The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
June 8, 1897

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rf rf TWO CENTS. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 8, 1897. TUESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. J RUIN FOR CUBA. r. S. Commissioner Calhoun, Who Has Just Returned, Says the Island Will Soon Be Worthless to Anybody. CHANGED HIS VIEWS. Found the Whole People Are Behind the Reyolution. Could Discover No Such Thing as Pacification. New Tork, June S. In a conversa tion here Mr. Calhoun, who has just re turned from Cuba, said: "The island is rapidly being devas tated by relentless, cruel and bitter war, so that in a short time it will not be worth anything- to any one. "It is difficult to get at the exact sit uation there. In the first place, there is a severe censorship of the press, and those who are naturally friendly to Cubans hardly dare to express their views and opinions. "Furthermore, the adherents of both sides are exceedingly intense. They ti-!l their stories just as they want you to believe. From the Spanish point of view, the island is paciried, and from the Cubans, the insurgents never were in such excellent shape as they are now." "Did you go into the interior of the island?" was asked. "Yes, I went from Havana to Matan zas. While both are on the seacoast, still to go from one point to the other by rail, takes you through a large part of the interior country. I also made several short trips from Havana in oth er directions.." "What is the condition of the coun try "It seems to be entirely depopulated, and there are no signs of any buildings Ftanding. except at the railroad sta tions. "These, by the way, are practically forts, and I was informed that the same conditions exist throughout the Cuban isiand from Havana to Pinar del Ilio, except in the extreme eastern end. There is where the Cubans get their supplies and their cattle. They control that section. It was the portion of the island which held out ten years in the last war. "Cuba Is undoubtedly a magnificent country. It is rich and beautiful and the soil responds 'bountifully to the seed. "While I am not called upon to make any formal report to the president, be cause I acted merely as counsel to General Lee in the Ruiz case, still I may be asked to tell Ivlr. McKinley and the secretary of state of thlng3 which I have seen and heard in my brief trip to the island of Cuba. In this event, I will readily do so." Mr. Calhoun says that hqJiad formed an impression before leaving the states that negroes, and possibly bandits were the chief agents in the insurrection. He had not been there three clays before he was convinced the whole strength of the Cuban people is back of the insurrec tion. He became satisfied that it was in reality the struggle of Cuba for the Cubans and that they would fight des perately for independence. Kverything he subsequently sawand heard strength ened this belief. Calhoun had heard the reports of pacification by General Weyler and had credited them in some degree. His stay in Cuba destroyed this notion. He could not find the pacification which was reported. Instead, he found signs of war everywhere even at the gates of Havana. The Spanish troops held certain parts of the island as an army of occupancy while the insurgents were making constant and often successful raids. Mr. Calhoun was so impressed with these evidences of actual warfare hat he gave out a blunt statement. say ing he could see no end of the war and that the devastation was growing. Mr. Calhoun could not discover that any approach to civilized methods of warfare was being made on either side. He was overwhelmed with evidence to Fhow the atrocities committed by the soldiers under Weyler, particularly the guerillas who form a part of the regu lar army. Such cases as he was able to investigate personally, generally proved to be correctly stated. He also learned it was true that the Red Cross society was not permitted to exercise its offices of mercy between the two contending parties. This refusal was on the part of the Spanish government. Mr. Calhoun's personal inquiries and investigation satisfied him that the starvation and suffering caused by Weyler's reconcentration order, were not exaggerated. He saw the scenes of human misery at Matanzas, which determined him to look no further into that phase of the war, because he had seen enough It will possibly have a determining effect in deciding whether the warfare in Cuba has reached the state of sav agery that justifies the United States in Intervening on the grounds of civiliza tion and humanity. That the effect of N eyler's concentration order is to de populate Cuba he is thoroughly con vinced, though he may not assume the responsibility of saying that such is its purpose. That its effect is greatest in starving women and children he will be able to state without reservation Mr. Calhoun was not strongly im pressed with the claim of the insurgents to recognition as belligerents as belliger ency is usually defined by the lawyers. TARANTULA JUICE. Dallas Temple of Shriners Has Free "Tarantula Juice." Detroit, June 8. Some 2,010 Arabs of the Mystic Shrine were sheltered in the hotels of Detroit, last night, with per haps as many more en route across the deserts to the annual gathering of the imperial council. The oasis of Detroit was badly water soaked during the day but the "weather cleared in time to permit a spectacular entree of the nobles from Medinah tem ple, Chicago, and Zurah temple, Minne apolis. The evolutions of Zurah tem ple drum corps of Minneapolis, won much applause. The Syrians of Cincinnati gave an opening last night in an uncanny cos tume. The chief attraction of the Dal las. Texas, temple, is a generous sup ply of tarantula juice. Only half a block from station to For est Park, Ottawa. Special trains leave Tcrpeka via Santa Fe Route June 11 and 12 at 7:30 a. m. If your are going to musical Festival, take the official route. OPEN SALOONISTS CAUGHT. McMahan and Schroeder, Who Started the Open Bar are Arrested. Under Sheriff Lucas made a flying trip to Alma last night and John Mc Mahan and Louis Schroeder are now in the Shawnee county jail under the guarianship of Sheriff Kepley. McMahan and Schroeder are the men who were supposed to be the owners of the big saloon opened in the Jockheck building a. month ago. Warrants were sworn out for their arrests but when Sheriff Kepley's deputies went to the place to serve them the place was de serted. The bar, fixtures and liquor had all disappeared and likewise the proprietors. It was rumored that the men went to Kansas City but some time ago it was ascertained that they had returned to Alma. The temperance committee re ceived letters from Alma to that effect and notified the officers. Sheriff Kep ley detailed the under sheriff to make the arrests and he left Topeka on the midnight train last night. The men were found in bed. They were called up, the warrants were read to them and they offered no protest. Under Sheriff Lucas arrived on the ear ly morning train with the men and they were locked in the upper story of the jail in the pUice reserved for jointists. Sheriff Kepley thinks that McMahan is not the man wanted although the warrant called for his arrest. He says that he has been in jail at Alma almost all the time for the past three or four months. A BIG DIRTY SPLASH By a Man Jumping Six Stories Into Milwaukee River. Milwaukee, June 8. K. P. Speedy, who is connected with a circus exhibiting here safely made, a jump from a six-story building into the Milwaukee river last evening. The dirty water which is nearly as foul as the Chicago river, did not as phyxiate him and he was taken from the water feeling as well as ever. Mr. Speedy was advertised to make a dive from the top of the Cream City Hat company's building, a six-story structure, into the Milwaukee river. The people had been mislead by a similar announcement a few days previously, when a dummy was thrown into the water from the top of a building in the same locality, and they were rather incredulous when it was stated that a live human being would make the daring plunge. Speedy was on hand at the time advertised, however, and when he appeared on top of the building clad in tights he was greeted by a shout from the immense crowd which had as sembled. Two men were stationed in a boat in the river to pick him up, and Speedy gave them instructions to clear way the small pieces of wood floating in the water. There were only a few pieces floating in the river, but to have struck one of them would probably have meant death. When everything was clear and the boat placed in the postion the diver wanted it, he waved his hand at the immense throng of spectators, and withot more ado sprang into the air and to the water far below, while the people on the adja cent bridges held their breath, half ex pecting momentarily to behold the crushed and bleeding body of the daring plunger reappear above the water. With a great splash Speedy disappeared, com ing up almost instantly to scramble aboard the boat, while the crowd cheered vociferously, and declared Speedy had done a wonderful act. In less than three seconds after he had made the plunge he was in the boat hustling to get in out of the wet. GLADSTONE'S BOOK. His Prayer Book Disappears and an American is Accused of Taking It Chicago, June S. Who walked away with Mr. Gladstone's prayer book? That is the question. Somebody did, for an advertisement in the June num ber of the Hawarden Parish Magazine says so, and also declares that no questions will be asked if "the gentle man who found it" and inquired about it and then forgot to give up the same will kindly bring it back. A correspondent at Hawarden goes farther and says that "the gentleman who walked away with the book" is an American and from Chicago. THEY MAY GET OFF. Shawnee County's Case Against the Grave Robbers. The appeal of the Topeka grave rob bery cases is being argued in the court of appeals today at the court house. It is admitted by all who have seen the brief in the case that Ferry Doran, attorneys for the convicted men have a strong case. They base their appeal upon an insufficiency of evidence on the part of the state. They also claim that the instructions of the court and the admissions of evidence by the court were not warranted. County Attorney Jetmore appears for the state and is making a hard fight to prevent a reversal of the case. M. E. Lowe and S. A. Johnson were both convicted at the trial of the cases at Alma and both cases were appealed. If they are reversed it means aother trial at Alma, and much additional costs for Shawnee county. It also means that the next time graves are robbed in Shawnee county, fine words will butter no parsnips with the mob. ARRANGING A WAR FOR US. English Paper Sees a Prospect of En tanglement With Japan. London, June 8. The St. James Ga zette this afternoon, commenting upon the dispute between Japan and Hawaii, which it describes as a "corrupt little republic run by a handful of American filibusterers," says: "As Hawaii has no resisting power, the question arises, will the United States government see its protege througn its trouble? The Japanese may land an armed partv any moment. Then what will the Phila delphia do? Japan, since she smashed the Chinese, is believed to be spoiling for a fight with a white power, and she may find America ready to oblige her sooner than she expects." Silver Exports Today. New Tork, June 8. The total exports of silver today were 280,000 ounces, of which the Servia took 80,000 and the Havel 200,000 ounces. CLASH 0FJRMS. Spanish Marines Attack Ameri cans at Tera Cruz. Twenty of Them Charge With Fixed Dayonets. CUBA WAS THE CAUSE. Americans "Were Texans and Fought With Knives. A Number of Mexicans Join the Texans' Side. New Tork, June 8. A dispatch to the Herald from Mexico, says: A conflict has occurred at Vera Cruz between 20 marines of the Spanish gun boat Nueva Espana and Joseph. Lang and Charles Holbrook of Texas, and about a score of Mexicans who sympa thized with Americans. The Texas men used their knives and the marines their bayonets. The Mexicans were not all armed, but they rendered effective as sistance to the Americans. The trouble was ended only by the appearance of a large force of police and a company of a hundred soldiers, ordered out by the authorities. The fight was caused by the marines, who shouted "Viva Cuba Espanaola" in the streets. This was answered by cries of "Cuba Libre," from the Ameri cans. They were immediately attacked by the Spanish and would unquestiona bly have been killed had it not been for the assistance of the citizens of Vera Cruz, who seeing their peril and noting the fact that they were so overwhelm ingly outnumbered, hastened to their as sistance. The police arrested the whole party but the consuls of both nations interfered in their countrymen's behalf, and all were released. SANTA FE SHOULD ACT. Too Much Modesty on Part of Its Blushing Officials. Mr. Wr. Littlefield of the Santa Fe le gal department, who was elected as a member of the Committee of Fifteen to look after the Santa Fe celebration, has declined to serve. The reason given is that the legal department is too busy for Mr. Littlefield to be able to give as much, time to the work as necessary. President Fellows of the Committee of Fifteen had an interview with B. T. Lewis of the general manager's office today, during which he told Mr. Lewis that the Santa Fe would have to do something, and that soon. He said that it was not fair for the road to expect the committee to do everything, when th company would be directly benefit ed by the Fall Festival and the pro posed Santa Fe celebration. Mr. Lewis assured Mr. Fellows that the officers of the road were willing to do all they can to make the proposed celebration a success. He said that someone would be found to take up the work. The probabilities are that C Wr. Kouns, car service superintendent, will be given the place on the committee reserved for a Santa Fe representative. J. Z. RORABACK RESIGNS. Supt. of Santa Fe Terminals Resigns J. W. Starr Appointed. J. Z. Roraback, for a number of years superintendent of terminals of the Santa Fe at Kansas City, has tendered his resignation to General Superintendent Mudge and it has been accepted. J. W. Starr, at present superintendent of ter minals of the Santa Fe at St. Joe, has been chosen to succeed him, and the cir cular announcing Mr. Starr's appoint ment left Mr. Mudge's office for the prin ter this afternoon. Mr. Roraback's resignation was request ed by General Manager Frey. There has been some trouble in connection with tha management of the terminals at Kansas City, but what the trouble is, is known only to Mr. Frey, and he is absent from the city today. General Superintendent Mudge states that he does not know the nature of the trouble. MUSIC, FUN AND DANCING, Were Features of the National Re serve Entertainment Last Night The social and entertainment given by the National Reserve association at the K. P. hall last night was attended by 300 people. The programme consisted of music by the Topeka orchestra. Prof. Horacek's zither club. Cedania Mando lin club, solo by Mrs. E. A. Shelton, and Mrs. Morrison. Professor James ren dered a flute solo, Strauss Bros, sang and Will Robier entertained the guests with an exhibition of ventriloquism. Dr. J. T. Craig, grand medical exami ner, of Kansas City, accompanied by Mrs. Craig attended the reception. The regular programme was followed by a cake walk. t Ice cream and cake, succeeded by dancing, closed the enteretalnment. WANAMAKER IS HOPEFUL. Says Congress is Likely to Give Cur rency Reform Soon. Mexico, Mo.. June 8. The following significant correspondence is published in the evening Ledger: To John Wanamaker. Dear Sir: Forty thousand dissatis fied, suffering Republican bolters in this state will thank you for your ut terances of the truth in your recent ad dress, myself among the number, a life-long Republican and Union veter an. We want and must have reform in the currency. Very respectfully, RUSSELL B. GRIFFIN. To Russell B. Griffin, Mexico, Mo. Dear Sir: I agree with you that some thing must be done in regard to our currency question. I spoke yesterday with the president on the subject, and t, have great reason to believe that Congress will take some action very soon. Tours very truly, JOHN WANAMAKER. A. O. XT. W. Supreme Lodge. Milwaukee, "Wis., June 8. The twenty-fifth stated meeting of the supreme lodge Ancient Order of United Work men of the United States and Canada, opened in Milwaukee today with all the supreme officers and members of stand ing committees, as well as about 160 delegates present. GOING TO NASHVILLE. The President and Party Will Leave for the South Tomorrow. Washington, June 8. All the arrange ments for the president's trip to Nash ville have been completed. The party will leave here at noon tomorrow on a special train over the Chesapeake Ohio' road. The train will consist of the private car of President M. E. In galls of the Chesapeake Ohio, which will be occupied by the president and his immediate family, a car for the cab inet and invited guests, a car for the newspaper correspondents and a din ing and baggage car. The party will arrive at Hot Springs, Va at 7 p. rn. tomorrow and remain there until 11 o'clock Thursday morning. They go thence by way of Louisville, arriving at Nashville at 7:30 a. m. Friday..They will leave Nashville on the return trip at 7 p. m. Saturday evening. The following is a list of the party: The president, Mrs. McKinley, Mrs. Saxton (Mrs. McKinley's aunt), Dr. N. L. Bates, the president's physician, Mrs. Bates, steward of the white house, maid, secretary and Mrs. Porter, Secre tary and Mrs. Sherman, Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Postmaster General and Mrs. Gary, the Misses Gary, Secretary and Miss iWilson, and H. Clay Evans, LAWLESS OHIO. Mob of Ohio Citizens Open a Bridge Contrary to the Court's Orders. Defiance, O., June 8. A crowd of 150 citizens, orderly, but determined, held sway in this city this morning from midnight until 4 o'clock, during which time they took the law in their own hands and, regardless of two injunc tions, laid the floor of the Hopkins street bridge crossing the Auglaire river. The bridge had been torn up for 30 days undergoing repairs, but the work had been stopped by an injunction on action of the street railway company, which had been previously enjoined from using the structure. Testerday the circuit court at Findlay sustained the latter injunction, and the business men became indignant, determining to open this important egress to the city. They congregated quickly, 150 strong, and, with teams and tools, made their way to the bridge, and after telling guards to keep off any possible inter ference, were soon busily engaged in laying and nailing the planks in their places. The noise of the midnight labor attracted a large crowd, but the deter mined attitude of the guards prevented a collision. TO RETIRE BRYAN. A Scheme to Eliminate Him From the Next Presi dential Race. Denver, June 8. One hundred thou sand dollars is being subscribed in Col orado, Montana.Utah and Idaho for im mediate use in the free silver campaign. Senator Teller has been here for several weeks superintending" ihe work in Col orado, and Senators Cannon.Dubois and Mantle are attending to the other states from Washington1. It is not generally known, but true, nevertheless, that there is a determina tion on the ?art of the senatorial co terie which is assuming the leadership of silver forces to eliminate Mr. Bryan from the next presidential race. A com plete programrie to that end has been agreed upon between the Democratic leaders in the senate and the so-called silver Republicans in both house and senate. Their plan is to press the silver Re publican organization in all parts of the Union to make it aa powerful as possi ble before 1900. They count that the silver Republican organization, by the free use of unlimited funds, can obtain a membership of 2,500,000 by 1900,and that in the state and congressional elections of 1898 the silver Republicans will carry Colorado, Utah, Montana and Idaho. Thus, with 2,500,000 voters and in pos session of states which must be relied upon for a campaign fund, they think they can dictate the nominee of the Democratic convention. To this the Democratic senatorial leaders have as sented as being the easiest and most effective way of getting rid of Mr. Bryan. The choice of the combine at the present time is Senator Teller in the event they think the Democratic party will rally to his support: or, in doubt of that, some eastern Democrat, like Joe Sibley, who is acceptable alike to silver Republicans, silver Democrats or Pop ulists, and to such gold Democrats as Whitney and Hill. Sibley's business in terests connect him very closely with the Vanderbilts and the Whitneys. and he is considered a safe and conservative man. MISS BOWES DELAYED. She Has Been 111 at Springfield, 111., for Some Says. Miss Lottie Bowes did not return to her home in this city today as was ex pected. Miss Bowes has been visiting re latives at Washington Court House, O., and left there last week with the inten tion of coming through to Topeka, but was taken ill on the way and was com. pelled to leave the train at Springfield, 111. Mr. Bowes is now with his daughter in Springfield. Mrs. Bowes received a letter from her daughter this morning stating that she had been quite ill for several days, but was now so much improved that she would take up her journey west this week. It is expected that the young actress will return to her home in this city the latter part of this week. Miss Bowes will spend the greater por tion of the summer in Topeka. KANSAS POSTMASTERS. Shawnee County in on the List for Today. Washington. June 8. The following postmasters were appointed for Kan sas today: Brantford, Washington county, Cath erine Brown; Hesson, Harvey county, A. Brubaker; Lebo, Coffey county, Ste phen Ogden; Mound Ridge, McPherson county, D. Krehbiel; Onaga, Potta watomie county, D. Brown; Pleasant Green, Phillips county, E. Jaconey; Wallsburg, Riley county. A. Longren: Whitefield, Shawnee county, W. Henry. Death of Mrs. Mary Devlin. Mrs. Mary Devlin, aged 65, died of cancer of the stomach at her home 408 Jefferson street, at 2 o'clock this morn ing. The funeral, conducted by Fath er Hayden, will be held at the Church of the Assumption tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. The deceased was the mother of James, Mike, Chris, and Pat Devlin, young men employed by the Santa Fe in this city. FUSION. That is the Burden of Charles A. Towne's Speech Before the Provisional Commit tee of Silver Republicans DEVOTED TO SILVER. Says They Are Ready to Affili ate With Any Party Which Sincerely Favors Coin age of the White JHetal. PATS THE POPULISTS. Says Democratic Party Mast Keep Faith If it Would Have the Assist ance of Silver Republicans. Chicago, June 8. Thirty-two states were represented at the first meeting of the provisional committee of the Na tional Silver Republican party, which met in executive session at the Leland hotel today. Besides tho committee men of the various states represented, over a hundred silver Republicans were present from all parts of the country. The states represented were: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Con necticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, In diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, CHARLES A. TOWNE. Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Tork, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wy oming. West Virginia, Iowa and Michi gan. Promptly at 1 o'clock the meeting was called to order by ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne of Minnesota, Chairman Towne in calling the com mittee to order said in part: "I give you greeting upon the auspic ious opening of this conference and congratulate you and the great cause wherein we are engaged that so numer ous and representative a body of men has gathered from a large majority of the states and territories to participate in the first general council of the silver Republican party of the United States. We are happy also to welcome the in spiring presence of a delegation repre senting the bimetallic organization of the women of the country whose sym pathies are enlisted as ever in behalf of justice and humanity." After referring briefly to the circum stances attending and the motives in stigating the inception of the move ment he spoke of the organization of the provisional national committee at the suggestion of the Republican sena tors! and congressmen. Continuing he said: "our motives were these: We desired above all things else of immediate po litical concern the speedy re-establishment in the United States of true bi metallism; the same privilege of free coinage at the mint for both gold and silver, and absolute equality between them in all money power, when coined, with the option to every payer, wheth er the government or an individual to choose what coin shall be the basis of payment in every instance. We wished to do all in our power to advance this happy consummation and we realize that if this great cause is to succeed in the elections of 1898 and 1900 it can do so only through the addition to the al lied armies of 6.000,000 that followed the banner of the joint standard in 1896 of at least some hundreds of thousands of the Republicans of that contest. "We have other plans, or may have, and we believe in other things also but the restoration of silver as basic, or primary money along with gold is the first and engrossing object of our activ ities and shall remain so until the cres cent of promise shall have rounded into the full orb of success." The general method of our procedure will be that demanded by the depths of our convictions and the dominant choice of the issue that has moved us. With us the cause is everything. Men and parties sink into relative incon sequence. All armies marching to in vest the citadel of the gold standard are our allies, all their soldiers our comrades. We will loyally and tireless ly co-operate with all other organized forces of bimetallism that honestly pro fess the faith and resolutely and unde viatingly keep it. Harmony is of vital concern to the success of the cause and nothing but consideration of its wel fare shall limit the burdens we will gladly bear -or the sacrifices we will eagerly make to advance it. But the sincerity we offer we shall also require. Our allegiance is to the cause alone, and we should as readily abandon an ally who will imperil the cause as we turned from the old Republican party when it was false to its duties. Our allies must recognize that the present critical situation in American politics signalizes the interaction of forces pre paring a realignment of parties. Old things are being done away with and all things are becoming new. Let the dead past bury its dead. Regret for the necessary sundering of accustomed ties must be swallowed up in the satis faction of forming new ones that shall link us to the duties of the future rather than to the memories of the past. "It would be useless to deny that so cial and industrial evolution is mark ing for political treatment other ques tions that "will successively ripen for settlement after the monetary reforma tion shall have been accomplished and that the underlying principles on which their wise settlement depends are such as naturally to place their achievement in new hands. Many of these have been long advocated by the great ad vance guard, the Populist party, and some of the most urgent ones are more and more commending themselves to the reason and sympathies of men. Is it too much to expect, or is it injudi cious in me to express the hope that silver Democrats, Populists and silver Republicans may by 1900 be welded into cxne strong and serviceable instrument in the hands of Providence for the po litical regeneration of the country and the beginning of reform, restoring the spirit of the constitution and contrib uting to the advancement and happi ness of mankind?" In conclusion, Mr. Towne said the immediate business in hand was the de termination of the time and place for holding a national convention, the membership of which could make an authoritative declaration of principles. The discussion and adoption of a plan of general organization in the states and territories would follow. ORGANIZATION. Committees on order of business and plan of organization were named, of which latter ex-Senator Dubois of Ida ho was made chairman. A resolution passed admitting to the meeting the visiting silver Republicans who were not members of the provis ional committee and giving them all privileges except that of voting. Although nothing has as yet been fully determined upon, a general plan of organization has been outlined by the leaders. This plan contemplates the appointment of chairmen of state committees, who will appoint county and township committees, and an en rollment of silver Republicans precinct by precinct. An executive committee to consist of five or seven members, the chairman of which will be the chairman of the national committee, will also probably be appointed. It is expected also that resolutions will be adopted appointing Senators Pettigrew of South Dakota, Cannon of Utah, Mantle of Montana and ex-Senator Du bois of Idaho as commissioners to visit Japan and China and report on the fin ancial conditions prevailing in those countries. jerry Simpson HOME. Is Making a Visit to His Farm of a Few Days. Newton, June 8. Jerry Simpson passed through here on his way home yesterday. Mr. Simpson said to a re porter. "I'm going home for a few days. I think I shall be there about three or four days. Tou see there isn't much going on in Washington just now. They still are tinkering with the tariff, and I don't know how long they will keep it up. They only meet two days in the week, and don't do much then. So you see, I took advantage of the occasion to slip away a few days and come home partly business and partly pleasure." Here changing the subject of conver sation, Congressman Simpson said: "The crops here in Kansas are going to be great this year. I have observed the outlook all the way home, and I see it is more favorable in Kansas than any other state. The people need the results of a good crop, and they seem in a fair way to get them." At this juncture John Bums, a candi date for postmaster at Newton, made his way to the front and said: "Mr. Simpson, I want to introduce myself. I am John Burns, candidate for postmaster. Doubtless you have heard of me. No? Um um, how are you and Tom Reed making it? Had quite a. time a while back, eh? What are they doing with the tariff now? Say, Reed didn't get much the best of you, did he?" Jerry only smiled. Just then the train began to move away and as Simp son climbed aboard above the roar of the train could be heard Burns' parting shots. It sounded something like this: "Well," puff, puff "take care of your" puff, puff "self, Mr. Simpson" puff, puff "Don't forget me" puff, puff "and the postoffice." SNOW IN JERSEY. Inhabitants Amazed at a June Fall of the "Beautiful." Orange, N. J., June 8. Snow fell here today, but the flakes melted as they struck the ground. The squall attracted general atten tion, as few residents here had ever be fore seen snow in June. DYCHE ON THE COAST. Kansas Professor at San Francisco Now and Claims Chicago Backing. San Francisco, June 8. Prof. L. L. Dyche of the Kansas state university, who will arrive in this city tomorrow, does not come to study in the Stanford university, as was asserted, but to make arrangements for a polar expedi tion. The professor has. the financial backing of the wealthy gentlemen con nected with the University of Chicago and the Columbia museum. Dyche re turned last November from a trip to Alaska, and, while he was gathering specimens for his university, he was also more particularly studying the feasibility of reaching the north pole. He now has the backing of his Chi cago friends and will go to Alaska this summer, lay out his course and get everything in readiness for beginning a trip to the pole next season. Dyche's plan will require both time and money. He thinks it will take not less than three years to reach the pole and return, and when he starts he will have provisions to last five years. He will make the start from the northern most whaling station. At the end of each week's journey forward he will cache two week's provisions. He be lieves he can advance steadily until the goal is reached, and that the return will be an easy matter. Chicago, June 8. George Manierre, secretary of the Field Columbian mu seum, said last night that the directors of the museum had not taken any for mal action approving or promising sup port to the plans of Prof. Dyche. "At least, I know of no such action," he said, "and if it had been taken I would probably have learned of it. Some persons connected with the directorate of the museum may be prepared to aid Prof. Dyche in fitting out an Arctic ex pedition, but if so they are acting as in dividuals. I have never heard of him." C. C. Baker says that if some lodge or society. will rent the second story of his building at 205 West Sixth avenue, he will build the additional story at once. Decision must be reached immediately. HE MUST SPEAK. Wanamaker Cannot Choke Down His Thoughts When Hundreds Come to Uiai Every Day BEGGrlXG FOR WOKK, While His Ingenuity is Taxed to Give Employment To the Six Thousand People He Already Has. IT GIVES HIM A FEVE11 Speaks Contemptuously of the Promised Prosperity. Congress Moving All Too Slow In Its Reforms. New Tork, June 8. In an interview iri The Herald John Wanamaker again ex--plains his position in regard to the pres ent financial situation. He says: "I chose two arguments to convince them that they should stand up and keep on working for the public good. "First, because of their ante-election, promising speeches, which should be kept in good faith. "Second, because of the creeping para lysis of business and bitter want of tha unemployed. "What I said was addressed to Penn sylvanians, and much of it bore solely on state politics. Much as I love quietness and peace it is not possible for me to b indifferent or silent in the present con dition of affairs. Neither can I take nop give opiates. "In these times campaign speeches ar only empty shells, without kernels. How ever well meaning, or whoever it is who thinks he does good by them must b forgetting that a million of workmen and their children are hungry. The man who looks for bread in such speeches will not have much to eat. "The public heart cannot be fired by eloquence in this way just now, for the power of patriotism is wet with tears oi suffering unemployed. Give me hold of somebody's hand who will do something, not talk about it month after month. "To keep work for the 6,000 and more persons in my employ and turn aay "from the several hundred who apply daily and beg for the privilege of laboi to keep the wolf from the door drives mt into a fever, and I must speak out. Any citizen has that right. "I cannot sit on a fence with a stiff wind blowing and whistle for prosperity, vanished bird of beautiful plumage, to come back. "We ought to have a new, a better tar iff; but if we cannot get it, let us settl down on the old one and adjust ourselves to it as best we can. If we cannot move out of the old house, we might build a wing to it or add another story." (This reference to the "old house" Is a dig at President McKinley, who reminded Mr. Wanamaker in a recent speech that "we cannot move out of the old house until the new one is ready.") "A Republican house has been in ses sion since last December, and its riddled tariff bill still tosses about at the other end of the Capitol. "If to be impatient is unpatriotic, when the delays are so protracted and seem ingly unnecessary in adjusting these two great questions uppermost in the publio mind, then I must ask to be forgiven for miscounting the pulse of most of the peo ple that I meet. "There are not a few who believe that since the war no such exigency fell upon, the country as that which preceded the election in November, 1S96. "The spirit which moved the people then; is still alive. It will neither be ignored nor dallied with. The tariff, money, econ omy of expenditures must be arranged fairly and promptly If we are to find contentment or prosperity. "Gathering ourselves together on tha monetary question cannot be done too soon. There is no use of sending delega tions to foreign nations until we have some definite proposition to make. "Let authority be given immediately for a monetary commission to determine what the United States want to do on the money question, and then let us go after it and get it as promptly as possible." FIRE SEAR R. I. DEPOT. Many Thought it was the Depot but it was a Barn. The barn of the Topeka. Coal company at First and Jackson streets was de stroyed by fire at 10 o'clock this morn ing and one horse was burned. The fire had gained considerable headway when men employed in the coal yard saw the smoke. There were two horses in the burning barn and the men rushed in to liberate them. They loosened one of the animals and started to lead him out. He kicked and struck with his forefeet in e vain effort to break away from the men but they suc ceeded in getting him out of the burn ing building. After he was out in the air it was with great difficulty that he was restrained from rushing back into it. All efforts to lead the other horse from the barn were futile and the smoke drove the men from the barn and the animal was left to be suffocated. The building was nearly destroyed before the alarm was sent in and the department arrived but the shell of the building is still standing. The location of the building made many people think that the Rock Island depot was on fire. Chief Wilmarth places the loss at $150. John M. Wrright today announces his candidacy for county clerk. Mr. Wright has been employed in the county clerk's office for six years and he has a thor ough knowledge of ah the work of the office. He is a young colored man who formerly taught school in Shawnee county. He has an excellent record for honesty and ability, and if elected will make one of the best officers the county; has ever had.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8. 1S97. The man who has been struck by a locomo tive "and is picked up alive and carried on pi --Vvv V-' by the cow catcher has had a miraculous escape. The man who through necr- tlect has sacn- ficed his health and wrecked his body, and through the merits of a medicine is picked up alive and restored to health has had an almost equally wonderful experience. There are thousands of men, who have for years over worked themselves to the neglect of their health, and then when utterly wrecked in body and shattered in nerve have been picked up and restored to health by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is a marvelous remedy that corrects ell disorders of the digestion, invigorates the liver, and fills the blood with the life giving elements that build new flesh and muscle. It is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of consumption and is a specific for disease."! due to disorders of the digestion or imperfect nutrition. Druggists sell it. 'Myself and wife," writes Mr. H. G. Adams, of Turners Station, Henry Co.. Kv., "have taken five bottles of your 'Golden Mecfical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The medicines are curing both of us. We can't say too much for them or for you. My wife persuaded me to quit the doctor here and try one bottle of Tour Gold en Medical Discovery. I did so. and I thank God for it. I have recommended it highly to many of jiiv neighbors. I told them that if It did not do them one dollar's worth of good that I would pay for it. I will give you a littJe statement of my own case. I was enervated, could hardly get up in the morniaff. never got a whole night's sleep, was fchort of breath, had a tight feeling in the stom ach, and was restless. I would throw up ray food, and had numerous other ailments which I nave not time to write about now. I row feel better and look better than ever before in my life.' Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the sur est, safest, quickest cure for constipation. They never gripe. One little Pellet" is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. Substitutes are sometimes dangerous, and always cause discomfort. On a red hot day Hires Rootbeer stands be- :5- tween you yY, the dis- sing ef-' of the heat. s 1 'A U tres fects IS ii ii iit3 cools the blood, tones the stom ach invigorates the body, fully satisfies the thirst. A delicious ,spark-ling-, temperance drink of the high est medicinal value. Made onlT by The Charles E. Hire Co., PM1. A pfktK makes gtllojkt, boid CTtrjwhera. Strong Guarantee. Crweent makers and Crescent agenti are reliable. The Cresceat guarantee is as food as a bond. It is backed by a concern r undoubted financial responsibility. It" anything: prove wrong with a Crescent you know just where to so to have it made right; and you have the assurance that it will be done in a prompt and liberal manner. Repair men say that Crescents are in the repair shop less than any other make. Best quality at honest prices $75 WESTERN WHEEL WORKS, Factory, Chicago. CATALOGUE FREE. AGENTS EVERYWHERE. sa- -a- 13S BuiMing and Eoan Year. JI$$OCfalion, "Iff?- A HOME INSTITUTION. Eoom 16 Columbian Bids., Sixth St. Secretary there every day. EAGLE'S silye: stoto: iiosTEmrissVoTi'c'n. Liver BOWELS From all v. V i. ;:i;iPLRiTiES Willi this FAMOUS K STOMACH s: 1 I 6ros6Qiif GHICAGOJLOPS. Republicans Carry the City at Yesterday's Election By Large Pluralities of About 12,000 Totes. ELECT SIX DEMOCRATS They Named Present Incum bents Regardless of Politics. Torrens Law Adopted by an Overwhelming Vote. Chicago, June 8. The judicial elec tion yesterday was carried by the Re publicans, who elected all their dele gates by pluralities of about 12,000 in the city and 4,000 In the county outside of the city. Though the ticket was called Repub lican it included all the fourteen Judges now on the bench of the circuit court, eight Republicans and six Dem ocrats. In addition to the judges of the circuit court, the judges of the su perior court and one Judge of the su preme bench were voted for, but Ma gruder for the latter position and Ben ton for the former were indorsed by the Republicans and Democrat The silver party had five candidates in the field for the circuit bench, but its candidates secured but about one fifth as many ballots as the Republi cans. The amended Torrens land title law was overwhelmingly adopted. CATSUP ON BUCKWHEATS. Rule Forbidding the Combination at a Denver Hospital Causes a Strike. Denver. June 8. A strike among the hired help at St. Luke's hospital is among the startling occurrences proph esied for the near future. lesterday at dinner time the follow ing order stared the mess in tho fra as it sat down with its collective appe tite, earned by sturdv strokes nf hon est labor: "But one cud of tea or coffee nr- nno glass of milk shall be taken by each member at each meal, and but nn of the three commodities shall ho nr. dered." To the head porter, who always drinks two and one-half cups of cof fee at a meal -no more, no less this was rank injustke,while the three ward girls at once avowed they couldn't do the work they were required to do on one cup of tea. But this was not the end of woe. One of the aides had been caught flooding ns buckwheat cakes with catsup, and presumably for his benefit was posted the rule: "No catsup shall be used except on cold meat." The meal was choked down in silence and as the yard man went out to wash down his victuals with cold water from the garden hose, and one of the porters suddenly remembered where a certain "bot" was stored, the women got to gether and declared that they would not play in Dr. Jeffery's yard any more, and accordingly called an indignation meeting. A delegation waited upon Miss Salms, the housekeeper, and then tackled Dr: Rogers. Assurance was given that the supply of wetness should again be turned on, but wheal supper was an nounced it was noticed that the rule of the superintendent still held good, and although there was cold meat the supply of catsup was very limited. GIRL SHOOTS A BEAK. Chases Bruin for Miles and Then Puts a Bullet Squarely Through His Heart. Osceola, N. T., June 8. Never before have bears been so plentiful in north ern New York as they are at present. Matters have come to such a pass that the farmers' daughters dare not go out alone at night. The region has been almost entirely devastated of sheep and even cows are kept under constant sur veillance. The bears are fairly tame, however, and show little disposition to bother the farmers personally unless provoked. A thrilling bear hunt Is just ended near Osceola. A leading farmer here. from the raids of the bears on his sheep IT V. r..,f.n .T C. ."I fr C fill CI Q tO 1U1U. 1 I1CJ even carry off the very trap he had baited for them. i nis was iuy mm n li Farmer Brockway, who forthwith or ganized a bear hunt. Blanche and Hat tie, the two pretty daughters of the farmer, insisted on going with him. Blanche and her dog took one trail and after a five mile run they found a great brown bear. The hound sailed in and received a cuff that sent him rolling in the bushes. Miss Blanche never weakened. The noise attracted the elder Brockway, Miss Hattie and a boy who came upon a run. Bruin was evidently frightened at the rein forcements, for he broke and ran with the bear-trap hanging from his left fore foot. Miss Blanche and her dog kept cloe to Mr. Bruin's heels, and after a run of three miles more he was brought to a standstill by the trap catching on a sapling There Blanche succeeded in putting a bullet through the bear s heart. He weighed 500 pounds. Johnny and the care. Repetition of the Topeka Episode in Mew TtorK uity. From the New York World.! Ever since he can remember. Charles Moore's parents have been very poor. They live in South Sixth avenue. Mount Vernon. Charles is ten, and those days when he has had a penny to spend stand out vividly in his memory. On Saturday night the youngster saw some oranges in front of Frank Can vance's fruit shop and his mouth wa tered for them. He asked the dealer for an orange and was refused harshly enough. Presently the boy saw an opportunity and he ran away with three of the or anges. Charles was arrested yesterday and arraigned before Justice Schatz. He readily admitted taking the oranges which might have been worth 5 cents. He told the justice how much he wanted them. He couldn't resist the temptation of taking them. He didn't think the fruit dealer would miss them. And the justice, being a kindly man, listened to the boy and then sent him to the Catholic Protectory to remain until he is twenty-one years old. Some for ten, some for twenty and some for thirty years have suffered from piles and then have been quickly and permanently cured by using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, the greatest remedy for piles and all forms of skin diseases. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue. nlSPSj" -s Hi'! ;V DAXGEROTJS UNEQUAL FREIGHT RATES. Vandalia,690 Miles From NewOrleans Ships Corn for 12 Cents Ar kansas City, 672 Miles From Galveston, Has a 26 Cent Rate. Galveston. June 8. "No wonder the people of Kansas and Nebraska are kicking," said Commissioner J. B. Den ison of the Galveston freight bureau yesterday, and he handed a reporter a slip of paper he had been doing some figuring upon, showing the rates on corn to New Orleans frum points along the Illinois Central, together with the rates on the same product from Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and Ne braska points to Galveston. The showing was startling, especial ly on corn for export. Centralia, 111., is 660 miles from New Orleans on the Il linois Central and Purcell, I. T., is 518 miles from Galveston on the Santa Fe. The rate on export corn from the form er city is 12 cents, from the latter 22 cents. Vandalia is 610 miles from New Orleans and Arkansas City is 672 miles from Galveston, yet the rate from Van dalia is 12 cents against a rate of 26 cents from Arkansas City. A 12 cent rate also prevails from Mendota, 111., 8i2 miles from New Orleans, while from Abilene, Kan., to Galveston, Sii miles, the rate is 27 cents. On local shipments a similar dis crepancy exists. The Illinois Central will haul corn from Sioux City, Iowa, to New Orleans, 1,333 miles, for 31 cents. A rale of 31 cents exists from Oswego, Kan., to Galveston, 64S miles, while from Hastings, Neb., 1,089 miles, the most distant point at which a rate is quoted to Galveston in Mr. Denison's figures, it is 39 cents. LIQUOR AT FERRIS WHEEL. Residents of the Vicinity Engaged in a Contest Fro and Con. Chicago, June 8. The Mangier Cater ing company, of which Alderman Mang ier is a leading spirit, is asking the res idents in the vicinity of the Ferris Wheel park to sign a petition request ing a license to sell liquor in that out door place of recreation and amuse ment. Percival Stone, secretary of the Im provement and Protective association foT the Twenty-fifth ward, sent out cir culars yesterday to residents of the ward urging them to refrain from sign ing the petition of the Mangier com pany. The circulars conclude as fol lows: "For the good name of our district, its peace, quiet, and respectability; for the sake of our homes and the protec tion of our wives and children, we earn estly entreat you not to sign any peti tion in favor of anybody for a license for a dramshop to be located in the Ferris Wheel park or anywhere in our district; and we ask you this, as in every instance, to do everything you can to resist the encroachment upon our beautiful residence district." "FITZ" AT LAW. He is Sued by a Theatrical Manager on a Contract. New York, June 8. Bob Fitzsimmons is in trouble again. He has more bat tles to fight in court than in the ring, but he manages to dodge the majority of them. This morning he was charged with having violated a contract. The complaint was Jacob Tannenbaum, manager of a number of theaters in the south, and he demanded $225 because "Lanky Bob" had failed to keep a con tract to play at his house in Pensacola, Fla., April 20. By mutual consent the case was post poned until June 29. "For three years we have never been without Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house," says A. H. Patter, with E. C. Atkins Co., Indianapolis, lnd., "and my wife would as soon think of being without flour as a bottle of this remedy in the summer season. We have used it with all three of our c hildren and it has never failed to cure not simply stop pain, but cure absolutely. It is all right, and anyone who tries it will find it so." For sale by druggists. Let Us Da It For Yon.. We Moaa Hani Tear Trunk, Move Year Furniture Fat Your Goods, Kotc Your Piano. Haul Your Safe, Or Take Care f Your Frwgbt. Save time and trouble by shipping your goods in our care. See us about particulars. WE WANT YODR H4.ULIHG. Topeka Transfer Co. F. 1. BACON, Prop. Pbae 329. Eoase 1'hono 335. STUFFING. TO SELL HER HUSBAND. Under an Old Law a St. Louis Woman Will Have Keveuga. St. Louis, June 8. Unless Hubert Kauling, erstwhile of 5316 Patterson avenue and recently of nowhere, can raise money enough to support his wife for six months, his person will be sold at public auction Thursday morning to the highest bidder. For half a year Kauling must serve the man who buys him, literally, acording to an old and almost forgotten statute on the law books of the state of Missouri. Mean while Kauling is at liberty, owing to the inability of the police to locate him. Under chapter 169, section 8.S46, of the revised statutes of 1SS9, Mrs. Kauling, on Saturday morning brought suit to have her husband declared a vagrant. Specifically, she charges him with non support. Last September, Mrs. Kauling asserts in her complaint, made before Justice Harmon, her husband deserted her, leaving her with one child, the last of three, two others having died. She married the defendant, she says, In St. Louis on January 2, 18S8, and has al ways been to him a true, faithful and loving wife. Why she was deserted, she claims, is a mystery to her. UilURl LANT IN BLOOM. Shoot of a Mexican Plant Growing Three Inches a Day. New York, June 8. In the green house of J. Condon on Fort Hamilton parkway, near Greenwood cemetery, there is a plant which is growing at the rate of about three inches a day. It is a century plant, and before the summer is over it will burst into bloom for the first and last yme in its exist ence, and soon afterward die, for it is a female plant. The blooming of a cen tury plant in this climate is rare, and when, in 1892, one of Mr. Condon's spe cimens put forth flowers people went from all over this part of the country to see it. This particular plant is one of a num ber in Mr. Condon's greenhouses. The owner does not know how long ago it was sent here from Mexico, but it was a number of years ago. If all goes well the stem will reach a height approximating thirty feet, and from the upper ten feet will sprout branches which bear the flowers, a corn colored bloom hanging in sprays in the manner of the familiar begonia rubra. These blossoms will last per haps two months. They will then fall, and wherever they land In the fertile ground tiny centenarians will spring forth from the earth. HAD 175 DRESSES. Death of Mrs. Howard, Aged 75, Who Had a Hobby for Clothes. Jeffersonville, lnd., June 8. The report of the administrator of the estate of Mrs. Dorothy Howard, aged 75 years, who recently died, one of the most eccentric women in the state, has been filed in court and is a. remarkable document. In spite of her extreme age. the old lady dressed as gaudily as a girl of 15. At her death she had 175 dresses, most of them of the finest quality, innumerable skirts, waists and other wearing apparel. The auction of her effects drew a large and curious crowd, and the bidding to secure her handsome silk dresses, dozens of which had never been worn, was lively. Her hobby was to spend her entire in come for gaudy and costly wearing ap parel. MTIOXIL EDITATiOM ASSOCIA TION MEEI1G. For the meeting of the National Ed ucational association at Buffalo in 1S96 the excellent service given by the Union Pacific was commented on by all who had the pleasure of using that line. This year our educational friends meet in Milwaukee, Wis., July 6 to 9, and members of the association and others from points west of the Missouri river should by all means take the Union Pacific. The service of the Union Pacific via Omaha or Kansas City is the very best. The equipment consists of hand some day coaches, chair cars, Pullman buffet and drawing room sleepers, din ing cars and buffet smoking and li brary cars. Fewer changes than via any other line. One fare, plus $2.50, for the round trip will be the rate from all points west of the Missouri river for this meeting. For illustrated matter, folders, etc., call on or write E. L. LOMAX, G. P. T. A., Omaha. Not only piles of the very worst kind can be cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, but eczema, scalds, burns, bruis es, boils, ulcers and all other skin troubles can be instantly relieved by the same remedy. George W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue. We take special pains in laundering ladies' shirt waists. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West 8th St. Hundreds of thousands have been In duced to try Chamberlain's Cough remedy by reading what it has done for others, and having tested its mer its themselves are today its warmest friends. For sale by druggists. THIS UTAH IDEA. Myron Reed Talks About the Co-operative Commonwealth Which Is to Be Founded in the Rockies. SOME OF THE IDEAS That Are to Be Incorporated in the Flans. Reed Says Too Many Smart People Spoil Things. Denver, June 8. Rev. Myron Reed says in discussing the proposed co-operative commonwealth to be establish ed in Utah: "I was notified a year ago that I had been elected president of the brother hood. I did not solicit the responsi bility, but my sympathy goes that way and I am in hearty accord with the movement today. The whole idea is a ueveiopment of the A. R. U., the prin cipal difference being that this move ment takes in men of nearly all occu pations and the A. R. U. was limited to railroad men. I may say, however, that we will have no use for lawyers, and if preachers fall into the proces sion they must leave their creeds be hind. The cornerstone of the whole undertaking is, mind your own busi ness. We propose to take in the best features of former attempts of a kin dred nature; to proceed slowly on acon servative basis. If a member of one of our communities don't like us after he has made a trial, he will be at lib erty to return to the old society, taking with him all the money that he deposit ed in the treasury, but no interest. "Take the Rockdale co-operative store system of England," continued Mr. Reed. "Few people in this coun try are aware of the amount of busi ness carried on by that society. -It is a store and labor exchange system, and last year the amount of business han dled by the society reached $200,000,000. In France there has been in operation a remarkable success which ought to be studied by every well wisher of the race. One man, M. Godin, has built up a city of 75.000 people, which is the model community of the world. The city is operated under the laws of the country, but so great is the success of the co-operative plan that the men are relieved from military duty on the re serves and the community is exempt by law from many taxes exacted from other communities. Godin has ar ranged a system of education for chil dren which is a marvel. "He has prepared a list of things which the child is to be taught when he is three months old. He has an other list which is entered upon when the child is six months old, and so on. The little babes are brought to a large room whose floor is covered three inches thick with a carpet of dry bran, and there they are placed while their moth ers are at work for eight hours. The bran is changed four times a day, and when the mother is through with her work, she takes her child home to a house which is built so that the sun shines in on the east and west. A fea ture of the city is that there is not a tenement house in the place. "The people have concerts, theaters, amusements schools, plenty of time for education, and factories are maintain ed, which turn out a variety of arti cles called for by other parts of the country. The people have a whole holi day Saturdays, and on Sunday a sim ple religious service is held. There hasn't been a murder in the community since its beginning fifty years ago, and very little petty thieving. "Brook Farm." said Mr. Reed, "was a good idea, but it broke down because the land was poor and the community had too much genius at the head of it. Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, with Em erson and Thoreau, incidentally, and Horace Greeley and Charles Dana too much genius. Not enough common stock; not enough average men and women. "New Harmony, lnd.. broke down for the same reason. Robert Dale Owen and the class of scientific men he gath ered around him ran too much to in tellect and not enough to common, every day sense. Yet New Harmony has many good points, and today the peo ple of that town are above the average of other towns of Indiana in intelli gence. New Harmony is on the Wa bash. "Take the Oneida community of New York. Notwithstanding their peculiar ideas of marriage, those people put up canned goods that are readily sold at a higher price than any other. The ex cellence of the product is all the rec ommendation that is required. The Shakers make brooms that are always better than any other brooms and com mand a higher price. There has never yet been an instance of co-operation which might not have been a success had members of the community re frained from competing with each other. Competition among themselves killed them." "How do you propose to prevent com petition in the Utah settlements?" "We will accept only such persons as are in sympathy with the movement and we will have a way of gently get ting rid of objectionable members. For instance, go to Utah and begin in a simple way. Out of the 1.500 in a com munity will be found representatives of the various useful avocations. De pend on hard labor and on wind and water for power, and have as little use of steam as possible. Man takes more interest in a thing he makes with his" hands Of course we will have a news paper, a magazine and many comforts and conveniences not possessed by the average American at the present time. "Every adult will be required to do some work with his hands. The com munity will raise about everything it wants and the money necessary to pay the taxes can be had by selling useful products to outsiders. It does away with the question of the tariff and pri vate enterprise. The enterprising man who wants to outstrip all his neighbors in money making will not be wanted in the community. His place is in the hurrying, bustling, fretting world and not in the peaceable community in which everv man wants to help his neighbor. What we want is simply a comfortable colony where no man will fear the poor house or the jail. Wor ship of some kind is a part of man's nature and Sunday will be a day of change." "Will you charge any specified amount to persons joining the commun ity?" 'I think not," replied Mr. Reed. "Any body can put in what he pleases, but some very worthy people may not have any money to give. We've got a delu sion that we must depend on somebody over the ocean. The community will borrow no money, and I see no use for money in such a community, except to pay taxes. As I suggested, the com munity will try to 'do certain things better than they are done elsewhere. A man in Seneca county, New York.makes a hammer. That particular brand of hammer has been made by the family for 100 years, and the family has never yet been able to make enough of them. Another man, In northern Pennsylvania makes a hatchet. That hatchet has been made by one family for 70 years. It 'goes' because it is a good hatchet. Suppose we went into glove manufac turing and made a driving glove better than anybody else made it out of buckskin and not out of sheepskin. That is entirely feasible. The glove would be in demand. Bicycles? No, I would eschew- bicycles and just -stick to plain horses. You can talk horse. Plenty of social life and a moderate amount of work. I believe a community of 1,500 could entertain themselves." Mr. Reed gives credit to Eugene V. Debs and Henry D. Lloyd, author of "Wealth vs. Commonwealth," as the moving spirits in the enterprise of re storing man to his original state of happiness. He has been in correspond ence with others who are engaged ac tively in the movement, and expects to meet the leaders within the next few weeks, when definite plans will be de cided upon. It is the intention to select a location for the first community next fall, so that the settlers may move upon the land and break ground for crops next spring. The picturesque region in Utah between the Rio Grande Western and the Union Pacific railways is advocated by some as the location of an ideal com munity and others advocate a beautiful valley near Sonora, N. M. The head quarters of the brotherhood is at pres ent in Thomaston, Me., where the na tional secretary.N. W. Lermond.lxas his home.The total membership has reach ed 1,844, and cash donations of $225 are reported. The official organ of the brotherhood is a weekly paper publish ed at Ruskin, Tenn.,known as the Com ing Nation. it is proposed to carry on a propa ganda in the smaller towns of the coun try this summer. OLMSTEAD AND ASTOR. How the Story of a Suit Over Buried Treasure in Maine Originated. Boston, June 8. The story in a New York paper today to the effect that Fred erick Olmstead was to bring suit against J. J. Astor to recover buried treasure is interesting as illustrating the way error spreads. The fact is that several years ago Mr. Olmstead and a party of friends were spending the summer on an island on the Maine coast. To while away the time one of the party wrote a story of buried treasure to fit a cave on the island, and working in the names of several well, known people. Including that of Mr. As tor. The story was never intended for publi cation, but a guest of the Olmsteads at the time reported it and it got into print. It has been published several times since, and the changes have been rung upon it until there is little left of the story in its original form except the names of Mr. Astor and Mr. Olmstead. MORE MONEY FOR MEAT. New York Abattoirs Are Steadily Raising Prices. New York, June 8. Within a few days every person in New York will have to pay more for his meat. Every pound of beef will cost from 2 to 3 cents more than it does now. Lamb and mutton will go up at a proportionate rate. Prices have been steadily advancing for nearly two months. Within the last few weeks the abat toirs have increased their prices to deal ers $1.50 a hundred pounds. This means 8 to 9 cents per pound for the meat in the carcass. Mutton has advanced even more than beef. It was 9 cents a pound today and 9H cents by night. Mutton is now $2.50 a hundred pounds higher than it was last year and it is still increasing. Pork is increasing proportionately. The abattoirs now charge $1.75 more a hun dred pounds than they did last year. BRIGHAM 1 0 UN G MONUMENT Men Who Went With Him to Utah Will See it Unveiled. Salt Lake City, June 8. The Brigham Young monument is to be unveiled on July 20 at the semi-centennial celebration of the entrance of the Mormon pioneers into the Great Salt Lake valley. The, site is about 250 feet from the Mormon temple. Brigham Young entered Great Salt Lake valley on July 24,1847, the pioneer band, consisting of 143 men, three women, and two children. About fifty of the pioneers now survive, among them being Wilford AVoodruff, present president of the church. Of the Mormons who came to Utah the first year, about 500 are living, and are to be guests at the celebration. WIDOW REJECTS BEQUEST. About $200,000 on Condition That She Remain Single. Easton, Pa., June 8. The will of Jacob Fraley. a retired leather mercant, who died recently, was probated today. The bulk of his estate, valued at nearly $200, 000, goes to his widow on condition that she does not marry again. Isabelle Kook er, of Philadelphia, a half sister, will get $1,000 at the end of five years, as will also Jacob Fraley King, of Easton, a name sake. The widow has refused to accept the terms of the will, and will claim, for her self, the widow's one-half right. A JOKE COSTS A FOOT. Girl Fails to Dodge a Woodcutter's Ax in Time. Portsmouth, O.. June 8. Miss Emma Braden, a young school teacher residing near St. Paul's, was this morning watch ing Henry Lewis cutting wood. Miss Braden, in jest, placed her foot on the block and told him to cut it. Lewis, ex pecting her to step aside, swung the axe. She was too slow in dodging, and the heavy axe cut off her left foot at the in step. Man Refuses Whisky. Portsmouth, O.. June 8. George Hinck ley of Munn's Run, was bitten on the hand by a copperhead today while pick ing strawberries. He is a rigid prohibitionist and obsti nately refuses to take whisky or other al coholic remedy. His arm and shoulder are swollen black, and his death is ex. pected by attending physicians. W. B. Johnson of Newark, O., says: "One Minute Cough Cure saved my only child from dying by croup." It has saved thousands of others suffering from croup, pneumonia, bronchitis and other serious throat and lung troubles. George W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue. L. M. PenwefrV u Odd Felloes' DsMns, 523 Quincy Street. We buy aur oo&s from tk best factorie om cartii. dertates OCR PRICES ARE REASONABLE. MePeawell 523 QUIITCST ST. Bell Phone 192. ARTHUR MASSEIT, Practical f-orseshoer, 213 Weat Fifth Street. Horses with diseased feat skillfully treated. Track and road shoeing a specialty. TELEPUONB M. J. M. KNIGHT, cl"i Undertaker Furniture Dealer. Open p. ff fn a Day 4 B and FT i javssXi- j Night W Kjolll,!!,.'-! S round r jP o IIIHY PAY OUTRAGEOUS PRICES TO K other fndertakers that have to sell high. fU as Undertaking is their only husiness. I H 1 have two largo furniture stares in connec tion with mv Undertaking business, at 4 OH avud 714 Kms Avran. No. t Adult Cloth Casket, trimmed S1S.OA So. 2 Adult Cloth Casket. tsxllle hdlo 20.00 Fine Couch Casket, trimmed S0-9 Children's White Caskets .00 Free Ambulance or Xlgfct. KANSAS ATE. OS. Dirt of any kind on any thing quickly yields to the easy effort of the housewife who uses this great cleaner. Largest package greatest economy". Ask the -rouer for it. NATIONAL STABLES eilclsrie Bras, Proprt. M A 2 Good turaeuta delivered to any part ef the city. H BOARDING A SPECIALTY- 'Phone 4tt. 70S JoeWaon tit. g There's No Use Wasting Words on Ripans Tabules THEY CURE Hsadache, Dyspepsia, gi Constipation, !m Heartburn, Dizziness, i Biliousness. THEY COST 50 CENTS A BOX. DRUGGISTS SELL THElf. And That's All There is to Sajv Sroken edge collars made smooth by Peerless Steam Laundry. Not how cheap but how good is the way we try to do our work. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West 8th. Subscribe for The State Journal. H. O. DeMoss. -Jt,i&d? w J wmM

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1897. Y mm F.lunyon Teaches You to Doctor Yourself. It is not necessary t o call a physi cian every time you have an ache or a pain and pay him several dollars for counting your pulse and looking at your tongue," says Prof. Munyon. Neither is it wise to neglect svmptoms that may indicate the beginning of serious 111 n e s s The symptoms of most diseases are so plain that you know what ails you. Get the proper Munyon Reme dy from some druggist a. t once and cure yourself before disease gets the best of vou." Mostly 25 cents a. bottle- Temple. proprietor of Palace Hotel. Lvons, Kansas, says: .muhjui. Improved Homoeopathic Remedies have done wonders for me. I had rheumatism. fo badlv in rnv right arm and shoulder. I could "not raise my hand to my head; had doctored with a number of the most able physicians, and used every remedy 1 could hear without obtaining relief and yet one bottle of Munyon'3 Rheumatism Cure cured me entirely. I biso had complete success from the use of Mimyon's Catarrh Remedies and Pile Ointment." Where you ars In doubt, a personal let ter to Prof. Munyon, Loot) Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., will be answered with, free mtdical advice for any disease. SUDDENLY. To do so Is injurious to the Nervous System. "BACO-CURO" is recognized by the medical profession as the Scientific Cure for the Tobacco Habit. It is Vegetable and Harmless. "BACO-CT7RO" cures while you use to bacco; it will notify you when to stop. "EACO-CtRO" is guaranteed to cure where all others fail, and is sold with a WRITTEN GUARANTEE to cure any case, no matter how baxl. or money re funded with ten per cent interest. One box J1.00; three boxes (iruaran t?ed curet. J2.50. at all druggists or sent direct upon receipt of price. Write for free booklet, testimonials and proofs. Eureka Chemical Mfg. Co.,La Crosse. Wis. SLEEPING CAR BATES Cause Trouble Among Western Roads Christian Endeavor Business. Chicago. June 8. -The western roads are already getting by the ears over the arrangements for the Christian En deavor meeting in San Francisco. It is openly asserted that several of the lines are openly ignoring the provision that no sleeping- car shall be allowed for parties of less than twenty-five, or for parties where at least twenty-five fares have been paid. Several of the roads, it is said, have agreed in special instances to allow sleeping- cars for parties of fifteen. The Southern Pacific has notified all of the western roads that it will not be a par ty to any such arrangement, and that it will demand in all instances the full amount that is coming to it. It will not receive any sleeping cars carrying less than twenty-five passengers unless it receives full fares from the people in the car. Musical Festival. To accommodate the Chorus and oth ers attending the Musical Festival at Ottawa on June 11th and 12th, a special train will be run from Topeka over the Missouri Pacific, leaving at 7:30 a. m and arriving at Ottawa at 9:30 a. m.', and will return leaving Ottawa at 10 :;6 p. m. on Saturday, the 12th, after the c ncei t. i This train will be run through in j i in directions without change of cars r without making stops. A baggage tar will be attached to carry all bag-f-'aije needed at the Chautauqua meel- g. Por other information see F. K. NIPPS, Ticket Agent, Topeka, Kan. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bueklen Co., Chicago, and get a free sample b,ox of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in their cure of constipation and sick headache For malaria and liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not wea'ten by their action, but by giving tone to the stomach and bowels greatly invig orate the system. Regular size 25 cents per box. Sold by J. k. Jones, druggist. Fifth street and Kansas avenue. Don't forget the special train to Ot tawa via Missouri Par-itic railway for the Musical Festival. Friday morning, 7:30 a. m. Who can measure the influence of a US ffci? 5 ffl 3 3 Jl 0 It lasts through all ages and enters the confines of eternity. With what care, therefore, should she be guarded and how great the effort be to make her life happy. Mother's Friend makes child-birth easv. assists nature In its sublime effort, leaves the Mother stronger after than before confinement, and robs the trying hour of its terror. No Mother can afford to neg-lect its use. Of drapgists at $1.00, or sent bymait on receipt of price. Write for book cor-.taining valu able information for all Mothers, mailed free, lio BradCeld BcftUatax Co., Atlanta, Ga. BflflM J. SI. DON'T STOP TOBACCO nan! mmm l 'to KANSASJEWS. Arkansas City to Haye a Chair Factory. In Connection Cob Pipes Will Be Manufactured. EMPLOY SEVERAL HEX First Baby Elk Born in Kansas in Captivity. Newton to Hare a Mill With 400 Barrel Capacity. Arkansas City, June 8. This town is going to have a chair and cob pipe fac tory united in one. The old Plummer factory has been purchased by Henry Thompson, of St. Louis, who has suf ficient means to run the factory, and will employ several men. Workmen have commenced going over the factory to get it in shape to run and as soon as this is done, and a carload of material arrives, which has beVn ordered, the factory will start. Mr. Thompson is figuring on putting fn a cob pipe factory in connection with the chair factory, WINFIELO CHAUTAUQUA. Will Begin June 15 and Continue Ten Days. Winfield, June 8. The Winfield Chau tauqua assembly will begin June 15 and COntltlllP ton .-1.,... r.i I h,V -Ltie programme I this sear is very complete, and con- oiujL. yiuiiuueui StateSaU1Ua workers in tne United Russell H. Conwell. the well known lecturer and pulpit orator, wUl deliver two lectures on the subject "Acres of Diamonds" and "The Silver Crown," the latter being his new lecture which has never been delivered in the west before. Henry W. Schyke of Chicago will deliver two illustrated lectures on Russian life. Dr. Edwin A. Schell will take part in the exercises of Young People's day, and during the assembly will deliver two lectures on the sub jects "The New Generation" and "The Aristocracy of Youth." John De Witt Miller, the old time favorite, will op erate the "question box" again this year and will deliver a lecture on the subject "Three-thirds a Man." Dr. A. A. Willitts, better known as "Sun shine" Willitts, will deliver two lec tures on the subjects "Sunshine" and "Moonshine." Miss Vandelia Varnum of New York will deliver two lectures. 1 1 1 c ill r np tii 1 c- r i one on the subject "Who Pays the freight.' which is said to be very fine, and one on 'William E. Gladstone." Frank R. Roberaon, the traveler, will deliver two illustrated lectures, one on "Europe" and one on "India." Prof. Lucien I. Blake of the state uni versity will conduct a school of elec tricity and will deliver two lectures, one on "Electricity" and one on "X Rays," with experiments. A. grand concert will be given on Tuesday. June 22, under the management of Prof. S. W. Mountz. musical director in the Chicago city schools, who will have charge of the department of vocal music during the assembly. Rev. Herbert L. Willett will have charge of the department of sacred literature, and Prof. A H. To'.man of the Univer sity of Chicago that of English litera ture. The daily C. L. S. C. round table will be under the management of Mrs. Alma F. Piatt of Wichita and the W. C. T. U. school of methods under Mrs. Ella W. Brown, the state superintend ent. Other attractions will be polit ical science, kindergarten, art. paint ing and drawing, and society reunions. Maximillian Dick, violinist: Georg iella Lay, pianist, both of the Yaw Concert company; Phoebe Ara Reade, contralto, of New Y'ork. and Birdie Sprague-Waggoner, reader, of Atchi son are among the special attractions w ho will remain during the entire as sembly. BEEDER IN ALFALFA. The Western Kansas Politician Goes to Farming Heavily. Norton. June 8. Raising- alfalfa and starting creameries are putting a great change on this section of northwest Kansas. Where there is a paper, ev ery town is asking for a creamery, and where there is a valley, there will you see patches of alfalfa. They are raising it this year out In Thomas and Sherman counties for the first time. Three miles east of Norton A. N. McLennan, one of the largest farmers and stock and hog raisers and breeders in Norton county. has 100 acres of alfalfa, doing nicely. W. A. Reeder, of Logan, Phillips county, says he won't quit sowing alfalfa until he has seeded 500 acres, he is so firm a be liever in this farm cereal. Hundreds of farmers in Norton, Thomas and Sherman counties are raising alfalfa and planting less corn this year for the first time. The farm ers, too, of these counties, have come to the conclusion that they don't have to raise corn to succeed. Alfalfa, hogs, cattle, poultry, and creameries will make them mory. SCANDIA COMMENCEMENT. Fourth. Annual Exercises Held in trie Opera House. Scandia. June 8. The commencement exercises of the Scandia high school were held in the opera house before a large audience. Prof. K. J. Abell pre sented the diplomas. Following is the programme: Pianer Solo Miss Lou Conner Invocation Rev. Wells Quartette Mrs. Peterson. Miss Eckler, Mr. Guy Loofbourrow, Prof. Abell, Miss Loofbourrow, accompanist. Oration- "Times are changed and we are changed with them" Maggie S. McKinnell Oration "Poetry" Julia C. Rosene Vocal Solo Mrs. A. P. Peterson Oration "A plea for arbitration." Bert G. Trainor Essay "Queer, isn't it?" Ellen M. Asbjornson Piano Solo Miss Lou Conner Presentation of Diplomas Principal E. J. Abell Quartette Mrs. Peterson, Miss Eckler, Mr. Loofbourrow, Prof. Abell, Miss Loofbourrow, accompanist. LEAVENWORTH'S NEW LINE. Electric Railway to Kansas City Seems As3ared. Leavenworth, June 8. An electric railway connecting this city with Kan sas City and intermediate points is the latest venture discussed in local rail road circles, and it is said by those in terested in it that its construction is assured. The road is to connect with the western terminus of the Kansas City. Kan., electric line, and extend straight across country to Fort Leav- enworth. It will according to the plans, touch Lansing, and from there secure a right of way over what is known as the Kansas City wagon road to the Soldiers' home on the west, thence along Fourth street in Leavenworth to Fort Leavenworth. Boston capitalists are said to be back ing the movement. Attorney J. F. Getty of Kansas City, Kan., was here last week in the interest of the enter prise and he will return this week to lay the matter before the council and open negotiations for a franchise. Interested persons are now in Wash ington with a view of securing the nec essary license from the war depart ment permitting the proposed company to reach the fort, and there is great probability of utilizing the line and grade in Leavenworth established for the compressed air road. MISS BURROUGHS' BENEFIT. Marysville Friends Give the Expert Cornetist a Testimonial Marysville, June 8. The people of this city gave Miss Anna Burroughs a ben efit concert at Turner hall, which was filled with admirers of Miss Burroughs. 'She has grown to womanhood in Marysville and is respected by every body. She is an expert cornetist and will be remembered by a large circle o Topeka acquaintances, having drilled there with the Modoc club and accom panied them to the national G. A. R encampment at Louisville. The pro gramme was rendered by several of the best known talent in the place, and consisted of piano duets, cornet solos, reading, flute solos, songs ana instru mental music. A handsome purse was realized which was presented to Miss Burrougns. POPULIST JUDICIAL CALL. Convention to Nominate a Judge in the 17th District to be Held June 24. Oberlin, June S. The Populists of the Seventeenth judicial district, compris ing the counties of Phillips, Norton Decatur, Rawlins and Cheyenne, will hold their nominating convention in Oberlin June 24 to nominate a candi date for judge. A. C. T. Geiger of Decatur county, present incumbent, will be renominat ed, although there are several dark bnrses including M. A. Wilson of Raw lins county and L. H. Thompson and T. H Wilder of Norton county. A silver Republican says that with ex-Judge W. H. Pratt of Phillips coun ty cr John R. Hamilton of Norton county on the Republican ticket, and if the present disaffection exists, either of them can beat Judge Creigjr. SKELETON OF A SHARK. Found in the Chalk Mounds of Gove County. Gove, June 8. A party of eastern geologists are here searcmng ror ios sils. Around Castle Rock several fin specimens have been discovered. T- Lr i.s a clnplp column of Nio brara chalk, having two castles like towers rising to tne neignt ui io from the level plain which surrounds i The Niobrara chalk abounds with the nil remains nf manv ourious animals. They found in the chalk the teeth and v,onca nf tbree kinds of eleohantia. A hird'a law 23 inches long containing 41 a f i r, onH ill tppt'n of manv sharVq An Almost entire skeleton of a shark which measured over 10 feet 6 inches as it lay on the rocu. WOMEN ALLOW SALOONS. New Joint Starts Up at Jamestown The Women's Administration. Jamestown, June 8. Since the spring election, when our town elected women for mayor and city council, a new sa loon has started in Jamestown. There has also been foot racing and cock fights in the city limits on Sundays. PRESIDENT KIZER aTXITS. Change in the Faculty of Campbell University. Holton. June 8. President B. F. Kizer of Campbell university has been offered a more lucrative position and his res ignation has been accepted and E. N Johnson, A. M., of Drake university has been made acting president in his place. The faculty for next year, as far as it has been selected, is as follows: E N. Johnson, president: W. D. Kuhn, vice president; (i. A. Hoffman, C. H. Shattuck. W. Gidinghagen, D. H. Spring. Ella W. Brown, J. C. Brown, Mrs. F. A. Campbell. BUTTER FOR LONDON. Senator Hanna, A. L Goble and C F. Armstrong Have a Five Car Con tract. Clay Center, June S. Senator George W. Hanna has just closed a contract whereby he. together with A. L. Goble of Riley and C. P. Ai mstrong of Clyde, is to furnish for shipment to London five cars of fancy creamery butter. The purchaser furnishes the pack ages and they are stamped "Fancy Creamery Butter Solid Gold Brand." a rather queer iabel to come from Kan sas. Mr. Armstrong being the only Palmer-Ruckner Democrat in Cloud county. Mr. Hanna suggested that this label ought to please him. Mr. Arm strong writes back that Hanna would "better nail a tag over 'solid gold.' RAY DEAN MISSING. Northwestern Kansas Boy Left Home Last April No Trace of Him. Brewster. June 8. Ray Dean, the 14-year-old son of F. P. Dean, one of our best kiown farmers east of this place, left his home April 13 in company with another boy -named Jacobson. He was last seen in Smith Center in company with three other boys, two white and one black, on the -loth of April. Since then no trace of him has been found, although his father has search ed all over northern Kansas. The boy was large for his age. with blue eyes and light hair. He wore a number S congress plowshoe, blue over alls, gray cassimere coat and brown hat. MODEL NORTON FARMER. A. N. McLennan's Ranch of 480 Acres a Rare Sight. Norton, June 8. Among the farmers of Norton county w ho are getting rich is A. N. McLennan. residing about three miles east of Norton. He was elected to the legislature from Ellsworth county in ls-8. He quit politics, however, before it broke him up. His farm consists of three quar ter sections. His farmhouse, together with his barn, is the largest in Nor ton county. He has hogs, cattle and sheep, and alfalfa enough to fatten them with what corn they require. Mrs. McLennan, who was formerly Miss Blanche Rodehaver. used to live in Oberlin. where her father kept a ho tel, the first in that place. She was there, too, in September. 1S79. when the terrible Indian raid occurred and sev- eral whfte people were killed in sight of the town. NEWTON'S BIG MILL. A. E. Mosier of Topeka, Will Superin tend the Remodeling. Newton, June 8. A. E. Mosier, of To peka, Kansas, agent for the Faist Au tomatic Sieve company, of Milwaukee, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon. He will superintend the remodeling of the Newton Milling company's plant. The Newton mill is to have a daily capacity of 400 barrels. One of the changes to be made will be the use of a 1,000-foot rope belt, which will connect all the shafting in the mill with the engine. This insures equal running throughout the mill. According to the contract, the build ing will be finished by July 1. FROM KANSAS TOWNS. General and Personal News From All Over the State. COFFETVILLE Jeff Hudson has sold his law office and good will and will settle down to a life of enjoyment. FRANKFORT The executive com mittee of the Old Settlers' Pioneer as sociation of Marshall county has fixed August 12, 13 and 14 as the dates for their annual reunion, which will be held in Frankfort. 0FF1CEKS ItESIGS. The Whole Ohio Militia Will Disband Unless Captain Leonard is Sustained. TTrbana, O., June 8. Sheriff McLain reached home on the Big Four from Springfield yesterday afternoon. He was met at the depot by Deputy Sheriff Kirby in a "cab and was hurried off to his moth er's home. Mayor Ganson has written a card. In it he condemns mobs. He says that all was done by the sheriff to save Mitchell that could have been done, and that if more force had been used, men, women and children would have been killed. Captain Leonard was in Cincinnati in cognito on Saturday and Sunday. He said to Colonel Hunt, his Cincinnati host: "My business is ruined and my family broken up. I do not think I shall ever go back to tTrbana. I dream of terrible occur rences and wake with a start at night, with the din of that howling mob in my ears. I hear that the father of Bell, who was killed, has threatened to shoot me on sight. I am going to leave the city, but my whereabouts will be kept secret. The feeling here has subsided very much. A strong reaction has set in and the best public opinion favors protection to the fullest for Captain Leonard and his company. National guard officers and men all over the state are indignant over the failure of the state to support Colonel Leonard and his men. Twenty officers of the guard through out the state have' tendered Governor Bushnell their resignations. More will follow unless something is done. If the state doesn't uphold and protect Leonard and his soldiers in the discharge of their duty then the whole National Guard of the state will go out of existence. COURTS MAKE THE LAWS. Everything is Unconstitutional Now adays According to Usurping Courts. Philadelphia, June 8. President Judge Hanna, of the orphans' court, this after noon, in adjudicating the estate of George Blight, deceased, decided that the new direct inheritance tax law is unconstitu tional. The tax was expected to add be tween $600,000 and il.000.U00 annually to the revenues of the state. The question will probably be carried to the supreme court. 153 Postmasters Appointed. Washington, June 8. The effect of the recent ruling of the postoffice depart merit to consider as vacant all offices which are due to expire between now and July 15 was apparent today, when 153 fourth class postmasters were appointed. This is the record for one day in this ad ministration. Seventy-two vacancies were created by removals. Inflammation of the Bowels.that dan gerous disease, can be relieved at once bv Begsrs' Diarrhea Balsam, it acts like magic. At druggists. The magic healer of all Coughs. Colds and Consumption is Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup. At druggists. WHAT IS YOUR TRADE? Each Trade or Occupation Has Its Special Disease. It is well known among medical men that certain diseases are more readily de veloped in certain occupations than in others. That each occupation has its at tendant physical weakness. Engineers, railroad men and similar occupations suffer mostly from kidney troubles and men who are often exposed to the weath er suffer from rheumatism, while clerks and professional men. in fact the army of people whose business keeps them indoors are oftentimes great sufferers from piles and constipation. In this connection the following letter is of interest to peopls whose occupation will not allow suffi cient outdoor exorcise. Mr. A. F. Calhoun, notary public and jeweler and watchmaker of Circlevilla, W. Va., writes as follows: I have been a severe sufferer from piles for years and had tried many remedies with but little benefit, when about three years ago I saw the Pyramid Pole Cure advertisement and sent for it. I was badly afflicted when I got them. but after only two applications the piles disappeared and' from that day to this I have never felt a symptom of the disease. I feel that I cannot recommend them too highly to sufferers from piles. The Pyramid Pile Cure Is free from cocaine, opium or any mineral poison, ab solutely safe, pleasant and painless: sold by druggists at 50 cents per package. If there is any constipation the Pyramid Pills should be used with the pile cure. The pills are 25 cents per package. Any druggist will tell you that the Pyra mid is the best known and most success ful and popular pile cure ever placed on the market and its reputation as a saft. and radical cure has only resulted from the personal recommendation" of people who have been cured of this distressing ailment. Send to Pyramid Co., Albion. Mich., for valuable little book on cause and cure of piles. SPORTING NEWS. Topeka's Ball Team Has Weak Spots Strengthened. Miller Has Been Released and Brockway Signed ATCHISON THIS WEEK. Philadelphia Shuts Out Cincinnati Reds. the Boston Climbing Upwards- Pretty League Fight. The Topkea base ball team has been strengthened with the addition of new men and with plenty of practice. This will be apparent when Atchison comes here this week to play with Topeka. The Atchison team beat the Topeka team five out of six games not long ago and it seemed that Topeka was fruit for the visitors. But now there are no more Sherwoods to spoil the game. Harry Colborn, the newly signed pitcher, is with the team now at Abilene and he will be seen this week at Athletic park. Miller has been re leased at third base and Brockway signed. McHugh will play third and Brockway short. The games will open Thursday after noon. Friday will be ladies' day. It is hoped that the management will see to it that laps are put over the cracks in the roof of the grand stand so that in case of a shower the people will not have to stand and get a soak ing. PAOLA'S BALL TEAM Has Good Material List of Dates for Games. Paola, June 8. This town has one of the best ball teams this season it has ever had. Among the players are Tom Drum my, who played in Topeka last year. Dick Edwards, Star Medly.Mat Cantan, both of the latter men playing with Coffeyville last season. Redsman, who played with Topeka a part of last sea son and finished the season in the Tex as league, besides some new material that Manager C. D. Watkins is giving a trial. The following dates have been ar ranged with the Paola club: Sunflowers of Kansas City at Paola, 9th and 10th; Paola at Parsons, 10th; Oswego, 11th; Parsons, 12th and 13th; Channte, 14th; at Paola, Atchison, loth, 16th and 17th; Paola at Waverly, 18th and liith. The Paola management is open for dates after the 19th, would like to arrange with Lawrence, Topeka, Leavenworth and Atchison, Winchester or any other northern club, either on Paola grounds or away. COOLEY'S FAST FLAYING. Has Made His Fiftieth. Hit Also Do ing Great Base Running. Dick Cooley is climbing the ladder of fame in the base ball world very rapid ly. In notes of a game between Pitts burg and Philadelphia, Friday.the Rec ord says: Cooley got in his 50th hit of the sea son yesterday. Cooley was the happiest man on the team. He made two triples off "south-paw" pitching. Cooley went from first to third on Boyle's out a hit to Gardner in the seventh. That is the kind of base running which awakens enthusiasm. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. PHILADELPHIA. R T T E Cincinnati 0 000000006 5 3 Philadelphia 0 0 101200 4 7 1 Batteries Cincinnati. Brown and Schrlver; Philadelphia. Orth and Boyle. WASHINGTON. Washington 00000000 0 0 6 2 Cleveland 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 1 7 13 0 Batteries Washington. McJames and McGuire; Cleveland, Wilson and O'Con nor. BALTIMORE. R H E Baltimore 2 0000110 4 9 0 St. Louis 0 000011002 7 3 Batteries Baltimore, Nops and Bow erman; St. Louis, Hart and Murphy. BROOKLYN. Brooklvn 0 00010000 1 5 2 Louisville 0 011000103 5 2 Batteries Brooklyn. Payne and Grim; Louisville, Hill and Wilson. NEW YORK. R TT Ej Xpw York 0 10 5 0 0 13 30 10 i Chicago 11 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 6 7 3 Batteries New York, Sullivan and War ner; Chicago, Griffith and KLittredge. BOSTON. IT E Boston 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 11 0 Pittsburg 0 0 00000000 7 7 Batteries Boston. Nichols and Bergen; Pittsburg, Killen and Sugden. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING Cluba. Games. Won. Lost. Prc't. Baltimore 34 25 9 .7::5 Boston 3'! 24 12 .6'V7 Cincinnati 37 24 13 .649 New York 34 lit 15 .S59 Pittsburg 35 19 IS .543 Brooklvn 37 19 13 .514 Philadelphia 39 20 19 .513 Louisville 37 17 20 .459 Chicago 37 14 23 .378 Washington 34 9 25 .2-5 St. Louis 09 3 31 .205 THE WESTERN LEAGUE. COLUMBUS. R.H.E. Columbus 0 0010143 9 9 1 Ktnsas City 0 0000 0 0000 3 7 Batteries Daniels and Fisher; Abbey and Lake. INDIANAPOLIS. R.H.F.. Indianapolis 0 10021020 fi 10 5 Milwaukee 2 01000004 7 11 4 Batteries Phillies and Kahoe; Barnes and Spear. CEDAR RAPIDS. R.H.E. Grand Rapids 0 2 0 3 1 1 2 0 110 16 5 Minneapolis 0 1 2 4 0 1 0 1 0 9 14 3 Batteries Re-fly. Brady and Twineham; Herman, Hutchinson and Boyle. Catching Brook Trout. Atchison, June 8. The brook trout placed in the streams of this section several years ago, seem to have pros pered; Robert Fullerton and three boys caught 40 brook trout in Independence creek yesterday, at the Doniphan biidge. The trout caught were from seven to nine inches long. Topeka Wins at Abilene. Abilene. June 8. The home team was defeated here yesterday by Topeka. R H E Abilene 0 0 0 0 5 10 0 0 6 8 5 Topeka 004420000 10 8 5 Batteries Abilene. Reust and Bro phy; Topeka, Stricklett and Evans. CHERRY SISTERS QUARREL Lizzie is Told They Can Give theShow Without Her "If She Wants to Get Mad." Des Moines, la., June 8. The Cherry sisters, who have been exhibiting them selves at Crocker Wood's park during the last week, were not able to end their engagement without a serious family quarrel. The manager of the sisters claims that the difficulty has been patched up for the present, but this is denied by others. The trouble was made by Liz zie, the oldest, who has been objecting very hard because she doesn't get her share of the proceeds. In short, she al leges that they are trying to freeze her out entirely. Next year, she threatens, she will go on the road as an attraction all by herself. Then she will be the whole thing. For a time Lizzie was the chief gua.rd of the coffers where the gold and silver were heaped up. Now the others have the keys. Her complaint is that the manager asks her three sisters for all the advice about the business. He pays her no attention and no money, ex cept as they order him to pay it. She declares they told her they could "give their show without her just as well as not, if she wanted to get mad." So she did get mad. GOV. LEEDY TO GO. Invited to Attend the Festival of Music at Ottawa. The Topeka Festival chorus will leave for Ottawa Friday morning. A special train will be waiting at Lawrence to take the singers to Ottawa. The chorus numbers 175 and Prof. Cravens says that he believes that 500 people will at tend the Festival from Topeka. Prof. Cravens today secured a prom ise from Governor Leedy to attend the Festival. He will go to Ottawa on Sat urday. The Topeka delegation will re turn Saturday evening and they hope to bring? the prize with them. CHANGE OF ROADS JULY 1. Santa Fe to Turn Sonora Road. Over to Southern Pacific San Francisco, June 8. Vice presi dent C. F. Crocker, of the Southern Pa cific company, has returned from the east. He announced that the Sonora railroad in Mexico will be turned over to the Southern Pacific by the Santa Fe about the beginning of July. The exchange of the line of Mexican road for the line between Mojave and the Needles was to have been made on June 1, but complications arose which made it necessary to postpone the event for a few weeks. The two com panies are now awaiting the permission of the Mexican government to make the trade, and when the permission is secured, the property will be turned over. Los Angeles Mining Exchange. Los Angeles. Cal., June 8. A new mining stock exchange has been opened in this city and 62.000 shares were han dled during its first day's business, principally the stocks of the Desert mines of southern California. There was a large number of people present and much interest was taken. Blown Up by His Own Bomb. Valencia, Spain, June 8. Serious dis turbances have occurred at Benicarlo and Chelva, this province, on account of the octroi duties. At Benicarlo a man attempted to blow up a house with a bomb, but it exploded prematurely and dangerously wounded the man. Don't forget the special train to Ot tawa via Missouri Pacific railway for the Musical Festival, Friday morning, 7:30 a. m. Fire Destroys a Church. Cairo, 111., June 8. Fire today de stroyed $80,000 worth of property, in cluding the new Baptist church and an nex. Don't forget the special train to Ot tawa via Missouri Pacific railway for the Musical Festival, Friday morning, 7:30 a. m. Ottawa Chautauqua. The Missouri Pacific will sell tickets to Ottawa June 10 to 25 at rate of one fare for the round trip, $1.59 from To peka. Train leaves Topeka 8 a. m. Don't forget the special train to Ot tawa via Missouri Pacific railway for the Musical Festival, Friday morning, 7:30 a. m. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal Chicago, June S. "WHEAT Opened active and strong with first sales of July (itVt'aGTVc. against Saturday's closing' price of tiQTsf. There was considerable nervousness over the belief that Armour was a largre holder of July and on the small local stocks, not over 5.001. 003 of all grades. To the crop reports, however, was due the most nf the strength, advices from St. Paul in dicating much damage bv frost through out Minnesota and the akotas. North west receipts were comparatively small. 8S3 cars against 1,07 last week and 0S." the year before. On the other hand world's shipments were large and an increase on passage of 440.009 bu. was reported. After selling up to OS'ic. realizing brought about a reaction to t7"sc. but the market grew very strong again on the posting of the visible supply figures, showing 2.447. OfK bu. decrease. This was much more than expected and July sold up to 67Vsc at once. The market then quieted down somewhat, reacting to fjc. CORN Was strong on the bad western crop report. The Iowa state condition was given at .79. the lowest in ten years. Reports from South Dakota and Minne sota were also bad. July opened ir2c high er at 24'i.c. advanced to 24rC and reacted to 24;14C. Receipts were heavy, 1,123 cars. OA'l S Were also helped by crop dam age reports and shorts were active cov erers. July opened 3-16c higher at IS c, advanced to lM4o and reacted to ISVgC Receipts amounted to 507 cars. PROVISIONS A weaker hog market caused some hesitancy at the opening, but the strength of the corn market ulti mately had its effect. July pork opened unchanged at $7.70 and advanced to $7. SO. Beauty s Dane is the fadinsr or fallinff the hair. Luxuriant s$r tresses are far more to the matron than to the maid whose casket of charms" is yet unrifled by time. Beautiful women -will be glad to be reminded that falling or fading hair is unknown to those who use Ayer's Kair Vigor. The I) Bane I of- Beauty. r 1 v5l July lard opened 2c higher at $3.55 and advanced to $3.5j. Julv ribs opened 2i.o higher a t$4.25 and advanced to 4.2TV. Chicago Livestock Market Chicago. June HOGS Estimated receipts today ls,'1; left over 5.0W). Market fairly active, eas ier than at opening. Liprhts $3."e3...7';.: mixed $3.4U!g3.o5; heavy 50: rouph 3.23.30. CATTLE; Receipts 3,0"X1. Steadv. Beeves $4.00?; 5.00: cows and heifers $2.04.41; Texas steers $3.2t54.40; stockers and feed ers 3.ti.'(l4.6n. SHEEP-Receipts 12.000. Sheep and lamb market steady. Native sheep t2.5oti4.&5; westerns $::.5ii4.60; lambs $3.50Ti5.T5. HOGS Official receipts yesterday 52,631; shipments 7, i'3. CATTLE Official receipts yesterday 19. 281: shipments 4.037. SHEEP Official receipts yesterday Itj. 774: shipments 2.';2. Estimated receipts hogs tomorrow CO, 0J head. Kansas City livestock Marset Kansas Citv. June fi. CATTLE Receipts 7,5i). Market about steady. Texas steers $3.i;4.30: Tuxna cows $2.0V3.25: native steers M.2.V4.r: native cows and heifers $2. OUT; 4.25: stock ers and feeders $2.55)4.50: bulls J2.G5 a S., 0. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. I'r. 20 Texas steors llvi $1 so 42 Texas cows i:72 3 2 IS native steers 4 5 21 native cows and heifers i:2 4 1'S 27 stockers and feeders S2! 4 5J 7 bulls 1742 3 7) HOGS Receipts 17.C0O. Market weak to oc lower. Bulk of sales $3.2 3.C21 heav ies J3.30-ii3.421',: packers S3. 3 f,; 3.30: mixed $3.25f;3.37i-.; lijrhts 3.1.Vy 3.32' vorkeVS S3.30',73.32i-.; PiKs $2.5. 3.20. SHEEP Receipts tj.u.M. Market steady. Lambs $4.0o'uo.30; muttons $2.755i 1.70. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas Citv. June R. WHEAT Dull, nominally sliirhtly high er: Xo. 2 hard t:sri70c: Xo. 3. 'yMc: No. 4. 53e; No. 2 spring 6Ti70c: No. 3. i;2'mGc; No. 2 red &c: No. 3. 73c: No. 4, Gr.Tr7ue. CORN .''(lo higher; rather active; No. 2 mixed 211.'!i21sie. OATS Slightly higher, better demand; No. 2 white li-jc. RYE No. 2. 2Sc. HAY Weak, unchanged. BUTTER Steady; creamery 10-i'g12Vic; dairy srt H'e. EGGS Somewhat irregular, Kansas and Missouri 7ic. Market Gossip. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission Co., Brokers in Grain. Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Kan. Chieagro There was very liltle trade on the curb yesterday. Several Siiit-r made at 67VgC and 67J4C or about Vc over final figures Saturday noon. Vnk-ss we. get some warm nights pretty soon there wiil be a scramble to buy corn by shirts. New York: Buy Rock Island on dips from present figures. New York: Foreigners pre picking un international shares. There has been heavy trade in Rock Island. St. Paul and C B. fc Q. during the past week. Whila Grangers ought to sell somewhat higher, we look for some reaction before higher prices are attained. New Y'ork: Stocks open weaker. Offer ings are being absorbed at a rate indi cating confidence. Bull sentiment has gained friends and stocks ought to do better. Chicago: Curb is practically unchanged from yesterday's price, about J4c high.-r. Holiday in Liverpool. JJo not look for much change in prices. Receipts hogs: Chicago IS. 000, Kansas City 7.011U, Omaha S.uoO. Chicago receipts: "Vheat 15 cars, grade 0: corn 1,231 cars, grade Sbl; oats 5o7 curs, grade S2. Visible supply: Wheat decreased 2,447. 000 bu.; corn increased 1,505,000 bu. oata increased 45f.OO0 bu. Total visible: "Wheat 24.4W.O0O bu.; corn 14.000.000 bu.: oats 9.429,000 bu. Chicago: Corn is very strong this morning and will do to buy on reaction. Heavy trade in Sugar is for insi(U-rs. The tip is out to buy it for 125. Market very strong at the advance. Chicago: There is o.uite a demand for cash corn and shippers are picking up quite a line. Chicago estimated receipts for tomor row: Wheat S cars, corn 975 cars, oatu 4yi cars, hogs 3o.0f") head. Export four ports: Wheat 73. M5, flour 2$. 624, corn 41,353. oats 131,973, wheat and tiour equal 190.UO0. Puts July wheat 70iifj 70Kic calls July wheat fiSlftiStic: puts July corn 241'4c, caiis 247bc: puts July pork $7.57, calls $7.77. Chicago stocks grain: Wheat 5.041.00 bu.: corn 6.S19.0U0 bu. oats l.S33.'iO0 bu. Sugar, Gas and Leather should be bought. Sugar and Coffee. New Y'ork. June 8. SUGAR Raw, firm; refined firm; gran ulated 40. COFFEE Quiet: No. 7, 7-kc. Today's Sange of Prices. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission Co., Brokers in Grain. Provfsioii9 and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Ivan. Articles 6p;n';High! Low ;Cl'se'Yes. WHEAT 1 i I I I June 69 I 69-HI 6!H! Julv 67iii 67. CjV Sept 644i l!3, t4-; Iec 60 i 67 I .J'-: 67 I CORN ifi Juno 24'i! 24i 2P,j 241-.I July 24V, 27. I 24S,; 24L: Sept 25S 2siUi -Sr''4) -'j OATS l June 1741 17'i! 17-! 17 Julv li's, li4j 1V- Sept 18V1 lSUl li'si l!'-; PORK 1 I I June 7 651 7 65; 7 65: 7 65, Julv 7 75 7 77; 7 67 7 6,; Sept 7 SOj 7 7 Iji 7 7.: LA RO I I I I June 3 50 3 50; 3 50' 3 50 Julv 3 57 3 fin; 3 55; 3 75, S.-p't 3 67i 3 70; 3 J3i 3 65, RIBS I I I I 1 June I 4 27; 4 271 4 27 1 4 2,; July 4 25; 4 4 25; 4 27; Sept I 4 32 4 35 i 4 201 4 32,...., Kanga of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission Co., Brokers in Gram. Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka, Kan.: Stocks. jOp'n :Highj Low jCl'se; Yes. Sugar 1 IIS 12234 rllV12? llSi .SS1-' s57'8 72' ai 71V 72; 72 1'V 10',-,! TV 1! 33',; 32 i 32'H 32'i 5V; 56';;i ;,s1b 56;8 lWV 16' V I61V 29V 2SV 2SV 29-4 79V 7S-4I 7-; 79-, 69s! SvV 6SV 69-", 77V 77V 77V. 77-4 11V ll'V ll5 12' SX I 87 S,7'' s74 80V 79 I 7'V 17V, 16'2! 17 j li'-i 14V H I HV 34 7 6V, 7 7U iiov 110 1 iiovn'v lfi! VJOV TV l'Xi-4 169V 169 I 169 ,K-9 20 V 2") 20',' 2'i'i 77 i 76 V 7h-'4 77 104V l'!4Vi 101:-4 IOTA I 5SV 7.X 1 r,x i ."vi, 21 V 20 Vi 21 I 21V S;"-; sv. i 27V 27V 27V 27', 4SV 4S 4V.s; 49 t hleago liiis Am. Tobacco Am. Spirits E. G. E Leather ('on. Gas M. K. T. Pfd C. li. Q Rock Island C, M. St. P. Atchison Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific Wabash I'n. Pacific C. N. W N. Y. C Lake Shore Reading eJr. Central IX H Omaha T. C. I No. Pac. Pfd.. Pacific Mail L. N 71 Vi

32; .VJ1; loo-V 29 7i ?y ll"sl 871.4 1 79 v., i i6'-;i 14t '-'8 i 110V: 100'vi 169'uj 2"1i! 76'j 104' a I V 21-xl 3V; 27vsi 4S12i W. A. KICniEL COMSISSiOS CO., HO Wral SixtU ATfnne, Telephone 669. Topeka, Kan. A. W. WICK1IA, Manager. Grain, Provisions, Stoclrs You can buy or sell anything dealt in on the principal exchange of the country through us. Direct wires. Quick ecrv ieu. Reasonable margins. Orders by wire, let ter or telephone promptly executed. Ref erence bv permission, CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK. Topeka, Kansas, UNTOX NATIONAL BANK. Kansas Cily. Mo. Kansas City office, first floor Exchanga building. We have same service and re sponsibility as Kansas City office.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1897. The State Journal TWENTY-FOURTH TEAR. BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or f tiburbs. or at the same price in any Kan eas town where this paper has a carrier system. By mail, three months 90 By mail, one year 3.60 Weekly edition, one year 50 PERMANENT HOME Topeka State Journal Building, S00 and 802 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business Office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters" Room Bell 'Phone 107 TCew York address: 2(XS Potter Buildinf, care American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, w here files of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. XJ.AXXXJ.AXa.XJ-J.J.J.J.XJ.J-AX4.J.J- JUNE 1897. 1 Frl. SaL 4 5 it 18 19 I 2526l Thur, 10 17 24

fffrWfTffT-l Weather Indications. Chicajro.Jure S. For Kansas Cloudy and warmer tonipht; Wednesday show ers, southerly winds. AMONG KANSAS EDITORS. John A. Reynolds of the Newton Re publican plaintively writes: "It is hard to he wise on an empty stomach." But his' paper doesn't look like he meant It. Will White has been "called" by a Xt?w York magazine to write up Bos ton and its supposed superior culture. William, undoubtedly, will discover the fact that Emporia has a larger ratio of cultured people than Boston. Alva Sheldon has discovered a man whose life was saved by a Bible. He says: The man truly and really lives at Pleasantou, and he has the Bible to prove it. A rebel bullet passed nearly through the book and then glanced off and wounded him severely, but if it had not been for the book the bullet would have gone straight through his heart. V.r. T. Morgan is tired of boarding, as he announces with a triumphant air: "Mrs. W. Y. Morgan is home from a long visit, and we are glad of it." H. Clay Park, one of the veteran Kansas editors in terms of service. Is developing a field that is somewhat unique. Many of his short stories and sketches are appearing in the newspa pers of the tourvtry. These articles are peculiar to themselves. They might be termed fictitious facts or factitious fiction. Park's imagination is lively, but of a harmless vein. While he takes as a basis for some of his tales a queer or unusual Kansas event, he makes a readable story. Among the headings to the items are the following: "Otto Schaffer, the Man-Woman Soldier," "Freaks of the Cyclone," "Prehistoric Honey," "Funerals That Impress an Undertaker" and the "Reunion of Stella and Carl Meier After Many Years' Sep aration." Arthur Capper is receiving many complimentary notices about the sol dier edition of the Mail and Breeze. Few editors are more devoted to their papers than Marsh Murdock of the Wichita Kagle. He properly prefers his newspaper to any official position and is not an office seeker. Some time ago it was generally printed that Mr. Murdock was in Washington after a Mexican consulship. There was no truth in the publication. He -was not in Washington, and has not been there for years and has no ambitions to be a consul. In the first place he knows it would not be good policy to abandon his life work on the Eagle and the next place it would not pay. No consulship for Marsh. 3SR. GAGE'S CURRENCY PLAN. Those who have indulged in specula tion regarding the probable monetary policy of the administration need do so no longer, if the information tele graphed from Washington is correct. Secretary Gage has a plan of currency reform which may safely be regarded as having the approval of the president or It would not have been promulgated. The president and the secretary of the treasury having agreed upon a scheme for placing the currency of the country upon what they consider a sound basis, the next move is to obtain the approval of the banking and mer cantile interests, and for this purpose the secretary has sent a circular letter to 2.000 members of these two classes of citizens inviting suggestions on the matter. He will doubtless get the sort of suggestions he desires. The basis of the proposed currency reform is the retirement of the green backs and the treasury notes and the substitution therefor of notes issued by the national banks. The banks are to be permitted to issue currency to the full value of their bonds, half ot which may be state and municipal bonds, and they are to pay no tax on their circulation. With these additional advantages the stockholders will perhaps be able at least to keep the wolf from the door. In order, however, to render their abil ity to keep their heads above water less problematical, it ip proposed to al tow the- large institutions, those with. 41 Sun. Hon. Tua. Wed. -f "fi 12 in H is 16 j 20 IT 22 23 3 27" 23 29 30 f sufficient capital to do so, to establish branch banks throughout the country, thus laying the foundation for a trust or monopoly which will lay all other organizations of that character, in the shade. This plan, as outlined, the peeretary wlll present to Congress at the Decem ber session and ask that body to enact legislation in accordance therewith. In the meantime the secretary has begun preparations for putting it in execution by holding in the vaults of the treasury all the government notes which find their way into Uncle Sam's till. There is little in the programme that is new. Something practically along the same line has been advocated for years and the country might have had It in operation long ago, only the people didn't seem to be educated up to it. It was the latter consideration which in duced Mr. Cleveland to undertake his famous course of instruction through the medium of a. series of "object les sons." Put into practice, the plan would ob viate the necessity of maintaining a gold reserve, and would leave no ex cuse for future issuance of bonds. Chief among the objectionable feat ures would be the placing of the control of the volume of currency wholly in the hands of a few people, who would al most certainly organize a bankers' trust. In addition to this would be the danger of loss in a time of panic from a currency based in part on state and municipal securities, which might be come worthless. GJ-.OBE SIGHTS. Many a guarantee is not good. Time, which vindicates a man, first buries him. Very few girls under twenty are old enough to be polite. Some people laugh like amateur sing ers trying to run the scale. You can't keep Atchison out of the public eye. It has a barber who cuts his own hair. A man would rather look at a photo graph of himself than at the finest painting on earth. Susette Wilkins, formerly of Atchi son, is now- an actress. Anyway, she ran off, and nobody knows where she is. After a man has been sick as long as three weeks, his wife, who nurses him. looks as if she had been sick six years. A man never knows how drearily time can lag until he is with people who say nothing but good of other peo ple. After a man discovers how little he knows, he begins to suspect that possi bly others do not know as much as they pretend. There is nothing in environment: one of the most successful amateur artists Atchison ever had, had his studio over a meat market. The happiest expression to be found is on a woman's face when she is going away from home. A woman always enjoys a trip more than a man. The fortunate people in this world are those who have at least one friend In whose presence they can blow their own horns without discouragement. j The newspaper compliments of a bride's beauty and the groom's business ability, are the first things to make them wonder if they haven't thrown themselves away. An Atchison girl who has been a so ciety belle for ten years, has assisted at every reception given during that time, and acted as bridesmaid to twenty-nine friends. She works as hard as any coal miner. An Atchison woman relates that she once attended an afternoon reception when the weather was dark and threat ening. One woman guest, being unable to say, "It is a fine day." said "O. these restful gray skies," twenty-five times. BRYAN BILLS UNPAID. Mayor Fellows and E. B. McKeever Called Upon to Put Up $44. Mayor Charles Fellows and Repre sentative E. D. McKeever, the Repub lican members of the committee which was appointed by the legislature to ar range for Bryan's visit to Topeka in February, have been compelled to as sume the payment of bills amounting to J44, which the Populists have re fused to pay, although Mr. Bryan's speech was solicited and he was invit ed by the Populist majority of the leg islature to come to Topeka. The principal part of the claim, $24, is for the rent of chairs which were placed in Representative hall. Some weeks ago Mayor Fellows and Mr. McKeever took the unpaid bills to Chairman Breidenthal. Mr. Breiden thal did not pay the bills, and one of the Populist brethren took them to Governor Leedy with the request that the contingent fund be used. This the governor declined to do, but said he would contribute his proportion of the fund necessary to pay the bills. The local business men who hold the bills became indignant at the delay and raised a clamor, to which Mr. Fellows and Mr. McKeever responded by agree ing to settle the bills by July 1. HE HANGED MAXWELL, And Now Michael Fortin of St Louis, is Insane. St. Louis, June 8. Michael Fortin, the man who hanged Walter Lennox Maxwell, the slayer of C. Arthur Prel ler. lias been taken to the insane asy lum, his mind having gone wrong from constant brooding over what was one of the most notable coses ever tried in St. Louis. Fortin is well known in St. Louis and the county, havin? filled various po sitions here before the county and city separated. ePasv to Take Lrzsasy to Operate Are features peculiar to Hood's Pills. Small in size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one man ijr said: You never know you r hatrA f 1-u .1 ..III till if i. oil I over." 25c. C. I. Hood Co., L Pronrfptora. T.nwp11 Ma!5- The only pills to take with Hood's SarsapariUa. 'PHONE WAR COMING. Independent Companies and the Bell Preparing for a Fight. New York, June 8. Whether a citi zen of the United States may maintain, operate or use any telephone without first having made arrangements with the American Bell Telephone company is the new phase of an old question that the telephone monopoly is about to bring before the courts. A quarter of a million users of independent tele phones are concerned in its solution, as possible defendants in as many law suits. The fiercest of all telephone wars will be precipitated by these suits. They will be brought against subscribers and not against the independent companies operating in opposition to the American Bell company. That such suits have been contemplated is known ,to many of the independent companies, and since they threaten the existence of ev ery one of them, an extraordinary defensive movement has been begun. Conventions are being held, funds sub scribed, and plans laid to defeat the monopoly wherever these suits are brought before the courts. The filing of papers in these suits has been de ferred on account of the two suits for infringement of the Berliner patents now pending against the National Tel ephone company and the Century Tele phone company, both of Boston. At conventions which have been held in several cities, Chicago among them, action has been taken which is con strued to foreshadow the incorporation of a general telephone company to com pete with the American Bell company. The most important of the develop ments in the anti-Bell movement is in Boston, where the headquarters of the new company is likely to be. Acting for a large number of the independent exchanges. Messrs. Whitman Couch issued on May 25 a circular letter call ing for a meeting to be held soon in Boston to organize against the Bell mo nopoly. CLEVELAND WAS PLEASED. He Complimented the Princeton Ball Players for Beating Harvard. New York, June 8. Ex-President Cleveland last evening complimented the under-graduates of Princeton on their success over Harvard in base ball. It was about 10 o'clock in the evening and Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland were on the front veranda of their house enter ta;ning friends, when the students crowded around, beating drums and cheering for Princeton and for the for mer president. Mr. Cleveland asked, "What's the jood news, boys?" "Princeton won, two to nothing," was the reply. "Delighted to hear it," said Mr.Cleve land. "I felt sure of it myself. I would propose to cheer for Princeton. Al though I am unable to catch or pitch for you, I still have the Princeton spirit and my interest is always in behalf of Princeton." SNARING ANTELOPE. Kansas Hunters Get Into Trouble in Colorado. Denver, June 8. Game Warden Mc Lean returned from Kit Carson yester day, having been unsuccessful in his search for the antelope hunters. He re ports that the party consisted of seven or eight men from Karsas and when seen they had alrndv captured two fawns and were looking fo- more. The cow men threatened them with arrest, and it is boIivod that they took the hint and slid back to Kansas. Mr. McLean appointed J. O. Murphy of Kit Carson as a spojial deputy and left the matter in his nanjs. FOR NEW YORK POOR. Baroness de Hirsch Sends an Install ment of $250,CO). New York, June 8. Myer S. Isaacs, president of the Baron de Hirsch fund, has received a. draft for $250,000, the first installment of the $1,000,000 given by the Baroness de Hirsch for the ben efit of the poor of this city. Nothing has as yet been definitely decided by the trustees of the Hirsch fund as to the manner in which this additional million will be used. Mr. Isaacs said that the money would be used to im prove the conditions of the poor of New York in any way which experience should dictate. The work now being done with the funds given will be extended and an effort made to better the condition of the tenement house dwellers. Mr. Isaacs and his co-workers are fully alive to the danger of forcing charity on people and also to the necessity of extreme care in selecting those worthy of assistance. Most of the direct aid is distributed through the medium of trade schools supported by the Hirsch fund. GOLD IN TERRA DEL FUEGO Americans Find the Yellow Metal in Paying Quantities, New York, June 8. A dispatch to the Herald from Buenos Ay res says: The American expedition which has been exploring in Terra Del Fuego has been successful in finding gold in quan tities which will yield a large profit for the working. A syndicate with a large amount of capital has been formed for the ex portation of wheat. It is believed that with the material aid furnished them by the government the farmers will be able to raise an extensive crop. B. O. Summer Book. The Baltimore Ohio railroad has just issued a very handsome book for summer travel, describing the mountain resorts, springs and baths located on and adja cent to its lines; also the various water ing places on the Atlantic coast. The routes for reaching them are set forth in a comprehensive and clear manner. Tha book is printed on fine paper, beautifully illustrated, and will prove of valuable as sistance to parties contemplating a sum mer tour. Copies can be had by applying to var ious B. O. agents or by sending 10 cents in stamps to cover postage to J. M. Schryver, General Passenger Agent, Bal timore, Md. 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 me more good than any medicine I ever took." Sold by Swift Holliday. drug gists, 523 Kansas avenue. Topeka. Beggs' Little Giant Pills cures Con stipation, Sick Headache, and the many other complaints caused by indigestion. Druggists sell them. Crescent Bicycles, Kitchell Marburg. BRIDE DESCENDED LADDER In This Way Miss Lewi3 Escaped a Party of Rice Throwers. Plainfield, N. J., June S. Benjamin F. Langworthy of Chicago, who v. as best man at the marriage of Miss Louise Augusta Lewis to James Kverett Kim ball in the Seventh Day Baptist church last night, devised a way whereby the couple evaded a parly of a hundred young people who awaited thoir coining with rice, old shoes, and other tokens of good luck. At the door of lh? car riage that it was supposed was to cany them from the home of the bride to the station of the Central railroad of New Jersey the couple's friends had prepar ed the nuptial hazing, which was to be complete in every detail, but they wast ed their efforts. Langworthy put up a ladder from the back yard to a second 'itory window, and when the time came for them to depart for the train the coup!-? descend ed the ladder to the ground. They were then conducted to another carriage that had not been bedecked with white rib bons and other tokens signifying the presence of a newly married couple, and they were on the train speo:in;. tovvard Beach Croft, Mass., where they are to spend their honeymoon, before their merry friends discovered that they had been fooled. I. 0. 0. F. OFFICERS. W. L. Brown of Kingman is Elected Grand Master. The grand officers of the Kansas I. O. O. F., nominated in October and elected by a mail vote for the ensuing year are as follows: Grand master W. L. Brown of King man. Deputy grand master A. S. Kemper, Louisville. Grand treasurer L. G. Beal, Topeka. Grand representative J. A. Campbell of Severance. Grand warden Rev. John A. Bright, Topeka. Grand Secretary D. W. Kent.Hutch inson. The vote for the various candidates was as follows: Grand master W. L. Brown of King man, 1,372; J. A. Colaw of Chanute, 1, 161; T. C. Frazier of Coffey ville. 374. Grand warden J. W. Haughey of Wellington, 672: John A. Bright of To peka, 1.26!!; J. P. Chumlea of Hartford, 242; W. H. Lemon of Olathe, 213; J. F. Wayland of Washington, 474. Grand secretary Will J. Russell of Kansas City. 27P; E. C. Whitcher of Concordia, 119; H. C. Stevens of To peka. 26fi; W. P. Peter of Larned, 61; Ed T. Rees of Leavenworth, 421: S. H. Kelsey of Atchison. 36S: Geo. F. Dewey of Manhattan. 138; D. W. Kent of Hutchinson, 1.249. MOUNTAINS SLIPPED DOWN A Cloud Burst in France Causes Ruin and Desolation. Paris. June 8. The latest reports from Grenoble, in the department of Izere, show that a cloudburst has caus ed the river to overflow its banks. The deluge of water caused enormous land slides of trees and sand from the moun tains Into the valley, overwhelming houses, burying cattle and destroying other property. In many villages the fleeing inhabitants left everything be hind them. Almost all the riverside factories were destroyed and no fewer than 500 workshops were wrecked. All the bridges are gone and the streets are filled with debris from the factories and shops, bales of cloth, rolls of silk and similar manufactured products, while the roads of the town and the district around about are completely choked with shrubs and trees, with great washouts. Voiron is without gas, as the gas works have been destroyed. Along the whole valley the crops are completely destroyed and the farms are all more or less damaged. TAVO CLAIM A GRAVE. Each Insists That Her Child is Buried Under the Same Mound. Pittsburg, June 8. Mrs. Stephen Mer cer of Bellevue and Mrs. W. T. Hurst of Allegheny have children buried in Bellevue cemetery. On Tuesday of last week Mrs. Hurst was planting flowers on one of the graves when Mrs. Mercer ordered her to desist. "That's my child's grave," said Mrs. Mercer The sexton was called, and said the grave was that of Mrs. Hurst's babv. He explained that Mrs. Hurst's child had been buried between two graves belonging to Mrs. Mercer. A few days afterwards Mrs. Mercer again visited the cemetery, accompa nied by two men, and had three graves opened. She identified the corpses of her children by their shoes and depart ed satisfied. The Hursts have demanded an invest igation by the trustees. COLORED FAMILY WON. Gov. Dye Forsook the Whites and Left His Fortune Elsewhere. Elberton, Ga June 8. By formal act today the mulatto family of the late ex Governor George W. Dye came into possession of his estate.sald to be worth $500,000. Dye belonged to one of the largest slave-owning families in the south. Having been jilted by the daugh ter of a neighbor.he forsook white com panions, and retiring to his estate, de voted himself to cotton planting. When he died some years ago $40,000 in gold was found in a sack under the pillow on which his head rested when he died, and another larg? sum was found in another place. His will left all to his negro famiiv. Hi3 white kins people have tried to break the will. Thousands of Cattle Released. Washington, June 8. Senator Ky'.e has procured an order for the release of cattle held for redemption on Pine Ridge Indian reservation, which proba bly will apply to other reservations where similar conditions exist. During the storms of the late winter and spring cattle strayed from adjoining ranges to the reservations, and squaw .men have demanded a dollar a head for their release, much to the disgust and annoy ance of the cattle owners. Sorg Will Conte3t With McLean. Cincinnati. June 8. The Times-Star publishes an interview with Congress man Paul J. Sorg, in which he officially announces his candidacy for United States senator in the event that the Democrats secure a majority of the members of the next legislature. The only other candidate is John R. Mc Lean, proprietor of the Cincinnati En quirer. Boston's Big Funded Debt Boston, June S. The annual report of the city auditor shows that the city's funded debt has increased steadily, now amounting to $49,993,326. on. which the annual interest is $2,082,000. $22.50 to California For Christian Endeavorers and for Everyone else. If you are going, now is the time to prepare. The shortest and best way is via Santa Fe. Inquire A-., T. S. F. agent for particulars. WESTINGHOUSE WORKERS. T. J. Tarsney's Letter on the Tearing Down of McKinley Posters. Denver, June 8. The following letter from ex-Adjutant General Tarsney was sent to a number of those engaged in the recent troubles at the Westinghouse Air Brake works at Wilmerding, Pa., at the time of their discharge from the service of that company: "Dear Sir The Associated Press dis patches bring us information in regard to your recent action on the occasion of your discharge from the service of the Westingrhouse Air Brake company. We of the west sympathize with you in the loss of your situations and fully realize what it means to you and to those depen dent on you for support, and as sufferers in common with you and from the same cause, feel that the bonds of sympathy between you and our own unemployed are strengthened by having drunk of the bit ter draught from the same chalice. The picture said to have been torn down by you on the occasion above referred to. showing Major McKinley pulling aside a curtain that hid from view a mill in full operation has. It is stated, been discover ed by you to be a 'fake.' The action of the company in dismissing you from Its service was the drawing aside of the cur tain that hid from view the deception, fraud, coercion and other questionable methods resorted toby the money changers of the country for the purpose of secur ing your aid in electing to the presidency of the United States a man whose attitude on the great questions which were be fore the people in that campaign, ought to have satisfied any reasoning person that he stood for all these things that tend to debase manhood and womanhood and labor, and that has brought desti tution, want and suffering to our people from ocean to ocean. "The appeal for your support of Major McKinley was an appeal to your passion and cupidity, and not to your reason. I may be permitted to suggest that in fu ture you be more guarded In your meth ods of disapproval of existing conditions than you were on the occasion above re ferred to, as such a course if persisted in, might leave you open to the charge of being possessed of anarchistic tenden cies. This term of anarchist, you recall you held In abhorrence at the time you were marching in the parades that pre ceded the 4th of November, 1S96. "Mr. Westinghouse did not discharge you because lie wanted to, but for the reason that your labor underexisting con ditions could not be made profitable to him. Mr. Westinghouse cannot get or ders for the product of your labor so long as the spectacle is presented of one- half the rolling stock of the railroads west of the Mississippi rusting in idle ness on the side tracks. It is evident that Mr. Westinghouse will soon discover that under existing conditions his works cannot be made a source from which div idends are created, and so of all manu facturing plants in the east. They will discover that the mints of the country must be open to the coinage of both gold and silver before the mills can open and run in filling orders for their product. Your passion and prejudice have been ap pealed to in the past. Let me now appeal to your reason. I send you in this mail a little wc-.k on bimetallism bearing that title. "I beg to express the hope that it will be a long time before the air brake will again be applied to check the speedy re turn of prosperity. "T. J. TARSNEY." TETOED 4 BILLS AT ONCE. Governor Culberson Breaks the Texas Record. Austin, Tex., June 8. Governor Culber son yesterday did something unprecedented In Texas legislative circles by vetoing at once four bills passed at the regular ses sion of the legislature recently closed. During this session he vetoed sixteen bills more than any previous governor has ever negatived, and today he added four more to the list. The most important bill vetoed today Is a general occupation tax bill, which sought to tax everybody and every in dustry in the state to increase the reve nues. The governor says that while the object of the bill is commendable, he must veto it because It would authorize the circulation- of obscene literature, sanc tion gambling by pool selling and legalize the fire insurance companies now operat ing in the state and which have lately been prosecuted. He also vetoed a bill making it a felony to steal cotton of the value of $20 or over. The bill is vetoed on the grounds that it would increase the cost of felony business in the state while no material benefit would be de rived. The other two measures vetoed were of more local and less important character. SCOLDED JUSTICE HARLAN. A Conductor Reprimands Him for Spitting on the Car Floor. Washington, June 8. Justice John M. Harlan of the United States supreme court is an inveterate chewer of tobacco. Washington has a law prohibiting spit ting in street cars. Justice Harlan boarded a car today. He expectorated at a knot hole in the floor. "Hi there!" shouted the conductor, "this thing has to be stopped. We have warned you enough. Now we have got to make an example of some of you." "What did you say?" innocently in quired Justice Harlan. The conductor seemed provoked at the inquiry. "Why, can't you see that sign up there?" he shouted, pointing to the sign of warning. "It is liable to cost you just $10 to spit in this car." "Oh, I see; you must pardon me," said the justice. "I will," replied the conductor, "this time, but you had better be more careful the next time." The conductor did not know who Judge Harlan was. Locusts Attack a Farmer. Riverhead.L. I., June 8. Norton Ray nor, a farmer, came to Riverhead today to notify the farmers of th3 arrival of the seven-year locust. He was driving in from Manor to Calverton this after noon, and when midway between the two farming districts he ran into a swarm of locusts. They attacked Ray nor and his horse and completely ob scured the sun as would a. big cloud. Terrible Accident It is a terrible ac cident to be burned or scalded; but the pain and the agony and the frightful disfigurements can be quickly overcome without leaving a scar by using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. George W. Stansfleld, 632 Kansas avenue. I I i 1 1 U i L- .Vegetable Preparationfof As similating deyoodanflRegula ling the Stomachs ancLBowels of Promote s DigestionXheer ful nessandRest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Not. NAaac otic. Jdtcy orOldErSXM. Anttt Sect iHCartanaUSmtm ffnm Seed Aperfeef Hemedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions Jeverish ness and Loss OF SLEEB Tac Simile Signature of N"EW "YORK. 1 1 3 i I EXACT COPT CF WBAPFEB. M 3 HI. iV The Western Foundry 0 Machine Works.... .Established 1875. The only place in the a complete Power Plant to a Set Collar from stock Get Prices Hefore Topeka, Kan. R L. COFRAN, Proprietor. DiRT DEFIES THE IS GREATER THAM 51 k PO 1 rescott I 118 West Eighth Street. We sell More Gas Stoves Than any Other Firm. Send, for Catalogue. I JPlumhing HEATING LIGHTING UP-TO-DATE The Season To start with we open a carload of The Henney Buggy Co.'s Vehicles, Also a carload of The I Troy Surreys, and Phaetons. We guarantee the vehicles to be as good as any on the road. We're sold '"em" erer since va have been In business in Topeka and we know what they are. Tne Prices on these Buggies and Surreys are way down this year way below our expectations and yeu can't tell anything about them unless you see them. It's a pleasure to us to show you 2 and quote prices. WlRfUE'R POTTER, CARRIAGE REPOSITORY ITXOER BAHI1TS3 HALL. eX con THAT THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OR IS ON THE WRAPPER OF EVERY BOTTLE OF IS 1 1 Caitoria is put tip in on-ize bottles only. It is not sold in balk. Don't allow anyone to sell yon anything alas oa the plea or promise that it is "just as good" and "trill answer every pur pose." a- Bee that yon gat C-A-S-T-O-B-I-A. Tlefto- Biaile STJT fTTL Hen c Formerly Topeka Foundry Machine Works. Estab. 1865 city where yon can get from a Steam Engine Purchasing JElservJiere. KING." THEN ROYALTY ITSELP We have the Largest and Best Stock of Gas Stoves j in Kansas. f See them Before You buy. is Just Open. n U A VY- mim J

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TOPE K A STATE JOURNAL,, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1S97. 5 0 Davis Kick, I 5 i REVIOUS to our removal to No. 103 a East Sixth street, which will occur in a short time, we offer a few goods which we wan"; to close out at very low prices. These are all first-class goods, hut we have to many of tlipm THEY ARE "VERY CHEAP. a 22 lbs Granulated Sugar. $1.00 fts C Sugar l.OO Arbuekle Coffee, per pkg.. .11 I. ion Coffee, per pkg .11 X 1 Salt, per barrel 90 j ;ullon Apples, per can .15 ft 3 lb can Baked Beans, per can .05 j) Best Sugar Cured Hams, i per lb lO Evaporated Apricots, per lb .05 8 lbs Evaporated Pears.... .25 1 gallon Milk Crackers...... .05 Our Line of OUEENSWARE AND I GLASSWARE J We Will Sell At Cost. If there is anything 4 among these goods you t can use, they are very cheap, and it will pay you to buy them of us. S2S Kansas Ave, J North Tonrtcn; For Rent and .For frale. Camping Outfits. Awnings. Etc., at 215 Kansas Avenue. KAASAS TOT 1D 11TA1YG CO"! Telephone 612. PROGRESS OF TILE BRIDGE. The Contractors Expect to Complete it by November 1. The new Melan arch bridge at the Kan sas rivtr. which Keepers fe Thacher are erecting is being rapidly built so that it may be completed before cold weather comes. All but one of the piers have been completed, the wooden arch forms have been finished and will be in place in a day or two, and the north and south abut: merits have been rounded off. 'The island in the center of the river will soon be taken away and the dirt used in mak ing the fills at either end of the bridge. There will be five arches in the new bridge. Work was delayed on the last of the piers on account of the coffer dam leak ing. Kut the work has been gotten in hand and the concrete is being driven into It. For each pier 100 piles are driven in to the bottom of the coffer dam. Around these the soft cement and concrete is poured and when this hardens it makes a foundation of strength and rigidity. Contractor Keepers thinks that the bridge will be completed by November 1. He says it will be in shape for people to walk over and use by September 20. After the concrete has thoroughly hardened iu:d dried a brick roadway will be laid. It has been deemed advisable to Increase the width of the roadway on the bridge and narrow the sidewalks. Instead of two seven foot walks it is proposed to rnnke It two five foot walks, thereby add li K four feet to the width of the road way. mm li Absolutely Pure Celebrated for Its. great leavening ftrength and healthfulness. Assures th food against alum and all forms of adul teration common to the cheap brands. F.ojal Baking Powder Co,, New York. El IE m llilOEa XT rr T A A THIS WONT DO AT ALL. A Secret Session to Select Au ditorium Plans. The People Are to Do the Pay ing for It And They Want to Enow All About the Deliberations of the City Council on the Auditori um Drop These Star Chamber Ideas. For some unknown reason the city council ha3 decided to hold an executive session tonight to consider the auditor i ium plans. j The question came up last night in the form of a resolution to approve the plans acecpted by the auditorium aso j eiation. The report was made by Coun oilmen Nettels and Warner who are j members of the association to repre i sent the council. Councilman Drew suggested that the plans approved be brought before the council for examination. Councilman Burgess moved to hold a special executive meeting to consider the plans next Monday evening. It was Anally agreed to hold the meeting tonight. But two plans have been presented. One by J. P. Stanton and the other by L. M. Wood. It was evident that Stan ton's plans would be adopted and Mr. Wood then withdrew and made a new set. The association refused to accept the second plans submitted and adopted Stanton's plans. Then Wood sattl the association had no authority anyhow and he had his new plans at the coun cil last night for submission. The people will not approve of the secret session plan of disposing of this matter. The bulk of the money must be raised by subscriptions among the people and the city council should act above board in whatever is done. Let the people know what is done as long as they are the ones who are going to pay for the auditorium. USING TOPEKA BRICK For the Pavements Council Decides to Hold a Club in Readiness. There was a clash in the city coun cil last night over the brick sidewalk specifications. City Engineer Barnes' specifications read "to be constructed of Shawnee county vitrified brick or others equally as good." Councilman Drew moved to strike out "others equally as good," so that no other brick can be used. Councilman Skinner was on his feet at once primed to the muzzle. "I would like to have the gentleman," said he, "give me one or two substantial reasons w hy that should be done. I am as much in favor of patronizing home industries as anyone, but I am at a loss to under stand why it is necessary to limit the specifications in the manner suggested. That was in the specifications last year and Topeka brick were used." I will give my reasons," said Coun cilman Drew. "First, they make a brick in southern Kansas that is burned with crude oil or gas and I believe they can be put down here for about 50 cents per 1,000 cheaper than our folks can sell them. But tiiough the brick appear to be all right on the surface if they are broken open it will be found that there is a soft core inside. They won't stand ftost. Another reason is that I do not believe in going out of Shawnee county for what we can get here. If our brick aie not used for pavements and side walks here they will have to shut down and that means more men out of work." Councilman Elliott said that he had examined southern Kansas brick at Junction City and he found that they were soft in the center. He said the workmen told him they would not do for pavement but were all right for building. Councilman Nettles said he was in fa vor of home industries but he did not believe it wise to fix the specifications so there would be no competition. South ern Kansas brick are used for paving in Kansas City and have the best possi ble endorsements. Councilman Mergan said there w-as danger of fixing the specifications so the Topeka firms could compel the con tractors to take brick at a higher price than usual. The Drew amendment was lost by the following vote: Aye: Drew, Burgess, Elliott; no: Skinner, Pattison, Mergan, Nettels, Warner, Roundtree; absent: Stephenson. BUILD THE SEWER. Another Cry for Belief From the Citi zens of the First Ward. E. S. McClintock and others called the attention of the council to the sanitary condition of Park, Morse, Central ave nue, Jackson and Van Buren streets. The petitioners say in their commun ication: "A former city engineer by a great feat of civil engineering graded the paved portion of Kansas avenue and Jackson street so that all water falling on that part of said streets is discharged at the comer of Jackson and Morse streets but he failed to pro vide for carrying the water any furth er, nor has any complete plan ever been put into operation since. Gunn's canal does not do the work. After each hard rain storm the gutters become filled with water -which lies stagnant until it becomes a menace to the health of the people of this ward. This condition has existed for a long time and grows more serious, and we demand some means of relief and look to you to pro-vide it." The sewer question in North Topeka Is at a standstill. The communication was referred to the committee on health. BAD WALKS. Another Claim for Damages for Fall ing on a Sidewalk. Mrs. Annie M. Lanham presented a claim for $200 for personal injuries re ceived from falling on a sidewalk an the north side of Tenth avenue near Topeka avenue. The attorneys claim she is permanently injured and is en titled to $5,000 damages but to avoid a law suit an offer is made to settle for $200. The claim was referred to the com mittee on judiciary. PETITIONS FOB SIDEWALKS. The Condemned List Presented Form ally Last Nijfht With Others. I. A. Strauss and others presented a petition for new sidewalks in front of lots 33, 34. 35, 36. 37, 38, 39 and 40, Fif teenth street, and side of lot 625, Clay street, and 626 Buchanan street. T. C. Adams and others petitioned for new walks on the north side of Second avenue from Walnut street to Elm street. The condemned list of walks In the various wards reported by the sidewalk inspector was presented in the form of petitions. All communications in reference to walks were referred to the committee on streets and walks. BONDS APPBOVED. The Banks File Their Bonds to Pro tect the City Fund. The following bonds were received and approved: First National bank as city deposi tory. Amount. $50,000. Sureties: F. E. Holliday, M. Snattinger, P. G. Noel and Wm. Sims. Merchants National bank. Amount, $100,000. Sureties: C. K. Holliday, B. M. Payne, Kobert Pierce, W. A. L. Thompson, F. G. Willard, W. W. Mans peaker, Wm. XV. Mills. Central National bank as city depos itory. Amount, $00,000. Sureties: P. I. Bonebrake, Edwin Knowles, H. P. Dil lon, Charles J. Devlin, Thomas A. Qs born, A. S. Johnson. W. H. Barnes as city engineer. Amount, $1,000. Surety: The American Bonding and Trust company, of Balti more. A. W. Brown as city scavenger. Amount, $500. Sureties: S. Cunning ham and F. M. Newland. CHEAP SIDEWALKS. The estimate of City Engineer Barnes for new brick sidewalks for 1S97 was presented and approved. It is the low est ever made, $5.75 per 100 square feet for six-foot walks, and $5.90 for walks of less width. SKINNER PERSISTENT. Councilman Skinner last night re newed his old fight on the office of com missioner of elections. He introduced a resolution requesting the supervisors or elections to reduce the allowance for clerk hire from $600 to $200 per annum. The resolution was passed without op position. WILL IT GO? By a resolution introduced by Coun cilman Drew last night, the street com missioner was instructed to take down the Ninth street viaduct. This will re sult in a lawsuit, as the Vinewood Park Railway company, which owns the via duct, does not want it taken down. A similar resolution was passed several weeks ago, but nothing was done. WANT NO SIDEWALK. W. W. Webb and twenty others pre sented a protest against building side walk on the west side of Chandler street north from Crane street to Gree ley street. The protest went to the committee on streets and walks. REPAIRS ON CITY HALL. J. W. Mergen, of the committee on buildings, reported that the committee had inspected the roof of the city build ing, and decided that it requires paint ing and repairing. The matter was re ferred back to the committee with power to act. TO REPAIR NINTH STREET. The city engineer presented an esti mate of $1,737.96 for repairing the Ninth street pavement. The estimate and specifications were approved. THE APPROPRIATIONS. The appropriation ordinance passed shows the following amounts: General revenue fund J2.S42.50 Fire department fund 2.859.30 Metropolitan police fund 1,189.15 General improvement fund 3,990.04 Total $10,880.99 SEWER ORDINANCES PASSED. The ordinances fixing the boundaries of sewer districts IS and 19 were passed. The first is between Buchanan and Lin coln streets and north of Fifth street. The other, known as the Fensky sewer, is north of the Kansas river and west of Kansas avenue and south of the Union Pacific tracks. A LANDMARK TO GO. The city will sell the Sherman resi dence in the city park to the highest bidder. The city clerk was instructed to advertise for bids last night. The house must be taken off the ground at once to facilitate the Improvement of the park. The auditorium will prob ably be erected on its site. MRS. HERMA NN'SGRIEV AJiCE She Protests Against the "Shameful" Action of the Police. Mrs. Emilie Hermann, a German wo man living at 216 North Quincy street, says she is a much abused woman. She says the police treat her shamefully, and she emphasizes her remarks with choico gems of profanity. The cause of all her trouble and dissatisfaction is that her joint at 210 North Quincy street was raid ed Sunday by the police and she was ar rested. Sergeant Donovan Sunday afternoon gathered about him his "brave and true men" and started toward Smoky Row. Nearing Mrs. Hermann's place they scattered out and swooped down on her like buzzards on a bone yard. There were several people in the yard and house in various states of jollity. Mrs. Hermann, protesting that "none but members ever staid there" was taken to the city jail and the patrol wagon hauled the follow ing articles of commerce, all of which had seen better days at the Hermann resort: One keg nearly full of beer. 7 empty beer kegs, all with a stale smell, 1 five-gallon whisky jug, with a fresh smell to it, 12 empty whisky jugs which held liquor not so very long ago, 1 jug of sour wine and a two-gallon jug of whisky, both of which the police say are of extra good quality for a joint, a large ice box, an improved beer pump and lots of glasses. All these articles were placed in the cold storage rooms under the city jail where they will be kept pending the trial of the case. The place had become notorious. The police say packing house employes and Smoky Rowites had frequented it plenti fully, and the old German woman is said to have done a thriving business. Dr. C. O. Brown Reinstated. Chicago. June 8. At the meeting of the Congregational association today a vote was taken on the admission of Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown, late of San Francisco, and it was decided to admit him to fellow, ship by 87 to 25. The result was greeted with applause. Dr. Brown has been preaching at the Green street church for some time and will remain there. Ottawa Chautauqua. The Missouri Pacific will sell tickets to Ottawa June 10 to 25 at rate of one fare for the round trip, $1.59 from To peka. Train leaves Topeka 8 a. m. Tonight the Festival Chorus should be greeted with a full house at the First Presbyterian church. Conscientious work has been done during the winter and spring months on the Oratorio of the Creation to be sung this evening, and as the proceeds of this rendition is for the benefit of the expense fund of the Chorus for their Ottawa trip it should appeal strongly to all loyal To peka citizens. No extra charge on special train for Topeka leaving Ottawa June 12 via Santa Fe Route after close o Musical Festival. AT THE STATE HOUSE. Judge West Raises a New Point in Banking Lair. Holds That Many Banks Are Illegally Organized. News of the State Departments Per sonals and Notes. Should the courts sustain a point of law raised by Judge J. S. West of Fort Scott, all Kansas banks not organized in accordance with the provisions of the law of 1891 will be compelled to re organize. In the trial of a case before Judge Simons, Judge West made the point that prior to 1S91 there was no law in Kansas authorizing the incor poration of any company to engage in a general banking business. If this posi tion be sustained in the courts, where it is likely to be taken soon, all banks chartered prior to 1S91 are illegally formed. About 200 banks are now doing bus iness in the state upon authority of charters secured prior to the passage of the law of 1S91. Judge Simons did not pass upon the point raised by Mr. West, but he did hold that under the new banking law, passed by the last legislature, the de positors of a suspended bank cannot sue the stockholders for double Hability.The court construed the law to mean that to the receiver belongs the exclusive pro vince to bring suit for the benefit of all creditors. BUTLEE WILL TAKE ST07K. The County Offers to Grade 40 Miles of the North South Railroad. Every man has his hobby. There are few exceptions to this condition. It ap plies with equal force to the lawyer, politician, banker, section hand or rail road president. Governor Humphrey's hobbies extended along different lfnes. Governor Lewelling wrote letters which got him into trouble while Governor Morrill was an earnest advocate of pub lic sentiment theories. Governor Leedy has two; maximum rates and the north and south railroad. Which is the most important is a question which time only will answer. It is doubtful if the gov ernor himself can decide on which is his favorite. The governor's railroad scheme does not go totally unnoticed. Butler Co. is the first to take stock in the new air line. The governor has re ceived the following letter from W. P. Knote, a banker at Douglass: "Butler county will grade and furn ish right of way for a state railroad down the Walnut Valley 40 miles. Let us have the road. "I will donate right of way and grade the road one and one-fourth miles my self. "Other counties and people have not the natural advantages, disposition or sense and every dollar we Kansans save in transportation will lodge in the farmer's pocket." CONVICTS MADE CITIZENS. Governor Leady Issu33 Pardons to a Number Who3e Sentences Have Expired. Sentences of the following convicts having expired. Governor Leedy has issued citizenship papers, effective within ten days from June 6: Burglary Charles Roberts, Bourbon county, five years; Mark Dye, Phillips, three years; Bum Reynolds, Leaven worth, two years; Ida Mitchell, Craw ford, eighteen months; Harry Kelly, Neosho, eight years. Grand larceny R. Simpson, WTa baunsee, two years and eight months; John Thompson, Bourbon, two years and six months; George Hunter. Co manche, six years: W. D. Lowe, Mor ton, two years: Frank Summerfield, Labette, two years; Claude Bobbins, Sunnier, three years. Manslaughter Bruce Soward, But ler, four years. A NON PARTISAN COURT. G.' C. Clemens Says That is What Populists Wanted and They Have It. A crowd of newspaper men and poli ticians was discussing the decision of the supreme court in the Davis case when G. C. .Clemens, the supreme court reporter, Joined them, yesterday. "What do you think of the Davis case decision?" asked A. B. Quinton. "Why, all right, ain't it?" inquired Clemens looking over the crowd. "Certainly," was the reply. Surveying the group critically, Mr. Clemens said: "Our fellows have been demanding a non-partisan court for years and I guess they ve got it now and they ought to be satisfied." JUDGE COLE IN THE FIELD. He Will Make a Bace for Justice Al len's Place. Judge E. C. Cole, of Great Bend, who was defeated for judge of the western division, southern department, court of appeals, on the Republican ticket in the last campaign, has announced to some of his friends that he will be a candidate for the nomination as asso ciate jhstice in the next campaign. The term of Associate Justice Allen expires In a year from next January, and the Republicans hope to elect a successor to him. Judge Allen's decision in the bribery investigation case has been the sub ject of criticism against him, which comes mostly from political light weights among the Populists. Senator Ryan, of Crawford county. says the decision was a result of Judge Allen's honest opinion of the law. He furthed says: "Judge Allen will be re nominated and elected, as he should be. Populists of Kansas have bean howling for a non-partisan court, and when a decision of that kind is rendered the author of the opinion is immediately criticised and harangued in public places by men who are not competent to pass upon the law involved in the controversy. "Judge Allen's position in this case will not affect his standing in the par ty. He will be renominated." Governor Leedy endorses Chief Jus tice Doster's severe arraignment of the arrogance of courts in general, but will not discuss for publication the opinion as rendered by Judge Allen. He said today: "I read Judge Doster's dissenting opinion. It is like all the things Doster writes. It is direct and to the point. He is undoubtedly correct in his theory. As to the opinion of the court. I have not read that and am not prepared to express my views upon it." Charters Filed. The secretary of state ha3 issued articles- of incorporation to the following new companies: Vio T .nnnniaf AnfnmQtip tolonVinna company of Sterling; capital $100,000. Directors: R. J. Shay. W. M. Quigley. George McAlister, J. E. Junkin. M. E. Richardson, of Sterling; Frank A. bci'entist's idea efcsrover a ray Lundquist, Chicago, and John Ander son, Salina. Post No. 18S G. A. R. of Centralia: capital, $5,000. Directors: David Van Patton, Jonathan Hollingrsworth, G. A. McNeil, A. 11. Bonstell and Charles W. Felt. The Holt-a Piir.ting and Publishing Company of Holton. The company owns property valued .at $5,500. The capital stock is $8,000. Directors: John C. Brown, J. I. Gabel, T. C. McConnell, W. L. Broderick, and H. C. Tucker. Phillips County Dairy association, of Phillipsburg. Capital, $1,500. Lirectors: James Carman, J. V. Haas, Phil Townsley, J. II. Young, A. D. Goduard. The Norton County Creamery asso ciation of Norton. Capital, $1,500. Di rectors: W. C. Marshall. E. S. Faek ler, J. Bridegroom, and David Close. S. P and U. P. to Buy a Boad. Salt Lake. Utah, June 8. Rumors are current here that the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific roads are negotiating for the purchase and completion of the Salt Lake Ogden railroad in order to get a direct track connection with Salt Lake. The road is now completed and running trains from Salt Lake to Farm in gton, seventeen miles north of this city. Will Meet and Adjourn. The legislative bribery investigating committee, which the supreme court declared illegally constituted, has been called to'meet in this city Thursday of this week. The committee will proba bly draw on the governor's contingent fund to pay outstanding bills, salaries of officers and members, and then ad journ. W A S HBUltN COMMENCEMENT Closing Exercises of the Year Begin This Week and Extend Into Next The school year at Washburn college has now closed and the annual exami nations are being held this week. Next week the commencement will be held. This week, there will be special exercis es. On Thursday there will be a con cert given by the piano forte pupils of the college at which selections from Schumann will be given. On Friday evening the prize declama tion contest by the students of the academy, will take place In the college chapel. v Sunday morning at 11 o'clock the bac calaureate sermon will be preached by President G. M. Herrick in the chapel. The churches in the vicinity of the col lege will dismiss the morning services to attend this sermon. Sunday evening at 8 o'clock Rev. E. W. Mueller, of Oakland will deliver the annual address before the religious so cieties. His subject is, "The More Abundant Life." The inauguration of President George M. Herrick as head of the college will take place on next Monday evening at the chapel. This will be an imposing ceremony. The address on behalf of the trustees of the college will be made by John R. Mulvane. Prof. L. D. Whittemore will make an address on behalf of the col lege faculty. Miss Frances Storrs, M.D., will speak for the alumni, and J. B. Tower for the students. Dr. Peter McVicar will formally de liver over to Mr. Herrick the keys and seals of the college. President Herrick will then deliver the inaugural address. The commencement exercises begin Tuesday. Tuesday morning at 10:30, June 15,the graduating' exercises of the academy take place in the chapel. Addresses will be made by the members of the gradu ating class. Tuesday evening the graduates of the musical department of the college will give a recital. W ednesday morning at 10:30 the com mencement of the college proper will take place. The address to the gradu ates will be made by Rev. Michael Burn ham of St. Louis. His subject will be "The Higher Education of Women." Wednesday noon the alumni banquet will be held at the Boswell library and following this a business meeting of the alumni. Wednesday evening a fitting close to the exercises will be given when Pres ident Herrick will hold the annual re ception at the Boswell library. At all of the meetings special music will be furnished by the musical pupils of the college. SIR ROBERT PEEL TO WED. Bride to Be is the Daughter of a Wealthy German Baron. London, June 8. Sir Robert Peel, whose adventures in search of a wife have before now interested two conti nents, is to be married today at Lu cerne, Switzerland, to Miss Graffenried, daughter of a wealthy German bar on. The wooing has been short and sweet, the bride-elect being described as both pretty and well-dowered. It is only a few months since Sir Robert's engage ment to the Hon. Bertha Williamson. daughter of Lord Ashton, the million aire linoleum manufacturer, was formal ly announced, to be as formally repudi ated two days later by Lord Ashton himself. Since then Sir Robert has dis appeared from London, vowing that both American and English women having jilted him he would wed none but a forengner. V of f- jgr- of THEY MAKE A BAD MOVE Members of tlie Taxpayers' League Attack the Schools. Want a Cheese Paring Policy Adopted by the Board. Object to the Already Niggardly Sal aries Paid and When the Poor Teachers Are Sick Ask That Their Salaries be Taken Away From Them. Last evening at the meeting of the board of education there was a com mittee present from the Shawnee Coun ty Taxpayers' league which made start ling charges. Dr. W. C. Hamilton, Messrs. John Hovendon and M. Oswald appeared be fore the board by permission. The three gentlemen stepped into the room and Dr. Hamilton said by way of open ing: "We are a committee from the Taxpayers' league. Wre had under stood that you would elect the teachers and fix salaries tonight, but we find that you did that some time ago. You know, we represent the taxpayers, and you are also taxpayers. You know that our taxes are too high. There are some taxpayers in our league who think that you are paying too high salaries to your teachers. They are higher than they are around in other places, and we wanted to ask you to reduce the expenses as mucii as possi ble. And also, we understand that some of the salaries have been increas ed this year. We don't want any of these $10 a day people, you know." President Priddy We are not paying any higher salaries here than tbey do in other places of proportionate size and population. We have lost several good teachers on account of their re ceiving better offers elsewhere. When a teacher Is first employed the salary is fixed at $40 and each year after that it is increased $5 until the maximum, which is $55. Dr. Hamilton I think I could name one teacher in the high school who was sfarted at a salary of $75 a month and who had never had any experience in teaching. President Priddy (emphasizing re marks by shaking lead pencil) Well, that may be an exception. That is a case which we had nothing to do with. It was done by someone else. Mr. John Hovendon Now, I want to say one thing. I don't think you ought to pay your teachers while they are sick. When a man works for the Santa Fe and gets sick they deduct his wages. Down In the shops they do. Mr. Wm. Maeferran I can show you 500 men in the Santa Fe general offices who doa't get docked when they are sick. Mr. Hovendon You can, can you? How long could they be sick without being docked? President Priddy When one of our teachers is sick a supply is put in charge of the work, and whatever sal ary has to be paid to the supply comes out of the regular teacher's salary. Dr. Hamilton Now, another thing. There has been a good deal of loose business done about these schools. You have paid for coal which you never got. It seems to me that this is straight business. These things are going to be looked into, and they have been look ed after some of late. Mr. Wilson Dr. Hamilton, if you know of any case in particular in which we have paid for coal and haven't received it, we would he glad to hear from you, and if it is the jani tor who is responsible for it he will be discharged. Dr. Hamilton You will be furnished with information later. We intend to see to this matter. Mr. Howe There is not a member of this board but would thank you, Dr. Hamilton, if you would" tell us about this. Dr. Hamilton I know none of you knew it, of course, but we will give it to you later. With the promise that they would furnish information to the board the committee left the room. Mr. Maeferran read the bills and the city clerk's statement. For the high school, superintendent and principal expenses for the month were $572.50. The sum of $742.50 was ordescd paid for janitor hire. The teachers? pay roll amounted to $S,89G.fi4. Small bills against the board for ma- j terials, etc., were read and allowed. Mr. Maeferran read one bill for S1..50, which he stated was for the hire of a man for one hour's work in scattering dirt i in a school yard. Mr. Miller hurriedly corrected him by slating that it was for three days and an hour. Mr. Mac- j ferran remarked: "Good thing- that committee wasn't here, wasn't it?" Mr. J. H. Squires, as chairman of the committee on buildings, reported that the list of janitors was ready to submit. With one exception the list was rati fied. At Washington school the name of Jerry Williams was placed lor the po .kin sition. Mr. Howe arose and said that he would move to substitute the name of Rev. Robert Barton for the place. Mr. Squires Mr. Wiiliams was first appointed to the position to fill a va cancy caused by the death of Mr. Oil"n. He gives satisfaction. And another thing, he is an old soldier, and I think for this reason he is entilled to the place. Mr. Howe-Mr. Barton lives near the place, and although he is not an old soldier he will do the work just as well. When a ballot was taken Mr. Wil liams was elected by a vote of five to four. Another exception to the report was taken in regard to the janitorshin of Quincy school. Mr. W. H. Shepherd, of North Topeka was named fur the place. President Priddy nodded to Vice President Wilson at the other en 1 of the table, and the latter received the authority. Mr. Priddy Mr. Vice President, I want to substitute the name of Mr. McKibben for the place. He is an old soldier. We cannot do too much for those who -fought and bled for us. I am an old soldier, and I feel as if we could never fully repay the old soldiors for what they did. Mr. McKibben will fill the place satisfactorily, i am sure, and I would like to see him elected. Mr. Miller Mr. Shepherd is not an old soldier, but be is a loyal citizen. There are some other people living here in this country besides old soldier-?. There are just as loyal citizens every bit as the old soldiers were They are. doing as much today as the old sol diers ever did. And another thing, Mr. Shepherd is a man who would do the work well. He is poor now, and needs the employment. Mr. McKibben probably draws a pension, and that helps him some. A ballot was taken which resulted in the election of Mr. McKibben. Mr. Maeferran Are there any more old soldiers who want jobs? Let them apply. The following is the list of janitors with their salaries: Head janitor A. F. Barker $S0 High school J. F. Harriett and Cy rus Godard, each r' Grant school S. Drake 50 Quincy school Mr. McKibben 47 Lane school G. W. Abernathy 25 Madison school Jos. Pickens 2 Lincoln school John Kempton 45 Branner school Wm. Leslie 4 4 Parkdale school N. Tol.ias 35 Washington school Jerry Williams. 25 Monroe school Charles Pillow 20 Garfield school Wm. Slaughter 25 Jackson school Thomas Gaines 25 Van Buren school J. R. Wilkerson.. 8 Polk school George Richardson 35 Euclid school Wm. P.lythe 25 Lowman Hill school A. W. Moore.. 20 Buchanan school W. M. Pa-re 25 Clay school J. S. McClure Sumner school J. Weinsber? Harrison school Nelson Porter Mr. Miller reported that a piano coui.l be purchased which would b.j suitable for the high school for $2.00 or $225. At the next meetins the matter will be settled. The subject of letting the school buildings out during the summ, months to teachers for the r.urpo; of holding summer schools was brought up. Pome time ago Mr. Maeferran in troduced a resolution to the effect that the practice should be discontinued. A vote was taken which seemed to be in favor of letting the school buildin-rs be used, and Mr. Maeferran d.mar !el a roll call, mentioning that he wlshs'l to put the members on record. Th- clerk then called the roll. Messrs. F.juires, Long, Miller, Campbell and West-rfieM voted apainst Mr. Macferrar.'s resolu tion. Messrs. Howe, Wilson and Mae ferran voted for :t. Mr. Maeferran ;;aid in explaining his vote: "I wish this put opposite my vote in the report, Mr. Clerk: 1 regard the letting out of city school buildings to private persons for private summer schools and other pur poses, as has been the practice of this) board in years past, as equivalent in p.n indirect way to a donation to thee parties of the city's money, through its expense account for repairs, etc. This, I think, we have no mora! right to do, and I therefore vote aye in the belief that it will be more in the right direc tion, which, along with other proposed retrenchment, may enable us to reduots our levy for next year." But the board didn't all see it 33 Mr. Maeferran, and the proposed retrench ment did not take effect. Miss Edith Davis was put first on ths supply list of teachers and will be given a position as teacher at Sumner school. Miss Clarkson will be next to receive a vacancy, and following her will b- Misses Stauffer and Gorman, all four of whom were elected as teachers condi tionally. $1.59 for Round Trip And only half a block to walk, if you take Santa Fe Route to Musical Fes tival at Ottawa June 11 and 12. Special trains leave Topeka 7:30 a. m. Other train3 as usual. Garfield park will be lighted at night hereafter. The Topeka Railway com pany will render its usual excellent ser vice for patrons desiring to visit the park any evening The Crowning Effort Of the Musical Festival at Ottawa will occur June 12 when the Creation will be given. The Santa Fe will run a special train to Topeka leaving Ottawa after close of concert.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1897. SOCIAL AND PERSOML. Geheral Notes of Society and Personal Items. Recent Social Events in Topeka End Vicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. Yesterday afternoon a delightful re ception was given at the home of Mrs. James A. Troutman by the members of the Current Literature club, for thir teen of the other clubs. The house was filled with flowers of all descriptions. The parlor was all in syringas; the grate was filled with them and they were arranged artistically over the mantel and around the large mirror. The second parlor was a regular bower of pink ruses and in the library were red ones. In the dining room the table was placed in the center of the room with a large vase of white roses on it and strands of smilax around the edge. Ked poppies and ferns were also used In the dining room. Miss Anna Trout man and Miss Kmma Uolmar received the guests at the door, and Miss Alice iregory and Miss Daisy Vance served at the punch bowl. Miss McClelland, Miss Ward. Miss Hicks. Miss Bolmar and Miss Gregory assisted in the dining room. Iuring the afternoon over a hundred ladies called and the clubs represented were the Atlantean. Occi dental. Sorosis, Browning, Spalding, West Side reading circle, Calidorean, Xautilus, Vignette, Vespuccian, Chal dean. Ladies' Music club and the St. Cecilia Music club. In the evening Mrs. Troutman enter tained the Current Literature club and ail their former members and their husbands. There w ere about 75 pres ent. Miss Laura Snider, Miss Lorita Ward, Misses Edith and Libbie Greg ory and Miss Allabelle Troutman assist ed in the dining room. A very interesting programme was given. Mrs. C. J. Smith played a solo. Miss Abbie Anderson responded to ""Our Former Members," Mrs. Frank Foster played a violin solo and Mrs. J. W. Xorris responded to "Our Club." Notes and Personal Mention Judge A. L. Redden has gone to El Torado to attend court. During his ab sence Miss Hayes and Miss Lulu Mc Kee will remain with Miss Lee Red den. The Bunglers are contemplating giv ing a dancing party to celebrate the conl weather. Mr. Edward Wilder went to Chicago Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Van Tassel Graves have gone to New York city, where they will make their home in the fu ture. Mrs. Graves is a cousin of Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Mr. Graves, who is a cousin of Mrs. Charles Gleed, has been Mr. C. J. Brown's stenographer for some time. They will be missed by a large circle of friends. Miss Mary Chamberlain will enter tain the Twentieth Century girls and their young men friends at cards Fri day evening. Miss Lillian Tefft, who is attending school in Baltimore, will start home June 16. On her way she will stop in Detroit and Chicago. Mrs. Eugene Ware and Mrs. E. W. Poindexter will go to Ottawa the last of the week to remain during the as sembly. Mr. Ware and Miss Abbie Ware, who will return from the east the first of the week, will join them there. Mrs. Iforton and two children of Kansas City are visiting Mrs. Horton's sister, Miss Augusta Hayes. Miss Lottie Page of Denver is visit ing Miss Edna Crane. Miss Edna McClintock will leave in two weeks for Kew York, Boston and Pennsylvania. She will be gone all summer. Mrs. Herbert Ball has issued invi tations for Saturday afternoon. June 12. Miss Katherine Gillette of Emporia is visiting Mrs. K. MacLennan. Mr. Frank Clark of Hutchinson spent Sunday with his uncle, Mr. A. P. Wilder. Mr. Frank Alderson, who has been employed in the Santa Fe offices for several years, has accepted a position with the Drew, Shelby Co. Shoe com pany in Portsmouth. O. Mr. and Mrs. Alderson will leave Thursday for their new home. Miss Daisy Hayes spent Sunday In Kansas City. Miss Mabel Foucht went to Valencia today for a few days visit. Miss Emma Burgess of Kansas City Is expected in Topeka Friday for a visit with friends. Miss Jessie King and Miss Nellie Lin coln will give a picnic at Garfield park Friday. Miss Carrie Fauble spent Sunday in Emporia. Miss Edith Worden has gone to Em poria, where she has accepted a posi tion as stenographer. Mrs. B. J. Dawson and Mrs. Ina Daw eon and Mrs. G. A. Beauschamp of Hol ton are visiting Misses Olivia and Flor ence Van Tassel. Mrs. G. O. Wilmarth. Is entertaining this afternoon. Mrs. W. O. Xevill has gone to Altona for a week's visit. Miss Minnie Wingert has gone to Manhattan for a few days. Miss Allene Jordan of Hutchinson, who has been visiting Miss Gertrude Willett, returned to her home Saturday. Mrs. M. R. Cain of Hutchinson is vis iting her husband in Topeka. Mr. D. P. Elliott went to Kansas City yesterday. Mrs. C. R. Kitchell went to Emporia Saturday to visit relatives. Master William Willitt is spending a week in Orantville. Miss Myrtle Mitchell went to Kansas City last week to be one of the brides maids at the Miller-Nulter wedding. Dr. A. H. Arter returned to his home in Galena Saturday. Mr. F. S. Stevens and son Floyd went to Richmond, Ind., yesterday to visit his mother. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Flanders were surprised by a number of their friends at their home in Highland Park last Saturday evening, trie occasion be ing their twenty-fifth wedding anniver sary. The "Oklahoma "Mandolin club" furnished some delightful music. A number of handsome presents were re ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Flanders. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. A. Rob bms. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Potter Mr. nd Mrs. Horace Beve-Ile, Mr. and Mrs. A. Markley, Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Mark ley, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Frost, Mr. and Jrs. J. J. Swingiey, Mr. and Mrs. Dan lei Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Sprague Cnanse. Mr. and Mrsi J. M Chase Mr and Mrs. W. J. Baldwin. Mr. and'Mrs H. G. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs Sims Mrs. C. Curry, Mr.and Mrs.R. C. Wash burn, Mrs. Lillie Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. D- Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips.Mrs. J. V. Sclusser, Mr. and Mrs. FTed Web ster, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Anderson, Rev. Jnd Mrs. G. S. Dearborn, lass Edna. Floyd, Miss Gertrude Potter, Miss Alice 0'ller,T,iss Lycia Thompson, Miss fif ThomT)3on."MiPs Vena Thompson. Miss Clara Bevelle, Miss Georgia Chase Siisa Lillie MaxkJey, Miss Nuia. George' Mr. Charley Flanders, Mr." Cyrus Flan ders, Mr. Joe Bevelle, Mr. Horace Pot ter, Mr. Charley Hull and Mr. Harry Potter. Miss Vera Low will go to Leaven worth tomorrow for a few days' visit. From there she will go to Ottawa to at tend the Assembly. Mr. L. E. Baldwin of the Rock Island telegraph department went to Kansas City yesterday. Mrs.Streeter of Leavenworth and Mrs. Gustave Newbert of Kansas City, who visited their sister Mrs. W. B. Gibson last week returned to their homes Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Davis left today for a month's visit in Jacksonville, 111., and Nashville, Tenn. Miss Jennie Thomas who has been visiting Miss Mabel Hillis, returned to her home in Emporia this afternoon. Miss Suza Jewell will entertain at tea tomorrow evening. Miss Grace Caldwell of Lawrence is expected this week to visit Miss Mar garet Bear. Mrs. Mary Hagar and daughter have taken rooms at 727 Topeka avenue. Miss Mabel Crumrine and Miss Rose Davis will leave in two weeks for a vis it in Chicago. Miss Davis will go on to Indianapolis for a week's visit. Miss Kate Kessler will go to Ottawa next week for a few days. Chas. D. Welch returned to Topeka last night and will spend a part of his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Welch. He is employed as a teacher in the Kansas City, Mo., high school at an advanced salary. NORTH TOPEKA. Levi Neiswinder cf Silver Lake was a North side visitor today. Go to Costley Post for Dry Goods and Shoes. North Topeka. Harmony Rebekah lodge will initiate a candidate at its meeting this even ing. Ex-Congressman Calderhead of Marysville is registered at the Union Pacific. Benjamin Bowen will leave tomorrow for Chicago, where he has secured a position. Willie Chelander of Randolph is the guest of Clifford Nystrom, 1019 Jack son street. The little child of Mr. Stitt of 1416 Jackson street is suffering from an at tack of measles. Miss Laura Beverly of Quincy street has gone to Solomon City to spend the summer with her aunt, Mrs. Griffin. William Reid, bookke?per at the Mid Continent Mills, returned Sunday from a visit of six months with his father in Scotland. The quarterly meeting which was to have been held Sunday, June 13, at the Kansas Avenue M. E. church has been postponed one week. Mr. and Mrs. Dearborn and daughter, who have been visiting Mrs. Mark Put nam at the Union Pacific hotel. have re turned to their home at Solomon. Mrs. C. E. Brcram and son George will leave tomorrow for Kansas City, where young Bromm, who had his eye injured by a slungshot, will receive treatment. J. H. Foucht and W. C. Steele will address a Sunday school convention at Menoken, Sunday, June 13. Mr. Foucht will speak in the forenoon and Mr. Steele in the afternoon. The Populist primaries for electing delegates for the First precinct to the county convention will be held at Hey den's wagon shop, 914 Kansas avenue, from 7 to 9 o'clock Thursday evening. J. Lindas Is packing his stock of hardware and will leave shortly for Great Bend, where he will engage in the same business. The building which he has been occupying is being repaint ed and N. F. Conkle will open a gro cery at that stand. Miss Maude Baker, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. C. Steele, has been spending a few days in Jack son county. She returned to Topeka today and will probably spend the re mainder of the summer with her sis ter. Misses Ruth and Louisa Brooke of Bethany college spent yesterday with the Misses Kimball. In company with their parents, Bishop and Mrs. F. K. Brooke, they will leave for their home in Guthrie, O. T., shortly. A valuable colt belonging to Frank Collins, the commission man, was par tially disemboweled this forenoon by a picket penetrating the abdomen as it was trying to jump over a fence. The animal was promptly cared for by Drs. Steele and Booth, but it is hardly pos sible that it will live. The Old Folks' Concert was given last evening at Lukens' Opera House by the young men of the First Baptist church, under the auspices of the ladies of the North Congregational church. It was a very pleasing entertainment and appreciated by a fair sized audi ence. One taking feature was the con cert given by "Susie's" band. The per former's were attired in the fashion of a bygone age, as were the ushers, who were Mrs. Anna Gibb, Miss Ella Sheetz, Miss Annie Campbell and Miss Bertha White. WAS NO REVOLT. L. T. Yount Says There was No In surrection at the Reform School. Commissioner of elections L. T. Yount has written the Journal a com munication concerning the reported re volt at the reform school. Mr. Yount says that the report of a revolt was groundless. He says: "There was no revolt, and nothing oc curred upon which the shadow of such a story could rest. "The story does not in any manner injure the present incumbent, but is a sad reflection upon the character of Mr. Howell's management, and leads the people to believe that his boys were in a state of insurrection at the time of his retirement. "The reform school boys are manly little fellows, always obedient to the of ficers, and the great majority of them as bright little chaps as can be found anywhere. "They will find in Mr. Hart their best frier.-!, who will devote his every ener gy to their care and development. He is firm and positive in his manner, yet possesses the kindliest disposition. "He v.-ill make a personal friend of every boy in the institution, as he will endeavor to make them good men and good citizens. The superintendent should be given the moral support of the people and the press, and help make the institution what it was intended to be, a reform school for boys." Special Trains For Musical Festival, Ottawa, will leave Topeka via Santa Fe Route at 7:30 a. m.. June 11 and 12. Returning, leave Ottawa June 12, after close of festival. Don't forget the special train to Ot tawa via Missouri Pacific railway for the Musical Festival, Friday morning, 7:30 a. m. The Festival Chorus in Haydn's Ora The entire train of Sleepers, Chair terian church this evening. Admission, 50c; proceeds for the benefit of the ex pense fund of the Ottawa Festival trip. Rubber Hose, Kitchell Marburg. COUNTERFEIT INDIANS Proposed by S. H. Downs for the Fall Festival. Sajs the Athletic Club Might Introduce the Feature. A Proposition for a Tournament on Horseback Other Features. Mr. S. H. Downs, of the Topeka Beed house, has an idea which he will propose to the Athletic association in regard to its part in the Fall Festival. He will suggest that the association take up the Indian dance feature, and further that they organize what shall be known aa the Shawnee tribe. In the Festival pa rades 100 or more members of the Topeka Athletic association can dress as Shawnee Indians and have wigwams on floats. Following these the regular Pottawato mie Indians might follow and complete the novel feature. In speaking of it to a State Journal re porter, he said: "The Topeka Athletic association could organize the Shawnee tribe. They could study up the dress and habits of this par ticular tribe and prepare costumes which would be a good copy of those worn by tha early Shawnees. It would be a feature for the young men. They could dress up in the bright colors, put on lots of paint and feathers and represent Indians in great shape. Floats on which were In dians and wigwams would add to it. 1 am in favor of the T. A. A. taking hold of this Pottawatomie Indian dance feature. The two would work together finely. I want to see this festival a grander suc cess than the one last year. I will do all I can for it, even if I have to dress up as an Indian chief myself. In New York city they have an organization which is known as a tribe which gives Indian dances for public entertainments. And it has become famous. Why couldn't such a thing be gotten up in Topeka? Of course the Pottawatomie Indian dance is a good thing. It would draw large crowds from all around. But if the T. A. A. would take up this feature of a Shawnee tribe and work it up, it would make an appropriate celebration of the naming of our county, and would perpet uate the memory of the Shawnee tribe. It would also increase the interest in the real Indian dance." SWORD -'LANCE "TOURNAMENT. Fencing Master Uttermau Would Iiiks Scenes of Feudal Times. H. A. Utterman, the fencing master, will soon make a proposition to the Com mittee of Fifteen to give a sword and lance tournament during the Fall Festi val. It is the plan of Mr. Utterman to give the exhibition during one afternoon in the quarter stretch in front of the grand stand at the fair grounds. The contest ants would be equipped in armor with waving plumes and gaily caparisoned horses such as has not been seen since the days of chivalry. One of the exhibitions proposed, is a broad sword combat on horseback be tween two sides of four or five horsemen on either side. Following that will be a joust with lances and then the various kinds of sword encounters read about but seldom seen, will be performed before the eyes of the people. Mr. Utterman is one of the best swords men in the west and he is a master of every branch of the sport. He proposes to take complete charge of the affair and do the training" himself so that when the time arrives there will be a large number of contestants for honors. Among the contests it is proposed to have foil combats by two or more young women. There are several young ladies in Topeka who know how to handle foiln. The proposition of Mr. Utterman will probably be made at the next meeting of the Committee of Fifteen. A similar suggestion was made by Col. J. W. F. Hughes last year. SOCIETY IN THE FESTIVAL. The Court Minuet Assured Three Sets Formed. A meeting of the society people who will take part in the court minuet to be danced in costume at the opening of the Floral parade ball during the Fall Festi val, was held last night in Harmony hall. Three sets were formed and under the direction of Professor Wetherell the minuet was practiced for an hour. It is proposed to practice the minuet on night each weak up to the time of the opening of the Fall Festival. The next meeting will be held in Harmony hall next Mon day night. The costumes to be worn by the par ticlpants in the minuet have already been ordered by Mrs. Sutton. The Burlington's Ifew "Eli." The handsomest and most complete train in the United States for all classes of travel is just out of the shops. It is the Burlington Route's "ELI," leav ing Kansas City and other Missouri River Cities daily for Chicago. The entire train of Sleepers, Chair Cars and Dining Cars has wide-observation vestibules. Chair Cars (seats free) are finished in oak and polished mahogany with old gold upholstery. The Dining Cars have new decorated Haviland china, new linen and table ware, serving meals a la carte pay only for what is ordered. Tickets for this train are on sale with your local agent or at Missori River Cities. J. C. BEA1IHA1L, T. P. A., St. Joseph, Mo. L. W. WAKELEY. G. P. A.. St. Louis, Mo. Bucklen s Arnica Sarve The best salve In the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corn's, 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. EAGLE'S STt 1 5c CIGAR. lilii MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. American Works Association in Den ver Discuss Waterworks. Denver, June 8. The seventeenth an nual convention of the American Works association, assembled today, about 130 del egates from the principal cities in more than twenty states being in attendance. Welcoming addresses were delivered by Governor Adams, Mayor McMurray and others, to which President F. A. W. Davis of Indianapolis, responded. Many sub jects, most of them technical in nature will be discussed during the sessions which will continue until Thursday even, ing. Municipal ownership of waterworks has occupied a prominent place in infor mal preliminary discussion among the delegates, but it is not likely to come in the convention. The delegates from cities which own their own plants seem to be believers in this part of the doctrine of municipal re. form, while delegates who represent pri vate ownership have plenty of argument to adduce why a" private firm can conduct a system more cheaply than a munici pality. "Ownership of waterworks," said Presi dent Davis, "is by no means the most important question before the public at the present time. The important ques. tion is how to obtain a pure and whole some public supply. This subject is being agitated by the oldest and richest cities of the land." BONES OF NEW YORKERS. Bushels of Them Found by Workmen Excavating for Astor's Building. New York, June 8. A human skele ton and bushels of bones were found by workmen who were excavating for the foundations of the Astor's thirty story building on the site of the structure at Broadway and Rector street, in which Jay Gould and Russell Sage used to have their offices. At first the work men thought they had discovered a clue to some great crime, but a bystander declared it was only the overflow from Trinity churchyard, which embraced what is now Rector street, and the land south for several hundred feet, while to the west it ran down to the North river in a splendid lawn-like park. These bones, he declared, may have been those of illustrious New Yorkers, for some of the first families of Trinity parish who had been Interred there were evidently overlooked when the contents of the southern portion of the churchyard were taken up to make room for Rector Ftreet and adjoining improvements. The skeleton found today lay facing the east, fully six feet beneath the lowest foundation stones f the old Gould building. It was below the sewers of Broadway lower than the private vaults of old Trinity not fifty feet away. ROAST 25 MONKS. Bamboos Thrust Through the Men Then Placed Over a Slow Fire. Vancouver. B. C, June 8. Further interviews with the officers of the steamer Hupeh, now in port, illicit the fact that twenty-five Catholic monks were roasted by the rebels in the Phil ippine islands and not by Spanish troops, as previously reported. The information was furnished by a prominent resident of Ilo-Ilo, in the group of islands, and corroborated by a foreign consul. In consequence of cruelties practiced by the Spanish troops on the rebels or those suspected of being in sympathy with the rebel cause, the rebels in revenge perpetrat ed acts of cruelty on the hapless monks who came in their clutches. The customary mode of roasting sucking pigs in the island is by thrust ing a bamboo through the pig and then fastening it to an iron and roasting it over a slow fire. This was done to the monks, the bamboo being thrust through them while they were alive. Previous to the voyage to this port the Hupeh made a trip from Hong Kong to Ilo-Ilo and it was just previous to this voyage that the acts reported occurred near Manila, W. IT. TO INCREASE STOCK. $2,000,000 to be Added to the $100, 000,000 Already in Existence. New York, June 8. Formal applica tion has been made by the Western Union Telegraph company for permis sion to list $2,000,000 additional stock. The stock is issued against improve ments, including 88 miles of new lines and a new building in Chicago costing $1,600,000. In its application the company says that its stock has been sold. The ap plication came before the stock list committee of the exchange yesterday and there is reason to believe that it was favorably acted upon. It will next come before the governors, who will meet tomorrow. The authorized capital stock of the Western Union Telegraph company is $100,000,000. NO GOLD FOR JONES. Governor of Arkansas Refuses to Name Delegates to Denver. Little Rock, Ark., June 8. Governor Dan W. Jones of Arkansas has refused to appoint delegates to represent Ar kansas at the International Gold Min ing convention to be held in Denver early next month. Mayor Woodson today appointed five delegates from Little Rock. When asked if he would appoint delegates from the state at large, Governor Jones said: "I intend to ignore this convention altogether and shall decline to appoint delegates to it There is no silver in it. and I am opposed to anything of this kind that seems in imical to the interests of bimetallism." THIS HORROR CONTINUES. Elen Mutilated Because Couplings Do Not Fit The difference between the Janney coupler and the old fashioned coupling still continues to be, responsible for rail road accidents. Several months ago a Rock Island brakeman was brought to this city with his arm in a horribly man gled condition, the result of having it caught between a Janney coupler and an old fashioned coupling, and last night a Rock Island switchman employed in the yards in this city, was taken to the Santa Fe hospital with his right hand in the same condition from the same cause. J. J. Flynn is the name of the switch man injured last night, and he resides in South Topeka. In attempting to make a coupling between a Janney coupler and an old fashioned coupling his right hand was caught between the irons and severely mashed. The middle finger of his hand was in such a mutilated condition that amputation was necessary last night. Tha remaining fingers can probably be saved. Our work will please you. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. Sth St. THE AEIZ0NA KICKER A CARD FROM THE POSTMASTER, WHO IS OURSELF. Licking Postage Stamps Beneath the Dig nity of the United State Jack Preston, the Cowboy Peet An Editor's Mistake XXow Joe Williams Surprised Kinney. Wo are the postmaster of this town, and whilo occupying the exalted position we propose to keep right on feeling that wa are more or less the United States. The day after we took possession of the office we gave notice that it was beneath the dignity of a postmaster to lick stamps on to letters. Our predecessor had done it in order to curry favor with the public, but we had no such object in view. We promptly and positively refused to lick, and though we offended scores of citizens for the time being all of them eventually came round to our way of thinking. It has been three months since any one re quested us to lick, but last Tuesday a stranger in town named Baker entered the office and bought a stamp and demanded that wo paste it to his letter. His manner was very offensive, and after a few words had been exchanged he announced that we must either lick the stump or he would lick us. We passed out into the corridor and he tackled us, and it took us just flvo minutes to make him holler. We did not lick him as editor of The Kicker, mayor, senator or deputy United States marshal, but as postmaster and to maintain the dignity of the United States, and after be ing restored to consciousness he made us an ample apology and admitted that we could have taken no other course under the circumstances. He was able to limp out of town next day, and he departed for Pine Hill, where the postmaster not only licks on all the stamps, but has never dared send a letter to the dead letter office for lack of postage. If there is any other critter in Arizona who thinks we haven't made up our mind on this matter, he 'will oblige us by making an early call. Give Him a Show. Mr. Jack Preston, the cowboy poet of Arizona, leaves for the east this week to become the New York correspondent of The Kicker. He will take along his cayuse, lasso, guns, sombrero and other fittings, and wo trust that New Yorkers will give him a fair show and try to make things pleasant for him. It will be hard for Mr. Preston to assimilate with the effete east at the first go off. He will want to sleep OS the billiard table, eat with his fingers HIS WOUNDS ARE an3 shoot at tho gas fixtures for awhile, and his programme is to ride up and down Broadway on his cayuso and give exhibi tions of his dexterity with tho lasso. Xf permitted to slosh around after his old way, he will gradually rub the grass off his back and bo able to take the head of tho class at a 60 cent table d'hote dinner. If they go to sitting down on him at the outset, they will discourage a brave man and spoil a good newspaper correspondent. Ho leaves hore with six gallons of Arizona "cheer up," four pounds of plug tobacco and letters of introduction to various peo ple, and wo have every hope that he will score a great success. An Editor's Mistake. Wo went over to Lone Jack on business tho other day and arrived there just as a doctor was binding up the hurts received by tho editor of The Recorder in a little affair with a fellow townsman. There is a man in Lone Jack who calls himself "Terri ble Bill" White, and he strenuously insists that everybody give him his full name. He will not take a letter from the postoffice unless that "Terrible" is written in a bold hand on the envelope, and this fact was well known to The Recorder man. In the hurry of going to press, however, he wrote a short item in which Mr. White was men tioned as T. Bill White. Two hours later "Terrible" White walked in on him and de manded satisfaction and got it by slam ming the editor around the office until tho flame of lifo burned low in his lamp. No arrests followed. In fact, the sympathies of the people were with the man with the handle to his name. Whenever a critter in Giveadam Gulch gets the idea that he is "terrible," "blood red," "sure death" or "awful," we never fail to givehim his full title. It pleases him and does no one else any damage, and when his subscription runs out ho not only promptly renews, but generally induces Slaughter House Tom or Bowie Knife Charley to also put up for a year. A Surprised Man. A man named Finney from New Mexico arrived in town tho other day for the ex press puprose of shooting Colonel Joe Wil liams to satisfy an old grudgo. He was passing up and down the street and mak ing inquiries when he ran up against the colonel, and before he could get his gun out of its holster he had a bullet in his shoulder and a second through his hand, and was laid out. We were interviewing him yesterday, and he had not yet recov ered from his surprise, .although his wounds were doing nicely. He had plan ned for a year or more to come here and pop the colonel. He had traveled a dis tance of 450 miles, and had thought it all out a hundred times. To bump up against his victim and be knocked out in a breath was a feature he hadn't provided for, and it will be throe or four days yet before his brain is clear on that subject. Colonel Joe doesn't know why the man sought his life, anu he isn't interested enough to inquire. MSMr In this country, when a stranger walks rjp lo you with his hand tugging; away at tha butt of a revolver, it is considered good manners to get the drop on him first and ask questions afterward. Mr. Finney says he shall start for home as soon as able and abandon his idea of killing the colonel. That is very kind and sweet of him, and on behalf of the community we return thanks. Our Paths Diverge. We are sorry to announce the fact that Colonel Chilton, who was among the first dozen subscribers to The Kicker, has stop ped his paper and is no longer our friend and well wisher. The colonel is a man who takes a newspaper for the sole pur pose of keeping posted on the murder rec ord in the United States. Neither politics, poetry, story nor local news is of the slightest interest to him. There has hardly been a week in all these years in which he has not complained of us. On occasions we have published as high as 60 murders, but the colonel suspected that we left out ten or a dozen. lu order to satisfy him we have published the particulars of fictitious murders, and he has caused us more anxi ety than any hundred subscribers. Lost week he notified us that unless we could get up a list at least two columns long he should stop his subscription. "We hunted through 400 exchanges and could only make out a column and a half. He called yesterday and ordered his paper stopped, snd added that we seemed to be losing our enterprise and ambition and could hope to retain his friendship no longer. We are sorry in a way to see the colonel go, and yet it is a grtafc relief to us to be rid of the murder department being run for his spe cial benefit. We shall divide up the space between agriculture and poetry, and have no doubt the change Will be welcomed by others. Even though the colonel is no longer our friend, our exchange list is at his servico, and we will go as far as to mark all the murders we happen to see With a red lead pencil. He will also find our demijohn in its usual place, and wa shan't object to lending him our white shirt occasionally when he is to act aa referee at a dog fight. M. Quad. Reflections of a Bachelor. No woman with a beautiful soul ever bad an unlovely laugh. A man is as fat as he looks and a wom an as fat as she wants to look. A girl's idea of sympathy Is to loot grieved and pat a man's hand. Fortune may knock at every man's door, but it is generally gone by the time he can get his coat on. Kvery woman keeps a list in her head oi people she won't invite if she can ever af ford to give a party. New York Press. DOING NICELY. A Hostler. Farmer Grayneck That feller Hookh is the greatest chap to combine business with pleasure that I over seen. Fariiier Dunk That so? Former Grayneck Yes. When his mother-in-law, who had gone over to Squantuin on a visit, suddenly died there, he went over to attend the funeral, and before the services dropped into a photograph gallery to have his picture taken while he was sure to look pleasant. New York Sunday World. True Self Sacrifice. "This is a splendid chance for you to tackle papa, George." "How so?" "He's just home from a fishing trip, and if he can get you to listen to his stories he'll give you anything you ask for." "I'll do it for your sake, dearest." Cleveland Plain Dealer. All Over. Blinks (after a long absence) And how is Jinks getting along? Is ho as madly in love with Miss De Pretty as ever? Old Friend Oh, he's all over that. "You don't say so." "Yes, indeed; been married to-her a year." Now York Weekly. Slow Gear He That crank has been talking wom an's rights again. She Yes. He's been talking them for the last three years. "Too bad he can't get some of this year's wheels." Yonkers Statesman. Good News for II i in. "You aro destined to marry riches, tho eeeress said, "but" "But whotf" "Death will claim you two years before the event." Town Topics. Her Sweet Mistake. The billiard balls with merry clack Went spinning on their way Where sweetest Sue and Cousin Jack Essayed the game to play. Twas time for Sue to shoot, and she Performed some passes queer. While Jack looked on. amused to see Her shove the shining sphere. She strove to raise her lagging score. With careful liand she pkiyed. But fortune failed to hover o'er The dainty, dimpled maid. "Ah, he!" cried Jack. "Those balls have kissed." He g&yly cliallted his cue. Preparing for the fionl twist. "And now it's my turn, Sue." She blushed, then shyly raised her head. Her bright blue eyes aglow. "You'll have to hurry. Jack," she said. "Or ma will come, you know." New York Sunday Journal. SIMPLY DELICIOUS. How Expert Pastry Cook Male Fresh Strawberry Pfe. One of the most delicious of all pastr Is a pie of fresh strawberries. Xiine deep tin pieplate with the nicest pastry you can prepare. Fill fine pastry with uncooked rice and bake it in the oven, When the paste is done remove the rice J it cam be eoaked and used for boilingi or it may be kept on. hand to bake in pastry. It simply serves to prevent tho form of pastry from rising' and getting out of shape as it would if it were not filled. Apple jelly is sometimes used to fill the pie, and when the crust is baked its contents are scraped out, leav ing' perhaps a quarter of an inch of jelly in the bottom. The apple jelly is some times g-iven the exact flavor of straw berries by mixing' strawberry juice in equal proportions with apple juice when the jelly is made. When the crust is filled with jelly it makes a rather more elaborate pie, but takes n.o.-e time. In either case, as soon as the crust is baked dredge a little sugar over it and fill it with perfectly ripe, luscious straw berries well sweetened. Heap sweet ened and whipped cream thickly over it. It may also be covered with a mer-ing-ue made of the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, four tablespoou fuls of sugar a-nd the juice of half a small lemon. Cover the berries careful ly with the mering-ue. which is a non conductor of heat, and isolate the pie plate holding' the pie from the oven bot tom by setting- it on a thick pine board, and bake the mering-ue in this way in a moderately hot oven for 20 minutes. If the work of isolation has been properly done the berries will not be heated, but the meringue will have risen and will be w ell done and only a delicate brown. Iieinove the pie to a cold plate and let it become' ice cold before serving- it. X. Y. Tribune. A DELIGHTFUL CORNER. Convenient Dook Case Conjblsed with n. CoinfortIle Conch.' A couch is an indispensable article in a room that is frequented as the "living room" of the family. In cultivated homes this room is apt to be the li brary. Here modern taste calls for low book cases, with broad top for thj 'accommodation of clock lamps, jar dinieres and bric-a-brac. A corner case of this sort can very easily be combined with a couch after the manner suggest ed in the accompanying illustration. Here one may take his ease, with a! his favorite volumes convenient to his hand, while at night the larnp above his head will make reading and rest irg especially delightful. The bookcase proper is broken up by drawers and curtained spaces, to take away the "set" look that long rows of book shelves can hardly help having. Peneath the couch are three capacious drawers for the convenient holding of old magazines, pamphlets or files of pe riodicals one may wish to preserve. Such drawers are exceedingly con- 4 Mwkhi i rr-- r 7V COENER FOR REST AND READING. venient in a library, and could hardly ie had without some combination of this sort. The ton of the bookcasp should be 12 inches wide. This gives plenty of top space, and alto a chance to have drawers that ore quite com modious. The wood used for this com bination should be of quartered oak for top drawer fronts and end panels no wood is richer while for tlv r.-st a' the work unq uartered oak or-n be usee1 though of course the furnishing of t) room, if already furnished, may r quire another kind of wood. Oak, ho ever, appears particularly wcil adnptc for library use. Country Gentleman. Hew Shades In Stationery. A leading stationer shows a window full of opalescent shades in new sta tionery, some of which have peculiarly paradoxical names. They are all a Grecian bond paper. One, n darker blue than the others, is called Turkish blue, and a certain pretty sized is called the Victor. They are all absolutely new, and pretty indeed. The new salmon pirak, called crevette, a sort of pink cream, is one of the prettiest, while tho colonial buff for colonial dames is also, very dainty. The violet shades are as popular as the violets tlnenrseJves. Hot Mill! cs Jintrlment. If anyone doubts the nourishing properties of milk, let a test fee made of the following preparation of it: When very weary or weak from exhaustion, heat some milk to the scalding point, until a thin ckin begins to wrinkle upon, the burface, and then drink it as hot as possible. It refreshes almost insta-ntly and restores the exhausted vitality to a surprising extent as soon as it is taken. It is more nutritious than any of t.hex beef teas made firom meat extracts, or that made from fresh beef. "They are dandies," said Thos. Bow ers, of the Crocket, Texas, Enterprise, while writing about DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for sick headache and disorders of tha stomach and liver. George V. Stans field. 632 Kansas avenue. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FOR RENT Five-room brick cottar 1018 Fillmore St. Apply to S. M. "Wood, 6th and Kan. Ave; ,"OR RENT Two pleasant unfurnished L rooms. S21 Monroe St. i"OR SALE Refrigerator, fruit jars, household eroods: will take a trootl trunk in exchange. 100 Monroe St. TAKEN T'P One brown mare branded with heart on left foreshoulder. in. quire at police station. k i i 1 zrtts. y 'Z i

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8. 1897. 7 n f nASTS,REXTS,SIT- V- f UATIONS, HEAL ESTATE, AUO n U U TIOS SALES AM) OTHER CLASSIFIED AD VERTISEMENTS SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Are you in need of work? If so, you are at liberty to use these columns for as sistance in tnat direction. v niie i" notice appears the State Journal will pub lish free on Saturday, Monday and Tues day, for Topeka or Kansas people, all notices of 'Situations Wanted," not to excfr-d five lines, or thirty-five words. In length, provided that all advertisements of th,tt nature are handed in previous to 10 o'clock Saturday morning: also on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, all advertising of this class handed in by 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. No advertisements of this nature to be started except on Saturdays and Wednes days. No obligation is incurred on the part of I'r.o advertiser. No worthy and needy man or woman need hesitate to take advantage of this offer. No one In busin-ss or rjaving employment is ex pected to take advantage of it, but all others are invited to avail themselves freely. The T'.peka State Journal guarantees every day it is printed, to give a local circulation by far more than all other tail i s combined. This makes this paper the cheapest, as well as the best, daily medi'im In Topeka, the classified adver tisements below costing but Fitfe Cents Line, or 50 cents a line for a week; 50 cents by the month. Average circulation for the year, 1896, IO,769. Sworn detailed statement of circulation presented to advertisers on application. Call and see. any afternoon between 3 and 5 o'clock, the handsomest, fastest, most perfect piece of machinery in Kan fas a Web Perfecting Press which prints from two to three complete S-page papers per second. ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for voimty clerk, subi-ct to the Repub lican primaries, Julv loth. 1S97. JOHN ii. WRIGHT. 1am a candidate for register of deeds, subject to the Republican primaries to be held July lu, 1SS7. JOHN RITCHIE. thereby announce myself as a candi date tor tne offi e of county clerk of Shawnee county, subject to the Republi can primaries, July lu. 1;7. MILTON E. STOKER. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the nomination of county clerk, sub ject to the Republican primaries. July 10, lst'7. THOS. E. POUNDS. I am a candidate for the office of sher-. itf. subject to the action of the Re publican primaries Julv 10. 1597. JOHN W. GARDINER. T hereby announce myself as a candidate -for the office of county clerk of Shaw nee county, subject to the Republican primaries, July 10. 1S7. FRANK C. BOWEN. T hereby announce myself as a candi--date for the office of county treasurer, Fiibject to the Republican primaries. July lo. y7. Trusting my experience as deputy for the past twelve years may be of some value to the tax-pavers of Shawnee coun ty. EMMA W. WALLACE. 1am a candidate for sheriff of Shawnee count v. subject to the decision of the Republican primaries, to be held Julv 10. I have lived in Shawnee county IS years and have never held an oticie. It elected I will enforce ALL the laws. ARTHUR M. MASSEY. T am a candidate for the nomination for register of deeds, subject to the J-:epuollcan primaries to De held July 10, ls7. J. W. MAXWELL, Printer. T am a candidate for register of deeds, subject to the Republican primaries to De held July 10. lSHi. I. T. LOCKARD. WANTED HELP. ANTED Salesmen to handle the Ledgerette Bill File: sells for $2.25: merchants buy it: good commission on every sale. Paying side line. Address Wm. Randolph Adams, Mfgr., Topeka. W ANTED Place to work by boy 1; years. Address C, Journal. V" ANTED By a worthy young man 19 years of age. an apprenticeship as clerk in a drug store. Address M. A.. Journal. VI ANTED- Position by young man In T stor- or restaurant. References. J. R. M., Journal. ATANTEI) Position as salesman in re- tail store, having had eight years' of expprier.c-. can give best of references. Address Hox 142 Belleville, Kan. l" ANTED Work by printer. Am V. ye;i rs old. sinorle 10 veu r ovnoriunnQ in newspuper work: references.' Will go anywhere: do anything. Harvey Eckert, Lamed, Kan. "VVAN TED By middle aged ladv. home In private house as housekeeper or Journal11' work- Aadress Housekeeper, V" ANTED Ladies with some knowl- edge of sewing, who would like to travel or secure good paying position at home. Call over 712 Kan. Ave. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. U"AXTED-Ad idea. Who can think of fi'me BlmPle thing to patent? Protect Jtb.r ideas; they may bring you wealth. v rt'e John Weri rv.,n-T, x- tX tt. I":. Patent Attorneys. Washington d' c'' lor their $1 goo prize offer and new list o'r 1' it:v,wtions wanted. W ANTED M I SCEUL AN EOUS. W ANTED The public to know Rice Ur..a. serve ice cream and soda wa ter eveiy day at their parlor, 1211 Kan. Ave. Everything first-class. ANTED A high grade wheel: must be cheap for cash. A. R.. Journal. AXTED Your carpet to weave, aec T end house on Buchanan north of Gordon, N. Topeka. ANTED Te want to make some gilt-edged loans on farms In Shawnee Co. Call on us at once. T. E. BOWMAN CO., Columbian Building. W ANTED Watches to clean 75c:clocks h!.c; main springs, 75c: sryatals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work fuaranteed. Money loaned on valuables. t hard up, see Uncle Sam. 512 Kan. Ave. V ANTED" Your household goods to nnelr mnv nr store. Merchants' transfer Storage Co. Tel. 1SS. BAliN KXIViNl?iirt, 123 East Sixth. St. "V- T T l 1 1 .1 .1 -11 a n 1 An $1, guaranteed for the season: old burners replaced by improved new burners. Full line of summer stoves. Hull Stove Repair Co.. 116 E. Sth. 'Phone 313. 1'ANTED Pa rties expecting FREIG HT to leave their bills of ladtng, or call ns by 'phone. Prompt delivery made on flay of arrival. TOPEKA TRANSFER CO., wy Kan. Ave. j1.11.ner ynoue sal. P. Bacon. Prop. AGENTS WANTED. GENTS Visit stores; sell machine for ormting large signs on fences bridges, rocks, sidewalks any rough sur face. Axto cu., ttacine, wis. FOR RENT-HOUSES. FOR RENT NTew 6-room house, 711 E, 7th. A. C. Elder, till Kan. Ave. FOR RENT ROOMS. f?CRRENTP Two for light housekeeping. 3J7 E. 8th lOR RENT Furnished upper east front room, witn large closet. 421 tjuincy. "OR RENT Pleasant furnished front room, with bath. 1103 Taylor street. IOST AND FOUND. poUND--The place to ret your picture repaired. 8U0 Kan. Ave., upstairs. FOR SALE-WISCELLANEOUS. T L"BLlt(SAlE""of9r' Jersey cattle, some registered. Aso 25 head Poland China hogs, at North To peka stock yards. Thursday. 10 a. m June 10, JOHN EWING, Prop. Hungate Son, Salesmen. TT'OR SALE A heavy draft horse, or ex--- change for one about 1100. Topeka Vinegar Works. I?OR SALE A bargain. The entire con- thing almost new. C. D., Journal. POR SALE 100,000 cabbage, tomato and A sweet potato plants at SI per 1,000. H. E. Fletcher. 1 mile northwest-. of Shorev postoffice. jOR SALE Piano (Steinway Square), L elegant tone, cheap. Babcock Frost. 70R SALE Pair wagon scales, barn, sheds, horses, wagons, coal beds, lum ber, cheap. 1012 N. Kan. Ave. E. P. E wart. YV ANTED Pupils desiring private tutorage, either to make un work or to do advance work, should see W. H. Wright, 522 Lincoln. It'OR SALE Threshing outfit in Ells worth Co.. Kan. Separator used but 27 days. Everything in the drv. For par ticulars ad. Jas. C. Kevan. Denison. Kan. fTOR SALE Beautiful new '98 model Rambler bicycle, cheap. 234 Kan. Ave. MISCELLANEOUS. ijOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CON--L11 CERN Be it known that mv Detition is on file in the office of the probate court 01 Bnawnee county, Kansas, asking tor a permit to sell Intoxicating liquors at SOS West Twelfth street, in the Third ward in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of the same is set for Mon day, 9 a. m.( July 12, 1S97. A. O. KUBSEK. Topeka, Kansas, June 7th, 1897, '1 HO10 monthly and expenses paid O X KJ-r salesmen for cigars; experience unnecessary; permanent position. W. X.. Kline Co., St. Louis. TENTS! TENTS'. For rent and for sale; camping outfits, awninsrs, etc., at 215 Kan. Ave. Kansas xent 3c Awning tjo. Telephone 612. CLOTHES WRINGERS and rubber hose repaired. Work warranted. 323 Jack son St. C'iOME SOUTH Anyone having $5,000 to invest In a first-class hotel business, best location, long lease, beautiful city, write me: I want to retire. W. B. Michael, St. James Hotel. Chattanooga, Tenn. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Kansas, Shawnee coun ty, ss. in the Probate court and for said county. In the matter of the estate of Carrie M. Crosby, deceased. Creditors and all other persons Inter ested in the aforesaid estate are hereby notilied that I shall apply to the Probate court, in and for said county, sitting at the court house, in Topeka, county of Shawnee, State of Kansas, on the 15tn day of June, A. D. 1S97, for a full and final settlement of said estate. WARREN M. CROSBY. Executor of the estate of Carrie M. Crosby, deceased. May 5th, A. D. 1897. CTOLEN On May 18, from W. F. Me k Henry, 627 Quincy St., a "Freeman" bicycle. No. 15845, blue enamel, striped, Niagara pedals, 7-in. cranks, upturned bars, vim tires, '05 model, -nearly new. Reward for information leading to re covery. Quincy Street Bicycle Livery. ITiINE KNIFE PLAITINGS made to order of chiffon, organdie, silk, etc., from 1 to 9 inches deep. Mrs. Mercer, Crosby Bros. FOR BUILDINO AND PAVINQ BRICK Inquire at 404 Kan. Ave. Yiavi The best known remedy for women. Ladies In attendance, Kansas Viavi Co.. 2 Columbian Building. Topeka. IT'OR VIEWS ot residence or parlor. stock.groups, etc., or photos of any interior or outside views see Farrow. 811 Kan. Ava. FOR SALE-REAL. ESTATE. If you want to sell If you want to buy If vou want to rent If you want to trade If i u want a loan on CALL OX OK WRITE I!EAX ESTATE) T. G. ShilllnKlaw. 116 E. Fifth St.. Topeka, Kas. LAWYERS. L. REDDEN, A.. LAWYER. Room 38 Columbian Bldg., Topeka, Kan. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Geo. W. Hogeboom, M. D. Office hours. 10 to 12 a. m., 3 to 5 p. m. H. B. Hogeboom, M. D. Office hour 3 to 10 a. tn., 4 to 6 p. m. iKs. uouEnnou. Office-, S33 Kan. Ave. Tel. 14. Residence, 801 Sixth Ave. West. Tel. 13. J DA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kan. Ave. Residence ISth and Clay. Offce hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. m. to B p. m. Telephone &9S resi dence, and l? office. IV EDWARD ESTERLY, M. D. EYE AND EAR. 723 Kansas avenue. 0 A. RYDER. M. D. FFICE and residence cor. Gordon St. and Central Ave.. North Tcpeka, 'Phone 214. ctses the Brlnkerhoff system of Recta! treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, fish ure, ulceration, etc C3 E. SHELDON, M. t.. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office: Ho. 720 Kan. Ava. "TkR. EVA HARDING, HOMEOFATHTST. Harrison 'phone S3. 629 Kansas Ave. Bell 'Phone 403. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries; bicycles and tandems for rent: repairing of all kinds. FUEL AND FEED. LEAVE your orders for COAL, Flour, Feed and Seeds with Van Slycl. 60S W. 10th. MONEY. M ONEY TO LOAN on chattels. R. Dietrich Co., 827 Kan. Ave. FOR SHORT time loans call at 206 Kan sas avenue. Telephone 147. T OANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Blscoe, 523 Kan. Ave. f ONEY TO LOAN Savings and Loan Association, Sixth and Kansas Ave. TIN SHOPS. r M. BAIRD. hot air furnaces, galvan ized and tin roofing. 215 W. 6th. Tel. 359. JEWELERS- TAMES R. HAYDEK. Jeweler and Ot tlcian. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. Q RAND OPERA HOUSE Wednesday Hveniug, J line 9. De Wolf Hopper And his Famous Opera Company, Present ing on a Scale of Unexampled Splendor JOHN PHILIP SOl'SA'S Brilliant Musical Sensation, EL CAPITAN Boot by CHARLES KIF.IS. A Succession of Sumptuous Surprises, Entire Original Cast of Principals, A Splendid Chorus of Fifty Voices, Magnificent Costumes, A Superb Scenic Spectacle, An Augmented Orchestra. Sousa's Delicious Melodies'. Circulation Growth. In the year 18S5 the circula tion was 800 January 1st, '91, were printed 3,125 Dally average for year 1891.. 4,880 Daily average for year 1892.. 5,069 Daily average for year 1893.. 6,213 Daily average for year 1894.. 8,418 Daily average for year 1895.. 9,217 Daily average for yeari890.. 10,769 Daily average for first three months 1897 11,917 In 1896 the State Jour nal 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 Kan sas avenue and Eighth st. The building is one of the most complete newspaper structures in the west and has many unique features among these are construc tion and arrangement by which the four Linotypes are seen in operation be hind plate glass facing Kan sas ave., and also through a larsre jrlass window from he business office. X)on't advertise in the State Journal unless you feel confident that its daily circulation exceeds 11,000. Any evidence apparently to the contrary will be cheer fully received and proof produced to convince tho most skeptical that we do not claim anything about our circulation for which we cannot vouch. The State Journal lias u larger circulation than any other daily paper published in the great state of Kan sas. It requires forty-three (43) carriers (exclusive of newsboys), to circulate the paper in Topeka and sub urbs. The State Journal re ceives the full day leased wire Associated Press re port, is a member of the American Newspaper Pub lishers' Association, has 4 Linotypes, fast Web Per fecting Press, etc. THE TWO FLATS. He had a flat and she had a fiat. I was about flats they began to talk when first they met. Said he, "Mine is the most convenient little place" "Oh, so is mine," said she. "I ha-ve a charming sitting room and a little dining room. My own bedroom is quite a regal apartment, and I have a lit tle den where I can always put a fellow up." "I have three bedrooms," quoth she. "But not a bathroom," ba said firmly. "Now, I" "But I have a bathroom a beauty. Heaps of hot water." "Mine has a shower bath." "I can't say I care about a shower bath." She became gracious. She said: "You must come and see my flat. I am always at home on Sundays. And he went. The porter kept him waiting noma minutes in the hall. Ha groped with aggressive caution in the pas sage when the maid had admitted him, and knocked over the umbrella loudly. His smile was beautiful and bland as he entered her drawing room. "I am so sorry to enter in such a noisy fashion," he said, "but it's so dark in your passage that I could see nothing, and I'm afraid I have knocked over a lot of things. "We have the electric light," she repliad sharply. "Why was it not turned on?" "Perhaps something has gone wrong with it," he said kindly. "These electric lights are not quite dependable. I always use old fashioned lamps myself." "Awfully niffy, aren't theyf" she said laughing and holding her nose. "I think I could give you a hint about your mantelpiece," he said presently. "If you saw mine, it's" "But I haven't seen yours, you see, and at present I am quite pleased with my own." The atmosphere was charged with War. He planned a little dinner, with the theater afterward. She must see his flat. Her aunt should chaperon her, and ha would ask Heathcote she knew Heath cote; he was at the dinner the other night i to make a fourth. "My dining room is only a slip of a room" "Ah, you should see mine!" she cried, ungratefully. She took him along the passage (now lit) and flun.sr open the dining room door. "Very hot in summer time, I'm afraid," he said doubtfully. "And warm in winter. She showed him her little dodge for summoning her parlor maid without get ting up from the table, her oak sideboard picked up, a great bargain, at a country sale ("Some little bits of it really are genuine," he said); her new blinds, her book shelves, her escritoire with the funny little drawers. His whole air said, "Wait till Wednes day." Wednesday was the day she was to dine with him. "Oh, I wish I could show him the bed rooms," she thought. "My own dressing table and the spare bedroom carpet would, must, impress him. But perhaps ho would think it odd." "What I like about my flat," he said, walking down the passage again and sniffing slightly, "is the little hall. I have a little hall with a skylight, and it makes the whole place so light and airy." "Rather a waste of room, isn't itf" "Oh, no! I use it as a smoking room." "Every room must smell of tobacco," she said, bidding him goodby. "So drafty too!" "But one doesn't bark one's shina in it," he said, smiling, and knocking over the umbrella again. She said to herself, with religious fer vor, "Oh, I will be nasty about his things on Wednesday!" But her aunt spoiled it all. Her aunt was prepared to be pleased with every thing. Her aunt had no tact. She ad mired his room (where they left their cloaks), his hall, his lamps, even his hor rid little dining room; while her niece wrung her hands and writhed. "I really believe," said the aunt, gcod naturedly. "I really believe I like this flat better than my niece's." "I couldn't live in such a place!" cried her niece wildly, and Mr. Heathcote stared. His triumph disposed him kindly toward her. He came often to her flat. He once admired her ceilings. He said the dining room was sunny. He proposed. She ac cepted him. And they forgot all their quarrels and became sentimental at once. "The flat has felt a little lonely some times, she admitted. "Butnowl" She gave him a fond look. "My sitting room just wants a woman's touch," he said. And it was an enormous concession to make. "But now, sweetest, it will be perfect." "You will be able to hang all my pic tures," she went on. "I have always had an upholsterer to do it before." "And you shall hold the nails, darling." "You will be able to fuss about the hot water pipes when they go wrong," she said. And as she added up his occupa tions she was delighted to find that even a man has his uses. "My hot water pipes do not go wrong," ho said superbly. "But mine do." "When you come to my home, love" "When you come to mine." "I do not think you can seriously sup pose, dearest, that it would not be more, fitting that my flat should now be our joint home. "My dear boy, it would not hold us." "It will hold us admirably. The sainll bedroom shall be my dressing room, and the hall well, you know, the hall can be anything." "My dining room will dine ten people. What should we" "Mine is a cozy little place for two." "But the extra bedroom, dear, and the electric light." "A woman must give up even the elec tric light and cling to her husband." "Oh, I won't!" she said; "I won't!" Thus they parted. There are two charmingly furnished flats still occupied by two separate owners. One is on the Cadogan estate and one is near Portman square. .Neither of them Is to be. let. A house agent who lived near one of them asked, with a smile, if he might put this one on bis list; but he was told, with withering scorn, that, had it been to let, he would have been given notice in due form. So fur the fiat suited its present owner admirably. This is the story of the two flats as far as it oan be told at present. Sketch. Another Kind. Jiggins is the worst baseball crank I ever met." "I thought he disliked the game." "That's just it. He can't talk intelli gently about it himself and loses his tem per when other people try to." Washing ton Star. A BOHEMIAN QUEEN. We were seated in one of the rooms of a pretty Parisian eafe. It was a luxurious ly furnished apartment, arranged with ex treme taste. My companion was a specu lator on the bourse, a man with exhaust ive knowledge of the boulevards. As we were waiting for an order to bo placed be fore us I casually scrutinized the apart ment. Behind us was a large mirror, and written upon it with a diamond ring was the word "Julie." Puffing at a cigarette, involuntarily came a feeling of curiosity. Who was Julie? That word was written in an attractive feminine hand. In what particular field of Bohemia had she moved? The cafe was frequented almost exclu sively by painters, sculptors, musicians and members of tha theatrical profession whose names were familiar to the public. I called the attention of my companion to the inscription and asked him who Julia was, but he replied that the lady had flourished before his time, since he had seen the writing on the mirror when, 20 years before, he had first come to Paris. The waiter placed before us an appetizing repast, and my friend, in the diverting manner of his countrymen, launched forth with an interesting oriticism of current topics while we enjoyad the good fare for which the proprietor of tha place was famed. The next day I took a trip up the Seine and stopped for dinner at a little eating house which, from time immemorial, had been a rendezvous of artists. The rosy cheeked waiter placed a small bottle of wine before me on a table in which were carved as many letters as though the place were a resort for college students. There were maoy famous names engrossed there, and the proprietor pointed to them with pride, reealHng the time when these artists were unknown and led the happy, careless life of Bohemians, who bad copper instead of silver and gold jingling ha their pock ets. Suddenly my attention was called to a word carved there "Julie." "Who is Julio?" I asked. The proprietor replied that the name was placed there by an artist, now re nowned, and led ma to a room where many rough pencil skctohes were framed. This collection he prized highly, as well he might, for there in caricature and oth erwise were seen the faces of men and women who had caused a furore not only in Paris, but throughout the world of art. Among them was the portrait of a girl, vivaoious and charming. I fixed her fea tures in my mind. Suoh was the second step in delving into a bit of the past in Bo hemia. This delighftul girl appeared in a new role soon. I was looking over some old canvases In a junkshop when, lo and be hold, I came across what was undoubtedly an unfinished Coutisr. Moreover, the face was that of Julie. The master had painted her in tr-v garb of a peasant, or perhaps he had met her before she came to Paris and only painted a bit of nature. She was alone in tha fields, and the majesty of the pose and the remarkable grace and strength of the figure were quite charaoteristio of the great artist. Julie in the fields was very different from Julie in the boulevards. Around her was the quiet of eventide. In the distance was the outline of a house which was the dwelling of a peasant. Here, however, was a cue, and 1 asked many French painters whom I had met incidentally if they had ever seen the orig inal of my painting, for I purchased the sketch from the proprietor of the shop for a more notKing. But many of the old artist's pupils could not recall the face of the girl. Purely out of curiosity I largely pursued the investigation, just to see how easily a queen of Bohemia may be by the world forgotten and pass out of sight alto, gether. Besides, here, I thought, was the oppor tunity for a little romance the life of Julie, whose name was carried from one. generation to another in these resortB of talented people. Sometimes in studying the works of art of an epoch of painting one face may be seen appearing and reap pearing, the features of some favorite like Julie who might have charmed Titian and his friends or Raphael and his disci ples. Everywhere we turn in the old gal leries this memory of the past confronts us. Now it is a Madonna, then a Magdalene, but the observer knows it is a real person, or one who has lived, who looks out from all these canvases, and wonders what tales of Bohemia in those golden days of art might be unfolded if those lips could speak. So in many places glimpses of Julie were seen. A charming statuette revealed her in vivacious mood. She was one of the figures in a ballroom scene. Upon a celebrated monument an unmis takable likeness to her features lowis-'d down benignly. Her personality seert.-d to be thoroughly imbedded in the art of Paris. One day while in a large gallery I dis covered a grewsome scene at the morgue a young girl lying upon the marble slab. It was a magnificent work, but startling in its realism, and yet it belonged to that period of French art when realism was in its infanoy. But a chill went through me when I recognized the fsat uresof the young girl who figured so prom inently in the art of the day. Was this the Julie of whom De Musset sang or sev eral prominent novelists wrote not dis sected, for they did not dissect people in a literary manner in those refreshing days? The attendant at the museum told his little story about the picture and the painter. "It was painted from life," he said. "It was an actual episode." "Who was she?" "We don't know that." One day while strolling through one of the pretty cemeteries I came to a grave marked by a plain stone. "Julie," it said. "Who sba was is known to her friends. When she died will be remembered by them. When she was born, we do not know.- Enshrined in the hearts of poets, artists and sculptors are written her vir tues. What does it matter to others?" And that was as far as I ever went in my investigation. Exchange. Hot Ser Slxtt. The Philadelphia Record tells of a coun try woman who reoently went to a Harris burg hotfll and asked for a room. After assigning her a room the clerk handed the key to the "Front" and ordered him to show the lady to room 12. The boy ush ered her into the elevator, and was just about to close the door when she exclaimed in a voice loud enough to be beard through out the entire office: "Oh, this room is too small. Can't you give me a larger one?"' Xtepentaace That Cunt Too SLate. Mrs. Benham The newspaper has quite an account of a man who committed big amy. I don't see why a man should want more than one wife. Benham I don't sea wiiy he should want one. Town Xqpiga. J Showing. The Topeka Daily State "Journal's c For the First Three Months of 1817 Has Bees As f January, 299,825 FOLLOWS: 1 February, 290,000 March, 327,845 SHOWING A DAILY CIRCULATION GROWTH. In the year 1885 the circulation was 890 January 1st, 1891, were printed..,. S, 125 Dally average for year 1801 4,3 SO Dally average for year 1892 6,969 Daily average for year 1893 6,813 Dally average for year 1894 8,418 Daily average for year 1895 9,217 Daily average for year 1896 10,769 Daily average for first three months 1897.. 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- or an average growth of 1,000 a year. The State Journal receives the full day leased- wire Associated Press report, is a member of te t American Newspaper PubJipbiers' Association haa four Linotypes, fast Web Perfecting Press, etc. The State Journal has a larger circulation than any other daily paper published m the great J state of Kansas. It requires forty-three carriers I (exclusive of newsboys) to circulate the paper in I Topeka and suburbs. Dudley's Livery, 8th Avenue Stables. Horses and Buggies for sale. Hoarding liorsesa specialty. City broke horses to hire to ladies by the day or month. Prices in line with the times. Vr'. clip horses. Call and see us. I'lienf 683. JOHN DUDLEY, Prop. Topeka Ave. and Stk. Asphalt Paving. I am prepared to lay street pavements, sidewalks, drive ways, floors, etc., of Natural Asphalt from the Indian Terri tory, at reasonable price. ESTIMATES FCBXI8HED. J. BRADLEY, Mgr. ISO East nrtb Street. TWEK4 KANSAS Missouri Paoifio. TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM., So. 285. Leave Topeka 8:00 a. m. TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM.. No. 284. ArtiT. Topeka 5:80 p. m. Great Western Steam Dye ..and Cleaning: Works 121 East fceventii Street. Does the best work In the city of Eye lns. Cleaning and Repairing on Laiilies and Gentlemen's clothing at reasonable prices. Give us a calL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. F. C. KODIGEB, Prop. Made From Old Carpets. ST. LOUIS RUG CO., 33S Fmaklia Ave., ST. LOUIS, M Send f.r price list. irwm w&m jo Bi9X3tup -q pjof? "Mil Jaqi uJkoioj uont&3inp SlO-aVOSJ TtT8JIri 3NIOI03W AllMVi 1V3QI NV 8-Dme r HCAITII CONSTIPATION CONGESTION 1 Httl. Pill. quickly UCAPlAiUC LEROT H cur. I 1 L-V I I I Pari E Fougera Co., New York m Rug's 1 II f Thos I little P IRCULATION AVERAGE OF' "3

When you eat in Kansas City, Mo., Remember that you will rse a face and form familiar to TVpekaaa and 2&a saxis generally, etc. FRANK LONG'S Restaurant, ieoe waixct st Nearly opposite Emery, Bira, Thayeti Co.'s. Service prompt. Food excel lent. Prices reasonable. Already one of the most popuilar restauranta lr Kansas City. His specialties are, Roast beef and tmked potatoes: baked apples and cream; oyacer andwiebas Something to Please Yea, We always hare something new. Just receivod a5.0 rolls of flew Wall Paper Entirely new de- 2 slRns. window shades. 7 feet, 15 cents X z each, with fixtures. J; We make a specialty of French J J Tissue Paper, all colors kept in stock. J Cromwell s JsSsrs, Wholesale and Retail Stationers. 830 .orlk ICausas Avenue. (Ticket Agents Santa Fe Route.) BB9BSB9'JESlB9BESa 9 St. D M Brpadway nth St., New York Opposite iraee Church. EC ROPE ATT n.A .X. J The popular reputation the St. Deals g has acquired can be readily traced to lit a) I'.iqnR I.ecatlau, Home-like Anaeiakert, 2 Exctlltnl Calais, Cnrteans SerrlM aa4 M 91 ederute Prices. S WM. TAYLOR s6n, Props. m m m m m A Office Tel. SS0. Residence Tel. 3S. WM. H. RIQHTER, Ph, D., M. D., SPECIALIST In diseases of the Oenito-TJrinary organs and Rectum. Office, 603 Kansas Avenue. Residence, 1220 Fillmore Street. fuiiiiiiifv. The Rosy Freshness And a velvety softness of the skin is inva riably obtained by those who nee Fozsojnt's Complexion Powder. enmrfcMTi I n i ,nii,ri iff!

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8. 1897. DANIEL MYERS, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 0k Living Object Lesson for Or. Miles' New Heart Cure. MEART DISEASE is curable. "For over forty years," writes Daniel Myers of Two Taverns. Pa., on Aug. 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 came so bad that it was unsafe for me to leave home. I commenced using Dr. Miles' Heart Cure two years ago. Rsetsire lor eigmeen months I have been well. Al though 72 years of age I can go where I wish and I sleep ail 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 money refunded. Book on Heart and Nerve3 sent free to all applicants. DK. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. 1VILC0X& WHITE ASSIGN. The Big Organ Manufactory in Finan cial Difficulties. Meridian, Conn., June 8. The Wilcox White Organ company, one of the largest manufacturers of organs in the United States, today made an assign ment. Some months ago it was known that the concern was in financial diffi culties, but at that time the stockhold ers and a number of Meridioji business men got together and it was understood that matters had been satisfactorily adjusted. The company was organized in 1S76 and established many branch, houses throughout the country. J. H. White of the company was un able to give a statement of the assets and liabilities. The direct liabilities, he said, outside the contingents, were not to exceed $75,000. STANDARD OIL CLOSES. 1,000 Men Made Idle and Told Tnere Will be No Work for Weeks. Cleveland, O., June 8. At noon today the entire works of the Standard Oil company shut down indefinitely. The foreman told the employes that there will be no work for weeks. Close to 1,000 men are thrown out of rtvork by the shut down. It is said that the Standard has an immense stock on hand in the Kings "bury Run warehouse, enough, in fact, to supply-all the demand in this dis trict until June 1, ISttS, or longer. Your Boy Won't Live a Month. So Mr. Gillman Brown of 34 Mill Street, South Gardner, Mass., was told by the doctors. His son had lung trou ble, following typhoid malaria, and he spent $3io with doctors, who Anally gave him up, saying: "Tour boy won't live a month." He tried Dr. King's Sew Discovery and a few bottles restored him to health and enabled him to go to work a perfectly well man. He says be owes his present good health to use of Dr. King's New Discovery, and knows it o be the best in the world for lung trouble. Trial bottles free at J. K. Jones' drug store.Fiftb. street and Kan sas avenue. Mr. Isaac Horner, proprietor of the Hurton House, Burton, W. Va,, one of the most widely known men in the ctate, was cured of rheumatism after three years of suffering. He says: "I have not sufficient command of lan guage to convey any idea of what I Buffered. My physicians told me that nothing could be done for me. and my friends were fully convinced that noth ing but death wouid relieve me of my suffering. In June, 1S94. Mr. Evans, then salesman for the Wheeling Drug Co.. recommended Chamberlain's Pain Balm. At this time my foot and limb were swollen to more than double their normal size and it seemed to me my leg wouid burst, but soon after I began using the Pain Balm the swelling be gan to decrease, the pain to leave, and now I consider that I am entirely cured. For sale by druggists. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West Sth St. W. L Douglas $3 Shoe. Stvlish, durable, perfect fitting. Endorsed by over 1.000,000 wearers. "w 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 for Men, $2.50, $2 and $1.75 Boys We nseonly the bost Calf, Russia Calf. French Patent Calf, French Kuamel. Vici Kid, etc., graded to correspond with prices of the shoes. If dealer cannot supply you, write Cataloe free. W. L.DOUGLAS, Brockton, Masj. SOLD BY TopekaCash Dry Goods Co. 713-715 Kansas Ave. AMONG RAILROAD MEN. Scheme of C. 31. Higginson to Saye Money. Santa Fe Cars Given Enlarged Capacity fcy Jiew Trucks. Every Freight Car Going in tlie Shops Now Supplied With Heavy New Axles Fewer Cars Need ed to a Train. When a freight car now leaves the Santa Fe shops in this city after hav ing been in for repairs it shows a ca pacity of from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds greater than the capacity marked on its side when it entered the shops. This is one of the ways in which C. M. Hig ginson, assistant to the president, is saving the Santa Fe company thous ands of dollars every year. When a freight car now enters the shops for repairs it is supplied with practically new trucks. Heavy new axles are substituted for the old ones, and the trucks and floor strengthened sufficiently to bear a much greater weight than formerly. In this way the capacity of the car is enlarged, and as a consequence fewer cars are needed in a train. As a result of enlarging the capacity of the cars the same amount of freight can be moved by at least one-third the number of trains as at present, and the entire expense of running the extra trains saved to the company. CALLED FKOM THE WEST. Eailroad Men Who Have Gone to Eastern Lines. Cincinnati, June 8. "Does the west develop better railway men than the east? Are the men who get their school ing in traffic and the operation of rail ways in the west graduates of a bright er, better school? "These questions have often occurred to me," said John Henry Martin. "Twenty or more years ago, when the Pennsylvania Railroad company was called upon to select a man to place at the head of the passenger department, the choice fell upon Jas. R. Wood, who had worked himself to the head of the passenger department of the Chicago, liurlington Quincy railway. When the West Shore was finished, and ready for business between New York and Buffalo, Henry Mor.ett, a young man who had received his training at Col umbus, O., with the Pan-Handle divis ion of the Pennsylvania railroad, was selected to direct the passenger affairs of the road. A. J. Smith, G. P. A., of the Lake Shore Michigan Central railway, was formerly a St. Louis rail way official with the Indianapolis St. Louis railway. "Years ago the Delaware Hudson Canal company called Daniel Kcmlrick from a. St. Louis railroad to direct the passenger affairs of this old and relia ble transporation system. "W. C. Rinearson, a western railway man, was another who was called east ward to assume the direction of tne pasesnger service of the Erie railway. "pwas only a few years ago the Lo high Valley railway, when in need of a general passenger agent, found C S. Lee, who was then booming a scenic route in the Rocky mountains, land he was brought eastward and made gen eral passenger agent of the road. "A. H. Hanson, general passenger agent of the Boston Albany railroad, received his schooling upon the Illinois Central. "George W. Boj'd, the assistant of J. R. Wood, of the Pennsylvania, also came from the west. W. W. Lord, Jr., fissistant eastern passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railway :n Xew York city, is also a western product. "Years ago the Baltimore Ohio called Charles K. Lord eastward from the St. Louis, Kansas is'ortliern rail road, and placed him at the head of its passenger department. When he was promoted, Charles O. Scull, another graduate of a railway sehoxil west of the Alleganies. was c-alle 1 eastward to fill the position 'aeated by Mr. Lord. "And now, within the last few months the Baltimore Ohio has again come west of the mountains for a man to place at the head of the passenger de department. B. B. Martin, a graduate of the old Bee Line, and later general ticket and passenger agent of the Big Four, has been made passen ger traffic manager. "A. B. Farnsworth. general scent In Mew Tork city of the Seaboard Air Line, is yet another western transplant. "Harry W. Fuller, whose skill as a passenger man has placed the Chesa peake Ohio- road in the front rank as a desirable route upon which to travel between the east and west, is another western man who has succeeded in the east." EIGHT ENGINES ORDERED. Santa Fe After Some Mountain Climb ersWill Try One for the World's Record. The Santa Fe company has placed an order for eight ten-wheel passenger en gines with the Dickson locomotive works of Oswego, K. Y., to be built es pecially for hauling heavy trains at a greater rate of speed than the ordinary ten-wheel engine. The first of the new engines will be sent west early in August and the re maining seven will be completed Inside of two months from that time. The new engines will be placed in service on the western and New Mexi can divisions of the Santa Fe, where heavy engines are needed on account of the mountain grades. In their con struction it is hoped to put together lo comotives which, although of ponder ous weight and adapted to mountain climbing, can yet attain a remarkably fast rate of speed. The engines will probably be used exclusively in hand ling the through California trains. With one of the new engines General Superintendent Mudge wiil probably next fall attempt to break the world's record for fast running on the stretch of track from La Junta to Dodge City. SANTA FE CONTRACT. Reduction of Grade BatweenCleburne and Ft. Worth Cost $125,000. Galveston, June 8. Chief Engineer Charles F. W. Felt of the Gulf, Color ado Santa Fe yesterday let the con tract for reducing the grade on the line between Cleburne and Fort Worth to Ri ker Lee of Galveston. There were 20 bidders from all over the United States. but the bid of Messrs. Ricker oc Lee was considered the best. Mr. Felt sat down arid wrote to each bidder, announcing the result of his finding. The contract specifies that the work is to be completed by October 1 next. It will amount in round figures to over $125,000. MAY GTTir W INFIELD. A Missouri Pacific Official Thinks His Road Isn't Treated Right Arkansas City, June S. A Missouri Pacific official stated yesterday that Winfleld has adopted a city ordinance requiring that company to put in six gates ,at street crossings in that city, and that by the enforcement of that ordinance it would require 35 minutes for a. train to run through that city. He says that Winfleld is actuated wholly in this matter through prejudice and disappointment because of the re moval of railroad headquarters from that city to Conway Springs. He added that there is a. strong sentiment among the railroad officials to build a "cut off" from Oxford down the Arkansas valley to this city to connect with te Dexter branch, and to abandon the horse shoe line by the way of Winfleld. SANTA FE SHOP PICNIC. To be Held at Washington"Park,Kan sas City, June 19 Hound Trip 50 Cents. The annual picnic of the Santa Fe shop employes of this city will this year be held at Washington Park, Kan sas City, on Saturday, June 1st. After considering propositions from the managers of Maple Park, Leaven worth, and Washington Park, Kansas City, and deliberating on the dates of June 19 and 26, the committee appoint ed to arrange the picnic last night de cided on the latter place and the former date. The fair for the round trip to employ ees of the shops and their families will be 50 cents, and it is expected that three special trains, averaging ten cars each, will be needed in carrying the em ployees from Topeka to Kansas City and return. Unusual inducements in the way of prizes have been offered by the man agement of Washington Park, and the picnic this year promises to be one of the most successful ever held by the shop employes of Topeka, DR. EASTER LIKES KANSAS. The New Chief Surgeon of the Santa Fe Praises Kansas Scenery. "Are you aware that Kansas is just new the most beautiful state in the Union?" said Dr. J. P. Kaster. chief surgeon of the Santa Fe. to a Journal reporter this morning. "Well, it's a fact. I have just returned from a trip over the southern and central portions j of the state, and I declare it is the most I beautiful country I ever traveled through. "The wheat has just reached the point where it is turning from green I to yellow and it is now as high as the I fences, so that riding along in the train you see one vast sea of wheat. The corn has reached a considerable height and the whole country alternates with fields of green corn and yellow wheat. "I visited the Winfleld asylum while out in the state and went up in the third story to take a look at the sur rounding country. The asylum is lo cated on a knoll, the highest land for several miles, and you look out on farming land for miles in every direc tion from the building. It is one of the prettiest sights I ever saw." Dr. Kaster was formerly located at Albuquerque, N. M., and has traveled extensively through the southern and Pacific states. TO HEAR BRYAN And the Creation Chorus at Ottawa Santa Fe Will Give Special Service. There will be special train service on the Santa Fe from Topeka to Ottawa and return next Friday and Saturday for the accommodation of the Topeka people who wish to hear the Festival chorus in "The Creatioir." Extra cars will be attached to the "plug," leaving Topeka at 7:30 in the morning, and di rect connections for Ottawa will be made at Lawrence. Returning, connec tions will be made by the'train from Ottawa with No. 7 at Lawrence. There will also be a special train service from Topeka to Ottawa on Fri day, June 25. the day on which Wil liam J. Bryan speaks at the Chautau qua assembly. Receiver for an Illinois Road. Springfield, 111., June 8. In the United States circuit court today Judge Allen appointed C. M. Foreman of Nashville, 111., receiver of the Centralia Chester railroad, running from Sa lem, Marion county, to Evansviile, Ran dolph county. III., a distance of 86 miles. The receiver was appointed on the ap plication of the Missouri Car and Foundry company of St. Louis. The road is represented as being insolvent, with unpaid claims and judgments ag gregating $135,000 and with no funds with which to pay the annual inter est. Rock Island's Growing Business. Lebanon, June 8. The Rock Island agent here reports the carload ship ments in May, from Lebanon, 74. In Smith Center the agent reports 61 car lor.ds. Railroad business is reported far better in these towns far May than in any month since 1S90. Saw a Noted Locomotive. Atchison. June 8. George Durgan. of Weller's office, saw the first locomotive ever run on the Michigan Central, the first one on the Hannibal, and the first locomotive ever run in Kansas. It was the same locomotive, and was named the "Albany." Scalds, Burns, Old Sores, Tumors, Piles, all are relieved at once, and in time effectually cured by the use of that perfect ointment, Beggs' German Salve. Ask your druggist for sample. All druggists. Don't thin your blood with sassafras or poison it with blue mass; but aid Nature by using DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for consti pation, biliousness and stomach and liver troubles. They are purely vege table. George W. Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue. Topeka has a cooperage plant which last year was but a small shop, but which now supplies barrels for Kansas. Jewell Gas Stoves. Kitchell Marburg Rambler Bicycles, Kitchell Marbury Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. oArilH 3 1'' A Pare Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. WILL ARRIVE AT 3 O'CLOCK De Wolf Hopper and Company Will Reach Topeka Tomorrow Afternoon. De Wolf Hopper and his company will arrive in Topeka in a special train over the Union Pacific at 3 o'clock to morrow afternoon. The company comes to Topeka from Colorado Springs, run ning a special to this city from that point. De Wolf Hopper has been prominent ly known to American theater-goers as a comic opera star for a number -of years. His initial success as a star in light opera was scored in John Philip Sousa's first comic opera, "Desiree," presented by the MeCaull Opera Com- DE WOLF HOPPER. ique company, of which company he was leading comedian for several years. After leaving the MeCaull company, seven years ago. Hopper formed an organization of his own and has since been at the head of this company, pre senting in that time some of the great est comic opera successes, among which were -vang. raiij;inurura, j.ne Lady or the Tiger" and "Dr. Syntax. His present opera. El Capitan, is probably the greatest success that he has yet been identified with. "El Capitan" is magnificently staged and costumed, and will be presented in splendid style at the Grand tomorrow night. The sale of seats for the De Wolf Hopper engagement has so far been good, but desirable seats in both the parquet and balcony are yet to be had. PEFFER IS SATISFIED. Denies in an Emphatic Way That He is a Candidate for Governor. Ex-Senator Peffer denies that he Is a candidate for governor. He insists that all the honor he wants consists in being let alone. Mr. Peffer's princi pal editorial in the Advocate this week says "The newspaper gossips have kind ly taken charge of the political fortunes of ex-Senator Peffer. Without consult ing him either as to his wishes or con venience, and without knowing more about his plans for the future than do any other mortals, they have nominat ed him a candidate for governor of Kansas and have assured the reading public that he is even now in close communication with friends, arranging combinations and negotiating deals in furtherance of his political ambition. Thi3 stuff is as false as it is foolish and offensive. "Mr. Peffer is not a can didate for governor nor for any other public position. He was once honored by his party with a seat in the senate of the United States. That is a dis tinguished honor; he appreciates it and is satisfied. "He is now engaged in a congenial and useful private business and re spectfully asks to be let alone. He wants to build a good newspaper for Kansas Populists and to make of the Advocate a clean, broad-gauged.reliable and progressive journal of the time." KANSAS' ANTI-TRUST LAW. It Stands in the Way of the Whole sale Grocers' Association. The Parkhurst, Davis Grocery com- i pany of this city stands in the way of the reorganization of the Kansas Wholesale Grocers' association and the management of that concern announces that under no circumstances will they change their po sition in this matter. The legislature of 1S97 passed a stringent anti-trust measure. Immediately after the law was approved by the governor and published the Topeka company can celled all their contracts which the man agement construed to be in violation of the law and immediately withdrew from the grocers' combine. This action destroyed the combine and caused a drop of from 5 to 100 per cent in commodities which are handled by the company. This condition has not been encourag ing or pleasing to the wholesale grocers and they are now making a strong effort, headed by the Kansas City people to re instate the combine. Parkhurst and Davis declare that they will not go into the deal again but the manipulators or the proposed trust hope to induce the company managers to change their minds. They will not do this at this time as the attorney general is preparing to prosecute some of the violators of the law. Senator Farrelly, the author of the antU trust bill and Mr. Boyle held a long con ference last night discussing the most ad visable method under which proceedings may be commenced. Senator Farrelly says concerning the law: "Of course the first attack against the bill will be directed against its consti tutionality. This I believe will prove un. successful. I made a study of that phase of our general laws and made an extra ordinary effort to draw the bill so that it would have clear sailing on that propo sition. I do not mean to presume that the bill is not unconstitutional but I do say that I think it is not and if it should be so held I would be greatly disappointed. "I have no doubt that a test case will soon be made but I am not prepared to say against whom it !11 be brought." At present the wriole world is wonder ing at the tremendous sales and desira ble effects of Beggs' German Salve. Druggists sell it. Don't neglect a cough because the weather is pleasant; berore the next storm rolls around it may develop into a serious difficulty beyond repair. One Minute Cough Cure is easy to take and will do what its name Implies. George W. Stansfield. 632 Kansas avenue. Hammocks, Kitchell Marburg. Flatulence is cured by Beecham'8 Pills. The Santa Fe Route is selling excur sion tickets to Nashville, Tenn., and return, account the exposition. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The Topeka Whist club played a num ber of interesting games last night. Siloam lodge No. 225 will confer the de gree of Master Mason on Thursday even ing. The Festival chorus will give a concert this evening at the First Presbyterian church. David Overmyer left yesterday after noon for Lyndon, Kan., to try a suit for damages. Senator Hugh Farrelly of Chanute re turned home today after a business visit in this city. Mr. and Mrs. G. Balrd, 1012 Madison street, are the parents of a daughter, born yesterday. There is a vicious dog kept on Quincy streets south of Seventh which is a ter ror to passersby. F. E. Keith will leave Topeka for Port Arthur on July 1, where he will estab lish a drug store. Miss Zena Freeman of the car service department of the Santa Fe, has return ed from a visit in Atchison. Harry Steinberg was the victim of a surprise party last night in celebration ot his twentieth birthday anniversary. Jackson street will soon be the oddest street in the world with its one-story buildings. Every corner is getting one. G. S. Gordon has returned from Gal veston, Tex., where he spent the past ten days visiting relatives and friends. E. V. Lants, a young attorney and poli tician of Dodge City, is in Topeka for a week's business and pleasure combined. Mr. Thos. S. Lyon has received word from Pittsburg, Pa., that Mrs. Anna Lyon the wife of his brother, James B. Lyon, is dead. The Y. M. C. A. boys are fixing up an open air gymnasium on the vacant lots at the southeast corner of Sixth and Monroe streets. H. C. Kapp, clerk in the office of the Santa Fe roadmaster in this city, is vis iting in Wellington, Kan., formerly hia home. Chairman J. M. Simpson of the state Republican committee has returned home to 'McPherson after a three days' visit in Topeka. The Y. M. C. A. will hold a large recep tion on June 14 to members and their friends. Eight hundred invitations have been issued. Work is being pushed on the T. E. Bowman Memorial Kindergarten build ing near the Central Congregational church. Dr. Ida C. Barnes will attend the ban quet of the Alumni association of the state university in Lawrence tomorrow afternoon. Charles A. McGaw, who attended Washburn college, will be graduated from the law department of the Kansas State university at Lawrence. C. M. Roquet has been appointed to a position in the office of the chief engi neer of the Santa Fe, assisting Mr. Wil liam Archer, supervisor of buildings. A Topeka young man asked a lady to accompany him to "El Capitan" and oc cupy a seat in the balcony. She said: "It makes me dizzy to sit in the bal cony." Frank Curry of this city, who is attend ing the state university at Lawrence, has been elected captain of the base ball team for next season. He plays behind the bat. "Hookey" Jim, the colored man who used to infest Topeka streets, is now in jail at Wichita working out a fine for at tempting to use the hook which is strapped on his arm. The diocese of west Missouri of the Episcopal church, from the fact that it has no girls' school has recommended Bishop Millspaugh's school (Bethany col lege) of this city, for patronage. Parties who have had tickets reserved for "El Capitan" and have not yet taken them will have to do so before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. All reserved tickets not taken by that time will be put back in the chart. Mr. Edward Wilder, treasurer of the Santa Fe, left yesterday afternoon for New York city, where he will remain for ten days or two weeks. While in New York city Mr. Wilder will attend the wedding of his niece, Miss Mary Wilder. Mr. John Player, superintendent of ma chinery, and Mr. John Hodge, master car builder, of the Santa Fe, have gone to Old Point Comfort, Va., to attend the annual meeting of the Master Car Build ers' association. One of the "white wings" street clean ers left a sack of refuse near the curb stone in front of a Kansas avenue com, mission house, and one of the clerks car ried? it into the store thinking it was a sack of potatoes which had been over looked. Rt. Rev. F. K. Brooke, the bishop of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, has been ill for a month at Christ hospital in this city. His many friends are glad to learn that he has sufficiently recovered to go to Bethany college for convalescing. Sheriff Kepley today sold under a judg ment in favor of Senator John Martin, 204 acres of land three miles west of To. peka to the First National bank for $4, 000. This is one of the boom additions to Topeka and the judgment against the property alone amounted to $20,000. The Young Peoples' society of the First Christian church has elected the follow ing officers: President, eGo. W. Symmes; vice president, Mrs. F. E. secretary. Miss Nina Wilson; William Stewart; financial Miss Victoria Scott. The notorious Ben Jordan, Mallory; treasurer, secretary, who has served time in both city and county jails for selling liquor, was arrested yesterday by the police on the charge of maintain ing a nuisance. His place was on Rail road street west of Kansas avenue in North Topeka. A quantity of liquor and the usual joint fixtures were seized. The Geo. W. Crane homestead at Ninth and Harrison streets was yesterday sold under foreclosure proceedings for $4,000. The mortgage was $5,973.6S. George M. Noble, who holds the mortgage, is the purchaser. It is said that the sale is a mere matter of form and that Mr. Crane will redeem the property in a short time. A tennis tournament which will be open to all players in the city is being ar ranged for the near future which will be played on the courts of the Topeka Ten nis club at Tenth and Fillmore streets. At this tournament representatives will be selected to represent Topeka in the state tennis tournament which will prob ably be held in Topeka late in Septem ber. Rev. Richard Wake.the well known pro- CLAIRETTE ROAP. IPiece LmJM hung, the day just begun All women time and streni who want snowy- and soft hands should who have no 3A ?th to waste, ,uHk clothes The best and purest soap. Made for laundry, and general house use. Sold everywhere. Made only by THE T. K. PAIRBANK COMPANY, St. IOUiS. Free This Silver-plated White C1qu FUSE a SPOOL, containing 20 yards of the best sewing silk with every small size cake WHSTE CLOUD SOAP. The cost of this spoon and spool of silk comes out of our pocket entirely it's one of our fcy the nonotuck silk co. ways of advertising. We want you to get acquainted with the whitest floating soap on the market. If your grocer can not supply you send us his address. BADE OIILY BY JAS. 55. KlRK c CO., CHICAGO. HE LARGEST SOAP MANUFACTURERS IN K G. KINLET. KINLEY

THE EELEY IXSTl TLTE. PORTSMOUTH BUILDING, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. ICSlCBLES Sundries and Repairs. High grade wheels to rent. and tires vulcanized. Work O. S. TOWN Opposite Y. M. C. A. A. fhanpr PLUMBING, Telephone 54. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY, m East Sth Aye. Ask Your Grocer for "PrlltlFOSe" Butter. hibitionist and preacher, is making prep arations to leave Topeka next Friday for Salt Lake city. He will remain there sev eeral months and will thenprobably go to the Pacific coast. He contemplates staying away from Topeka at least a year and he may not return. Mr.' Wake leaves Topeka principally on account of the poor health of his wife. A large njimber of people attended the lawn fete at the home of Mrs. Sutton on Saturday and served to make the affair a financial success. About $35 was real ized clear of all expenses, and this amount starts the Floral parade fund which is to be raised by Mrs. Sutton and the ladies working with her in addition to $500 set aside for the Floral parade by the Committee of Fifteen. Mrs. Sutton says that the ladies' committee ought to have $1,000 at least. The largest teachers' Institute ever held in the county began this week at the high school. The enrollment was 128 last use the famous SUMS --AiiJwaa Teaspoon with every large size cake of THE WORLD. ESTABLISHED 1839. T. F. LANKAN. LANNAN. Manufacturers of CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, &c. tW Special orders and repairing promptly attended to. 424 and 426 Jackson St., Topska, Kas. For five years ose of th most success ful of all the great system of Keeiey In stitutes operated under the supervision of Ir. Leslie E. Keeley and employing his Gold remedies In the treatment and cur of alcoholic and opium addictions. Fif teen minutes' ride from Union depot, on both cable and 'L," ear lines. Write fo full particulars. Address THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, Kansas City, Kansas. (A FELL LIE.) Wheel repairing, re-enameling guaranteed. S EN D CO., 118 East Eignth Street. evening. There have been much larger enrollments than this toward the close of the institute but there has never been so large an attendance on the opening day. E. G. Foster, principal of Harrison school, is the conductor, and he is as sisted by W. H. Wright, J. II. McBrlde, W. H. Wasson, C. H. Martin and County Superintendent Stout. Councils No. 2 and 245, Knichts and La. dies of Security, have combined under a single organization and elected the fol lowing officers: President, L. T. YountJ first vice president, Mrs. Louetta Wal. lace: second vice president, .Mrs. John Ritchie; prelate, Mrs. Hannah Butts; fin ancial secretary, Mrs. Cora S. Earnes; corresponding secretary; Miss Leona Jones: treasurer, Jerry Givens; guard, Wm. Hewitt; conductor, Mrs. John Has kell; sentinel, C. H. Clark; trustees, J. Q. Huron and Mrs. Frank Kingsland. We do mending and sew on button free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. f ,S Illl .Ill