The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 3, 1897

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7 FRIDAY EYBU 1. TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 3. 1897. FRIDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. TWO CENTS. ANEW ERA IS OPENED INTOPEKA. First Woolen Mill in Kansas is Started Today. The Policy of Bringing More Manufactories To the Capital City Grandly Inaugurated. SPEECHES ARE MADE And a General Jubilation Over the Event. Mill is to Employ Seventy-Five Operatives. Topeka's new woolen mill was form ally started today. The city of Topeka, the Commercial club and the directors of the enterprise united to celebrate the event. Topeka now has a real woolen mill. Many times before thre have been woolen mills in the minds of citizens of Topeka. hut today marks the realiza tion of their hopes. The history of the Oakland woolen mill has already had a chapter of disappointments that every one who lives in Topeka is familiar with. But persistence and the activity of the Topeka Commercial tclub at last brought Topeka a factory that will furnish work for nearly 100 people and will make cloth as good as the best. The Topeka railway put on special cars today. Men worked hard to get the Oakland track cleared so that it might be used this afternoon. There was talk of postponing the opening cer emony but at 10:30 this morning Sup erintendent Patten of the City railway announced that the snow had been cleared away and the cars would run. The ceremony today originated with the Cemmeroial club. It is their first great success. A. A. Godard was to have made the opening address on the part of the club, but he was called out of the city at the last moment and that part of the programme was abandoned. Mayor Fellows who spoke fur the city said: "The people of Topeka are as proud of their new woolen mill as a young father is of his first baby boy. For years it has been the great desire of our people to have manufacturing in terests established in our city. They re alize that factories furnish the life bk.od of a community. Our people have been generous and have contributed largely to various enterprises, but owing to unfortunate circumstances nearly all of the subsi dized interests have nift vvitn misfor tunes. Many of them were experi ments and were placed under the con trol of inexperienced managements. Vndaunted by series of failures, a wise resolution was adopted, that here after no financial assistance should be extended to any project unless it could be proven that it had progressed be yond the experimental stage and that there would be no doubt of its success if properly managed. "When this woolen mill venture was first spoken of. everyone knew that it would be a success if an experienced and capable man was put in charge. When it was stated that Mr. McAfee, with his wide experience, would have full control of its management, and would invest a large amount of his own capital in the project, our people were satisfied that he would make it a success, and they quickly and gladly rendered the necessary assistance. "And we are here to congratulate all those connected with the enterprise. 3. F. M'AFEE, Manager. upon their business sagacity and as public benefactors. And I assure you the music of the humming wheels will sound as sweetly to the people of To peka as the sweetest strains of Mozart music." Captain J. G. Waters followed with the following address on behalf of the Woolen Mill company: "on behalf of the mill company and the business men who back it. I am authorized to say they do not desire to be prejudiced by anything I may say, nor do they approve anything I may utter, unless, after hearing what it is, with time for reflection, they flnally come to the conclusion to sanction it. "We open this mill with a mascotic augury. The first white blanket of the season, made out of long staple, washed Kansas wool, covers the earth, and it is the prophesy of the skies that this enterprise is going to be a success. All our people want this to be a monev making institution. Our local patriot ism should be one of the factors to make it flourish. "One mill here is worth half a dozen In Amoskeag or Lowell or a hundred in Kansas City. The hum of a loom or the fly of a shuttle down at the KaWs mouth to work up Kansas wool, ought to give any one of us tetanus. The only place on earth for an industry is at home. Every Kansas sheep should be intercepted here. We should pray for the upbuilding of great cities in other tates on our border, but we should also pray without ceasing that they should be built only with Missouri money. "There is a habit of trading abroad, outside of our town jand state, we ought to condemn as infernal small. If I were a Kansas road, no pass should be used for that purpose. No clergy man on a half fare permit, should evangelize the heathen by spending his money for truck in Kansas City that could be bought better at home. The shorter catechism wants to be added to by chucking in somewhere, 'patronize home businesses.' It is a little humili ating to see a border town in another state taking on its- ribs all the avoirdu pois that by right belongs to Kansas towns. The fact that such a city slops over into Kansas, with its overflow and has built up a berg there which the jokers facetiously call a metropolis, is not such a claim of consanguinity that we can recognize. When they get a tavern there and a wayfarer can find a place to stop without going to the Blossom House, it will then do for them to claim relationship to Kansas. You can always tell a Kansas town by its good hotels. There is not a dry goods store in any respectable town of Kansas but what gives better bargains and better goods than can be obtained there. The hired girl who stays in town and buys of our own stores, saves the making, in the same exquisite and ex clusive dress pattern that her mistress went to Kansas City to obtain. It is (he same in every department of trade. There is an ugly and fool ignis fatuus that believes that the farthest from home is the nearest KIDorado. "My plea is addressed to the man hood of our people. It is patriotism in its most concrete form. To be patri otism it has to take its starter from home, then out into the dooryard, the ward, city, state and nation and if there are remnants over, expend it on Kan sas City. Send to Boston for nothing; we can beat it on culture, spectacles or baked beans. Keep out of the sacri fice sales at Chicago. We have our own incendiary and arson sales, our smug gled outfits without payment of duty, and at a perceptible discount. Boycott railroads that give shopping passes. When you have an educated sentiment that sets Topeka against the world, and gives it ail our patronage and help, THE TOPEKA this mill will then be square on its pins ready to do business and make money. "We have had some terrible experi ences with some former industries. The trust carted off our cracker and match factores. Thither went the starch fac tory. The Topeka. Implement company died as doctors would say. from want of nutrition. The cotton mill was built two hundred years before we could get the cotton to run it. It was built three miles from the nearest railroad spur in hope to recuscitate transportation by Conestoga wagon. After it had arrived at its majority, after it had cried its eyes out in the cold, a kindly fire with an artist's instinct as to what should constitute a landscape, at a time when the insurance had run out, whipsawed it into an Alhambraic ruin. "Between subscribing for capital stock and being sued on their statutory lia bility, there was no interregnum of div idends. It was a monotonous period of liability in some shape. It has been frequently the case that a citizen would put in his money into a new enterprise and then go off and never look at it, nor go around it, nor help others who were trying to run it. The result was sure as arithmetic. At the end, there would be a cheap hand to grease up, sweep up and shut down and a high priced president with one or more vices, a secretary, a treasurer, general manager, superintendent, auditor and foreman, when the receiver qualified. "It may be said of Topeka that if she had a mortuary relic from each one of these defunct concerns, ehe would now have a hospital of embryos, and contain the finest industrial curio museum in the land. "A new enterprise needs this inform ation. It must avoid the pitfalls of the past. We have got to have a continu ing interest in it and it is our supreme duty to patronize it. The success of this institution will take the chill off the graveyard of the past. "This mill will provide broadcloth for our mayor and jeans for his hired man. The young man can get his -eassimeres, meltons, berlins and tweeds here if he will. There will be blankets and rugs and carpets made out of honest Kansas wool. All manner of design and fabric of worsteds; and this mill will appeal to your patriotism as strongly for pat ronage as a county seat contest for a cash contribution. "We have now a good protective tar iff on wool, sufficient and ample to re store caste to a sheep and protection to this industry. There are but few sheep in Kansas to obtain this advantage. The ten years prior to 18H4 were very disastrous to the fleeces. It was a per iod of shoddy, rags and filth; no man or woman in that period wore a woolen garment but what had in some shape or other, been partially quarantined or fumigated. Australia, New- Zealand, Russia, Turkey, Chili, Spain, Europe, orope, irope, stirrup, goats, camels and Shropshire hogs, drove the wool from our backs and sheep into exile or in process of ultimate extinction. In 1S76, Mr. Uhl had the finest flock of Merinos in the world; now Butler county has little or no sheep. The congresses of that period could not look an American sheep square in the face. "It takes 115 millions of shep to sup ply us with wool each year. We have only thirty-seven millions. "We import three hundred and fifty millions of pounds of wool each year. Each in habitant of our seventy-five millions consumes nine pounds of wool each year without counting that which sticks to their teeth. It will take four years to accumulate a home flock for home demands. We are short on wool and long on opportunity. This ought to grow into a prosperous concern. It will advance the farmer, the trades man, the laborer and the town. I say without a political tremor in my voice, that we want sheep and woolen mills to go along with McKinley Bill. 'God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' says Lawrence Sterne, and he ought to have added, 'if the Topeka Woolen mill got his fleece.' "When these wheels shall stir, when there is a jumble of noises, which is an industrial harmony, when there is a roar of cog on cog'when jrreat sacks of washed and Democratic wool shall be stowed around here, when there is a smell and stain of sheep grease on the floor, lintels and overalls, I shall then know, much as I may kick against it, that the old general has arrived to pitch, his tent, to hoist his headquarter flag, for a campaign. I beseech this people to patronize this mill, to patron ize the stores that keep its goods. I implore the mill company to give a dol lar's worth for ninety cents; to make their fabrics of good, clean, first class wool, not wool that has been natural ized by the payment of import duty, but good, christian, cultured, Ameri can wool, grown on Kansas pelts. "And here's to the mill, its backers, the American sheep, the tariff, the town and state, prosperity to all of you, gen tlemen, and let the wheels go round." WOOLEN MILL DIRECTORS. Following are the directors of the Woolen Mill company: George Neal, president; J. G. Fleishman, vice pres ident; J. B. Bartholomew, secretary; George Neal, Jr., treasurer; J. S. Mc Afee, manager; E. H. Crosby, C. J. Prescott. HOW THE CLOTH IS MADE. A Description of the Process of Turn ing Wool Into Cloth. No better building for the purpose could have been desired than that in which the Topeka Woolen mill is lo cated. The solid brick walls, massive joists and rafters and heavy floors form a combination which represents strength and durability. Its size, too, is a great advantage. When the old Independence Woolen mill was in op eration the work was conducted in a building much smaller. But there is WOOLEN MILL OPENED FOR BUSINESS TODAY. plenty of space for this mill and the work is facilitated on this account. The dimensions of the Topeka Woolen mill building are as follows: Main room 60x120, two stories. Wing 40x60, two stories, engine room and picker 30x35 two stories. The mill is in running order and cloth is being made. A large shipment of wool was received from St. Louis last week and it is being utilized. There is enough on hand to keep the spindles moving several weeks. The various processes through which it passes in being changed from cro.de wool to fine cloth are most interesting. The wool is first taken into the washing and col oring room which is in the north wing of the building. Here it is cleaned. According- to the desired color it is placed in dyeing vats where it receives its color. After drying the wool is ta ken to the picking room where it is burred and mixed. It then passes through the cards and is prepared for spinning. It is then placed on the "mules" and spun into yarn. From there it passes through the spoolers, warper, and is woven into cloth. After this it is ta ken to the finishing room where the cloth is fulled, scoured and tentered. It is then sheared and pressed. This is in brief the operation for changing the crude wool into fine cloth. All the machinery in the new plant is of the latest and most improved pattern. The burr and mixing pickers are com plicated pieces of machinery and they do their work even better than it could be done by hand, and a hundred time3 quicker. The cards are also wonders of modern mechanism. Probably the most complicated machines in the mill are the two "mules." These machines are each about forty feet in length. It requires but one man to operate a ma chine. On this there are 300 spindles on which the yarn is wound with great speed. The list of machinery in the mill is as follows: Burr and mixing pickers, two sets of cards (six ma chines) ten broad looms and two mules, each 300 spindles. All the machinery arid necessary furniture for finishing the cloth. The engine room is in a wing on the northwestern side of the main building. It is a 65 horse power engine, furnishes power for the plant from large boilers. An incandescent light dynamo of 150 lights capacity will furnish light for the mill. The building is heated by steam. On the second story of the mill a trousers factory will be opened. Wool en cloth manufactured in the mill will be made into trousers. The daily out put of the mill will be 360 yards of double width cloth. This will consume about 600 pounds of wool a day, and the trousers factory wTill have a capac ity of 20 dozen pairs a day. In the summer and fall the following varieties of woolen goods will be man ufactured: Blankets, skirts, flannels, jeans and yarns. During the winter months the trousers factory will be opened and the output of the mill will be trousers cloth. The mill will employ 75 people, both men and women. This is skilled labor. At present a smaller force is at work until the work is in better form. Mr. McAfee, the manager of the company, says that only woolen goods will be manufactured at the mill and the best cloth to be purchased will be turned out. At present the burr and mixing pick ers are in operation as are also pa-t of the carding machines. One mule with 300 spindles is being run, and two broad looms. This gives the capacity as now running of 75 yards of double width cloth a day. The force will lie increased In a few days and the mill will be in full operation with 75 employes in a short time. END IS NEAR. The President Beaches His Dy ing Mother's Bedside. Made the Trip From Washing ton Last Night. HAD A SPECIAL TRAIN. Death of the jAged Matron Looked for at Any Time. Paralysis of the Vocal Organs Remains Complete. Cleveland, Dec. 3. A special from Canton says: This morning- Mr. Nancy Allison McKinley was reported sinking rapidly and the end appeared near. All night long the little group around the bedside of the venerable woman anxiously watched for news of the train which was speeding on with the woman's distinguished son from his post at the nation's capitol to her hum ble cottage. Before she lapsed into unconscious ness, she was given to understand that her son had started' for Canton from Washington. The train bearing the president reached Pittsburg at 7:15. At each stop during the night, word had been flashed to Canton of its pro gress, and at each stop a yellow mis sive told him that he was still in the lead in his thrilling midnight race with the grim reaper. Finally tired nature asserted herself and the president retired to sleep. As soon as Pittsburg was reached, Judge Day accepted the offer of the railroad company and a special engine was at tached to the car. The president at that time was still asleep. Without the loss of a moment the special engine dashed out of the smoky city. All trains on the route were put on side tracks and the last 101 miles was reeled off in two hours. At 8:55 a. m. the president reached Canton. His mother was still alive. Upon his arrival at the home of his mother. President McKinley entered the sick room and knelt by the bed side. She was unconscious. The little family group was complete. Now all that remained was to wait for death, and hope that before it came, the mother would be able once more to recognize Imr loving children. Canton, Dec. 3. As the day wore on, Mrs. McKinley remained apparently in the same condition as at early morn ing. She was unconscious; showed no evidence of suffering and seemed to be passing quietly into the, sleep of death. There was no encouragement given the family by the attending physician. Dr. Phillips. He feared that the end was very near, but said there was a possibility of her lingering for several days. Of her four living children. three were at the bedside, and Mrs. A. B. Duncan of Cleveland, who has been visiting her daughter at a Chicago school, arrived here at 1:30 p. m. RECOGNIZED HER SON. Mother McKinley Moves Her Hand Slightly in Recognition. Canton, O., Dec. 3. President Mc Kinley believes his mother recognized him as he knelt at her bedside. His sister, Helen, announced his arrival by saying: "Here, mother, is William; if you recognize him, hold up your hand." Mrs. McKinley raised her left hand slightly, and the family believe it was in recognition of her son. He grasped her hand fondly and says he seemed to feel a slight pressure from the mother's effort to return his greeting. This was the only incident of the sick room today. The family con tinued about the bedside, but except a continued weakening, could see no change. The plans of the president are to re main here until 2 o'clock tomorrow, when he will return to Washington to look after some of the official business, which made it almost impossible for him to leave the capital at this time. BUSINESS WILL GO ON. President May Communicate With Congress by Telegraph Washington, Dec. 3. The advices re ceived at the White House today re garding the condition of the president's mother indicate that she has not rallied and can hardly survive more than a few days at the most. It is the presi dent's intention to return to Washing ton for the opening of congress on Monday if his mother's condition will permit. In the event of his being detained at Canton, there may be some delay in the regular programme at the opening of congress. Several presidents have sent special communications to con gress, while absent from Washington, but at the opening of a session of con gress, the formalities are such as to re quire under ordinary circumstances the personal presence of the president in Washington. Each house appoints a committee to wait on the executive and inform him that congress Is organized and ready to receive any eommunica tion he may desire to transmit. .It is in response to this invitation that the president transmits to congress the an nual message containing his recommen dations. Should the president be ab sent these formalities which are cour tesies betw-een the executive and legis lative branches of the government rather than legal or constitutional re quirements may be carried out by telegraph. LADY CLERK HELD UP. Miss Delavan Bobbed of Her Pocketbook on East Eighth Street. Last evening at 6:25 o'clock Miss Lillie A. Delavan of 403 East Eighth street, a clerk in Crosby Bros.' store, was held up by a colored man and robbed at the cor ner of Eighth and Monroe streets. She was returning home from her work at the store. Her jacket was buttoned tightly around her throat and she held her pocketbook in her hands and clasped them at her throat to keep out the cold. When she passed east of Quincy street a colored man walked in front of her. He stopped in front of the Heinz milk depot and allowed her to pass him. He fol lowed her, and when she reached the northeast corner of Eighth and Monroe streets the man caught up with her and reached over her shoulder. He grabbed hold of her pocketbook and attempted to wrench it from her hands. Miss Delavan held the pocketbook tightly and strug gled to free herself from the robber. "You wretch, let go of my pocketbook," she screamed. She also screamed for help, but no one was in sight to come to the rescue. The man pulled the purse from her hands and ran across Eighth street and disappeared in an alley. Miss Delavan went to the Heinz depot and tel ephoned for the police. Detective Kesson came, but could find nothing but foot prints. Miss Delavan said in regard to the rob bery: "I did not suppose that that col ored man intended to rob me. After I passed him he followed me closely and kept step with me, but I supposed it was someone returning from his work. When I got to the east side of the crossing the man caught my hands and peered into my face. I wasn't frightened at all. I struggled with him, but he finally got my pocketbook. I said: 'You miserable wretch, let go of my pocketbook.' There wasn't much in the pocketbook, but what I hated about it was to be robbed on the public street before it was dark. I could see that it was a tall colored man with a black mustache. He wore a winter cap and a short overcoat." RA!LROADSWIN. Will Get More Time in Which to Comply With Coupler Law. Washington, Dec. 3. The hearing given by the interstate, commerce com-, mission in the question of extending the time within which the railroads of the country may comply with the pro vision of the car coupler and train brake act, was concluded at noon to day. The commission intends to take some supplemental testimony under oath before coming to a decision. There seems to be no doubt, whatever, that an extension will be granted and that the extension will be general in its character, the hearing having demon strated that any discrimination would, fall as heavily on roads which have complied with the law as on those which have thus far disregarded it. The general impression among both the railroad men and the labor leaders who were In attendance at the hear ing, is that the extension granted by the commission will be a compromise. The railroad representatives asked for five years with the condition that one fifth of the unequipped rolling stock of each company should be equipped each year, and the representatives of the labor organizations protested against an extension in excess of one year. Three years is generally believed to be the maximum extension which the commission will grant. The commission is evidently in great doubt as to their ability to impose con ditions on an extension, and it may be that they will grant but a year's ex tension at a time, with the understand ing that against those roads which do not complete the yearly portion of their equipment during that period.the law shall become operative. PATIENTS POISONED. Toxic Poisoning Affects 250 Patients in an Epileptic Hospital. Gallipolis, O., Dec. 3. Two hundred and fifty patients at the Epileptic hospital were made ill today by what is thought to be toxic poisoning. Dr. Rutter and his staff of physicians have succeeded, it is thought, in checking the outbreak jwithout a fatality. The presumption among the hospital doctors is that the infection came from some article of food, and the bac teriologic department is making a rigid analysis of the food cooked during the past few days. Some think a deleterious drug was put -in some of the food, and that, together with the disruption extant over the wholesale discharge of employes, has put that institution in the throes o excitement. The poisoning is similar to that which happens occasionally from eating ice cream that has bred toxic poison. The toxic poisoning has left one hun dred or more patients in a dangerous way. Strange to say. the 250 inmates that were victims of the toxic infection were taken severely sick simultaneously, and made things assume a grave aspect. The doctors believe they have the majority of the patients on a fair way to recovery. HE MADE DENVER. D. D. Eeldet. Whose Vote Established Colorado's Capital, is Dead. Denver. Col.. Dec. 3. David Douglas Belden, who is dead in this city at the age of 75 years, was mayor of Omaha in 1S,".9. He served in both the Nebraska and Colorado legislatures and he cast the deciding vote on the passage of the bill for the removal of the capital of Colo rado from Golden to Denver, for which his life was threatened. He came to Colorado in 1S63 and has been prominent in mining. Moved four doors north to 726 Kan. Ave., Cremerie Scott Scott. SEEKS DIVORCE. Mrs. Robert W. Day Brings Suit Against Her Husband, Resident Engineer of the Rock Island Railroad. WILL BE NO CONTEST. Incompatability of Temper the Only Cause Alleged. Both Parties Are Agreeable to the Arrangement. Mrs. Robert W. Day comnenced pro ceedings in the district court yesterday afternoon for a divorce from her hus band, Robert W. Day, resident engi neer of the Rock Island railroad. The papers were filed by A. B. Quin ton of the firm of Quinton Quinton. Mr. Quinton was reticent about the case but finally said that the charge will be the statutory one of abandon ment. Judge Quinton intimated, how ever, that in case Mr. Day decides to make a fight that more sensational charges may be made. He refused to say anything about their nature. Mrs. Day and her daughter are in Valley Falls and could not be seen.They move in the best circles in Topeka and Mrs. Day much regrets the necessity of entering the courts in order to secure a legal separation. Air. Day has been absent in Nebraska this week, and returned to this city this morning. Shortly after arriving at his office in the Rock Island depot building he was served with the usual divorce papers, and in this manner received his first information of the filing of the suit. Mr, Day was, as might be expected, reticent about the matter. He said, however, that Mrs. Day had no "sen sational grounds" for bringing suit. that he understood the chief ground was"in compatibility of temper" and that he would not contest the case or make any trouble of any kind. "I have been paying bills incurred by Mrs. Day," said he. "Some time ago I assigned all my property to my wife, and she has had an income from that. My son has been living with me, but my daughter lives with her mother and I support her, and shall of course con tinue to support her. Mrs. Day went to Europe in company with my daugh ter several years ago and remained there for several years, and at the time I know there was talk about me in tending to institute divorce proceed ings. But there was absolutely noth ing in that. I had no grounds for bringing suit for divorce and never had any intention of doing so. My wife went to Europe to be with my daughter who was studying music there, and -the assignment of my property to her was a matter of mutual agreement. If I had been in the city when this suit was con templated I don't think it would ever have been filed. Now that it has been filed the matter will simply be present ed to the judge on an agreed statement of facts and pass off quietly. I have no intention of contesting the case." Mr. and Mrs. Day were married in England about 25 years ago. and have two children. Miss Mabel Day, aged 22 years, and Herbert Day, a boy of 12 years. The daughter has lived with her mother since Mr. and Mrs. Day separated by mutual consent about three years ago, while "Bert" has re sided with his father. Miss Mabel Day is an accomplished musician. For the past three years Mrs. Day has been spending the summers at a beautiful summer home in Manitou, Colorado, which is a part of the proper ty assingned her by Mr. Day. She also spends considerable time with relatives in Kansas City and Valley Falls. Miss Mabel Day has always accompanied her mother on visits to Colorado and other places. The story of the divorce proceedings at the time Mrs. Day went to Europe was to the effect that Mr. Day had as signed all his property to his wife with the understanding that he was to bring suit for divorce and the case was not to be contested by Mrs .Day. It is said that after she obtained possession of the property Mrs. Day changed her mind about contesting the case, and for this reason the suit was never institu ted. Mr. Day came to this city with the entrance of the Rock Island road in 1886. He helped survey the right of way of the road through Kansas and Colorado, and after the road was built was given the position of resident en gineer in charge of the lines west of the Missouri river. His work is of such a nature that he is compelled to spend the greater part of his time on the road, and is in this city but a few days every month. The disagreement between Mr. and Mrs. Day dates back several years. It was eight years ago that Mrs. Day first went to Europe, and it is said the family differences commenced shortly after the Day family removed to Tope ka from the east. Mr.Day is well liked by his associates In railroad service, and the entire fam ily have the respect of all who know them. OFFERED TO GRIGGS. "Sew Jersey's Governor to Get McKenna's Place. New York, Dec. 3. A dispatch to the Tribune from Trenton, N. J., says: A private dispatch received from Wash ington by a weU known politician says President McKinley has offered the at torney generalship to Governor John W. Griggs. Governor Griggs will resign as governor next month and accept. Mr. McKenna goes to the supreme bench. NONE TO DISPUTE IT. .forged Cheeks in the Goddard Case Charged to Jackson. Kansas City. Dee. 3. The defense in the Goddard murder trial this morning placed on the stand a bank clerk, who swore that the alleged forged checks, the pro duction of which yesterday caused a sen sation, had evidently been forged by the murdered man. Jackson, the handwriting on them being identical with Jackson's penmanship, familiar to the witness. The checks were made in favor of Goddard and signed "Mrs. L. Jackson." There is no finer, fresher, richer or more varied line of suitings than that kept by Olof Ekberg, 713 Kansas ave. Ml .M ..I. HI IT WAS A BIG SNOW. Five Inches of Snow Fell in Topeka The Snow Elsewhere. 'About five inches of snow fell yester day and last night. A little snow fell this morning. About 11 o'clock the air cleared. The snow fell so evenly and there was so little drifting that the roads are in excellent shape for sleigh ing. Should the weather remain cool enough to prevent the snow melting rapidly, Topeka will have good sleigh ing, for two or three days. The Topeka Railway company had considerable difficulty in keeping its lines open. The sand car was run all afternoon, and the plows were started in the afternoon. Last night about 11 o'clock as Sup erintendent Chas. Hixon and the snow plow crew were running east on Sixth street, the snow plow left the track near the Sixth street viaduct ami crashed into an iron center trolley pole. The men were all pitched off the plow into the snow, and the plow was bro ken. None of the men were hurt, al though some were bruised. The pola was broken off near the pavement. This morning there was trouble in starting the plows, which delayed su burban traffic greatly. The West Sixth, street and North Topeka lines were plowed first. On several of the lines cars did not, make the first trip until after 8 o'clock. This was because the plows were not started until after 6 o'clock. The snow was hard on electric car machinery. This morning but 13 trolley cars were available for use. For day service it requires 20 to fill the lines. This made the service limited, but the company tried to make the best time possible. The plows were run over ail the lines and the track is now in goods shape. Last night many people took advant age of the snow for sleighrides. George Slansfield got up a bobsled party, the first of the season. Many cutters were out, and the ring of sleiglibells added to the wintry scene. This snow is a dry one. It came down rapidly, and when it is packed it makes sleighing good. Evergreen trees in the city looked beautiful thus morning with the clus ters of snow on the branches. Street Commissioner Ramsey had his street force at work early cleaning crosswalks in the business portion of the city. This afternoon they have been at work in the residence portion. Mr. Jennings says there is a possibil ity that the cold weather may continue for a few days. From four to six inches of snow has fallen during the past twenty-four hours over the state generally with the? exceptions of portions of the extreme southern part, but so far the railroads have experienced no material trouble from the storm. This is because the snow was not accompanied by any great amount of wind, and has not been drifting. With few exceptions all trains on the Santa Fe, Rock Islands and Union Pacific roads are running on schedule time. At noon today it was still snowing on the lines of the Rock Island road in the northern part of the state and into Colorado. But little snow has fallen since morning on the Santa Fe lines. now fell last night along the Santa Fe lines in Cioru,d;--cad NVw Mexico. ST. JOE'S FIRST SNOW. Depth of Six Inches Has Bean Reach ed and it is Still Failing St. Joseph, Dec 3. The first snow storm of the season began at 8 o'clock yesterday evening and at 9 o'clock this morning snow was still falling. At the hour named six inches of snow had fallen. Railway traffic was seriously interfered with and street cars wens unable to run on time. Reports front Kansas and Nebraska say the snow fail was general and is of great value to the winter wheat. Snow Turns to Rain at Sedalia Kansas City, December 3. A special to the Sta- from Sedalia. Mo., sh.ys: It be gan raining here at noon, following tli! first heavy snow of the season. liuiica tions are that central Missouri is to r ceive the first downpour of rain in thrre months. It will do immense good. DYING FAST. Since Last Night G5 Head of Cattle Have Dropped Dead. Eleven car loads of young cattle from the south were brought to Topeka yester day and taken to the fair grounds. They were consigned to K. F. Pankey, the ranchman of Valencia. He was to re ceive between 5.000 and 6,000 head of cat tle and was vising the fair grounds as a distributing point. The stock consisted of yearling heifers for the most part. At the fair grounds during the night and today the cattle were dying off in large numbers. In all, over are now dead, and it is feared that by ni&hr th-i number will have been doubled. Ther were between 500 and COO catlie in the shipment. This morning 21 dead cmle were loaded in two wagons and haulnl through Topeka on the way to the re finery east of the city. Dr. G. H. Hap good was informed of it and he urresied the drivers of the wagons, r.s he holds the contract with the city for hauiinij dead animals. The men were dismissed when the case was explained, but th dead cattle were seized and Dr. Hiipiror-d will haul them away. There are now over 45 dead cattle at the fair grounds, and by night many more will probably die. Dr. Kapgood says that in his opin ion the cattle died from exposure. Thp were young and very thin. The cold snap, with practically no protection, was too severe for the southern stock. The cat'.ia dropped dead without any signs of dis ease, and it is probable that it was mireiy exposure which caused the deaths. MISS BRADLEY WINS. She Will Christen the Battleship Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 3. The controversy between the friends of Miss Richardson, the Lexington girl who claims that she was selected as sponsor for the baUi ship Kentucky by former Secretary Her bert was set at rest today by Oovernor Bradlev making public an ol'ilcial com munication from Secretary Long askuis him to name a woman to christen the ship. Governor Bradley will name h'.i daughter Christine. SIBYL A CATHOLIC. Miss Sanderson Joined the Church of Borne Before Har Marriage. New Tork, Dec. 3. A dispatch to the World from Paris says: Sibvl Sanderson was received into th-i Catholic church two days before she mar ried Antonio Terry, the immensely iii-h Cuban. Tht- bride was represented by fienry Jioward and Henry Martell. The pmr then went to a little convent chapel, where their nuptial blessing was bestow ed. After the wedding breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Terry started for Italy, intending to make the journey by easy stages.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1897. N k Mer. Co, 1 ew Yorl i NE17 MODEL NEW MODEL HEW MODEL Inventor of the Maxim Gun lias Built a Craft X i ''Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Can quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow." No, nor the north wind chill us by day,for we wear New Model Overcoats and Ulsters nor Jack Frost's icy fingers reach us by night, for we are pro tected by New Model Comforts and Blankets nor need we fear damp feet while protected by New Model Arctics and Overshoes. But, best of all, we need not fear that the purchase of all these necessaries will bankrupt us for New Model Prices are Low Prices the y're money savers. whether you heed it or not, that your eyes if weak, should have the attention of a 9 competent oculist. You can have the ben efit of New Model prices and the services of an experienced and expert opti cian by visiting our Optical Department. You Know Good triple plated Spectacles or Eye Glasses, with crystalline lenses tSe Alumoico Frames with pebble leases 82. 5 O 10-K Gold Filled Spectacles or Eye Glasses, with Febble Lenses 83. BO Solid Gold Spectacles with Febble Lenses 83. OO Dry Goods Department. Good heavy Bed Comforts, single bed size Larger and heavier, a 75 cent value, at 00c Bed Comforts, full size and heavy at $1.00 Bed Comforts, Standard Brints, at $1.13 Bed Comforts, extra heavy, 35cea 49cea 69c ea 75cea 85c ea $1.25 Bed Comforts.Cretone top, large Q f flfl and heavy iplUU $1.75 Bed Comforts, Satin finish top.C 1 OK -white cotton filled IpliUli Home made Bed Comforts, filled with finest electric cotton batting, best quality Standard Print cover, lined with fine satin finished print, hand sewed and knotted, full size 10-4 Grey Blankets, ea ea kets 11-4 Grey Blankets, ext heavy EXTRA SPECIAL. One lot 12-4 Grey Blankets, actual size 84 by i2 inches, weight seven pounds $1.49 ea 35c pr 49c pr 75c pr 51.00 pr $1.45 pr Three Leaders. Men's Heavy Melton Overcoats, Cas simere lined, dark colors, thoroughly well made, easilv worth $6.50 NEW MODEL'S PRICE Fine all Wool Black or Blue Black Beaver Dress Overcoats, Silk Velvet Collar, finest serge lining, perfect fit ting. Sold on the Avenue at $12.00 NEW MODEL'S PRICE Best all Wool Black Kersey Dress Overcoats, made up Raw Edged. Silk Velvet Collar, best Italian cloth lined. Skinner's guaranteed silk sleeve liningg Sold everywhere at $15.00 MEW MOD EL'S PRICE $4.95 $8.95 $11.50 We're Doing the Rubber Business. No wonder! Our prices are RIGHT no odd, trashy, fragile Rubber Cloods offered for sale except In those small lots that we almost give you free of charge. FIRST QUALITY COODS AT NECO.v" QUALITY PR ICES. Rubber Sandals. Good Quality Rubber Children's Sandals Misses' dais Ladies' dais Men's dais Good Quality Rubber San Good Quality Rubber San- Good Quality. Rubber San- 15c 20c 25e 40c Buckle Overshoes. We carry no "trash" in the way of Arctics nothing but good goods not an old pair lu stock all nice, new, clean goods. Children's One Buckle Good Quality QQp Q5c Misses' One Buckle Good Quality g Q g)C Women's One Buckle Good Quality J One Buckle Good Quality Boys' Arctic Men's Arctic One Buckle Good Quality 85 c? Sl.OO S 1.10 $1.25 Felt Boots. No old "Rotten Rubber," carried over from a or 3 seasons back. We guarantee our felt boots to be "Bran Splinter New." with good Lumber Boys' Felt Boot man over Men's Good Felt Boot, man over with Lumber- Men's Best Quality Felt, with FIRST GRADE Lumberman over $1.90 $2.10 $2.35 First Quality Storm Alaskas. Men's Bright and New j J J Q Ladies Bright and New First Quality Rubber Sandals. Men's Coin. Toe at Men's Needle Toe Men's Needle Toe Storm at Ladies' Coin or Needle Toe at Ladies' Coin or Needle Toe Storm at 85c 60c 60c 65c 45c 50c Groceries. 20 lbs. Granulated Sugar... 21 lbs. Extra C Sugar 24 lbs. Dark Brown Sugar... 10 lbs. Pure Maple Sugar... 5V2 good Rio Coffee 2 lbs. Bulk Coffee $1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 25 Groceries. C.VNXED GOODS. 4 cans California table Apricots.- .25 4 cans Califoria Green Gage Plums 25 1 can Warren Al Salmon 10 1 31b. can table Egg Plums 10 1 31b. can table Peaches .10 1 "lb. can table Pears 10 1 can best Sweet Corn 10 3 31b. can Pie Peaches .25 2 31b. can Tomatoes 15 1 can Peas 05 CEREALS. 13 lbs. Bulk Oat Meal 12 lbs. Cracked Hominy.., 10 lbs. Hominy Flakes 6 lbs. Cream of Maize.... 1 package Oat Meal 1 package Wheatling .25 .25 .05 .10 MISCELLANEOUS. 8 11). Buckwheat Flour 6 packages Corn Starch 3 cans Mustard Sardines 3 packages Ralston Yeast 3 packages Dr. Rex Pancake Four 3 packages Ralston Pancake Flour 2 packages Seedless Raisins 1 lb. K. P. Chocolate 1 25 01. can K P. Baking Powder ,15 Groceries. 3 bottles Catsup 1 qt. bottle Catsup.. 3 lbs. Mince Meat.. 1 pt. bottle Olives.. 1 qt. bulk Olives .35 DRIED FRUITS. 1 lb. large Prunes 4 lbs. Raisins 4 lbs. Dried Pears 3 lbs. California Dried Apricots. 5 lbs. Dried Blackberries 2 lbs. Dried Raspberries 4 lbs. Country Dried Peaches... SOAPS. 10 bars I. X. L. Soap 10 bars Clariette Soap 10 bars Silk Soap 8 bars White Russian Soap I W EW t U U U VJ La Kemper Paxtons 6th and Quincy. m ew MODEL kwM Hut hK ilSISiiS HjuH huitiiijEfil fcMittMttlSI H Wholesale Prices of Caskets, Coffins and Robes For Sale By J. M. KNIGHT, combine Undertaker, 406 KMSAS ATE., TELEPHONE 52. ft "iinm, nyp 111 1 mmm iiiw- m OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Fine funeral cars, hearses, palace coaches auU drivers in livery in at tenuauce. 1 ree ambulance to trains or any part of the city day or night. EXORBITANT PRICKS OTHER FIRMS WUES That Flies Through the Air at 100 Miles an Hour. SEEN LAST SUMHEE. It Was His Ship That Attracted So Much Attention. From the Pacific to Cleveland and Hack in Three Days. WHY PAT YOU CAN BUY flit factory wh.r. food are m 1 Adult Cloth Caskets, six silver handle and plate for.. 813. OO Adult Cloth Casket, six textile handle and plate for. I H. 00 Adult Cloth Casket, six textile handles, satin lined, for 20.00 Children's Casket o Fine Metalic Caskets for Adults t.vno The Boyd Grave Vault for 35.00 -21 Eut Sixth Street. FOR SEVENTY YEARS She Kept a Lighted Candle in the Window for the Sailor Lover. Springfield, Mass., Dec. 3. Miss Lu cinda Day, who died yesterday at the age of 90, resided in a quaint little brick house in West Springfield. Seventy years ago Miss Day had a love affair. Her lover was a sailor.and on his departure for a voyage Miss Day promised to place every night a light ed candle in the window to greet him if he returned in the night. He has not since been heard from, but Miss Day refused to believe him dead. Last night was the first time for 70 years that a candle had not shone in the window. With the exception of one year spent at school in New Haven, Miss Day lived all her life In the old house where she was born and died. Ballard's Snow Liniment will cure Lame back. Sore Throat, Wounds, Strains, Bruises, Cuts, Old Sores. La dies, it will cure your back-ache. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan. Ave., and Mil ler's Pharmacy, Cor. 6th and Topeka avenue. The most successful remedy for throat and lung complaints is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. New Kensington, Pa,, Dec. 3. Aerial navigation is said to be an accomp lished fact, r Hiram S. Maxim, invent or of the Maxim gun, who has spent years on the invention of an air ship, has built one of New Kensington alumi num. He says that he has traveled across the continent and back in his vessel, and has speeded it to 100 miles an hour. Some months ago it was announced that the Pittsburg Reduction company had received a large order from the At lantic and Pacific Aerial Navigation company. The order was for a large number of aluminum sheets, to be one hundredth of an inch thick, two feet wide and sixteen feet in length. T bars, rivets and various other pieces of the same material were ordered at the same time. Not long after this the or der was duplicated. To show that the company meant business, the cash amounting to several thousand dollars, was sent with each order. Mr. Maxim furnishes the following description of his vessel. The dimen sions are: Cylinder, 38 feet 2 inches in diameter and SO feet in length; length of forward cone, 50 feet: length of after cone, 45 feet; total length 158 feet. It occupies 106,000 cubic ftt of space. Thj propelling power is a 105 horse-power naphtha engine. The cylinder, engine and every part of the machine, so far as practicable, is made of aluminum, which was purchased of the reduction company here. The ship will weigh about 5,000 pounds and will carry more than a ton of provisions and passen gers. The naphtha for the engine will be stored in cases which hold enough to drive the ship around the earth without replenishing the tanks. The skin of the ship is double and filled with hydrogen gas. It will be confined in separate compartments, and will be In the upper part of the vessel and in the cones. The tail that projects upward from the stern of the ship directs it up or down as a bird directs its movements with its tail. The rudder changes the course from right to left. Motive pow er is secured by the big aeroplane at the stern, which is driven by the naphtha engine. A speed of 100 miles an hour has been attained without difficulty. At this rate the trip across the conti nent would be a twenty-four hours' journey, while Juies Verne is outdone, as Mr. Maxim is able to make a tour of th world in ten days instead of eighty. Last summer great excitement was caused in Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Chicago and other western cit ies by the appearance of what was said to be an airship, floating over these cit ies by night. All that could be seen was red and green lights, such as a steamboat carries. No further infor mation was gained about the nocturnal visitor until some months had elapsed. Then it was learned that the Atlantic and Pacific Navigation company had built an airship. It is asserted that it traveled from San Francisco as far east as Cleveland, Ohio, making the round trip journey in three days' time. REJECT POOR TEAS. About J15.000 Packages lnthe Last Six Months, New Tork, Dec. 3. Large quantities of adulterated teas have been rejected at this port within the last six months by Appraiser W. F. Wakeman and his assistants, under the stringent law passed last March, which became oper ative May 1. Yesterday 1,000 packages of Ping Suey tea, each weighing about 35 pounds, were rejected at the apprais er's stores. Under the laws the importers have six months' time in which to ship back the goods. In case they fail to do so, it then devolves upon the collector of the port to destroy the teas, which is done by burning them. When seen yesterday Mr. Wakeman said: "Since the law became operative, about 15,000 packages of inferior teas have been inspected. They are all green teas and known as second pickings, which usually reach here about this time of the year. Hence the large quantity which has been rejected re cently." The market values of the Ping-Suey teas range from 14 to 25 cents a pound, according to the customs officials who were seen yesterday, so that the value of the teas rejected at this port since May last is in the neighbarhood of $100,000. A GOOD PRACTICE If You Want a Good Appetite and Perfect Digestion. After each meal dissolve one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in the mouth and, mingling with the food, they constitute a perfect digestive, ab solutely safe for the most sensitive stomach. They digest the food before it has time to ferment, thus preventing the formation of gas and keeping the blood pure and free from the poisonous pro ducts of fermented, half-digested food. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets make the complexion clear by keeping the blood pure. They increase flesh by digesting flesh forming foods. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the on ly remedy designed especially for the cure of stomach trouble and nothing else. One disease, one remedy, the suc cessful physician of today is the spec ialist, the successful medicine is the medicine prepared especially for one disease. A whole package taken at one time would not hurt you, but would simp ly be a waste of good material. Over six thousand men and women in the state of Michigan alone have been cured of indigestion and dyspep sia by the use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Sold by all druggists at 50 cents for full sized package. Send for free book on stomach dis eases to Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. Men's Heavy Knit Underwear, worth 29c ea 19c ea. Men's All Wool Underwear, worth 98o ea.. 69c ea. Men's Heavy Fleece Lined Underwear, worth 65c ea 39c ea. Ladies' Fleece Lined, Silk Taped Vests and Pants, JKTE. 25c ea. Ladies' Fleece Lined Union Suits, worth 45c ea. 29c ea Ladies' Ribbed Fleece Lined Vests and Pants, worth 25c ea, Saxony Wool Fascinators, black and colors, worth 29c ea.. Child's Black Cotton Ribbed Hose, worth 8c pair 3c pr. Child's Black Ribbed Wool Hose, worth 12ic 5c pr. Children s Heavy Ribbed Bicycle Hose, worth 25c lGc pr, .Ladies Saxony Wool Mittens, double EL"Lr., worth 35c pr.. Lonsdale 4-4 Bleached Muslin, genuine green ticket brand 19c ea. 19c ea. sac pr. 0c yd. GET OUR PRICES ON BLANKETS AND COMFORTS DISTRIBUTERS Of GARCrAftS, HO E.KTE-f ST. Dry Goods, Cloaks, Millinery, Shoes, and Tin and Granite Ware. TV Al I I fif HH MrA i t CHICAGO MUSEUM SUED. Mamie Hogle Bitten, by a Ferocious African Monkey. Chicago, Dec. 3. There was one mon key on exhibition at Kohl Middleton's dime museum on Saturday night that was invisible to the crowd that went to the Clark street place last evening. When it savagely attacked Miss Mamie Hogle, the 11-year-old daughter of Geo. J. Hogle, 912 North Clark street, Satur day evening, the managers promised Mr. Hogle that the animal would be immediately killed. Mr. Hogle said last night that the museum people hadn't done anything of the kind. Saturday was Mamie Hogle's last day of vacation. Testerday she was to have returned to a convent, where she has been a pupil for two years. Mamie wanted to go to the museum, having never seen anything of the kind. The father went with her. They had not been inside ten minutes before the little African monkey crept up behind the girl, and, without warn ing, sprang at her. Mr. Hogle seized the monkey by the throat and threw it violently to the floor. It made an other spring. Hogle kicked it again and again while it was attempting to spring at his daughter's throat. He declares that several employes of the museum were standing about, but that they only laughed at his appeals for help, and told him that the animal was only playing. The monkey retreated, and then made a jump for the girl's lower limbs, and in another instant had sunk its teeth in her flesh. Mamie fainted away and was taken to a near by drug store and thence driven to her home. Several vain attempts were made yesterday by the museum people to have an interview with Mr. Hogle. Mr. Hogle will consult an attorney today, and intends suing for something like $50,000. WAR OH HYPNOTISM. School Officials Pat an End to the Craze at Sheboygan. Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 3. The school authorities have made astonishing dis coveries in more complete investigation into the results of Prof. George W. Fer guson's hypnotic experiments in the pub lic schools. Demonstrations have been made in all ward schools, the high school alone escaping. Pupils of all ages from the tiny tot in the kindergarten to the youths bordering on manhood and wo, manhood have been used as subjects. Of the hundreds of children Prof. Fer guson has hypnotized none has suffered Injury in any way, but the effects are shown in the hundreds of young Sven. galls that are found in the various grades of the schools. Boys of 10, 12 and 14 years have become experts in control, and they find their subjects among their little playfellows. Girls in short dresses have taken up the mysteries of the science and have experi mented on their younger brothers and sis ters. Little groups of boys and girls that assembled in the halls and playrooms or on the grounds of the school buildings and who before the exposure of Prof. Fer guson's classes In hypnotism were sup posed to be discussing verbs and percent age, are now known to have been deep in the mysteries of hypnotic suggestion and control. One of the most sensational facts brought out last evening at the meeting of the school board, when Prof. Fergu son was dismissed because of his hyp notic experiments, related to a demon stration of hypnosis in the Fourth ward school a week ago. It was charged by a commissioner that recently Prof. Fergu son visited the Fourth district schooi, and after the close of the study hours invited the older pupils to remain. The window were covered with curtains and the tran som darkened and a dozen or more of the pupils were placed in hypnosis. The experiments continued for an hour. Another case was that of a 6-year-old girl named Alker, a pupil of the Second ward school. She was called into Prof. Ferguson's residence and hypnotized. She was told that dogs were pursuing her, and the fright and nervous shik seriously af fected her. A few days Uaer the little one was in school and Prof. Ferguson at tempted, in the presence of the teacher, to place her in hypnosis, but the experiment failed. At th next meeting of the city council an ordinance will probably be in troduced prohibiting the practice of hyp notism in the city and punishing offend ers by a heavy flue. The feeling inspired by Prof. Ferguson's experiments is intense. CASTOR! A For Infants and Children. Th fas- 7 is 0 vn?fM TO PHILLIPS BROOKS. A Memorial to Cost $250,000 to Be Erected at Harvard. Boston, Dec. 3. The project of erecting a building at Harvard university in mem ory of Phillips Brooks has now assumed definite shape and only the execution of the plans remains. The university au thorities have granted a site for the build ing in line with Holworthy and parallel to Holden chapel. Thus far J50.0O0 has been appropriated for its erection. The total cost will be $250.MJO. It is the in tention of the committee in charge to build it four stories high, and of brick with stone trimmings. The upper story is to be a hall with a capacity for seat ing 250 persons. The lower stories will be divided into reception rooms and apart ments for the meetings of the different religious societies. The object of the un dertaking is to make this memorial the center not merely of religious but of gen eral hospitable influences. The committee which has the memorial in charge is made up as follows: Robert Treat Paine, '55, chairman: Prof. Francis G. Peabody, 69; Edward H. Abbott, '55; Prof. George H. Palmer,; '64; the Rev. George A. Gordon. '81, and the Rev. Dr. E. Winchester Donald of Trinity church, Boston. SMUGGLE OUT GAME. Wardens la Maine Have All Sorts of Schemes to Contend Against. Boston, Dec. 3. This is the season when the game wardens in Maine earn their salaries more than any other time. Two wardens are stationed at Bangor, Me., to prevent violations of the laws relating to the transportation of game, and since the opening of the game season on October 1 they have brought to the state in fines and costs enough money to cover their ex penses. They have seized 25 boxes of veni son, about 250 partridges and several deer and moose heads. The wardens have the worst trouble wtih shipments of partridges. The birds come in paper, in boxes, in glass jars marked "jelly," and nearly all of them are directed to commission merchants in Boston and New York. The wardens have a list of nearly every market in Boston and New York where game is sold, and thev suspect when they see a package addressed to one of these concerns that it is game. Sometimes they have found partridges very neatly done up in rabbit skins. It is not illegal to ship rabbits out of the state, and by taking two part ridges, placing them end to end and put ting them into a rabbit skin, they can be made to look almost like the real thing. CANCELED MORTGAGES. Proposition to Exhibit Them Meets Witii Favor. The suggestion of Representative elect Charles Harris of Emporia, that Kansas exhibit at the Omaha exposi tion next summer, her canceled mort gages, is meeting with general favor all over the state. Mr. Harris estimates that a collec tion of such documents would come near making a car load and he is in favor of having every one of them col lected and sent to the Trans-Mississippi exposition. He says: "It would be the greatest and best advertisement the state has ever had. It would demonstrate beyond any ques tion that the people of Kansas are prosperous; are honest and are dispos ing of their obligations not by repudia tion but by liquidation." Mr. Harris is a newspaper man and a Republican. IRISH MEMORIAL BUILDING One to be Erected in San Francisco to Cost $250,000. San Francisco, Dec. 3. The Celtic Union of this city has taken up the idea of erecting a great building to commemorate 1898. the Irish centen nial year. The building Is expected to cost nearly a. quarter of a million dol lars and will be designed to accommo date all the Celtic societies in the city. In aid of the project it is proposed to hold a grand Irish fair early in next year. The Burlington's New Observation Vestibuled Trains. A verv handsome set of wide obser vation vestibuled trains are Just out of the Burlington's shops. They are avail able for all classes of travel, and are the only trains of their kind to St. Louis from the Missouri River. These are the Denver, Missouri River and St. Louis limited trains. Every car has a wide observation vestibule. The trains are lighted throughout with Pintsch gas and equipped also with standard and compartment sleepers. These trains are a duplicate of the new "Eli" to Chicago. This achievement reflects the high est credit upon the Burlington man agement in Missouri, which is the first to introduce into the service, from the west to St. Louis, these solid, complete, wide-vestibuled trains for all classes of travel. Ask your Ticket Agent for handsome descriptive folder. HOWARD ELLIOTT, General Manager, St. Joseph, Mo. L. W. WAKELET, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Don't Tobaeco Spit and Smoke lour JJl'e Amy. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of Hie, ne.-ve and vigor, take No-To-Bao, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or t. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York THE AMERICAN DOCTORS Located in Topeka by Request for Six 3Jontbs--One Month's Treatment Free Extend ed to December 20th. The American doctors from St. Louis have been in Topeka before and have cured many citizens of this city. They came well Recommended by many who know of their superior skill in the treatment of chronic diseases of all forms, Cancers, Turners and Rectal dis eases. They are the most expert that can be found and the afflicted will find it a benefit and pleasure to talk with these eminent specialists. They are men of mature age and ripe in exper ience, consequently their, consultations are valuable to the afflicted. DISEASES OF WOMAN. The many ills peculiar to the female sex are met with such rapid relief in every case that all are surprised to know that they can be so quickly cured after years of suffering (untold). These doctors bid a.11 ladies who suffer come and be healed and suffer no more. RHEUMATISM IN ALL FORMS. All who suffer from this disease, no difference from what cause or how ionsT standing, no difference how much swol len or how much pain. No difference how long you have been confined to bed, go to the American Doctors and get perfect relief in fifteen days. CANCERS AND TUMEKS. These dangerous maladies are speed ily and permanently removed without the use of the knife. A cure guaran teed. ALL DISEASES OF THE RECTUM. These diseases not always understood by others, are speedily removed and no fooiing about it. DROPSY AND KIDNEY DISEASES. Not one case of the above will fail to obtain permanent relief and a cure who are treated by the American Doctors from St. LouiSi CATARRH AND DEAFNESS. These doctors will not accept a case of the above diseases that they consider incurable, in fact the long and active experience had by these doctors, in the exclusive treatment of all forms of chronic diseases have made them al most master of them all, and hundreds of the best citizens in and around To peka are taking advantage of the gold en opportunity of obtaining the services and advice of these noted specialists. To all who call in person and commenca a course of medical treatment on or be fore December 20. will be entitled to receive one month's medical treatment free of charge. -Consultation free to all. Offices 118 West 6th street, t'opeka, Kan. W. L. DOUGLAS $3SHOEthlwVr?d. For 14 vears IMS by meilt alone, hixn dutim i-.l all mnn,t" V. I,. Dr.UKlaa :1..10. 4.UO and hoes are the prnlTu-li.,ns skilled workmen, from tholvstniateri.il i,niille at these 1 r'ees. Also 2..,0 iMid ittC.OO shoes for men. S.00 ;iuil fgt. in for l.oys and joutlis W 1 1 op-las Bhoes ate Indorse'! bv over l.lo,.Ml wearers lis the beat in stvlo, lit and durability of any ali "ever offered at the prices. They are nuule In all the latest shapes and styles, and of every vari ety of leather. If dealer cannot surrdy yon, write for cata logue to W. L. LiougUis, lirocltton, Uau. Bold oy Inn Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co., 1 1.11 e KafKaa Ave.. 4 J J Hbo Are Sole Agents For Topeka. Sr. Evans' Fortune. Paris, Dec. 3. It is stated here that the late Dr. Thomas W. Evans, left a fortune of between five and eight mil lion dollars In landed property and in vestments. His landed property here is valued at J2.00O.000. 6ubscriTe fT The State Journal