The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
April 13, 1897

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4 X 1 1 I: TWO CENTS. TUESDAY EVEXING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL 13, 1897. TUESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. Li x 7 a. x I m REVELATIONS. More and More of Them In the Bribery Inyestigatiou. Lewelling's Xame Dragged In Again By a Witness. KOOM 1G YEALE BLOCK Seems to Have Been a Regular Storm Center, Where Members Were Drawn Into the Vortex. ONE PAGE TESTIFIES He Carried Notes From Room 16 to Various Members, Including Brown, Larimer, Cub bison, Armstrong, Fairchild. FRANK STKICKLAXD IS Pointed Out to Mr. Weilep as the Man "Who Promised to Put a .Member Against Something Good. 3111. MOAI5 TESTIFIES That Rep. Walters Showed Him $1,000 He Had "Made." Kx-Represenlative r. J. Hanna of Hill City, who was charged with, offering- a bribe by Representative W. M. Metzler, a Populist, before the legisla tive investigating committee last week, arrived in Topeka yesterday and ap peared before the committee in his own behalf, entering a general denial of the charges made by Metzler and paying as did Dr. Smith in reply to Representative Clark's charges, that the complaining witness made the first mention of brib ery. -Mr. Hanna was a former resident of Clay Center. He is a Republican and was a member of the house in 1895 still retaining his standing and affiliation with that party. His brother. Senator George Hanna, is a member of the pres ent senate, from Clay county, being a Populist. tTpon the solicitation of his brotherex Representative Hanna. while in Topeka about the middle of the session, took a hand in the effort being made by Clay county to secure the location of a state insane asylum at Clay Center. Mr. Hanna took the stand yes terday afternoon and said: "The first conversation 1 had with Mr. Metzler was with reference to the lo cation of an insane asylum at Clay Center. I told him that town was my old home and that we would be glad te have his vote upon the proposition which was then pending before the com mittee. He said to me that he had been voting for Clay Center and would con tinue to do so. 1 told him that we would appreciate it very much and fur ther said that if at any time I was able to do him a service that 1 would be glad to have him call upon me. "A few days afterwards as I was leaving the house of representatives, Mr. Metzler called me and asked me to go upstairs with him. which I did. When we had passed out of sight into the hall he turned to me and said that he un derstood money was being offered for votes against the railroad bill as pre pared by Mr. Brown. He also asked me if 1 knew who had it. I told him that I did not but that in the event I did hear of any one who had it I would send him around. That was all that was said upon the subject, as I left al most immediately. "However." continued Mr. Hanna, "I neglected to state that Mr. Metzler ask ed me my opinion of the two bills the one prepared by Senator Harris, and the one of which Brown of Pratt was the author. I told him that after hear ing Mr. Harris' sp?eoh that I was in favor of the Harris bill but was not in terested further than a citizen of the state and that I -,vas taking but little interest in the matter." Mr. Snelling. You have heard or rend in the papers what purported to be a report oi Yir. Metzler's testimony in which he said that you had offered him J100 to vote against the maximum rate bill? A. Tes sir. Q. Is it true or not true? A. Absolutely false in every particu lar. r Q- No basis for it whatever? A. None at all. Q You and Mr. Metzler are good mends are you not? A-e are well acquainted. S- rhere were never anv strained re lations or difficulties betveen you' A"-,ne whalpvr. so far as I know. Q J-here is no reason whv he should heap these cnarges xipon you' A. None at: all. At the conclusion of Mr. Hanna's tes timony he said to the committee- "J.!? l P,V- XaiU of Abilene Eno told him of the conversation I had with Metzler and I would, in iutioe to myself, like to have- Mr. Naill who is here, called to the stand for a moment Mr. Naill was called -and sworn He was deputy warden of the state peni tentiary under J. B. Lynch, H. S Lan dis' Republican predecessor. Asked how he happened to be in the city. Mr. Naill replied: 'I came at the solicitation of Mr Hanna." Q- Why did he summon you? A. That was explained in his letter. Q. Have you the letter? A. No sir. Q. Where is it? A. At home. Q. Will you send it to the committee when you return? A. Yes sir. Q What were the contents of the let ter? A. As near as I can remember it said: 'They are trying to get me in the nine-hole. Io you remember the con versation with Metzler which I told you Rbout w hen you were in Topeka? If" so come down, I will pay all expenses.' ilr. Naill then narrated the conversa tion which he had with Mr. Hanna and corroborated the statement of the lat ter, that Metzler had inquired of him where the men who had money to spend on the railroad bill were tor be found. "Mr. Hanna said," continued Mr. Naill, "that he was not sure as to what Metzler meant. Whether he really wanted to sell out or was just trying to find out if any boodling was going on." This ended the testimony and Mr. Hanna's feature of the investigation gave way to the examination of Wil liam P.utler, from whom but little in formation was elicited Friday after noon. However he reiterated the state ment that he was approached by a man who said a large sum of money had been raised to spend in the Fifth and Sixth districts in the interests of the Wichita normal school. Q. How was this money to be used, did he say? A. To influence votes. Q How much was to be expended? A. One hundred dollars for each vote. Q. Did he name any one with whom you were to negotiate? A. Yes he said I should see any Pop ulist legislator from either the Fifth or Sixth district, except Turner of Jewell and Smith of Sherman. y. Who stated these matters to you? A. Col. H. L.. Taylor. Q. What else did he say? A. That he could satisfy me that the money had been raised and was ready to be expended. Q. How did he propose to satisfy you A. He said he would give me the names of some of my friends who would certify to that fact. Q. Who did he say would first cer tify to that fact? A. Li. D. Lewelling. Q. Where did you first talk of these matters? A. In the post office of the house. Q. Detail that conversation. A. There was little said. He asked me how I stood on the normal school business and I replied that I knew- noth ing about it. Then he suggested that I come and talk with him in his room at the National. Q. Did you go? A. Yes sir. Q. What did Taylor say? A. What I have already told you, Q. What else was said. A. Nothing that I now remember. Mr. Grimes. Why did you not give this testimony Friday. A. Because I was not asked to do so. The examination of Mr. Butler being concluded the committee adjourned un til 9 o'clock today, pending the arrival of witnesses. Representative Weilep was the first witness this morning. He said: "On the floor of the house I made a state ment that in my opinion the bribery outrages were more rampant than at any time since the days of Pomeroy. I based this opinion upon what I had seen the day before at the Throop hotel. I was sitting in the lobby when one of the Populist members who lived at the Chesterfield came downstairs. I asked him where he had been. He replied that he had just stopped in to see a friend. He passed out and another came down soon after. I asked him where he had been and he told me that they had promised to put him against something good, which I construed to mean money, if he would vote against the maximum rate bill. I asked him if he proposed to accept it, and he said no." Q. Who was the member? A.- Mr. Davis of Wilson county. Q. Did he tell you who made the proposition? A. No. but he pointed out the man. Q. Who was it? A. Frank Strickland of Kansas City. Q. What was he doing? A. It was my understanding that he was under the control or represented Mr. Waggener of the Missouri Pacific. Q. Who was the first man you men tioned A. Representative Dalton of Stevens county. Q. Did Mr. Davis accept the propo sition made by the railroads? A. He said he was not going to. Q. What did Mr. Dalton say? A. Did not mention the railroad mat ter, but said he had simply dropped in to see a friend. Chairman Outcalt then took the wit ness. In response to questions con cerning J. W. Clark and the Missouri Pacific pass. Clark having testified that Weilep had first told him the pass had been taken up, Mr. W'eilep said: "One day at dinner Mr. Waggener told me Clark's pass had been taken up. I mentioned the matter to Clark, and from what he said. I inferred he had already received a letter from the man Gilbert, to whom the pass had been loaned. informing him that the pass had been taken up." The examination then reverted to the incident following which the Republi cans created such a hub-bub over Wei lep's ruling. Outcalt said: Q. Who were the agents of the cor porations in the house? A. I presume the men who opposed anti-corporation legislation. Q. Who were they? A. Well, the Republicans. Q. Anyone else? A. A few scattering votes on the other side. Discussing the ruling to which the Republicans excepted, Mr. Weilep said: "From what I learned afterward, I believe that the railroads were back of the scheme to prevent the revision of the calendar. Mr. Waggener told me that Senator Ingalls and Judge Horton had told him that my ruling that a ma jority of members could vote to change the rules was right, but Mr. Waggener endeavored to impress upon me the idea that a two-thirds vote would be neeessary to adopt a report from the revision committee." q. Is there anything further which you think of? A. No, sir. Q. No attempted briberies of which you have knowledge? A. No, sir. Mr. Weilep was excused, giving way to Kben McCarthy of Paola, a page in the house of representatives. After establishing the identity of the wit ness, he was asked to tell what he knew of any crookedness, bribery or corruption. A. Nothing, for certain. Q. Well, what did you see? A. A good many things. Q. Where? A. When carrying notes. Q. Carrying notes where? A. Principally between the hall of representatives and room 16 Veale block. Q. Who sent the notes? A. Representative Foley of Graham county. Q. Well, who else? A. Different members. Q. How were the notes addressed? A. To room 16, Veale block. Q. Who received them? A. A man who said his name was Wilson. Q- To whom did you take answers? A. To Brown of Greeley, Larimer of Shawnee, Cubbison and Armstrong of Wyandotte. Fairchild and Doc Marks. Q. What did the envelopes contain? A. I don't know, except that it seem ed to be large bills similar to the ones we distributed in the house. Q. Did you see any of the notes? A. Yes, two. Q. What were they? A. Mr. Foley's note, which he showed me, was signed Wilson and said: "Don't support the school book bill. See me between 1 and 1:30." Q- What was the other one you found? A. One sent to Cubbison. Q. How did you happen to see it? A. Found it in the waste basket. Q. What did it say? A. "Keep your forces in line. How about Rothweiler?" Q Have you the note? A. No. Q- What did you do with it? A- Turned it over to Ravenscraft. J- What else do you know? A. Nothing. G. W. Moab, clerk of the house com mittee on banks and banking, was the next witness. The examination of Mr. Moab ap pears to have discovered the first man who has actually said he had made money as a legislator. Asked for in formation he might have, Moab said: "I know nothing only what was vol unteered to me." By whom? A. A member of the house. Q. What did he say? A. That a man could just as well make something as he went along. Q. What else? A. That he did not believe in this goody-goody business. Q. Did he say he received money? A. Yes. Q. How much? A. $100 and was to get $500 more. Q. Anything else? A. He said the average legislator was susceptible: that the fellows who were giving bribes were suckers and that a man of ordinary intelligence could make money out of both sides. Q. What else did you hear? A. Nothing till on the train going home. Q. What then? A. The member I have referred to showed me a roll of bills, which he said contained $1,000. Q. Did it look like a large roll? A. Yes, sir. Q. What did he say about the money? A. Said he made it during the ses sion. Q. Who was this man? A. Representative Walters of La bette county. Q. Did any one else talk to you about bcodling? A. Yes, sir. Q. Who? A. S. R. Boyd. Q. Where did he see you? A. At the Fifth Avenue hotel. Q. What" did he say? A. From what he said I inferred his business was to find who could be bought, but not to handle the money himself. Q. Were you with Mr. Boyd? A. Y'es, sir. He slept with me the night before the exposure in the senate made by Mr. Titus. Q. Have you seen Boyd since? A. No, sir. Q. Have you heard from him indi rectly? A. Yes. Q. How? A. Mr. Henshaw, reading clerk of the senate, told me in Paola a few days ago that he had seen Boyd In Kansas City. Q. What was Boyd Interested in? A. From his conversation, I inferred that he was interested in the stock yards legislation. Q. Have you any further informa tion? A. No, sir. Mr. Moab was excused and J. M. Doyle of Republic, a member of the last house, who had been implicated in bribery transactions by Represent ative Dingus, took the stand. "I want to say." said Mr. Doyle, "that Mr. Dingus' evidence is absolutely false. When he testified before this committee and said I told him I could secure $200 for him in case he would "lay down" and cease supporting the school book bill, he stated what was absolutely un true." Q. Wrere you approached at any time? A. Only once. Q. By whom and when? A. One morning in the lobby, a man whom I did not know asked me how I stood on the stock yards bill. I told him I was far it. He said there would be something in it if I would vote against it. I told him I did not need anything just then and passed on. lhat was the last I heard of it. "The school teachers of my county op posed certain provisions of the bill and one of them wrote to me urging that Stryker, the state superintendent was interested in the commission scheme be cause he wanted to palm off an inferior manuscript on the people." When the committee sought to secure from Mr. Dovle the name of the infor mant against Mr. Stryker, the law was read to him, after he had refused to say who it was, and he responded promptly. A. ilr. Nichols. Q. What are his initials? A. I do not know. Q. Where does he live? A. In Republic county. Further examination developed noth ing of interest from Mr. Doyle further than a general denial of the charges made bv Mr. Dingus. At the opening of the afternoon ses sion Mr. Weilep was recalled and ask ed concerning a certain visit he made to Bailey Waggener's room. "Oh, it was simply a social call. We smoked a cigar and but the remain der of the answer was lost in laughter from committee and spectators. Mr. Weilep was then excused and went home this afternoon. Paul Russell of Miami county, chair man of the house committee on banks and banking, was the second witness this afternoon. He testified that Boyd, the stock yards agent, had offered him (Russell) $1,000 if he would see Senator Crossan of Miami county and induce him to support the Hanna stock yards bill. Further than this nothing was elicited from Mr.Russell. except that he had told Representative Ravenscraft of Boyd's proposition, and they form ed a plan to trap Boyd. To carry out that scheme Russell went to the sen ate to take Mr. Crossan into the scheme and walked into the upper house just in time to hear the bribery sensation sprung by Senator Titus. This was all the testimony offered by Mr. Russell. COMMITTEE HAS THE LAW. D. C. Tillotson Says Investigators Have All the Power They Want To the Editor of The State Journal: I notice the papers say the present investigating committee has decided that it has no power under the resolu tion creating it to compel the attend ance of witnesses or giving of testimo ny, and that witnesses are taking ad vantage of this decision to protect their friends. If this is the case, the com mittee must have overlooked chapter 132 of the session laws of 1891. The first section of this statute reads: "Section 1. Any committee appointed bv the senate and house of representa tives of this state to investigate the conduct of any officer, board, commit tee, or department of state, or any oth er matter, shall have the power to is sue subpoenas in the name of the state, to compel the attendance of witnesses from any part of this state, the pro duction of any book or papers, and gen erally shall have the same power with reference to procuring testimony bear ing upon the subject-matter under in vestigation, as the district court would have in any case on trial in such court." Section two provides that evidence given before such committee shall not be used against the witness, and sec tion three provides penalties for per jury. It seems to me that this statute is broad enough to enable the present investigating committee go to the bot tom of the matters before it, and the people will certainly be satisfied with nothing less. D. C. TILLOTSON. SAYS IT ISN'T SO. Manager of American Book Co. De nies Speaker Street's Allegations Chicago, April 13. L. M. Dillman, manager of the American Book com pany, denies the truth of the testimony said to have been given by Speaker Street. He said: "There is not a single word of truth in the statement purporting to come from Speaker Street. Mr. Wilson never had but one conversation with Speaker Street, and this was when Mr. Street called on him at his rooms in Topeka. Of course, they talked over school book legislation, but no reference, either di rectly or indirectly, was made to him about money or in any way to influence him, except to show him that the bill before the legislature was not in the interests of the people, and would therefore not only injure them, hut all publishing interests, and even this con versation would not have taken place if Mr. Street had not called on Mr. Wilson. You can say in the most em phatic manner that both Mr. Wilson and ourselves deny in toto every single word of what is purported to be the statement by Speaker Street, anc. we are loath to believe that he ever made such a statement." PLENTY OF LAW Discovered to Compel Witnesses to Talk Before the Brib ery Committee. Witnesses who hereafter appear be fore the bribery investigating commit tee will be compellel,o testify or take chances on being committed for con tempt. The committee and the attoreny general did not know of the existence of the. law until today when Frank Forrest, sergeant-at-arms of the com mittee, upon the suggestion of D. C. Tillotson, examined the session laws of 1891 and presented to the committee the following statutory provisions enacted at that time. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Kansas: Section 1. Any committee appointed by the senate and house of representa-ti-es of this state to investigate the conduct of any officer, board, commit tee, or department of state, or any oth er matter, shall have the power to issue subpoenaes in the name of the state, to compel the attendance of witnesses from any part of this state, the pro duction of any book or papers, and generally shall have the same power with reference to procuring testimony bearing upon the subject matter under investigation, as the district court would have in any case or trial in such court. Section 2. No person shall be excused from answering any questions pro pounded to him by any such commit tee, or- from giving any testimony, or producing any book or papers which any such committee shall deem relevant and material to the subject matter under investigation up on the grounds or for the reason that such testimony will criminate such wit ness. But no such testimony shall thereafter be used in any prosecution that shall be brought against any such witness, nor shall it be used in any way to criminate any such witness, ex cept for perjury charged in so testi fying. Section 3 provides that any person who shall swear falsely shall be guilty of wilful perjury and subjected to the penitentiary for a term of not exceed ing seven years. The law was approved February 23, 1831, and became operative after pub lication the day following. Representative J. M. Doyle of Re public county was on the stand at the time and refused to give certain names to the committee. Attorney General Boyle came hurrying into the presence of the committee, following Forrest, who had carried the statutes down to his office. In the meantime the mem bers of the committee had read the law and were satisfied that the power which they had previously claimed, but had been unable to discover was finally in their hands. Mr. Boyle explained to Assistant At torney General Snelling, who was con ducting the examination, that a "law had been found." Turning to Mr. Doyle, the witness, Mr. Boyle said: "I will be perfectly frank with you and say that I did not know of the ex istence of such a law, but it has been found that the legislature of 1891 passed an enactment which gives a committee the power to commit wit nesses for contempt. I deem it wise that you should be informed of these things and therefore tell you, in order to ask you to give us the name of the person you referred to." Mr. Doyle responded promptly, as indicated in the report of the proceedings of the morn ing session. Having discovered the law, it is claimed by some that it applies to com mittees which are selected to conduct investigations during the legislature. The question is also raised that this committee w hich is now at work is not a legal committee, not having been au thorized to sit after the close of the legislative session. However, whatever claims may be made with reference to the provisions of the law the committee will attempt to enforce it. and if necessary, commit witnesses who refuse to testify. Instead of Fred Grant. Washington. April 13. It is under stood that the president has selected James Martin erf Brattleboro, Vermont, to be assistant secretary of war. THE AUDITORIUM. Real Work on the Project to Begin Tomorrow. Commercial Club Will Discuss Stock Company Plan, ALSO THE GREAT FAIR. A Sub Organization May Con duct the Auditorium Work. r Citizens Should Give Their Hearty Support to Workers. The real work of the auditorium pro ject will be commenced tomorrow even ing when the Commercial club will adopt plans for carrying on the work. C. S. Elliott and C. P. Adams, will formally present the stock company idea and will also suggest the organi zation of an "auditorium association" to have charge of the details. D: J. Oreenwald's fair idea will be elaborated before the club and if the Commercial club decides to take hold of the matter a committee will be appoint ed to work up the scheme. If an audi torium committee is formed by dele gates from various organizations the fair will be turned over to the new com mittee. The plan for raising the money for the auditorium before suggested by Mr. Adams is the formation of a stock com pany which will have charge of the auditorium for one or two years. Stock is to be sold at $10 per share and that would require a sale of but 1200 shares to raise the necessary amount. The money would be raised on the assumption that it would be paid back from the earnings from the build ing during the time the board of dir ectors were in charge. President W. H. Davis of the Com mercial club is very much in favor of this plan. He said today to a Journal reporter: "I believe that the Commer cial club would take hold of the project on a basis of that kind. I believe that the club would take two-thirds of the stock itself and that would leave but 400 shares to be sold outside." Mr. Greenwald as yet, has done no-thing more toward pushing the plan to have a big fair in which the clubs will participate. He thinks that the forma tion of an organization of delegates from the various clubs to be known as an "auditorium association" should have charge of all the entertainments and plans to raise money. The forma tion of such an association will be direct ly in line with the ideas of Mr. Green wald and he thinks that the new organ ization will take up the fair plan. The people are looking to the Com mercial club to take hold of the audi torium and push the project to com pletion. If the club decides that it is better to make a new organization in which the club will be represented by some of its wide awake members and other organizations in the city will also have representation, there will be no doubt of the success of the plans. If the club should decide to take hold of the matter itself it would be directly in line with its purposes and the peo ple would feel that the city has an or ganization to which they can give their support in helping Topeka and to al ways iibor for its Interests. H. W. Neiswanger is still talking about building a combination audito rium and basement for rental purposes. He appeared before the directors of the Topeka Athletic club last night and asked that the association pledge itself to use the basement of an auditorium at a stipulated price. Th club has not acted upon the proposition. Mr. Neiswanger works upon the as sumption that the plan of L. M. Craw ford to defeat the proposition to use the coal hole fund will be successful, but no one is paying any attention to the opposition. The people of Topeka have decided to have an auditorium and they will have one in spite of Mr. Crawford or anyone else. Mr. Neisw anger's plan is to build the auditorium at the corner of Seventh and Jackson streets and to sell enough bonds to erect the building. He fig ures that a building such as he pro poses can be erected for $20,000. The members of the Commercial club do not treat the opposition to the au ditorium with the same seriousness as Mr. Neiswanger. The whole movement for the audito rium is essentially a public one, and the auditorium will be built in the city park unless a suitable site is secured nearer to the center of the city. COMMISSION IS NAMED. The President Appoints Commission ers for the Promotion of Inter national Bimetallism. Washington, April 13. The president has announced the following appoint ments of commissioners for the promo tion of an international agreement for bimetallism: Senator Edward O. Wolcott, Hon. C'has. J. Paine, ex-Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson. Bloomington, 111., April 13. Ex-Vice President Stevenson when seen in re gard to his appointment as one of the commissioners to an international mon etary conference, refused to discuss his appointment or the scape of the com mission. He said he had not yet re ceived any notice of his selection and until he did, he could not talk. TEXT BOOK COMMISSION. Gov. Leedy Announces that McCray and Tillotson Cannot Serve. Before leaving Topeka yesterday Governor Leedy announced that D. O. McCray andjp. C. Tillotson of Topeka will not be commissioned as members of the state school book commission, as they were not legally confirmed by the senate, and further, that the six mem bers who were confirmed, S. I. Hale, A. H. Lupfer, S. W. Black. S. M. Nees, J. V. Jewett and W. J. Hurd, with the state superintendent, will have charge of the work outlined for the commis sion by the legislature. The governor takes this position acting upon advice from his lawyers. Topeka Theosophists A branch society of Theosophists was organized by Mrs. Annie Besant and the Countess Wachtmeister at the Na tional hotel this afternoon. Among the members are Mrs. A. Wardall, Mrs. Eva Blackman, ex-Justice F. M. G ro ver, N. B. Arnold and Mrs. George Wagner. CAN'T GET SINGERS And for that Reason Mr. Grau Will Abandon the Idea of an Opera Season This Year. New York, April 13. The Herald this morning says: The fate of the operatic season of 1897-1S9S is to be decided this afternoon at a joint meeting of com missioners of the Metropolitan Opera House directors and those of Abbey, Schoeffel Grau, and also a meeting between the first named and some friends of Mr. Grau. The Herald is enabled to authorita tively announce now the situation that will be made public in the press gen erally the day after the meeting. In the first place Mr. Grau's friends have held several conferences with him and a cash fund has been subscribed to capitalize a new company to produce Grand Opera next season under his di rection and the Metropolitan should he decide to undertake. This fund is so large it represents $100,000 cash and $50,000 additional if needed that it more than meets the requirements of the Metropolitan directors. This would seem to settle affirma tively the question "if there is to be an opera season next winter at the Metro politan," but it has been negatived by the decision reached decisively yester day by Mr. Grau to withdraw from the undertaking. Notwithstanding that Mme. Melba cables intimating that she has not yet signed with ilr. Damrosch, Mr. Grau has come to believe that she is to sing with Mr. Damrosch. Mme. Calve has positively assured him that she can not and will not return next autumn, and the De Reszkes announced posi tively last right that their determina tion to remain in Europe next year was irrevocable. It is no longer a question of capital, but artists, and the Herald is author ized to say that the directors have been informed by Mr. Grau that he has has abandoned all idea of giving opera at the Metropolitan next winter as a member of Abbey, Schoeffel Grau or at the head of his own corporation. The formal statement to that effect will be made by him at the meeting today. OMAHA CUT IX TWO. The Missouri Breaks Through its Banks and Seeks an Old Channel. Omaha, April 13. The Missouri river is changing its channel past Omaha and in doing so threatens to destroy property to the value of several million dollars. Last night tlie river broke through its banks about a mile above where it left the old channel twenty years ago, and is today running two broad streams across what were yesterday fertile market gardens. These streams run into Florence lake, a relic of a former cut off. From Flor ence lake the water is pouring into Cut-off lake and it now seems only a question of a few hours until Ea-t Omaha is moved into Iowa and all the property" in line of the flood is swept away. RALPH INGALLS IN TEXAS. The Ex-Senator's Son Talks to Texans About Their State. Beaumont, Tex., April 13.--Ralph In galls, son of ex-L"nited States Senator John J. Ingalls was among the excur sionists who have been spending the last day or two at Port Arthur. He is almost as interesting in appearance as his distinguished father and does not mind expressing himself freely upon all subjects. "You Texas folks don't know how to appreciate a good thing when you've got it. My short stay in Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and Sabine Pass has shown me conclusively that you have an excellent future, and if the influx of people is such that the advantages here demand, why, in ten years the Lone Star state will name the president. Your mild, healthful climate, with the luxuriant vegetation, is a source of inspiration after coming from the chilling winds of the north. Kansas is a great state, but Texas, with her magnificent coast country, is also great. The governors of Iowa and Ne braska will be here after April 22, and mark my words, Jefferson county will catch 'em." A CLEARING HOUSE. Proposed by the Retail Grocers As sociation. The Topeka Retail Grocers associa tion is discussing a clearing house sys tem to be used by Topeka business men of all classes. At the meeting of the association last night the matter was discussed but no definite action was taken. The asso ciation will consider the plan at future meetings and may adopt it. The sys tem proposed is similar to that used among the banks and is designed to fa cilitate the settling of accounts. PICTURES ARE A SUCCESS. Julian Says the Kinetoscope Views of the Fight are All Right. New York, April 13. Martin Julian arrived in this city today. In an in terview he said: "We have never stated that Fitzsim mons retired from the ring, or that he would not fight. If any new aspirant comes forward and a good purse is of fered Fitz will not shirk a fight. He has never been a shirker. The talk of Kid McCoy challenging him is nonsense Why, Fitzsimmons taught him all that he knows." Speaking of Brady's threat to chal lenge Fitzsimmons to another fight, Julian is reported as saying: "Brady is not such a fool as to at tempt it and Corbett has no particular desire to meet Fitzsimmons again." Regarding the rumors of the failure of the verascope pictures of the cham pionship battle, Julian said: "I can only tell you that our latest dispatches are to the eect that they have been an unqualified succss." DEATHS. Esther Louisa Anton, the ll-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anton, died of inflammation of the brain Sunday after noon at the family residence, 51:! West Second street. The funeral wus held at the home yesterday afternoon. Arnold Drane, aged 2 years, died yes terday of pneumonia, at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Drane. S20 Clay street. The funeral was held today. PERSONAL. The gentleman who an noyed the congregation last Sunday by continually coughing will find instant relief by using One Minute Cough Cure, a speedy and harmless remedy for throat and lung troubles. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas ave. SEIZURE OF PLANTS. The Government to Take Pos session of Carnegie Mills And Operate Them Making Its Own Armor Plate. PROVIDES PAYMENT. Will Overcome Constitutional Objections By Arranging for Just and Fair Compensation. New York, April 13. A special to tha World from Washington says: Senator Chandler of New Hampshire said last night the he would Introduce two bills directing the government au thorities to take possession of the great armor plate factories of Carnegie, Phipps Co., (limited) at Homestead, Pa., and of the Bethlehem Steel com pany of Bethlehem, Pa., and operate them with government forces until ail the armor plate needed to equip the new battleships have been completed. The bills will provide that when the work is completed, suit shall be begun in the usual way before the court of claims for compensating the two com panies for the use of their factories, and! that on a report from the court of claims to congress, an appropi iation shall be made to re-imburse them. These measures are the sequel to the recent failure of the navy department to secure bids from the Carnegie and Bethlehem works for armor plates within the rate specified b ycongress, $300 a ton. CARNEGIE MAN" INDIGNANT Over Senator Chandler's Proposition for Government Ownership of Ar mor Plate Factories. Philadelphia, April 13. Josnp!i Whtwtoo of this city, a large stockholder of the Bethlehem Iron works and a director of the company expressed surprise lier. in formed of Senator Chandler's proposition that the government seize the Carneg.e and Bethlehem plants. He C'haract?riz!Hl the idea as absurd in the highest decree. "The sta.temejit.s that the t'arneie and Bethlehem plants were begging tor gov ernment aid a fe.w years ago is entirely false," hesaid. "It is a fact ti-t nolt'h er company will make armor plates fr $.100. a ton, or anythi;ig iikw that pri-t. The price we have recently been gaitin in not extorrioiia.te. It 1b a fact that the l.'nited States baa been paying lesit for quality than any other country in tiia world." CARNEGIE MAKES A BLUFF. Armor Plate Combine Holds a Club Over the Government Pittsburg, Pa.. April 13. An official of the Carnegie Steel company announce that unless the government chij.n(rea ilt attitude on armor plate bids the plant of the company at Homestead will be closed in June. The contracts on whloli the com pany is now working will be coniplttijii by that time, and there will be no further work to keep the hands employed. This led the company to make the proposition to sell out and let the government operata the plant. If the HomesteaJ mill closes, it is state.l the armor plant at Bethlehem, owned by the Bethlehem Steel company, with whicht the Carnegie people are friendly, will als close. If the, two firms go out of tha armor business the country will be with out an armor plate plant for two year at least, as it will take that long for th3 Illinois Steel company to equip and put a plant into operation. Tho Carnegie people claim the action of the Illinoi3 company, which is trying to get into the armor plate business, is tho result of the iiteel rail war and ia actuat ed by a spirit of revenge towards tha Carnegie firm. A START IS MADE. Senator Chandler Introduces the Bills for the Seizure of Carnegie Works. Washington. April 13. In accordance with his declared intention Senator Chandler this afternoon introduced his bills empowering the secretary of the navy to take possession of the armor plants of the Bethlehem and the Carn egie companies. There are two of the bills, one applying to each of the insti tutions the provisions being the same in both. Senator Chandler saya that it is contemplated that only the Bethle hem works shall be taken, unless in case of necessity when the Carnegie in stitution should also be seized. The principal section of the bill auth orizes and directs the secretary of the navy forthwith to take possession of tha land, buildings and machinery such as constitute the armor making plant of two companies. He is directed "to hold and use such land, buildings and machinery for a period of time suffi cient to enable said secretary to man ufacture at the works embraced by said plant, such portion as he may see fit there to manufacture of the armor plate necessary for the completion of the battleships Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin, now in process of construc tion for the ITnited States and there after to return the possession of said, land, buildings and machinery to said Bethlehem Iron company, to be held by said company as its own property as if the taking hereby authorized had not been made: and the aforesaid taking, holding and using of said land, build ings and machinery by the said secre tary of the navy for the purpose afore said, shall be deemed to be a taking thereof for the public use of the l.'nited States under an obligation to make just compensation therefor, in accordance with the fifth amendment to the con stitution." The bills provide for the adjudication of any claims that may arise against the government out of the transaction by the court of claims, whose judgment in the case is to be final. The award and allowance are to include sums suf ficient to equal the damage by the wear and tear of the plant and the interert upon its actual value, and such addi tional sums as may be fairly duo for each year's use of said plant. Successive suits are authorized for each year that the plants are held ar.d jur trials are authorized unless the right to jury trial is waived by the owners of the plant. Marriage Licenses, Marriage license were issued by Pro bate Judge Dolman this morning ta William C. Lamb and Laura B. Nixon, both of Richland, and Calvin II. Leeji and Clara Buechner, both of Topeka. i

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOTTRNAX, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1897. The sweetest and the most expressive ktbtf?U IlEall I word in the English language and the one about which the most tender and holy recol lections cluster is that of Mother she who watched our tender years; yet the life of every Expectant Mother is beset EE Mother's Friend bo assists Nature in the change taking place that the Mother is enabled to took forward without dread or gloomy forebodings to the hour when she ex periences the the joy of Motherhood. Its use insures safety to the lives of both Mother and Child, and she is left stronger after than before confinement. Bent by Mail, on receipt of price, $1.00 per bot tle. Book to Expectant Mothers will be mail ed free on request, to any lady, containing val uable information and voluntary testimonials. The Bradfleld Begalator Co., Atlsits, 6 s. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. HATE YOUR

Prescriptions 1 FILLED AT Stansfield's Drug Store, 632 Kansas Avenue. W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe. Stylish, durable, perfect fitting. Endorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. V. L. Douglas $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 Shoes are the productions of skilled workmen, from the best material pos sible at these prices. Also $2 50 and $2 Shoes lor Men, $2.50, $2 and $1.75 Boys We nseonlv the best t'alf, Russia Calf, French latent Caif, Frencli Kiiamci. Vici Kid, etc., g-raik'd to eorrespomlwith prices of the shoea. If dealer cannot supply you, write 4 Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. SOLD LX TOPEKA CASH DRY GOOD3 CO., 713 and 715 Kansas Ave. ROOSEVELT IS PLEASED. It is Said Secretary Long Will Give Eim Practically a Free Rein. Washington, April 12. Theodore Roosevelt, nominated and confirmed as assistant secretary of the navy, arrived here today. He will leave for New York tomorrow. He passed most of his time this afternoon at the department, and announced that he would take charge of his new office April 19. Mr. Roosevelt had a long- conference with Secretary Lonff, which is understood to have been mutually satisfactory. When asked if he had determined on any special policy in his department, Air. Itoosevelt said: "I have not. I shall do the best I know how to carry out the policy of Secretary Long. Judging from my re ception and experience today, I believe I will like my new position very much." It has become evident that Mr. Tloosevelt's appointment is of more sig nificance than was at first supposed. It is said Secretary Long desired the se lection of an assistant with sufficient breadth of mind and executive ability to largely assume the management of affairs. It is, consequently, probable that Mr. Itoosevelt will be given prac tically a free rein. Rheumatism Cured in a Day. "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days Its action upon the system is remark able and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease imme diately disappears. The first dose great ly benefits. T. F. Anthony, ex-postmaster of Promise City, Iowa, says: "I bought one bottle of "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism, and two doses of it did roe more good than any medicine I ever took." Sold by Swift Holliday, drug gists, E23 Kansas avenue, Topeka. PERSONAL The gentleman who an noyed the congregation last Sunday by continually coughing will tind instant relief by using One Minute Cough Cure, a speedy and harmless remedy for throat and lung troubles. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas ave. fx On a red hot i day Hires I 1 JJ L UCCL stands be tween you and the dis i a ressine e fects of the u am U -uy cools the blood, LI tones the stom ach, invigorates the body, fully satisfies the thirst. Adelicious.spark- ling, temperance drink of the high est medicinal value. MrJ pc!t bT The Chftrlw E. Hires Co., Pbila. A picture makes 5 gallons, bold evcrwber. v a s h a ft n h a V A j LET 'EMJIGHT. It is Now Regarded as Improb able That The Powers Will Restrain Greece in E?ent of War. BLOW UP THE TURKS. Greek Forces Dynamite a Turk ish Post. They Are Said to Be Command ed by Regular Army Officers. Vienna, April 13. The pidlomatic situation here is one of expectancy. The proposal to blockade the Piraeus is now is abeyance, and the diplomats consider it wholly improbable that the powers will agree to restrain the Greek army in the event of war between Greece and Turkey. Klassona, April 13. The Turkish staff officer who was sent to Krania by i'dhem Pasha to ascertain definitely with respect to the invasion reports that the presence of Greek regulars among the invaders has been proven and that there is also good reason to believe that Greek officers of the regu lar army were in command. He states further that the bands lie hidden during the day time and sally forth at night to fire upon the Turkish troops. Edhem Pasha's staff are great ly puzzled by these attacks. His offi cers say "Let the Greeks make war or keep still." It is reported that the Greeks had 12 killed and the Turks, two with 1:1 wounded. The latter belonged to the patrol postern, on the edge of the for est where the Greeks were in hiding. They were picked off by sharpshooters. The report of the staff officers in question has been wired to Constanti nople and a reply is anxiously awaited. Larissa. April 13. The invaders con tinue to blockade Baltino. It is report ed that the Turkish reinforcements are now en route from Diskata. The re mainder of the insurgents have taken up strong positions near the moun tains. The latest details at hand are that the invaders dynamited the Turk ish post opposite Phonika and Perlian gia. The troops here were kept stand ing under arms until 3 o'clock yester day afternoon as it was feared the raid would hasten hostilities. There has been an outbreak of smallpox among the Turkish and many deaths are re ported at Damasci. London, April 13. The Daily Chroni cle's correspondent at Athens says that the body of regulars expected to fight a decisive battle at Grevena. Following is the text of their procla mation "Brothers and Soldiers of Christ and Liberty "We hoist the flag of liberty for the Greek countries. Under its shadow let us unite, having as a watchword 'lib erty or death." "The justice of our cause is recogniz ed by all free people blest by God, let us push onward, brother Greeks. God is with us." The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Kalambaka says that fighting is still going on a few miles west of Baltino. The irregulars are returning to the frontier for food. A Turkish captain and his men, after heroic resistance, escaped from Baltino. Last evening there was a heavy fall of snow and the irregulars were much exhausted with the cold, which was intense. The Times print the following dis patch from its Athens correspondent: Many persons doubt whether the raid ers have done the cause of Hellenism any real service. It is inexplicable how the Ethnike Hetairias forces continue their operations without any base. Their number alone require that they receive constant supplies and munitions of war. It Is highly probable that they will soon find themselves in an ex tremely critical position. Should they succeed in the advance into Macedonia the army will insist upon following should they fail, their defeat must be avenged. M. Delyannis. however, clearly ex plained to me today that if the Hetairia had not undertaken to cut the Gordian knot, the government would have been obliged to take decisive steps within a few days. Greece, he added, in the present state of her finances could not maintain an army of SO.0O0 men under arms any length of time without enor mous sacrifices, so that if there is to be fighting it must come immediately. The government, forewarned by the Armenian massacres, has been saving gold for the last two years, and up to this point has not been compelled to have recourse to the money market. The rate of exchange, therefore has not risen and there is no intention of in creasing the amount of forced curren cy. Nevertheless, additional funds must be provided immediately and an internal loan is proposed. It will probably be covered. The gov ernment has no news from the frontier of later date than yesterday evening and the inference .from this is that everything is quiet. STRIFE OVER A THEATER. Chicago's Great Northern to Remain Closed for Some Time. Chicago, April 13. As a result of a feud between Messrs. Palmer and Rork, lessees of the Great Northern theater, John A. and Alexander Davidson and the Great Northern Theater and Hotel company, the playhouse may remain closed for some time. The lessees filed a bill in the circuit court to restrain the Davidsons from prosecuting any suit to enforce the payment of rent. They also asked the court to dissolve the part nership heretofore existing between the four men. The house closed Thursday night aft er a successful run of'A Parlor Match" with Anna Held as an added attraction. Last night a number of stage employes stood around the entrance discussing the possibility of a settlement for the wages claimed to be due. Manager Eden of the hotel says he has a claim of S400 against the lessees. From the time the house was first opened bitter strife has marked the ca reer of the Great Northern. TO TEACH. MOTHERS. Members of the Child-Study Society Arrange for Meetings. Chicago, April 13. At the annual congress of the Illinois Child Study so ciety, to be held in Chicago from April 1 to May 1, inclusive, addresses will be made by several prominent persons. Among them are Frances Parker, Miss Amelia Hoier of Chicago and Prof. Krohn of the University of Illinois. An attempt will be made to interest mothers in a study of the hearts and brains of their children, and in order to reach as many mothers as possible the meetings will be held in various parts of the city. The first two days of the congress will be devoted to spe cial conferences of child-study workers. THE CEETAN MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. St. Louis May Own Its Own Electric Light Plant. St. Louis, April 13. The electric light companies, in holding out for more fa vorable specifications on the municipal electric; lighting contracts, may have cut their own throats. The city may do its own electric lighting. The attention of the members of the board of public improvements has been turned by the situation to the feasibility of making a financial arrangement whereby the necessary plant can be ob tained. President McMath spoke guardedly about it. He said:: "The city cannot increase its bonded indebtedness, but it is just possible a way may be found to beat the devil about the bush. One thing is cer tain. At the expiration of the new con tract, if one is entered into, the city will have to- acquire its own plant or be at the mercy of a monopoly. "Now, before 1920, the bonded Indebt edness will have been materially reduc ed by the present sinking fund provi sions, and the city will be in a position to go into the business. "But I think it is possible that a fin ancial arrangement can be made for do ing it right away. When a franchise is granted to a person he need have no money. "He issues bonds and gets all the money he needs. He also contrives to save a considerable bonus for his pains. "The city cannot issue bonds, but I can conceive of it making an arrange ment with somebody to do it, under which the interests of both, would be perfectly safe." "What do you think of the plan sug gested sometime ago by the Manufac turer's Association?" "There were defects In that, but they might be corrected." "I don't say that a plan for the city doing its own lighting will be broached. It will depend on whether the demands of the companies fox modification of the specifications are reasonable." II AY MARKET STAT UE. Monument Erected to Commemorate the Anarchistic Riot Moved. Chicago, April 13. The statue of the typical Chicago policeman that haa stood in Haymarket square, at Des plaines and Randolph streets, since the regime of Mayor John A. Roche, will be removed within a week or ten days. It will be reset, after being brightly burnished and thoroughly scrubbed, in Union Park, at the Randolph street entrance. Truck wagons and the spattering and clattering of the horses hauling the west side street cars on Randolph street have plastered the pedestal with mud. The inscription at the base of the monu ment is almost illegible from the con stant flings of tomatoes and cabbages by sacrilegious hucksters. The little iron railing, designed as a protection to the monument, is battered, broken and almost torn from its foundation. The monument, meaning so much, has of late caused little praiseworthy com ment. It la dirty, partly broken and ill cared for. The act of the council Thursday night in complying with the request of Archbishop Feehan to remove the monument has met with the hearty approval of every citizen who has given the subject a second thought. The model of the statue was Thomas Birmingham, one of the finest appear ing officers on the force, now retired and engaged in business. TRIBUTE TO VOORHEES. Ex-President Harrison Says Kindly Words of the Late Senator. Indianapolis, Ind., April 13. In talk ing last night of the late Senator Voor hees, ex-President Harrison said: "Mr. Voorhees when not in the heat of poli tical controversy, was a man of re markable kindness and generosity, and even the stings of controversy were soon forgotten. He was always ready to serve his friends and always judged their capacities and characters favor ably often too favorably. Mr. Garland once told me that Air. Voorhees. when urging upon him the appointment of a young Indiana friend as assistant attorr ney-general, reached the climax of his panegyric by saying: 'Garland, I tell you he is the best lawyer I ever knew,' to which Mr. Garland replied: Well, that settles his case, VoaThees, for I am not going to have an assistant attorney general who is a better lawyer than I am' "Many Republicans have found in Mr. Voorhees a willingand serviceable friend in the transaction of their business with the government. He labored un tiringly and beyond his stngth for all who appealed to him. Hi" children will have the sympathy of all our people. He You have tried "77" for Grip and Colds Now try "10" for Dyspepsia. Sold by druggists or sent on receipt of 25 cts., 50 cts. or $1. Humphrey's Med. Co., cor. William John ata., New York. SITUATIOM. and I had some rather sharp contests, but our kindly personal relations were never broken." SOUSA'S RIG SALARY. Mrs. Elakeley's Side of the Recent Band Transaction. New York, April 13. Counsel for the estate of David Blakeley made a state ment today in regard to the trouble be tween Band Leader Sousa and the es tate, which culminated at Yonkers last night, when Sousa refused to play there on the ground that the concert had not been booked by Mr. Blakeley before his death. "Sousa's band was organized," said Mrs. Blakeley's representative, "in 18i2 by David Blakeley, and under the con tract, Sousa was hired at a salary of $6,000 per annum and 20 per cent of the profits. From August 1, 1895, up to the time of Mr. Blakeley's death, in Novem ber, 1896, Sousa received one-half of the profits. "Sousa was in Europe when he heard of Mr. Blakeley's death, and he imme diately cabled Frank Christiana to rep resent him in this city until his return. He returned in December, 1896, and no tified Mrs. Blakeley that her rights in the band had terminated and that he proposed to go on with the tour that had been arranged for by Mr. Blakeley, un der his own name, taking all the profits and giving Mrs. Blakeley nothing. She notified Sousa that she should manage the tour herself, and that he must go on under her management, which he aa promptly refused to do. Afterward he consented to go oi the tour under hev management, and since December 28, 1896, Sousa has played at every con cert under her management until Cues day night, when he refused to play at Yonkers." OLEO FOR VETERANS. Governor of Ohio Soldiers' Home Ar rested on a Punishable Charge. Soldiers' Home, Dayton, O., April 13. Great interest among the veterans is felt here over the arrest of Colonel Je rome B. Thomas, governor of this home, on a warrant sworn out by Joseph E. Blackburn, state dairy and food com missioner of Ohio, on a charge of issu ing oleomargarine to the soldiers and selling one pound of the same to the commissioner himself, which he de clared contained turmeric and annetto, without displaying the proper signs designated by law. A big legal fight will be the result, as the board of managers of the na tional homes, of which the president of the United States and secretary of war are members ex-officio, will, it is said, back Governor Thomas, saying nothing of the Chicago firm that supplies the oleomargarine to the home. HARRISON AS MODERATOR. Coming Presbyterian General Assem bly Will Select the Ex-President. Winona, Ind., April 13. Six weeks from today the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States will open in Assembly hall here. It will continue ten days. This is the one hundred and ninth general assembly and is one of the chief ecclesiastical gatherings held in the United States. Ex-President Harri son will in all probability be made mod erator. General Harrison has already been elected a delegate to Winona by the Indianapolis presbytery, of which he is a member. TWO COMPANIES ASSIGN. Death of the President of Both Given as the Cause. Chicago, April 13. Owing to the death of M. J. Fitch, the paper dealer, two companies of which he was presi dent made an assignment today. The names of the companies are the M. J. Fitch Paper company and the American Roll Wrapping Paper com pany. The Fitch company is said to have assets of $75,000, with an equal amount of liabilities. The roll paper company, It is claimed, has assets of $25,000, with liabilities of $15,000. Kansana Get to Port Arthur. Port Arthur, Tex.. April 13. The large excursion arrived in three special cars. There are about 100 in the party, which is composed largely of strong business men of Missouri and Kansas. Among the more prominent members of the party are Ralph Ingalls. son of ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, and Col. R. L. Walker, ex-United States marshal and a prominent Kansas politician. The party will be entertained with boat rides on the Sabine lake, a trip to Sabine Pass and a visit to the jetties. English Wool Sales. Boston, April 13. At the last auction sales of wool in London representatives of Boston merchants bought 95.000 bales. The receipts of foreign wool here last week amount to over 40.U0O hales, which breaks any previous record for the same length of time. Sophia Traulman Married. New York, April 13. Sophia Traulman, the singer, was married on February 35 to Chas. Patzousky, a member of the firm of Myer Jona.-ison Co.. and wealthy. The fact has just been announced. The best of all pills are Beecham's. SURPRISED. The Executive Committee of the National Association of Democratic Clubs Meets. REVISION OF TARIFF They Regard as Inopportune Under Present Conditions. Never Thought Republicans Really Meant It. Washington, April 13. The first meet ing of the new executive committee of the national association of Democratic clubs took place here yesterday at the Ebbitt House. There was a very full attendance of members of the commit tee, and in addition some of the offlcerB were ex-officio members of the commit tee, those present including the follow ing: Chauncey F. Black of Pennsylvania, Jos. C. Sibley of Pennsylvania; Senator Faulkner of West Virginia; Benton McMillin of Tennesse; Representative Benton of Missouri, proxy for Governor Stone; WTilliam J. Bryan of Nebraska, proxy for James C. Dehlman; Repre sentative McGuire of California, proxy for Senator White of the same state; Representative J. H. Lewis of Wash ington state; Senator Chilton of Texas, proxy for Governor Hogg, and W. S. McKean, assistant secretary. Mr. McMillin was chosen to preside over the deliberations of the commit tee. The members of the committee say that the meeting was more fully at tended and the interest displayed was greater than at any previous gathering of the committee after the defeat in a previous campaign. The reports of the officers showed a very satisfactory con dition of affairs of the association. Dur the campaign there were 10,000 Demo cratic clubs. There are approximately 6,000 clubs still in existence. Their small indebtedness was promptly set tled and a new fund started. The methods and measures to be adopted for the future were even discuss ed. A committee, Messrs, Black, Mc Millin and McGuire was appointed to prepare an address to the Democratic clubs of the country. Address after reciting the objects of the association, and declaring that they are the principles of Jefferson and of the Democratic party, never surrender ed or abandoned, and essential to the preservation of the republic, proceeds as follows: "But as members of the executive committee, assembled at a time when these fundamental principles are about to be disregarded by an administration recently installed, and by a large ma jority of the house of representatives, proceeding almost avowedly to exert their fortuous power to lay the country and all the industrial classes under tri bute to a vast combination of mono polies, in utter contempt of constitution al limitations of Republican principles and popular rights, we feel it our duty to call your attention to the peculiar situation and to urge you to that vigi lance which has ever been and ever must be the price of liberty. "When an apparent majority of the votes of the people was counted out of the ballot boxes last year in favor of the Republican candidates for president and vice president, while we deplored the result and were convinced that no possible relief could be afforded by the party so returned to power, we were more than willing to afford its agents every opportunity to demonstrate whether or not their politics were ade quate. "In common with many who last year voted Republican tickets under secret protest, and with serious misgivings as to the future, we supposed that the ad ministration and its friends in congress charged with unlimited power and con scious of the grave responsibility would see the necessity of proceeding in a ra tional manner, and that they would, at all events, not feel it incumbent upon them to further disturb the business of the people by rushing into a revision of the tariff laws for the sole purpose of repaying the vast outlays of the com bined monopolists in the late campaign. But we see at this time with alarm that they are resolved to grant no de lay in the execution of a fixed and ruth less design. They insist that taxes are not high enough under the present law. They are to be made higher. And the producing people, already impoverished by adverse legislation are to be forced to suffer still more in the increased prices of clothing, their food and other necessaries of life, including implements of their industries. "This monstrous bill, fit successor to the McKinley bill of abominations itself has been pushed through the house under prac tical gag law and is now pending in the senate, where already threats are heard against the freedom of debate and where a passage is to be forced by the use of executive patronage reserved for the pur pose. This is one of the stones which the people of the United States are to get Instead of the bread they asked for and so much need. Whether the promises mp.de to them as to other matters and the hopes they were led to form through the extraordinary expedients employed by the monopolists in the late campaign are to be similarly disposed of, can hardly be an object of conjecture. A party which open ly uses the terrible power of taxation for private enrichment, and for correspond ing oppression of the people, can not bo. expected to use any other power with moderation and justice. Although the paramount mietion before the people was and is that of the single gold stand ard, as against the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and a mighty majority of the whole people declared un equivocally for bimetallism either inde. pendently or by International agreement, we see not the .slightest indication of any disposition to move in thr.t direction. While all industries languish while the gold dollar appreciates and the silver dol lar is denied its natural economic func tion, while a nation wr-its and sunV-ri, tariff schedules are being revised for the exclusive benefit of the tax eaters and th gold owners are tacitly assured that they need apprehend no encroachments upon their monopoly, which i visibly appro priating the profits upon the labors of civilized mankind. To the bitter com plaints of tbe people, the answer of the Roman farmer of the revenues is return ed, namely: "more taxes and a dearer currency with which to pay them.' "Federalist administrations have uni formly run into excesses not unlike those we are witnessing at present, but never before in the history of the Republic bav they been so candidiy avowed or so coolly Justified, u.s a party policy rendered neces sary by campaign contracts, in order to secure the pover thus to be abused. Tha administration and congress having tak en this attitude and again thrown down the gaga of battle to the allied hosta of American free men who supported tha Democratic candidates last year casting their millions of unpurchased votes for liberty regulated by law we. of the Democratic party are left no alternative but to take it up. Our cause, is far stronger toda.v than ever before. We have only to organize, to bring right thinking and right feeling people together in Democratic societies where the design of monopolist parties in power may be discussed and exposed and where each good citizen, encouraged by his neighbor. will resist the seductions and resent the threats of the common enemy to sweep up a great majority of representatives of the masses in the next house and to carry tha elections of 1900 as. triumphantly aa our Democratic forefathers carried thosa Of 1SO0. "We respectfully suggest that Demo, cratic societies constituted after the man ner of those which Mr. Jefferson describ ed as 'very nurseries of Republican prin ciples' be established in every district, and that the Democratic staJe. county &nd city chairmen throughout the coun try take steps to Insure such organiza tions. "These will constitute an irresistabla force in the contests before us. To insure a popular victory which will inaugurate the new century with as sure a prom ise of liberty, pvce and prosperity as Jefferson's election, we require the means of constant discussion and the means of polling our honest vote in spite of cor ruption and intimidation. This, a thor ough club organization will accomplish." SEXTON JONES IN COURT. Talks in a audlin Mannar tn .Tn ri err, t Tta.a. a n f-t i O n T.I1 "Attachment issued for defendant and defendant arrested and brought Into open court by deputy sheriff. Defend ant too drunk to have a hearing and ordered locked up until he sobered up." The above citation appears in Judge Hazen's handwriting on yesterday's docket of the district court. Above it Is the entry of the case of Anna Jones vs. D. B. Jones. It is probably the only citation of the kind that Judge Hazen ever penned in dictrict court docket since he has been on the bench, but he could hardly have placed any other statement there and have told the whole truth. A week ago Anna Jones brought suit for divorce against D. B. Jones, the sexton of the Topeka cemetery, to whom she was "married in 1S72. She also asked the court to issue an order re straining her husband from selling any personal property, claiming that all they owned as man and wife belonged in part to her, and in response to her request Judge Hazen issued the order. Yesterday afternoon her attorney came into court and asked Judge Hazen to issue an attachment for contempt against Jones on the ground that he had disregarded the order and sold a horse. The complaint was made by his wife. The attachment was issued, and about 4 o'clock Under Sheriff Bert Lucas brought Jones into court. He was ap parently pretty well under the influ ence of liquor and stared about the court room in a bewildered sort of a way. A recess was taken in the case then on trial and Lucas requested by Judge Hazen to bring his prisoner for ward. When Jones got within hearing distance of the court. Judge Hazen said: "Mr. Jones, you are charged with having sold a horse contrary to an order issued by this court some days ago. What have you to say?" For two or three minutes Jones didn't have anything to say. He leaned against a table for support and simply stared at the court with the appear ance of a man just awakened from a Rip Van Winkle slumber. Finally he pulled himself together, straightened up and blurted out in an unsteady voice: "Whatchy say, judge?" "I said," replied Judge Hazen, in an annoyed and rather severe tone, "that you are charged with having sold a horse contrary to an order issued by this court. What have you to say for yourself?" Jones leaned over the court rail and focussed his gaze on Judge Hazen's countenance. "Tell you how 'twas, judge," he said. "Man had a mortgage on that horse and he come and got him, see, Judge?" "But the order of the couit said you shouldn't dispose of any of your per sonal property pending the trial of your case," said Judge Hazen. "Can't help it. judge, court's off," and Jones' right arm commenced to de scribe figures in the air as he swayed backward and forward against the rail. "Horsh shmy business, an" court's no right "Sheriff, take this man to jail," thun dered Judge Hazen, and then he add ed: "and leave him there until he so bers up." And as Jones was marched out of the court room by Under Sheriff Lucas Judge Hazen wrote his citation in the docket. TEN THOUSAND MINERS. They Are Asked to Accept a 12 1-2 Per Cent Reduction in Wages. Birmingham, Ala., April 13. The Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany, which employs 8,000 coal miners and whose wage scale governs that of 10,000 miners in Alabama, has asked its miners to accept a reduction of 12 per cent, effective July 1. President Nat Baxter of that com pany, who addressed a mass meeting of 2,000 miners at Blocton today, said that the reduction in wages was found necessary in order for his company to secure certain large contracts, espe cially for export shipment, on 'which very close figures had been made by competitors, assuring the miners that if they accept the reduction they would be guaranteed steady work; whereas, their refusal would cause many to lose employment. The present wage con tract between the miners and operators holds until July 1, and will not be broken without consent of both parties, but on that date a lower scale than the existing one probably will be urged by the operators in any event. The miners have the proposition under ad visement, but the feeling is said to be adverse to accepting. Secretary Gage Gets a Present. Washingtons- ApriP"T.3. Secretary Gage today received by express a mag nificent gold, bronze and onyx ink stand, on the back of which was en graved, "Presented to Lyman J. Gage by the clerks of the First National bank of Chicago, 111., on his retiring from the presidency to accept the po sition of secretary of the treasury of the United States, March 4, 18S7. Gotham's $1,000,000 Museum. New York, April 13. Work will begin shortly on the new wing to the Metro politan Art museum. It will be shaped like a T and classic in design. The estimated cost is $1,000,000. Mrs. A. Inveen, residing at 720 Henry St Alton, 111-, suffered with sciatic rheumatism for over eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using various remedies rec ommended by friends, and was treated by the physicians, but received no re lief. She then used one and a half bot tles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which effected a complete cure. This is pub lished at her request, and she wants others similarly afflicted to know what cured her. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by Druggists. It should be made a matter of public knowledge that DeWitt's Wrltch Hazel Salve will speedily cure piles of the longest standing. It is the household favorite for burns, scalds, cuts, bruises and sores of all kinds. G. W. Stans fteld, 632 Kansas ave. California Express, every day in the year via the Santa Fe Route, with Pullman Palace and Tourist sleepers, leaves Topeka at 4:35 p. m. The little I t boy who!, tickles a ti-I' y S'sr ger with a cl('SS- straw MdW:JVH!t 5&, tne man wno r-iSwlVM H ''A'- fools with his H I health are on H I a oar. If r 11 there is any distinction it is in favor of the boy who imagines he is playing with a I big cat and is not old enough to realize his danger. The man if he don't know, ought to know that when he neglects hia health he is tempting fate and tampering' with death. Nine men out of ten neglect their health. The result is that untold thousands fall victims every year to the insatiable tiger called consumption. 98 per cent, of all cases of consumption are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It acts directly on the lungs, building new tissue in place of old, and driving out all impurities and disease germs. It corrts all disorders of the digestion, invigorates the liver and restores the lost appetite. It is the great blood-maker, flesh builder, and nerve tonic. Thousands havo testified to their recovery under its use after their cases were given up by the doctors and all hope was gone. The druggist who claims to have something that will do just as well is untrustworthy. I was afflicted for four years with local -wek-itess, but would not confess it for a time," writes Mrs. Beulah Woodall. of Bateman, Patrick Co Vo. My mother told me she had read of Dr. Pierce's medicines and advised me to try them. I took the Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery,' and they cured me. I cannot praise Dr. Pierce's medicines too much." Nothing will keep down the fortunes of an ambitious family more than big- doctor's bills. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser enables a family to get along with out calling in a doctor except in cases of serious illness or accidents. It teaches a mother how to treat the minor maladies and accidents of every-day life. It contains 1,008 pages, over 300 illustrations, and is written in plain English that any one can understand. Over a million homes own copies of it. A new edition is ready and will be given away absolutely free. If you want a paper-covered copy send twenty-one one-cent stamps, to cover the cost of mail ing only, to the World's Dispensary Med ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. If you want a fine cloth binding, send ten cents extra, thirty-one cents in all. A DUTY ON CRANRERRIES. The Caps Cod Growers Protected by the Dingley Tariff Bill. Sandwich, April 13. The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' association has been much concerned because it was supposed that, from the reading of the tariff bill as passed by the house, no duty had been placed on cranberries. The growers claim that cranberries can be grown and pp-cked in Canada more cheaply than In the United States. Canada imposes a tax of 25 per cent 011 all berries imported from the United States. The executive committee-of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers association held a meeting in Boston and resolu tions were adopted and forwarded to each of the senators and representa tives in congress asking them to use their influence to obtain a duty equiva lent to that imposed by Canada, BIG LOBSTER DIES. After a Week of Life in New York "Cabby" Passes Away. New- York, April 13. "Cabby," the big lobster which was caught in a trawl off Sandy Hook a week ago, and which was placed in the aquarium yesterday afternoon, died at noon today. "Cabby" was supposed to be about SO years old and was larger than "Fitzsimmons," which has been the attraction at the aquarium for several weeks. For several days "Cabby" has been on exhibition in a lower Broadway res taurant. During the time he was on a large table and was placed in water only at night, when the restaurant was closed. Americans are the most inventive people on earth. To them have been issued nearly 600,000 patents, or more than one-third of all the patents issued in the world. No discovery of modern years has beea of greater benefit to mankind that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or has done more to relieve pain and suffering. J. W. Vaughn, of Oakton, Ky.. says: "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy in my fam ily for several years, and find it to be the best medicine I ever used for cramps in the stomach and bowels. For sale by Drusre-ists. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 aid 114 West Sth. st. Croup and whooping cough are child hood's terrors; but like pneumonia, bronchitis, and other throat and lung troubles, can be quickly cured by using One Minute Cough Cure. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas ave. DANIEL MYERS, OF PENNSYLVANIA. A Living Object Lesson for Or. Miles' New Heart Cure. n I.V ',y: v Nil EART DISEASE Is curable. "For over forty years," writes Daniel Myers of Two Taverns. Pa., on Auk. 10, 1896. "I suffered with heart disease. First a slight palpitation, gradually growing worse. Then shortness of breath, sleeplessness, smother ing sensations and much pain in the region of the heart alarmed me and I consulted a physician. Receiving no benefit I tried others and a number of remedies, spending a 'large amount of money, but finally be- rVllias' i v mutiny, UUb uuauj w- tHfiSA CisES-l came 80 bad tbat lt was 5 tB-nm. i unsaieiorme io ia v Rootores i h(im rnmmeilCed Wealth jS I using Dr. Miles' Heart teijMiiJ Cure two years ago. I eighteen months I have been well. Al though 72 years of age I can go where I wish and I sleep all night and wake up as cheer ful as a babe and completely rested." Dr. Miles Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or mouey refunded. Book on Heart and Nerves sent free to all applicants. DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind, PC

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TOPEKA STATE JOURXAI,, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1897. HEAR FROM THEPEOPLE. Barton County Silver Voters Censure the Legislature. Indignant at Defeat of Maxi mum Freight Bill. ASK THE GOTEilNOIl To Ignore the"Traitors"Claims Want No Special Session. Members Should YoteiuTopeka As They Talk at Home. ran-nee Rock, April 13. At a moot ing of the Free Silver Hub of this city held April 10, the full.. wins resolutions w-re passed unanimously The fundamental principles under lying a free antl just government of. by. and for the people, is Ihf right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and last fall believing that we had elected Kislators. by. and from the people; and thereby "would be fully represented us people should who live under a just, fair and impartial govcrment; and v.iierea-s, our legislators have given us tome verv good laws, such as the school book. law. and the law lor the protect;.. n nf depositors In banks. Also in the re duction of .salaries of public officers, in the passage of the stock yards bill, in the state grain inspection bi!i. whereby the inspection of grain was taken out ..f the hands of the .board of trade: and also- the anti-trust law. Aiso the as tignir.ent tnortg-age bill, whereby the mortgagee's name must appear upon iie records, thereby giving the mort gager an opportunity to know to whom .e is indebted. "'And. whereas, after giving due cred it for all the gouJ and the benefits to be derived by the people from the enact ment of said laws most of which said laws were passed under pressure from their constituents after their legal time to draw pay had expired. "And. -whereas. The people had time and time again asked for a maximum freight rate bill, and had been promised said bill by said legislators publicly and privately: An 1 w hereas. Paid legislators scarce ly even attempted to pass a maximum rate bill, but tried to palm off on the people a bill that was gotten up, which was more favorable to the railroads than to tile people. "And. whereas. It appears that a con siderable number of our legislators vot ed fur the so-called Harris bill under protest, when they should have emulat ed that patriot of Coffee county who said. 'This bill is not what my people want and therefore I vcrte no." Now therefore be it. Resolved. Hy the Free Silver league of Pawnee Rock, that we hereby con demn the cowardly action of our legis lators in refusing to pass said maximum rai- bill. And be it further, "Resolved, That we condemn the ac tion of the legislators who voted for the so-called Harris bill under protest as smacking too much after the actions of the old parties, in trying to find an excuse for not doing their duties in ac cord with their pledges to the people, as too thin a subterfuge. And be it fur-.thet- Resolved. That we call upon all of said legislators who failed to fight the so-called Harris bill from start to finish to resign and let the people elect men who will vote in Topeka' as they talk at home. And be it further Resolved. That we hereby ask the governor not to appoint any of the said so-called Harris bill supporters to any office within his gift. And be it fur ther "Resolved. That we hereby ask the governor not to call a special session of the said set of legislators, so that thev might fritter away their time at the cost of thousands of dollars to the tax payers. And be it further, "Resolved. That a copy of these re solutions be forwarded to the governor and also a copy to each of the free sil ver papers of Barton count v. "I. T. GOATLT, "Vice Pres. free Silver club "F. T. BELT, "Secretary, Pro Tern." SALINE POPULISTS ANGRY. Call on Senator Reser to Resign De mand an Extra Session Salina. April 13. Considerable indig nation has been aroused among the Populists of this county bv the disclos ures brought to light by the legisla tive investigating committee during the past few days, and as a result a move ment is on foot to petition the governor for an extra session of the legislature, and then pin the members of both houses down to action on the railroad question. The senator from this district. J. A. Reser. voted against the maximum freight rate bill and by so doing aroused the wrath of a good part uf njs consti tuents. At an indignation meeting re cently held, he was severely seared and R. A. Lovitt. a prominent attornev and late candidate for railroad commission er said the late legislature was the greatest disappointment Kansas has ever had. The meeting was so radical that the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas. The reform parties of the state of Kansas succeeded in electing a ma.onty of both branches of the last legislature of this state, and whereas. In- citizens of Saline countv Kansas K".. w tr.at some of the representatives particularly the senators did not do that w Inch was expected of them bv the poo pie, or that which was promised by them 10 their cont;tu us And wher.as. We do not understand by what rig.it a majority of the legis lature should refuse l(J Pil.-.et into law for the benefit of the people u h de mands as are made the issue upon which they are elected, and whereas such ac tions on the part of the leaders and rep resentatives of a party to whom the people have for the time bin entrust ed and delegated all power to act for them, in such all important matters i, very detrimental to the luutre p.-oVess and prosperity of such partv md muV ultimately destroy all hope .f'iv,e pcop'ie mucn neeueu reiorms &nd whereas we believe that unless Uch representatives who have thus betraved their constituents be called upon to ex plain such actions will grow worse an,j dangerous to the liberty of the citizens Therefore be it resoived that we the citizens of Saline county, in convention assembled. rnost earnestly and sincere ly censure and condemn some of the ac tions of our representatives in the last legislature and particularly that of the senators, and believing that it is not only our privilege but our duty as cit izens of a government of, for and by lmportanee were passed and hills of importance were passed and bill of greater moment voted down contrary to the promises made by such represen- tatives prior to their election. And be it further. Resolved, That we call upon every county committee to call meetings of this kind and demand an explanation of their representatives why they have broken their sacred pledges to the peo ple. And be it further Resolved, That after such explana tions have been made it shall appear to our governor that this legislature are still willing to carry out their pledges to the people, that he convene them in extra session that they may enact laws that will relieve the people, and also from the unjust and extortionate freight rates now in force, and also from the unjust and extortionate express, tele graph, and telphone charges. And be it further Resolved, That in case there is an ex tra session of the legislature called and unless J. A. Reser, our senator is will ing to reform and endeavor to carry out the wishes of his constituents his re signation is hereby demanded. TREED BY BLOODHOUNDS. Emporia Dogs Track a Colored Han Over Seven Miles. The Kmporia Republican says: Testerday afternoon at 1 o'clock Tom Williams, one of Emporia's colored cel ebrities, started from the Cottonwood river, at Soden's. on a foot race against time and three blood hounds belonging to Peter Hines. It was a trial run for the dogs and an excellent opportunty to test their ability. He went across farms to Try Creek, crossed and reorossed the creek, then "back tracked" himself and after mak ing a circuit of about seven miles he climbed up into a high tree to await his capture. .Mr. Hines accompanied by Sheriff Cuaghan started with the dogs, owing to the bad roads the sher iff, who was driving, was unable to keep pace with the dogs. The trail was followed completely to Dry Creek and then followed through the w oods in every direction. The trick played on the dogs by back tracking puzzled the dogs for a few moments but they soon ferreted it out and then with their noses to the ground and with their characteristic howl soon had their man "treed." CENSURE SENATOR HELM. Russell County Populists Condemn Against Pilcher's Appointment Russell. April 13. Resolutions of the People's party central committee of Russell county, adopted at Russell, Saturday, April 10: Resolved, That we strongly favor a maximum rate freight bill and a two cent passenger rate, notwithstanding the actions and vote of W. B. Helm, elected as the Populist senator from this district. Resolved, That we warmly commend Governor Leedy for vetoing the senate railroad bill. A resolution asking the governor not to appoint Dr. Pilcher was voted down. The question of an extra session of the legislature was tabled until the next meeting of the committee, May 8. to await the decision of the Cnited States supreme court in the Nebraska maximum freight rate law, the volun tary adjustment of Kansas rates by the railroads, and the indications of a disposition among recalcitrant Populist legislators to vote in accordance with the principles of the platforms on which they were elected. HAS NO COURT HOUSE. Ellsworth, County Sells its Building for $9,500. Kllsworth, April 13. Mr. William Way of Boston, in compliance with a decree of the court, has tendered Klls worth county ?9..")00, which the county accepted, and now the county is with out a court house. Mr. Way has made the county com missioners a proposition to lease them the court house for 20 years at .$500 per year, at the end of which time he will make the county a deed, and not charg-3 ary interest on his money. Just what will be done at present is not known. The commissioners have thirty days to consider the matter, and if an agree ment is not reached the officers will have to move. W. A CALDERHEAD BUSY. Haunted by Office Seekers and Writ ten Applications. Marysville. April 13. Kx-Congress-man V. A. Calderhead since his return from Washington has been visited daily by several delegations from neigh boring towns by fellows who want to be postmasters, besides he is receiving from CO to 100 letters a day. Mr. Calderhead don't have so many newspaper fellows to contend with as Mr. Kilis does in the Sixth district, hav ing only heard of the following so far: A. M. Carrey. Times. Herington; J. C. Russell. Standard. Chapman; A. B. Kimball. Journal. Scandia: Simon S. Kogaard. Journal. Greenleaf: A. D. Campbell, Democrat, Hanover. Mr. Calderhead is giving each of his appli cants a fair show, and if he promised anything before the election no one seems to know anything about it now. He has arranged in his home alpha betically the pension claims of several hundred applicants, which he is also giving his attention. Mr. Calderhead's health is good, and he never looked bet ter. He will visit the G. A. R. encamp ment next week in Chanute in company with W. II. Smith, of this city, who is candidate for pension agent. FROM KANSAS TOWNS. General and Personal News From All Over the State. 1,1 NX The new Alesonic hall in this city, which takes the place of the one burned a year ago, is completed at a cost, including the furniture, of $1,500. The hall will be dedicated in May, at which Grand Master William M. Sha fer of Topeka. and Past (iiand Master J. C. Postlethwaite of Jewell City, will be present. N KWTON Moses Hazletine died here yesterday of heart failure after a brief illness. He had lived in Newton nineteen years. He was well known over the state. He leaves an insur ance of Js.000 to his wife and one child. WELLINGTON Rosy Willey and Jim Mullikin. the youthful jail break ers, were captured by Mullikin's father at Argonia Saturday evening about 8 o'clock. They were brought to Wel lington yesterday by Constable Gant of Argonia. and locked in the cage in the county jail for safe-keeping, to await the arrival of the I'nited States authorities, who will take them away. EMPORIA O. M. Wilhite and Chas. Ryder, who are running the new- ball park, have decided to put up a good, substantial grand stand. They will enclose the new grounds with a high fence. The tennis court will come in side this enclosure. The new park, which is on North Merchant street, is larger than the park that Topeka has and will not be nearly so hard to reach as the grounds at Soden's grove. ABILENE Rev. T. J. Fink, who has been state evangelist in Nebraska for the I'nited Evangelical church for the past two years, has been sent here by the Platte River conference tolookafter the interests of the Oak Hill and Lin colnville congregations and perhaps to organize those members of the old Evangelical association here who are sympathizers with "-vhat is known as Bishop Dubb's faction into a church. LEAVENWORTH The Catholic Knights of America will meet this evening to make arrangements for the grand parade to take place next Sun day morning in honor of the Pa. Rev. L. M. Fink, O. S. B., who will be rein stated as bishop at 10 o'clock. Division No. 1 of the Ancient Order of Hiberni ans will meet Wednesday evening for the same purpose. FOUNDER OF HILL CITY On Trial in the U. S. District Court Here Todiy. In the United States district court to day Wrilliam H. Hill, the founder of Hill City, Graham county, is on trial on the charge of acquiring government lands by forged affidavits. Hill's trial was commenced at the last term of court, having been indicted by the grand jury at Wichita last September, but a continuance was taken until this term of court. It is claimed that Hill worked with a colored notary public at Kansas City, and turned in affidavits to the land de partment at Washington purporting to be signed by soldiers' widows' and children, and received in return papers giving him the right to homestead land in Graham county. By this means he acquired thousands acres of land which he afterwards sold. The land department at Washington finally got wind of Hill's operations and sent a special agent to Graham county to look up the matter. This investiga tion on the part of the government agent resulted in the indictment of Hill. A large number of ignorant colored people, whom Hill engaged in his trans actions to carry out- the requirements of the homestead law. appeared as wit nesses at the trial today. THE ETHHIKE HETAIRIA Continue Their Victorious 3Iarcli Through Macedonia Drive Out 800 Turks at Crania, Athens, April 13. The 3.000 Hellenes who entered Macedonia have taken the towns of Balti-no and Crania, driving out a garrison of S00 Turks at the laiter place. They are now advancing along the snowy ridges of the Pindus mountains towards trie town of Grevona. They have already cut the telegraph wires between Mace donia and Kpirus, closing communication between the two divisions of the Turkish army. The fact that the Greek soldiers did not follow the insurgents shows the splendid discipline of the u-my. The war spirit here has reached fever heat. Five hun dred volunteers arrived today from the t:e Island of Cyprus and marched through the city, headed by priests with long flowing hair, bearing llags. Jt is an open secret here that by the end of the. pr es e n t wee k at 1 eas t 10, Greek "irregulars" will be in Macedonia, Albania and Epirus, having been sent un der the pretense of maintaining the status quo in obedience to the presentations of til3 powers. The Turkish minister at Athens yester day called tiie attention of M. Skonzes, the Greek minister for foreign affairs, to the departure from Greece of further "ir regular"' forces into Mtvedonia, com plaining of their being able to "evade" the Gi t-ek t r o o s. Th e r i 1 y w h i c Ji w a s received wtvs similar to the one previously im:de by wie Greek premier. M. Uelianii. namely, that Greece might make the same complaint a.s to the vigilance of the Turkish troops, unless there wiw a sug geLstion of connivance between the two armies. The next importan t move which will be heard, will be from the Greek headquarters at Art a, where the banks and principal stores, etc., are closing and removing into the interior and every oUier preparation possible, is being made to get out of harm's way before the war begins in earnest. At Arta, it is well-known here, a force of about men organized by the Kth- nike Hetairia. has either started for Turk ish territory, or is making the final prep arations for so doing. This body will be divided into six separate. detachments, each ably directed and having a .separate destination, with the view of raising the flag of the cross in a. certain locality, in creasing its numbers as much as possible and harassing the rear of the. Turkish force, which wiil be directed from Janina against the Greek regniars. who will oper ate against the Turks from Aria. The Greek government has given "strict or der.' to stop the departure of this force of "irregulurs," but it is semi-official ly explained the Greek commander at Aria-, Col. M anos, is "unable to Fpare men to interc-pt them." Nobody ever expected he wouid be able to 'spaje mn" to do o. The Kthnike Hetair ia probably counts him among its devoted members, as it does nearly all the officers in th Greek army and the colc-nel can be depended upon not to interfere with the carefully prepared plans of the national league which will make Greece a country worthy of its glorious traditions, or perish brave ly struggling to the last in its efforts to bring about a realization of the. dream for which its members have sworn to sacrifice their lives and all their belong, ings. if need be. A force of "irregular?' is preparing to cut off the Turkish communications with Salonica, from where the. Turks at Kla.s sona derive their supplies. If the attempt is successful thr- three Turkish army di visions, the eastern near Salonica. the central at Klassona and the. western at Janina, in addition to tlT1 army corps at G re vena, will be cut off from communica tion with aeh other. J n add ii ion I he Gnv-k fleet propose? to make things lively off Salonica. in order to prevent the landing of any suppl Los there. A sarong Meet is off Arta. ready to render effective service in that direc tion. Another Greek flct is off the is land of Skia.hos. prepared to strike at Salonica: anoioer Greek fleet is off tha island of Skyro. prepared to attack the Turkish islands in the Agean sea. All Ww- Greek deputies have been sum moned to attend the next meeting of the Houle. when a-n important pronouncement is expected. The powers, however, are. still trying to avert war, with little prospect of success. Dandruff forms when the glands of the skin are weakened, and if neglect ed, baldness is sure to follow. Hall's Hair lie newer is the best preventive. To he troubled with drowsiness indi cates the need of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Broken edge collars made smooth y Peerless Steam Laundry. j You don't j I know I where you got that cold. Do you know where you can get the c cure for it Every drug store keeps Ayer's Cierry Pectoral. C It cures coughs and colds. 5 RAILROAD NEWS. Freight Agent Gay of the Santa Fe System, Says There Was Not Eeen a Break Iu Freight Hates SINCE THE DECISION By the Snpreme Court Under standing Among Roads. Favorable Change of Time Out of Leavenworth. TVnver, !April 13. General Kretgrbt Apont K. C. clay of the Santa Fp sys'.em came to Denver direct from Vhieago last evening-, antl is loppiny at tlie Brown Palace Hotel. .Mr. Gay lias his headquar ters in Chicago, and is iow engaged in making a trip over the entire anta sy.stem. He talked interestingly about the present freight tariff situation, in the liyht of toe supreme court's decision on f.'itf Sherman anti-trust ia,v. "There, has not been a single break in freight raits po far." said h", "on account of the supreme court decision which de stroyed the railroad associations. Of course. T have heen looking out for any cutting that miht be going on during the time of my absence from Topeka.; that i part of my business. J can say positively that not a reduction from the tariffs in force before the associations were disabled has been made by any of the roads, nor do I expect any. The tariff situation is lirmer lha-h it ever was before. "How do I account for this? Well, if a Tire-.k should occur now. lu-.vinsr no asso ciation, the railroad companies could not ?et together again for the purpose of restoring- rates. That being the case, none of them can afford to do anything- that miKht lead to a general demoralization of tariffs. Tiiis, of course, is a matter of surmise, but it will not be strange if the roads find some means' of conferring wi".h each other vitlout conflicting with the ami-nool law. "Yes, it has been suggested that bu. reaus of statistics and information be formed. Such a move, in my opinion, would be quite lawful, as it is necessary that railroad officials shall have soma way of keeping themselves informed on general railroad business. These bureaus would not. however, be nearly as effect ive in preventing rate cutting as were the disbanded associations. I expect that representatives of tiie different roads wiil meet from time to time, a-nd discuss the bureau proposition until its feasibility iias been decidetl, one way or the other. "It lias already been discussed in Chi cago, but the talks there did not result in anything approaching a decisive opin ion. In the meantime I do not believe we wiil have a break in rates, for the reasons' mentioned awhile ago. ".Railroad business in the freight line is very good in the east," concluded the Santa Fe official. "Tiie jobbers in Chi cago. St. Louis and Missouri river points teil me that trade with them is unusually brisk this spr-ng. We all look for plenty of freight to handle, as the spring wheat and other crops give great promise." CENTRAL BRANCH NOTES. Short Items of Interest to Railroad Men Along the Mo. Pacific. Stockton, April 13. Frank Logan, Wm. L'tley .av.a M. Drake. Central Branch conductors, will attend the con ductors' excursion and visit Salt Lake and California points in May. The Missouri Pacific is putting- in water in the stock yards in Stockton, a much needed improvement. J. J. Ke'ley, an edd time Missouri Pa cific conductor, saw the airship hover infr over Stockton. He was close enough to see thr.t it had wings. The newcomer at the home of C. F. Bradley, agent for the Missouri Pacific at Gaylord. is a boy. M. J. Mitchell, passenger conductor on the Central Branch, has again taken his run after a lay-off of a month, visit ing with his wife in Hot Springs, Ark., where she is staying for health. All the Central Branch boys are pleased with the appointment of Frank Hammond as assistant general man ager of the Kansas City. Pittsburg Gulf. He was formerly in the employ of the Central Branch. There is talk of laying- 25 mile: of heavy steel rails between Atchison and Whiting. More trackmen are now employed on the Central Branch between Atchison and Prosser, Xeb., 275 miles, than at any time in the past three years. Changes of agents on the Central Branch have been made as follows: K. K. Bales has been transferred from Jamestown to Stockton, L.. A. Taber goes from Vleits to Jamestown, and J. H. Byrum of Sedalia has been given the Vleits station. The creameries along the Central Branch give this road a good business. They are in operation in Frankfort, I. inn, Palmer, Clyde, Beloit. Cavvker City, Porthis and Osborne City. Sev eral other towns are anxious for them. Separating stations are in operation in Concordia, Scandia and Scottsville. TO BENEFIT LEAVENWORTH. Change of Time by the Santa Fe on the Holiday Route. The Santa Fe management rifts mrvle some important changes in tlie operation of trains between Leavenworth and Holi day which will accrue largely to the ad vantage of iavenvvorih jobbers. The freight or mixed train which formerly left Leavenworth at -noon will nerea-fter leave, at 4:'!0 p. m.. arriving at Holiday in time to make all western and southern connections with night trains, delivering thereto tlie day's business of Leavenworth shippers. This will also enable shippers of stock to place their cattle on the Kansas City markets in the evening in time for feeding tor the early morning markei. Citizens nortii of Leavenworth petition ed the railroad commissie-ner-s to compel the Santa Fe to run a morning freight train into Kansas City but tte company has decided to make but one change in the morning service and thi:- too, will be important to Leave-nworih. A freight train carrying shipments from Kansas City for early marketing In Leavenworth usually arrived at 10 o'clock. I'nder the provisions of tlte new time card this triiin will arrive at Leavenworth at 7 o'clock in the morning, leaving Holiday at ft a. m. No change is made in the passenger service except that the trai.i whieii ins been leaving Leavenworth at 7:45 a. m., now leaves; at y. AFFECTS THE ROCK ISLAND. M. A. Low in Washington in the In terest cf Mexican Cattle Legis lation. Washington. D. C, April 1?,. 51. A. Low, general attorney for the Bock Island road, who has but lately joined the Normardie hotel contingent, is strongly opposed to the retroactive clause of the Dingley biil. in so far as it relates to the importation of Mexican cattle. He has suggested to the Re publicans that they ask for an amend ment to the bill, leaving a duty of l per head straight on Mexican cattle, with an ad valorem percentage after they come in. A Santa Fe Mineral Line. Phoenix. Ariz., April 13. President Frank Murphy and other officials of the Santa Fe, Prescott Phoenix rail way, accompanied by representatives of the banking housejf H. Fisk Sons of New York, have just returned from a trip to Globe, the richest mining- dis trict in eastern Arizona. It is semi officially stated that the trip, which was made over the proposed line of the Phoenix Globe railway, had behind it the intention of the Santa Fe to ab sorb the enterprise, and that Fisk Co. are to be relied upon to tloat the nec essary bonds. A portion of the route has already been surveyed through the towns of Tempe and Mesa. Its total length will be about 110 miles, one half of which will lead over the moun tains, though in no case will the grades exceed 150 feet to the mile. Mr. Jansen to Leave Wednesday. William B. Jansen, who has resigned his position in the otlice of General Manager J. J. Frey to become private secretary to President E. P. Ripley, leaves Topeka Wednesday. Mr. Jan sen will be accompanied by his family. During the years of service Mr. Jan sen has seen with the Santa Fe in this city he has grown very popular among his associates and business friends in this city. His departure will be noted with regret, which. however.can scarce ly equal that expressed by Mi. Jansen upon leaving Topeka. Santa Fe's Force is Short. Newton, April 13. Firemen Wood bury and Dunlap of Nickerson have been assigned to service out of Newton for awhile owing to the fact that men have been so short that the force at the roundhouse has been crippled by the calling out of the men for extra train duty. Woodbury will have a run south in place of Watkins, who has been permanently assigned to a run out of Arkansas City. Dunlap takes O'Rourke's place on 810. New Sand House Being Built. Arkansas City, April 13. The Santa Fe is building a new sand house here. The Santa Fe's old sand house has grown inadequate for the service here. The new house is to be 16x60 feet, built of stone. The pit has already been due; and the work is progressing:. All the sand for the trains will be handled here. It will be dried by air and han dled by air. INGLESIDE'S REPORT. Received $1,831 During the Year and Has $371 in Bank. Mrs. M. C. Hammatt. as secretary of the Ingleside association, has made her annual report for tlie year ending March 31. In it she notes that during the year 5.3S3 meals were served r.t the home on the corner of Huntoon and Tyler streets. 1,829 night's lodgings, 131 women and sev eral children received at the home of which 60 were pensioners on its bounty. 58 women were given employment, 1.030 garments were given away, aiso -il pairs of siioes. 12 children's suits and u00 yards of calico. From the Charity ball which Mrs. C. S. Sutton so skillfully managed, the sum of $435 was received. The books of tlm treasurer of the association show the. fol lowing balances: Balance March 12. 18 I 2b3.09 Collections finance committee 2S2.04 Net proceeds Pure Food Show 503. o0 Donations r'ir! Board money 6 lo Bishop Vincent's lecture O.oo Collections for reducing debt 132.50 Total ?1,S31.04 Kxpendltures: House, expenses "S?- Matron's salary 2W.00 Taxes paid o'" Incidentals -4.60 Interest on debt to April 10. 1S96 So.00 Amount paid on debt 2). 00 Amount in bank 371.24 Total ri,S31.04 Good subscriptions to debt uncol lected 6". aO At the annual meeting of the Ingleside association the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. J. Thomas: first vice president. Mrs. Joab Mnlvane: sec ond vice president. Mrs. P. G. Noel: treas urer, Mrs. Geo. M. Noble; assistant treas urer. Mrs. N. F. Handy: secretary. Mrs. M. C. Hammatt; assistant secretary, Mr. T. W. Scudder; auditor, Mrs. Geo. Pen field. The following is the new board of direc tors for 1S97: Mrs. D. Atwood. Trlrs. C. .1. Devlin. Mrs. Geo. D. Hale. Mrs. M. C. Hammatt. Mrs. N. F. Handy. Ivliss Hor. ton. Mrs. J. K. Hudson. Airs. M. A. Low, Mrs. Joab Mulvane. Mrs. J. "R. Iulvane, Mrs. Goo. M. Noble. Mrs. P. G. Noel. Mrs. T. W. Scudder, Airs. J. L. Sheliabarger, Mrs. Jonathan Thomas, Mrs. Eugene Ware. MR. CLEMENS MYSTIFIED. He Saw a Sure Enough Queer Light High in the Air. "I have always been just a little too late when there was a ghost around," said G. C. Clements today, "but 1 saw something last night about S:30 that surprised me and set me to thirikingr. "I have been lausrhing at people who claimed to see a strange ligiit in the west." he continued. "I took no stock in the stories. However, last night as I was coming down stairs I saw some thing bobbing around in the vest. Jt looked like an electric light ami had a movement such as one would expect to see if a lantern was tied to the tail of a kite. I called my wife and some of the neighbors and we watched the thing for about ten minutes when it disappeared. "The theory of the Chicago astrono mer that it is a star does not hold good for it was very cloudy last night and so a star would not have been seen. The light was below the clouds. I do not pretend to say what it is and neither do I theorize about this strange light appearing' simultaneously in so- many different places but there is something very strange about it that is certain." HE MUST BE A BAD MAN. Murderer, Swindler and Maker of In fernal Machines Wants to Die. Salt Lake, Vtah. April 13. The Deseret News this evening prints what is claimed to be a confession by J. W. Fetzer. who is under arrest at Dillon. Alcnt.. in wnkii he. says le killed Dr. C. H. Nichols, sup erintendent of tiie insane asylum u.t Washington. D. C in 1S73. He says lie iias ten or fifteen other victims but wiil not plead guilty unless he can get a death, sentence- Keizer was arrested here last week for making dynamite lximbs and was turned over to tlie Montana tv.lthorities, charged with swindling the state. THIEVES ARE NUMEROUS. Outbreak of Petty Thieving in Vari ous Parts of the City. The police today arrested Louis Brad shavv on the charge of burglary. He had with im a hitch strai and two pitchforks. Bradshaw is the man who pleaded guilty in police court several weeks ago to stealing a laprobe from Dr. C. A. Alaguire's buggy while it was hitched in front of the Hotel Throop. The police do not know who the ar ticles belong to which Bradshaw had with him today, but they think they were stolen. There w as a burelary on West Sixth street last night. The grocery store of G. F. Lux Co., at Sixth and Jackson streets was broken into and several caddies of tobacco and other articles of merchandise taken. The police were notified but no arrests have been made. Sunday night the grocery store at Kious and Monroe streets was broken into and nearly a wagon load of flour, tobacco and other articles taken. RESISTING DEATH LOSSES. Supt McNall Calls for Information From Two Life Companies. Webb McNall, superintendent of in surance, gave out the following letter for publication today. It is addressed to C. C. Whitney, secretary of the New York Life Insurance company, of New York, one of the companies excluded from Kansas: "Topeka, April 13, 1S97. "Your company occupies the position of applng for license from this de partment to do business in this state for the ensuing insurance year. From the circular letters sent out, you are a mutual insurance company, the money belonging to the members. This be ing true, the policy holders in your company, and especially in this state, are interested in knowing what dis position you have made of the funds for the past several years. In addi tion, the policy holders in this state are interested in knowing what claims and the nature of the claims that are being contested by you at the present time. "I notice that on page 2 of your an nual repcS-t, under the head of 'Claims for Death Losses Resisted by the Com pany $57,000. You will please send to this department the names of the individuals to whom policies were is sued, their postotBce address, and the amounts of the claims resisted: also, the length of time resisted. In addi tion, if your records disclose the fact that any claims have been resisted in Kansas, you will furnish to this office the length of time they have been re sisted, giving the names of the individ uals to whom the policies were issued. Furnish a copy of all vouchers con taining expenditures of money in the defense of any claim or claims, and if money has been expended without vouchers having been tiled in your of fice, the amount of money so expended, the name of the individual who ex uended the same, the purposes fur which the same was expended, with the amount in the aggregate. I desire this report to include every dollar ex pended, either directly or indirectly. "WEBB McNALL. "Superintendent." A similar letter has been written to the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, except as to the amount of death losses resisted, which is $3il,4S3. GALYESTON TO ASSIST. Committee Will Go to Austin to Aid the Kansas Committee. Galveston, April 13. "Buffalo" Jones and the Kansas and Oklahoma legislators came back to Galveston yesterday, ma Air. Jones brought with him the key to the citv of Beaumont. The people of Beaumont did the fine thing and made the legislators and their chaperon thor oughly at home. The key is a silver one, resembles a door key. The legislators met the deep water com mittee at the chamber of commerce. The utilization committee wantel to know what tlie legislators are here for and what they could do for them. Tlie. legislators told the committee why they cume. and asked thcU Galveston assist in securing more advantageous rates from the. interstate commerce commission. Captain Garrison, in the course of his remarks, touched what seemed to be the sentiment of Uie other legislators. He did not use the word, but reciprocity seems to be what they are after. At Beaumont, he SLv'd .they had seen lumber selling at $6 and $7 a thousand, while up in this coun try it is sold at $30 to $32. while corn is at 11 'and 12 cents a bushel and at Beaumont cents. If rates could be properly ad justed so that lumber would be cheapen ed and corn increased in i trice it would be a year's jubilee, for Okl-.'.homa. Ho gave briefly the history of tlie present move ment. The object is to ask the interstate commerce commission, which meats in Austin this week, to help them in get ting their products down here. Colonel Gresham called attention to thn statement of tile railroads that the high rates to the peeboard were caused by the fact that thev had to haul back empty cars, and Air. Hackney of Kansas said that was what they desired to overcom and get thi import business started. Colonel Gresham suggested that possi bly the east and west lines dominated th no'rth and soutii lines, and Mr. Jones said it is true. Mr. Brown aiso verified tliL- saving that it was especially true of the Santa Fe, which was willing to give bet ter rates if it could. Since the supremo court decision, if the proper pressure be brought to bear, he thought the railroads could, through the interstate commerc.-? commission, be induced to reduce th rraos. New York anil Chicago had so long had the cauntry tributary to Galveston that they are not going to give, up with out a fight. "The fact is." said lie. "we've got to get lower freight rates or go out of business." In reply to a question from Colonel Gresham. Air. Brown said: "f think w shall make a demand for rates on the miler.ge bc.si.s. I think we shall demand as low a rate to Galveston as to Chicago. I think corn can be billed from Piatt. O. T.. to Chicago for 20 cents, while it costs 30 cents to senu it here. If the rate be. made as low from Wichita to Galveston as it is from Wichita to Chicago we slu.ll be satisfied." Air. Flood took up this point and en larged upon it. showing how Alulvane i equl d:stant irom jatvesto:i ami v.iiiveu, but the rates are in favor of 'hieago. H said he had gone to Air. Alanvell r-.nd pointed this out. but had been told that tlie Santa Fe could do nothing, as they stood in fear of the commercial interests of Chicago. Colonel Gresham asked what the gen tlemen wanted. "Do you want a com mittee to go before the interstate com merce commission in your behti'f?" "That's about the idea," said Mr. Brown. Air. Ctillum made, a motion that the four commercial organizations of Galves ton and the wharf company send delega tions to Austin. The discussion that followed was of a geneiv-1 nature and went into the rate, question on technical grounds. A "CONTINUOUS" CAMILLE. Clara Morris Will Put Her Death Throes "Within the Reach AIL" New York. April 13. F. C. Herriott. husband of Clara Morris, the emotional actress, says his wife has received sev eral tlaterint; offers from New York theatrical managers for her appearance in vaudeville. She proiiably wiil accept the offer of Mr. Procror. providing she will be al lowed to appear in the role of Camiiie. A Girl Beater. Last week: complaint was made to Probate Judge Dolman of the manner in which. Mrs. Belle Williams of Shorey treated her imbecile step-daughter, and today Judge Dolman removed J.Irs. Wil liams as guardian ot tne girl ana order ed her sent to the county poor farm, j The girl is paralyzed on one side, and 1 affidavits of neighbors (iled in the pro bate court state that Airs. Williams compelled the girl to do laborious work and also beat her. In winter, the affi davits state, the girl would alrr.it the place barefooted. Airs. Williams is i the white wife of a colored man. I Jones, His Wif and His Hor33 J D. B. Jones, the man who wanted to dispute the authority of the district j court when brought before Judge Ha zen in an intoxicated condition yes- terdav afternoon, was taken into court this morning in a perfectly sober condi tion, and bound over by Judge Hazen in the sum of $."0 until his case can be heard. Jones was unable to give bond and went back to jail. He claims that the horse he disposed of was taken o;i a chattel mortgage, but his wife, who is suing him for divorce, says that he received $20 for it. AIrs.Joncs wil! have to prove her claim before Judge Hazen will decide whether or not Jones is in .contempt of court. Milton H. Martin Ha Run Away. Milton H. Alartin, a prominent voung farmer of Silver Lake, who is wanted for trial in the district court on the charge of criminal assault next Alon day.is missing and the officers fear that he has skipped beyond the jurisdiction of the court. Martin's case was set for the November term of the district court but was continued until the January term on the condition that a new bond be given, but for some reason the old bond was never forfeited, and the case was again continued until this term of court. In preparing for the case yes terday afternoon. County Attorney Jet more discovered that a new bond had never been given, and at once asked the court to issue a warrant for the ar rest of Martin. The warrant was issued and Deputy Sheriff Sam Kerr went to Silver Lake yesterday evening, but was unable to find Martin. His parents stat ed that they had not seen him since January, and knew nothing of his whereabouts. His attorney also knows nothing about his client. Alartin was arrested on the charge of committing a criminal assault on a 16-year-old girl at liossville. F. G. Logan's Grain Letter. Chicago, April 13, 1897. F. G. Logan's Grain Letter, furnished Goodwin 6c c'hamberlin. Brokers. Topeka. Kan. WHEAT Our early cable id higher, second ore steady, turn lower. Total advance equal to our advance up to last nig-ht which evidently was brought about by free covering of sluirts ar:d possibly some of the same who had gone long over night expecting a fur ther advance. Free liquidation from such sources carried price u?'f sharply. At and under 67. there has been good buying all day. Two firms in Minnea polis sold 110.000 barrels o-f flour j ester day and as high as 3on,0o0 was estimat ed as total sales from that point, equal to a million of wheat. Of this ten per cent was sold abroad. Four ports oniy cleared about lOO.Oun wheat. Renewed inquiry for export took in all position.- about GO loads, mostly spring, for var ious localities, but largely for the I'ni ted Kingdom, all contigent markets were ouoled higher. Primary receipt 330.000 of which 357,000 were at Duiuth and Minneapolis. Shipments 303. 0'M. The receipts in the northwest, 504 cars were more than twice as much as la-"L week, but were said to be entirely from elevators. Bradstreet's world's state ment proved disappointing', at only 2.300,000 decrease where a million more than that had been expected. Foreign advices gave gloomy outlook for winter wheat in I ranee. St. Louis was verv strong and again reiterated damage from fields, and especially from inun dated districts. Wheat has certainly been well absorb ed today as shown in no decline after Bradstreets disappointing statement. On any decided weakness, we think wheat a purchase and rather feel we are likely to run into fancv markets. CORN Was stimulated by the light estimates for tomorrow of only 85 cars. Cash business, however, was light, mar ket nervous and feeling rather easy on selling by some of the buyers of yes terday and in sympathy with wheat. Liquidation in Alay option with eight millions cash in store here is about in order. OATS Fair trade, mainly in chang ing. Light receipts and good demand for cash bv local trade. PROVISIONS Opened lower and continued weak most of the session with more selling for outside account. Shorts were best buyers. We consider selling of the day better than the buy ing and outlook for easier prices be fore any decided bulge. Hstimatd hegs for tomorrow 23.000 head. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished bv Goodwin 'li...riberin. Brokers in Grain, I TO visions and Stocks. i op n j nti t J.o w c i s. i ej. 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Lake Shore Manhattan Western I'nion Aio. PaciTi." Wabash Pfd I"n. Pa.-ilic Reading Jer. C-Mltral.. D. H D. L. W T. C. I AI. K. T. No. Pac. Pfd L. N Southern Pac. Paciiic Mail. Omaha Alav SSe. Jnlv 72Vi ,"2' ,c. Reni. 7il-aC bid: com. April 21e bid. May 21-ic July 2"'-4r0 2?.!S,o. Sept. 2r'3c; oats, April lS'v, Aiay 1SV!, July lSUc Paints, Oils Glass, .WHOLE8AI.G AXI BCTA1I.. J. K. JONES, 427 Hamas Av2r.11 3, Opposite PsitsSos. IT HILI. PAT YOU TO GET MY PRICES IF YOU ABE GOING TO PAINT. EiQLE'S totoe. Made From Old Carpets. ST. LOUIS RUG CO., 3S30 Frnnkliii Ave., ST. IOIOS, MO. Send for price list. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. tTaXT1::I-A woman for general houseivork: sood pay for competent help. Recommendations desired. 12 To peka Ave. IrOR SALE Immediately. household goods, ranire. chiiirs. carpets. e;c.. Af rican parrot and Victor bicycle. 711 Aladi son. 17OR SALE Good driving mare, harness ami buKry, cineap. 912 Alorris Ave.; noon and after 6 p. m. I will lease a modern 6 or 7 room house for one. year. Alust be close to busi. ness center. Ad. "Quick," Journal. Regs

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Vx TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL, 13. 1897. T The State Journal TWENTT-FOUETH YEAR. BY FRANK P. MACLENNAN. aKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION; EeIIy edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or ubi:rb3. or at the same prici In any Kan ens tows where this paper has a carrier system. I.y mail, three months.. 90 By mail, one year 3-9 Weekiy edition, one year 0 PERMANENT HOME Topeka State Journal jttuiidmg. 800 and Sua Kansas avenue, corner of Kightb. TEUiPHONES: Business Office Bell 'Phone 107 Rbportrrs' Koorn BeI 'Phone 107' Vew York address: 206 Pottr building, c&re American Newspaper publishers' as fcvolation. vvuere files of the paries are fai Wa3 Ciien to advertisers or readers. APRIL 1897. Sun. Mon. Tu9. Wed. Thar. Fri. 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 1? 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 J4 t 13 24 1 i- Greatest Three Months on Record. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL'S showing for the First Quarter of 1897 exceeds all former Circulation Records in the history of the paper. THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. Circulation Statement, First Quarter, 1S97. Daily Average 11,917 The Issues of the Topeka Daily State Journal, of Topeka, Kansas, for three months from January 1st, 1?07. to March Slst, 1897. Inclusive, actual number of com- plote copies pruned, have been as stated Velow: Lay. Jan. Feb. M'ch 1 10.700 11. WO lLMI-l) 2 1U.700 11. '.GO llU75 3 11.900 K'.'A) 4 10. SOD 11.SS0 12.140 6 10.9VO 11.900 12.f.u0 5 lO.fc'W ll.SOO 12,2X1 7 10.850 8 11.000 12.025 12. "00 9 11,050 12.200 12.7"J 10 12.0M 12.35'J 31 11,309 12.200 12.!'K) 12 11.750 12.000 12.000 IS 11.9r0 12.2C0 12,000 14 l i .SoO 15 11.70t) 12.000 11.930 36 11,700 12.075 12.000 17 12.050 15 0S0 13 H.S75 12.;!50 12.075 19 ll.bOO 12.31 11.910 20 12.000 12,300 11,900 21 11.5"0 22 ll.SiO 12.300 11 S00 23 11.S.00 12.050 11.950 24 12. 100 n.'00 25 11.900 12.100 11.S00 2o 11.900 12.100 11.700 27 12.050 12,050 11,700 28 11.900 29. 11.900 11.700 11,900 11.750 U 11,725 Totals 299.825 290.00 327,845 Sunday; no issue. Grand total of copies printed during the three months. 917.670. The grand total when divided by 77. which is the actual number of days of Issue, shows that the average number of complete copies printed per issue was 11.917. This is a correct report for the three months of 1S97 and is made for the pur pose of being placed on tile and securing cin acurate and exact circulation rating. tSianed.) Editor and Proprietor. Sworn to and subscribed before me, thi? Tth day of April, 1497. A. A. MAJORS. fSeal.) Notary Public, ily commision expires April 4th, ISM. CIRCULATION GROWTH. In the year 1SS5. the circulation was.. 8 January 1st. 191, were printed 3.125 Daily average for year ISM 4.30 Daily average for year 1S92 5.W9 Daily average for year lh;:i 0.213 Daiiy average for year 1VM 8.4IS Daily average for year 1S95 9.217 Daiiy average for year l59 10,709 Dailv average for lirst three months 143 7 11,917 The State Journal has been under the present management for over eleven years and its daily circulation in that time has increased from 800 to over 11,000 r an average growth of one thousand a year. The State. Journal receives the full day leased-wire Associated Press report, is a member of the American Newspuper Pub lishers' Association, has four linotypes, fast Web Perfecting press, etc. The State Journal has a larger circula tion than any other daily paper published In the great state of Kansas. It requires torty-thrt-e (43) carriers (exclusive of newsboys) to circulate the paper in To peka and suburbs. Don't advertise in the State Journal un less you feel confident that its daily cir culation exceeds M.OoO. Any evidence ap parently to contrary will be cheerfully re ceived and proof produced to convince tiie most skeptical that we do not claim anything about our circulation for which we cannot votich. In 1S98 the State Journal erected for its exclusive use as a permanent home, a handsome double front pressed brick building: of three floors. The location is one of the most eligible business sites in Topeka the southeast corner of Kansas avenue and Eighth street. The building is one of the most complete newspaper structures in the west and has many uni que featueres amons these are construc tion and arrangement by which the four linotypes are seen in operation behind plate glass facing Kansas avenue and lso through a large (lass window from the business office. The fast Web Perfecting printing press Is placed at the middle of the north frround floor, behind IS feet of plate glass facing Eighth street, thus affording a complete view from the sidewalk of the wonderful printing machine, turning out complete eifrht page papers, printed, fold ed and counts! at the rate of between two and three a second. A press room bal cony offers a similar view from the in id ot the bulldtofc'. ATTACKS ON THE CIVIL SERVICE In adopting a resolution favoring the annulment of the civil service regula tions adopted by President Cleveland, it is safe to say that the Shawnee Coun ty Republican club does not voice the sentiment of the people of Topeka, of Shawnee county, of the state of Kan sas, or of the country at large. The very suspicion of an intention to med dle with the civil service as established, which appeared in the Chicago plat form doubtless cost Mr. Bryan many thousands of votes. It is yet fresh in the memory of the citizens of Topeka that a sweeping dis charge of the postoffice employees in this city and the filling of their places with others for partisan reasons raised such a storm as to cause the author of such action to lose his place. The whole people regardless of party affiliations are taxed to pay the expen ses of the public service and they do not regard that service as being for the especial benefit of any political party. It is noticeable that any outcry against the civil service proceeds either from those who are seeking office or from those who have friends who are seeking office. The great mass of the people is satisfied with things the way they are and want no change unless it be a further extension of the scope of the regulations. They want the best service that can be obtained for the money and realize the importance of experience and training. There is almost unanimous opposition to making positions in the public ser vice rewards for party service. If the public business is to be carried on by and through one political party exclu sively, then that party should pay for it. So long as the whole people pay for it they will not tolerate the sub jection of it to the chances of political revolution. The Washington correspondent of a Chicago newspaper is authority for the statement that the Cleveland civil ser vice order of last year will be revoked and that the new administration will start in with the service in the precise condition in which President Harrison left it. Mr. McKinley.the correspondent says, "is as good a civil service reformer as Mr. Cleveland was. There are plenty of indications that he has the courage to winnow the wheat from the chaff and put the civil system upon a more business-like basis." This move for the destruction of President Cleveland's work will take the form of a bill from congress "re storing" the service to its condition in 1S92. "Such a measure,"the writer tells us, "President McKinley would doubt less approve." The friends and admirers of the pres ident will be slow to believe that he will do anything of the kind. It would be distinctively a step backward; a re turn to the darkest days of the spoils system. Mr. Cleveland encountered the same hungry clamor for place that now surrounds Mr. McKinley, and he not only upheld the law as it was but ex tended its scope greatly. Any weakness in this matter on the part of the president will not only prove disastrous to his own future but to that of his party also. The people of the United States never progress back wards, even though asked to do so by political clubs or the most persistent office-seekers. DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM. Perry Belmont in North American Fie view. The antagonist and assailant of our American democracy is European so cialism. The word is quite modern, unless 60 years make a name old. Col lectivism is the more recent term. The economic basis of each is much the same. Authors and experts do not agree defining it. They prefer to de scribe it at great length and with much qualification rather than define. Perhaps they find danger in definition. Dr.Schaffie, an esteemed German writer on economic subjects. declares that "the Alpha and the Omega of Social ism is the transformation of private, competing capitals into a united col lective capital." Quite generally do Socialists profess to think that individ ual industrial liberty, the present or ganization of capital, and cut-throat competition will continually breed so cial, economic, and political anarchy, degrade wage-earners, increase idle ness and vice among the rich, promote cheap and bad workmanship, and adulterations of food and drink. The ills attributed to the gold stand ard by the advocates of free silver coinage are by Socialists assigned to unrestrained competition In production and distribution. As such competition between capitalists, between laborers, between labor and capital contending with each other fcr a rightful share of the product of both, goes on not only in each country, but between countries, it is apparent that schemes such as the Socialists urge must, like coinage re form in the sense of bimetallism, be in ternational, or they will be in vain. In what year of this century modern Socialism bad its birth, and in what country, whether England, or France, or Germany, is of little consequence. It is not native to our country. It has been an importation. Within the last dozen years Germany has been the largest exporter to us of the theories on which it rests. An American reader of any one of the exhaustive and ex hausting treatises which European Socialists have written, may say to himself, on laying down the volume, that the political, industrial, and social evils which Socialism proposes to rem edy in Europe have never existed in the United States, and that if England, or France, or Germany could have had, a century ago, a government by de mocracy, a written constitution, public schools, secret ballot, an elective legis lature and executive, an equality of all before the law, which the United States then had, European Socialism could not have existed to vex the Old World and the New. SKETCH OF MBS. DRAPER. (From the Philadelphia Record.) General Willium Franklin Draper, who has been appointed minister to Rome, left Washington with his wife and little, daughter, Margaret, yesterday for their home at Hopedale. Mass. After spending a. few weeks there they will sail for Italy early in May. The family have been con spicuous in Washington for the brilliant hospitality they have extended. Their elaborate dinners and other functions have ranked with the most lavish of official affairs. Mrs, Draper socially ambitious. When her husband's appoint ment to Rome was first whispered around he let it be known to a.11 her friends that the Eternal City was hers. Then came a rumor that General Draper had been scheduled for a lesser place. Tableau! But the flutter was scon over, and happi ly the slip wasn't a slip e.t all. Mrs. Draper's maiden name was Jessie Pres ton. Her father wa.s Hon. William Pres ton, United States minister to Spain. BEING PRESENTED AT COURT. 0 From the Chicago Chronicle. As everybody knows, before an Eng lish girl can be launched on the trou bled waters of society she must first be presented at court. This necessary but tremendously wearisome ceremonial has been described many a score of times, but the absurdity of it ail has seldom been more clearly set forth than in the following extract from Punch, purporting to be the impressions of a debutante at a recent drawing room: "Study of the weather. Will it be cold or hot? Waiting for the dressmaker, the hair dresser and the attendant with the feathers and tulle. Finishing touches put to one's train spread on a sheet in the drawing room. Following mamma into the brougham after run ning the gauntlet of the baker, the butcher boy and the driver of the van from the stores. Taking up position in Buckingham Palace road and nodding to friends and acquaintances. Proceed ing by jerks and starts into St. James' park amid a crowd of not too compli mentary sightseers. Driving briskly through the outer yard past the mili tary band up to the inner entrance. Getting out of the carriage and into the room devoted to the care of outside wraps. Up the staircase and past the writing table and card casket. First room and first wait. Old stagers secure chairs. Newcomers get as near the barriers as possible. Gentlemen at arms objects of great interest. False alarms. Fluttering of plumes. Rustle of trains. Officers counselling patience. General request 'to resume our seats.' March from room to room. Long pause in each apartment. Plenty of time for looking at the pictures and getting a view of 'the park-like grounds' skirting Grosvenor park. Nearing the presence. Disappearance of 'gentlemen in attend ance upon ladies of their family." Get ting into single file. Close to the grat moment. Court officers adepts in the spreading out of drapery. Card pass ed from hand to hand. Name read out with explanatory matter by the lord high chamberlain. The Important SO seconds. Train caught up and folded round arm, and short rest in the room beyond. Back down the staircase to the apartment with the wraps. Telephonic communication with the coachman w ithout. Amusing mutilation of names and titles. A weary wait of something under an hour in the hall. Carriages announced. Sharp drive back with mamma to home and freedom. Con gratulations of friends and drawing room tea. Quiet evening, simple din ner and thanking goodness it's all over peacefully to bed." SKINNING BIRDS ALIVE. (N. Y. Cor. of Pittsburg Dispatch.) Brooklyn actually has a new idea, and is expressing it with a silence eloquence that produces a loud echo on this side of the bridge. It is only a millinery show, an exhibition of Easter good.s called dreams by women and nightmares by men. Hats, bonnets and creations, in either or both, are being lavishly dis played at ItiO Joralemon street. All sizes, shapes and colors are there, until it scms the limit of beauty, variety and ex pense has at last been reached. In the rear Ls large room with mirrors so ar ranged that the fair ones of the big town may "try on" bonnets to satiety, at the same time catching a glimpse of their forms from every conceivable direction, so when bearing down on a friend, they may know just how they look from that geographical spot. After you read this fur you will probably say Brooklyn has no new Idea, after all t'riat is. that any old idea may be new to Brooklyn but a spring bonnet show isn't new to the rest of the world. Yet in all this brilliant array of spring bonnets, of every imaginable combina tion, of kind and color, there is some, thing new. and that is that ttiese entrancing- effects have been brotlght about without the use of birds, or the sacrifice of any single living creature. So exten sive, so various and so entrancing are the styles that not one woman in a hun dred would note the absence of birds1 if she weren't told. Tnis exhibit is gotten up in sympathy with the work of the Au dubon society, named lifter the peerless writer and ardent lover of bird life. All men know that the face beautifies the hat as much as the hat enhances the face. To the humane, then, there can be nothing lovely in even a vision of loveliness, when the face is surmounted by a hat whereon a. bird is pinioned. The dear girl docs not know it. but she should learn, that the most harmless, beautiful and bright of God's creatures has been skinned alive to add to her loveliness. Long ago, dealers learned that the bird skin and feathers are best when torn from the living, breathing, suffering bird, snd fair women encourage the traffic. PRAISE TO THE FACE. (From Harper's Bazar.) I once saw a father walk up to a map his little boy had made and pinned on the wall. He stood before it a long time in silence. a.nd in silence walked away. The little fellow was sitting in the room ami his father knew ha was there. He was watching with his eager child's eyes, waiting anxiously for a word of approval. As none came, his poor little face fell un happily. Straight into the next room walked his fii-ther, and said, carelessly: "Robert has drawn a very clever little map in there. Look at it when you go in." "Did you tell him it was clever?" ask ed a judicial listener, following from the room where little Robert still .sat. "Why. no. I ought to have done so. I never thought to mention it." "Well, you ought to be ashamed of yourself." was the deserved reply. "Go back now and tell him." We ought tJl of us to be ashamed of ourselves a dozen times a day for like sins of omission. It costs so little to say nice things, and the result in another's pleas ure is out of. all proportion to our trou ble. Praise, to the face: open disgrace. No such thing. The proverb is wrong. Praise to the face is one of the eweetest things on earth, and there is no disgrace in it. unless untruth enters, or unless the praise is undeserved. It is the more grcteful because no one may ask for open praise and receive by asking. When" it comes thus at call it is not praise: its fine flavor is quite gone, and it ia but flat tery. RUINING TREES. (Prof. Mason in Manhattan Industrialist.) Every spring witnesses another cla.3 of tree abuse. Rows of trees that have be come tall and shapely with the character istic top of the speciess suddenly become offensive to (he owner. Perhaps they af ford too much shade, or, more likely, the peripatetic tree-pruner has called in quest of a job and has pointed out how much it would improve the appearance of the place to head in those trees and give them such a nice cabbage-head top. And so a man whose knowledge of wood craft and tree-pruning is hardly up to the standard required for sawing good straight cordwood is given the authority to reduce that row of stately elms to the condition of unsightly pollards. "Two dollars and a half, please." Now. there are cases where the trees are throwing too much shade, and one of the common tree abuses is that of pkint ing too thickly in the first place. Few of our street trees will give the best form when set nearer than twenty, thirty, or even forty feet apart. If planted more clDsely when young, as they doubtless should be, they should be watched and every other one removed before they be gin to crowd and spoil their tops. This takes more nerve than most property owners possess, but is a vastly better remedy than pollarding. Weather Indications. Chicago, April 13. For Kansas: Fair tonight and Wednesday; frost tonight; warmer Wednesday; northwest winds, becoming variable. California Limited leaves Topeka Thursdays and Sundays, 11:33 a, m., via Santa Fe Route. 54 hours to Cali fornia. Vestibuled Pullman sleepers, buffet smoker and dining car through. GOETHE. Fiom the April Lippincott. Goethe himself has said that the faults of great men seem exaggerated as well as their virtues: and if we ap ply this principle to his case, it ought to remove much of the odium which rests on his name. Some of the accu sations which have been brought against him are undoubtedly just; but it is equally certain that others have originated either in party prejudice or from the jealousy of his literary con temporaries. He is certainly to blame for his desertion of Frederika, and probably for other flirtations, though such behavior does not always seem to militate against a man's character. Goethe's love affairs, though by no means to his credit, were of quite a different sort from the immorality of Byron, Burns, and Heine. The accu sation, however, that he was a selfish aristocrat, unpatriotic, insensible to the sufferings of the poor, and opposed to the popular and reformatory move ments of his time, is untrue and unjust, and can easily be proved so. That he was an aristocrat cannot be doubted: but so was Walter Scott, for they were both brought up and educated at a per iod when aristocracy was considered the natural order of society. Of all claesses of people, none would seem to be so unfitted from their tend erness of feeling, their pictorial habit of mind, and their sensitive temperament for practical politics, as poets and artists: and they have generally recog nized this themselves. CIGARETTES' WORK. From the Philadelphia American. Dr. C. A. Clinton of San Francisco, writes: "A good deal has been said about the evils of cigarette smoking, but one-half the truth has never been told. Cigarette smoking blunts the whole moral nature. It has an appal ling effect upon the system. It first stimulates and then stupefies the nerves. It sends boys into consump tion. It gives them enlargement of the heart, and it sends them to the insane asylum. I am physician to several boys' schools, and I am often called in to prescribe for palpitation of the' heart. In nine cases out of ten, it is caused by the cigarette habit. I have seen bright boys turned into dunces and straight forward, honest boys made into miser able cowards by cigarette smoking. I am speaking the truth, that nearly eve ry physician and nearly every teacher knows." KINDERGARTEN BARONESS. Arrives in America to Observe the Growth of the Infant Work. New York, April 13. The Baroness Bertha von Bulow, of Dresden, repre senting the educational work of her aunt, the late Baroness von Maren-holtz-Bulow, arrived in New York last week and is staying at the Holland House. Under the auspices of the New York Kindergarten association, the Baroness will spend a week in New York city, giving among other talks a lecture on the life and work of the Baroness von Marenholtz. "I shall go directly to St. Louis from this city," said Baroness von Bulow, "and at the invitation of Miss Wheelock I will at tend the International Kindergarten union, which is to be in session there. I will address the Froebei society there on April 19. "I will go to Chicago after leav ing St. Louis, and will visit the various kindergarten interests in the city by the lake. I will also address the kin dergarten institute. I will go to To ronto. Canada: Rochester, Grand Rap ids, Mich.: Duluth, Minn.; Boston and ten or twelve intermediate points. "I have come to America not as a great speaker, neither as a great per sonage, but as an earnest woman with a message. 1 come in the name of my aunt, whose last request was that I should visit America and see in her place the great growth of the kinder garten work in that country. The in come from the lecture engagements will be put directly into the Dresden work which has been sustained for so long a time by the Baroness von Mar enholtz. The Dresden training school has during the present course one hun dred students enrolled, and the kinder gartens accommodate from seven to eight hundred children. A committee of 16 representative women act as the managing body for the kindergarten association, and a faculty of 27 teach ers carry on the work." ANNA DICKINSON WINS. Although the Charge of Judge Ache son Seemed to Be Against Her. Scranton, April 13. The case of Anna Dickinson went to the jury last night. They retired at 5:3 o'clock, after re ceiving a two-hours' charge from Judge Acheson, which was favorable in tone to the defense. At 11:45 the jury returned a verdict in favor of Miss Dickinson, the plain tiff. The attorney for the defense laid par ticular stress on the point that the de fendants acted without malice; that what they did in placing Anna Dickin son in Danville asylum was for her good; that there was no conspiracy to deprive her of her liberty, and that they had acted in good faith. Mr. Hodge repudiated the statement that Miss Dickinson was an "unfortu nate woman." She was a wronged woman, who asked not sympathy for the indignity heaped upon her, but sim ple justice, which the law accords her. He said every woman in the United States is interested in the result of this proceeding. PALACE OF PHARAOH. An Important Discovery Which Has Been Made in Upper Egypt. Dan vers. Mass., April 13. The Rev. Alfred P. Putnam, D. D., president of the Danvers Historical society, has re ceived a letter from F. Petiie, honor ary secretary of the Victoria Institute, England, in which he says: "One of the institute members writes home from Upper Egypt to announce his discovery of a palace of Pharaoh of the sixth dynasty, with numerous valuable inscriptions. The wine jars of Pharaoh were found intact in a large cellar. All were hermetically sealed, but on breaking the seal of one the wine seemed petrified." Unconditional surrender, is the only terms those famous little pills known as DeWitt's Little Early Risers will make with constipation, sick headache and stomach troubles. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas ave. i3o Qrip When you take Hood's Pills. The big, old-fashioned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to pieces, are not in it with Hood's. Easy to take Ln and easy to operate, is true of Hood's Pills, which are up to date in every respect. Safe, certain and sure. All druggists. 25c. C. I. Hood Si Co., Lowell, Mass, The only Fills to take with Hood's SaxsaparUla. CAN SOLDIERS GAMBLE? State and Federal Authorities Clash Over the Matter. Atlanta. Ga, April 13. A fight is on between the state and the federal auth orities over the question of the right of the United States army to gamble. At the Ft. McPherson barracks, in this city, where the Fifth Infantry is sta tioned, officers and privates have in the past been permitted to gamble to their hearts' content, and that they did gam ble has never been a secret to any body. A few days ago, however, consterna tion struck the swellest society in At lanta with the announcement that the police department had made a raid on Ft. McPherson, and had brought away a large number of prisoners, just how many was not reported. The charge against them was gamb ling, and the evidence.after it had been submitted to the grand jury, ied to a score of indictments, which were set for trial today. The moment the news of the raid, however, was flashed over the wire a number of high officials started at once for Atlanta. They are now here, and their ViirornilS nmtpst nrpoenfud trt the court through the ablest counsel ob- tamable, has ied to a postponement of the hearing. The claim of the defendants is that they are not subject to arrest except by federal authority, and that the At lanta police have no authority over them. They deny the jurisdiction of the state also, so far as it concerns of fenses alleged to have been committed inside the barracks, and every man of them is preparing to make the stiffest fight possible. U. S. GRAND JURY. List of Jurors CoL James Burgess as Foreman. The United States grand Jury, now in session in this city, is composed of the following residents of the First district of Kansas, witfi Col. James Burgess of this citv t!.s foreman: J. S. Hollara, Abilene; J. P. Bolton, Eur lingame; H. D. Butts, Valley FaJls: C. 8. Hartough, Leavenworth, Henry Yocum, Atchi.son;A. S. Kemper, Louisville; James Burgess, Topeka: H. J. McMaster, Osage City; W. H. Kemper, Horton Robt. Find lay, Junction City; Freemont Miller, Ad mire; G. W. Baum, Phillipsburg: Tim Bacon, Bavaria; Frank Lvon, Admire; Philip Crabb, Alia.; H. Keuker, Niles: John Rohr, Leavenworth: C. E. Bradley, Russell Springs; A. J. Markle.y, Abilene: J. H. Cooper, Westmoreland; Reuben Short, Concordia. U. S. DISTRICT COURT JURORS. The jurors drawn for the April term of the United States district court are the foilowing: Jacob Bissing, Hays City; H. E. Carter, Clay Center; Thomas Bebb. Oberlin; John D. Hocker, Atwood; Jas. M. Baily, Min neapolis; H. Kuhn, Marion; J. T. Mont gomery. Mankato; M. J. Coolbaugh, sr., Stockton: Thomas Flanagan, Junction City: James Bruce. Emporia: John H. Hunter, Lincoln; M. W. Stratton, Read ing: C. B. Barber, Kirwin; B. S. Price, Fostcria: C. P. Bolmar, Topeka; J. W. Loy, Americus; A. H. Knecht. Louisville; Win. Hattery. Good Intent: S. E. King, Atchison: John M. Griffin, Olathe; S. D. Breese, Cottonwood Falls: J. B. Cunning ham, Lecompton: J. S. Rodgers, Beloit; Geo. Flynn, Lawrence- BAILEY NOT ALONE. Many Other Public Men Repudiate the Clawhammer. Washington, April 13. The friends of Representative Bailey, the Democratic leader in the house, are inclined to be in dignant over the reports that have been sent broadcast to the effect that, in de clining an invitation to dine at the White house beca.use he was adverse to the wearing of a dress suit, he violated all precedents. As a matter of fact, there has not been a- congress since the war that has not contained members more or less in num ber who avoided all social functions sim ply on account of their unwillingness to don the claw-hammer coat and cutaway vest. The most conspicuous offender if it be an offense of recent administrations in this particular, was ex-Attorney Gen eral Garland, who persistentlv absented himself from social events because he could not accustom himself to convention al attire. TRAIN OF MACHINERY Fer a Paper Mill in Japan Sent From Ohio. Seattle, "Wash., April 13. The freight yards here yesterday and today have attracted hundreds of visitors, drawn together by a unique train of placarded cars, which, according to bills of lading, left Ohio on the 17th of March. This special freight train, consisting of 51 cars, is laden with paper mill machin ery destined for Japan, as is from the manufactory of Black y&. Clawson, of Hamilton, Ohio. Owing to the great weight of the ma chinery three engines were required to draw the train. The freight is being transferred to a steamer bound for the Orient, and will reach its destination in about two weeks. This is the largest single shipment of machinery to Japan which has ever left this port. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following real estate transfers have been filed with the register of deeds: Zora "West to John H. Wrest of Ross, O., for $1 and other considerations; a part of block H in Parkdale addition. J. Thomas, trustee, to George W. Schultz, for $400; a part of the north west fractional quarter of section 19, township 11, range 16. Matilda El. Koester to Annie M. Ves per, for $1,200; a tract of 10 acres in re serve No. 2 of the Kaw Half Breed In dian lands. MEXICO RETALIATES. A Tariff Measure Aimed at the Ding ley Bill to be Presented. City of Mexico, April 13. It is an nounced semi-officially that a new tariff "bill is to be presented to congress next week. It will contain some Import ant changes and will be a strict re taliatory measure, aimed at the Ding ley bill. The duty on live hogs and packing house products will be made prohib itory. At present the shipments of live hogs from the United States to Mexico are very large. Nothing in it for England. London, April 13. Answering a question regarding the prospects of the govern ment sending out invitations to a bime tallic conference Mr. Balfour reiterated in the'house of commons today that there was nothing in the situation which would lead him to suppose that anything could be gained by Great Britain taking the initiative in promoting an international bimetallic conference. St Louis Banks Consolidate. St. Louis. April 13. The National Bank of the Republic was absorbed bv the Merchants' Laclede National bank "today. President D. Bulle.n. of the National Bank of the Republic, died two weeks ago. Acting President C. F. Gauss says of tha consolidation: "We decided to liquida;e our bank but none of those interested with us cared to accept the position made vacant by the death of Mr. Bulien." When a cold is contracted, cure it at once. 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FALRBAKK Topeka Carpet Cleaning Works I HAVE REMOVED From 522 Van Barea to 104 and 1C6 East 10th St., K NATATORIUM 3TTII.DIWG, TELE. 642. Q Where we have more room and better facilities for doing first class work than ever before. The only machine cleaner In the city. Our f price of 3c per yard is so low that every one that owns a carpet f O can afford to have it cleaned 20 yards only cost you 70c. We come Q take up and deliver at this price. Have you ever tried our new A process of scouring it can't be equalled. Our Specialties: Reference: CLEANING, SCOURING, REFITTING, LAYING. A F. A. KOESTER, Manager. g The Western Foundry and Machine Works JEST A HI, IS II i: I) 18? o. Formerly Topeka Foasdry gl Machine Works, atSSto4 The only place in the city where you from a steam engine to a mm mm m M Get T1CS3 iisiore Topeka, Kas. R. L. COFRAN, Proprietor. SEE THAT THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE op IS OIT THE WRAPPER OF EVERY BOTTLE OF 1 GtfvPt Castoria is put tip in one-sire bottles only. It is not sold in balk. Don't allow anyone to sell yon anything els on the pica or promise that it I is "jnst as good" and "if ill answer every pnr- poso." See that yon tret C-A-S-T-0-R-I-A. of rppaT. A dirt destroyer of Made only by COMPANY, St. Louis. ANY CARPET IN THE CITY. HOUSE can get a complete power plant a set collar irona siock. j t (I i hi m jrurcaasiiig jsitowjuc- i ft 1 -i (ft 1 1 r i J. HI 1 j V v St If

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13. 1897. 5 THEOSOPHY IN TOPEKA. aster Offerin ssity I'Our 'S... eeo Annie Besant's Lecture at Li brary Hall Last Night. The Hall Half Filled With In terested Listeners. i Hi' New Shirt Waists! A fine organdie s-arment, newest de signs and colorings, with laundered de tachable white cellar. -Stir each. In finer materials at S5c, $1.00, $1.2 and $1.35 each. Dress Skirts. Ladies' W Brocaded Br 1 Dress Skirts. In Black iantine. Velveteen Bind- lng. pacn. Shepherd Plaid Wool Dress Skirts, full sweep, Velveteen binding-, $1.4H each. White Goods. One lot 2.000 yeards checked White? Goods at S'.jO vard. New Line of white India Linens at 4c. r.c. lie. T'c, S l-3c. 10c, 1iml-c, luc, 18c, 20c and 25c yard, woryi really from 3c to c more. -Ticking. Good ciuality Bed Ticking, 4'jC yard l?t quality A. C. A. Feather Ticking' 12'2c yard. Shirting Cheviots 10c quality Shirting Cheviots, abso lutely fast colors. 40 different styles,' light and dark. 8c yard. irvd quality Shirting Cheviots, 4cc yard. Table Linen. Turkey Red Table Damask, fast sol- ors;. 122C yard. 6"-inch wide Turkey Red Table Da mask, regular 40c quality, fast color, 25c vard. All linen Cream Table Damask, 25c; ya'-d. Extra Special 2 bolts 72 inch wide,( half bleached Table Damask, good ac' value. 45c yard. Full bleached Table Damask, 25c, yard. Extra fine, all linen, full bleached 72 inch wide Table Damask, actually' worth per yard, C9c yard. a4 Napkins, full bleached, all linen, worth $1.25 dozen, S9c dozen. Jap and China Matting. New line of Floor Matting. 15c qual ity, 10c yard. Infants' Wear. Infants' cream white or tan Cash mere long Cloaks, embroidered Skirt and Cape, worth $1.50 each, for 9Sc each. $2.00 Garments, very elaborately em broidered on Skirt and Cape, $1.25. $3.00 Garments, $1.75. $4.00 Garments, $2.25. ie New .WE Kemper Paxtons. A STUDENT WRITES. Says Manhattan Professors Furnished Passes to Republican Students. To the Editor of the sjtate Journal: One's sphere and how to keep it might be aptly applied to the members of the faculty of the Kansas State Agricul tural college. They are an industrious, hard working faculty, worthy the high name given the foremost college of its kind in the world. Sad it is that people cannot stay within the bound of reason and com mon sense. Could a faculty of an in stitution expect the hearty support of the state after they had diverged from the function for which the college was established We agree that politics should never bo brought in conflict with the educa tional institutions of our str.te and it nev.-r would have been had not the professors of the institution thrown down the gauntlet, supposing their in- Leaders of Low Prices. Owing to our large early sales the proprietor was compelled to make a second trip to the east for MILLIiMCRY And has just returned, bringing the latest novelties, which we have put on sale at VERY LOW PRICES. We Have These Oerauinm Foliage, S3 cents. Crushed Kosfs, 12, 19, 25c bunch. While Lilacs, 6 iprayi In bunch, lSe. Bed Popples. 13 In hunch, 5c. 8 Uoi. Large Double Violets, 19c- All these and hundreds of otheritems, are bright, fresh and desirable. S33 Our Millinery First. TROUP'S ENTERPRISE 515 Kansas Avenue. FOR A MAN to look at the calendar to determine when Easter is coming. The ladies, bless 'em, know the date by intuition, and there is no more danger of it's being forgotten than is a favorite recipe from the family Cook Book. It's next Sunday, a Red Letter Day for all the world, and Everybody and his wife will take a new start, refreshed and invigorated by the breath of returning Spring. Now is the time for preparation this week and we will assist in the good work by offering some 3H0E DEPT. Late Arrivals.. Ladies' Ox Blood Low Cuts, Coin Toe, neat and durable, price. $1.4S Ladies' Tan Oxford, Needle Toe, turned, widths from A to D, a $2.00 Low Cut. for 1.25 Misses' Kid Strap Sandals, Needle Toe, Black or Tan, price 1.25 Misses' Kid Button, Needle Toe, patent tip, a $2.00 value for 1.4S Childs' Tan Oxford, Opera Tip, Spring Heel, price Youths' Enamel Calf Bals., Needle Too, regular $2.00 Shoe, price.. 69c 1.35 Ladies' Low Cuts in Black or Tan, from 75c up to $2.50. Come In and be fit in a pair for Easter. Oar Bargain Counters Are replenished every day and are running over with rare bar gains. Millinery Dept. The profusion of new, attractive and, beautiful goods In this department has been the means of making many friends and new customers for the entire store. Each day our opening has brought a larger crowd of eager shoppers than the previous one. Every day has the number of outgoing packages increased only to be replaced by fresh consign ments of the newest and most beautiful creations. Specials. 2 Inch Velveteen Binding, all colors, ,2Vie yard. Corduroy Binding, all colors, 5c yard. Silk Embroidery Floss, colors, 8c dozen. Window Scrim. 2S inch wide Cream Scrim, 4c yard. Lace Window1 Mode: SELL H 3 ra? EVERYTHING.. fluence could not be crippled because they belonged in the front rank as ed ucators. This was a sad mistake, for which they were alone responsible. It was in their power to stifle or promote gold standard Ideas. and they promoted them. Now. is it wrong that they should suffer when they brought it up on themselves by their own efforts? I deem not. It is but a lesson to all professors of our state inscitutions. The charges brought against Presi dent Fairchild are just. His place is not in the sphere of politics. I am sorry to say the present charge is not the first time charges might have been brought against him and other profes sors of the institution. Four years ago this same practice was in vogue. I. a Republican at that time, rode to my home in Centralia, Xerraha county, Kansas, upon a rail road pass, while my Populist brother bought and paid for his ticket. To substantiate this fact, the pass was handed me by a leading member of that institution. You may look upon it as you like, but my honest opinion Is that Justice nas been dealt out. GEO. G. BOAP.DMAN. M'KINLEY SHOCKS THE 400 And the Blow Almost Killed Lispen ard Stewart. Washington, April 13. Lispenard Stewart has had something horrid hap pen to him. It seems McKinley refused him the secretaryship of the legation at St. James actually took Lispenard's name betweenhls thumb and finger, and despite the piteous plea of the "400," then on their patrician knees for the favor, dropped it plumb out of the question. The outraged "400" then arose, brushed the dust from their trousers and skirts, and withdrew, glaring- say ing. "Beware!" MeKlnley named White, whom Hay asked for. But the fur-lined "400" can't understand it; brood over the Lispen ard rejection in a sullen low-browed way and denounce in lisping whispers the parent of "Little Breeches," who. preferring White to Stewart, procured McKinley to do the same. The "400" cannot forgive the episode, and they can't get it straight in their noddles. They go into politics as they now and then go slumming; and having gone into politics thus to have the White Housa "turn down" administered to them as coolly as if they were the com monest plebeian scum of party Is as great a shock as if -while slumming Easter Prices? IGLQTHING DEPT. Boys' Easter Suits. Ages 3 to 8 years. Boys' Reefer Suits, Large Braid ed Collar, in all wool Tweeds, Medium Greys and Browns, Elastic waist band on pants: a splendid wearer $2.00, Neat Styles in Reefer Suits. Braid ed Collars, strictly all wool, splendidly lined, medium brown mixtures and quick seller at 2.25 Nice Overplaid Suits in dark med ium Browns, beautiful fitters, well lined, a nobby suit 2.50 Nobby Overplaid Suit in all wool Scotch Tweeds, beautifully lined and fine fitter: large braided col lars 3.00 Boys' Knee Pant Suits. Ages 5 to 14 years. Nice Grey Cassimere Suit, well lined, good fitter and good wearer 1.35 Black or Blue Cheviot Suits. Dou ble Breasted Styles, goodlinings. and well made 1.50 Strictly all wool Grey and Brown Tweed Suits, strong and ser viceable 2.00 Nobby all wool Suits in Scotch Tweeds, neat checks and over- plaids 2.50 Fine Overplaid Suits in new nob by patterns, beautifully lined, perfect fitters 3.00 Strictly All Wool Black Clay Worsted Suits, beautifully made and Trimmed 3.25 Youths' Long Pant Suits. Good strong serviceable Grey or Blue Cheviot Suits, well made and lined 3.00 Strictly all wool Tweed Suits in Grey and Brown, a nobby suit. good fitter 4.50 New Nobby Overplaid Suits in all wool Scotch Tweeds; fine fitter.. 4.95 Men's Suits. Men's Strong ServiceableCassimere Suits, dark colors, well made 3.50 Men's Strictly All Wool Suits in Sack Styles, neat checks and mixtures; a wonderful suit at.. 4.90 New Brown Overplaid Suit in strictly all wool Tweeds and Cassimeres, beautifully made and trimmed, sold only at the New Model for 6.95 All Clay Worsted Suit in steel grev or black: good serge lin ings; a good fitter 7.95 j Fine All Wool Scotch Tweed Suits, new nobby patterns beautifully suit 9.45 Sixth and Quincy. they had been caught in a shower of rocks in some alley of Cherry Hill. Piatt was with the petitioning pat ricians, kneeling in the front row. The blue blood effect too rather caught Mr. Huina for a moment, and he started to interfere. But McKinley, who now and then does tricks of his own, shut an eye toward Hanna and whispered "Paws off." It thus turns grievously out that Lispenard Stewart will not go to St. James, albeit the blow is not ex pected to lame that greater leader for life. AIR SHIP COMES DOWN Long Enough for the Inventor to .Make a Proposition to Omaha. Omaha, April 13. Omaha is promised the air ship for its transmissouri expo sition. The managers have received a letter signed "A. C. Clinton," in which the writer asserts he is the inventor of the myterious flying machine. He promises to exhibit the ship at the ex position if given 870,000 square feet of space, and says he will call on the managers April 17. He asserts his ma chine can carry 20 people to a height of 20.000 feet. The letter is postmarked "Omaha, April 11," and reads: "My identity up to date has been unknown, but I will come to the front now, i. e., if you guarantee me 870,000 square feet of space. I am the famous air ship con structor, and will guarantee you posi tively of this fact in a week. The air ship is my invention, and as I am an Omaha man, I wish it to be held as an Omaha invention. It will carry safely 20 people to a height of from 10.000 to 20,000 feet. I truly believe I have the greatest invention and discovery ever made. Will see you April 17. 1S97, at the headquarters." the amount of space asked for by the writer of this letter is nearly 35 acres. A DEED TO A LITF. Nearly One-Half of Argentine ia Con veyed to One Alan. Kansas City, Mo., April 13. A deed was placed on file in Kansas City, Kan., today conveying to Wm. J. Isaac of this city nearly one-half of the city of Argentine, a manufacturing suburb. The deed is made by the heirs of the children of Nancy Whitefeather, a Shawnee Indian who died many years ago and who was (the patentee of the land. Over one million dollars' worth of property is involved. The deed was recently approved by the secretary of the interior. A Remarkable Woman With a Won derful Mind and of Great Eloquence. Mrs. Annie Besant, the head of the Theosophical society of the world, was "listened to last evening at Library hall by an audience that about half filled the auditorium. It was an intellectual looking audience, well-dressed and cul tured and included many of the best known people in town. Mrs. Besant pronounced Bezzant with the accent on the first syllable was introduced by the Countess Wachtmeister, who made a few remarks in faultless English with a rich broadness of the vowels, explain ing the objects of Mrs. Besant's travels. Mrs. Besant was dressed in a peculiar but not unpleasing costume, the most conspicuous part of which appeared to be a white silk toga or apron, which covered almost the entire front of her dress. Her hair which is almost snow white was combed away from her face and rolled upward in a sort of corona, framing an agreeable and winning countenance, remarkably strong in ex pression. She looks to be about 50 years of age that is, as though she had lived that length of time during her present time on earth, for it must be understood that this is not Mis. Besant's first time on earth. She has favored this planet with a visit many times, and her friends say that the last time she was here she was not a "she" at all, but, quite the oppos ite, was no one eise but a certain Eng lishman named Lord Byron, who wrote some poetry, and like Leander, swam the Hellespont. Mrs. Besant's lecture was singularly eloquent and impressive, although her audience clearly failed to follow her through all the mazes of her metaphy sical arguments. She has a voice that is as powerful as Mrs. Lease's, but is much better modulated and more mus ical. "We do not advise our students to forsake their church or their forms of religion," she said, "we give them in our teachings, the scientific reason for their faith. The religions of the present have lost much of their spirituality they are forms, empty and void. We have a religion that appeals equally well to the emotions and still satisfies the scientific inquiries and sustains the thoughtful mind. Do you know," she continued in the softest, sweetest of tones, "more people have thought them selves out of the church than in. "For illustration of the reasons for right living we give, let me say: The churches fay for us to return good for evil; that is a precept; if one should ask 'Why?' what would the churches say? They would answer 'Because it is right' We would show to them,.the reason why the precept should be obeyed. Here it is: If you think a hateful thought, if you indulge a feeling of hate, you set in motion in the mental plane a vibra tion of feeling just as is shown in the vibration of music. The vibration con tinues, and if you keep up that sort of thinking and feeling, that force will be come so great that, when it reaches the physical plane, it will cause harm, and both of you will suffer. On the other hand, if you think good, the vibration is for peace and happiness, and when it reaches the physical plane the whole world is benefitted. There is the scien tific reason why right living should be the aim o-f all. Our religion satisfies the scientific inquiry, reassures the in vestigator, and sustains those who de sire the whole truth. "We do not pay as much attention to the evils of society as to other evils. One reason is that societies for that purpose are filling that field. We care to direct our work toward the evils that lie be neath the surface and remedy the evils by removing the cause. We hope to break down the materialism, and re establish the religion on a basis that will meet and satisfy the demands of logic, and not appeal alone to the emo tions. Theru is a divine wisdom that rules all things, which is a basis of all religions. The churches have power just in proportion as they cling to that wisdom and in that same proportion will they satisfy the thoughtful. "The knowledge of the soul and the soul power ought not to be a matter of doubt when it lies within the power of each individual to know the truth so easily. It can be known, it can be shown and enjoyed satisfactorily by those who follow our teachings. "The reason we love our Mahatmas so is because they are perfect men; those who have completed the course of evolution and could go on to an ad vanced state of enjoyment elect to stay on the earth for a time and by their in fluence quicken and elevate and help mankind and delay their future happi ness until others may go with them to the upper plane. There will be work for them in the future by exercising their influence on the inhabitants of new worlds. "Theosophy is a course of develop ment, culture and growth from a lower to a higher order of living. The occult teachings require the most careful training of the mind. One must learn to think and thus gain control of the mind as that one thought can be held in the mind, one idea developed, follow ed for a space of time and the mind be comes the instrument for profit and culture, instead of the master. When one gains so complete control of the mind that the one thought can be held and others shut out for the time, then it will be shortly possible to shut out all thoughts and let the mind become receptive and thus gradually grow in thought culture until one reaches that faint line that divides the mental from the spiritual planes, and when that is done, one can cross over and investi gate the mysteries of the ages at first hand. We do not believe in the return of spirits; we can leave the body for a time and visit the spirit land the upper planes where we may see and know the mysteries of the past at first hands, and then return to earth." After the lecture Mrs. Besant held a short reception in one of the parlors ad joining the hall. Many of the audience were introduced to her. She is as cap tivating in her manners off the stage as she is imposing and impressive upon it. ABOUT MRS. BESANT. Telia of the Last Time Mme. Blavat sky Talked to Her. "When Madame Blavatsky last talk ed with me she said her teacher had told her she was soon to pass away. Her body was quite worn out with toil and care and she said she would leave the rest of my education to her teacher. Suffice it to say he is known as Mahat ma M. and is a member of the royal family of India and lives in Thibet. He is a perfect man, whose course of evo lution has been completed, but still lives and stays on the earth to quicken hu manity. It is not necessary that I r1 1 I -i i 1 1 Hats, Shirts, Gloves, Neckwear, Collars and Received Just C. O. J 1 602 Kansas Ave. should be near him to be taught. One of us can leave the body and in the astral world we can hold communion. He does not lead in his teachings; the work is done by directing the energies in right channels so that it is really self -development. I visit my teacher in Thibet each year." Mrs. Besant dresses most of the time in white and wears a soft Indian shawl carelessly thrown over her shoulder in the Oriental style. It is a custom for convenience, not a form of her religion, she avers. She wears the large signet ling that was given Madame Blavatsky by her Thibet teacher and left to her when Madame Blavatsky died. It is a large solid gold ring- with a large set, on which is carved a double triangle and a Sanscrit word. It is not the sig net of authority, but is a priceless me mento of the great Blavatsky. With Mrs. Besant is the Countess Wachtmeister and Miss Anna Willson (with a double "II"), of London. The countess is the widow of the Russian ambassador to London and is immense ly wealthy. She is quite devoted to the work. Her son is working as a theoso phist in San Francisco. Miss Willson is also a woman of means and is so de voted to the work that she travels with Mrs. Besant and acts as her secretary. Mrs. Besant is not working in har mony with the branch of which Mrs. Tingley and Claud Falls Wright are the exponents.' They represent the Theosophical society of America, but she is connected with the Theosophical society (unlimited). She is inclined to frown upon the sensational and rather showly actions of the other branch, es pecially the formal wedding of parties by a veiled adept. She says if the teachings of the cult are occult, they must be secret and the public work should be but enough to interest those who wish to take up the investigation, simply showing them the way and put ting forth the attractive features of the cult. Of course, as Mrs. Besant Is engaged in missionary work, she is very willing to talk. She will tell you all about reincarnation, and she will even try to explain to you what an aura is, and if you can project your mind along the convolutions of her all-wise ideas with the wisdom that must come from in spiration, the incomprehensible will be come as clear as day, and you will know as much about auras as a Ma hatma. Here are some points upon the aura proposition from the priestess herself. "Invisible bodies form together the aura. This is related to the invisible bodies as the human body is related to the earth. "The astral matter is the particular kind of matter which responds to all vibration. "When vibrations are set up in the human body thoughts result. "Abstract thinking strains the mind to the utmost. You get it by immense study of concrete objects. "All highest thoughts are those when unities are recognized. "There is a faculty of the mind that is the highest quality of intellect con nected with consciousness. That is what Plato meant by a world of ideas. When divided by a trained mind, man is able to repeat some of the energies of divine intelligence. "Science declares that there is but one root of energy." In her lecture Mrs. Besant some times uses a stereopticon to illustrate the formation of auras and the forms of course of thought!!. The room is dark ened and colored pictures are thrown upon a screen. These are. as Mrs. Be sant will explain, pictures made from descriptions of auras and thoughts giv en by those gifted with the sight. Mrs. Besant did not use the stereop ticon last night, however. Mrs. Besant tells us that the souls of the good and holy of this earth have to be reincarnated but seven times, while the soul which is slow in its departure from the brute instinct must be born again and again before it attains final perfection. As long as it remains the elementary soul it has to go over its existence again and again, until it reaches that sublimated perfection which makes it divine. The idea of seven heavens for the human soul is by no means a new one, since Swedenhorg was the first pro mulgator of that idea, and indeed much of the spiritualistic belief of theosophy can be traced back to Swedenborg, though it all, perhaps, had its birth in India; at least that is where the the osophists go today for their enlighten ment. The idea of the creation or the dissemination of that strange, intangi ble quantity called the soul as expound ed by Mrs. Besant. is that particles of the soul essence liy off into this earth and into tangible human bodies, just as drops of water would fly from a revolv ing solid and seek natural gravity, on stones, on fertile spots, on flowers and on vipers just as it happened. This may sound very queer to some minds who pooh-pooh everything save the idea of a personal God. but to oth ers it will doubtless seem the most logi cal solution of that strange question as to -ft'hy immortal souls are often put into such vicious and unworthy bodies. The spiritualistic part of theosophy is, of course, hard to grasp and much of it may be absurd, but this idea of the local dissemination seems far more plausible than many of the doctrines of conservatism. Just how and when, however, a very wicked and grasping soul is to be de livered from the bonds of earthly cru elty and ambition, it would be rather hard to determine. wsA m WF m I We beg to call your attention to the fact that we are now showing the nicest, neatest and most desirable goods in the above lines in the city, AND AT PRICES, TOO, THAT WON'T CRIPPLE YOU in Time. The Reliable Hatter and Men's Outfitter. Take Jay Gould's soul, for instance, "It is still," says Mrs. Besant, "in a most elementary condition. It belong ed in the beginning, of course, to some miser, who died without fulfilling his greed for money, then he died and his soul returned again to another grasp ing man who died with great riches, but not enough to satisfy his greed, so the next time the soul came to a human body it was given to Jay Gould, and he found it his inspiration to amass the tremendous fortune which he left for his heirs." CARD FROM MRS. BESANT. Explains the Charge of Fraud Against Mr. Judge. To the Ed'tor of The State Journal. "As is stated in your paper that the cause of the trouble in the Theosophical society arose 'from a secretary whose accounts were in bad shape,' will you kindly allow me to say that the frauds of which Mr. Judge was accused were not financial; he failed to clear himself of the charge of circulating forged let ters. My excuse for troubling you with the correction is that as the making of a charge against anyone is a serious matter, the charge should be accurately stated. My use of the word 'fraud' pro bably misled your reporter. Sincerely, "ANNIE BESANT." SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Mrs. S. H. Dodge of Beloit Is visiting in the city. Work has commenced on the new Kale residence on Taylor street. Two sections of the fence at Athletic park were blown down yesterday. The Festival chorus will meet tonight to rehearse the contest numbers. Thomas H. Bain lectured before the Swedish Temperance union last night. J. H. Garside, agent for the Santa Fa at Atchison, was in Topeka yesterday. The large fountain in the park at Hun toon and Topeka avenue Is being painted a bright green. A Topeka society young lady says there will be twenty waddings in Topeka so ciety this spring. A. L. Murphy and A. T. Washburn will captain the two teams in the whist tour nament to-night. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wick of 95S Fillmore street are the parents of a son, born at noon yesterday. The. Auditorium Musical Festival asso-cia-tion meets at the Modoc club rooms on Thursday evening. The Young Men's Slver Debating club will meet at the old court house Thurs. day evening at 8 o'clock. C. G. Sholes, superintendent of tele graph for the Santa. Fe, is on a tour of inspection of the system. One of tbe new churns placed in the new creamery will churn GOO pounds of butter at a single churning. The new creamery at 523 Jackson street is to be formally opened next Saturday. It ought to be celebrated. The Swedish Tempejv-nce union held the regular monthly meeting at the Swedish Baptist church last night. The old Dr. Munn residence is now be ing moved south on Topeka avenue to make room for the new house. The new Santa Fe time card makes no changes in the time of the arrival and departure of trains from Topeka. Probate Judge Dolma:i yesterday grant ed a marriage license to Jesse L. Covert and Nellie T. Ellis, both of Topeka. The quarterly meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary society will meet in the First Methodist church tomorrow. M. E. Stoker, Frank Bowen and John Wright are the candidates for couiity clerk who have announced themselves. W. F- Schoch and John T. Chaney have gone to Chetopa to attend the annual meeting of the Patriarchs of America. Representative Charles M. Irwin of Wichita-, chairman of the Kansas divis ion L. A. W. racing board is in the city. "The John Bunyyji Progressive club," a colored relig-ious organization, will cele brate Easter at the Shiloh Baptist church. Tlje demand for painters and inside fin ishers in the city is -now very heavy. A large amount of improvements are being made. George Knowles, who is now superin tending telephone work in Missouri. spent Sunday and Monday with his parents in this city. Martin O'Donnell. lcte in charge of the dispensary at the Santa Fe hospital, has taken a position with the E. T. Sim Drug company. The compilation of the official vote at the recent election shows that the audi torium proposition was carried by a ma jority of 2.242. F. W. Felton of Kansas City, Mo., and Maud I. Roll'e of Blue Springs, Mo., have secured a marriage license from Probate Judge Dolman. Contractor W. H. Keepers sa.ys that he is very well satisfied with the foundations for the new bridge and has o fear that they will give way. Bicycle dealers say that if the proposed bicycle track is made in Topeka it will improve their business greatly and bring notable cycling events. C. R. Hudson of this city has been men tioned as a candidate for commissioner of the Kansas City transportation bureau to succeed A. J. Vanlandingham. The county commissioners have allowed the claim of Keepers Thacher for $7,577 for work and material on the bridge dur in the month of March, and the claim of Superintendent Hinckley for $257. The stenographer elected by the legisla tive investigating committee has not yet appeared to do the work and Miss Lizzie Achenbach is performing that duty. Judge Hazen has granted Dennis Wood a divorce from his wife, Annie S. Wood. Dennis felt so good over his separation that tie agreed to pay the costs of th case. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kepley are both im m STYLES. I "D a nrnnx'-rjTtTc-! DESIGNS. FOR UP-TO-DATE FIXINGS IN MEN'S WEAR, I T I V V proving from the injuries received in tha rumway in Denver Friday night. Both will probably be able to be about in a few days. Mrs. A. Pat ton of 420 East Seventh street has a photograph of the first train ever run in America, taken in 1S31, when the excursion from Albany to Schenecta dy took place. The state encampment of the Kansas) G. A. R. will be held at Chanufce begin ning April 20, closing the 23rd. The de partment officers will go down next Mon day morning. There is case of destitution in North Topeka which Police Matron Thorpe tins been notified about, but the people are too proud to receive charity aid. Tha man is an old soldier and the woman fci sick. The bonds of W. S. McClintock. the re cently elected justice of the peace, and John E. Lucas, constable, have been ap proved by the county commissio-ncrs, and justice and constable have opened court at Judge Furry s old stand. Walter Veale's Mexican coachman, Jose Luna, has learned to ride a blevela Ejid he is delighted with the sport. He ia still being photographed in his sombrero and serape by amateurs and has been giv en a large collection of pictures of him self. The Kansas Cify Presbytery met today at the Second V-nited Presbyterian church corner of Huntoon and Polk streets. In connection with its ssions the Women's Missionary society will meet Wednesday and the Young People's Christian union on Thursday. Homer Cunningham was yesterday aft ernoon convicted of petit larceny in the district court. The c;ise was an appeal case from Justice Grover's court. Cun ningham borrowed a gun from a mivi named Anson a year ago. and instead of returning it as he promised, sold it to a man in Jefferson county. The Crawford Opi-ra. House will open tonight for Lincoln J. Carter's sensational melodrama, "The Heart of Chicago." People who like a scenic production will be entertained by this piece, as it is said to be as strong in thus way as any of Carter's former plavs. The prices to night will be 50. 35 and 25 cents. The annual Woman's Missionary asso ciation of the United Brethren church meets today at Meriden. Kan. This so ciety embraces the northeast quarter of the state. The programme will consist of papers, reports and discussions on noma and foreign mission work. President. Mrs. Delia Coblentz; secretary, Mrs. Hat tie Fees. If the divorce petition of Sadie Suther land is correct. R. F. Sutherland, to whom Bhe was married in November, 1S36, wafi thrice married IWore he met her. and within a month after his fourth ceremony was married for the fifth time to a wo man in Nevada. Mo. On these grounds she will ask Judee Hazen for a separa tion and the restoration of her maiden name, Sadie Coffrin. The first public spring recital of the vo cal and instrumental departments of Washburn college will be held on Wed nesday evening. It will be held in the Washburn college chapel beginning at 8:15 and the admission is free. There will be vocal and instrumental solos bv tha musical pupils, and duets and quartets. Miss Florence Townsley, teacher ot vocal music and Miss Helen Ingails. piano forte, will each appear on the programme. A FINE COMPLIMENT. Tha Work of the Topeka Camera Club is Commended, The American Amateur Photographer of New York, an authority in its line, pays the Topeka Camera club a hand some compliment in referring as fol lows to the catalogue recently issued: "From this, which has been kindly sent to us, we learn several things that it would be well for societies and clubs generally to know. The make-up of the catalogue itself affords ample evi dence of the good taste of all concerned. It is severely plain and beautifully neat, and not disfigured, as too many are, by advertisements interleaved or otherwise. "Then, from the preface, we learn that the members- of ther Topeka Camera club have shown a degree of zeal and energy rarely equalled. Or ganized in the home of one of them to wards the end of I8'J4, it w as able in the following February to hold an exhibi tion, which, in spite of a terrific snow storm, was a popular success, and by the beginning of December in the game year, it was occupying its own club rooms with the necessary conveniences. "A month later, January, 1896, it held, its second exhibition, which, wonderful to tell, was not only artistically, but also financially successful. "And now this catalogue shows that just two years and four months after its organization it has been able to hold a third exhibition that would be a credit to clubs of greater age and higher pretensions." The Largest Strawberry Crop Ever known in the history of Texas is now being marketed. If interested in small fruits and large profits, ask agent Santa Fe Route for copy of Coast coun try of Texas pamphlets. Excursions in April and May. "When a cold is contracted, cure it at once. One Minute Cough Cure will set you on the road to recovery in a min ute. It will cure pneumonia, bronchi tis, croup and all forms of lung an? throat troubles. G. W. Stansfield, 63j Kansas ave. St. Louis and Return $9.50. On May 4th, and 5th the Santa Fe route, the home road, will sell tickets to St.' Louis and return, good till May 12th, at one fare $9.50 for the round trip.

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0 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1897. E. G. KINLEY. KINLEY BUTLEIl MEN LIKE IT. They are Pleased With Secretary Wil son's Scheme. Chicago, April 13. The butter trade is greatly pleased with the determina tion of Secretary of Agriculture Wil fon to interest himself in the exporta tion of the product of American cream eries, as told in Washington dispatches yesterday. "Something has got to be done to in crease our trade abroad," paid a prom inent commission merchant of this city, "for v.e are beginning to produce more than we can use at home. As I under stand it. the secretary of agriculture Pimply intends to ship some samples f American butter to England for the purpose of experimenting. Mr. Monrad jf the agricultural department has for pome time been experimenting with de vices for Pasteurizing butter.cream and milk, and it has been his desire to have some of the creameries given into his charge for a time, so that he could ex periment fully. His idea is to then take samples abroad and prove that we can put up butter of a superior qualily tnat will keep. It has been found that Pasteurizing milk will keep it four or live days longer than milk in which the germs have not been killed. Butter made from Pasteurized cream likewise will keep its flavor longer. It is likely that Mr. Wilson's efforts, in conjunc tion with Mr. Monrad's experiments v ill solve the problem of a foreign but ter trade." SANGUILY KETLRNS. He Says He Had No Intention of Go ing to Cuba. New York, April 13. General Julio Sanguily, accompanied by his son, ar rived in this city last night, from Flor ida, and went at once to the house of his brother-in-law, Kdelberte Farres. In an interview he said: "When I start ed about ten days ago for a trip south, it was in search of warmer weather, as The damp atmosphere then prevailing in this city was very annoying to me, troubled as I am with rheumatism, and dd wounds. It was not. as reported, to go to Cuba. Interviews with me as printed by some papers did not take place as alleged. The fact is, I did not meet any newspaper men during my trip. The remark attributed to me by one paper to the effect that I did not expect any action in behalf of Cuba from the present administration could rot be further from my own opinion. "I earnestly believe that the McKin Jey administration will do its duty toward Cuba." When asked his opinion regarding the probable fate of General Ruiz Riv era, Sanguily said: "I do not believe the Spanish government will shoot him. They certainly fear the effect it would cause in this country. It is about time that Spain should be made to under stand that she must carry on warfare in Cuba in a civilized manner." General Sanguily said he had not yet decided upon any plan for the future. JfORTJl TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should fre left with the Kimball Printing Co.. E35 Kansas avenue, before 10 o'clock in the mornins. Miss Ola Neiswinder of Silver Lake is chopping today. Frank Berry is spending the day at the Berry farm. Little Maud Ward is suffering from fin attack of the measles. Mrs. Thomas Page is getting up an entertainment to be given soon. Miss Maud Glidden will entertain a few of her friends at her home Satur day evening. J. P. White, of Salina, auditor for the Pacific Kxpress Co., was a North Side visitor yesterday. J. B. Reese of Kansas City, traveling passenger agent for the Union Pacific spent Monday on this side. The A Volonte Whist club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Charles Steinberger of Quincy street. The Ladies Sewing society of the North Congregational church will meet tomorrow afternoon at the church. Mrs. Ada Mosier will leave soon on an extended trip east. She will visit in JPennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. All the members of the different sec tions of the Kansas avenue church met yesterday afternoon at the church to make arrangements for their Bazaar. J. M. Morrow left last evening for Se dalia. Mo., to look around and see if he can find a location that suits him. At the rally of the Endeavor socie ties to be held Friday evening at the North Congregational church, Mr. W. O. Steel will read a paper on "The Va lue of Junior Work." Dr. and Mrs. Ira Hill, who have been spending the winter with their daughter Mrs. A. J. Kane, left today for their home in Albany, Wisconsin. They will visit with friends at Springfield, Mo., enroute. The Old Folks' High Five club played last evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. T. B. Reynolds. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Petro substituted for Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Kistler. The next meeting will be vith Mr .and Mrs. William Green, Mon day evening, April 10. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Cramer and child ren. Fern and Carol, left this afternoon for their future home in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Cramer will be greativ missed in North Topeka where they have made many friends whose heartv pood wishes go with them to their new home. Ed Raub, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. 'A. A. Raub, died Friday, April 9, of tuberculosis of the brain, at the home of his father-in-law, H. L. Rowe, of Dallas, Texas. His death came as a surprise to his friends hejre, for al though they knew he suffered from ca tarrh, they had no idea that his condi tion was so serious. Mr. Raub was owner and editor of the Montgomery Leader, at Montgomery, Texas, and had lately gone for a short rest to the Pan handle, where he seemed to improve, being able to hunt and fish: but he was taken suddenly worse and was brought to Dallas where he died. The funeral was held Sunday, the interment being Bt Dallas. Mr. Raub would have been SO years old on the 11th. He was at one time employed as typesetter on the Cap ital and also on the Advocate. Cheap Traveling this Spring. EA.sk Santa Fe agent for particulars f-egarding excessively low rales of fare n April OUv and 20th, and May 4th and asua. T. F. LANNAN. LANNAN. Manufacturers of CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, &c. ETgr- Special orders and repairing promptly attended to. 424 and 428 Jackson St., Topeka, Kas. WAS SOT A GOOD DAY But Jersey City Has Two Hangings This Morning. Jersey City, N. J., April 13. John Mackin, Jr., was hanged at 10:08 o'clock this morning. John Mackin, who was 24 years old, killed his wife and her mother, Mrs. Bridget Connors, on February 27, 1S06. He married Mary Connors five years ago. He was out of work most of the time and was not welcomed at his wife's home, where she lived with her parents. After he had been refused admittance to the house on the day of the murder, he secured a gun and returning shot his wife and her mother and almost succeeded in killing his father-in-law. He was arrested and cut his throat the same night with a razor he had concealed in his shoe. Mackin recovered and pleaded guilty, but according to New Jersey proceed ings this plea was not accepted. Paul (!enz was hanged at 11:10 a. m. Paul Kenz killed his mistress, Clara 1 Arnim, in Hoboken. August 2S, 1x94. He was born in Prussia in 1S67 and came to America m Marcti, iwi. He was employed as a foreman on a steam ship plying between Hamburg and Ho boken. During his absence Clara Ar nim made the acquaintance of Ber nard Stencil, who supplanted Genz in her esteem. DR. O'LEARY. He Opens His Course of Lectures to a Large House. When Dr. O'Leary stepped upon the platform at Hamilton hall last night he had the pleasure of looking into a sea of bright and intelligent faces, many of them his friends of ether days. It is seldom a speaker is favored with a more appreciative audience than the one that greeted him on this, his open ing night. Although past the prime of life. Dr. O'Leary is still the active and enthusi astic advocate of temperance in all things, eating as well as in drinking. His lecture last night was a plea for reform in our modern system of edu cation, recommending a more practical and useful line of studies, one in which the young will be better prepared for the realities of business life. The series of lectures will be continued through the remaining evenings of the week. WEEDING OUT FRAUDS. Closing of E. S. Dean Co Leads to Action by Authorities. New York, April 13. Assistant Dis trict Attorney Lindsay said tonight that while the failure of the E. S. Dean company is being officially investigated nothing has yet been settled in the matter and there was nothing to be given out about the possible indictment of the managers of the concern. The discretionary pool concerns whose mail has been stepped by fraud orders have in most cases notified vic tims that the last pool in which their money had been invested proved an unfortunate speculation, and that all the money had been lost. The propri etors then withdrew their bank ac counts and disappeared from their of fices. "Fraud orders" have been issued by the postmaster general against the I'nited States Addressing company, 217 West 12r,th street, and Ford Co., 6 Broadway. The Open Board of Brokers, which was raided by the police last Saturday, will go out of business, its proprietors say. OX ECONOMICAL GROUNDS. The Rescinding of Cleveland's Pen sion Office Order is Urged. Washington, April 13. Mr. Cleve land's order consolidating pension of fices was to take effect December 1. but doubtless will be rescinded long before then. Commisisoner of Pensions Evans shares this opinion, and he has for warded for the consideration of the president and Secretary Bliss a report setting out that instead of making a saving of considerably over $100,000 in the way of clerk hire, etc., St would in crease the expenditures by $200,000. This is accounted for by the character of the business of the agencies, the re port stating that the agencies consoli dated with others are "cheaper agen cies." that is. agencies where rentals, clerk hire and similar expenses are not high. New York, with a pension roll of 52. 000, is shown to have a clerk hire al lowance of $36,000, the same amount accorded the Columbus. O.. agency, which has double the pension roll, or 104.000. In this connection the follow ing figures are given as significant: New York, 52,000 pensioners.clerk hire $36,000. Columbus, 10-1.000, against $36,000 clerk hire. Des Moines 56.000. allowance $24,000. Knoxville 56.000. allowance $22,000. Boston 54.000. allowance $2S.O0O. Buffalo 46.000, allowance $24,000. Milwaukee 50.000, allowance $19,000. A FREE DRIVE. New Tork Will Take Her Distinguish ed Guests on an Early Morning Ride. New York, April 13. A new feature of the Grant memorial celebration has been added to the programme in the shape of a parade of the guests of the citv from the Fifth Avenue hotel to the monument in the morning before the dedication ceremonies. As matters have been arranged, they will be all driven in open carriages, if the weather is fine, over the same route which the military parade is to follow. The carriages will form in a regular procession two abreast, led by troops. In the first carriage, drawn by four horses, will be President McKinley. former President Grover Cleveland, Mayor Strong and General Horace Por ter. Following them in the other car riages will be the diplomatic corps, members of the cabinet, governors of states, senators, members of congress, generals, admirals and all sorts of no tables. Clubs Same as Sa.oons. Albany. N. Y.. April 13. The senate this morning passed the amendments to the Raines liquor law, to tax clubs the same as saloons and to permit sa loons to serve free lunches. I'l THE SOCIETY WORLD. General Notes of Society and Personal Items. Recent Social Events In Topeka and Vicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. The M. P. S. club met with Mis? Olivia Van Tassel last evening at her home 1113 West Kighth. The club mem bers present were Miss Willa Tomlin son, Miss Edith Brewer, Miss Myrtle Callaham, Miss May Davis, Mr. Frank Beck, Mr. Dick Olden, Mr. George Mc Coy, Mr. Fred Glick, Mr. John Green, Mr. Lou Graham. At the two guest tables were Miss Lizzie Davis, Miss Myrtle Welch. Miss Hattie Coates, Miss Florence "Van Tassel, Mr. Ralph Clauser Mr. Lee Sidwell, Mr. Kalph Ward and Mr. S. Rushmoi-e. St- Cecilia Club. The St. Cecilia club met yesterday af ternoon with Mrs. C. J. Smith. The following Schubert programme was giv en 1. Life of Schubert Miss Kathryn Mills. 2. Song "By the Sea," Airs. C. .1. Smith. 3. Song. "Chant de Mignon." Mrs. S. J. Hodgins. 4. Violin. "Lob der Theranen," Miss Edna Carpenter. 5. Song. "Faith in Spring," Miss Minnie Marsh. 6. Song. "Schubert's Serenade,"... Miss Elizabeth Kinderdine. The club will meet with Miss Carpen ter April 26. L. A. V. Whist Club. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dana entertained the L. A. W. Whist club last evening. There were a number of guests and substitutes. Those who played were Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Ferry, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cole, Miss Bessie West, Miss Myr tle Jetmore, Miss Steinmetz, Miss Franc Littlefieid, Miss Grace Whiting, Mr. R. R. Peterson, Mr. J. C. Waters, Mr. W. A. Alexander, Mr. H. E. Valentine, Mr. Will Seiler, Mr. John McFarland. D. D. Whist Club. Mrs. Frank Edson entertained the D. D. Whist club yesterday. Mrs. Speed Hughes substituted for Mrs. Will Trump. At the guest table Mrs. Davey of Emporia, Mrs. Theodore Hammatt Mrs. Walter Noble and Miss Nellie Mc Clintock played. Mrs. Fred Freeman will be the club's next hostess. Personal and Social. Mrs. L. E. Gartside of Atchison spent Monday with Mrs. O. C. Knowles. The Portia club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. F. A. Botsford at 728 Topeka avenue. Mrs. H. N. Mudge is spending the day in Kansas City. The Bethany college seniors will give a clasp party on the evening of April 21, in the rooms of Miss Horn at the college. Mr. Charles Kline of Raton, N. M., is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. William Teets of Washington, D. C, is visiting Mrs. Willis Rigdon. The Aloho Whist club met last even ing with Miss Trissa Creenwood. Miss Emily Black substituted for Miss Crane and Miss Edna Smyth for Miss Nellie Post. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jansen and fami ly leave tomorrow for their new home in Chicago. Mr. Robert Manly of Lawrence is in the city. Mrs. E. E. Robinson and granddaugh ter spent Sunday in Leavenworth with her son. Miss Nellie Post spent yesterday af ternoon in Kansas City. The invitations were issued yesterday for the marriage of Miss Esther Miller and Mr. H. R. Stillman. April 21, at the home of the bride, 1035 Tyler. Mrs. W. J. Black went to Leaven worth yesterday afternoon and will meet Mrs. Tewksbury and Miss Emily in Kansas City this evening. She will accompany them to Chicago. Mrs. (I. B. Kirk will entertain a few friends tomorrow evening. Mr. Charles Laurent of Denver, is vis iting his mother, Mrs. C. Laurent. Mr. George Knowles spent Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Knowles. Bishop and Mrs. John Vincent will entertain a dozen guests at dinner to night. The Lotus club will give a party Thursday evening. Miss Nellie Post will go to Kansas City Monday to accept the position of cashier at the Midland hotel. Miss Nellie McClintock will entertain her whist club this evening. There are 16 weddings on societys cal endar which will take place within the next two months and a half. Mr. Waldemar v. Dahlen, the "tenor, will give a grand concert at Library hall Wednesday, April the 28th, at 8 o'clock. Miss Paula Biedermann from Chicago will assist him. Admission 50 cents. SEWALL ON RECENT TOTE. He Sees No Special Significance in Late Democratic Victories. San Francisco. April 13. Arthur Sew all, the Democratic candidate for vice president in the last campaign arrived from the east via the Isthmus of Pan ama last night. Mr. Sewall has been on the water for the past thirty days and consequently is not familiar with the political happenings of that period. He said: "J place no special signifi cance upon the recent Democratic suc cess in eastern cities. They were purely the result of local influences. The people of the east are inclined to give President McKinley an 1 his adminis tration a fair trial. Business is very much depressed there, and if it should not improve, I think the Democrats will present the same silver issue four years hence, and I have no doubt they will be successful. Of course everything will depend upon the financial condition of the country during the next four years. The people have been promised better times and if they do not get them they will again demand a change of administration." Mr. Sewall is visiting San Francisco on both business and pleasure. He is largely interested in shipbuilding in Maine, which industry, he says, is practically suspended. He is thinking of going to Japan to secure some con tracts from that government or the mercantile interests there. Gov. Black's Idea of Civil Service. Albany. N. Y., April 13. Governor Black has sent to Senator Lexow in the senate, and Assemblyman Schorer, in the assembly, a bill embodying his ideas of civil service. In the main, they are a total abrogation of the pres ent laws, and put in the hands of the heads of each department of the stats or city the examination of candidates, and require only an examination as to fitness for the office to be filled. WEEDING OUT THE FORCE. Several of the New Populist Police Superceded by Others. Last evening the Topeka board of po lice commissioners met and held the annual election of the police force. Five of the regular patrolmen came under the ban of Chief of Police Henry M. Steele's displeasure and lost their offi cial heads. They were Bob Burgess, J. Blumenstock. Reardon, McFadden. and Roberts. Burgess was the giant of the police force. He was a straight Demo crat, having held the position of pa trolman during the Republican admin istration. He was considered an excel lent officer but it is said that the fight made on nim by Chief Steele and Ser geant Owen was responsible for his re moval. Blumenstock. another of the victims of Chief Steele's ax, was ap pointed February 1. He served as pa trolman during the Lewelling adminis tration and was considered an efficient officer. He says that there was a con spiracy against him. Patrolmen Reardon and McFadden were appointed February 1 and were men new to Topeka police work. They were removed, it is said, to make room for men whom the board considered more efficient. Special Officer Roberts, who was detailed to duty at the Kan sas avenue bridge was removed and Frank L. Whittaker, ex-deputy election commissioner appointed, to fill his place. The new men appointed consist of four Populists and a silver Republican. George Fieger, the cigar maker, was appointed as patrolman. The silver Re publican to don the uniform and star is J. J. Davis, son of J. A. Davis, presi dent of the silver club. C. A. Carlson, a painter who has been employed at b A. Beokstrom's shop and Herman Jacobs, who has been em ployed in the shops of the Rock Island railroad and C. L. Yonkins, who has been a special policeman, were put in as patrolmen. A sanitary sergeant was appointed by the board, but it is probable that he will not be allowed to take charge of the office until it is settled by the courts. D. M. Mitchell secured the appoint ment. This morning he went to the city building and formally demanded the keys to the sanitary offices and the books. He was refused and told that he would have to get a written order from the mayor before this would be done. Mayor Fellows will refuse to give the order on the ground that the statutes provide that the police board can appoint a sanitary sergeant only in cities of 40.000 or over. It is claimed by the city authorities that Topeka does not contain that population. LEWELLING GOES SOUTH. J. P. Campbell Makes Remarks About Him. Wichita, April 13. Governor Leedy, Railroad Commisioner W. P. Dilliard, and ex-Chief Justice David Martin passed through here last night enroute to the south to meet the Interstate Commerce commisison at Austin, Tex. Ex-Governor Lewelling of this city who is now the subject of a great deal of critism on account of the developments of the investigation being held at To peka, met the train at the depot and intended to join" the party. He stated that if Governor Leedy and the others did not give him a decent reception on the train he would abandon them at Arkansas City and return home. He did not return from that point. He may have-met with a decent re ception on the train, but before he left he received a roasting from J. P. Camp bell. Mr. Campbell is an attorney of this city and the gentleman to whom Mr. Lewelling referred in his recent in terview as the inspirer of all the trou bles that have been brought upon him. Mr. Campbell said: "I don't believe that Lewelling is corrupt: but at the same time 1 can not doubt the statement of the men who say that he is. They are men whom I have known for years, and hence I am mystified." As Mr. Campbell said this, he smiled and looked mystified. He also said that as long as Mr. Lewelling does not state who said he (Campbell) had inspired the fight against him. he must believe that Lewelling has deliberately and purpose ly lied. In fact he challenged Mr. Lew elling to prove that he is not a liar. Mr. Campbell says that if Lewelling were to ask the Populists of Sedgwick county at this time to endorse him for railroad commissioner he could not get ten per cent of them to do so. POLICE IN CADET GREY. New "Uniforms Ordered for the Force; Copied After Cincinnati. Topeka's metropolitan police force will soon be uniformed in the latest style. The board of police commissioners has closed a contract with the Hub Clothing company of this city for uniforms for all the men. It will be an exact copy of the Cincinnati metropolitan police uniform. The coat will be of dark blue, the same color which has been in use in the past. The trousers will be of cadet grey with a black stripe down the side. A helmet of cadet grey will com plete the suits. A number of new clubs just the right length and weight are being turned out by a Topeka firm and the stars will be brightened up a bit. The detectives will of course wear citi zens' clothes. As yet no steps have been taken to ward have the policemen drilled, but it is probable that it will be done. Some of the policemen couldn't keep step for a half block to save their lives. Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more gen erally needed when the languid, ex hausted feeling prevails, when the liv er is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Head ache, Indigestion, Constipation, Dizzi ness yield to Electric Bitters. 50c and $1 per bottle at J. K. Jones' Drug Store Fifth and Kansas Ave. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Assocaited Pres3 to the State Journal. Chicago. Til.. April 3. WHEAT The foreign markets did not respond wish advantw equal to those made in Chicago markets yesterday. The consequence was that much of the wheat bought on the advance yesterday was for sale at a decline of Uc to VzC this morn ing. The northwestern receipts were large. 504 cars. at?a:iist 458 lest year. The advance at Liverpool was Sd. according to board cables, bur some private cables made it Id. Mav wheat opened at from 67c to 67'c. compared with 6iV"3So r-t vesrerday's close. After selling at 6-rc ine price advanced to b7Tsc, then declined rapidlv to 6ti7.8'T67c. CORN" Mav corn opened Vt'uVtc lower at 2r.Ts'T24c, sold at 233'f2i3C, then off to 235'3C. OATS May oats opened a shade lower at 36s'il8-c, sold at ltic and 16;c then off to 11i!c. PROVISIONS May pork opened 2ifu.o lower at SS.52V end sold at $8.50. May lard opened 2!-.c lower at $4.25 and sold at S4.221;.. May ribs opened e. shade lower at S4.7tKu4.721-- and .sold at J4.70. Hog receipts were 15.000 and prices at the yards era quoted strong. The weakness in grain. Uowe.ver, had its effect on the provision markets end prices generally worked low er in sympathy. Chicago Livestock Market Chicago, 111., April IS. HOGS Estimated receipts today 13,000: left over 2.5t0: closing quiet, about all sold. Lights $:!.S5'ft4.17'.2: mixed $3.95!g4.2u; heavy $:j.Sfi4.20: rough $3.S0ti3.ftO. CATTLE Receipts 2.0C0. Steady to strong. Beeves Sli. 8555.20: cows and heif ers $2.0O1j4.4O: Texas steers $3.23S4.40; stockers and feeders $3.4CK14.40. SHEEP Receipts 11.000. Sheep and lamb market steady to 10c higher. Native sheep $3.00Ci5.1o; westerns $3.S0Si5.10; lambs $4.(Arcl6.10. HOGS Official receipts yesterday 19,018: shipments 6.342. CATTLE Official receipts yesterday 13, 310: shipments 2.GS3. SHEEP Official receipts yesterday 16, 493: shipments 5.048. Estimated receipts hogs tomorrow 22,000 head. Today's Range of Prices. Furnished by Goodwin Chaniberlln, Brokers in Grain, Provisions and Stocks, Topeka. Kan. Articles Op'nHighi Low jCl'seiYes. WHEAT April 67 67as 67 67"i 674 May 67M; 67vs 6H 67si 6S July 67H 674 G&3 671,! 67'J Sept 65 65! 64vs 651 0aTS CORN I April 23V 2334 May 24 24M, 23 23 1 24i July 25 2Ts 25 25Hi 25 Sept 27 27 26 26 26 OATS April 16 16U Mav 36 16 16 l';Mil 16 July 17 17 171 17SS 17 Sept 18 18 18!i WVjI 18 PORK I April 8 32 8 52 May 8 52 8 52 S 35 8 37! 8 57 Julv 8 67 8 67 8 45 8 47 1 8 67 LARD I April 4 20! 4 25 Mav 4 22 4 25 4 20 4 20 4 27 Julv- 4 32 4 32 4 30 4 301 4 35 Sep't 4 45 4 45 4 40 4 401 4 45 RIBS 1 April 4 62 4 72 Mav 4 70 4 70 4 62 4 62 l 4 72 July 4 72 4 75 4 65 4 65 4 75 Kansas City J-.ivestock MarKet Kansas City, April 13. CATTLE Receipts 10.000. Market weak to 10c lower. Texas steers $3.iwfd4.30: Tex, as cows J2.903.20; native steers $3.755.0O; native cows and heifers $1.75'a4.25: stack ers and feeders $3.50y'4.75; bulls $2.50Ci4.00. REPRESENTATIVE SALES: No. Wt. Pr. 42 Texas steers 1070 $4 30 60 Texas cows 512 3 20 23 native cows and heifers 1020 4 23 38 stockers and feeders 492 4 75 IS native steers 14K0 5 00 5 bulls 1045 4 'JO HOGS Receipts 13.000. Market 5c lower and slow. Bulk of sales $3.80fi3.99; heav ies $3.Soa3.95: packers $3.70ta3.85: mixed $3.SCKa3.95: lights $:.60$2.75; yorkers $3.70t 3.75: pigs $3.iya.:;.60. SHEEP Receipts r.,000. Market strong. Lambs $4.35ft5.20; muttons $3.50&4.60. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, April 13. WHEAT Quiet, about steady: No. 2 hard nominally 77c: one car fancy SOc; No. 3 nominally 72S 75c: No. 4 nominally WttSCc: No. 2 red 93c: No. 3. 85ti91c: No. 4. 7(i'uS0c; No. 2 spring 76'ti77Vc; No. 3, 74Vyg CORN Firm. slightly higher in some cases: No. 2 mixed 2ffa20c. OATS Steady, rather dull; No. 2 white 20c. RYE Weak: No. 2. 29c bid. HAY Firm: choice timothy $9.50;choice prairie $6.50''a7.00. BUTTER Active and strong, but with tendency to weakness in creamery ;cream ery lta'alSc: diiiry 10al4c. EGGS Firm, demand heavy, strictly fresh T's'&Sc. Market Gossip. Furnished by Goodwin Chamberlin. P.rokers in Grain, Provisions and Stocks, Topka. Kan. Jo's Tips: The wheat market certainly should improve. Cables from Uie other side indicate that some strong interests are giving their attention to wheat and it c-tn be said without any fear of contra diction that the good men of Chicago and St. IjOuis have turned bulls on wheat, be lieving May option will eniov a decided substantial advance. Higher prices for f wheat with or without war news, will necessari!y mean better prices for stocks. 1 The. more money that parses into farmers' ir.iads the greater are. generally the bene- tits to be derived. Every cent advance in t wheat markets from now on should mean increased strength, especially for ora:is ors. Wheat is a purchase. St. Paul as a regular dividend paying stock, is likely to sell in the neighborhood of 80 and there is no good reason for looking for or tuiticipating anv decline of moment in Q. Puts are offered verv near market on both of these .specialties, not only for a weak, but may be said within reasonable limits for a month or longer for 1 per cent interest those that are buying Chi cago Gas say that traders who endeavor to catch the turns of the to 1 per cent will only succeed in dosing money. Gas is a purchase. Opening Liverpool cable firm, jio high- yW&Ji 'A few A 1 A Wr sA rA 2u YJr v--? "WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE." Car lots, wheat 10-3, corn 192-78, oats 243-26. Minneapolis wires: Two firms yester day sold 110.000 ba.rre.ls flour, think total sales of mills will aggregate 130.000 easy. London, 1:50 p. in.: Wheat cargoes firm. 3d dearer; European visible wheat 58.5ii0.000 bushels against 57.976.000 bushels last week; increased 584,000; French crop prospects worse. News bureau says: San Francisco Sit uation yesterday showed some improve ment but trading was only moderately active. May opened $1.21. closing steady, J1.201. Spot wheat inactive, quoted $1.20. Minneapolis, cars today 183, Duluth 32). Board cables: Liverpool spot wheat steady. Id up: corn steady, Hd up; fu tures wheat quiet. d up: corn quiet. d up. London 0:1 passage, wheat firm, 36 Od higher corn firm. Country markets. Eng lish firm. French quiet; Berlin,' May July higher. Logan. News bureau says: London wheat car goes off coast firmer, on passage firmer, 3ti0d higher; corn cargoes off coast firm; on passage firmer. English country mar kets firm. Chicago: Receipts hogs 16.000, left over 2.200; quality good: higher; stronger, S3. 95 (64.20. Receipts cattle 2,000, strong. Hogs tomorrow 23.000. Chicago: About 10 per cent of the Min neapolis flour sales yesterday were, for eign. Chicago: Trades of one leading scalp er in wheat lias been closed out thus morning, he being unable to margin them. Estimated cars wheat tomorrow 6, corn S5. oats 102. New York: Thirty-four loads wheat taken for export. Chicago: Am inclined to think short interest in May is pretty well covered at present and unless we get more outride help market will sell lower. Aldrleh Primary receipts 330.UO0; shipments 203, 00(i: flour '6'..l0O. New York: Liquidation, causuig weak iie'ss in T. C. 1 Bache. Chicago: Rumored twenty loads taken for export. Logan. Chicago- Grier been best individual seller Julv. Mitchell best buyer. Trade in May generally small lots. Puts 63c: calls 73e; good next week on May w?ieat. Chicago: Provisions more steady. Ar mour buying perk and ribs checked de cline. Chicago: I feel inclined to sell wheat on hard spots today. Aldrleh. Puts. Mav wheat 66Vi6c: calls 67 671-c puis." Julv wheat 66c: calls 6ic; puts. Mav corn 2?2378e: calls 24c; curb. May wheat 67c; July 67'367y8Cu- N. Y. Stock Letter. Baehe's grain letter furnished by Good win Chamberlain. Brokers in Grain, Provisions and Stocks, Topeka, Kansas: New York. April 13. Consols are flat and unchan Ameri can rails are irregular. New Ycrk Central nominally 99 bid. Q. will show about 3 earned for stock. The M.arch state ment will be a corker, so Boston advices say. Western Union will probably rally a couple of dollars per share. The denial by supreme court of petition for a- writ in case of Bell Telephone company va. 'West ern Union had not by any means the im portance that the traders attached to it. In fact the case which Involved fees on patents was practically abandoned by Western Union years ago. Directors of Western Union draw attention to the fact that the company has paid over 112 divi dends and Mr. Sage i:ow avers he sees nJ reason why dividends on a 5 per cent basis shall not be maintained. Officials of Reading denies mines have suffered any thing like, losses, that rumors are stated 011 account of floods. The trading ire Reading was large for that stock, up wards of 9.0X) full shares being the record. Unless something unforeseen happens these coalers will rally. There, is the best of reasons for stating that dividend on Jersey Central will be promptly paid but Jersey Central is not likely to hava anv boom while investigation of LehigO and Wilkes Barre affairs bv commutes of senate is in progress. Q. reports show $2 4W.0iK) earned on stock which was $S1S. WJ less than 4 per cent paid, net result was equal to S's per cent for year. Q. is likelv to sell down to 70 or perhaps 69. We hear the Postal Telegraph company is likelv to get the Associated Press con tract. If this is so it will be a great loan to the Western Union. (Additional Markets on Page 3.) A G. GOODWIN. W. L. CHAMBERLIN. Goodwin Chamberlin BROKERS. Grain, Provisions Stocks Successors to TOPEKA GRU. STOCK EXCHANGE Private leased wires to New York. Chica go, St. Louis and Kansas City. REFERENCE: BANK OF TOPEKA. IT G. LOGAN, Member Chicago Poard of Trade and Naw York Stock Exchange. tOKKESSPOXUKXT. W. A. HICH.1EL COMMISSION CO., HO West Sixtb Avenue, Telephone 669. Topeka, Kan. A. W. Wll'KHASI, Manager. Grain, Provisions, Stocks You can buv or sell anything dealt in on the principal exchange o the country throuGh us. Direct wires. Quick service. Reasonable margins. Orders by wire, let ter or telephone promptly executed. P.ef rence by permission, CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK. Topeka, Kansas. UNION NATIONAL BANK. Kansas City. Mo. Kansas City office, first floor Kxohangs building. We have same service and sponsibility as Kansas City office.

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURXAL," TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1897. Awarded ilighest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. o. n i .7 LfKJVUiLL A Pore Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. e SHIPS ATOID ICEBERGS. Take the Southern Route Across the Atlantic. New Tork, April 13. The transatlan tic steamers have decided to take the more southern route across the ocean, owing- to the immense quantities of ice being- encountered. Every steamship coming into port has a log book filled iwith remarks about the immense floes and bergs encountered away out of the iusual track and far earlier than usual. Two liners report steaming for eight hours through great fields of icebergs 300 feet high. This means danger un less extra precaution is taken, as the Ice is in such large quantities it -will not soon melt, even when it strikes the rwarm gulf stream; but by taking the southern route the danger of a collision will be avoided until the ice comes lower down. Even then there is little actual danger, as old sea captains are very careful when in the neighborhood of these unwelcome visitors from the north. Even when the ice is not in eight, its near presence is easily distin guished by the sudden changes in tem perature of water or air, or suspicious fog banks along the horizon. HEADING CIRCLES KILLED. Adjunct to the Educational System of Indiana Destroyed. Indianapolis, April 13. The ruling of the appellate court that township trus tees have no authority to purchase "reading circle" books is likely to de Btroy this valuable adjunct to the edu cation! system of the state. The directors, w ho are named by the State Teachers' association, with the superintendent of the department of public instruction, ex-ofhcio a member, have been called to meet here in the hope of devising some way by which the circles can be continued. C03IST0CK MARES A HAUL. Guy De Maupassant's 'Mme. Tellier's Girls" Removed Prom Bookstores. ISTew York, April 13. Anthony Com etock has seized all the copie3 which he found on stalls and in stations of news companies of Guy De Maupassant's "Mme. Tellier's Girls." When the pub lisher protested and offered to show that the work was commended by the best American writers, Mr. Comstock said "The work shocks me. I represent the average people. I do not compre hend your literary subtleties. There may have been a reason for this book in Paris; there is none here." FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT. A Liquor Cure Company After the Mail and Express for $300,000. New Tork, April 13, The trial of the ruit of Morrell Liquor Cure company of Rock Isla-nd, 111., against the Ma.il and Express, has been begun in the United States circuit court before Judge Wallace end a jury. The plaintiff a.vks for $300,000 damages, alleging that the publication failed to cany out its contract for adver tising in return for shares received. The liquor cure was largely boomed by the late Col. KUiott SJiepard. then owner of the Mail and Express. Free depots and hospitals for the treatment of drunk enness were established under the aus pices of the paper. Business disagree ments followed, resulting in this lawsuit. SOLD GOLD TO AUSTRIA. Bank of England Lets Go of 100,000 Pounds of Gold Ears. JCpw Tork. April 13. The. Post Saturday evening publishes the following: London. April 10. The decline in the Bank of Germany rate had no effect in this city today. The stock markets here were disturbed by the Greek frontier in cidents and the cose -was at the lowest. Consols feil to 112 9-1'j. The pressure for gold is now bo strong that the Bank of England today sold 100. 0 pounds in bars, it is believed, for Aus tria in connection with the gold payments which have to be made by that govern ment to the National bftnk there as re sult of the recent contract. Relief in Six Sours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis ease relieved in six hours by the "New Great South American Kidney Cure." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, hack and every part of the urinary pas cages in male or female. It relieves re tention of water and pain in passing it almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by Ctho. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas Ave., and Sim Drug Co.. 607 Kansas Ave., druggists, Topeka, Kan. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It. J. W. PHILLIPS. 612 W. Eighth Ave. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peeriess Steam Laundry. Absolutely Puro- Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adul teration common to the cheap brands. P-ojal Eakits Powder Co., New York. STOCK TICKER CASE. The Supreme Court Sends it Back to the Circuit Court. Washington, April 13. The supreme court of the United States today de nied the petition for a writ of certi orari in the case of the American Bell Telephone company vs. the "Western Union Telegraph company to compel the circuit court of appeals for the first circuit to certify the case to the su preme court. The case involves the question of royalties claimed from the Bell company by the Western Union company and was originally brought in the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts to secure an account of these royalties. It is understood that about $5,000,000 is involved. It appears that after in stituting the suit the Western Union sought to have it dismissed, and after it was dismissed the Bell company ap pealed to the circuit court of appeals when the decision of the circuit court was reversed. The Western Union company sought to have the case reviewed by the supreme court, but the opinion rendered today denies this petition. This has the effect of taking the case back to the circuit court for further proceedings in accordance with the decision of the circuit court of ap peals. The case is known as the stock ticker case." DOUBLY MARRIED. Governor Atkinson's Son is Allowed to Keep His Child Bride This Time. Chattanooga, Te.nn., April 13. The eon of Governor Atkinson of Georgia and Ada Byrd, the Atlanta school girl, were married again today, the knot being tW at the residence of I. C. Mansfield on Oak strepf in this city. The boy and girl eloped a week ago from Atlanta and went to Kensington, where they were married- They then went to Home, Ga. News of the elopement was immediately conveyed to Governor Atkinson and Mr. Bvrd, and thev offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension of the fugitive couole. They were found at Rome and taken back to Atlanta. Governor Atkinson held his son a pris oner in the executive mansion. Numer ous councils between the two families were held, and the marriage here todc-y in the presence of the parents was the result. Dr. McDonald of Atlanta performed the ceremony, and when it was concluded the bride burst into tears. The couple, left for Nashville, where they will spend their honevmoon. The wedding gown of Miss Byrd was her first long dress, a pretty dark blue and white plaid. The boy groom was at tired in a light suit. He had the appear ance of a 14-year-old lad. The newly wedded couple will live with the boy's father. Governor Atkinson's 11-year-old son attended the wedding. Before leaving his mother told him not to get married before his return. She did not attend the wed ding. IN 1VIIITE HOUSE YARD. Isador Efron of San Antonio is Sand bagged and Robbed. "Washington, April 13. Tsartor Efron, a merchant of San Antonio. Tex., was as saulted and robbed by footpads in tf'ie "White house lot late Saturday niJit. Mr. Efron is in 'Washington seeking appoint ment to a consulate in Japan, and is en dorsed by Mark Hanna. Mr. Efron arrived in town Saturday and about 10 o'clock was on Pennsylvania avenue, intending- to go to nLs room, but had missed his way. Seeing two men of apparently respectable character on the avenue, he arked them to direct him to his quarters. Instead of going toward his rooms, how ever, the men went in the. direction of the rear of the "White house. Mr. Efron finally became suspicious, when the larg er of the two men seized him. while the other struck him a, sharp blow on the head with a blunt weapon. The blow staggered him. and before he was fully aware of what was going on they bad rifled his pockets of a watch and chain. $40 in cash, and a pocket book containing drafts on New York for $.0. Mr. Efron was not seriously injured, and will be able to go to Is'ew Tork on business. CHIEF FOR 24 YEARS. Head of San Francisco Police Depart ment Pensioned OS San Francisco, April 13. The expect ed resignation of Chief of Police Crow ley came last night. After twenty four years of more than faithful serv ice in the police department of Pan Francisco, he was permitted to retire upon a pension. The action was taken at a meeting of the board of po lice commissioners, sitting as a pension fund commission. The move has been in contemplation for long past. A year ago the resig nation was handed in, but there was a hitch in the law regarding pensions which prevented its acceptance. The chief had not held his office for twenty years without a break. Since that time, however, the legislature has amended the law, so that ex-Chief Crowley may now retire on a com fortable annuity of $2,500. Even then two of the commissioners were disin clined to accept the resignation. BEET SUGAR COMPANY. Formed at Minneapolis and Will Fight the Trust. Minneapolis, Minn., April 13. It is announced today that the Minnesota Eeet Sugar company has been organized with a capital stock of $2,000,000. The incorporators announce that the direc torate is to include two well known Chicago men, representing the Chicago Wholesale Grocers' association, whose object it is to fight the sugar trust by the establishment in the northwest of the sugar beet industry. A $250,000 factory is to be built at Hastings, Minn., and others will follow as the farmers are interested in raising beets. The railroads are helping the associations and auxiliary associations are to be formed in every county whose soil is adapted to the culture. To KCexico Any Day in the Year. The City of Mexico Is a delightful place In winter, but in summer Why except summer? Up in the clouds several thousand feet, tropical heat is tempered to an agreeable cool ness. Result: Summer climate is en joyable. The potent charm of a people distinc tively foreign makes the journey to Mexico well worth its cost any day in the year, and the cost is moderate. Round trip excursions over the Santa Fe Route. Free literature describing Mexico. Address W. J. Black, G. P. A., A. T. S. F. Ry Topeka, Kan. Two years ago R. J. Warren, a drug gist at Pleasant Brook. N. T., bought a small supply of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He sums up the result as fol lows: "At that time the goods were unknown in this section; today Cham berlain's Cough Remedy is a household word." It is the same in hundreds of communities. Where ever the good qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy become known the people will have nothing else. For sale by Druggists. When the spring time comes, "gentle Annie," like all other sensible persons, will cleanse the liver and renovate the system with DeWitt's Little Early Risers, famous little pills for the liver and stomach all the year round. G. ;V. Stansfield, 632 Kansas ave. GOING INTO BUTTER. Uncle Sam Will Engags in the Butler Trade. Chicago, April 13. A special to the Times-Herald from AVashington, D. C, says: "The United States government is go ing into the butter business. The en terprise had its origin at a wedding. "At the wedding breakfast given to Postmaster General Gary's daughter the other day in Baltimore, Mr. Wilson sat beside a Baltimore man who exports grain. He told the secretary he had a rate of 8 cents a bushel on corn from Baltimore to Copenhagen, Denmark, and that considerable quantities were exported to that market. "What do the Danes do with the corn?" asked Secretary Wilson. "Feed it to their cows and then send their butter to London and Liverpool, where they have a big trade," was the answer. This set Mr. Wilson to thinking. "It is not right that western corn should be shippend to Denmark and then come back to England as butter, and. thus crowd our own butter out of the mar ket," said he to himself. So the secretary of agriculture began an investigation of our export butter trade. He found that until recently all our exports were of cheap stuff, oleos and butterines. Of late some good but ter had been going abroad, but our people did not know how to cater to the English taste. "We are making the best butter in the world and more than our own people can use," said Mr. Wilson to himself, "and there must be some way we can meet those Danes in London." A couple of days after his return to Washington, Mr. Wilson was at the of fice of the comptroller of the treasury. "Have I the legal right to buy a lot of butter with the funds of the agricul tural department and send it to Eng land to be sold?" he asked the comp troller. That gentleman looked up the law and said the secretary of agriculture had the right. As soon as he returned to his office the secretary called up some of his assistants and said to them: "I want you to buy several hundred pounds of the best creamery butter made in Illinois. Iowa and one or two other states. Have some of it put in our own 60 pound tubs, some of it in the Australian foot square packages, and the rest in tight tin cases. Ship it to our agent in New York. Instruct this agent to ship it to our animal in dustry agent in London. Send orders to him to put this butter on the mar ket. Have him note carefully the prices received for the different lots. Also the objections and comments of the butter people over there. "We want to know what that market wants in the way of package, of color of butter, salt, grain, flavor, everything. As soon as this lot is disposed of and the report of our London agent is re ceived, buy another lot, profiting by the experience with the first one and send it over. Keep this up till we have learned all about the English butter market, and till the English have learn ed to know and like our butter. If, in a little while, we da not get a fair share of that English butter trade, I'll miss my guess." This is the way the tTnited States government is going into the butter business. MADMAN IN PALMER HOUSE He Whips a Policeman and a Hack Driver. Chicago, April 13. A maniac broke loose in the rotunda of the Palmer House shortly before midnight Satur day night. He whipped a policeman and a hack driver and gave officers who were called to overpower him a hard fight before he was got under control. The madman, a delicate looking youth of perhaps 20 years, first attracted at tention by preparing to disrobe in the lobby of the hotel. "When he had whip ped the policeman and hackdriver a call for help was sent to the lake front station. The patrol, bearing Officers Sullivan and Collins, responded, and for twenty minutes the police struggled with the insane fellow. At the Harrison street station the battle was renewed and the prisoner had to be strapped hand and foot to a chair. His name is supposed to be L. E. Jacobson. A MILLIONAIRE LABORER. Hubert Pratt Serving an Apprentice ship in a Standard Oil Refinery. New York, April 13. Hubert Pratt, son of the late Charles Pratt, the multi-millionaire associate of the Rockefellers in the Standard Oil company, and brother of Charles Pratt, who is a Standard Oil magnate today and owner of about half the securities of the Long Island railway, has decided to become a practical man in the. oil refining business. He has appren ticed himself in the Queens County oil work.s and, clad in a slouch hat, a mon key jacket, from which the grease fairlj oozed, a pair of overalls that showed the effects of hr-rd service, and a pair of rub ber boots, the yong man wti-s seen today, assisting the engineer, rolling barrels or doing whatever be was ordered to do at the refinery in Green Point. "Young Pratt has been working here in the yard and all over the plant for some months past." said the superintendent of the Queens County Oil company tcday. "He desirous of learning the business of oil refini-ng and the disposition of pe troleum product.s thoroughly, and so he came here and began at the very bottom of the ladder. He has learned rapidly, mastering one branch of the business after another, and I suppose he will be a graduate in the science of oil refining soon." Young Mr. Pratt lives In a mansion at No. 2:J2 Clinton avenue. Brooklyn, and la in his own right worth several million dollars. It is said he will leave the Queens County Oil works in the near future to assume the management of another big oil refini-ng concern, in which some of the family millions are invested. GRANT PARADE SEAT RUSH Riverside Drive Lots and HousesEent for Hundreds for One Day's Use. New York. April 13. A resident of Riverside drive, on the route of the Grant parade, received an offer of $l..ri00 today for the use of his house, the day of the tomb dedication. Residents along the route of the parade are being besieged daily by men and women who are ready to pay large prices for the use of bouses or even single windows. People in Eu rope, who expect to be in New York for the parade, have cabled for seats on stands. and real estate dealers are receiv ing numerous calls from persons who want stands, stoops, windows and roofs, and some will have stands seating 1,500 people erected on vacant lots. The tickets are selling now at from $2 to $5 apiece, and boxes bring $25. One property owner on Seventy-Second street was offered $.500 for two houses for the day. and asked $500 each for them. For 50 feet front at Riverdale drive and One Hundred and Thirteenth street $"x is asked, and $200 has already been paid for the use of a single lot on the drive south of One Hundred and Twenty-second etreet. The Rock Island Is still selling through tickets and checking baggage to the Occident, the Orient and intermediate points, and will continue to do so. For rates, etc., call at Rock Island passenger station. Phone 3S4. Not how cheap but how good Is ths way we try to do our work. Peerless Etteam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th. MUNICIPALCONDITIONS. Programme of the National League Meeting to be Held at Louis ville. Philadelphia, Pa., April 13. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, secretary of the Na tional Municipal league, has prepared the programme for the conference to be held in Louisville on May 5, 6 and 7. The purpose of the conference will be to show the actual municipal conditions of a number of American cities, what has been accomplished and to discuss some of the more important phases of the problem of city government and its administration in this country. Major Edwin D. McGuinness, of Prov idence, will speak for his city; ex-Mayor John F. Ficken, for Charleston, S. C. J. Richard Freud, for San Francisco; Rev. Henry Hopkins, D. D., for Kansas City; Professor George L. Fox, for New Haven, Conn., and A. C. Cassat, Esq., of Cincinnati, on the municipal condi tions of Ohio cities. Charles J. Bonaparte, Esq., of Balti more, will speak on "The Results of a Victory for Reform;" Charles Janvier, president of the Citizens' league of New Orleans, is expected to speak on what has been accomplished in that city un der the reform regime; Joseph T. Ailing on municipal reforms in Rochester, N. Y., and Corporation Counsel Francis M. Scott, on the features of the charter of Greater New York, showing wherein it is an improvement over existing laws. Professor Edmund J. James and Profes sor Frank J. Goodnow, of Columbia col lege the power of a municipal corpora tion. Frank M. Loomis, of Buffalo, T. Y., has prepared a paper on the exclusion of partisan politics from municipal af fairs, describing particularly the Demo cratic European method of accomplish ing this end. The participation of the wage-earner and the business man in politics will be discussed and there will be other ad dresses by the president of the league, James C. Carter, of New York; ex Mayor Schieren, of Brooklyn and Hor ace E. Deming, of New York, who will discuss the condition of affairs which will prevail in Greater New York by reason of the adoption of the new char ter, with a special reference to the de privation of the people and their rep resentatives in the council to a certain extent of the power of taxation. It is expected there will be several papers on municipal affairs in Glasgow by eminent, members of the Glas gow council. A considerable number of mayors of southern cities have ex pressed their intention of being present, which will add an element of consider able interest. MISS FANCHER'S POVERTY. Friends of This Remarkable Woman Will Give Her a Benefit New York, April 13. Mollie Fancher, who for more than thirty years has been one of the wonders of Brooklyn, is said to be in sore need of financial assistance, and her friends are arrang ing an entertainment for her benefit, the proceeds to be given to her on Easter morning, and she is to be kept in entire ignorance of the matter until then. It would seem to be easy, as Mollie Fancher has not left her bed for thirty years and is blind. She is believed, though, to have such wonderful clair voyant powers that her friends will not be at all surprised to have her tell them at any moment that she is per fectly well aware of all they are doing for her. Miss Fancher is now in her forty ninth year. Her health was already delicate when in 1S64 she was seriously injured by being thrown from a horse. She was again hurt in 1866 in a street car accident. On February 21, 1866, she went into a trance and for seven weeks lay as one dead. THE AUDIENCE WEPT. Miss Ella Russell'3 Rendition of "Home, Sweet Home," Made a Hit. Cleveland, O., April 13. At the close of the concert given by Miss Ella Rus sell, a Cleveland girl, there occurred a most dramatic incident. Miss Russell has recently returned to this country. The tumultuous applause following the prima donna's first number did not cease until she appeared again. Evi dently deeply touched by her very cor dial reception. Miss Russell stepped to the front of the stage and began to sing "Home, Sweet Home." Her voice quivered through the opening words with intense feeling, and as she reach ed the words "Be it ever so humble," tears blinded her eyes, and with a sob she turned to the accompanist and murmured, "I can't," and left the stage. The audience was in tears, men mak ing no effort to hide their emotions. After some minutes Miss Russell re appeared, and, though visibly affected. she sang "Home, Sweet Home wltn great pathos and tenderness, 'ine au dience rewarded, the singer with an ovation and many floral tributes. Before it is Too Late. Leave your business occasionally and try a new climate and new surround ings. No better medicine. The principal health and pleasure re sorts of the Southwest are reached via the Santa Fe Route. Low rates, quick time, comfortable service. For specific information inquire of local agent, or address W. J. Black. G. P. A., A. T. S. F. Ry., Topeka, Kan. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve In the world for Cuts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. K. Jones. Fifth and Kansas Ave. Thirty years is a long time to fight so painful a trouble as piles, but Jacob Mitchell of Unionville. Pa., struggled that long before he tried DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, which quickly and per manently cured him. It is equally ef fective in eczema and all skin affec tions. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas ave. Munyon's Rheumatism Cure is guaran teed to cure acute or muscular rheuma tism in from one to five days. Sharp, shooting pains in any part of the body stopped by a few doses. A prompt, com plete and permanent cure for lameness, soreness, stiff back and all pains in hips and loins. Chronic rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago or pain in the back are speedily cured. It seldom fails to give relief from one or two doses, and almost invariably cures before one bottle has been used. Price 25c. Improved Homoepathic Home Remedy Company put up a separate cure for each disease. At all druggists, mostly 25 cents. Guide to Health free. Personal letters to Prof. Munyon, 1505 Arch street, Philadelphia. Pa., answered with free medical advice for any disease. RHEUMATISM. MDNYOMS MftNUfn' inked on the face of the volume of business this store does. If we buy goods from the manufacturer at 50 cents on the dollar, we give the public the benefit of this purchase. We allow no middle man to come between the manufacturer and the public direct from the factory to this spre .anc to your home. The chain above will give you a correct idea of our po sition in the mercantile world. No man or woman can afford to buy a dollar's worth of goods without first seeing our tremendous assortment and prices. This week we will begin a sale of merchandise at prices that should bring you to the store early me esse: SI. SO Mixed Crepons. SI. SO Silk and Wool Persians. Any of Above for 69c. Ieave your order for an Easter Dress before we get too busy, and while the prices are running so low. iular '('yiMW an up-to-date silk shirt waist. people will know you made it; so don't These are in new checks and nolka chanyeables two tone satins also black. Some have ties, some have stocks, beauties every one. They have snap, and these are at the prices you'd have xo pay for work and silk and run a tee Die chance of getting the snap. adies' separate dress skirts. Fine Wool Filled mm Walnut i tAStx. Grandlve THREE CENT CAR FARES. Causes a Great Suit to be Brought in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, April 13. Three cent fares for street car patrons are on trial In this city in the big: suit before a tTnited States judge to test the validity of the new act of the legislature cut ting down the fare to 3 cents. The suit is brought by the Central Trust company of New Tork, trustee for the street railway company's bonds. The law will g-o into effect in a few days and the result of the suit will be full of interest to municipalities and street car companies everywhere. The plaintiff asks the court to en join the company from complying with the law, the city from trying to enforce it and the prosecuting attorney from prosecuting any violators of its provis ions. Intense interest is manifested in the case by the people of this city. The terms of the statute are peculiar. The law gives the people two meth ods of remedy against a refusal of the company to accept a 3-cent fare. It provides that any employe of the com pany that refuses to accept the fare may be arrested and fined for each of fense, or the person aggrieved by the refusal or who is compelled to pay in excess of 3 cents may sue and recover damages not to exceed $100. It is fur ther provided that the charge of 3 cents shall cover transfer to any of the com pany's lines and secure all the privi leges that are now enjoyed under a 5 cent fare. Marvelous Results. Prom a letter written by Rev. J. Gun derman. of Dimondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this extract: "I have no hesitation in recommending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re sults were almost marvelous In the case of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist church at Rives Junction she was brought down with Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible par oxysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she could not survive them. A friend recommended Dr. King's New Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in results." Trial bottles free at J. K. Jones' Drug Store, Fifth and Kansas Ave. Regular size 5Cc and $1, KANSAS CITY, KIO. Emery, .bird Thayer &Co. together! erlobe, the size of Kansas Citv. Dress Goods. This week Money sav ing in Dress Goods. An assorted lot of fine, fashionable, seasonable stuffs will be offered at the uniform price of as follows: S3. OO Mosembiques. $2.00 Silk and Wool Novelties. 2.00 Corded Mohairs. 82.00 Morie Crepons. S 1.7ft Bereges. SI. 75 Figured Poplins. SI. 75 Mixed Poplins. S1.50 Broken Checks. SI. 50 Illuminated Mo- Paris says Silk Shirt Waists," and why not? About 100 Silk Shirt Waists at, each $7 SO We will use these just to pin this invitation on for you to visit the third floor. They are waists that we believe would cost vou in a reg-- way no to S10.00 each, possi- some 9.00 and SS.f.O. Thev some S9.00 are new, with the correct sleeve and the perfect yoke. It takes a Mp "know how" to make a silk shirt fjy waist. A few yards of silk and a little home sewing won't produce As well try to make a oair 01 fine kid doves. fool vourself. dots. nw mlnr tiIrvs in the tiomilap Moire Velour Skirts, the latest fad for Spring and Summer wear, made after the Doucet model, the newest shape, lined with fine per caline, interlined and velvet bound, on sale, $13.50 and $15.00. Taffeta Silk Lined, $16.98 and $22.50. a c- e The Hall Lithograph in g Co., (QENERAL ....Largest New Building, New Equipment, Unequaled Facilities. Blank Book Makers. A nAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT Wyl' TO SHAVE WITH." IS THE PROPER THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANING. THE EELEY IXSTl TITE, PORTSMOUTH BUILDING, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. O. S. TOWHSEHD CO., High Grade t!t, Falcon and Craw lor it HitrUest 118 E. 8TH ST. Y- 0pLE Wonderful buying- and wonderful selling- have built up this business so that this week there is not another citv that has a store that rWc th Corset Dept. 5 Dozen of "S. C make of Corsets, in w drab, sizes 22 to 30, medium waist, made of corset jean, sateen strip ping, embroidery trimmed top and bottom, short hips find zone belt, value tl.50 each. Also 10 dozen S. C"cor sets, white and drab, extra lonp wa'sts. sizes 18 to 30, made pray of sateen, white of C-outille. sateen stripped, embroidery trimmed top, double side steals, ft-hook clasp, worth $1.50 per pair. Perfect fitting. This week both styles for 75c Each. Underwear Department. 15 doz. Ladies' Bishop Gowns, extra iong- ana wide, of tine Cambric, sleeves beginning: at neck, finished at neck with 3 rows of beading- and embroid ery edge: very larg-e sleeves, finished at cuff with embroidery edge, nominal value Sl.23, this week, in that Under wear dept., for ...69c Mail Orders. Prompt attention g'iven to all orders Bent through mail. Satisfactioa is guaranteed. Easter Gloves. This week, important to the ladies, all the very latest styles and fashions in gloves are now being shown here. We carry the best glove that can be manufactured. Keynier 4 Button Glove, New Em broidery on backs, metal buttons, in all the Easter shades, Cream, Tan, Modes, Pearl, White, English yellow, Brown and Black $2. 00 a pair. 4 Button Glove Made in the Rey nier Factory in the New Embroidery and all the Easter shades. .$1.50 a pair. Our SI. 00 Kid Glace in 5 Hook and 4 Buttons are the very best value that can be imported to sell for. ..Sl-OOapair. Walnut 1thStX. Grand Aie. Jackson Street, Opposite Grand Opera House i TOPEKA. RINTERS. in the West.... Prompt Service, Superior Work, Moderate Prices. Offics Stationers. For Ave years one of the most success ful of all the great system of Keeley In stitutes operated under the supervision or Dr. Leslie E. Keeley and employing his Gold remedies in the treatment and cur of alcoholic and opium addictions. lr teen minutes' ride from Union depot, on both cable and "L" car lines. Write lor full particulars. Address THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, Kansas City, Kansas. ;rade "Wheels made. A. Block. TOPEKA, KAN P