citizens of Wichita have established themselves in Topeka and propose to maintain an aggressive lobby in the interests of the -proposed new normal school at that placei The Wich ita crowd arrived yesterday and will proceed to settle the police commis sioner appointments for that city, after which the campaign for the school will begin in earnest. One man said: "We will fiist fix things so we can get drinks, thereafter we will fight for educational facilities." Joe Lowe to Start a Paper. It is rumored that at the close of his term as railroad commissioner Joseph G. Lowe will begin the publication of a newspaper at Washington and give the public the benefit of his experience and renew his fight on fusion and Populism from an old fashioned Democratic standpoint. A Primary Election Bill. Representative Taylor of Wyandotte has introduced a bill providing for a new system of primaries, accompanied by a secret ballot. This bill if passed would destroy the avocation of the ward heeler and professional political manipulator. A Text Book Bill Anywiy. The action of the legislative commit tee appointed by the State Teachers' association in discountenancing the free text book and district ownership bill prepared by Superintendent Stryker THE EYES OF ALL TOPEKA ARE QU US! CUTTING-SLASHING-UNDERSELLING EVERYBODY I Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! Is no Vain Cry. Workmen Want the Room Soon as Possible GREAT REBUILDING ENLARGING SALE We Sacrifice the Whole Stock to Make Room. YOUH EYES ALONE CAN NOT DO JUSTICE TO THESE VALUES! $J.t0 and S3 Men's Pants marked down to $1.65 $3.W and M.OO fine black Worsted 1'ams marked down to Men's all wool Sack Suits, black and fancy colors were $0.50 marked down to $7.50 Men's Stylish Suits. 18.00 Kersoy Overcoats, is.uo heavy all-wool Ul stersmarked down to. 112 line Dress Suits, $l2fine K ersey overcoats, $12 Chinchilla Ulsters marked down to $1.98 $3.03 $7.95 tie to $20 very fine Suits, also Overcoats and Ul s:ers marked down to Everybody Watch Us Grow $11.45 Solid business methods is the cause. has apparently not impressed Repre sentative A. O. Foley of Norton with the wisdom of their decision. Mr. Foley has introduced a bill providing for county uniformity and the district own ership of all text books. Howe and Simpson to Go at Ones. Samuel T. Howe and J. M. Simpson, members of the state board of railroad commissioners will resign their offices at once. Mr. Oillard and Mr. Campbell will take their positions, probably this week, hut Mr. Lewelling will serve the remain der of his term in the senate, which per mits Joe Lowe to remain until April 1. Drug Stores for Small Towns. Representative Hackney of Sumner, has a tiiii in the house to reduce the requirea number of signatures upon a druggist's uetition for a permit to sell liquor from twenty-five to twelve. In smaller communities, ne claims, it is often a difficult matter to secure the required twenty-live signers and the pas sage of the bill would remove a consider able portion of the difficulty. Will Change All Names at Once. Every legislature changes the names of a large number of people, removes po litical disabilities, vacates townsites ana disposes of many minor matters. A reso lution which will be passed bv the house provides that all such matters be deferred until the latter part of the session when thv shall be incorporated in one general bill and passed. Committee on Elections. Speaker Street has named Fairchild of Kingman, chairman. Mott of Harper, Smith of Sherman. Taylor of Wyandctte, Ingle of Smith, Fell of Pawnee. Lobdell of Lane. Grimes of Wichita and McKeever of Shawnee, as the house committee on elections. THE RELAM PAGO'S FATE. Details of the Sinking of the Spanish ish Gunboat. Havana, Jan. 22. Further details reached here today regarding the sink ing of the Spanish gunboat Relampago, during the morning or Jan. 17, by the explosion of a torpedo placed in the river Cauto, near Mingo landing, by the insurgents, killing six of the officers and crew, and wounding a number of others on board that vessel and the gunboat Centinela. The insurgents, it appears, besides opening ride fire upon the Centintla, and upon the men in the writer, also fired with artillery upon the Centllena j at short range. But the Centinela suc ceeded in getting out of immediate dan ger and replied with her guns.discnarg ing grape shot at the insurgents and inflicting great loss upon the enemy. Of the men in the water it is now learned Commander Frcderieo Marti nez of the Relampago, was hit by an insurgent bullet while swimming and was probably afterward drowned with his comnanions and eaten by the alli gators, which are plentiful in those wa ters. Col. Vara del Rey, during three days reconnoitering in the north of the Sier ra Maestro, from Scandell to Gran Pid dra, province of Santiago de Cuba, has had a skirmish with the insurgents, who lost 13 killed. The troops also de stroyed 200 huts. A detachment of insurgents yesterday attacked the laborers at work on the Jobo estate, this province, killing two and wounding ten more. The relatives of Henry Delgado, the correspondent of the Mail and Express of New York, who died in San Ambro sio hospital, have, instructed Consul General Lee to have his remains inter red here in view of objections raised by the New York health authorities to have them shipped from here. The progressive ladies of Westfield, Ind., issued a "Woman's Edition" of the Westfield News, bearing date of April 3, 1SS6 The paper is filled with matter of interest to women, and we notice the following from a correspond ent, which the editors printed, realizing that it treats upon a matter of vital im nortance to their ex "The best reme- I dy for croup, colds, and bronchitis that I have oeen aoie to una, is Lnamoer Iain's Cough Remedy. For family use it has no equal. I gladly recommend it." 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by drug gists. Hear Cuba discussed by a master mind tonight at Washburn. Try us on collars. We can make them look like new. Peerless Steam Laur.drv, 112 and 114 W. Sth St. "Phone 322. $4.50, $5.00 and G 00 vary finest AVinter Trousers, marked down to 40cOray Kersey Knee Pants Mar Keel dowu to $1.00 All AVool Fine Knee Pants, Marked down to... 35o Mother's choice Waists Marked own to J2.GO Cheviot Boy's Suits, marked down to $0.00 Fine Astraelian Iteef ers, blue, black, green and red, a.'es 3 to 8. marked down to $4.00 Boy's Chinchilla Reef er Coats, marked down to $2.95 23c 48c 15c $1.15 $2795 $1.98 $1.98 $4.95 $3.00 Boy's Tweed marked down to Suits, f8.ro Boy's Long Pant Suits, marked down to LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS. "At the French Ball," the musical comedy in which Fanny Rice will be seen at tne Grand next Tuesday night, is described as a "veritable cyclone of novel features, merriment and music," and is said to be by far the best pro duction in which Miss Rice has ever appeared. The piece gives her the widest possible scope for the display of her versatility and peculiar talents, and at the same time tells an interest story. The clever comedienne has re ceived many flattering notices for her work in this production. The sale of seats for "At the French Ball" will open at Snow's drug store tomorrow morning. The imposing dignity, the vindictive ness and the cunning of "Richelieu," prince and cardinal, will be portrayed by Mr. Thomas Keene at the Grand Opera House next Wednesday evening. Although some parts of this produc tion are in ill accord with the simple rhetoric of the present day, yet there is much in the piece to retain popular interest. Mr. Keene is this year sup ported by Mr. Charles Hanf ord, a young tragedian of considerable merit. The sale of seats for this production will open Monday morning. The "Waifs of New York" and Mis3 Katie Emmett come to the Grand next Thursday evening. This melodrama, in which Miss Emmett scored a suc cess on its initial production some years ago, has been reorganized and is said to be staged better this year than ever. The sale of seats will open Tuesday morning. Next Friday evening Miss Rosabel Morrison will appear at the Grand in the dramatization of Prosper Merimee's famous story of Spanish life, "Car men." This role has served as the step ping stone to fame for a number a great singers in the operatic production of the story, and also in the dramatic version for Olga Nethersole, tne Eng lish actress. Miss Morrison is said to be particularly adapted to the part. One of the features of the production is a representation of a Spanish bull fight in the last act by means of the eidoloscope, an electrical invention sim ilar to the vitascope. Topeka is this week being treated to first class repertoire productions by the Paige company at the Crawford Opera House. The work of the entire com pany is good and the specialties intro duced between the acts are excellent. Last night a double bill was played to another crowded house, consisting of the curtain raiser, A Happy Pair," followed by "The Chimney Corner." Tonight "East Lynne" will be given and some particularly interesting spe cialties will be introduced. Tomorrow a matinee will be given in the after noon, at which the price of admission to any part of the house will be 10 cents. Tonight Murat Halstead will deliver his lecture on "Cuba" at the Washburn college chapel. Mr. Halstead will be introduced by Governor John W. Liedy. Desirable seats can be secured at the chapel tonight, and the street car com pany has made extra provisions for those who attend the lecture. THE NIGER CO. EXPEDITION Found the Enemy Dispersed and No body to Fight. Brass. Guinea Coast. Jan. 22. News has just been received here that the expedi tion sent by the Royal Niger company against the Emir of Nupe. from Lokoja, found the Foulah army dispersed and in flight when it arrived at Kabba. The. ex pedition consisted of 500 Haussa troops, six Maxim rapid-fire guns, twenty-six mounted European officers and ftOQ car-ri-'ru. It was headed by the governor. Sir George Goldie and was accompanied by the Royal Niger company's tlotiila of armored stern-wheel steamers. The quarrel between the powerful Emir of Nupe and the Niger company is an oki one and arose from the Emir raiding th company's territory for slaves. The Foulah force at Kabba was estimated to amount to 20.0UU foot and 2.000 cavalry. The Paiges. The Paiges, one of the strongest rep ertoire companies on the road. 16 'peo ple, at the Crawford Opera House ev ery night this week. Change of play nightly. Frices 10. 20 and 30 cents. Subscribe fcr The State Journal. 70S KANSAS AVE. AUR BACH A. Very Finest S1.E0. Sl.2r.. Mother's Friend Laundried 'Waists, marked down to 75c 7c lOc 23c 38c 98c 39c 39c 55c 13c 4-ply Pure linen Collars, shapes, marked down to all 25c all Linen Cuffs, marked down to. link or plain. 35c all Linen, hemstitched, gent's White Handkerchiefs, marked down to 7te Xatural Wool Underwear, mark ed down to Sl'.lO Very Finest Winter Under wear, marked down to i.... 75c Fine Embroidered Night Shirts, marked down to 75c Best winter Caps, marked down to $1.00 Best winter down to Caps, marked 25c Wrist Warm ers marked down to.... 75c and $1 best 15c ilk Mufflers marked down 45c to. '.5i! fine Merino wool Half- Hoso marked -f K down tu XOC GUETTEL. Plumbing Up-to-Dat3 Call or write us...: It will pay you. 118 West 8th St., TOPEBfl. PILES OF MONEY. The De3 Moines Banks are Prepared for Emergency. Des Moines, la., Jan. 22. No more failures seem likely to occur here. The banks received more than a million dollars from outside sources this morn ing and all are standing together. Each bank has from $100,000 to $300,000 piled on their counters. All agreed to refuse to pay time de posits without 60 days' notice under the law. The savings banks are taking ad vantage under tha state law, allowing them to refuse to pay savings deposit except on 60 days' notice. I CO. I i IP i s

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6 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1897. SlOGHaKlflO COMMENCES MONDAY! A chance for you in the meantime to buy Clothing, Hats, Caps and Gents' Fur nishing Goods at your own price. We Guarantee prices on mi to bs at least 20 PER CENT. LESS than any other house. Men's Wool Suits, $3-45 to $io. Men's Bine or Black Melton Overcoats $4.00. Splendid Overcoats in Bine, Black, Brown or Melton, from $5.00 to $10.00. LADIES Come and see Boys' and Children's Clothing. It will pay you the largest stock in the state. BOYS' SUITS, From $10.00 lp: Now is the time to buy UNDERWEAR. Prices never so low. G RAND OPERA HOUSE OJfE HIQHT XXX, Wednesday, January 87. THE EMIXEM TBAOEDIA3T, Thomas W. Accompanied by and Under the Man agement of Coarle B. II mil for (I, Supported by a large and Complete Organization, Presenting -.RICHELIEU Mo advance in Prices. Seats on Sale Mon day, 8 a. m., at Snow's Drug Store. G RAND OPERA HOUSE ONE NIGHT OSfLT-Jannary 26. America's Greatest Comedienne, Dainty Fanny Rice In tier Latest and Greatest Laughing Success, "it the French Ball." A clean, bright and wholesome entertainment Nothing to offend. New Songs, Music, Etc. Prices: SI. 00, 70c, SOe and 23c. Harding Davis' Brother Dead. St. Augustine, Fla,, Jan. 22. Richard H. Harding.brother of Rebecca Harding: Davis, the famous author, died this morning- at Aliea hospital of Bright 'a disease. Unity Club Will Not Meet. The meeting of the Unity club which was to be held tonight and at which Mrs. J. K. Hudson and Mr. Will Campbell were to read original stories, has been postponed one week on account of the HaJstead lecture. 54 HOURS TO CALIFORNIA. Santa Fe Route California Limited leaves Chicago 6:30 p. m. Wednes days and Saturdays, Kansas City 9:50 a. m., Topeka 11:33 a. m., and Denver 6:30 p. m., Thursdays and Sundays, reaching- Los Angeles 54 hours and San Diego in 58 hours from Topelso. Con necting train for San Francisco, with through sleeping car reservations, via Mojave. Returns leaving California Mondays and Thursdays, and passing through Topeka eastbouhd at 3:30 p. m. Thursdays and Sundays. Equipment of superb vestibuled Pullman palace sleepers, buffet smok ing car and dining car. Most luxurious service via any line. Another express train, carrying pal ace and tourist sleepers, leaves Chica go, Topeka and Kansas City daily for California. For additional Information call at passenger depot, foot of Fifth street, (telephone 682) or on Cromwell Jef fers, in postoflice. North Topeka. (Tel ephone 364.) W. C. GARVET, Agent. .V. J. BLACK, A. G. P. A. 1 Topeka. If you need glasses, see Chas. Bennett, Refracting Optician, 730 Kan. ave. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Subscribe for The State Journal. It c IN THE SOCIETY WORLD. General Notes of Society Personal Items. and Recent Social Events in Topeka and Yicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. The second of the Lotus club series of parties was given last night at pud son's hall. The club's rule of not en gaging dances ahead was adhered to with much success. Mr. Weidlings "Lotus Twostep" was played and re ceived a hearty encore. Those who danced were: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Crockett, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mills, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black, Dr. and Airs. C. C. Allen, Dr. and Mrs. W.N. West, Mr. and Mrs. Will H. John ston, Miss Wells of Lansing, Mich., Miss Sadie Atchison and Miss Veva Atchison of Leavenworfli, Miss Wilson of Chicago, Miss Vincent of Clay Cen ter, Miss Powleson, Miss Madge John son, Miss Franc Littlefleld, Miss Arlie Ewart, Miss Bessie Gibson, Miss Bes sie West, Miss Margaret Mulvane. Miss Mary Thompson, Mis3 Maude Ranney, Miss Frances Moon, Miss Lottie Ran ney, Miss Nellie McClintock, Miss'Har riet Jones, Miss Alice Prescott, Miss Edna Crane, Miss Edna McClintock, Miss Edna Speer, Miss Lillian White lock, Miss Glenna Cross, Miss Eleanor Wilson, Miss Maude Stacey; Mr. Wal ter Burgess. Mr. C. E. Curry, Mr. Tom Clements, Mr. Willard Scott, Mr. Geo. Hayden, Mr. W. A. Alexander, Mr. Charles Barnes, Mr. F. Williams, Mr. Ed McBride, Mr. E. P. Kepley, Mr. Eu gene Hagan, Mr. L. C. Bronson, Mr. Harry Weaver, Mr. S. Stoddard. Mr. Frank Davis, Mr. Oscar Woolverton, Mr. Harry Howe, Mr. Walter Cust, Mr. W. S. McClintock, Mr. Ed Dennis, Mr. Ed Kellam, Judge Furry, Mr. David Palmer, Mr. R. ,Ji. Peterson, Mr. Chas. Kleinhans. Mr. John Fiey, Mr. H. S. Morgan, Mr. J. E. Morgan, Mr. Park Ewart. The Marquette club were entertained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. F. H. Loud, at her home, 411 East Seventh street. High five furnished the amuse ment for the afternoon. Mrs. L. A. Esnick won the prize. The following ladies were present: Mrs. C. E. Ben nett, Mrs. George Burghart, Mrs. Rich ard Hodgins, Mrs. Geo. Kelley, Mrs. Will Nagel, Mrs. B. G. Walker, Mrs. J. H. Stanton, Mrs. J. M. Padgett, Mrs. Will Quinon, Mrs. Hary Lyman, Mrs. Jj. A. Esnick. Mrs. J. G. Barrick. Mrs. E. L. McLean, Mrs. C.A. McMillan, Mrs. Wehe. Mr. Robert Furman, who has been in Chicago since April, has recently gone to New York to remain for the pres ent. Judge and Mrs. S. H. Allen give a re ception this evening at their home in Potwin. Mrs. Frank Willard will entertain a few friends this evening. The Washburne college glee club en tertained an audience at the asylum last evening. Every number on the programme was encored. Miss Mary Frost is visiting her grand mother in Galesburg, 111. The D. D. whist club will meet to morrow afternoon with Mrs. Walter Horner instead of Monday on account of the pure food's cooking school. Mrs. Frank Edson is recovering from a serious attack of the grippe. The Bachelor club will give a dancing party Tuesday evening In Hudson's hall. Judge Bland of Atchison spent Wed nesday and Thursday in the city. Mr. H. A. Walker of St. Joseph spent a couple of days this week with Tope ka friends. Miss Ena Smith is quite ill. Mr. Paul Torrington is expected home next week from Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Earl McDowell is spending the day in Hoyt. The Episcopalians of the North Side held a social at the home of Mrs. Fred lies last evening. Miss Nellie McClintock will entertain her whist club next Tuesday evening. A number of young people spent Tuesday evening with Miss Nellie Ber ger. Cards and dancing occupied the evening. Mrs. G. T. Nicholson of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. N. W. Gossett. Mr. E. B. Merriam will go to St. Jo seph to morrow to remain a few days. Miss Mame Haines of Sabetha will arrive Saturday to visit Miss Frances Moon. Miss Mame Hentig of Abilene is visit ing Mrs. J. S. Cole. Miss Lizzie McCourt of Atchison, who is visiting her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. George Metzler, was surprised by a number of her friends Wednesday evening. Mrs. J. E. Frost spent yesterday and today in Kansas City. Miss Ina Colburn entertained her friends Tuesday evening with a musi cale. Mr. Walter T. Noble will go to Atch ison tomorrow to join Mrs. Noble, who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Small. They will return home Monday. Dancing matinee at Hudson's hall to morrow 3 to 5 p. m. Good music. Ad mission 10 cents. Mrs. J. S. Coe entertained a few la dies last evening at cards. Gingerbread and coffee were served for refresh ments. J. L. Sheldon, the piano tuner is now in the city. Orders for tuning will re ceive prompt attention. Address P. O. Box 422. R.W.TURNER GETS A PLACE Made Secretary of the Railroad Board Other Appointments. The executive council has selected R. W. Turner of Mankato for the position of secretary of the state board of railroad commissioners. The sajary is $1,800. When the council elected the commis sioners the right was reserved to name the secretary. J. M. Stafford of Washington county, O. M. Stafford of Crawford county ami George Krudoff of Marshall county were elected firemen for the state house. The council also disposed of a large amount of routine business. GREEN WALD'S ROBBED. Burglars Enter Through a Window in the Beeo-ad Story. D.. J. Greenwald's clothing store was broken into last night and two suits of clothes, hats, gloves and underwear taken. The burglars pried a fastening off a second story window-at the rear of the Greenwald store and the window wad closed, giving it the appearance of being locked. The burglars had to climb over two buildings in the bright moonlight to get to the window. Cecil Rhodes Returns. Plymouth, Jan. 22. Colonel Cecil Rhodes, formerly premier of Cape Col ony, arrived here today from South Africa 1 1 P haa rptnmoi 1 IT" ,1 Ito be present at the parliamentary in vestigation which is to be made into the Transvaal raid. SCHAEFER'S DAYS DONE. The Injury to His Wrist Will Compel Him to Quit Playing. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 22. In all prob ability Jacob Schaefer, the expert bil liardist and ex-champion of America, will soon have to retire as a profes sional. His wrist, which was severely sprained by a fall from a street car in Chicago last winter, is the cause. Dr. Heber Robarts, a specialist, has made a critical examination of Schae fer's sprained wrist with the X rays and revealed a maimed condition of the bones and ligaments that surprised the crack roller of the ivory balls. As a result Schaefer will amend his suit against the street railroad company for damages and ask for $100,000 instead of $10,000. Three negatives were taken of the wrist. The hand sets crooked on the wrist, slanting downward toward the radial side when lying in a natural po sition. It has been known for some time that Schaefer's recent form warranted the belief that the "Wizard" might have "gone back." It was supposed by those who were close to the great little player that his injuries had affected his playing more than he himself cared to acknowledge, although tils form in the three-cornered tournament in Central Music hall, Chicago, some months ago, gave hopes that he might recover all of the cleverness f stroke that made his name common all over the world. He has played well several times since the accident that fractured the arm for a second time, but has not been called upon to do anything that required a great tax of endurance. YOUNG FORGER ARRESTED. Atchison Society Man Charged With Passing Worthless Checks. Atchison, Jan. 22. Society is excited here over the arrest of Will Crum, a young society blood, on the charge of forgery. Crum, it is alleged, has been passing forged checks on Kansas hotel keepers. He traveled under the aliases of Charles E. Overton and Tom Carle ton. L. A. Podvant of a Holton hotel, located the forger as living in Atchison, and arriving here today identified Will Crum as the forger. Crum claimed to his Atchison friends that he was travel ing for the Crown Shoe Blacking Co., of St. Joseph. On December 23 the Gilford hotel at Seneca, cashed a $30 check in favor of Tom Carleton, signed by the National Chemical company, and drawn on the Tootle-Lemon bank of St. Joseph. It proved to be a forgery. On January 13 Landlord Podvant changed a similar check in favor of Charles E. Overton. John Gilchrist of Gilford hotel, Seneca, saw Carleton shake hands with a Hol ton man. and the clue was traced until Crum's arrest followed. Podvant says a number of Kansas hotels have been caught by a young man answering Crum's description. "LEXOWING" IS BEGUN. Testimony is Being Taken by theCom- mittee at Kansas City. Kansas City. Jan. 22. "Lexowing" was begun in earnest here this morning when the house committee of seven appointed to investigate the alleged corruption exist ing in the local department began its work. The committee with Representa tive Wntield S. Pope, of Jefferson City, acting as its chairman, arrived in the city last evening and immediately began preparations for the investigation by se lecting a large parlor at the Midland hotel in which to hold its sessions. Promptly at 9:30 this morning Col. Wm. R. Nelson, proprietor of the Kansas City Star was called before the committee as its first witness, the Star having pub lished many cases of alleged unrestricted gambling and "shown up" other cases ot improper police doings. Col. Nelson's evidence was in the nature of a reitera tion of these charges. Following him Mayor James M. Jones, whose previous term as police judge put him in touch with gamblers and the po lice force and it workings was called. It was generally expected that he would prove one of the most valuable witnesses to come before the committee. W. E. BUSH'S PAPER SOLD. Secretary of State Sells the Western Advocate to J. E. Honey. W. E. Bush, secretary of state, has sold his paper, the Western Advocate, at Man kato. to J. E. Honey, who has been em ployed for some time on the Concordia Kansan. The consideration is $2,000. Mr. Honey will take charge at once. TOPEKA FIRE ALARM KEY. 4 Morse and Jackson Streets. 5 Kansas Avenue and Railroad Street. 6 Gordon and Taylor Streets. 7 Laurent and Harrison Street. 8 Grant Street and Topeka Avenue. 9 "A" Street and Topeka Avenue. 12 Kansas Avenue and Fourth Street. 13 Kansas Avenue and Second Street. 14 No. 1 Fire Station. 15 Monroe and Kious Streets. 16 Kansas Avenue and Garfield Street. 17 Kansas and Tenth Avenues. 18 Kansas Avenue and Thirteenth Street. 19 Kansas and Euclid Avenues. 21 Crane and Adams Street. 22 No. 2 Fire Station. 23 Lake Street and East Sixth Avenue. 24 Fourth and Brannef Streets. 25 Seventh and Holliday Streets. 26 Eighth and Mauison Streets. 27 Tenth Avenue and Sac and Fox Road. 28 Seventeenth and Jefferson Streets. 29 Third and Monroe Streets. 31 Sixth and Topeka Avenues. SI Sixth Avenue and Clay Street. 33 No. 3 Fire Station. 34 Western Avenue and Ninth Street. 35 Tenth and Topeka Avenues. 36 Fourth and Taylor Streets. 37 No. 4 Fire Station. 3S Twelfth and Taylor Streets. 39 Van Buren and Eleventh Streets. 41 Van Buren and Twelfth Streets. 42 Euclid Avenue and Buchanan Street. 43 Thirteenth and Lane Streets. 45 Eleventh Street and Morris Avenue. 45 Seventh and Lane Streets. 47 Topeka Avenue and Third Street. 51 Quincy Street, north of Crane Street. 52 Eleventh and Monroe Streets. 53 Tenth Avenue and Lawrence Street. 54 Fourth and Lafayette Streets. 121 Klein and Seward Avenues. 123 40S East Sixth Avenue. Bus Barn, 124 Euclid and College Avenues. Boxes north of river. Pilgrimages are Stopped. Calcutta, Jan. 22. The government has ordered the stoppage on February 2 of all pilgrim traffic from Bombay and Karachi, on acount of the plague. There are now over 1. 750.000 persons employed on the relief works and about 170. 000 "are receiving gratuitious relief. The princi pal increase in tne numner or persons re lieved is in Bengal and in the northwest. G. G. Lee for the Police Board. G. G. Lee is one of the aspirants for police commissioner. He savs that he is prohibitionist and would like to have the position to see whether the law cannot be enforced. His petition has been presented to tiovernor ieeuy. The Silver Sheen. Dramatic Co. pre senting "Tony, the Convict." Saturday evening. Jan. 23. in A. O. 17. W. hall. 723 Kan. Ave. Good orchestra, excellent quartette. Yourself and friends invi ted. An admission fee of 10c will be charged to help defray expenses. Scott's Carbo-Digestive Compound, sure cure for indigestion. All druggists. Taken after dinner. Aver's Pills nrn. mote easy digestion. Have you seen PEFFER IS LACONIC. He Telegraphs Home "The Man Who Has Friends is Not Alone Washington, D. C, Jan. 21, 1807. To J. W. Morphy, Topeka: The man who has friends is not alone. W. A. PEFFER. The above telegram received yester day is the comment of Senator Peffer to the announcement that he had been defeated in the Populist caucus for re nomination. J. W. Morphy, editor of the Advocate who is the only man who knew the Ins and outs of Senator Fetter's campaign, if campaign it can be called, says that three things defeated Senator Peffer: First The demand that the United States senator must be a farmer. Second The cry that the senator must be a western man. Third Senator Harris' record on the Pacific railroad bill and the belief that he will be able to take up the work in behalf of Kansas and carry it through. "All the efforts of the opposing candi dates were concentrated in gettingvotes away from Senator Peffer," said Mr. Morphy today. "After they had got the votes from Peffer they could drop the cry about a western man without any trouble. I am satisfied that Senator Peffer expected to be returned to the senate on his record. There is no blot on any part of his public career and he felt as if he were entitled to re-electton. Al though I have heard from Senator Pef fer frequently he has never indicated what he will do. I suppose he will re turn to Topeka soon after March 4 but l have no idea what he will do." D. M. Peffer. foreman of the Kansas Farmer composing room and Sherman Peffer who is employed as a compositor on the Advocate are the only members of the family who are in the city. Mrs. .fetter went to Washington when the senator left on election day and Miss Nellie Peffer, their daughter, is his pri vate secretary and is also in Washing ton. Elwood Peffer, the youngest son left a few days ago for California where he is employed as foreman in a sugar factory. D. M. Peffer said today to a Journal reporter when questioned about the business his father would follow when he retruned to Topeka: 1 haven t the least idea. I have re ceived no information from him con cerning his intentions." "Were you surprised at his defeat?" "Yes, I confess that I was somewhat surprised. I was satisfied that father would be returned to the senate. I knew that he had done his duty and I thought that he was entitled to an in dorsement in the way of re-election. That is generally expected." JJo you think he had any doubt about being re-elected?" "No, I do not believe he anticlDated defeat. When he left home for Wash ington the last time he felt confident of election. It cannot but be a great disappointment to a man who is in pub lic omce ana who has tried to do his duty, to be defeated. I do not know how father feels about it, but I imagine he is disappointed. Mr. Pefter said he did not know that it would have done any good if Sena tor Peffer had been here to personally look after his campaign. "There may have been combinations that nothing could have overturned and I do not suppose that it would have been much different if father had been here. "I suppose the folks will come home as soon after March 4 as possible. There is nothing to keep them there. I believe that father is a friend of his successor though I do not know how long he has known him." It is known that Senator Peffer has always intended to return to the news paper business, r -Before he returned to Washington he told a Journal reporter that the newspaper business was his life work and he had no intention of abandoning it whether he served one or more terms in the United States senate. He will probably resume his work in the position of editor of the Advocate. STREET CAR VESTIBULES. Frances Willard Union, W. C. T. TX. Will Work for the Protection of Car Men. The Topeka State Temperance union has been making an effort to secure vestibules for the cars used on the city street railway. The following communication con cerning the work of the union has been received at the Journal office: Topeka, Kan., Jan. 21, 1897. To the Editor of The State Journal: Sir, it is due to the Frances Willard union of the W. C. T. U. of Topeka to say that this union has considered the question carefully and concluded that it was the duty of the union to espouse the cause of the employes of the elec tric street car companies of the state of Kansas far enough to ask such com panies as a matter of common humani ty to protect their employes Dy vesti bules in the winter from the inclemency of the weather. Everybody who has ob served or who will think of it a moment must know that exposure at the end of these cars in real winter weather is the most trying place on earth, and that it is simply inhuman to keep anyone in such a place when a very little expense would protect them. We are pleased to find so many of the people to whom we presented our petitions ready and anxious to sign. We are presenting the same in duplicate to the legislature for the purpose of se curing legislation. The full strength of our movement is not shown by our pe titions, however as two of our largest petitions have been stolen, or lost, by interested parties. We want this known generally so that the legislature may see that the people here are in favor of sucl legislation as soon as it can be formulated. MRS. L. K. VAWTER. CARDS CAUSE A FIRE. A Lamp is Overturned and Mingo Junction is Nearly Wiped Out. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 2?. Shortly after midnight this morning a fire started in Mingo Junction, O., 20 miles north of Wheeling, which wiped out nearly the entire business portion of that industrial town. An overturned lamp at a card table is said to be the cause. At 2 o'clock this morning nine houses had been destroyed and the property loss is estimated at about $50,000. New Shooting Grounds at Elkwood. New York, Jan. 22. The new shooting grounds at Elkwood Park, X. J., said to be the finest in the world .were for mally opened today. About 500 per sons were present, including a score or more of crack amateur marksmen. The conditions were altogether favorable for the sport. Those people who W-ere so pleased with Rev. Dr. Mitchell's address at the High School, will be gratified to hear hm again in his lecture"My Ideal Boy" on Wed. evening. Jan. 27. at M. E. church. North Topeka. Tickets on sale at 825 Kansas Eve. 25 cents. Dandruff is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spreads end dries, forming scurf and causing the hair to fall out. Hall's Kair Renewer cures it. Every Suit, Men and Boys, 40 per cent, dis count. Every Overcoat and Ulster at just one half. Not an Overcoat, Ulster or suit reserved. WE ARE DETERMINED TO MOVE INTO OUR NEW QUARTERS (CITY BUILDING) WITH AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK. Irish Frieze Ulsters, regular $10.00 kind 5.50 Irish Frieze Ulsters, 36-oz. $13.50, $15.00 kind 7.50 Irish Frieze Ulsters, 36-oz, $16, $18, and $20 kind $10.00 Melton, Kersey and Beaver Dress Overcoats, $10 and $12 kinds 6.50 Genuine English Melton and Kerseys, Clay Worsted, Italian and silk shoulder and silk sleeve lined, ele gant dress Overcoats, regular $18, $20, $22 kinds. $11.00 Carrs Improved Melton and Kersey Dress Overcoats, black, blue, brown and wine color, silk and full dress lined, (such coats not to be found in the city at any price,) full tailor-made over coats, $28 and $30 regular, every garment equal to any mer chant tailor's, go for $14, $16 and $18. EVERY SUIT MEN AND BOYS 40 PR. Eight days only of this great sale. Remember OUR CLOTH ING is absolutely the best that can be. found in the city or state. Do not fail to see 1 WiS! C. CMi f e Co. I 527 KANSAS AVENUE. 527 KANSAS AVENUE. New Store after February 15th, City Building. v v TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, Jan. 22. WHEAT Opened steady at a slight de cline. The cables were rather puzzling. Liverpool was distinctly firm in the face of the decline here yesterday and this proved the factor in the strength immed iately after the opening but on the other hand. English country markets were dull and weak with but little demand. North west receipts were moderate, amounting to 276 cars against 327 last week and Sort last year. Opening sales of May were made at 10Vt(a 790, compared with yester day's closing price of T9R!t"94c. and ad vanced at once to 79i& 7r;3c. A reaction of 79V8i7Si'ic then took place, but later the price again advanced to 79'ic second ca bles reporting a d advance. CORN Was quiet and steady. May opened a shade lower at 24c with wheat but firmed up to 24Mc under covering by shorts. Local receipts amounted to 234 cars. OATS Showed little activity during the first hour. The feeling was steady with wheat and corn. Local receipts were21 cars. Mav opened unchanged at 17c. sold a shade lower and steadied at the opening price. PROVISIONS Were weak influenced by a lower hog market. Packers were liberal sellers of pork. May pork opened lower at $7.95 and declined to J7.9rt'rt 7.92".. Mav lard opened about 2'4c lower at $4.024.05. May ribs unchanged at 4.07iS. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Jan. 22. HOGS Receipts 34,000: left over 4.000. Market fairly active, slower than yester day. Lights $:i.3Tfi3.55: mixed S3.30S3.oO; heavy $3.20fi3.47V: rough $3.20tt 3.25. CATTLE Receipts 2.5U0. Quiet but steady. Beeves t3.53'fin.l5: cows and heif ers $1.755 4.10: Texas steers $3.10Q4.20; stoekers and feeders $3.004.00. SHEEP Receipts 6.000. Steady to firm. HOGS Official receipts yesterday 30.920; shipments 5.521. CATTLE Official receipts yesterday 7, 913: shipments 3.574. SHEEP Official receipts yesterday 9,- 131; shipments 3.2S4. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. Jan. 22. WHEAT Low grades slow: good active and firm: No. 2 hard 79c; No. 2 red 90c; No. 2 spring lllifi i9c. CORN Rather slow, about steady; ?so. 2 mixed 17M' 18Vic OATS Slow, but about steady; No. 2 white nominally 17i21c. RYE No. 2. 30c. HAY Firm: choice timothy $S.OO5S.r0; choice prairie SS.SCa'i.OO. BUTTER Steady; creamery 17'S19c; dairy 101M3C. EGOS lower; supply limited, quota ble lie. Today's Bangs of Prices. Furnished by Goodwin Chamberlin, Brokers, successors to Topeka Grain and Stock Exchange: Opji High Low Clse Yes. WHEAT- Jan May Julv Sept CORN Jan 77' 77U 79- I 7&j, 7:,. 75 74131 74'i 79 Vh! I 21 I 2:F4 25 May Julv Sept OATS Jan Mav July PORK Jan May LARD Jan Mav RIBS Jan May 2.'" 28! 26U 15i;.j 13" 17! 17- 17-l IS',21 SO 1 90 95 i 3 W 3 92 4 03 3 97 4 07 4 00! 4 021 t 0 4 o: j 4 071 4 10 Kansas City Livestock Marks':. Kansas Cltv. Jan. 22. CATTLE Receipts 8,000; shipments 3,- 7i 755;, 7S7s 74 748 21? 2174 24 24' 25H 2-, 26 'i 2t.Sg ISVj 18 7 95 7 93 3 90 3 90 4 02 4 05 4 07 i'07 JUST EIGHT OF Removal Sale And we will sell every Dollar's worth of our Clothing at 50 and 60 cents on the dollar, marked prices. us, our Clothing, Hats v v v v v 900. Best grades about steadv; other lower. Texas steers J2.50'ii4.25:- Texas cows $2.5tHti3.25: native steers ?3.45;4.95; native cows and heifers S1.2oir3.7: stoek ers and feeders $2.70!&4.10: bulls $2.003-30. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 21 Texas steers 1320 J4 25 20 Texas cows 1210 3 25 21 native steers 1592 4 93 21 native cows and heifers ll'9 3 70 22 stoekers and feeders 911 4 10 bulls 1392 3 30 HOGS Receipts 23.000: shioments 2m. Market 10c lower. Bulk of sales f3.2We 3.30: heavies 3.iq3.27: packers $3.l0fJ a.zo: mixed j:i.iaf3.:ij: nernis si. loin yorkers S3.30t3.32: pigs $3.00fj 3.20. SHtiSl'-Receipts 1.000: shipments 1.100. Market steady. Lambs $3.10ti4.75. Market Gossip. Chicago: Our pit observer savs:"Don't know whether for short or long account but it is certain that at 79Vic a trood deal of wheat is wanted. Logan." Chicago: Our Liverpool cable shows V,d advance on the day. New York: 70.000 of our clearances went to Sydney. Australia, Privileges sold as follows: Puts, Mav wheat 79Vi.fi 79stc calls S0iffS0-'.c: nuts. May co-n 24';;24V8C; calls 24c; curb, May wheat 79T4c. isew ork: 60.000 Manitoba wheat sold here this morninsr for exnort lc under May. Sv. W. Cowen of Kansas City, wired us: "J. S. Peavy, of Peavy Co., Minneapolis, is here today and says that all talk of a big surplus of wheat in the northwest i a mistake. The Northern Pacific, over which they wofk. has only handled about halt as much as last year same time, al lowing enough for seed and to run north west mills there is not any more wheat in that section than is needed at home." New York: The four ports and New Or leans cleared wheat 21N.S32 bushels; flour 30.078 packages: corn 3S6.320 bushels. St. Louis close: Wheat, cash S6c: Jan. 8658c, May 8S-V?. July 74c: corn, cash 19. Jan. liw.c. May zic. July zse; oats, cash lO'ic Jan. 16c. May 18c. Estimated car receipts at Chicago to morrow, wheat 35: corn 230: oats 190. Furnished by Goodwin Jfc Chamoerlin. Brokers, successors to Toneka Grain and Stock Exchange: Aldnch wired: "Think big line short wheat covered here this mornlnir without causing much of an advance so far." second cable: Liverpool quiet at ad vance of one farthing. Logan wired us: "We hear there has been a prominent line of short wheat cov ered tnrougn brokers. If this is true it is not an especially strong feature." Chicago: A pit observer says: "The market don't strike me as beins: weak considering the fact that there is so much short interest out. Minneapolis: Millers here are selling wheat out of elevators to supply the de-. mand. Big demand here for ce-sh wheat, sold 4c under market. New York: Featureless market this morning. Powers sold little, is the only foreign trade. Aldrich wired us early: "The people who were reported to have worked con siderable cash wheat yesterday are sell ers of cash wheat this, morning." Kansas City: Receipts wheat 16 aeainst 41: corn 105 against 90; oats 11 against 14. Chicago: Provisions steady. Hatelv buyer of lard, pressure to sell seems to be on market. j. New York: Liverpool whiat closed one farthing higher. New York: Price and W. Co: "Buy stocks right now. This is chance of a lifetime. The man who don't take ad vantage of these declines and reaction, will be a sorry man in the next few months." Chicago: Pit observer says: "Acts to me as if short Interest in wheat is get ting top heavy again which should not be surprised to see some r.'ly." Chicago: Mitchell best .,uver. Lloyd Smith, elevator man. best seller of wheat. Chicago: A new feature in flour is some inquiry., and buying bv who!esal flour dealers Which is construed as indi cating that stocks are becoming reduced and inquiry stimulated. Minneapolis today 230; Duluth 4G cars; last year 261 and 95. Chicag: Puts 76Vic and calls S3c. good next week, on May wheat and corn. Chicago: Reported Cudahy a seller of wheat. Chicago: Provisions opened lower on DAYS MORE OUR CT. REDUCTION. and Furnishings. v liberal receipts here and at country points trade local. Chicago: We learn from Washington the government report will be out Mon day, usual time, 3 p. m. Chicago: New York is a good buyer of wheat. Think it shoud be bought now. There is a big shortage in it here. Chicago: Mitchell best buyer of wheat today. New York: We are informed that float ing debt of Hocking Valley is about $250. 000 amply secured. The interest due Feb ruary 1 next on first mortgage coal and steel amounting to $S7,000 is in the treas ury. New York: IKw Jones: The quar -rly dividend of lVc will be declared on Chi cago Gas this morning and will be paid by the Central Trust company February 25th. Chicago: Shipped from store 57,800 wheat. New York: Decordova: Don't get fool ed on Sugar, it is going up. Chicago: In the pit yesterday it was claimed that Royal Smith, the Omaha plunger, was a considerable seller and had taken pains to use Cudahy brokers. "The secret of this St. Louis cash wheat business." said John Barrett, "is that Nashville millers long market have taken a lot of red winter wheat at St. Louis. Not a miller in that city, however, can pay the red winter price and they are talking of closing down Saturday. Chicago: Car lots, wheat 20. contract 3: corn 234, contract 20; oats 219, contract 19. New York: Dow Jones: Long stock that came out in St. Paul kept people guessing, everybody had his own idea aa to what interests supplied stock at homo and no two seemed to asree. People who usually have good St. Paul information were sellers as assumed they knew some thing about earnings for third week in January to be given out tomorrow night. They compare with $53i,002 last year and $443,505 in 1S95. Joseph's tips: "The market will be somewhat erratic but the general trend will undoubtedly be in direction of im provement. The trust stocks may and probablv will be hammered on sensational dispatches from Albany but declines in prices will he timid. Sugar may be sold on its first bulge of a point, but only for a quick turn. Hold Omaha, C. B. Q-. Chicago Gas; sell Manhattan on all ral lies." A. O. GOODWIN-. W. 1 CHAUBBHI-IX. Goodwin Chamberlin BROKERS. Grain, Provisions Stocks, Successors to TOPEKA CRAW STOCK EXCHAKE Private leased wires to Nw York. Chica go. St. Louis and Kansas City. REFERENCE: BANK OF TOPEKA. F. G. I.OGAIT, Member Chicago Board of Trade and New York Stock Exchange. W. A. MICHAEL Commission Co., 10 West Sixth Ave. TAnpl Yc Telephone 669. 5 llJjCka, A. W. VVICKHAM, Manager. Grain, Provisions, Stocks. Tou can buy or sell anything dealt in on ths principal exchanges of tile country throcli as. Direct wires. Quicic servica. Keasoaabin mar gins. Orders by wire. Iettr or teiephoua promptly execated. Keference by parmli&iou: CEN'fKAL NATIONAL EA.NK. Topeka. K as. UNION NATIONAL BANK, Kansas City. Mo. Kansas Citv Office, first floor Exchange build ing. We hare same service and responnibiiilj aa Kansas City ofhea.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAIv. FRIDAY EVENIXG, JAXUARY 22, 1897. n PL n A3TS,RENTS,SIT Uf ill UATIONS, REAL fl ESTATE, AUO y y T10N SALES AND OTHER CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS ITUATtONS WANTED FREE. Are you In need of work? If so, you are, at liberty to use these columns for assistance In that direction. While this notice appears the State Journal will pub lish free on Saturday, Monday and Tues day, for Topeka or Kansas people, all notices of "Situations Wanted," not to exceed five lines, or thirty-five words, in length, provided that all advertisements of that nature are handed In previous to 10 o'clock Saturday morning; also on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, all advertising of this class handed in by 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. No advertisements of this nature to be started except on Saturdays and Wed nesdays. Nu obligation is incurred on the part of the advertiser. No worthy and needy man or woman need hesitate to take advantage of this offer. No one In business or having employment Is ex pected to take advantage of it, but all uihers are Invited to avail themselves freely. The Topeka State Journal guarantees every day it is' printed, to give a local circulation by far more than all other Dallies combined. This makes this paper the cheaper, as well as the best, daily medium in Topeka, the classified adver tisements below costing but Fitfe Cents Line, or 20 cents a line for a week; 50 cents by the month. Average circulation for first six months. 13115, IO,625. Sworn detailed statement of circulation presented to advertisers on application. Call and see any afternoon between 3 and 5 o'clock, the handsomest, fastest, most perfect piece of machinery in Kan sasa Web Perfecting Press which prints from two to three complete 8-page papers per second. WANTED H EL P. tt ANTED A frirl li to is yrais ui as. to ,-are for boy 2 years old. Mrs. Stover, 1103 Taylor St. ANTED A white girl tor general housework. Appiy ii" xmmu" WANTED White girl to care for children. Call at room 30, Copeland Hotel. T ANTED A position In dining room or lunch counter as waitress, by a lady who has-had 5 years' experience as head waitress in hotel. Ad. M. A., Box ill, Axtell, Marshall Co., Kan. ttt ANTED Work in a grocery by an experienced young man. 19 years old, best of references. Address E. L. Dodge, 421 E. 1st St. "ANTED Situation as housekeeper In hotel or roomine house, or for wid ower with small family; have had exper ience; can give good reference. No ob jection to leaving city. Address L. L., Journal. Yfi' ANTED Work--on- 4u.w by mother an I s -n, as housekeeper and farm hand. Ad. M. C, Journal. ANTED 2 canvassers. A salary paid. Call 716 Kan. Ave., at once. SALESMEN WANTED. rpRAVELING salesmen for cigars; old reliable house; experience unnecessary; extra inducements to customers. J75 to J150 per month and expenses. Chas. C. Bishop Co., St. Louis. 30 a week salary and expenses paid salesmen. Experience unnecessary. Permanent position. W. L. Kline Co., St. Louis. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. "VVf ANTED Gentleman with small cap ital to take the state agei.cy for a very useful and quick-selling article, es pecially to the wholesale trade. Call or address 118 E. 4th St. AV ANTED Stock in any Topeka Bank in exchange for good productive real estate. T. E. BOWMAN CO. V" ANTED All our patrons to know that Pond's Business College is now giving the shortest and cheapest course ever offered in this city. Call. "ArANTED To buv some young calves. Address J. R. Taylor, Gen. Del., To peka.. AV ANTED Small calves. 2 weeks' old or more, cheap. Calves, Journal. r ANTED To trade a gold watch for a bicycle. J. O. Butler, Topeka. AVANTED-To buy anything in the line of furniture, carpets, etc. Must be in good condition. 320 Kan. Ave. w ANTED Piano tuning orders to bo addressed to J. L. Sheldon, P. O. box V1TANTED Everybody to use Wash- burn's Cider Vinegar, 25c per gallon. Send orders to S23 Kan. Ave. lVANTED-Tour freight to haul. Your safe to move. Your household goods to pack, ship, move or store. Sain Skin ner, MERCHANTS Transfer Storage Co., 123 E. (ith. Telephone ISC. IT'ANTED-Parties expecting PRETGHT to leave their bills of lading, or call us by 'phone. Prompt delivery made on day of arrival. TOPEKA TRANSFER CO.. 509 Kan. Ave. Either 'phone 320. F. P. Bacon, Prop. FOR BENT ROOMS. XT OR RENT The most desirable office rooms in Topeka in the old court house, on the corner of Kansas avenue and 4th St.. between the Throop Hotel and the Dutton House convenient to car lines and to ail portions of the business parts of the city. Ten rooms, all in good condition, newly painted, papered and cleaned, and suitable for offices, will be rented at moderate terms, to responsible parties. The old court room will also be for rent and parties desiring its use can confer with J. M. WILKERSON. At the Old Court House. "I? OR RENT T'n furnished room on 1st floor, suitable for light housekeeping for lY.mily without children. 312 E. Sih. IrOR RENT Large nic.elv furnished room with board. 719 Quincy St. I7OR RENT Rooms furnished and un furnished; board if desired. 709 Van Buren. FOR RENT 3 front rooms, unfurnished, desirable. 714 Jackson Su FOR RENT-HOUSES. 11OR RENT Six room house. 411 East 7th street, A. C. Elder, 611 Kansas Ave. 11 OR RENT 8-room residence with mod em conveniences, on line of electric road. Inquire of first National Bank. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Silk shawl, netween tne railroad and Kan. Ave. Kinder please return to SOS E. 8th and receive reward. T7-OUND Place to get your watch or X ci0ck cleaned for 75c 80s Kan. Ave., upstairs. FOR SALE-MISCELLANEOUS. 1?OR SALE Good northern oats at 113 E. 4th St. 'Phone 590. M- Alexander. ir'OR SALE A few good cheap. 320 Kan. Ave. Al ranges. IOR SALE 200 yards good ingrain and Brussels carpet, way down price. 320 Kan.. Ave. TL-OR SALE An extra complete photo graphic outfit: also 1 solar camera: will be sold at a bargain. Call or address Reynolds, 629 Kan. Ave. FOR SALE A nearly new removable bakeoven;- will bake from 500 to 600 loaves of bread a. day: can be moved any place easv: nothing better for restaurant or small "bakery. Inquire at North To peka Bakery. George Mayers. ITOR SALE Cheap, household goods, consisting principally of organ, lounge, beds, chairs, stoves, tables, etc., at 62S Western Ave. FOR SALE 7 lbs. boiling beef 25c: 4 lbs. steak 25c. C. E. Tillson, 531 To peka Ave. J 7 OR SALE Choice stock of groceries doing a paving business and in one of the best locations in the city. Having other business 1 will sell partly on time. Address Owner, Journal. IOR SALE Gents bicycle a bargain call at 81S Buchanan St. MILK, cream and buttermilk promptly delivered. Fresh country butter and eggs a specialty at 121 W 6th St. 'prone260. OR SALE On easy payments, best sewing machine made, the Standard. E. W. Hughes, 107 E. 5th St. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE OR RENT My 20-acre farm at Grover. Kan. Will trade for city property. Addrean Jo Doubek, 709 Locust St., Topeka. If you want to sell If you want to buy If you want to rent If you want to trade If you want a loan on CALL ON OR WRITE REAL ESTATE T. G. Shilllnglaw, 115 E. Fifth St.. Topeka, Kansas. DUSTLESS OIL. al) get the genuine Dustless Oil send you orders direct to the Western Oil Manufacturing Co., Kansas Citv, Mo. Freight prepaid when cash accompanies the order. Local checks not accepted. Send for conditional order blanks. No lo cal agent. MISCELLANEOUS. T E want the people to know that we handle only the best secondhand furniture and stoves. Anything bought of "us is strictly as represented. If you have any good furniture for sale let us figure on it. 320 Kan. Ave. SECONDHAND furniture and stoves. -Upholstering to order. Spacht, 422 Ave.. THOUSANDS of good places under the McKinley administration in every part of the country. Do von want one? The Mid-Winter edition of the NATIONAL RECORDER will tell how to get a posi tion. Send five cents in stamps to the NATIONAL RECORDER, Washington, D. C. UNCLE SAMMY is still at the same old place, 512 Karsas avenue. Best mainsprings, 75c: watches cleaned for 75c; clocks, 50c. Bring your old gold and silver and get cash. TV'OTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CON--L'CERN Be it known that my petition is on file in the office of the probate court of Shawnee county. Kansas, asking for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 501 Kansas avenue, in the Fourth ward in the city of Topeka, Kansas; and the hearing of the same is set for Friday 3 a.m., February 19, 1SS7. E. T. SIM. Topeka, Kan., January 19, 1897. "YYrE carry only the best grade of sec ond hand furniture, etc.. and if you have or want anything good, see us. 320 Kan. Ave. FOR RENT 80 acre farm 1V2 miles of Silver Lake. cash. 1014 Van Buren St. 12 rooms. C. P. Bolmar, 113 W. Dth St. CITIZENS' COAL CO. R. R. crossing, E. 4th. 'Phone 83. All best grade coal. (JECOND HAND GOODS WANTED, at cor. 4th and Monroe Sts. Having just started a second hand store I want goods, such as furniture, stoves, books of every description, cast off cloth ing, in fact anything in fairly good condi tion. Parties about leaving city will re ceive highest possible cash prices for their household effects. A card or note direct ed to Thos. Ward (second band store), cor. 4th and Monroe streets, will receive prompt attention. THOS. WARD. THE Topeka Transfer Coal Co.. Ave., 'phone 320. Weights gm 609 Kan. uaranteed. WANTED-Everybodv to know we are making suits to measure J10 and up. Jno. F. McManus Co., Popular Price Tailors. 17 OR SALE Suits to measure, $10 and up. Jno. F. McManus Co., Popular Price Tailors. rpROT'SERS to order $3 and up. Jno. F. A McManus Co., Popular Price Tailors. OVERCOATS to measure. $10 and up. Jno. F. McManus Co., Popular Price Tailors. GO TO 113 West 10th for perfect hang ing Paris skirts, waists, suits, tailor made and latest sleeves. Mrs. J. F. Bus zell. ITRIFIED BRICK walks laid cheap. John Ritchie. 1106 Quincy St. T ACE AND CHENILLE Curtain clean---J ing a specialty. Fosdick's Carpet Cleaning Works. 933 Kansas avenue. TTOR VIEWS of residence or parlor, stock. groups, etc.. or photos of any interior or outside views see Farrow, Sll Kan. Ave. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. T)RS. ALKIRE CLARKE, Eye and Ear. Office 607 Kansas avenue. TM1!8' MART McKINSTRY. magnetic healing, massage treatment. Resi dence and office 335 Jackson. 'Phone 578. D EVA HARDING HOJ1EOPATHIST. T, Harrison 'phone 83. 629 Kansas Ave. Bell 'phone 404. TJTEJnRY W. ROBY, M. D.. (Homeo pathist) Office 730 Kansas Ave. Resi dence 2101 Kan. Ave. Both 'phones. C E. SHELDON. M. D Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office: No. 720 Kart. Ave. L. A. RYDER. M. D. OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon St and Central Ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of Rectal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, fish ure, ulceration, etc. rAHTHA S. McCOY, D. T). S. 721 Kansas Ave.' T DA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kan. Ave. Residence 13th and Clay. Offce hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 598 resi dence, and 16 office. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. THE KELLAM BOOK STATIONERY CO., 603 Kan. Ave. Latest books, cor rect stationery. Newest wall paper. Ar tistic framing. FUEL AND FEED. T EAVB your orders for COAL, Flour, J-1 Feed and Seeds with Van Slyck. 5C-9 W. 10th. HARNESS AND SADDLERY. "1 ALL on us for good goods for your vmoney. Prices to suit the times. Re pairing promptly done. Worley Cal vert. 518 Kan. Ave. FLORISTS. RJ. GROVES, Florist, greenhouses, 1173-77 Clay St., 'phone 235; Cut Flower Depot, 817 Kan. Ave., 'phone 602. JEWELERS- TAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Op tician. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. LAWYERS. THOMAS RYAN, LAWYER, Columbian Bl'dg., Topeka, Kan. MONlMEJTS GRANITE MONUMENTS carved at the lowest rates. Full line of red and gray granite. 231 Jefferson St. TIN SHOPS. JM. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, galvan- ized and tin roofing. H. 'phone 363, 216 W. 6th. 1 APITAL CITY COAL CO..S27 Kan. av., phone 151. Best grades, lowest prices.' MONEY. MONEY to loan on real estate and per sonal property. A. Newman 115 W. 5th. MONEY TO LOAN Savings and Loan Association, Sixth and Kansas Ave. f ONEY to loan by Milo Norton, at 6 i'Xper cent. Room 6, Bank of Topeka, bid. GREAT WESTERN Steam Dye Cleaning Works Winter Overcoats cleaned. dyeJ, rellned, bound, and velvet collars put on. Also winter suits, single coats, vests or pants, cleaned, dyed, repaired and put them in good style. C. F. KODIGER, 121 E. 7th St. For Delicacy, for parity, and for improvement of the com plexion nothing equals Pozzoxt's Powder. Paint.... Your House, your Barn or your Carriage, and buy your Paint of J. K. Jones, O.l KAKSAi AVE. I can also sell you all the I Glass f you want cheap too. "In no way can Americans so effect ively inform themselves on the subjects that claim public attention from one month to another as by reading the North American Keview." IN THE North American Review YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND The Kight Topics, By the Right Men, At the Kight Time. THE TOPICS are always those which are uppermost in the public mind J in morals, politics, science, literature, business, finance, industrial economy, social and municipal affairs, etc. in short all subjects on which Americans require and desire- to be informed. No magazine follows so closely from month to month the course of public interest. All subjects are treated of impartially on both sides. THE CONTRIBUTORS to the Review are the men and women to whom the j world looks for the most authorative I statements on the subjects of the day. j No other periodical can point to such a succession of distinguished writers, j The list is a roll of the people who are making the history, controlling the af- J fairs, and leading the opinion of tha t age. THE TIME when these subjects are treated of by these contributions in the Review is the very time when the sub jects are in the public mind. THE REVIEW is the only periodical of its kind which has a recognized place as A FAMILY MAGAZINE. This is because it devotes so much at tention to subjects that are of particu lar interest to women. Subscription Price, $5.01) a Year. The North American Review 291 Fifth Ave., New York. BICYCLES. 'fOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. 8th St: Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandemi for rent; repairing of ail kinds. THE DRESSMAKER. "She Is beautiful." "Pshaw, Clarence, yon did not see no?. She Is quite ordinary looking." "I saw her fnll in the faoa, and such .yea I never law before in my life. Bat you have not yet told me who1 she is." "Welt, then, most fastidious of baohe lors, know that the paragon yon just met was none other than Adelo Graham, my dressmaker. "Adele Graham," repeated Clarence Hop. thoughtfully. "I have heard that name before surely," he, added. "She is cot the daughter of John Graham, who, when I visited Clinton years ago, was 'a wealthy banker?" "The same. Then Adele was a mere child. 'When she was 16, ber father became a bankrupt and soon after died. Mrs. Graham struggled along for some time, and so Adele went to the city and learned the dressmaker's trade and returned here about a year ago and opened an establish ment of her own. Of course all her old friends patronize her and treat her kindly, but you know it would be impossible to receive -her. And thus ends your romance. Clarence Hope was a bachelor a tall, handsome man of about 80. He had just returned from a European tour, and being decidedly wealthy was considered a "great catch." He had come to Clinton to visit his mother's only sister. Airs. May, a widow, the mother of Nellie May, one of tbe prettiest and vainest girls in Clinton. Nellie was more annoved than she was willing to admit to think that her hand some cousin, of whom she hnd so often spoken in terms of the highest commen dation to the members of "her set," should be attracted by poor Adele Graham, the dressmaker. Clarence paced np and down tbe porch for half an hour or more, puffing away on his oigar. "Clarence, couae here," called Nellie from the library. Clarence threw away his cigar and en tered the library. Nellie sat beforo her writing table, holding in her hand a bit of paper, on which was written a long list of names. "There, now, I have completed the list, and I want you to write me the invitations for my party." "Read mo the list." Nellie read over the names of 60 of ber "dear friends. "I did not hear the name of Adele Gra ham. Do you not intend to invite ber?" "By no means. What would flattie Ar nold and Julia Gill say to see Adele Gra ham, our dressmaker, at a party of mine? Indeed this idea is too ridiculous for any thing. "Very well, just as you please, but if the daughter of my old friend, John Gra ham, is not invited I must also deolino the honor of being present. Nellie bit her lip with vexation. It would never do to fail of having Cousin Clarence present, for she was giving the party solely to introduce him to the society of Clinton, and yet how in tbe world could she ever brook the mortification of having Adele Graham, the seamstress, there? She knew there would be no use in arguing the matter with her cousin. He was deter mined and would not give up, so she had to yield. The evening of the party at lengthar rived. Adele waa ,at iirst reluctant to come.- She-could not understand why she was invited to this party after being neg lected so many years, but her mother urged her so strongly to accept that she brought out from its hiding place In the closet her old white dress and spent several hours in fitting and doing it up to wear. When she had put the last touches to her toilet, Mrs. Grabam said: "You never looked better, Adele." Nellie May was radiant in a perfect cloud of rose colored tarlatan, and by her side stood Clarence Hope, to whom she intro duced ber guests as she reoeived them. An hour passed by, and all the invited guests had arrived. Many a glance of sur prise was cast upon Adele Graham as she moved gracefully through the rooms. Julia Gill, a haughty, imperious beauty, tbe daughter of a retired pork merchant, rushed up to Nellie, exclaiming: "Why, Noll, what in the world possessed you to invito Adele Graham? You know she is not in society. "I know it," replied Nellie, blushing, "but my cousin insisted upon it because her father happened to be known to him years ago. "I'll put a flea in his ear," said the haughty beauty, tossing her head with well affeoted grace. Adele Graham, as she hung upon the arm of Clarence Hope and promenaded through the spacious parlors, was n pretty picture of innocence and enjoyment, and Clarence brought into requisition all his nd of entertaining conversation. Many an envious glance was bestowed upon Adele and maoyan unkind epithet more than whispered as the evening passed by. That evening whon he bade Adele good by at her mothor's door be said: "Miss Graham, I am about to claim the privilege of calling to see you during my stay in Clinton. Your father was an es teemed friend of mine, and his daughter and widow must be the same." "I am sure my mother will ha happy to welcome you," replied Adele. It was some hours before Adele retired, for she had so much to tell ber mother be fore she could close her eyea in sleep. And very attentively Mrs. Graham listened to the recital of the evening's pleasures. When Clarence returned to his aunt's, he found Consin Nelliein a fit of thepouta. "What's the matter here?" be said as be flung himself into an easy chair. Matter enough, I should think. The party has been an utter failure. You have spoiled everything by your exclusive atten tions to that dressmaker. Then all the girls came out in new dresses and did thoir best to attract your attention and draw from you one approving smile, but you wore blind to every one and everything but Adele Grabam. "And why not? What do I care for a set of chattering fools like Julia Gill and her followers? I tell you, Nellie, Adele Gra ham has more sense than the whole of them put together." So saying, he arose and left the room, and Nellie burst into tears. To think that he, the cousin of whom she was so proud and of whom she had boasted so much, should call ber dear friends "a sot of chat tering fools. It was too much. At length Adele gave up work. She was too busy, she said, to accommodate her old customers, and then they were satisfied that their conjectures were true. Nor were they wrong. Three months after Nellie May's party Clarence Hope and Adele Gra ham were married, and after a rather ex tended wedding tour they returned to Clin ton and took up their abode in the stately mansion that bad been the home of Adele before her father's failure and death. Ex change. The Semi-Weekly A FORCE IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POTENT FOR INSTRUCTION OF EVERY MEMBER OF A Colored Pictorial Supplement with Eyery The New York Semi-Weekly Tribune, the only Semi-Weekly newspaper which has maintained a successful existence in the United States, is printed every Tuesday and Friday. Regular,subscription price, 12 a year. A newspaper of really high intellectual quality, printed in the largest and most legible type used in New York, a great, decent, self-respecting and instructive jour nal, The Tribune is vigorous in support of Republican principles, but places country even above party and has recently won from the Democratic New York Sun the ad mission that by reason of its thoroughly American spirit, it "commands the respect of all parties" and "occupies a position of distinction in New York." In directing attention, early and pointedly, to the availability of McKinley and Hobart for the Republican nominations in 1896, The Tribune played a now well known and important part. The Semi-Weekly Tribune prints the best news, book reviews, foreign letters, editorials, and special features of The Daily Tribune. It has a charming page for women, excellent market reports and information for farmers, a department of Science and Mechanics in which poor inventors can exploit their inventions, free of charge, and a gi'eat variety of stories and entertaining miscellany. Never unprofitable, full of what is useful and inspiring, every reader of The Semi-Weekly Tribune feels that he is in touch with the bustle and best of life. Men and women leading busy lives have little opportunity for vacation;, and, for their entertainment and the amusement of the young, The Tribune Ty-ill hereafter issue, with every Friday's Semi-Weekly, a colored serio-comic pictorial" supplement of 16 pages, entitled 'Twinkles." But in order to possess "Twinkles" a subscriber must hereafter remit the full sum of The Semi-Weekly Tribune $2 a year to The Tribune itself direct. "Twinkles" is handsomely printed on superfine paper; and every one of its 16 pages is filled with jokes, witty paragraphs, and gossip about noted people, sprinkled amongst which are 50 or more political or other cartoons, in several colors, half-ton portraits of well known men and women (life-like as photographs), and humorous pen drawings. There is not a word or a picture unfit for the family; and the amusing contents of "Twinkles" will prove a welcome addition to the more serious contents of thepaper. "Twinkles" is virtually a five cent comic weekly, price 5 cents a copy; $2 a year. But it is given free, to every one who orders The Semi-Weekly Tribune for one year and remits to The Tribune direct, the regular subscription price of 2 a year. He thus gets two 82 papers for the price of one. This is a bargain, considering that The Tribune is incapable of sending into any family anything which is unfit to bo read there. Sample copies of Friday's Semi-Weekly free. Those who do not remit $2 to The Tribune direct will not receive the colored supplement THE TRIBUNE, New York. Harper's Weekly In 1897. "With the end of 189G Harper's Weekly will have lived forty years. In that time is has participated with all the zeal and power at its command in the grreat political events of the most in teresting and important period in the history of the country, and it has spread before its readers the accomp lishments of science, arts, and letters for the instruction of the human mind and the amelioration of human condi tions and of manners. What the Weekly has been in its spirit and purpose, as these have been manifested principally in its editorial pages, it will continue to be so. It is impossible to announce with pre cision all that the Weekly will contain duricg the year 1897. It were as easy to announce what is about to happen in the WORLD, what triumphs for GOOD GOVERNMENT are to be won. what ADVANCES of the PEOPLE ara to be made, what is to be the outcome of the continuous struggle between the spirits of WAR and PEACE, what is to happen in the FAR EAST, what is to be the STATE OF EUROPE twelve months hence, what NEW MARVELS OF SCIENCE are to be revealed, or what are to be the ACHIEVEMENTS OF ARTS AND LETTERS, for the Weekly is to be a pictorial record of all this. CARTOONS will continue to be a fea ture. SERIAL STORIES. A New England story by Miss Mary E. Wilkins, will be gin in January. A tal erf a Greek up rising against the Turks, by Mr. E. F. Benson, the author of Dodo," will fol low. A sequel to "The House-Boat on the Styx, "by Mr.John Kendriok Bangs, Illustrated by Mr. Peter Newell. More SHORT STORIES will appear In the Weekly than it has been possible to publish during 1896. DEPARTMENTS: Mr.W.D. Howell's 'Life and Letters" have been among the most charming features of periodi cal literatue; Mr.E. S. Martin, and oth ers will contribute observations on what is going on in "This Busy World;" "Amateur Sport" will remain the most important department of its kind in the country. The Weekly will continue to present to its readers the world's news MOST INTERESTING TO AMERICANS, to make important advances in both the literary and artistic features. and to re tain for itself the leading place in the illustrated journalism of the world. Newspapers are not to copy this adver tisement vithout the express order of Harper Brothers. HARPER'S WEEKLY For one year 1 4.00 Postage? Free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Address HARPER BROTHERS, P. O. Box 959. N. Y. City. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. Harper's Bazar In 1897. Tie Bazar, a thoroughly up-to-date petlodical for women, will enter upon its Thirtieth Volume in 1897. As a Fashion Journal it is unsurpass ed, and is an indispensable requisite for every well-dressed woman. Kath arine De Forest writes a weekly letter on current fashions from Paris. In NEW YORK FASHIONS, and in the fortnightly pattern sheet supplement, ladies find full details, directions, and diagrams for gowns, wraps, and chil-. drens clothing, bandoz, Baude, and Chapuis draw and engrave the newest and finest Parisian designs every week. The serials for 1897 will be: THE RED BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD, by Maria Louise Pool; and FATHER QUINNALLION. by Octave Thanet. Short stories will be constantly pre sented by brilliant writers, among whom are Mary E. Wilkins, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Marion Harland, Ruth- McEnery Stuajt, Viola Roseboro, and Margaret Sutton Briscoe. WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING in various parts of the Union will form a series of special interest. Other interesting features are The Out-door Woman, devoted to healthful sports and pastimes; Music, a weekly critical summary of music in New Tork; Amateur Theatricals, Embroid ery and Needlework.Ceremony and Et iquette. Good Housekeeping, "WHAT GIRLS ARE DOING," "Current Social Events," and Personals gleaned from original sources. WOMEN AND MEN. Colonel T. W, Hlgginson will regularly continue his valuable essays. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. This column is conducted for the bene fit and convenience of readers, and all questions received are answered in ro tation, as promptly and fully as prac ticable. ART. The Bazar is a notable picture gallery, reproducing the most beauti ful works of American and foreign ar tists, as presented in the annual Paris and New York exhibitions. WIT AND HUMOR. Everybody turns for a hearty laugh to the Bazar's last page. An All-Round Woman's Paper What mors appropriate gift can be made to wife, daughter or sister than a sub scription to Harper's Bazar? Secure it as a welcome visitor In your household for 1897. Newspapers are not to copy this adver tisement without the express order of Harper Brothers. HARPER'S BAZAR, For one year $4.00 Postage Free to all subscribers In the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Address, HARPER BROTHERS, P. O. Box 959. N. Y. Clv, AN IDEAL FAMILY MEDICINE tor Jndiceatlaa. BII10VSf)w. Complexion, Vffcatlv Rreoto. and ail disorders of tiia Sromarh, Liver and Bowels, tt p. A. N. S TABULES act IT-fitly vet promptly. Ferfet-l digestion follows their oje. bold by druKcrou or -ent by znaiL RIPAMS HEMIC AT, CO., 1 SpTe W.T, Missouri Pacific. TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM., No. 2S5. Leave Topeka S:00 a. m. TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM.. No. 2S6. Arrive Topeka 5:30 p. m. Tribune. ENTERTAINMENT AND THE FAMILY. Friday y Semir Weekly. SCRIBNER'S HAQAZINE. A Red-Letter Year for 1897. THE ENTIRE NOVELTY of manyot the plans for 1S97 is noticeable. For in stance, the series devoted to "LONDON AS .SEEN BY CHARLES DANA GIBSON." llr. Gibson has not before appoared as a writer. He visi ted London last summer for Scribner"s Magazine, for the purpose of depicting with pen and pencil those scenes and types which the huge metropolis pre sents in endless variety. or like novelty Is the firstconsiderable NOVEL BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, "Soldrers of Fortune." The hero is one of the most vigorous men that Mr. Davis has drawn. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson. "THE CONDUCT OF GREAT BUS INESSES." A beautifully illustrated, series of articles of which the following are aireaay completed: "The Great Department Store." "The Management of a Great Hotel. "The Working of the Bank." "A Great Manufactory." "UNDERGRADUATE LIPR TM AMERICAN COLLEGES." A series ot articles toucning upon the life of our older universities as represented by the aoings 01 me siuaents themselves. Judge Henry E. Howland writes on "Undergraduate Life at Yale." Mr. James Alexander on PrTOceton," and Robert Grant and Edward S. Martin on "Harvard." "JAPAN AND CHINA SINCE THE WAR" will be a most interesting group of articles richly illustrated "THE UNQUIET SEX." Under tha title of "The Unquiet Sex." Mrs. Helen Watterson Moody will write a series of articles: "Woman and Reforms." "The College-Bred Woman." "Woman's Clubs," and "The Case of Maria" (a paper on domestic service.) W. D. HOWELLS'S STORY OF A; PLAY." In this Mr. Howells gives us the best novel he has ever produced In his delightful vein of light comedy. GEORGE W. CABLE. In addition to the fiction enumerated there will be a series of four short stories by George W. Cable, the only ones he has written for many years. HOW TO TRAVEL WISELY with a minimum of wear and tear must be re garded as an art little understood. MR. LEWIS MORRIS IDDINGS, in two ar ticles, will offer a variety of useful sug gestions and data on "OCEAN AND LAND TRAVEL." This will be hap pily rounded out by an article from MR. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS on "TRAVELLERS ONE MEETS: Their Ways and Methods." The illustrations by American and foreign artists will be highly pertinent. It is impossible in a small space to even mention the many attractive fea tures for 1S97. A beautiful illustrated booklet has been prepared, which will be sent, postage paid, on request. Scribner's Magazine 3-oo a Year 25 cents a copy. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 153-157 Ft Ave., N. Y.

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1897. The New Mode a "WHERE PEOPLE'S POPULAR PRICES PREVAIL. Here are a Few Pointers. Look them over carefully. These are Jrriday and Saturday Only. Will give you others for Next Week. 23 lbs Granulated Sugar, best $1 00 26 lbs N. O. Sugar 1 00 lbs Navy Beans 25 10 lbs bulk Oatmeal i 25 1 lb good Japan Tea 25 1 pkg Arbucile. Lion or Mokaska Coflee 15 1 lb Soda Crackeis 5 1 lb Ginger Snaps 5 5 cans Tomatoas 25 B cans Peas 25 5 cans Beans 2 cans Warren's Al Salmon 3 cans good Salmon.. 1 large bottle Catsup S glasses Honey 4 lb3 nice Raisins 4 lbs nice Prunes lbs nice Dried Apples 6 lbs Dried Peaches 1 lb Horse Shoe Tobacco 1 lb Star Tobacco X lb B. X. Tobacco 1 lb Dice Tobacco 1 lb Smoking Tobacco 2 lbs Cream Cheese lOO lb3 Searchlight Floun, Our 1 doz. good Oranges 1 doz. good Lemons 10 bars Silk, Ladies' Friend or 9 bars I. X. L. Soap 9 bars Clairette Soap 6 bars Grandpa's Wonder Soap tSIHGive us your order. We can save OIR MEAT DEPT. SEF OUR PRICES FOR FRIDAY MD SATURDAY. High trade Imperial Mains, lb. 9 7-Sc Fresh Pork 3!4 lb. for 25e California Hams, per lb B&e A large pall Family White Flab, 43e Ilith Eriil Imp. Bacon, per lb 7c Dry Salt Fork, per lb Choice white Lard, per lb 4c Sc 3-1 b. pafl Choice Lard 85e Dried Beef per lb. lO and 13c THE NEW MODEL Kemper Taxtons. .WE-SEIX EVERYTHING. BIG SILK STRIKE. Operations ir all the Silk Millain Fat erson May Go Out. New York, Jan. 22. At a meeting of delegates from all of the silk factories in Paterson, N. J., last night it was de cided that unless the demands of the striking weavers in the Golden Rod fac tory are yielded within twenty-four hours a sympathetic strike will be or dered in every factory in that city. This means the throwing- out of employ ment of between 16,000 and 1S.O0O oper atives and the stopping of every silk epindle in Paterson. The trouble began Saturday, when 300 operatives in the factory of the Golden Rod Silk Manufacturing com pany walked out because the superin tendent had refused to restore their wages to the figure they were paid prior to the presidential election. VHIICIS U Lilt? XUlliS ucuiiuc IU LtXIVC any step toward a settlement yester day. When Manager Pinkelstone of the Pelgram Meyer Silk Manufacturing company was approached by men in his mill he absolutely refused to yield a point or to take any hand in effecting a compromise in the case of the Golden Rod mill strikers. The manufacturers say they will be glad to close their mills. Another meeting will be held today ty the delegates from the different mills, when final preparations for a general strike will be made. A strike was ordered at the Hudson County silk mill, Union Hill, Hoboken, yesterday afternoon. SANTA FE'S CONNECTIONS. San Francisco &.San Joaquin Valley, to Build. San Francisco, Jan. 22. Vice Presi dent Watts of the San Francisco San Joaquin Valley railroad is authority for the statement that that line will first touch tidewater on the San Francisco side of the bay, and not build down to the Contra Costa or Alameda county shores at all, and that there is no doubt that the transcontinental line with which the Valley road wil effect a con nection is the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe. The western terminus of this great railroad system is at Albuquerque, N. M., and from Albuquerque the At lantic Pacific extends to Mojave, Cal. The Atlantic Pacific Is the connect ing line between the Valley road and the Santa Fe. It is in the hands of a receiver and is to be sold some time this month. From Nojava to Bakes fleld is a stretch of about 68 miles. All that remains to be done to con nect the San Francisco San Joaquin Valley reilroad with the Santa Fe is for it or the Santa Fe to build an extension between iiakersfield and Mojave. SUES THE ARCHBISHOP. A Deposed Friest Accuses Hia Super ior of Slander. Milwaukee, Jan. 22. Father Helstern. a deposed priest of Barton, Wis., has filed suit for $.".0,000 for alleged slander against Archbishop Katzer, of the diocese of Mil waukee. The proceeding is without pre cedent and if a compromise is effected it must first be sanctioned by the pope. Archbishop Katzer acquainted Father Martinelli. the Papal ablegate at Wash ington with the fact of the the suit and Father Helstern was directed by the latter to withdraw the proceedings. The arch bishop is cited to appear before Court Commissioner Ryan today. The Weeks Flour Output Minneapolis. Minn., Jan. 22. The North Western Miller reports the weeklv output: Jan. 16. '97. Jan. 18. T6. Jan. 19. 95. Minneapolis lt;S.130 211.950 S6.275 Head of Lake... 22.120 66.825 6.505 Milwaukee 25,625 30,050 32.835 Totals St. Louis Aggregate ...212.875 60.700 ...273.575 30S.S25 56.0i)0 364.S25 125.615 '37,150 162,765 Halstead. Cuba and Leedy at Wash burn tonight. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report !KDMi 4r Supply Store. for 25 25 25 05 25 25 25 25 25 35 17 15 15 25 Own Brand 2 35 20 15 Wood Chuck Soap 25 25 25 25 you money on yoar Purchases. Large Mackerel lOe Best Lard, In bulk 7e lbs. Chuck Steak Koasls c Boiling c SUPPLY STORE, Sixth and Quincy. FOR THE INAUGURAL "BALL A Paterson Man's Design of White and Gold Decorations Accepted. Washington, Jan. 22. The design of Frank E. Crane of Paterson, has been accepted by the committee in charge of the decorating of Pension hall for the inaugural ball. There were 36 compet itors. As the presidential campaign was fought on the gold and silver question, Mr. Crane suggested to the committee that white and gold should predominate in the decorations, and the suggestions was approved. The walls, pillars and doorways from ground to domes will be covered and plaited with white challie, festooned and trimmed with gold and ornamented with gold wreaths of the Empire pat tern. The ceiling decorations will be the crowning feature. There will a white canopy with gold valance hanging full from the rims of the three domes, each thirty feet in diameter and twenty-one feet high. The domes will be covered with white, piped and puffed with gold. AGAINST AMERICANS. Russians in Alaska Claim to be Suf fering From Oppression. Paris, Jan. 22. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Herald writes that serious complaints against the existing state of affairs in Alaska are brought by the Svet. It is alleged that the handful of Rus sians remaining in the territory suffer under all sorts of vexations and even oppressive acts on the part of American traders, who "run" Alaska. It is claim ed that a number of the company's agents entered the Greek Orthodox church during service, with firearms in their hands, to drive the congregation out to work, and that the Russian teacher, having refused to give his les sons in English, Americans threatened to burn down his school. General condemnation is brought against the government in Washington for leaving the administration of Alas ka too much in the hands of a trading company, which, it is claimed, finds its interest in debauching the natives. LARGE SALES OF COFFEE. Dealers Taking Advantage of theLow Prices. Chicago, Jan. 22. "Unless a compro mise is effected between the Havemeyer interest and Mr. Arbuckle within the next four or five days," said W. F. McLaughlin, "the fight between them will be long and bitter, and will prove expensive to both. I am beginning to hope, however, that some of my argu ments with each of them are beginning to have some effect, and that the whole matter will be settled." Mr. McLaughlin bases his hopes of a compromise on the fact that a continu ance of the hearing of arguments for a receiver for the Woolson company, at Toledo, on Thursday, was taken until January 22, at the request of the plain tiff and with the full consent of the de fendant. The sales of coffee that are being made at the cut prices in Chicago are enormous, and the principal dealers are away behind in their orders. Persons who are troubled with Indi gestion will be interested in the exper ience of Wm. H. Penn, chief clerk in the railway mail service at Des Moines, la., who writes: "It gives me pleasure to testify to the merits of Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For two year3 I have suffer ed from indigestion, and am subject to frequent severe attacks of pain in the stomach and bowels. One or two doses of this remedy never fails to give per fect relief." Price 25 and 50 cents; for sale by druggists. The Paiges. The new Eva Mountford version of "East Lynne," Friday night, with Lil lian Paige as Lady Isabel and Madame Vine. Ladies, look for beautiful toilettes. EBSH STATE BAR BANQUET. The State Association Ends With the Usual Good Time. Many Bright Responses to the Subjects Proposed. vr. B Smith Tells How Lawyers Farm Other Funny Stories. Wit and wisdom abounded last even ing amid the fragrant fumes of Ha vanas at the banquet table of the Kan sas State Bar association held at the Hotel Throop. Fifty-six lawyers, young and old, sat down to an elaborate banquet at 9:15 and the feast began. It was served in seven courses, in a faultless manner. Colonel W. H. Ros sington was accorded the honor of offi ciating as "Magister Convivii." He sat at the h,ead of the large, horseshoe shaped banquet table. On his right were Chief Justice Frank Doster and Judge William Thomson and on the left Judge Samuel A. Kingman and ex Chief Justice David Martin. When the banquet had been served and the lawyers had lighted their ci gars. Colonel Rossington rapped for or der and said: "My Brothers in Law: I wish to re cite the genesis of this society known as the State Bar association. Several years ago, when Judge Johnston was my law partner, it occurred to some of us that it would be a good thing to get up a close corporation for sinister and political purposes. I was the first secretary of this association. It has accomplished much in that it has pre served the fraternity, kindness and goodness which should characterize the profession. I now come to the pleas ant duties of the programme. W'hen I first read this I thought Mr. Doster's subject was, "The Expensiveness of the Common Law," and I thought it was especially appropriate. But I wish to say something about Frank Doster. I have known him for twenty-two years. He holds queer ideas of the social fab ric. He has the ideas of the German socialists. But he is a lawyer, and I feel sure that he will deal justly in his office regardless of his social views. I now have the honor to introduce to you the new chief justice of the supreme court, Judge Frank Doster of Marion." The lawyers applauded the toastmas ter and Judge Doster. The latter thanked the banqueters for the honor conferred upon him. He gave a learned explanation of the practices and scope of the common law from the subject, "The Expansiveness of the Common Law." Colonel Rossington introduced W. R. Smith of Kansas City, Kan., whom he said would respond to the sentiment: "The Lawyer as a'armer." "Standing here as a representative of the tough-fisted hand of yeomanry," said Mr. Smith, "I can see no reason why a lawyer cannot well be a farmer. The men who grow whiskers for politi cal purposes are not the agricultural promoters. Their ambitions do not run with their land. Many of you lawyers know of farming only from hearsay. But I had a practical knowledge of it for three years. Some years ago, while I was attending court in Haskell coun ty, way out in the short grass region, one of those irresistible real estate agents got hold of me. Before I knew it he had sold me three quarter sections and a timber claim. The trees on the claim were but twelve inches high, but the agent said that as soon as they shot roots down to the water underneath the land they would grow fast. I found that the water was 185 feet below the surface. I also found the altitude there was so high that one couldn't drive a load of hay between the clouds and the buffalo grass. I tilled the soil assiduously. Finally the government took the timber claim for taxes and the old maid who held a mortgage on the land, back in New England, re fused to communicate with me, except by publication. I lost the land, but I have never sought to obtain revenge from anyone. "That farm is still out there in Hask ell county where the rabbits and coy otes have possession of it. It stands there a monument to innocence betray ed." Mr. Smith's remarks were loudly ap plauded. He made the hit of the even ing. Judge T. B. Wall of Wichita respond ed to the toast: "How to Gain the Ear of the Court and avoid the Cold Shoul der." "Brevity is one of the important things which will gain the ear of the court," said he. "I don't know but that the best way to gain the ear of the court is to size up the ear. "I was once trying a case in a coun try justice court in which the point in litigation was a cow. I took along with me that work well known to you. "Han over on Horses.' After I had finished my argument and sat down feeling that I had made my point, the neighborhood pettifogger got up and attacked me eag erly. He concluded with: 'That man has come down here with a book on horses, and this case is about a cow.' That man gained the ear of the court." (Laughter.) "Of course we lawyers know that there are tricks in all trades, but ours. Persistency is not always the thing to urge. The manly man, the manly law yer, the gentlemanly man always re ceiver a patient and respectful hearing. He always gains the ear of the court and never gets the cold shoulder." Toast Master Rossington announced that owing to the absence of Sam Kim ble, he would have to assign the toast: "The Profit in Politics." He asked Judge A. D. Gilkeson, of Hays City to respond, and the latter arose and said: "I come from- the short grass region and am therefore not qualified to re spond to this toast, for down my way there isn't any profit in politics. Un fortunately I am unable to see where the prophet lies in politics, but the prophet invariably lies." The annual "love feast of the bar as sociation closed with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne." The following members of the associ ation were present at the banquet: Frank Doster, Marion: David Martin, Atchison; T. F. Garver, Salina: Wm. A. Johnston, Minneapolis; J. W. Green, Lawrence; S. H. Allen, Topeka; Wm. Thomson, Burlingame; T. B. Wall, Wichita; H. A. McLean, Marion; Chas. Hayden, Holton; L. H. Perkins, Law rence; C. C. Coleman, Clay Center: J. F. Tufts, Atchison; J. W. Parker. Ola the; I. O. Pickering, Olathe; W. T. Bland, Atchison; C. P. Dewey, Abilene; J. II. Brown, Tribune; Geo. W. Nira mocks. Great Bend; J. C. Postlewaite, Jewell City; A. D. Gilkeson.Hays City: A. D. Smith, Lincoln; J. T. Herrick, Wellington; F. D. Mills, Kansas City, Kan.; F. L. Martin, Hutchinson; Oliver Phillips, Lawrence: W. W. Guthrie, Atchison, and C. J. Brown, A. A. God ard, Col. W. H. Rossington. W A. S. Bird, Sampel A. Kingman. O. J. Wood, Albert- Watkins. John E. Switzer, Ran kin Mason, J. B. Larimer, E. G. Wilson, G. A. Huron, T. L. King.Clad Hamilton, J. G. Slonecker, Ed McKeever, Harry Valentine, Thos. F. Doran. L. S. Ferry, Matt Campbell. A. H. Vance, H. C. Root, John W. Day, A. B. Jetmore.Chas. F. Spencer, Frank H. Foster, Geo. W. Clark, and Howell Jones of Topeka. The following was the menu: Saddle Rocks, Deep Shell, i Celery. j' I I i Consomme Macedoine. 1 i Olives. Radishes. i Boiled California Salmon, Egg Sauce. Potatoes Parisienne. Chicken Patties a la Reine. French Peas. 1 Lamb Chops, Soublse. Creamed Potatoes. I Pineapple Fritters, Maraschino Sauce. Punch Romalne. Broiled Quail on Toast, au Cresson. Saratoga Chips. Fresh Tomato, Mayonnaise. Sherry Wine Jelly, Imperial Cream, J Assorted Cake, Choice Fruit, Layfayette Ice Cream, Cheese and Crackers, Coffee, Cigars. The business sessions of the associa tion were closed yesterday with the election of the following officers: President, William Thomson of Bur lingame; vice president. Justice S. H. Allen; secretary, C. J. Brown, Topeka; treasurer, A. A. Godard, Topeka. At the afternoon session addresses were made by F. D. Mills, of Kansas City, W. W. Guthrie, Atchison, J. W. Gleed, Topeka, F. L. Martin, Hutchin son, and Oliver Phillips, Lawrence. The annual meeting of the association just closed has been a pleasant and in structive one, and the members were highly gratified with their entertain ment by the Topeka bar. NORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing Co.. 835 Kansas avenue, before 10 o'clock in the morning. C. W. Lukens has returned from Kansas City. Mrs. Ogee will soon open a boarding house on the avenue. Mr. N. A. Cramer of the Union Pacific hotel is back from Kansas City. Mrs. Jerome Colvin, who has been sick for the past three weeks, is im proving. Teachers for the Sunday school were elected last evenig at the Kansas Ave nue church. Mrs. T. Rogers of Marysville, Mo., Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. T. M. Allen, 1311 Kansas avenue. Try Geo.Mayers bread and other bak ery goods made out of best flour and best material; try it and you will have no other, i On account of the pound social, the meeting of the Young People's club at Mrs. Arnold's has been postponed until tomorrow evening. The Kaw club gave a card social last evening at the home of Mrs. Fred lies on Monroe street for the benefit of the Chruch of the Good Shepherd. Mrs. Will Smith leaves today for Hartford, Mich.,' where Mr. Smith is al ready located. Mr. Smith was former ly head miller at the Mid-Continent mills. North Topeka people are generally pleased with the selection of Henry Steele for chief of police. The tough colored element is said to stand more in awe of him than any other man. The Presbyterian synod met yester day afternoon at the Second Presby terian church on Quincy street to give Dr. Alderson his- letter, which officially severs his connection with the First church. Mrs. Peck, the mother of ArthurPeck, the artist who died in Paris some years ago, is making a canvass of the North side with a book containing her son's letters, which she has had published. The Credo club met yesterday after noon with Mrs. A. W. Parks, when the different religious creeds were dis cussed. The next meeting will be Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Reagle. HIS TIME IS UP. H. C. Wilmoth With Many Alias' and and a Bad Record Pardoned, Governor Leedy today issued a par don for H. C. Wilmoth, alias Howell, alias Hobart, alias Howe, and various other names. The pardon was issued restoring Wilmoth to citizenship be cause of the expiration of his term of sentence. Wiimoth was a gay de ceiver of women and an all-around swindler and shark. His recent term in the penitentiary was the result of a conviction on the charge of bigamy. He pleaded guilty in the district court of Kansas City, Kan., March 21, 1895, and was sentenced by Judge Allen to one year's imprisonment. The reduction of time for good behavior secures his free dom at this time. The police records of a score of cities, including Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Chi cago, Denver, Terre Haute, Ind.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Fresno, Cal.; Zanesviile, O. Effingham, 111., and Seneca, Kan., show installments of his operations with duped women during the last eight years. Wilmoth was arrested on the charge that landed him in the penitentiary this last time at Terre Haute. Jnd., where he was about to be married to a wealthy young woman of that city. His arrest was brought about by Miss Bella Buell of Effingham, 111., who was one of his former victims. He had also married Miss Ora H. Wilkins, daughter of E. H. Wilkins of Seneca, Kan., in Kansas City, Kan., on Christmas day, 1895, but soon afterward deserted her. The war rant for bigamy was issued there. Miss Buell came to Kansas City to prescute him, and Wilmoth, seeing that he was in for it, agreed to plead guilty on a compromise. Wilmoth served a term in the Mis souri penitentiary, beginning about 1892, for swindling Mrs. B. Ellison and Miss Lucille de Lavalliere of Kansas City, Mo. Nearly $4,000,000 for Topeka. Washington, Jan. 22. The secretary of the interior has issued a requisition on the treasury for $13,150,000 for next month's quarterly payments of pensions, as fol lows Topeka, J3.S75.000: Philadelphia, $1, P75.000; New York, Jl, 775.000: Louisville. II. 025.000: Knoxville, $1,800,000; Indianapolis, $1,200,000. Mackey's Bonds are in Demand. London. Jan. 22. The Commercial Cable company's issue of 400.000 pounds ($2,000. 000 4 per cent debentures offered by Bar ings at 94 per cent has closed, largely over-subscribed. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th. st. Sir Isaac Pitman is Dead. London, Jan. 22. Sir Isaac Pittman, the inventor of the system of shorthand writing which bears his name, is dead. He has been suffering several years from a complication of troubles. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It. J. W. PHILLIPS, 612 W. Eighth Ave. Not how cheap but how good is the way we try to do our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West Sth. nooooooooo oooonononooooooo o a o O o a o a o o o a o Q o 3 O E3 O o o o E3 O o o O a o E3 O a o a a o E E3 HOLD pii!(uiii!!!:ii:i;iiioiiraii;i!iffl!im 1 Great Inventory Sa rfn!Iillil!II!Ii!IIIl!l!i!IIII!.IIin 617619 Kansas Av. Goods have been measured, re-raarked and re-priced all over tlie establish ment. All Winter Goods 25, 35, and 50 per cent less than regular sale price. To intending purchasers this sale will present a golden opportunity SOME STAPLES JUST OPENED. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. 5000 yards very fine, yard wide Sheeting; re- Ag gular 634c value, at As previously announced, we have decided to dis- 2qua1lS'tyS; ..'i!!?. 4C continue Clothing, and no sacrifice will deter us from 1500 yards Outing Flannels, regular 6J4 cent doing so as quickly as possible quality 'iU 1000 yards fine Cotton Toweling, 5 cent quali- 1 Children's Suits, 4 to 13 years, were gQ 15 pieces fine, all wool, Dress Goods, plain and fancy, sold at SO and 6ac, $173 4 98C Choice of all 62, 75 and 87J..C Dress Goods Qrj Children's Suits, 4 to 14 years, were j gg Embracing finest French Serges, Henrietta's, ru-i. c Wool Novelties, Black Goods, In plain and fancy, as Children's Suits, 4 to 15 years, were CJO AQ well as all Imported Plaids. f 4-ooand $5.00 ip&.tO IN OUR CLOAK DEPARTMENT. 1VIen'S Su,tS embraclBg the very choicest fabrics on the market, thoroughly made, splendidly Our entire line of Ladies' and Misses' Jackets at So cents on the dollar. The very choicest line to tr,mmed' 35 and 50 percent, off lowest regular price, select from. Men's Overcoats, 200 to select from, embracing Our entire line of Ladies' Muslin Underwear at "ne Beavers' Kerseys, Chinchillas, Frieze and other exact in voice cost, which means 19c and up wards for Popular fabrics, at 50 cents on the dollar. Don't Chemise, Drawers or Corset Covers. Elegant line purchase a dollar's worth of either Dry Goods or to select from. Clothing until you have our quotations. 617-619 Kansas Ave. -3O0ODDOOQOD OOOOODOGOOOOO OCOOODOOGCODOOOO CLEVELAMJS ENTERTAIN. The Second State Dinner of the Sea son was Given Last Night. "Washington, Jan. 22. The second in the series of state dinners was given by President and Mrs. Cleveland at the White House last night, the diplomatic corps ing the guests. The number accepting invitations was such that the long corridor in the rear of the main vestibule at the entrance to the man sion had to be used for the occasion. The dining table was decorated with a profusion of La France and bride's roses and ferns. The Marine band, under the direction of Prof. Fanciuelli, furnished the mu sic. The guests at the dinner were: The British ambassador, the ambassador of France and Mme. Patenotre, the Ger man ambassador and Baroness Von Thielmann, the Mexican minister and Mme. Romero, the Netherlands minis ter, the minister of Sweden and Nor way, the minister of Brazil and Mme. Mendonca, the minister of Guatemala and Senorita De Lazio Arraga, the minister of Chili, the Chinese minister and Mrs. Tang, the minister of Ven ezuela and Senorita Eliza Andrade. the minister of Austria-Hungary and Mme. Von Gelmuller and others. STOCKS TOBOGGANING. A Big Slump in Hocking Valley and Long Island. New Tork, Jan. 22. Hocking Valley securities declined sharply yesterday afternoon on rumors affecting the fin ancial credit of the company. Tne com mon fell 8 to 8, the preferred 6, the generals mortgages 5s to 3l,4. Officials of the company emphatically denied the rumors and said that there was not the slightest probability of a receivership. Furthermore, it was intimated that the outlook for a soft coal settlement was good. On denials the common rallied 3 per cent. Another sensational movement was In Long Island, which fell 4 per cent to 45, regular, and ruled offered at 41 sellers. The slump was attributed to rumors of a decidedly unfavorable report on the property. Mrs. Petereck Wants a Divorce. Katie Petereck, through her attorney, Mrs. Lucia O. Case, has petitioned the Shawnee county court for a divorce from Frank Petereck. They were mar ried in Pottawatomie county June 23, 1S88, and since then four children have been born. She alleges that her hus band has been guilty of gross neglect and non-support, and has threatened her with violence. She asks for a di vorce and the custody or her four chil dren and that the court prevent her husband from molesting hr. No Sunday Baseball in Texas. Austin. Tex., Jan. 22. The house of the Texas legislature today practically settled Sunday base ball playing by passing a bill prohibiting it. The Sultan Fears the Plaglue. London, Jan. 22. The Chronicle's cor respondent at Vienna reports that a Constantinople dispatch says that the Porte has ordered the Persian border to be cordoned in order to exclude the plague. If you need glasses, see Chas. Bennett. Kefracting Optician, 730 Kan. ave. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Governor Leedy will introduce Murat Halstead at Washburn tonight. I. tiOl'J AT The Western Foundry and Machine Works Formerly Topeka Foundry .The only place In the city where from a steam engine Get Prices Before Topeka, Kas. R. L. COFRAN, Proprietor. "A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOUL BAR GAIN." MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHE USES EDITORS BANQUET. Chauncey HL. Depew Talks of Lagging Prosperity. New Tork, Jan. 22. The fourth an nual banquet of the Republican editor ial association of the state of New York was held at the Union League club of Brooklyn last night. Covers were laid for 250 and Chauncey M. Depew was the chief speaker of the evening. Mr. Depew said in part: '"Gentlemen, as Republican editors we ought to be particularly happy to night. We have won a great victory. "VVe have done more: we have averted a frightful disaster. It is not in the power of the imagitatlon to picture what might have happened in the tension of the financial and industrial world if confidence had received the shock of the determination of the United States to embark upon the unknown sea of a depreciated and debased currency. "The victory has been won, the tre mendous change which would have oc curred had it gone the other way has been averted but the laborer and the artisan waits, and the money in the vaults lies idle and the mill and the fac tory and the furnace stop and start and stop and start again, like impatient thoroughbreds at the commencement of the race. The country cries 'where is your prosperity. Where are the good times to begin?' The bankrupt firm and insolvent railroad, the people, over whelmed by a great calamity, do not rise Instantly to their former conditions or better ones. Confidence is not the growth of a night: it is the creation of hundreds of tributary elements which ultimately does succeed in enabling it to accomplish its beneficient work. "But already we can feel the good times. We have three hundred and twenty-five millions to our credit as against the right of the world. It only needs confidence in the stability of legis lation and administration for the next four years for the golden current to flow into new enterprises, giving new employment and stimulation to every industry of farm, of mine and factory." Among the other speakers were EHhu Root, who spoke on the political situa tion; W. J. Arkell of Judge, and Henry Watterson. Governor Leedy will introduce Murat Halstead at Washburn tonight. oooooodo ooooo O o o LI 3 E3 0 O o E3 E3 O o o E3 E3 a a 617619 Kansas Ave. 617-619 Kansas Ave. ESTA.JBLISH.ED 1875. Machine Works, Established 1835. you can get a complete power plant to a set collar from stock. Purchasing Elsewhere. JANUARY SALE SPECIAL REDUCTIONS on Everything in the Music Line Sheet Music Books, Guitars, Mandolins, etc., etc Every thing marked down in plain figures. Call and see the GREAT BARGAINS. To enumerate here all the bar gains In such an immense stock would cost too much money. E. B. GUILD, 614 Kansas Ave. 614 Cornell Students are Busy. Ithaca, N. Y., Jan. 22. Both the freshmen and the 'varsity crew candi dates at Cornell are at work In the gym nasium and -at work on the rowing ma chines. The training will continue until the Easter recess without interruption, when the men wil probably be able to take their shells down to Cayuga lake. Cornell will have to raise about $4,000 for the support of the navy this year. The subscriptions are coming in rapidly. About $-"J has been subscribed during the present week. The Montgomery All Right New York. Jan. 22. The United States cruiser Montgomery, which has been ly ing at the navy yard, having the damage repaired that was made by striking on the docks off Governor's Island on her way down the bay on the 12th inst., passed out at Sandy Hook this morning. With blood in their fists and their eyes doubled up, two little pickaninnies will box four rounds at the T. A. A. entertainment next Friday evening, February a. B R EMT M Dn