The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 9, 1897

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II f TWO CENTS. THURSDAY bEXDG. TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 9, 1S97. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. r V I

f a 4 WHEATS 1. 09. Grand and Lofty Tumbling in the Chicago Tit. HigLest Price Beached With One Exception Since DAYS OF "OLD HUTCH." Wcut to the High Point at Three Bounds. Dropped Back a Little Closed at Si. 07 1-2. and Chicag-o, Dec. 9. Amid considerable ex citement December wheat sold at $1.09 today, the highest price with one excep tion since the memorable "Old Hutch" corner in The market started very nervous, bids at the Mart ranin all the way from $1.0- j to $1.04 and in a few min utes sold up to Trade was much broader than during the bulges on Mon day and yesttrday, when the Kjli;ny cf not to exceed r,u.J bushels caused the nurket to quiet down. IJuyiny orders 'came from ail parts of the pit. inustiy i'ur lots of fro ni i, t o 25. I W bushels, but even for such sm:i 11 lots sellers were scarce, and the market for a moment was apparently in danger of running away. Then the bull clique brokers came to the rescue, and not until at leasL 2.J0.O.0 bush els had bt-en offered and eagerly taktn tlid the excitement die down. Abnu t 11 :flf n. m., however, shor'n pot on tht ramjiage a gra in. 'I'iiL- market l ii t he meant fine had r (.-covered to having sold down to Jl.u.l-1-. An attempt to buy a moder- te iiiie at that price re vealed the fact that the market was bare me d dlar tiv' and a half was bid, wi- h m takt-rs. Then the market jumped J-o-nt at a time to Jl.uS and a little vh'ut dnhbld out; then hat k it went to but only fur a nion.t-ni, when it turned uuain. jumping t $1.-0 in three bids. Tin-re the thoroughly frightened shorts were enabled to buy and the market lUi etrd hwii, reacting to stl. 'i her-:- was apparently a ;;eueral belief arnnnif trad, is that the DcrcmU'r buiis inifinl t- carry th dr-a.1 in til at option to the last ex tremity. This opinion '.vas stien:?: hntd by tlie annou ncenn-r.t that arrantemenis hail been completed whtivby all contract wheat will be snipped east by all-rail as Boon as A liveretl here, thus keeping tin market bare. This anouncemeiu h;si great weight with the shorts, who for the lust time displayed real anxiety. 50,000 PEOPLE. That is the Estimate of tho Spring Bush to the Klondike. Denver, Dec. 9. John Francis. general passenger agent of the Burlington rail road, plopped over in Denver on his way home from the Pacific coast. "There is going to be a bis rush of travel in Alaska when the season opens," said he. "People are preparing to go from every state in the Union, and from almost every town. There will be at least 50.U00 people, who will make the trip, and the crowd may reach twice that number. I don't sup pose they will all set as far as the Klondike; many will not get beyond Portland. In a rush such as this will lie., there will always he persons who start out without sufficient prepara tion, who will have to Rive up before they get to their destination. "The railroads will take care of the crowds without any trouble. All the lines are bidding- for the business and the trip will be made as comfortable as possible. I understand that there will be enough steamers to carry the crowds promptly." COLLINS IS GONE. Martin Ensley's Case Cannot Proceed for Lack of Prosecuting Witness. St. Louis. Dec. 9. The case of Martin Ensley, the prominent Tennesseean under indictment on the charge of as saulting and robbing his friend, Charles D. Colhns of $6,000, at Meramee High lands last spring, came up for trial in the county court at Clayton todav. The case was set for trial November 21. but Collins, who was manager of a hotel in St. Louis, failed to appear and the case was continued until todav. Judie Hirzel issued an attachment foY Collins, but he has not been found. When the ase was called he was not present. Mrs. Collins, who is in charge of the hotel, says she has not seen her hus band since the evening of -November Judge Hirzel today continued the cas? until the next term of court. Judge Harvey, counsel for the defendant, moved the discharge of his client, which was refused: he then asked that the bond be reduced. This was also ie f used. Sheriff Kerth has not much hope of fmd.ntr Collins, but says if lie returns to St. Louis at any time he wi'I arrest him by virtue of the attachment papeAs issued by the Clayton circnit. court. 31 'A' ALL KEJ01C1SG. Judge Foster Today Continues the Contsmpt Ca33 to Next March. Judge Foster of the federal court today continued the McNall contempt case, ar gued before him yesterday, umil the nct term of court, which will bf lull i:i March. Judge Foster announced vester diiy that lie would decide the case "Satur day and ordered both sides to be rea.lv for trial on that day. The continuance is belu-ved to be the result of his partial examination of the case and the con cision that there is nothing in the in dict tent, charging McXall with con tempt. It is believed by manv that this iLeIu3r",r Ule ''ae' aI:d t"h"t will not be called up again. Judge Webb's $10,000. l10; state today paid to John A. Kleinhans. to whom the claim was as signed. J9.00O due Judge Y. C Webb for his compilation of the statutes of Kansas. The amount which was ap propriated for Mr. Webb was $10 I'eo The thousand dollars of the amount went to John S. Parks, the stat pr'r.t er, who printed and bound the" bo-,ks Judge Webb gets ?9,C0Q fur the work." Zanesville Trolley Line Eankrupt. Zanesville, O., Deo. 9 The ZanesvPle Street Railway and Klectrio comnany went into the hands of William Christie receiver, today. The bonded indebted ness is SJO.Oiiy and the floating debt $7S wo FOUR SOCIETY WOMEN Arrested in Boston for Systematic Siiop Lifting. Boston, Dec. 9. A gigantic and com prehensive system of shoplifting has been unearthed by the Lynn police, and. as a consequence, four women, al leged to be the operators of the scheme are under arrest at police headquar ters. They have confessed and the goods have been recovered. Several trunks are filled with the booty. The officers are positive that there are other wom en implicated. The women are Mrs. Clara Phillips, wite of Lincoln Phillips; her sister. Miss Lulu Cobb; Miss Florence Marson and Mrs. G. B. M. Houston, wife of ex Alderman Houston. The women are all prominent socialiy and members of so cieties and fraternities. Their sole mo tive was vanity and the desire to dress well and furnish their homes in lux ury. Furs and broadcloth cloaks were ta ken in large numbers, while there are also hundreds of yards of laces, numer ous pairs of stockings, hundreds of yards of silk, silk skirts, entire dresses, bric-a-brac of every nature, ribbons, clocks, shoes. perfumery, brushes, mir rors, toilet articles, underwear and al most every article on sale in dry goods, milliners' and furriers' stores, valued at many thousands of dollars. VANDERBILT'S LIFE Insured in a Now York Compa ny For $1,000,000. New York. Doc. 9. The largest life in surance policy ever issued hus boon writ ten in this city, calling for $1,ijOO.J0O in surance upon the life of George V. Van clerbUt. The policy is what is known as a twenty-payment life contract and pro vides for a premium of $3r,'-KX a year. After Mr. Vandc-rbilt has paid that sum yearly for twenty years the payments tease and te- principal becomes due at his ileath. The in xt largest policy ever written is said to have bt-en :Lle0.(AK (SjX'.'') enter ed into by an Knjlish company which re insured much of the risk in other con cerns. The larjierit transaction of an American company, it is said, took place a ft w years a jjt o w h e n t K of insur ance was issued noun the lives of five members cf the same family. SCENE OF BRUTALITY. Bicyclo Ridsrs Tako Little Time for Sleep Hale Getting in Form. New York, Dec. 9. The early hours of the fifth day of the six day bicycle race found IS men still pedalling away for honor and profit. The men were all seemingly determined with the possi ble exception of Stephane, who had de veloped a case of stubbornness which his trainer had a hard time in combat ting. The motion of the wheel i3 beginning to affect the riders' brains, and even in the litful snatches of sleep winch they allow themselves, theh imagine they are still riding. The men must be forced to sleep in most instances by the trainers. They want to be up and away at the pace which has shown no lagging since the start. The wonderful endurance of the men is best shown by the actual time spent in sleep by the leaders. Miller had slept just one hour and six min utes in the first 72 hours of the race. Rivierre rode 1,124 miles without a wink of sleep and he then took two hours. Waller had slept three hours; Kice, five; Moore, six; Pierce, six and a half; Golden, nine and three-quarters, and Stephane seven in the same time. Kikes made 1,000 miles In the first 72 hours despite the fact that he had slept 20 hours. The pace during the morning was something terrific. Waller, who came on about 1 o'clock, set the ball rolling, and kept it up for three hours. Miller, who had been sleeping, jumped in be hind as soon as he had returned to the track, and both men raced around the track, lap after lap. Hale let himself out in dead earnest this morning. Be ginning about 2 o'clock he clipped off Ian after lap at such a pace that Tii- vierre, who took the pace from him, had to drop out. Score at 9:15 a. m.: Miller, 1,341; Rice, 1.2S3; Kivierre, 1.263; Schinner, 1,229; Moore, 1,212; Waller, 1.260: Hale, 1.160; Pierce, 1,156: Kikes, 1.080; Golden, 1.068; Stephane. 1.0.7; Knterman, 1.060; Gan non, 1.020; King. 9!I2; Julius. 951; Gray, 7S1: Johnson. 772; Eeacom, 725. The best previous record for 81 hours was 1.172 miles, made by Hale. 2:15 p. m., score Miller, 1,417; Rice. 1.355; Rivierre. 1,336; Schinner, 1.315; Waller, 1.2SS; Moore, 1,275: Pierce, 1,228; Kikes, 1,140; Golden, 1.107: Knterman. 1.0.s7; Gannon. 1.0S4; Stephane, 1.056: King, 1.053: Julius, 1.014; Johnson, S32; Gray. S20: Jleaoom, 797. Police Inspector Brooks said today that he visited Madison Square Garden last night in regard to the reports of alleged cruelty to the men in the race. He had found nothing which could be called cruelty. LOVE WORTH $75,000. Mrs. Van Schaack Places That Value on Her Husband's Affections. Chicago. Dec. 9. Mrs. Florence Van Schaack has begun suit against her father-in-law. Peter Van Schaack. one of the leading business men of Chicago, asking damages in the amount of $75. 000 for alienation of her husband's af fections and $r.n.C00 for libel. Mrs. Van Schnsck claims that her father-in-law induced her husband to leave her by means of letters contain ing charges which she denominates as untrue. The plaintiff rtcently secured a verdict by default of $65,000 against the defendant in Prookivn, but that judgment not being operative in Chi cago, siie has brought another action here. 31 3113. IIEUIIJIANN SJITCGLES She is 2-Iot Up in Hjr Art Enough, to Deceive Customs Officars. San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 9. The cus toms authorities at Kl Paso seized 40 yards of a rare pattern of the finest grade of silk, which Mme. Adelaide Herrmann, widow of the magician, bought for drapery for her costume' in a new serpentine dance she is de signing. The silk was found hidden under Mme. Herrmann's skirts. She had crossed over into Juarez, Mexico, to purchase it. The shopkeeper assured her it would be an easy- matter to rmugyle the goods, but while selecting thein.Mrne. Herrmann inadvertently of fended one of the Mexican clerks in the store, and he sent a tip to the cus toms officials. IT IS USELESS. Cuban Patriots Declare the Time Has Passed For Any Compromise With the Mother Country. ISSUE PKOCLAMATIOJf. In Which Our Declaration of Independence is Paraphrased. f m r- d Their All to Liberty. MONDAY IS THE DAY. Spain's New Form of Govern ment to be Inaugurated. ?Cew Tcrk, Dec. 9. A proclamation signed by the Cuban military and civil leaders in Havana province protestin, against the autonomy offered by Spain was recently issued, as reported by the correspondent of the Associated Press. The proclamation in full follows: "Cubans: After ail her efforts to sub due us by force of arms have proved vain, Spain offers autonomy to the Cu ban people. She expects to induce us to submit anew to her rule under her pretended terms of peace. "Spain's pretention is useless. The time is already past to think of such compromise and transaction. Opposed to them in an insurmountable manner are the dignity and manifest destiny of our country; the outrages inflicted upon our families, the torrents of Cuban blood that have been shed; the lives of so many innocent human beings who have succumbed to oppression; the sa cred memory of our heroes who have died in defense of their native soil, and all other sorts of sacrifices we have made in behalf of our independence. To obtain this we have again taken up arms, and we are determined to con tinue unhesitatingly in the task of re deeming our country until we attain the success which is near at hand. We shall not Ilinch in our effort, nor is it possible that we be forsaken by the God of justice in our sacred undertaking. "Let the world at large be aware that this is our unalterable purpose; our omy ana constant aspiration; our su preme ideal, to which we have conse crated our lives, our property, present welfare and, in short, our all. Let all the world know our full determination to carry on the struggle day after day while the Spanish flag floats over our beloved country. L-et everybody know that our watchword is independence or death. Cubans, long live Cuba, free and independent." Xew York. Dec. 9. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: Next Monday is understood to be the day set for the institution of the pro visional government in Cuba under the autonomy decrees of November 25 and 26. The state department has been giv en to understand that General Blanco has arranged to do this immediately upon the arrival of the decrees in Hav ana, where they are expected by Sat urday or Sunday at the latest. This is in a-ccorclance with the closing election of the decree of November 25 extending to the Antilles the electoral laws of Spain on a basis of universal suffrage, and provides the new consti tution for Porto Rico and Cuba in these words: "In order to establish at once the new regime, the governor general will ap point the secretaries of the insular gov ernment, with whom he shail govern the colony until the insular parliament shall be constituted." The understanding is further that the provisional appointees will be Cu bans and members of the autonomist party. Simultaneously the committee to take the census of the provinces and make the poll list for the first election will be constituted and the necessary machinery organized to choose the 17 councillors of administration and the members of the chamber of representa tives, the latter being authorized on the basis of one for every 25,000 inhabitants At the same election provincial and municipal officials are to be chosen by direct vote of all male inhabitants of legal age. there being no property qualifications as had been generally supposed, except in the case of the 17 councillors. The date of this election, while not yet determined upon, will probably be set for some time next spring-, although Gen. Planco may find it possible to or der it in some of the provinces, at least, as early as the middle of January. Home rule for Cuba; for Spptn sov ereignty; for the United States reci procity. The programme is defined. If carried out, it might insure years of tranquillity and prosperity to the An tilles. Until the first tpoint is settled, the last one is necessarily inchoate. It does not form part of the public dis cussion of autonomy. Only the few thoughtful men who are looking be yond the politics of today make it a cardinal feature in the Cuban policy of the future. Except for the fall in sugar, it is con tended by thoughtful men the abuses of Spanish coloniarnisgovernrnen tin the island would have been endured until corrected. In prosperity the weight of corrupt and oppressive administration did not seem to bear so heavily. In adversity it became unbearable With concessions fro.n Spain which promise to give Cuba its own govern ment the economic conditions again become prominent and commercial re lations with the United States are the basis of all the plans for improvement A wide gulf must first be bridged with autonomy before force can be given to these ideas. The gulf may nev er be spanned, because support at eith er end by Spanish partisans and Cu ban revolutionists is wanting: yet the suggestion of reciprocity is significant of the future relations of the island to the United States. The Cubans who declare the revolution must go on un til independence is won have theories of their own. One of these is that broader and more stable reciprocity will be secured to the United States if it treats with 'the Cuban republic in stead of with the colony of Spain. This is their answer. It should not be understood that the representatives of the Spanish cabinet in Cuba are concerning themselves with these matters of economy. It is the men of theories who are doing that. Capt. Gen. Blanco has too much im mediate work to look so far ahead. To undo what Weyler had done in malad ministration Is a huge task in itself. Something of this labor has been ac complished in administrative offices, but this has little bearing on the main question. The places are filled by men who are in sympathy with the govern ment and who will loyally help to carry out its plans. These are details. More important is the approachment of the political parties. The Maurir correspondents or the Havana journals describes the Sagasta ministry as in the enjoyment of its honeymoon. WRAPPED IN FOG. Accidents l)j Land and Water Owing to Darkness in N. Y. New York, Dec. 9. During- the fog shortly after t o clock this morning two cars on the Second avenue elevated rail road collided at li2nd street. The en gine of the rear train ran into the rear car ot the train ahead. A. tireman and two passengers were injured. Their names are: YVm. H. Masterson, severe scalp wounds; Fireman Joseph O'Brien, bruised neck; Timothy Sullivan, bruises of the hands. All the passengers of both trains were thrown from iheir seats. The engineer of the rear train was arrested. The fog was responsible for another "IV railway collision in which two persons were injured. It occurred on the Sixth avenue line at 132nd street, where an upbound train ran into another. The engineer of the rear train, William Donaldson, and a passen ger were painfully bruised. On the East river the ferryboat Flushing- mistook the bell of the steamer Miami for that of the Long Island ferry slip and bumped the steamer hard. There was some confusion on hoard the Flushing, but no material damage was done to either craft. The Pennsylvania railroad ferryboat Cincinnati and the Xew Jersey of the Scotland street line were in collision at the slip at CortHindt sireet. Both boats were crowded with passengers and a wild scramble for safety ensued when it be came evident that a collision was inevita ble. The boats collided with considerable force and the overlapping1 pruard of the New Jersey boat crushed the truard rail of the Cincinnati. The Xew Jersey was uninjured. io one was hurt. GETS MOKE THEATERS. R. EL Gulick Co. Secure Houses in Northwestern Cities. Pittsburg, Dec. S. Deals have been closed by which the Star-Bijou circuit of theaters controlled by K. M. Gulick Co. is to be enlarged. Next season the Star-Bijou circuit will be able to give attractions a sea son of 20 weeks, which can be booked solid in ten minutes. The three thea ters of Jacob Litt in Milwaukee, Min neapolis and St. Paul have already been acquired. With all the talk just now of deser tions from the alleged trust controlled by Hayman, Klaiv and Erlanger, this movement is sigiiilicant. The houses at present on the StarBijou circuit are: Columbia theater, Boston; Star thea ter, New York; Bijou theater. Brook lyn: National theater, Philadelphia: Holiday Street theater, Baltimore; Grand Opera House. Washington, D. C; Bijou theater, Pittsburg; Walnut Street theater, Cincinnati; Academy of Music, Chicago; Alhambra theater.Chi- cago. With the three added in the north west in the last few days K. M. Gulick Si Co. will have seven others. Offices for the circuit have already been open ed at 1293 Broadway, New York, where Mr. Bennett will attend to the bookings next season. MEANS UNITED STATES. President of Hayti Says Absence of Moral Support Forced Him to Yield. Port Au Prince, Hayti, Dec. 9. Count Schwerin, German charge d'affaires, was received by the president yesterday aft ernoon. The public mind continues ag itated and all the regulars and the na tional guard are in readiness. The president has issued a proclama tion to the people of Hayti, saying that for the second time Hayti had yielded to German force, contrary to its rights. The government according to the proc lamation, had decided to resist even to the last, but owing to the lack of prom ised moral influence, the character of which is not indicated in the proclama tion, it was obliged to accept the ulti matum. The proclamation invites the Haytian peopte to cease international quarrels and to labor for the raising up again of the nation. SILVEll REACHES 60 CENTS Several Conditions Strengthen the Market for the Whits MetaL New York. Dec. 9. Silver sold on the local market at 60 cents an ounce for commercial bars. This is the highest price since July, and represents an ad vance of nearly 9 cents an ounce since September 1. The strength exhibited by the market for silver recently is as cribed to a large silver shipment from London to Russia, which country has been for some time past at work put ting her currency upon a metallic basis: a revival in the volume of the demand from China, a continued good demand from India, and an increasing demand for use in the arts. The production of silver, at the same time, has not in creased. TO MAKE ENAMEL SIGNS. A Big Factory About to b3 Establish ed in St. Xiouis. St. Louis. Dec. 9. A company has been incorporated in this city with a capital of $100,000 for the manufacture of enamel signs and the ornamentation of any metal with an ename! surface. the plant will be located in North St. Louis and is exported to be in operation by January 1. All street signs now in use in this country were made in Eng land or Germany, and this plant will be the only one of the kind in America. Work will start with 3o skilled me chanics. Poet by Proxy Explains. Chicago, Dec. 9. Harry Janvier Smalley. whose poem in a December magazine has been found to be almost exactly the same as Walter Harries Pollock's better known poem "A Con quest." throws the blame on Edward J. Holmsteclt, a resident of Streator, or La balle. who asked him to send in the poem over his own signature, that it might thus secure publication. Sheehan Goes South. New York. Dec. 9. John C. Sheehan. the Tammany leader left for Hot Springs, Ark., today. He intends to remain in the south until his health is fully restored. QUIBBLES. Both Sides in the Cook-Kepley Contest Object to Every Ballot That is at All Irregular. SO 250 A HE LAID ASIDE Already, Though the Voter's Intention is Clear. Most of the Witnesses Who Are Testifying That THEY G0TD1UNKS PAID For by the Kepley Party Are Colored Men. At noon today the Cook-Kepley con test had recounted the ballots in the First ward and four precincts of the Second. Only the vote on sheriff is being considered. The attorneys are watching the ballots carefully and all that bear any other marks than those specified in the law are objected to and laid aside. If the ballot is a Cook vote it is objected to by Mr. Kepley's attor neys, and if for Mr. Kepley by Mr. Cook's attorneys. At noon with seven precincts counted, there were 250 bal lots which had been "objected to;" about two-thirds of those laid aside are Kepley ballots. The votes are those which passed the scrutiny cf the judges and were counted on election day.The ballots returned by the judges as "mutilated," have not yet been touch ed. "When the bag containing the ballots cast at the First precinct of the Second ward was reached, it was found that it had not been sealed, and when it was opened it was discovered that the judges had failed to string the ballots as required by law. Attorney Schoch at once objected to the ballots being counted because their appearance indicated that they had been tampered with. The court, how ever, allowed the ballots to be count ed. In this precinct the returns show that Kepley received 131 majority. If these ballots were not counted it would cut no small figure in the contest. The court did not give a formal decision In the matter, but will consider the ob jection and decide- the question later. When the ballots from the Fourth precinct of the Second ward were reached, another defect was discovered The judge had failed to place hi3 in itials on the tickets as the law requires. When this fact was discovered. At torney Schoch said: "We object to these ballots being considered because they do not contain the initials of the judge which the law requires. We claim that they are there fore illegal." A. W. Dana said: "The count may proceed and we will reserve our decis ion." The contest court this morning grant ed an extension of time to the attor neys for Mr. Cook in which to file their amended answer. They promised to have it ready by 2 o'clock this after noon. This amended answer includes the charges made by the somewhat notor ious Fletcher Helm of Silver Lake. They set forth the fact that Helm play ed traitor to Mr. Kepley and received a check from him to pay for liquor to be used in that section. He afterward gave the information to the Republi cans. It also includes an agreement which was to have been made between Riley Ayers, who was defeated for the nomination by Mr. Cook. and Mr. Kepley, but which was never signed. The answer recites specific instances in which liquor was given away by T'nder Sheriff Lucas, Deputy Larry Sheehan and others. It also charges that Kepley engaged to pay the board of a man named Emmons at a Topeka hotel until after election day and that he voted in the Second ward, though he was not a legal resident of Topeka. Nearly all the names of the parties to whom it is claimed liquor was given are colored. They will be summoned to testify in the case. The court today fixed next Saturday afternoon as the time for the opening arguments on the ballots which have beeen objected to. It is thought that the count will be completed by that time and then the defective ballots will be examined and the argument on all the ballots objected to from any cause will be made. This will defer the taking of evidence until next week. The amended answer in the Cook Kepley contest was filed af 2 o'clock this afternoon. It includes 29 separate charges and covers 19 pages of legal cap. After disposing of the Fletcher Helm matter and the Riley Ayers agreement which was never signed, it specifies in the sixth charge that Robert B. Kep ley promised C. W. Griswold of Teeum seh township a position as deputy in case he would electioneer for Viim. In the next charge it is stated t.Vat Kep ley, himself, gave John Ostrand of Henoken two more k?gs of beer to be distributed among his friends to in fluence their votes. The names of these friends are not given. In the next charge it is asserted that Kepley, through his agent. Larry Shee han, supplied Golden Cunningham and Link Gordon of Soldier township two kegs of beer to be distributed to voteis. The next is that through his agents, Bert L-ucas and O. E. Hungate, Kep ley gave to Mark Isaacs, Louis Gray and Bob Marshall two gallon jugs of whisky and one keg of beer to be dis tributed to voters. The names of the following voters are given as those who received some of the liquor: Mark Isaacs, Green Crager, A. D. De frantz, Sam Hanks, Andy Williams, Harry Adams, Jackson Warren. Otis Hungate, Bert Lucas. Pickle Moss, Mans Moss. Merryweather, Tom War ren, T. Harper all colored except three. The same names appear in sev eral other lists as having received liq uor. Kepley is next charged with furnish ing free to Andy Dupree for distribu tion three kegs of beer which were dis tributed Oct. 15. In the- 13th charge it is claimed that Kepley was present at a beer party en October 29. In the 14th charge it is claimed that George H. Evans and Jerry White dis tributed liquor at White's home in the Third ward, as Kepley's agents. Kepley is charged with giving Otto Andersen a box of cigars and liquor to influence Swedish voters. He is charged with offering to bribe through Bert Lu cas, W. Meade, with beer and whisky. It is also claimed that Sheriff Kepley offered Robert Hitchcock $1 and gave hirn several kegs of beer. On October 2S Bert Lucas and Simon Hce are charged with distributing one jug of whisky and a keg of beer to colored vo ters. Through Nate Williams it is charged that two jugs of whisky were distributed to voters in the Fifth ward. It is charged in the 19th count that Kepi ley gave Crook Wright liquor which was distributed by him on election day. Sheriff Kepley is also charged with attempting to bribe Carl P;iyne, Louis Gray and Monroe Spaulding with liquor. It is charged that he gave A. T. Allen two kegs of beer; that he bribed W. W. Wiley and John Wiley with liquor; that several beer parties were given in his interest at the home of Louis Jackson. TO JUSTIFY JOHNS. Great Effort Made to Notify Indig nant Husbands That They May Shoot Offenders. The line of defense in the Johns mur der case appeared from the testimony introduced today. It is that Johns was irresponsible at the time he committed the murder. In this his attorneys have followed the plan adopted in the fa mous Schlegel murder case recently tried in Kansas City in which Schlegel was acquitted of the murder of a prom inent physician on the ground that he was mentally unsound at the time he committed the murder. A. H. Case and Mrs. L. O. Case were examined to prove the good character of Johns and Mrs. Case testified that she saw him on the day of the shooting and he appeared to be laboring under great excitement. W. M. Forbes and many others testified concerning the previous good character of Johns. Then William Wilson, head waiter at the Throop took the stand. He said that Johns worked at the hotel several months a year or two ago and was an excellent waiter. He left the hotel to enter the dining car service. In May he was again employed at the hotel. Wilson said that during the latter part of May he noticed that Johns appeared to be laboring under some mental ang uish. On the day of the shooting he could not remember the orders and was reprimanded by the witness. Johns then told him that he was in trouble, that his children were sick and he had fam ily trouble. Wilson said he did not act as if he was in his right mind. He left the ho tel at 8 o'clock in the evening without saying anything to any one and the next morning witness heard that Johns had shot Lacey. Other waiters at the hotel testified along the same line. A large number of witnesses are be ing examined to prove the bad charac ter of Lacey. The evidence will proba bly all be in this evening when court adjourns and the case will be given to the jury some time tomorrow. The entire line of defense Is to make plain that a colored man has the right to shoot anybody who meddles with his wife. This is the real question be fore the court and the jury. FITZ fvlAY MEET JIM Mrs. Fitzsiniinoas Holds the Key to the Situation. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 9. It is almost a certainty now that Robert Fitzsimmons, the present champion pugilist of the world, and J. J. Corbett will meet in tho roped arena to again battle and decide the question for all time. This fact was gained by a representative of the Evening Wisconsin after an interview with Mrs. Fitzsimmons, who is in this city. This is the first time Mrs. Fitzsimmons has given expression to her thoughts in the mutter since the fight iff Carson. Be fore the contest last Marcli Fitzsimmons promised his wife he would never enter the ring aguin without her consent. In rt:ply to a question put by the re porter whether she would give that con sent. Airs. Fitzsimmons replied: "Well, really, that is a difficult question to an swer, but I will say I do not care to stand in my husband's wav if he thinks it better to give Corbett another ch;:nee. I may change my mind, but until I do there Is no prospect whatever of the two men meeting, and all this talk about matches being arranged, etc., is witiiout the slightest foundation." BLEW UP THESTREET. Explosion of Sewer Gas Nearly Wrecks Ambassador Hay's House. London, Dec. 9. An explosion of sewer gas which tore up the street, shattered windows and damaged a house adjoining that of the United States ambassador, Colonel John Hay, caused much excite ment among the residents of Carlton House terrace today. LAST HOPE GONE AGAIN. This is About the 'Steenth Time for Durrant San Francisco. Dec. 9. The supreme court has dispelled the last hope of W. H. T. Durrant. the murderer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, by dis posing in a summary manner of his two appeals. In a written opinion from the pen of Chief Justice Beatty, which is concurred in by all but one of his col leagues, the court aftirrns the judgment of Judge Bahrs in remanding the pris oner to San Quentin until the date set for his execution, but reverses the re sentencing of Durrant to be hanged on November 11 and remands the case to the superior court with instructions to proceed according to law. PIimiNGH Aji'S MAKDl GBAS Contract for the Work Ea3 Been Let to a St. Louis Kan. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 9. Anthony J. Gorman, cf St. Louis, was today awarded the contract to put on the mardi gras celebration in Birmingham February 21 and 22. Mr. Gorman has put on carnivals in New Orleans, San Francisco, St. Louis, and other places. He is to return to Birmingham on January 1 and begin preparations for the celebration here in February, bringing along from St. Louis a carload of material and a number of assistants. This coming mardi gras Birmingham will have the largest celebration in the South. Miners' Wages Increased. Crede, Colo.. Dec. 9. After December 1, wages for miners will be $3.00 a day instead of $2.50. The increase was made voluntarily by the mine owners. Police Sergeant Tim Donovan Is at home seriously ill and suffering great pain as a result of having a severe fall Tuesday. ACT OFJJRUELTY. Edward Crowder, a 31oneyless Carriage Painter, is Thrown From a Union Pacific Freight Train by Brakemen And Fearfully, Perhaps Fatally Injured Internally. SOW AT THE HOSPITAL lias Been Unconscious Most of the Time Since lie Received His Injnrie Tuesday Morning. IS TIME FOR A HALT In the Reckless, Throwing of Human Beings From JloTing Trains by Bruta or Thoughtless Trainhands. Edward Crowder, a carriage painter, whose home is at Terre Haute, Ind., lies at the Salvation Army hospital, help lessly and dangerously injured as a re sult of being forcibly ejected from a Union Pacific freight train four rniles east of Rossville. His life has been despaired of since he was brought to the hospital, and although today he is somewhat freer from pain, he is still in a precarious condition. He is a giant in size, measuring six feet, fout and one-half inches in height and weighing 220 pounds. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock Ed ward Crowder boarded a Union Pacifia freight train at Rossville. He had no money and wanted to get to Tope ka, and from thence to his home in In diana. He rode on a coal car. When about a mile and a half east of Ross ville, two of the brakemen of the train crew came to him and demanded that he get off the train. The train was in charge of Conductor Crawford. Crow der pleaded with them to allow him to ride to Topeka as he thoug.1t he could get some money there to take him on home. But the brakemen refused and ordered Crowder to jump. Rather than engage in a fight with two men, Crow der ma.de ready to jump. He stood on the short platform between tiie two coal cars and was preparing to jump. The train was getting under good speed. The ground at the side of tr.e track was soft and Crowder thought he could alight all right. He turned again to the brakemen and pleaded to be allowed to ride even as far as Silver Lake four miles further on. This re quest was responded to by the brake men rushing at the big man and push ing him off from between the cars. He was not able to prepare himself for the fall. When his large body struck the ground he was wrenched off his feet and fell over. He lay alongside the tracks for half an hour in intense pain. Finally he arose and bv great exertion dragged himself towardSilverLake. Ar riving there he went to a grix:ery store where a bed was made for him. For a. time he lapsed into unconsciousness. A. purse was raised for the injured man and he was taken to the depot and sent to Topeka. When he arrived here he was unconscious. He was taken in an ambulance to the Salvation Armv his pital. Upon examination it was found that one of his kidneys had been rup tured by the fall. AU of Tuesday night and part of yes terday he was in a semi-conscious con dition. The physicians regard his con dition as most serious. It is probable that the injured kidney will have to be removed. On account of' his size a spec ial bed had to be made for him. A cot seven feet in length and standing threa feet from the floor was made. and Crow der is now lying on it. He is a line look ing man, having dark hair and i.irg black eyes and a curling mustache. His father, L. C. Crowder. he says is a. wholesale merchant of Terre Haute.His mother is a Spanish woman. The Span ish blood is apparent in Crowder. There is some doubt about his story, but T'-rre Haute has been wired for information Crowder says that he Is 21 years of age. His appearance Is that of a man it M years. Crowder says: "I have been out at Cheyenne. Wyoming, working at my trade of carriage making. I started to go home and ran out of money. I am no tramp. My folks are wealthv and live at Terre Haute, Indiana. But I didn't like to ask them for money, so I decided to beat my way for a short distance. I expected to get work in To peka for a little while to buy a railroad ticket. When the freight tra.in got away out of Rossville those brake men came at me. I tried to get them to let me ride a short way, but thev threw me off there while the train was running fast. I got an awful wi-'-nch when I fell. I just felt as if I had been cut in two. When I could get uo I got to Silver Lake tnd they sent me to To peka. I don't remember anything aft er I left SilverLakeuntil yesterday wrn-n I found myself here in the hospital. The doctor says my kidney is ruptured. I was never sick in my life to amount to anything, and I am a strong man. The pain has been something awful." Speaking of his home he said: "My father is a wholesale man at Terre Haute. I am going to write to hirn as soon as I am able, and he will send me money to come home. 1 didn't like to ask him for anything while I was west. Before I went to Cheyenne I was in Mexico. I am part Spanish." The attending physician at the hes- i tal pronounces the case a serious oi.e. His chances of recovery are small. BUILD HOUSES TO BL'ilX. Sensationa lOharge of Insurance Com pany Against Muncia Contractors. Muncie, Ind., Dec. 9. Grant Hancock has filed suit for $r,.0ij0 damages against the Acken Minich Fire Insur ance company. In the case in which Lath Street is suing the insurance company for $1,000 for the loss of a building at Marion thri company claims it has evidence that Hancock and Street, who are contract carpenters, have been building houses for the purpose of burning thern down to secure the insurance. Hancock has lost a dozen such build ings here and blamed the fires to his enemies. The evidence has caused a sensation.

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Greek and Italian Art School to Be Founded. New York, Dec. 9. It is reported that Russell Sage has made a will in which he has left $jJ,000,00o to charity and public benefactions. The capitalist made a will, but his attorney, who drew the will, dis claims all knowledge of such a bequest. After provididing for the wife and rela tives of the testator, the $50,000,000 resolves istelf into a grand transformation scene at Madison Square Garden. With a portion of the public fund left by Mr. Sage this huge structure is to be converted into a people's palace. Then there are scholar, ships established in various colleges, a public library, manual training schools and fresh air funds for children, all of which institutions will be supported by the income from the sums set aside for them. In the matter of the pleasure palace, it has not yet been decided whether the en tertainment will be run as a continuous show or consist of nightly performances with two matinees weekly. But on what ever line the palace is conducted it will prove a genuine charity to those who have heretofore paid to see break-neck song and dance artists. What blessings will be showered upon the memory of the noble man who thus relieves the public of at least half its agony! The vaudeville department, however, is intended to occupy but a small corner. According to the dream one portion of the palace is to be fitted up as a free citizens' club, with hammocks, steamer chairs,, free drinks and cigars and Turkish rugs. Bowery citizens evince an interest border ing on delirium in this department. In the next compartment Mr. Sage is said to favor the establishment of a free forum, where street preachers, curbstone politl. clans and aspiring elocutionists can prac tice on the public. Religious discussions, "Curfew Shall 3S"ot Ring Tonight" and "Cassabianca" alone are barred. A museum will be opened in which stuffed sea serpents, glass-eaters and wild men from Borneo will be exhibited every day except Sunday. The Second, Third and Sixth avenue elevated railway lines may be converted into bicycle tracks, which will enable the public to reach the free people's palace without incurring ex pense. Nor is this all. Mr. Sage's country place at Quogue, L. I., and an unimproved es tate of 1,610 acres at Lakewood, N. J., are to be transformed into public golf links with free caddies. The only tools the players furnish are their pipes. Nearly J4O0.O00 is set aside for this charity, so the rumor says. Here and there about the city will be erected statues of the philanthropist, at. tired in one of those "take-me-home-for-$6.75" suits he always wears. Another sum oi money, a mere trifle of $750,000, w ill be employed in opening a Greek and Ital ian school of art for the struggling gen tlemen who now peddle peanuts and candy on the streets. That the public may never find occasion to complain of dry reading, the Sage free library is to be built in the reservoir. When asked about this $50,000,000 dream, Mr. Sage indulged in a smile that didn't even cost him an effort, and said not a word. One of the clerks said the tenor of the report was enough to brand It as an absurdity. IT TOOK FIGHTING. French Have Five Engagements Be fore Occupying Nikki. Lagos, West Africa, Dec. 9. Additional advices just received from the interior say that French troops had five engage ments with the natives before effectively occupying Nikki, the capital of Borgu. The king of that country fled to the bush. Both France and Great Britain claim that the Borgu territory is within the sphere of their influence. Great Britain claims the whole country of Borgu under the Anglo-French convention of 1590. Captain Lugard, for Great Britain, out distanced Commander Decceur in making a treaty with the King of Borgu, but the French hold that such a treaty is null and void from the fact that France has effectively occupied Dahomey and is there fore entitled to its hinterland, in accord ance with the spirit and letter of the treaty of Berlin. TO AVOID ARREST. Proprietor of a Fool Room Will En close His Men With a Wire Screen. St. Louis, Dec. 9. Chief of Police Far rington says that the pool rooms, which have already been raided four times with in the past week, will be closed up each time they are found open. In this connection an interesting scheme has come to light. The proprietors of one of the pool rooms on Olive street, op posite the postoffice building, have deter mined on a new scheme to prevent the police from arresting their employes when the next raid occurs. All the employes will be surrounded by a heavy wire screen extending from the floor to the ceiling. Access to this will be by a door which will be locked on the men when the po lice appear. Another Sweeping Reduction. The Trumbull Art Stock must be sold. Beginning with Monday, Decem ber 6. all the pictures and ready made frames in this magnificent stock will be sold at 20 per cent less than they have ever heretofore been offered. GEORGIA CON VICT PLAN. The Fopulist3 Want to Buy an Island for Them. Atlanta, Dec. 9. The Populists in the house yesterday showed their hands on the convict question. There was just time enough, when the convict bill came up, for Representative Hogan, the Popu list leader, to offer a substitute, and he took advantage of the opportunity. The following is the Populist bill in part: 'A bill to be entitled an act to provide for the care, maintenance and custody of the convicts of this state; to provide fop a keeper and assistant keeper of the peni tentiary; to fix their 'salaries and terms of office and duties: to provide for the lease with the privilege of purchasing a suitable Island where long term con victs may be placed at hard labor; to dis pose of the products of said labor; to es tablish a commission to select the proper place for the location of said long term convicts; to provide where and In what way the short term convicts, the females, the crippled, aged and infirm shall be kept and worked; to appropriate sufficient funds for carrying the provisions of this bill into effect, and for other purposes. "Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That there shall be appointed by his ex cellency the governor, a principal keeper and an assistant keeper of the peniten tiary, whose salaries shall be $2,000 and $1,500 per annum, respectively. That said officers when appointed shall hold their offices until the next general election, at which time their successors shall be elect, ed in the manner and under the same rules and regulations as are now provided for the election of members of the gen eral assembly. "Be it further enacted, That his excel lency is hereby directed and empowered to appoint three fit and proper persons to act as commissioners, and whose duty shall be to select a suitable island on the Georgia coast or other lands where the long term convicts shall be confined. "Be it enacted. That when said island or other lands has been procured, and the suitable arrangements completed for the care, custody and maintenance of the con victs, the duty of making said arrange ments being hereby devolved on said com missioners, then the said keeper of the penitentiary shall cause the long term convicts, that is to say, those who have been sentenced for the term of ten years or longer, to be placed upon said island or other lands, where they shall be put and kept at hard labor in agricultural pursuits, the products of their labor to be applied to the support of the convicts, and the surplus to be devoted to the sup port of such other departments of the state as the lunatic asylum, or as the governor may direct." LURED HIM TO DEATH. Delilah Fales Tells How She Killed Her Lorer's Father. Waverly, la., Dec. 9. Delilah Fales has confessed her share in the tragic death of Jerome Kern. The man was found dead in a lonely wood on the 23rd of last August, and the young woman now con fesses that she fired the bullets that killed him. She was indicted, and it is said that her alleged accomplice before the fact, William Kern, a. son of the victim, will be indicted. When she was a mere child of 13 years, she charges that the elder Kern betrayed her and that ever after he harrassed her with his attentions. More than that, he sought, by blackening her reputation, she states, to keep others from paying court to her. Twice before she became attached to the murdered man's son she had been in a fair way to become happily married, but as many times had Jerome Kern, she declares, poisoned her lovers against her. At last, when by the same method he sought to prevent his son from marrying her, the pent up hatred of years vented itself in the commission of the crime. "I killed him with premeditation and deliberation," 5 she said. "I prayed God to give me strength to do it with all the earnestness that I could command, as 1 have prayed him for forgiveness. I have suffered no pangs of conscience. On the contrary, a restful calm seemed to come into my life from the moment I knew he was dead. I never slept so well as I did the night after I fired those fatal shots." Miss Fales' confession starts by telling of the love affair of herself and young Kern and of the opposition of the father. They discussed the question of putting him out of the way and they agreed that that would be the best way out of the difficulties. On the day the elder Kern suggested to the young woman that she meet him, she saw here the opportunity that she had been waiting for and she assented, making an appointment for the following morning in the woods near her home. They met and he assisted her to alight from her vehicle. "He was on his knees before me." says her confession. "I saw my chance to kill him. I had the revolver just Inside my coat, which was buttoned up. As he was kneeling there I pulled the revolver out and shot him quickly in the chest. He whirled around on his knees a little way, and. as he fell forward, I shot him in the right side of the back. After the first shot he said: 'Delilah something I could not understand. I do not know whether his clothes caught fire or not. I hurried away." Then follows a detail of the plotting of the two to lay the crime at the door of John Lewis, a former lover of Delilah's. They even prepared a letter purporting to have been written by the deceased on the day of his murder, and which was left where it would be readily found, as it was a few days ago. This letter said that if harm came to Kern, Lewis must be held responsible. William Kern's confession corroborates that of Miss Fales in almost every de tail. Cold Cure cares colds in the heaa, cojas on i"s nfTv rndt and obstinate coles, and lun ll inVma of crio. 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The house com mittee on Invalid pensions ha3 taken action that is intended to correct the al leged rapidly growing abuse of young women marrying old soldiers and. sail ors for the purpose of becoming their widows and drawing a pension from the government. This subject has been much discussed in view of the compara tively large number of widow claimants on account of the revolutionary war of 1&12 and Mexican war service of hus bands. The committee authorized Chairman Ray to obtain from the committee on rules an order or rule permitting an amendment to the pension appropria tion bill providing that no pension shall hereafter be granted to the widow of a soldier or other person who is married to such soldier or person after the pas sage of this act, excepting, however, all soldiers, sailors, officers, etc., now in or who hereafter enter the military or naval service of the United States. MANY CURRENCY PLANS. They are Parcelled Out to Sub-Committees by Chairman Walker. Washington, Dec. 9. Chairman Walk er has announced four sub-committees, and assigned to each a number of the banking and currency bills already in troduced. The sub-committiees will begin work at once on the bills before them, each sub-committee having charge of the bills introduced by its members. The Walker sub-committee will have charge of the Walker bill, which has attracted considerable attention in banking cir cles. It proposes to introduce the New England Suffolk bank system to the whole country, adding a government guarantee for all notes issued by banks and imposing -a small tax on bank notea as a safety fund. The bill of Mr. Hill also goes before this committee. Mr. Hill says he has endeavored to draw it on conservative lines, meeting the financial ills which most need reform, without going to a radical extent. He provides for an in crease of bank circulation to the par value of bonds deposited; reduces the taxation on circulation to one-fourth of one per cent; provides for the estab lishment of small banks in rural com munities and does away with the re strictions on the free issue and with drawal of national bank notes. Except in the last particular, the author of the bill feels that he is in liiie with Presi dent McKinley's recent currency rec ommendations. This sub-committee will also deal with the bills of Repre sentative Cox, the ranking Democrat on the committee.' The main one is generally known as the "Carlisle bill," which was originally urged by John G. Carlisle when he was secretary of the treasury. Mr. Cox is also pressing the bill for the repeal of the tax on state banks. The Brosius sub-committee will probably deal with Secretary Gage's plan of currency and banking reform. A bill on the same lines has been in troduced by Mr. Mitchell.of New York, a member of the sub-committee. Its essential feature is to separate the funds of the government into two branches, one relating to fiscal expend itures and the other relating to the broader monetary affairs of the coun try, the details being much the same as those outlined by Mr. Gage. Mr. Brosius, the chairman of this sub-committee, also has a comprehensive meas ure of currency reform. It covers the features which Mr. Hill sought to have reported and also a separate redemp tion fund calculated to reinforce the treasury reserve. The Brosius bill al so gives the secretary of the treasury, the discretion of redeeming notes in sil ver or gold at the option of the holder. The Johnson sub-committee will deal with Mr. Johnson's bill which more particularly seeks to allow national banks to issue circulation up to the par value o their bonds deposited. The Van Voorhis sub-committee will handle the Fowler bill, which provides for the refunding of bonds for United States gold bonds bearing two per cent interest. There are many other meas ures which are before the several sub committees, but the foregoing comprise those which have attracted the most general attention and are likely to furnish the basis of discussion. APPROPRIATIONS FIRST. Currency Legislation Will ba Kept Back as "Long as Possible. Washington, Dec. 9. Although no formal action has been taken a pretty general understanding has been reach ed by the leaders in the house of repre sentatives as to the course of legisla tion in the near future. This contem plates the disposal of appropriation bills, as fast as they are ready for con sideration. After these, the bankrupt cy bill will be reported by Chairman Henderson of the judiciary committee before the holiday recess, but it will not be taken up by the house until after the recess. It is understood that Speaker Reed and the committee on rules will be disposed to give this bill every ad vantage in the way of securing early time for debate. It is equally well understood that for the present there will be no effort to take up financial legislation on the floor of the house. This is due mainly to the fact that a strong impression prevails among members of the house that the committee on banking and currency will not be able to reconcile the many conflicting interests inside the com mittee. These represent all shades of the financial subject and are so much at variance that it is not expected a ma jority can be rallied for any one pro position. Under such circumstances the purpose is to await the action, or the deadlock in that committee. The ways and means committee will do' nothing at present in the way of framing financial legislation. If. how ever, it becomes evident that the com mittee on banking and currency is at a standstill then the ways and means committee will enter the field cf finan cial legislation and will frame a bill on broad lines calculated to meet the pres ent financial requirements. la the meantime, the subject will be kept in the background as much as possible. Aside from the bankruptcy and ap propriation bills, some emergency meas ures such as. that relating' to Bering sea introduced by Mr. Hitt, will have a hearing, as they involve questions of general policy and are not likely to meet with opposition. With these ex ceptions, the disposition of the house leaders will be to keep radical legisla tion to the rear. ARBITRARY LEGISLATION Is Looked for in Connection With In dian Affairs. Washington, Dec. 9. The preparation of the Indian appropriation bill will be gin immediately in the house commit tee on Indian affairs and probably the bill will be reported to the house early in January. There are many important matters before it, but everything now will give way to the appropriation bill. The most important subjects are the vexatious problems in Indian Territory, involving the reorganization of the ter ritory in matters relating to the In dians. The Dawes Indian commission is now negotiating with the five tribes, but the outlook is not encouraging, and some important legislation along the lines o the negotiations has been planned. The commission will be summoned here shortly by the secretary of the in terior, it is understood and action by the committee will be deferred pending the appearance of the commission be fore it to explain the situation there and to make recommendations. So far only two tribes have hatified the com mission's agreements. These are the Choctaws and Chickasaws and the agreements made with the Cherokees and Creeks have been rejected. The Seminoles also have not taken any fa vorable action and in view of the gen eral disappointing outlook, arbitrary legislation is expected to be enacted to accomplish what overtures on the part of the government have failed to do. THEY WANT PATRONAGE. Congressmen Sign a Call for a Confer encs on the Civil Service. Washington, Dec. 9. A paper was cir culated in the house of representatives today with a view to bringing about a conference of those members favoring a change in the present civil service system. The paper was handled by Representative Pearson, of North Car olina, and received numerous signa tures. The purpose, it is understood is to make the conference non-political in character and to extend it outside of the membership of the civil service committee as some of the men most ac tive in urging a revision of the law are not on this committee. General Gros venor, of Ohio, is among these. OAS IS NEARLY GONE. Pressure in Indiana Field Reduced Almost to the Point of Col lapse by Waste. Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 9. State Natural Gas Supervisor J. C. Leach of this city is now completing his annual report, and will submit it about January 1. The fig ures given by the state supervisor will show the greatly weakened condition of the Indiana natural gas field as a result of waste. Recent measurements and tests by Prof. Irfach in all parts of the field show an average decrease in rock pressure of more than 25 pounds to the inch since the official tests were made a year ago. The original pressure, when gas was first developed eleven years ago, was 325 pounds. This has been gradually dimin ishing each year, until now the pressure is but 210 pounds, a figure barely above the point that means total collapse. Ex perts contend that when the pressure gets as low as 200 pounds it cannot break through the volume of water that envel ops it. LOOKING AT ANNISTON. Capitalists Propose to Extend Their Business, Anniston, Ala., Dec. 9. Mr. David B. Corufodt of London, England, president of the Illinois Car and Equipment com pany, and Mr. J. M. Maris, general man ager, and Mr. Hieneman of London, will arrive in Anniston next Tuesday or Wed nesday and their visit promises to be of great interest to this city. They come to consider the expenditure of $125, 000 on the company's car building plant at this place. The company asks that Tenth, one of the most frequented streets of the city, be closed in order to place all of their property under one enclosure. FOOD FOIl KLONDIKE. Citizens of Portland, Ore., Donate 100 Tons of Provisions Washington, Dec. 9. Senator McBride has received a telegram from W. S. Ma son, president of the Chamber of Com merce of Portland, Ore., regarding the Klondike relief, which says: "Citizens of Portland are subscribing with lavish hand to the Klondike relief fund. Portland alone will donate not less than 100 tons of food. Hearty con tributions are expected from interior cities. People are enthusiastic and await with eagerness congressional action." Nearly all women have good hair, though many are gray, and few are bald. Hall's Hair tRenewer restores the natural color, and thickens the growth of the hair. THE 0HLY 0IJE. The Pyramid Pile Cure the Only Pile Cure Recommended by Physi cians as Being Perfectly Safe. No Opium, Cocaine, Narcotic or Other Poison in It, The Pyramid Pile Cure is probably the only Pile Cure extensively recom mended by physicians, because it is so safe, so prompt in the relief afforded and so far as known the only positive cure for piles except a surgical opera tion. In one year the Pyramid Pile Cure has become the best known, the safest and the most extensively sold of any pile cure before the public. Address the Pyramid Co., Marshall Mich., (formerly of Albion, Mich.,) for book on cause and cure of piles and also hundreds of testimonials from all parts of the United States, full sized package 50 cents. If suffering from any form of piles ask your druggist for a package of Pyramid Pile Cure and try it to-night. S One of the handsomest, best illustrated and most entertaining books of the year. T Santa Fe Trai By COL. HENRY INMAN. Published by the McMillan Company. CRANE CO., Topeka, State Agts. Fall Cloth, Gilt Top, 500 Pages. Priee, $3.50 Delivered. TO old Kansans this book will be cherished nnd read with una bated interest. A royal gift book. Contains map of the Trail, eight full-page photogravures of illustrations by Frederick Remington, and many other illustrations; portraits of Kit Carson and other famous plainsmen. The work work is full of action from the start, and the reader will be entertained and held to closing page by Col. Inman's interesting and inimitable style. From the hunter, trooper, scout, guide and trapper he has gathered of their best, and produced it in this book. WE WAVr AS AGET 111 EVERY flOTY IV KHSJS 99 I CRANE CO., Topeka, Publishers of Law and School Books, Blanks and general sup- JJ 5g plies for County, Township, City, and School District officers. g 5 SEND FOR GENERAL CATALOGUE IF INTERESTED. E. O. DE MOSS. U. M. PEN WELL. Odd Fellows' Building, 523 Quincj? Street, t Undertakers rinesi amDmance in me west. JFREE to the public Day and Al l! nmiru inn nHiKnninm DE MOSS 4 Phone 192. 1 THE ICE MAN ASK FOR THE lildrTf iU HaTWCa Clear. Sold by all Dealers. THe fCW ,0c mmwimkm 25c 50c ..tt Jones i Sells CSoal. -WU'l ...v 4 M le only larpe, hiph prade Institution Id the state drroten rxclusiTely to Bhnrt hand and tyr.. ing; nence its phenomenal success. Superior system. Positions tuaraiiteed graduates. Jar nUilit aessions. lssoua b mall a sneciaity. AJfaiA E. CASAS. Sau(S30 1Ae.u. writ and THE EELEY RST1 TLTE. 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His store is Headquarters for Sportsmen Night Sessions. 521 523 Quincy St. I VVIII make you Fall and Winter Clothing on tAbY Terms. SUITS 820 and np. PANTS $6 and up. Cleaning, Pressing and Re pairing done at lowest rates. Mer. Co.

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J si i 31 v. RAILROADNEWS. Santa Fe Places an Order For Twelve New Engines To Be Built in the Santa Fe Shops at Topeka. MOUNTAIN CLDIBERS. Each Engine Will Weigh 225, 009 rounds Cost 20,000. How a "Flying" Switch Order Came to Be Abolished. Twelve new consolidation engines, one to be turned out each month, have been ordered by the Santa Fe mechanical de partment to be built at the Santa Fe shops in this city during the year 1.-.9S. The engines will lie of the fame pattern as the consolidation engines turned out of the shops in this city this year. Wi'h the eiht engines -which will have Lecri built by the end of the present year, by the first of I'M, the Santa Fe will have twenty of the heaviest engines in railroad service In the United States. When it was first decided ta build a number of consolidation engines ot the shops in Topeka. an order was given f'ir an even dozen, the twelve to be finished by the end of the year. But on account of the unusual amount of work which has come into the Topeka shops during ths past ten months it was impossible fur the boiler and machinery departments to devote the time necessary to locomotive construction to complete the twelve en gincs by the vnd of the year, and the number to be turned out this year was reduced to eight. Now the ofiicials have decided that the original order did not call for the construction of as many ca. gines-as was needed in service, and the result is that twelve more have been or dered built next year. The engines are especially adapted fo hauling heavy trains over the mount lin divisions of the road and the average weight is about 225.0j0 pounds. Kach en. gine costs between $15,000 and $20,000. ANNUAL SANTA FE MEETING. A Formal Affair Change ia Form of Electing Dir9ctors. Direr-tors representatives of stock holders of the Santa Fe journeyed here today to hold the annual meeting of the road. it was the second annual meeting of the reorganized corporation, and was held at noon in the rooms of the law department in the general office build ing. It differed front the first annual meeting in the fact that instead of be ing elected for the same term, the board of directors was elected in four classes, each class for a different term. The meeting was altogether a formal affair. A few minutes past 12 o'clock. President Kipiey raoped on the long ta ble placed in the center of the room and declared the second annual meeting of the Atchison, Topeka .Sr Santa Fe rail way open. -Mr. F.J ward Wilder, as sec retary of the road, then reed the call for the meeting and certified to the proxies represented, after which, on motion of General Counsel Victor Mor awetz, the election of directors was ta ken. At 12:20 o'clock the polls for the elec tion were declared open by President Ripley, and the chief executive an nounced that for the balloting m the four classes of directors and the firm of independent auditors the polls would remain open up to 1:35 p. in. This was simply a forma! move, as the majority of the directors cast their ballots be fore leaving the room after a recess bad been declared following President Ripley's announcement. The ballots, bearing the names of tli" dir.-ctors to be elected fr the different terms, were pointed in Xew York and brought to this city by Mr. Aldace F. Walker, chairman of the board. There was :u change in the personnel of th- board, and the old board was re-elected fei- different terms as follows: Dheeteirs tt hold office for one vear: Edward P. Ripley. Aldace F. Walker, William Rotch. Cyrus K. Hull-day. Directors to hold orlice for two years: 1-T. Rieman Duval. Thomas P. Fowler, Charles S: Gieed. Victor Morawetz. Directors to hold office for three years: Edward J. Borwind. Geerge A. Nivkerson, H. Somers HajcS, Thomas A. Osbom. Directors to hold office for four years: George G. Haven, Kdward N. Gibbs, I'.enjamin I'. Cheney. The firm of Price, Waterhouse Co., tetter known as Ayers Cherry Pec toral, has made a record for it3 remarkable cures of asthma. Cases that have been considered beyond hope or help have been cured by this remedy. We give two examples of such cures out of the many on record: "My mother ha3 been a great salTerer from asthma f-jr the past ten years, and her recovery is almost without a parallel. On account of hcrsdvanced age ovsr seventy we had but little liops of ever seeing her well again but we are sincerely grateful to inform you thit she has been entirely cured by the use of Avers Cherrv Pectoral." D.GLIS BANKS, Tar Brock, N.S. t "I was a sufferer for a long time from asthma, vainly endeavorir-.! to precuro relief in the use of ordinary remedies. At length I was induced to try a bottle cf Ayers Cherry Pectoral. The (irst bottle afforded me zo much benefit that I continued the use of the remedy until entirely cured." JOSEPH KLO-SZ, Charlotte, K. CLj', Berrg ipecEers put np in half-size bottles, 50 cents, full-size bottle, 1.00. fe 3 l: liB 111 S of New York, was again chosen as in dependent auditors ot the system. Their work is the examination of the accounts of the road. By the election of the board in four classes it does away with the necessi ty of the election of the entire board each year. This method of election is provided for in the by-laws of the re organized company. After the election of the directors is formally declared this afternoon- the board of directors will hold a meeting and it is possible that the officers will be elected in this city, although this action may be postponed until the next meeting in New York city. President Ripley and the party of officers and directors, with several dis interested friends, arrived in this city in a special train of four cars last night. Besides President Ripley, the party included the following: Chairman Aldace F. Walker, of the board of directors: General Counsel Victor Morawetz, General Solicitor E. D. Kenna, C. 31. Higginson. assistant to the president, and Directors T. P. Fowler, R. Somers Hayes. H. R. Duval, George A. Nickerson and William J. Rot oh. The three Topeka directors, C. S. C.leed. Thomas A. Osbom and C. Iv. Ilolliday, attended the meeting. HE. RIPLEY TOPEKA'S FillEIJD Says as Long a.a He is Fre3ident No Decrease 5:n Work Eere. When President Ripley entered the rooms of the law department in the general office building today to attend the annual meeting of the Santa Fe railway, he carried in h;s hands a stack of the cards issued a few days ago by Secretary Coburn of the state board of agriculture, giving a history of Kansas agriculturally during the past year. Going the round of the directors seated in the room he handed each one of the cards, remarkiug.as he started to make the round: "1 want to give each of you fellows, especially you eastern fellows, one of these cards to show you that Kansas is a good place to run a railroad through. That card shows what Kansas has done the past year and our earnings will show what the road has done as a re sult." In conversation President Ripley said: "When I was in this city last Decem ber attending the hearing of the receiv ership case, I told you that during the year 1897 we would spend a million and a half of money in improvements. We have already spent that amount and something more, and the road is now materially improved as a result. Next year I expect that fully a million and a half will be put into improvements al so. "The most extensive improvements of last year were made in Kansas, and for this reason the improvements during the coming year will probably be light er in this state than in some of the other states. However, we will contin ue to improve our tracks and road in general .in Kansas, and considerable money will be spent here next year. "Some time ago there was a report circulated to the effect that I had said that the manufacturing work of the road was to be distributed to different division points, and considerable work taken away from Topeka. I wish to deny this, and say that 1 never made any such statement. The general shops of tiie reiad are in this city, and we have them equipped second to none in the Fnited States. As long as I am connected Willi the road the manufae turing work will continue to be done I City from Lyon county, Kan. He ship here as it has in the past, and uossiblv Ped them to Lost Springs, Kan., for it wil 11 lie increased. Tiie -"-shops at Ft. Madison are to be fixed up. and the machinery moved from the present wooden building into the stone building already standing. but this will be simply because the repair work of the Chicago division demands it, and not because there is any intention of divid ing the general work between the shops at Topeka and Ft. Madison." DIRECTORS AND THEIR GOLD Santa Fe Directors File Up $550 for the R. R. Y. IS.. C. A. At 2. o'clock this afternoon the board of directors of the Santa Fe railway elected officers for the ensuing year. No changes were made, and tiie officers re elected are the following: President. Edward P. liipley. Chairman of the board, Aldace F. Walker. Third vice president, Paul Morton. Secretary and treasurer, Edward Wilder. Assistant secretary, T. C. Doming. Assistant treasurer, H. W. Gardner. General counsel. Victor Morawetz. General solicitor, E. D. Kenna. General auditor. H. C. Whitehead. Comptroller. J. P. Whitehead. I Ten minutes after the election of the I Santa Fe officers, the Topeka Railroad Y. M. C. A. was exactly $550 better off. Under ordinary circumstances there would be no connection between the V. M. C. A. and the annual meeting of the Santa Fe railway, but this is how it happened. Immediately after the la-st elective oflieer was voted for. Treasurer Wilder walked around to the eleven members of the board of directors present and presented each with $50 in gold, the prescribed fee for attendance at the an nual meeting cf the road. As the last director to receive the money pocketed the gold twenties and a ten. President Ripiey rapped on the table and said: "Gentlemen, i wish to make a rather unusual motion before adjournment is taken. I move that each of the mem bers of the board of directors donate to the Topeka Railroad Y. M. C. A. an amount equal to their fee for attend ance at this meeting. Here is the first donation," and with the last remark he laid the money presented him on the table in front of Treasurer Wilder. In three minutes more a pile of gold amounting to $500 was lying in front of Treasured Wilder. while-the 'room was ringing with laughter at the unexpect ed hold ,up"of the chief executive of the road. "Mr. Gleed isn't here, and I have his money in my hand," said Treasurer Wilder when he could make himself heard above the laughter. "What shall I do with it?" Put it with the rest: Gleed don't need it," said President Ripley, and then fresh laughter ensued. The money will be turned over to the board of managers of the Topeka rail road organization and will enable the association to place in their rooms equipment which has been needed for some time. PRESIDENT RIPLEY LEAVES. Party of Santa Fe Officials and Direc tors Go Westward. President Ripley and party of officers and directors will make a trip over the road as far as Newton together. The party ieft in the special train of four cars shortly after 2 o'clock this after noon. At Newton, Mr. II. Rieman Duval, president of the Florida Central Pen insula railway, will take one of the spe cial cars and go south over the Okla homa division of the Santa Fe and Gulf, Colorado Santa' Fe, through Texas. Mr. Duval has never made a trip over the Texas line of the system, and takes this opnortunity of doing so. Mr. T. P. Fowler, president of the Xew York, Ontario Western railway, will take another of the special cars at Newton and proceed to Los Angeles, as he has never been over the Santa Fe California line. Both Mr. Fowler and Mr. Duval are accompanied by several friends. President Ripley and the remainder of the party will return to the East after going as far as Newton. MADE FAST TIME. Directors' Train Knocks Off 4 1-2 Hours' Time Between Topeka and Chicago. The New York and Chicago gentlemen who came to Topeka to attend the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Santa Fe were driven on the road what the westerners call a "touch of high life" in running time. The party come from Chicago via Atch ison, a distance of 518 miles. "The run in cluding all stops, was made in twelve and one-half hours. This makes an average of nearly 42 mil's per hour for the entire distance. The average time between Chicago and Kansas City is lifieer. hours. "There was no special effort to make a fast run." said Charles S. Gleed today. "The di rectors wanted to see all of the road they could in daylight and the train kept up a lively rate of speed during the trip." STJE FOR BLACKLISTING. A Number of Cases Brought Up Against the Union Pacific Cgden, Dec. 9. Following up the ver dict in the court of Judtre Clifford in 1 Chicago, November IS, awarding dam- es against the Chicago and North western roalway to Fred R. Ketchara in the sum of $21,000 because of black listing, there was filed in the district court at Ogden last night the complaint of John U'Hara against the Ogden Short Line railroad and the receiver of the Union Pacific company, claiming damages to the amount of $30,000. O'Hara had been a conductor and brakeman for thirty years at the time of the A. R. U. strike in 1894, and has been unable to get any steady employ ment since that time. He at one time secured work from the Short Line, but thoy discharged him after six weeks, saying he was competent but they did not want him. Garrett O'Neill, a Fnion Pacific su perintendent, when applied to for work and O'Hara stated his experience and qualifications, said: "You are all right, but you have an X mark on you." The complaint sets forth that the de fendant railroads willfully, maliciously, feloniously and unlawfully made and exchanged black lists upon which was the name of plaintiff, with the intent and purpose of preventing him. from se curing and retaining work as brakeman or conductor, and that at all times since 1894 they have done this to his damage in the sum named. There will be about thirty cases filed here on the same charge. SUES THE RAILROADS. Ko. Pacific and Rock Island Charged With V.oiating Quarantine Laws. Kansas City, Dec. 9. John E. Gilbert, a Kansas stockman, brought suit in the common pleas court of this city today against the Missouri Pacific and Rock Island railroad companies, jointly, to recover $1,799.85 damages. Gilbert charges that the railroads failed to dis infect cattle cars after cattle afflicted with Texas fever had been shipped in them. Gilbert's petition sets forth that he purchased 107 head of cattle last Aug ust, which had been shipped to Kansas reeumg ana soon alter tney were placed his ranch they became sick from Texas fever, He alleges that the two railroad companies violated the Kansas quarantine regulations, which require cars to be disinfected. NEEDS FOUR TRACKS. Extensive Improvements to be Kado by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia, Dec. 9. The Pennsyl vania Railroad company will begin at once the proposed improvements on its lines west of Altoona. There are to be constructed two additional tracks be tween Altoona and the Horse Shoe curve and from that point to the tunnel on the main line near Gallatin there is to be one additional track constructed. When this work is finished there will be four tracks from Altoona to the Horse Shoe curve and three tracks from the Horse Shoe curve to the tun nel. The old Portage tunnnel, which was constructed by the state more than 50 years ago. is to be remodeled and to be made so as to accommodate two tracks This work it will take time to do, and it also requires the widening of the western approach to the tunnel for a distance of about two miles. The tun nel, as it nejw stands, is too small for the rolling stock of the road. STOPPED THE TRAIN. Accommodation Train From Atwood Stalled by Russian Thistle. St. Francis. Dec. 9. While a heavy accommodation train was coming from Atwood to this city, which is nearly all up grade, the engineer was puzzled at the way in which the- drive-wheels of the engine slipped and turned. At last. despite all his efforts, the train came to a standstill, the wheels buzzing ground as though the track was greas ed. An investigation showed that a heavy wind had blown a quantity of Russian thistles in upon the track in the little cuts, and the wheels crushed the oil out of them so oiling the track that the wheels could not retain a hold on the rails. The thistles contain an abund ance of oil. When the sand gave out the engineer was compelled to cut the train in two and proceed with one sec tion and afterward return for the re mainder. A Reminiscence An old Santa Fe passenger conductor was telling us the other day about the careers of some former conductors, onie 12 years ago there was a job lot of Santa Fe passenger conductors dis charged for ''color blindness" a disease commonly called "knocking down." Among these conductors were 12 who were worth more than 25 thousand dol lars each. Two of these men have since died in wretched poverty. Two of the remaining ten are in just comfortable circumstances. The other eight are very poor and find it extremely dilficult to make a livelihood. The fate of these men ought to profit every young man beginning a business career.Dishonesty is the most unprofitable article in trade. Florence Bulletin. Santa Fe to Avoid Washouts. Santa Fe, N. M.. Dec. 9. The annual meeting of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe sub-railway coal and coke corporation in New Mexico took place here yesterday. It was decided to change the line of the Silver City and Dentins road between Hudson and Sil ver City, running the road up in the foothills in order to avoid the washouts incident to the present roadbed. Officials at the Shops. The officials of the Santa Fe made a tour of the shops and round houses this morning in company with Superintend ent of Machinery Player, Master Car Builder Hodse, and Superintendent Mudge. The new car sheds received special attention. The machine shops, coach shops and round houses were visited in turn. The visitors expressed themselves as well pleased and some of them were surprised at the large im provements that have taken place. A Maa Killer" Comes In. Engine No. 600 is in the round house for repairs. This engine is known among railroad men as "a man killer." Several years ago this engine turned over in a wreck west of Marcelline, Mo., and Engineer Fred Heddy was killed, since then the engine has been known as a "man killer." Some who are sup erstitious have a constant fear of the engine and avoid her as much as possible. Solves the Coal Stealing Problam. Arkansas City, Dec. 9. Every winter the railroad companies have been bothered with coal thieves. A car load of coal would hardly get in the yards here until some one would be stealing it. The Missouri Pacific has made an improvement whereby it is thought th's stealing can be prevented. They have fenced a piece of track in the yards here with a ten wire barb fence. As soon as the coal arrives it is sent into this "pen" and locked up and held there safely until unloaded. Double Track for the Rock Island. Atchison, Dec. 9. Seven additional cars of material for the Rock Island extension to Atchison, arrived at Rushville yesterday evening. The fact that the Rock Island company is buy ing right of way 200 feet wide indicates that a double track will be laid. The amount of material being received also indicates this. "Katy" Has Parsons, Dec. a Water Famine. 9. The M., K. T is ter along its line in the The bridge and build- very short of wa Indian Territory ing department received orders of the Texas lines has for all the water tubs belonging to the to South McAles use in water tra Texas lines to be sent ter and Muskogee, for ins in the territory. SANTA FE LOCAL NOTES. Twenty cars are now equipped with the "axle electric light." and 30 more are in course of construction. One din ing car was completed yesterday. The California express No. 1 went through in two sections yesterday. The second section was 35 minutes behind the other. H. T. Brown, local watch inspector of the Santa Fe at Nickerson, was in the city yesterday. George C.Sperry, of the Mexican Cen tral, is expected to visit in Topeka this week. Fireman Gus Lundquist is confined to his bed with rheumatism. He was un able to attend the funeral of his son Arthur. Frank Stevens of the coach shops, will leave the employ of the company this week in anticipation of his work as register of deeds. C. H. Rhodes has returned to work at the shops after touring Nebraska as judge at poultry shows. Eight officials of the road have paid $5 each as sustaining members of the K. It, Y. M. C. A. W. H. Hall, Santa Fe brakeman of Emporia, Kan., had the middle finger of his right hand amputated at the Santa Fe hospital yesterday. The fing er was crushed while making a coup ling in the Emporia yards. Dr. J. P. Kaster. chief surgeon of the Santa Fe. is in Chicago. Chair car No. 1405 is ready to leave the paint shop. The Ladies' Society of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen, will give a social and dance on Friday evening, December 17, at Conductor's hall, 603 East Fourth street. HONORS FOIl URYAN. Reception Being Arranged Through out Mexico. City of Mexico, Dec.9. There is much interest shown in Mr.Bryan's approach ing visit, and the disposition is to treat him as a distinguished American with out regard to his political standing as the chief of the Democratic party. He will be cordially received by the gov ernment and shown many attentions. The American residents in various cities are organizing reception commit tees. 31. 0. B. DOUBLES IN N. Y. Foreigners in America Remembsr Those Left Behind. New York, Dec. 9. In the mail bags which went on the steamer St. Paul were 9,000 foreign orders amounting to 24,554 pounds. These orders are for Christmas presents, and most of them go to Norway and Sweden. This is the first large batch of foreign money orders that has gone out this year. The first orders each year go to Norway and Sweden. About a week later those intended for German friends are sent, and after them go the orders sent to Great Brit tain and Ireland. The money order certificates to France come last, pres ents being sent for New Year, accord ing to the custom there. The money order business in the New York postofflce this year is about dou ble that of the last holiday season. There were 20,000 money orders hand led yesterday, as against 10,000 on the corresponding day of last year. The Coming Woman, Who goes to the club while her hus band tends the bp.by, as well as the good old-fashioned woman who looks after her home, will both at times get run down in health. They will be trou bled with loss of appetite, headaches, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The most wonderful remedy for these women is Electric Bitters. Thousands of sufferers from Lame Back and Weak Kidneys rise up and call it blessed. It is the medicine for women. Femaie complaints and Nervous troubles of all kinds are soon relieved by the use of Electric Bitters. Delicate women should keep this remedy on hand to build up the system. Only 50c per bot tle. For sale by Swift Holliday. The Rev. G. K. Morrison is still a .free man. Policeman John Haisch returned today without his prisoner. He says he went as far as Kentucky after the Texas preacher, but failed to find him. Rev. D. A. Wickizer of Des Moines. Ta., will arrive this week and conduct services Sunday next at the First Christian church. He comes with a view of becom ing pastor of that congregation. Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O.. says, "After two doctors gave up my boy to die. I saved him from croup by using One Minute Cough Cure." It is the quickest and most certain remedy for coughs, colds and all throat and lung troubles. G. W. Stansfield, 622 Kansas avenue. Photographs all "sizes, all prices. Leonard takes them,613 Kansas avenue. It is easy to catch a cold and just as easy to get rid of it if you commence early to use One Minute Cough Cure. It cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneu monia and all throat and lung troubles. It is pleasant to take, safe to use and sure to cure. G. W.Stansfield. C32 Kan sas avenue. IN CONGRESS TODAY. Pensions. Pacific Railroads, Hawaiian Annexation and Klondike Relief. Washington, Dec. 9. The senate com mitte on Pacific railroads today auth orized the favorable report upon the re solution introduced by Senator Morgan directing the attorney general to send to the senate a full statement of his proceedings concerning the lien of the government upon the Kansas Pacific railroad, striking out that portion of resolution calling for a statement in re gard to agreements concerning the sale of the road. The committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives had its first meeting today. Chairman Hitt an nounced the following sub-committee to deal with Cuban affairs: Adams, of Pennsylvania: Heatwole, cf Minnesota, and Berry, of Kentucky. The sub-committee to consider Haw aiian affairs is: Hitt, of Illinois; Smith, of Michigan; Dinsmore, of Arkansas. THE HOUSE. Washington, Dec. 9. The house today considered the pension appropriation bill. THE SENATE. Washington, Dec. 9. During the ear ly business, the senate considered pri vate pension bills. Senator Gallinger (Rep., N. H.), chairman cf the commit tee on pensions, sounded a warning against inconsiderate pension legisla tion. Mr. Hoar presented a petition signed by 21.269 native Hawaiians. protesting against the annexation of Hawaii. The senate agreed to adjourn today until Monday next. Mr. McBride, of Oregon, presented and asked for immediate consideration for the relief of American miners and other sufferers in the valiey of the Yu kon and its tributaries. The resolu tion authorizes the secretary of war to transport supplies to the suffering -miners and provides that no more than $250,000 be appropriated to carry out the purpose of the resolution. It went over on objection. The resolution presented by the Paci fic railroad committee, asking the at torney general for information concern ing the Kansas Pacific was adopted. WANT NINE HOURS. 50,000 New York Printers to Strike for a Sh irter Day's Labor. New York, Dec. 9. At the annual convention of the International Typo graphical union a year ago it was de cided to make a fight for a work day of nine hours in all book and job printing shops as soon as possible. This fight will be started in this city on January 2, 1S98, and will involve five thousand men, as the employing print ers have resolved to oppose the de mand. It was announced last night that other cities, including Brooklyn, would also take up the fight for nine hours and that before the new year was a month old it was probable that 50 thousand men would be on strike for a shorter work day. On December 2 Typographical union No. 6 sent a notice to one hundred and two employers, making the official de mand for a work day of nine hours in stead of ten, beginning on January. On Tuesday night an executive meeting of the Typothetae was held at which res olutions were passed denying the de mand of the printers and looking to raise a fund of $50,000 as a defense fund to fight "big six." President Don nelly of union No. 6 says that within 30 days his union will have one hundred thousand doliars with 'w hich to enforce its demand. GROWING WEAKER. That is the Only Change Noted in Mother McKinley's Condition. Canton, O., Dec. 9. Mother McKinley survived the night, but the morning found her very weak The president was at the bedside nearly the entire night. There was no indication of change at 10 o'clock this morning. At that time she was resting quietly and the presi dent was out for a walk. BRYAN KILLING DUCKS. Shot 43 Water Fowl on a Hunt Near Gaivaston. Galveston. Dec. 9. William .1. Bryan and party returned last evening from the r duck-hunting trip to Lake Surprise. in Chambers county. Mr. Bryan carried off the palm by bag ging forty-three ducks, of which twelve were canvas-backs. He expressed him self as having had a delightful trip and appeared to be in the best of health. After dinner Mr. Bryan departed for Fan Antonio, where he will be joined by Mrs. Bryan and ex-Consul General Crit tenden for a tour of Mexico. Mr. Bryan said he expected to reach home about January ltJ. Wrote fcWe Shall Meet Beyond tie R'.ver. New York. Dec. 9. The Rev. Dr. John Atkinson, pastor of the Method st Episcopal church, at Haverstraw. N. Y., died at that place today, aged 63 years. He was the author of "We Shall Meet Beyond the River." and of numerous works on church affairs. Annual 6. A. R. Encampment. By a unanimous vote of the executive committee of the council of administra tion. Department Commander Bolkin was instructed to arrange for the holding of the next annual" session of the department encampment within the last two weeks of April. 1!S. at Wichita. In pursuance of that instruction the dates have been fixed for April 0. 21 and 22. The council of administration and the committee on credentials will be in session on the 2th, and the encampment proper will begin on the 21st. s The Avoca Reaches Port Cape Town. Dec. 3. The British troop ship Avoca. with about 1.0"X men on board, from Jamaica. ha, arrived here safely. A rumor prevailed in Halifax yesterday that the Avoca had foundnred. but the report was not credited in London. George Vanderbilt on a Tour. New York, Dec. 9. George W. Van derbilt. bound on a tour of the world, was a passenger on the American liner St. Paul for Southampton. It is his intention to visit India for a hunting expedition. Later he will go to Japan. W. B. Osgood Field, his friend, accom panied him. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Eromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. Ferrine Wins a Friza. San Francisco, Dec. 9. Prof. Perrine, one of the members of the Lick Ob servatory staff, has received a letter from the French academy of science, announcing that his work in astronomy has been considered of such value as to merit the bestowal on him of one of the annual prizes. The award w ill be made at a public meeting in Paris in the lat ter part of this month. The richest of Klondike finds is Beggs Little Giant Pills. They cure not only constipation, sick headaches and bil liousness. but relieves all kinds of dis order. Take no., substitutes. At druggists. STOLE SIOJOOO.000 Cause of the Great Fire at Ellis Island Is Now Believed to Have Been Discovered. KAILROAD TICKETS Kept There In Large Quantities by Trunk Lines. It is -1 Believed that Thieves Started the Fire For the Purpose of Securing These Tickets. BEGIN TO TURN UP, Though They Were Supposed to Have Been Burned. One of These Tickets Appears on a Kansas City Road. New York. Dec. 9. Facts have come to light that suggest the possibility that the mysterious fire which destroy ed the great immigrant buildings on El lis island a few months ago was start ed by thieves who had carefully planned a ten million dollar robbery, says the Journal to day. Ten of the trunk lines leading to the west, including the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Dela ware, Lackawanna Western and the New York, Ontario Western, unite in maintaining a railroad office on the island and at all times there are quan tities of tickets there. General Ticket Agent Robinson, of the Ontario West ern said last night that on the night of the fire a conservative estimate would place the value of the tickets in the El lis island office at $10,000,000. The tickets with much cash were locked in drawers in wooden cases and desks and the entire parcel was sup posed to have been totally destroyed. The different roads posted notices that if tickets of a certain form and series should be presented they should be ta ken up and full fare demanded. A few days ago a ticket issued by the Ontario Western, reading from Chi cago to Kansas City was received from a passenger and afterward found to be one of the tickets supposed to have been burned. The part of the ticket calling for passage from New York to Chicago has not yet been presented. Now the railroad officials are asking how many other tickets out of the $10, 000,000 worth are in existence. It is deemed not impossible that the entire number was stolen and held until con ductors should forget the warning. Former Commissioner Sennet-, who was in charge of Ellis island at the time of the fire, deems the hypothesis by no means improbable. "The origin of the fire was never learned," he said. "It began in a tow er of the main building at some dis tance from the offices occupied by the railroad people. Every one of the gov ernment guards was busy getting the immigrants out safely and of course left the railroad office alone. It is not impossible that thieves deliberately started the fire in the expectation, jus tified by events, that the ticket office would be quickly deserted." General Ticket Agent Robinson, of the Ontario Western, said he could scarcely believe that any such whole sale robbery had taken place. "I have communicated with other roads and they have had no such tickets present ed as yet. I think it more likely that the report of sales for the day preced ing the fire was not correct. Of course, though, it is somewhat odd that that ticket, if it was honestly disposed of, should not have turned up sooner. A close investigation will be made." WAGES CUT ON 2S,000. Cotton Manufacturers Decide Upon a Reduction. Fall River, Mass., Dec. 9. At a gen eral meeting of the Cotton Manufac turers' association, it was voted to re duce all wages in the mills of the city, the amount and the time of reduction being left to a committee, which for some time has had charge of the mat ter. It is understood that the cut will not be less than 10 per cent and that it will go into effect on January 1. It will affect 28.000 operatives, who are paid an aggregate weekly wage of $180,000. The price of print cloths for a long time has been only fair. Under these conditions the mills have been selling at a loss and the stock of goods has beeen increasing. The committee has obtained the sig natures of every manufacturer in the city except one. who is understood to be D. A. Brayton of the Durfee mill, a private corporation. It is anticipated that the price of weaving a cut of print cloth will bs re duced from 18 to 16 cents. In August, 1894, a cut of 10 per cent was ordered, but in April of the next year, an advance by the Fall River company of the same amount necessi tated similar action on the part of the rest of the mills, and wages have been paid on this basis ever since. The at titude of the employes on the matter can hardly be stated until they have had a chance to talk it over, and none of the labor leaders will say much about the subject until meetings have been held. The feeling is prevalent that before the matter is settled, there will be a strike, but how large a proportion of the operators will take part, it is im possible to say. To Close for Lack of Money."" Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 9. The board of education has decided to close the schools in Minneapolis March 1, 18S8, be cause it has no money and no legal rightj to borrow. J. H. Gregg, of Dundee. Kan., writes: "My little daughter who has been trou bled with Croup ever since she was three months old, I never found any thing to relieve her until I tried Beggs Cherry Cough Syrup.and that hascured her entirely. I think it is the best Cough Syrup on the market. At drug gists. Take your lunch at the Cremerie, Scott Scott, four doors north of the old stand. AWARD STATE CONTRACTS. Kansas Firms Given the Preference and Get a Large Slice. The members of the state board of charities are today busy awarding con tracts for supplies for the state institu tions. Kansas manufacturing establish ments were given the preference when possible. Frank Shane said this afternoon r "The board secured the meat contracts at much lower figures than we antici pated." At 2:30 this afternoon all the awards made were as follows: Dry goods Tope ka Cash Dry Goods company, cotton batting. brown cottons, 6-4, 7-4, Indian head fruit, of the loom, bleached cotton peperell. smoked pearl dress buttons, white agate buttonn. shoe buttons, Russia, bleached nd un bleached, tine tooth combs, blue York dentins. Geo. Innes, Lawrence, white bed spreads, bleached cotton pepperell 8-4, cottonades, cheviots. B. Rockwell, Junction City, gray blankets, boots. Crosby Bros., rubber blankets, bleach ed cotton pepperell. bleac hed cotton An droscoggin, paper collars. Kemper Pastor., Topeka, white blankets, bleached cotton GO inches, iv ory collar buttons, white pearl dress buttons, suspender buttons, crash, twilled, cassimere or doeskin jeans, coarse combs, metal backs. Warren M. Crosby, Topeka, balf bleached cotton. Johnston-Larimer Co., tailor's can vass. Chas. Wolff Co., Topeka, all fresh beef, and sausage, and pork. J. J. Barnes, Topeka All mutton. Swift Co. Lard and butterine. C. Fogarty. Junction City Flour for Topeka and Osawatomie asylums. E. Tanquary, Beloit Flour for Beloit Industrial school. Kelley Bros., Edgerton Flour for deaf and dumb school, Olathe: blind asylum and Atchison Orphans' home. VV. E. Sweezey. Lyndon Graham flour and corn meal for all institutions except Beloit, which will be furnished by Tanquary. J. S. Sproat Co. Kuehne's bakins powder. B. Rockwell Evaporated appl. blacking, brushes, candles, corn ni.rch, cocoanut, extract vanilla. Lee Mercantile Co., Salina .Ar.Kpio. evaporated apricots, old Java c,;t-a. W. F. Dolan, Atchison Scruti X rush es. Hoaglin Grocery Co., Kansar iity- Cinnamon. Theo Poehler, Lawrence Lim iean, chocolate, corn canned. Claude Duval, Hutchinsoti-Royal coffee. Symns Grocer Co. Dried apples. Cal ifornia apricots, bath brick, white beans, string beans, California break fast food, boneless codfish. W. W. Manspeaker, Topeka Cheese, canned cherries, lemon extract. Kemper Paxtons, Topeka Canned apples, Kuehne's chow chow, crackers, cream crackers, dried currants. SOLDIERS' HOME CONTRACTS. The directors of the state Soldiers' home, at Dodge City, have awarded contracts as follows: Samuel Stubbs, Dodge City Si'k soap, $3.20 per 100: syrup. No. 2, 30 cents per gallon: canned corn. Standard, 95 cents per dozen; corn meal, tit cents yr 100; salt, $1.2U per barrel: coffee, 1A cents per pound; cheese, lOVi cents per pound. Green Sons. Topeka Dried apri cots Sx per pound; Price baking pow der S4Vic per pound: blueing stick $2.50 per gross; granulated sugar $;.C-J per 100: tea. No. 2. 2fic per pound: can ned tomatoes. Standard, $1.05 per doz en; Star tobacco 3c per pound: O. S. smoking tobacco ISic per pound; Eng lish currants 9c per pound; raisins per pound: rolled oats $4.40 per barrel. ISO pounds: dried peaches Txic pel pound: prunes 6c per pound: cayenne pepper 15c per pound; nutmeg 35c pet pound; rice 6c per pound; sal sod:. $1.60 per pound; cinnamon ir,c per pound; graham Hour $2.57 ier hundred weight; codfish D'.o per pound; grapes 5c per pound; ginger 14c per pound; hominy $1.60 per hundredweight:crack ers 594c per pound; lye $2.80 per case; sage 10c pound. Kemper Paxton, Topeka Dried apples 6c per pound: evaporated apples 9c per pound; allspice, ground. 14c per pound; beans, handpieked. $1.65 pr bushel; gloss starch $3.G0 per hundred: corn starch 3c per pound: soda 34C per pound: yeast foam $1.00 per box: mule matches $1.25 per gross; mustard 15c per pound; black pepper 12Hc per pound; shoe blacking $3 per gross; cloves l'.:2c per pound. Wolff Packing company. Topeka. lard in r.O lb. cans. $5.40; 12,000 lbs. bacon. $8.50 per 100: fresh beef, 20,000 lbs., $7.17 100: mince meat. 7Vi cents per lb.; lo logna sausage. 6 per lb. dry salt, ft-i per lb.; pigs' feet. 15 lb. kits. S5 cents; pigs feet, one-eighth barrel, 20 lbs., SI; one-fourth barrel, 40 lbs., $1.95; half barrel, 80 lbs., $3.35; hams. $8.95 per hr. These articles are to be delivered at Dodge City, freight prepaid. Barton Bros.. Kansas City, Mo., boys Dom Pedro shoes, $1.15; womans' glaze calf, $1.20: childs' satin calf school shoe, 8 to 12, 90 cents: 12Vi to 2. $l.i)7.i; wo man's kid button calf shoe, $1.15: wo man's grain calf bals.. $1.2o; men's oil grain, stitched down, Dom Pedro boots, $1.20. Kemper Paxtons, Topeka, youth's veal calf shoe, 12 to 2, $1.10. DEATHS AND FLNEKALS. G. L. Simpson, the wholesale and all (ivotnp Tv-i...Vi ..P 'JA T-..-. re- SU.P avenue, died of pneumonia very fci&U-. oeniy yesterday at 2:I o c lock at th Stormont hospital. He had been ill but a few days and his dath was unex- pecieu. ine deceased was a single men TT V...1 l-, i I ,t i man. He had built up a flourishing oyster business, running in competition with the old oyster companies. He was well known in the city and was uni versally jiopular. J. E. Simpson, -v brother who lives in Kansas City, fr rived yesterday noon. Another brot!-r from Washington, D. C, arrived today. The deceased's parent's live at Wash ington. The funeral services were h-bi this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The re mains were taken to Kansas City for burial. Mrs. H. D. Dutton died last evening at 7 o'clock at the residence of hr son-in-law, J. H. Foucht. She was the wid ow of M. R. Dutton and the mother of H. E. Dutton. Mrs. Dutton was a mem ber of the Baptist church of Lawrence. 'She was well known in Topeit- and had a large circle of friends. Tbj fu neral services will be held tomorrow at 12 o'clock at J. II. Foucht's residence at 712 Taylor street. The burial wiU take place in Lawrence. Wm. Crawford of Maple Hill drop ped dead yesterday near his home. Ha will be buried tomorrow at Maple Hill. George Rauss, foreman of the com posing room of the Capital, received word yesterday of the death of his father in St. Louis. He and Mrs. Rauss left last evening for St. Louis. Prosperity comes quickest to the mnn whose liver is in good condition. De Witt's Little Early Risers are famous little pills for constipation, biliousness, indigestion and all stomach and liv-tr troubles. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9. 1897. The State Journal OFFICIAL CITY PAPER TWEXTY-FOUKTH TEAR. BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edftion. delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier Evstem. By mail, one year 3.60 Bv mail, three months r? Weekly edition, one year 60 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building 800 and i02 Kansas avenue, comer of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business office Bell 'Phone 107 Kcporte'-s' Room Bell 'Phone 577 New Tork address: 322 Potter Building, care American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, where files of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. Weather Indications. "Washington, Dec. 9. For Kansas: Showers, probably turning to snow and colder tonight: Friday possibly unset tied, with colder in east and central portions; winds shifting to brisk north erly. THE YELLOW MAN IS DOOMED. The Chinese minister to the United States has for some time been endeav oring to negotiate a loan of $80,000,000 for his government among American capitalists for the purpose of meeting the third installment of the indemnity payable to Japan on account of the late war with that country. Though the security he offers consists of na tional bonds bearing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, he has so far failed to secure the money. American capitalists are new to the business of investing in foreign bonds and are naturally timid. They have hitherto found employment for their surplus funds at home. It is under stood that valuable concessions go with the security to -whomever cares to in vest. The first installment of the Japanese indemnity, amounting to 180,000,000, was borrowed in France and Belgium.. The second installment of like amount was obtained from Germany, but the Czar of Kussia had to "go on the note," as we say here in America, of the Chi nese emperor. For so doing he was practically made the master of the Chinese empire. "With that act doubt less began the end of one of the oldest empires on the globe. That the Celestial kingdom Is to be parcelled out among the European "powers" scarcely admits of a doubt. Iiussia will take what she wants as she wants it. and will allow the others suiTici'nt to keep peace in the family. That this is the iHlicy to be pursued is evidenced by the fact that Germany has been permitted to establish herself on Chinese territory within the past few days without protest from the czar, who now stands in a relation akin to that of guardian to the emperor of China. France may confidently be expected to follow Germany's lead as soon as a pretext can be found. Almost anybody can get in on the ground floor as it were except England. She is consider ed to already have her share of Asiatic territory. The co-operation of France and Ger many in the occupation of the Chinese territory will serve the purpose of en abling the czar to prevent further en croachments of England with little trouble. England cannot afford to en ter into a contest with all Europe. When the great Siberian railway, stretching from St. Petersburg to Vladi vostoc k, a distance of 11.000 miles, shall have been completed, the work of parceling out Asia is likely to move more rapidly. The czar will naturally wish to make a great and populous region like China tributary to his road. Nicholas is working the most gigan tic scheme of empire that the world has ever seen; working it surely and rapidly; clinching every nail in the ed ifice he is rearing as he goes along. The yellow man must make way for the Caucasian, as the red man did in America and as the black man is doing In Africa. imposition ojt Leavenworth: Leavenworth Times: Topeka has 26 policemen; Leavenworth 32. The popu lation of Topeka is larger than Leaven worth's by about 10,000, yet Topeka has six policemen les3 than Leavenworth. If Topeka had policemen in the same proportion as Leavenworth, It would have about 48. And yet Topeka with only 26 police men has more than the law allows, ac cording to Judge Hazen's decision, and more than the city needs or desires. "What, then, is to be said of Leaven worth with a force of 32, which is ex actly double of the number allowed by law? If Topeka ought to have a small er force, how much smaller ought Leavenworth to have? Topeka had much more reason than Leavenworth to adopt the system which the law allows only for cities above the 40,000 limit. What does Leav enworth want with a police force large enough for a city of 40.000? Why should Leavenworth require more po licemen than any other city of its size? Why is the people's money wasted in maintaining a police department twice as large and twice as costly as it ought to be? Why Is a crowd of Idlers employed contrary to the law? Why have the people to pay for a gang of political loafers? FROZEN IN A BEDROOM, A very sad tragedy was reported from northwest Atchison this morning. Miss Jewel Appleby, dressed In furs, heavy arctic shoes, etc.. left the kitch en fire in her mother's house at nine o'clock this morning to go into the bed rooms, in which there was no fire, to make the beds. As she failed to re turn in a few minutes, her mother be came alarmed, and organized a relief expedition. The girl was found frozen stiff in one of the rooms, in the act of tucking in the 37th quilt on a bed. She had been overcome with the cold, and had died at her post. The coroner didn't think that there was any need of holding an inquest. The poor girl had made up two beds, but could withstand the extreme cold no longer. Atchison Globe. -MORAL Don't have any. bed rooms without fires in them. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) The men who belong to the lodge, are great men to run for office. Women have certain notions, and it does no good to combat them. Every day is the worst day for an noyance that people can recall. Nothing makes a man quite so mad as to have a woman insist on marrying him, whether he is willing or not. When a dealer once gets a stock of Christmas goods on hand, he must keep on buying, and carrying over. A girl who has had a good deal of experience with lovers, says that girls generally prefer a dollar show to hold ing hands.

Poets say that a thing will happen "on the morrow," instead of on Wed nesday, or Tuesday, or whatever the day may actually be. There is one thing you can always de pend upon when a man says a good thing, and that is, if you hang around him, you will hear him say it again. It must be a terrible affliction to have a daughter marry during the hol idays, and be caught for Christmas and wedding presents at the same time. The only men who make any pretence of being interested in the conversation of women, are those who are not mar ried to them, or who are trying to sell them something. What great possibilities in the wo man who has never entertained! She can criticise anybody, make fun of ev ery party, and no one can criticise her. It is such a well defended position that we wonder more women don't remain secure in it, instead of rushing out to gave parties, and getting abused for it. "Every week for a year I have put on a particular shirt that is made so poor ly that the collar button always hurts the back of my neck. I declare all day that I will burn the shirt when I get home at night, but when I take it off, I forget about it, and the next week it turns up as usual, and the collar button hurts my neck all day again. We all realize the evil of procrastina tion, but few of us realize how much we procrastinate." Drake Watson. mORE SILVER BONDS. Mexico Will Issue $20,000,000 Which Europe Will Snap Up. City of Mexico, Dec. 9. The chamber of deputies has approved the bill au thorizing the minister of finance to is sue a new series of 5 per cent silver bonds of the interior debt to the amount of $20,000,000, making the total authorization $60,000,000. The bill is now before the senate. These bonds are issued to convert the floating debt into the form of subsidies, port works, payments, etc., and as a means of making the internal debt uni form. These bonds are always in active de mand in Europe, where they are most ly held by small investors, who regard them as an excellent form of placing their savings. The bonds are quoted at 78 to 80 in this market. The bill has gone to the senate from the chamber of deputies, approving the contract made with the Mexican Tele graph company for the introduction of an international cable and telegraph service. LECTURE ON GENERAL LEE. President Andrews of Brown TJnivar 8ity Lauds the Southern Chieftain. Chicago, Dec. 9. E. Benamin An drews, president of Hrown university, lectured upon "The Life and Character of General Kobert K. Lee" last night at Central Music hall. President An drews was himself a soldier in the army of the Potomac. The lecturer was in troduced by Edward Osgood Brown, who did so in the emphatic phase, "Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, who in spite of sectional outcry and disturbance is still president of Brown university," the only reference made during the even ing to the resignation forced from Dr. Andrews because of his free silver views. The lecturer, when once the war per iod was reached, affirmed that General Lee turned his back upon certain high military preferment when in response to his belief of what constituted duty he resigned his post as colonel of the First United States cavalry and cast his fortunes with his beloved Virginia. "Had he remained with the union he would have been immediately made the commander in chief of its armies, a proffer of which was directly made him on the eve of his resignation." In following the career of General Lee through the war Dr. Andrews took occasion to pass frequent strictures up on the union commanders who oppos ed him. Though he said that the meet ing of Grant and Lee in the wilderness and in the death struggle about Rich mond and Petersburg was that of Greek and Greek, he qualified the di vided encomium with the statement that the Southerner proved himself the better man. Resources and men alone he said, gave final victory to the North ern general. In conclusion he classed the generalship of Lee as equal to that of Gustavus Adolphus. Prince Eugene. William of Orange, of Napoleon and of Von Moltke. WORD FROM COOK. Plans of the Belgian Antarctic Expe dition Have Been Changed. New York, Dec. 9. The Brooklyn Standard Union today publishes a pri vate letter from Surgeon Frederick A. Cook, the only American member of Captain Adrian Degerlach's Belgian Antartic expedition, announcing that the plan for the winter's cruise had been considerably changed. The ex pedition after coaling at Punta Arenas will go to Graham's land, thence to Al exander land, thence to Victoria land, where a party will be landed for the winter. The original plan of the expedition was to wait until the winter of 1898 be fore effecting a landing. His Soul Goes Marching On. New Tork, Dec. 9. On a call issued by the executive committee of the Thomas Jefferson Democracy, which was organ ized by the late Henry George, a confer ence of the assembly district leaders took place last night. All the boroughs in Greater New York were represented by 150 delegates present. It was decided to continue the organization, and Henry A. Golden was chosen permanent chairman. KANSAS NEWS. Officials of First Class Meet at Atchison. Cities They Unanimously Recommend the, Abolishment of THE POLICE SYSTEM. Larger Proportion Favored Municipal Ownership Of Waterworks, Light Plants and Street Railways. Atchison, Dec. 9. The fifth annual meet ing of the Municipal association of the first class cities of Kansas has closed its session r ere. B. P. Waggener welcomed the visitors to the city. About the first business was the adop tion of a recommendation that the legis lature enact a law compelling police com missioners to report to the mayor and council on the first day of each month an itemized account of all collections during the month, and requiring them to pay into the city treasury all amounts so collect ed; that the salaries of police or patrol men be paid by warrants drawn upon the city treasurer and signed by the mayor and clerk. J. F. Knoblauch of Wichita introduced a resolution recommending the abolish ment of the metropolitan police law. Tho resolution was unanimously adopted. The committee on sanitary regulations recommended a law empowering the mayor and council to pass an ordinance compelling property owners to keep streets, alleys and vacant lots free from weeds, and, in case of failure to comply with such an ordinance, giving cities the right to do such work and tax the costs against the property. Also that a law be enacted compelling every person keep ing a horse or cow to maintain a crib in the alley for the reception of stable ref use. Cities of the first and second class in Kansas are now paying the total cost of all bridges within the city limits and their proportion of cost of all other bridges within the county. C. E. Cory of Fort Scott offered a recommendation in this connection, which was adopted. It provides that counties be compelled to pay their proportion of the cost of city bridges. A number of delegates were strongly in favor of ownership of water works, elec tric light plants and street railway sys. terns by cities of the first class, and askeci the conventions to make recommendations accordingly. Leavenworth was the only city not rep resented. A banquet at which A. J. Felt presided was given. Mayor Jiessr was elected president for the ensuing year and C. S. Smith of Wich ita secretary. MR. PEFFER ON SUFFRAGE. The Ex-Senator G:ve3 Hi3 Views to the Association at Yates CeDter. Yates Center, Dec. 9. The Kansas Equal Suffrage association is in session here. Among the most notable papers read was one from ex-Senator Peffer entitled, "Equal Rights to All, Special Privileges to None." It says: "There can be no question about the equality of natural rights between men and women, and the only reason why there is dispute on the matter of equal political privileges between themis.that men, having originally assumed the powers and duties of government, do now legally enjoy the voting franchise while woman do not. and they cannot acquire it without the men's consent. The thing to be done, then, is to con vince voters that the privilege ought to be extended. "The argument which satisfies my mind, is this: The mother's personal interest in the welfare of her child does not cease when it reaches mature age, but extends on on on through the years to the grave and still beyond. Nothing purer, nothing deeper, strong er or more enduring than a mother's love. This continuous, ever-present motherly care shows itself in constant desire and effort to promote the wel fare of her children and those of her neighbors as well. A mother's love goes out to all the sons and daughters of men. As she watches over her own, so she feels for the common good of all. And this is part of her nature; it is motherhood. "If this great social force could have free play in the art of government, how soon the family influence would be felt in politics and law. If woman'.s influ ence is good in the home, it would be great in the former. It would extend from the kitchen to the court. It would go with the boy from his kite to the library, from his ball ground to the nation's congress. It would go with the girl for direction, counsel and sup port through all the phases of her life, everywhere and under all circumstan ces striving to secure the best develop ment of the best conditions of life. "If women are wise in the manage ment of homes, they would be no less wise in the council chambers of cities, states and nations. If they,.be capable of directing the affairs of families, their discretion would but be applied in wid er fields by admitting them to equal privileges in public affairs. To woman the state is the family enlarged, and the welfare o the state concerns her children to the latest generation." A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL GONE. Leaves Her Home Near Caldwell With a Man and Cannot be Found. Wellington, Dec. 9. A. B. East, a well-to-do farmer living about 12 miles northwest of Caldwell 1n Morris town ship, has deposited $100 in the Stock Ex change bank of Caldwell as a reward to the party who will effect the capture of o Ovine When you take Hood's Pills. The big, old-fash, ioned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you all to pieces, are not in it with Hood's. Easy to take n n u u and easy to operate, is true of Hood's Pills, which are np to date in every respect. Safe, certain and sure. All druggists. 25c. C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass The only Fills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Pills one Lou Wilkinson and the safe return of Eva, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. East. For some time past Wilkinson has been waiting upon Miss East. Two weeks ago last Sunday, Wilkinson call ed at the home of Mr. East, as was his custom to do. and asked Miss East to accompany him on a drive. They did not, return that night. Next morning Mr. East arose in a frenzy of uneasi ness and later in the day drove to Mr. Warlow's farm to learn the cause of his daughter's and Wilkinson's delay. There he found Wilkinson, but his daughter was not with the young man. When Mr. East asked about his daughter's whereabouts, Wilkinson re plied, "I lost her at Milan," and turn ing, walked to the barn. Mr. East then engaged in a conversation with Mr. Warlow regarding the matter, and while the two were thus engaged, Wil kinson saddled a horse and rode away unseen by them. When they went to the barn to look for him, he was gone and no trace of him nor the girl has yet been found. POLICE JUDGE FEES. Judge Dale Decides Kansas Law Leaves Police Magistrates Ou'. Wichita, Dee. 9. Today Judge Dale of the district court decided that under the law establishing the metropolitan police system in Kansas the police judge has no right to collect fees. The law gives the police judge juris diction in all cases within the province of justice courts, but the question as to whether he may collect fees as a jus tice of the peace has never been decid ed in a Kansas court before. Judge Dale's decision covers a num ber of cases appealed from the decision of Police Judge S. M. Tucker during the famous "Tiger Bill" liquor war here in 1895 and 1S96. "Tiger Bill" Campbell,, then assistant to Attorney General Dawes, prosecuted seven jointists in the police court for violation of the liquor law. Defendants appealed to the dis trict court and when Campbell was dis missed as assistant attorney general. County Attorney John Davis had the cases against the jointists dismissed at the cost of the state. Judge Tucker demanded his fees in the cases from the county commissioners. The com missioners refused the claim and it was appealed to Judge Dale, who sustained a motion to relax the judgments and decided against Tucker, holding that his salary was all that he was entitled to under the law. There were $700 in volved in the suit. Jidie Dale held that if the police judge were entitled to collect fees all the police force in Wichita, Topeka Atchison. Leavenworth and Fort Scott would be entitled to constable's fees. 'GENE WARE TALKS. Amuses a Fort Scott Audience Over the Long Distance 'Fhone. Fort Scott. Dec.9. The entertainment given by the long distance telephone company here Tuesday night, continues to lie the topic of conversation by those who heard it. The wires were completed connecting this city with Chicago. Kansas City, Topeka, Leavenworth, St. Joe, Lincoln, Omaha and all the intervening points between here and the north and north west. The voices of the talker in Kansas City, Topeka and Omaha could be heard as plainly as if the talker was only a short distance away. With E. F. Ware at Topeka and Judge J. D. Hill, the listeners were furnished with much amusement dur ing the evening. Mr. Ware's voice was recognized by all who heard him and his short speech was gladly received. One of his tirst sentences was to the effect that if it was not for Jake Shep pard he would come back to this city. He ended by giving' Fort Scott a glor ious send off. WARDEN LANDIS REPORTS. Receipts and Expenditures for the Month at Lansing. Leavenworth, Dec. 9. Warden Harry Landls of the Kansas penitentiary has linished his report for the month of November, which is as follows: Prisoners committed during the month, 46; discharged by expiration of sentence, 22; discharged by pardon, 5: transferred to state insane asylum, 4; total confined at end of the month, S91. The earnings of the institution are as follows: From contractors. $1, 599.23; keeping United States military prison ers, $750; keeping United States civil prisoners, $:!7.50; Oklahoma prisoners, $1,220; cash from incidental sources, $1, yijS.SS; from prison coal mines sold to customers, $1,002.88; wagon trade, $S72.02; furnished state institutions (at the rate of 7 cents a bushel). $7,9:i:0.09. This makes a total of $14,532.01. Gen eral repairs,. $260.71; permanent im provements, (special appropriation), $394.50. Total expenditures, $13,473.30. Days lost by sickness, 712; punishment, 42. E. N. MORRILL BETTER. The Ex-Governor's Health. Permits Him to Again Attend to Business. Kansas City, Dec. 9. Ex-Governor E. N. Morrill was in Kansas City last night on business. The last the public heard of Mr. Morrill was that he was believed to be dangerously sick at his home in Hiawatha, and he still com plains of feeling weak. Mr. Morrill says he is out of politics now and is de voting his time to his financial inter ests. He has a bank in Leavenworth and deals largely in farm loans. "It is wonderful how the people of the west, particularly in the country, have stood the great strain of the fin ancial depression we have been through. 1 have been putting the past four months settling up a great many matters that had become rather lax while I was otherwise occupied. They were largely farm loans and I was greatly surprised at the remarkable success I had." WANTS KLONDIKE GOLD. Hutchinson Salt Co. to Send Some Hardy New Mexico Miners. Hutchinson, Dec. 9. J. H. Bollock, a ranchman on the tipper Pecos near Santa Fe. New Mexico, has been engag ed by W. L. Moore, president of the Hutchinson salt works, to go to Klon dike in the spring as his agent. Bollock has sold his ranch. He will be accompanied by Thomas Stuart and Jake Gable, of Glorietta, hardy moun taineers. Cheap Rates for Wichita. Wichita, Dec. 9. Local wholesale grocer firms were officially, notified by the Santa Fe railway company today that the rate from Missouri river points on beans, canned good and coffee had been reduced from 36 to 25 cents per hundred, the new rate being effective on the 10th inst. Other roads have no tified the dealers that they will meet the rate. t New Kansas Postmasters. Washington, Dec. 9. Fourth class postmasters have been appointed in Kansas as follows: Elmdale. Chase county, H. E. Akers. vice B. Holmes, removed; Faulkner, Cherokee county, William North, vice William H. Smith, removed; Neutral, Cherokee oounty, L. L. Dean, vise M. R. Goodman, removed; Simpson. M.tch I ell county, Albert D. Rathbun. vice John Louthan, removed; Cedar Junc tion, Johnson county, John L. Sr-eno-ville, vice J. L. Coker, resigned: Crest line, Cherokee county, J. O. Johnson, vice W. L. Hamlet, removed; Hiracher, Cloud county, Elizabeth Huscher, vice D. Huscher, resigned; Little River, Rice county, J. W. Crawford, vice W. E. Dunham, removed. Pensions for Kan sans. Washington, Dec. 9. Pensions have been granted as follows: Original William C. Brice. Glen El der; Edward Maher. National Military home, Leavenworth; William Agin, Gypsum. Additional George T. Bramble, Em pire City. Renewal and Increase Francis M. Jinks, Wellington. Increase Jesse M. Wright, Tisdale; George W. Rose. Junction City; James Stone, Earlton: John A. Gardner, Pratt; Samuel C. Lindsay, Arkansas City; William H. Putnam. Athelstane; Josiah E. Wood, Concordia; William Sizernore, Rest. Coffayville to Have Electee Lights. Coffeyville, Dec. 9. A special election was held in this city for the purpose of voting on a proposition to issue the bonds of the city to the amount of $17,000 to be used in putting in an elec tric system to be ownned and operated by the city. The vote in favor of the bonds was nearly three to one. County Buys 18,000 Rabbit Scalps. Wellington, Dec. 9. The number of rabbit scalps received at the county clerk's office yesterday was 5,000. for which $150 in bounty was paid. The to tal number of scalps received since the bounty was offered, is 18,000, repre senting a cost to the county of $540 for these pests. Suicide of a Clay Center Dentist. Clay Center, Dec. 9. Shortly after noon yesterday Dr. Henry H. Deal, one of the leading dentists of this city, was found dead on the floor of his office. Upon examination it was found that death was caused by a revolver shot, the bullet having penetrated the heart. The wound was evidently self inflicted. Dies Suddenly at Olathe. Olathe, Dec. 9. A. H. Davenport, aged 35, of Wausau. Wis., died of hem orrhage of the lungs while in the wait ing room of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis depot here last night. He was well dressed but had but little money. From papers found it was shown that he had traveled all over the country in search of health. Topeka Bry Injured. Independence. Dec. 9. While playing with a dog yesterday afternoon the Z-year-old son of Mrs. McGinness, of To peka, who is visiting her father, Wil liam Jackson, near here, was probably fatally bitten. The animal's tfeth pen etrated the boy's eyelids, and probably destroyed the sight. Killed by a Freight Train. Cottonwood Falls. Dec. 9. Paul Nor ris, a single man, aged 29 years, was instantly killed yesterday on the Santa Fe railroad at a crossing on the Clover j Cliff farm, ten miles west of this city, j He had driven across the track with a load of fodder and went back to close j a gate, when a freight train struck i him. j SUICIDE IN THE PARK. I A Jinn Leaps From the High Bridge to the Ice 50 Feet He I on'. Chicago. Dec. 9. John Schwinon.C2 years of age, committed suicide by hurling him- self from the high bridge in Lincoln park to the ice, fifty feet below. His act was witnessed by fully 100 people, but none was able to preventi his action. His body went nearly through the ice, which was three inches thicks. Schwinon was out of jvork and despondent. Try Grain O.' Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GEAtN-O. the new food drink that takes th place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury ad well nb the aduit. All who try it, like II. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and tlie most delicate etomaoh receives it without dibt.resg. 4 price of coffee. 15c and 25c per pack age. Sold by grocers. Colds quickly caught are more quick ly cured by Beggs Cherry Cough Syr up. At druggists. The younsr married couple who are crown' ed with good health are reallv a king and queen. They are possessed of an armor that enaDles them to witustaua an me narasnips and misfortunes of life. Accidents aside, thev will live long, happy lives of mutual helpfulness, and they will be blessed with amiable, healthy children. They will sit together in the twilight of old age and look back without regret over a mutually happy, helpful, useful, successful companionship. There are thousands of young couples every day who start wedded life with but one drawback, one or the other, or both, suffer from ill-health. There can be no true wedded happiness that is overshadowed by the black cloud of physical suffering. The man who contemplates matrimony, and re alizes that through overwork or worry or. neglect, he is suffering from ill -health, should take the proper steps to remedy it before he assumes the responsibilities of a husband. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis-' covery is the best of all medicines for men who have neglected their health. It makes the appetite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver active, and the blood pure and rich with life -giving elements. It is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It invigor ates and gives virility, strength and vigor. No woman should wed while she suffers from weakness and disease in a womanly way. These are the most disastrous of dis orders from which a woman can suffer. They break down her general health. They unfit her for wifehood and motherhood. They make her a weak, sickly, nervous in valid. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures all weakness and disease of the deli cate and important organs that bear the bur dens of wifehood and motherhood. It transforms weak, suffering, fretful invalids into healthy, happy wives and mothers. Both medicines are sold at all good med icine stores. 15000 SAMPLE PACKAGES FREE TO LADIES. A Remedy for Ladies Only You Need Not Tell Your Troubles Simply Send Name and Address and (Jet a Trial Package Free That Hay Save Your Life. Any lady reader of this paper can have a trial package of a remedy that is today the standard for female dis eases. It makes no difference whether she is a subscriber or not she will re ceive a full size sample package pre paid by mail, simply by sending her name and address to the Hazeline Com pany, South Bend, Ind. It is worth her while to send for this free sample? In McFherson, Kansas, it cured a lady who suffered constantly over 10 years from various womb troubles and after being treated by 12 different doctors who failed to relieve her. A lady liv ing in Toto, Starke Co., Ind., writes that this famous remedy cured her daughter who was so sick with difficult monthly sickness that she was in bed most of the time. From Sacramento. Cal., a lady writes that this remedy does away with surgical operations and was saved the danger and torture of the knife by being cured by Hazeline. A lady in Silver City, New Mexico, says that when she began using the remedy five months ago her suffering was so intense that she nearly went insane, but the timely arrival of Hazeline sav ed her reason and cured her so she is now healthy and happy. Miss Anna B. Foss of Granite Falls, Minn., writes that for years she suffered more than ACTOR IN A NEW HOLE. Sol.. Smith Russell Appears in "Iha Taming of the Shrew." Chicago, Dec. 9. Mr. Sol Smith Russell presents an exceedingly interesting triple bill at Hooley's this week, of which the important item Is, of course, Mr. Wil liam Seymour's two-act version of "The Taming of the Shrew." Mr. Valentine's Christmas has been seen in Chicago be fore, and calls for no special comment at this date, but the appearance of Mr. Rus sell in a Shakespearean role is a matter of some importance. Mr. Russell ha3 advanced toward the goal of his arrbition by following in the footsteps of Mr. Joseph Jefferson and playing Bob Acres as a token of his re spect for classical comedy. He might, perhaps, have come more quickly to the point by giving a real Shakespearean pro. duction instead of a two-act version of so familiar a play as "The Taming of the Shrew," but in taking- his present line he has at least the glorious example of the great Garrick in his favor, and he has at the same time so far sunk the in divifluality of the star as to place Miss Edith Crane for a time in the center ot the limelight. The bill includes "The Spitfire," by Mr. Madison Morton, which is an entirely new production, telling the story of one Tobias Shortcut, who. while in pursuit of his runaway ward, is mistaken for the cap tain of the SDitfire. and is thus com pelled to take the command of the ship, which naturally- leads to many complica tions. DIED IN QUEST OF HEAUTV. Mrs. Emma Boyden Expired While in the Hands of a Dermatologist. New York. Dec. 9. Mrs. Emma Boy den wanted to be beautiful. She was not satisfied with the hair that nature had given her she wished for blonde hair. And the crow's feet and wrink les that were beginning to come they must be removed. So Friday she went to the dermatologieal parlors of Mrs. Delia C. Folenuss, S41 Broadway, Will iamsburg. And there, instead of beauty, she found death awaiting her. There was not even time for a mes sage; no chance for hair dyeing. A sudden pallor swept across the woman's face. Mrs. Folenuss sprang to her side. "I feel very ill," grasped the stricken woman. Just then in came her mother, who had followed the daughter from their home at Thirty-fourth street and Van derveer Park, Brooklyn, fearful of a presentiment of death that had seized her. She was just in time to see her daughter breathe her last. The coroner performed an autopsy yesterday. He found that death had been caused by heart disease. Mrs. Folenuss was cleared of all blame. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West 8th St. she could find words to tell and was depressed in spirit &nd despondent be yond measure because doctors and rem edies had failed. H&zeline cured her of prolapsus, and leucorrhoea and she can now take long walks, without fatigue whereas she was sick and worn out all the time before. Airs. Theresa Koch, C04 Sedgwick St.. Chicago, writes. "I am willing to tell every suffering lady either personally or by letter how your remedy cured me of years of frightful suffering. Mrs. Rcsa Puttbrese, of Al den. McHenry Co.. Ills., begs to have her name sent to all ladies-who suffer that she may have an opportunity to tell them how she was sslve'd a life of suffering by this gi'iwnl remedy. Mrs. Josephine Stotz. SB3 E. 6th St., New York, N. Y.. believes it her duty to tell how she was cured after 12 years of in tense pain every month anil often be tween times. All of these letters and a great many others on file convince you that the free sample is worth send ing for. No matter whether you suffer little or are an invalid send for this matchless wonderful remedy that is perfectly free and will cure you. Don't wait a day but write at once, simply your name and address. THE HAZE LINE CO.. (Incorporated), Drawer 720 South Bend, Ind. QJJAKEHS IN VADE COLO. On3 Hundred families to Settle in Grand Valley. Denver, Dec. 9. A contract was closed yesterday which will bring to the stats as soon as the warm winds of spring open the ground for tilling, 100 families of a sect which has made a name in American history for thrift and good cit izenship. Through the efforts of the promotion department of the Colorado Midland rail way fifty families of Friends, or Quakers, will be taken to Debeque, the thriving town on the Grand river, a few miles west of Glenwood, In Marofi: The colony site is one of the most arable portions of the Grand valley. A few weeks later tifty more families will join their breth ren. The colonists will be recruited from the states of Ohio, Indiana and a few from Iowa. About the only thing the colonists asked from the citizens of Debeque was th building of a church. So anxious were the residents for the newcomers that they were willing to do almost anything to in fluence the selection, and it was with cn siderable surprise that the request was received. The colonists argued that for several months they would have all they could do to build their homes and open the lands for crops, so little time would be possible for the building of a church, and a Quaker without a meeting house is Indeed a lonely individual. Ducks Fell in the Streets. Leesburg. Va., Dec. 9. Twenty-seven wild ducks were picked up In the streets of Leesburg yesterday. The r.is'.it was rainy.and attracted doubtless by th.- elec tric lights of the town. Urge numbers of ducks Hying southward were seen about daybreak swooping around. Those se cured and on show in a store here seem to be utterly exhausted. Don't be persuaded into buying lini ments without reputation or merit Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no more, and'its merits have been proven by a test of many years. Such letters as the following from L. G. Bagley, Hueneme, Cal.. are constantly being received: "The best remedy for pain I have ever used is Chamberlain's Fain Balm, and I say so after having ur;ed it in my family lor several years." It cures rheumatism, lame back sprains, and swellings. For sale by all drug gists. Mineral Water. The finest In the west. Come and try it. J- W. PHILLIPS. 612 W. Eighth St. Hall's Hair Renev.er renders the hair lustrous and silken, gives it an even color and enables women to put it up in a great variety of styles. Moved four doors north to 726 Kan. Ave., Cremerie Scott Scott. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNALS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1897. i art f If' li s 1 n J. t S S I i ,1 'I fn d LARGE FINE LINE. d h I FCIf 1 11 X I 529 KANSAS AVENUE. I SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The Cremorie restaurant needs a few more hat nu-ks. Mrs. 11. A. Warru-r is slowly improving nfter a long; illness. Miss lielle Kjran is quite seriously ill at the Stormont hospital. L)r. J-T. W. Ruby is able to be at his of fice after a ten days illness. A contest In cluck-pins is beinij started at the V. M. O. A. bowling alleys. Mr. J. S. CuHins left yesterday for Kansas City and St. Joe on business. Assistant t'nited States Attcrney H. J. Hone has erone to his home in Ashland. Sherman Williams has remodeled hi9 rvrlut ih e on Lafayette and Fifth streets. The Cook-Kepley contest is attracting sa imuh of a crowd us the Johns murder tria i. All cars were started on regular sched ule time today on the Toptka railway line?. Rev. rr. Realty of the Kpiscopal church of X-vton is visiting Bishop Millspaugh in this city. Major Inman's new book is meeting with a marvelous sale. It has a beauti ful cover. The Informal club will dance Friday nitrht at Hudson's hafl. The music wilt begin at Kxhibiis of Christmas goods are making their appearance in the windows of To pe k a merchants. Miss Iutie Iy tie. Topeka's colored wo man lawyer, lectured in Kansas City yes terday afternoon. I'n.dt-r the law authorizing the compila tion of the new statutes the two volumes ai uj be sold for $.3. Justi-e McClintock is doing no justice business now. He is oflirial stenographer in the Cook-Kepley contest. The Kansas Hotel Men's association will in et in annual session at Kmporijt at tiie nitely hotel. Ieeember 22. A. II. Nooney has gone to Lcawnworth ctiunty. where he lias the exclusive atrt-n-y of Major Inman's new book. The State Alliance convention will be h-ld at Lincoln Post hall, beginning Jan nary 5 and continuing three days. The re vi n ion of Si loam lodge of Masons takes place tonight and a large number of out-of-town visitors will be present. The Pearson stock company will come to the Grand Opera House next Monday r.itfht for the entire week at popular p rices. A Santa Fe shop man who makes $3.r,0 a day at his work is one of the witnesses in the Cook-Kepley contest, where he re ceives 51.50. Mr. R. A. Speieher has returned to his piace in the telegraph office of the Rock island in this city after a three months' illness with typhoid fever. Clerk Sharritt says that the docket in the Unit.-d States court will be cleaned up. tliis week with the exception of the Hill mon eases, which .will be tried next Feb ruary. An ordinance will be prepared to be submitted to the city council re'iuirtiis butcher shops to close Sundays, and im posing a tine of $5u for violation. The representative butchers are behind th movement. Topeka's youngest composer is Ray nmnd Conner, son of Conductor Conner of the Topeka i all way. The boy is but l:t years of age and has composed two pieces of music, entitled, "Klondike Mnrch' and "Wintery Glide." The state house has plenty of coal now, judging from the high temperature which is maintained during the day. The of ficers and employes are compelled to get out in the corridors to cool off. "Can't the engineer regulate the heat?" is the burning question. Rev. J. O. Dougherty, who was one of the Morrill police commissioners in Kan sas City who allowed joints to run. was in Topeka yesterday and said that the joints must be stamped out. The Rev. Mr. Dougherty is an "amoosin cuss," in the language of Art emus Ward. A letter has been received by the secret tary of the Commercial club from C. G. The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one third further than any other brand. Absolutely Pure WOvm. BtnN CO., NFW VORK. 1 11 Magic Lanterns, g Dolls, Doll Buggies Games, Skates, Steam Toys, Marburg, Holler, a manufacturer of picture mould ings and frames, woodenware and toys, and all kinds of ornamental woodwork, lt reference to locating a factory in Topeka. Mr. Holler asks in his letter that the Commercial club arrange for the leasing of a building and grounds for the factory as long as it shall remain established in Topeka. The matter was referred to a committee. Yesterday the standing committee of the Episcopal diocese of Kansas met and recommended the Rev. Robt. H. Mize of Hiawatha to the bishop for ordination to the priesthood. W. P. James of Man hattan was recommended for ordination to the dioconate. Consent was given to the consecration of the Rev. Dr. McVicar of Philadelphia as bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Rhode Island. Consent was also given to the translation of Bishop Talbot from the missionary jurisdiction of Idaho and Wyoming to the diocese or central Pennsylvania. LYNCHED A CONSTABLE. Miners Choke Him to Death and Shoot Holes Through the Hody. Fort Smith, Ark., Dec. 9. James Mur ray, constable at Jenny Lind, a coal min ing town in Sebastian county, was lynch ed on Sunday night by a mob of coal min ers. Constable Murray went to Bonanza Sunday afternoon to arrest a minernar.ied Grant McBroom. He captured Mc Broom without trouble and started with his pris oner for Jenny Lind about midnight. That was the last seen of Murray alive. The constable's body was found lying near the roadside about 30 yards from the shaft of the Bonanza mine. His han-ls were tied securely about his body and his j neck was black and blue, showing plainly the imprint of a rope, which had choked the life out. Blood oozed from a dozen bullet wounds in the officer's body, and his clothing was torn into shreds. The coroner began an investigation and it has been fully developed that he was waylaid by a mob of McBroom's friends, composed of miners, determined upon rescuing the prisoner, and that Murray was lynched, his body cut down and placed by the roadside. McBroom has been rearrested. ARC LIGHTS TO REIGN. North Clark Street, Chicago, to ba Brilliantly Illuminated. Chicago. Dec. 9. Electricity is to make North Clark street, from the viaduct to Division street, one of America's most brilliant business thoroughfares from dusk to midnight. The North Clark Street Business Men's association, at a meeting in the Revere House last night, decided to begin the work at once. There are 306 business places on Clark street from the viaduct to Division street, and it is proposed to swing in front of each building an arc light. They are to be suspended on ornamental brackets and the lights on either side of the street are to be aligned eight feet from the house line and eight feet above the sidewalk. The association also decided to put its own force of cleaners on duty to keep the asphalt pavement work on which was completed yesterday free from all dirt. Six uniformed men will sweep the street each day and when the weather permits it will be flooded with water two nights each week. How to Pravent Pneumonia. At this time of the year a cold is very easily contracted, and if let to run its course without the aid of some reli able cough medicine is liable to result in that dread disease, pneumonia. We know of no better remedy to cure a cough or cold than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. We have used it quite extensively and it has always given en tire satisfaction. -Oolagah, Ind. Ter. Chief. This is the only reir.rfly that is known to be a certain preventiv. of pneumonia. Among the many thousands who have used it for colds and la grippe we have nevfr yet learned of a single case hav ing resulted in pneumonia. Persons who have weak lungs or have reason to fear an attack of pneumonia, should keep the remedy at hand. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all druggists. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following; real estate transfers have been recorded at the office of the register of deeds: L. E. Morse and husband to Wm. Chambers and wife, lots 22, 4, Michigan avenue, in Best's sub-div. to Topeka. James E. Carr to wife, no considera tion, lot 300, Morris avenue. Dr. Mar tin's Place add. to Topeka. Wm. Doughten and wife to Wm. Vesper. $2,500. lots 21S-20-2-4-6-8. on Lane street. Home's add. to Topeka. W. C. Stephenson and wife to Emma A. Light. $1. south half of lot 232 and all of lot 24, Tyler street. Topeka. David VanKirk and wife to Antoine Defour. $1. west half of southeast quar ter G-12-17. Not how cheap but how good Is the way we try to do our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th. Have you seen us in our new place? The Cremerie. SCOTT SCOTT. IT WILL BE CUT DOWN Police Force to Be Reduced in Accordance With Judge Hazen's Recent Decision on the Question. Business Men Generally Welcome the Reduction in a TJseles3 Ex pecs Police Forca Now Only a Political Ma chine Anyway. The Topeka police force will soon be reduced to conform to the decision of Judge Hazen of the district court. Mayor Fellows yesterday wrote a let ter to President Billard of the board of police commissioners, requesting the board to at once conform to the ruling of the court and informing him that the bills of the department will not be allowed for the officers in excess of those enumerated in the law under w hich Judge Hazen holds that Topeka police affairs shall be conducted. President Billard was asked what the board will do. "I have just read the letter of May or Fellows," said he. "and I do not see that the board can dc anything but foilow the request of the council in this matter, though it will seriously cripple the force. 1 do not believe the police department of Topeka can be conduct ed with a marshal and no sergeants, jailers or the other knocked out by the decision. "Hut the council will have to take the responsibility. If they care to.they may refuse to allow our bills, and we have no alternative but to submit until some other court acts upon the ques tion." President Billard said that a meeting of the board will soon be called to con sider the matter. He said he did not know when the meeting would be held. He also said that he did not know ex actly n what condition it will leave the police force if Judge Hazen's decis ion is followed. The members of the council are de termined to make the police depart ment conform to Judge Hazen's decis ion. They will not allow the pay for sergeants or any other officers who are tabooed by the decision. It will be in teresting to decide which of the mem bers of the force must go. If Sergeant Donovan and Sergeant Owens remain on the force, they must become simply patrolmen at a salary of $M a month. Instead of $75. The jailers, patrol driver and detectives are now paid but $50. so it will not affect them. But it will be necessary to cut off live men, and they will probably be taken from the list of patrolmen. The decision of the court is greeted with delight by merchants, business men and taxpayers generally. Very seldom are thieves and burglars caught by the police anyway, and a re duction of the force will not make any appreciable difference anyway. The police force is useful in arresting dis turbers of the peace, but not in de tecting crime, therefore its reduction will not materially change the present situation in that respect. It is refresh ing that as the police force has been used only as a means of rewardirg po litical workers that it is to be reduced in size, and if the present abuse of it is carried much farther, no harm to the city would come in cutting it down a great deal more. CONSOLIDATING SCHOOLS. A Plan of Super:ntendent Stryker That Has Merit in It. State Superintendent of Public In struction Stryker has issued a circ-ular in support of his pretposition to trans port pupils to and from a central school at the public expense in sparsely set tled parts of the state in preference to maintaining numerous schools for their convenience. He has taken a great deal of the in formation contained in the circular from the report of State Superintend ent of Public Instruction Adams of Ohio, where the system is in operation. Some of the results are summarized as follows: First A much larger per cent of enumerated pupils enrolled. Second Io tardiness among the transported pupils. Third Irregular attendance reduced, the per cent of attendance of trans ported pupils from two sub-districts being each 94 per cent, the highest in the township. Fourth Pupils can be better class ified and graded. Fifth No wet feet or clothing, nor colds resulting therefrom. Sixth No quarreling, improper lan guage, or improper conduct on the way to and from school. Seventh Pupils under the care of responsible persons from the time they leave home in the morning until they return at night. Eighth Pupils can have the advant age of better school rooms, better heat ed, better ventilated and better sup plied with apparatus, etc. Ninth Pupils have the advantage of that interest, enthusiasm and confi dence which large classes always bring, f Tenth Better teachers can be em ployed, hence better schools. Eleventh The plan insures more thorough and complete supervision. Twelfth It is more economical. Un der the new plan the cost of tuition per pupil on the basis of total enrollment has been reduced from $16 to $10.48; on the basis of average daily attendance, from $26. C6 to $16.07. Thirteenth A trial of this ph t of consolidating our schools has satisfied me that it is a step in the right direc tion toward whatever advai..ags a well graded and well classified school of three or four teachers has over a school of one teacher with five or eight grades, and with about as much time Official facsimile of Medal Awarded DR. PRICE'S CREAM BAKING POWDER WORLD'S FAIR, CHICAGO, IS93 for each recitation as is needed to properly assign the next lesson. I am now more thoroughly convinced than ever before that the consolidation or centralization, as it is sometimes called, is the true solution of the coun try schoool problem. Ill a private letter of recent date, Mr. Adams says since his report was made, consolidated schools have been established at two other points in Mad ison at one place four schools, at the other three, each with two teachers. This makes five in the township (which is a very large one, owing to the "gore" on the lake.) Five teams are employed to transport pupils, at a cost of about a dollar a day for a team. Every con veyance carries about IS pupils. There is no trouble in transporting pupils, even the youngest, two. and a half miles, which is the greatest distance. In 1895 there were IS schools in Madi son with an average attendance of 217; in 1896 the number was 14, with an av erage of 200; this year there are ten schools with an average that will reach over 300. The total expense will be about the same in this township as under the old plan, but the cost per pu pil will be much less. Mr. Adams adds that the new p!an is rapidly growing In the neighborhood, and the belief is spreading that the new system is sure to prevail generally in northeastern Ohio. but how was it done. The Populist Factional Fight in Sedg wick County Stopped. The fighting factions of the Populist party in Sedgwick county have ceased hostilities and the indications point to a settlement of their difficulties which were brought about mainly by Rut'e Cone, who, backed by ex-Governor Bewelling was fighting for the abolish ment of the police board in the city of Wichita. The row first started in the local election in which the Populists declared that Cone had supported the Republic an ticket and had been guilty of other conduct unbecoming a reformer. He retaliated by inaugurating a fight against the police board and charged openly that the board was not making a proper accounting of the monies col lected. The members of the commis sion engaged Cone in a local wrangle for a few days and he came to Topeka to secure the removal of all of the members and the appointment of a new police force and pilce judge. The battle then waged fiercely for a time. First Cone would see the gov ernor and spread his side of the case before him which would require the combined efforts of the police commis sion and its friends to overcome. They would visit the governor and "explain." A great deal of trouble was created and gave promise of disrupting the party in that county. To go into the next cam paign with a solid front Governor Lee dy. ex-Governor Lewelling and. other statesmen took the row in hand and succeeded in patching it up. IT'S GETTING VERY LONG. Only 17 Candidates for Govsrnor Spoken of Among Republicans. A Topeka Republican asked a Jour nal reporter for a list of the candidates for the Republican nomination for gov ernor. Here it is "avowed and recep tive:" John Seaton, Atchison. James A. Troutman, Topeka. Samuel T. Howe, .Topeka. John E. Hessin, Manhattan. Charles F. Scott, Iola. A. W. Smith, Mcpherson. Ex-Congressman Funston, Carlisle. J. P. Harris. Ottawa. Wm. Mattindaie, Emporia. J. 14. Burton. Abilene. Ex-Gov. Morrill, Hiawatha. Charles A. Fellows, mayor of Tope ka. Thomas M. Potter, Peabody. E. W. Hoch, Marion. Major J. K. Hudson, Topeka. Secretary F. D. Coburn, Kansas City, Kan. W. C. Edwards. Larned. HE STICKS TO IT. Treasurer Heflsbower Spurns the Caras of Offics a Second T:me There is an effort of the employes in the state treasurer's office to induce "Uncle Dave" Heflebower to deny that he will not be a candidate for re-election. This effort -arises from a desire on the part of the employes to hold their jobs under the next state administration should the Populists lie successful. Mr. Heflebower said he would not be a candidate for renomination and he sticks to it. A few days ago one of the employes in the office told the newspa per men that Mr. Heflebower had chang ed his mind and authorized the publi cation of the fact that he would be a candidate for renomination. Chris Hoffman Say 3 No. It has been currently reported by the politicians at the state house and through the medium of numerous newspapers that C. B. Hoffman of En terprise, president of the board of re pents of the state agricultural college, would be a candidate for the congress ional nomination in the Fifth district. Mr. Hoffman has notified his friends that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for the place. He states that he does not want the place and therefore will not seek it. What John Davis is Doin Since his retirement from congress. John Davis of Junction City has been engaged in magazine and newspaper work. He has been engaged as a reg ular contributor to the Wichita Com moner, published by B. E. Kies. who was a prominent candidate for state printer before the last legislature. Candidate for Congress. One of the most recent aspirants t'o announce himself for congress is J. W. Poore of Hound City, who would liKe to succeed Mason S. Peters, the pres ent Populist congressman from the Second district. THUGS SHOOT A WOMAN Ss rew a Revolver in De fence of Her Property. Kansas City, Mo.. Dec. 9. Mrs. Emma Schumaker, keeper of a grocery at Eigh. teenth and Campbell streets, was fatally shot last night by robbers who demanded the cash in her money drawer. In at. tempting to defend her property Mrs. Schumaker drew a revolver and was shot down by the robbers. The two men then ran out and drove away in a buggy. The woman is shot in the abdomen, and at th city hospital it is stated that she car.not recover. J. A. Perkins, of Antiquity. G.. v.as for thirty years needlcsiiy tortured by physiciansifor the cure of eczema. e was quickly cured by using De vflu'i Witch Hazel Salve the famous hling salve for piles and skin diseases. Cr. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avt.iue. DAILY NEWS OF SPORT. Fight in Virginia on Football Grows Bitter. One Senator Will Exhibit a Vic tim to the Legislature. Senator Barksdale Witnesses a Game and ET ays Half the Horrors of Football Have Not Bean Printed. Richmond, Va., Dec. 9. Senator W. P. Barksdale of Halifax county, who is the author of the anti-football bill pend ing in the legislature, is receiving let ters from many individuals and orga nizations who are backing him up in the fight. A Richmond woman today wrote to the senator to call at her home and talk with her invalid son. This son, she said, was injured over a year ago in a football game and he will nev er be able to work. Mr. Barksdale will visit the young man tomorrow and if possible he will have his victim ta ken before the legislature and exhibit him as a live example of the -brutality of football as played here. The Barksdale bill will come up be fore a committee early next week. It is the purpose of the author, who is a young lawyer of marked ability, to maice a speech in its favor. He will have outside influence to bear on mem bers of the committee. The order of the King's Daughters will be represent ed there. The senator neverj! saw a football game until yesterday. There was a game in the city and he went out to witness it. He says he saw nine players injured and two of them so badly that they had to be carried from the field. Today the senator states that not half of the horrors of football in Virginia has been printed, and he will expose the whole thing before the legislature. CHASE'S CHALLENGE Will Bide Against Michael in a Series of Paced and TJnpaced Eacss. New York, Dec. 9. W. G. Walton, manager of A. A. Chase champion middle-distance bicyclist of Great Britain, is out with the following statement: "In order to prove which is actually the faster rider, I herewith make the following pi'oposition "Chase will meet Michael in a series of three races for $500 a side and the largest purse offered, the races to be as follows: "First A pursuit race to the finish, unpaced. "Second A scratch race, unpaced, at a distance to be mutually agreed uron. "Third To ride one hour, or 50 miles, paced, and the pacing to be limited to six teams each man." David Schaefer, manager of Jimmy Michael, when informed of this offer, said that Michael would ride Chase a paced race for any distance and any amount. He declined to say whether he would race under the conditions sug gested by Chase's manager.. TO RETIRE ANSON. It Has at Lest Been Decided Upon b the Chicago Club. Chicago, Dec. 9. The Record says: Adrian C. Anson's retirement from the managership of the Chicago Base Ball club has at last been practically de cided upon, and a means found where by it can be done satisfactorily to all concerned. The veteran player, captain anil man ager will be given a birth in the club which will carry with it a few duties, and a liberal salary, and which will al so permit the captain if he so desires to branch out in the minor league bus iness. Details of the agreement will not be given out until the Chicago captain's contract expires next February. President Hart can now go ahead and engage a manager for next season, and the man in view is Tom Burns, the ex-Colt, about whom there was so much talk during the Philadelphia meeting of the league. The rumor current that if Anson was released by Chicago he would probably manage Philadelphia is entirely unfounded. SHOCK TO THE COEDS. Male Studeiits Not Allowed to See tha Girls Play Basketball. Appleton. Wis., Dec. 9. The author ities of Lawrence university have de cided to refuse the male students ad mission to the games of the girls' bask etball teams, and the men are to retal iate by closing their doors against the members of the bloomer girl organiza tions. It had been practically decided to al low the men to watch not only the bas ketball games, but the work of the physical culture classes whose mem bers are required to wear new woman costumes. Ihe proposition shocked the "ceds" to such an extent that this decision was found to be the only way to quiet the objectors. Shipped to New Orleans. Dallas, Texas, Dec. 9. Fifty-three race horses were shipped in a special train of Burton cars from Dallas to New Orleans today, to the Crescent City winter race meeting. Among ti e turf men who went to New Orleans from Dallas are Fred Wood, T. A. Gay, H. T. Katchellor, Captain Billy Williamson. Pat and Bob Stewart. Hank Jackson. Wayne Jones, Mr. Orr and Mr. Chambers.. G. A. Van Hall, the leading Druggist cf Butler. Mo., writes: "We are hav ing splendid success with Beggs Blood Purifier and Blood Maker. It is one of the best sellers we ever had and gives satisfaction to all who have tried it. We take pleasure in recommending it. At druggists. MM il kD TThether itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, pimply, or blotchy, whether simple, acrof uious, or hereditary, from infancy to age, speedily cured by warm baths with Ccticuba Soap, gentle anointings with CcTiccsA(oint raent), the great skin cure, and mild doses of Ctjticura. Kesolvext, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures. Cub... So!e Prop... Bo'ton. r How to Cur. Er.ry Blood Humor." free. PC UIIMnQ'J FaUinir H.i and Bby Blam- You Are Invited To call and look oyer our stock of Christinas Goods. Our display is nearly complete and our big room temporarily transformed into a toy and fancy goods store. If you look through now and make up your mind what you want for X-mas, it will be much easier than it will be a little later when the store is jammed with customers. Also, if you can arrange to do so, it is to your interest to make your purchases early and have them laid away. While we have a big stock of everything, there are always some articles that sell out before X-mas, and you risk being disappointed on the very articles you want most; also you can do your trading in comfort now. You know we are always crowded to death during the week be fore Christmas. In Looking Around You will sse pratty things everywhere at thi3 tlma of year, but wo have tlia kind of goods the people want and can afford to pay for. We don't handle the stuff that looks nice but is costly and not dasirad by the majority of paople. You know you alway3 have found about what you want at THE FAIR, and that our prices are always right. We are always as low as anyone, and usually lower. We han dle more Xmas goods than any two houses in Kansas, and if you will ask any of the railroads they will tell you W3 receive as many toys, etc-, as all the other lopeka stores put together- Com 2 and look around, make yourself at home and Remember it pays to trade at ?sEaeaeBeaacas ecssacceaaaB3i oBSEaanoBEs; T w he .AND MACHINE WORKS. Established 1875. GET PRICES BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE Top-ka, aEf e3;ieaBnBsB9Ba taoisatieiu Hees3a33sa "HE THAT" WORKS EASILY, WORKS SUCCESSFULLY." CLEAN HOUSE WITH MSk ?asv H M 5 LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS. If "A Southern Romance" is not seen by a good audience at the Crawford theater tonight, it will be because the piece and the players are not surlicient ly known to Topeka theater poers. and not because the play does not deserve sucii an attendance. Since its initial presentation in New York city. "A Southern Romance" has received none but complimentary notices from the press. A recent comment outlined the piece as follows: "Col. Wyckoff Ransome, a Kentucky colonel who earned his title in the civil war, is poor and has not realized his own poverty. He is generous, trusting and proud, and believes, as all Ken tuckians and all horsemen are sup posed to believe, in blood as indicative of character. This belief induces him to urge the betrothal of his daughter to Revei ly Johnson, the son of a comrade in arms, whose lineage is his only rec ommendation. After the betrothal there comes wandering down the road one Andre, the 'prince of the fairy taie.' This 'prince' stops at thte Ran some place, is given food by the daugh ter, sings her a song and departs only to return as the gardener. The out come is 'A Southern Romance,' but it is a romance which belongs not to any one section of any country, but to the whole world wherever there are hearts with youth in them. In the stage un folding of this simple tale there are concerned several actors whose acting is fo effective and so intensely sub dued that there is room for wonder "at the unfamiliarity of their names." Everybody who has seen Cosgrove Grant's comedians in "The Dazzler" will recall the infectious humor of Will West's tramp character. "Ezekial Pipes," and be pleased to learn that he will be seen in the same character again this season. Jlr. West has elab orated the character considerably, and made it even more humorous than it was last season. Although he has sev eral new and very taking songs, it seems to be impossible for him to get through an evening without singing hi3 famous "Beer" song. For three years he has been singing it, and de termined this year to shelve it. hut wherever he has been, the demand has been so great that in addition to his new pieces, he has been obliged to give at least one verse of "Beer, Beer, Glor ious Beer." "The Dazzler" will be seen at the Crawford theater tomorrow night. The first Shakespearean productions to be given in this city this season will be Thomas W. Keene's "Merchant of Venice" and "Julius Caesar" at the Crawford theater next Saturday after noon and evening. In the roles of Shylock and Marc Antony, the work of Mr. Keerve is said to be equal to his work in the character of Richelieu, in which he was seen in Topeka last year. The sale of seats opened today. At the Crawford theater next Mon day evening will be seen the comedy in which May Irwin scored such a success on its initial production in New Tork city. "The Widow Jones" was written for MVs Irwin by John J. McNally, and it is na'.A that the part created for May Trvvin does not suffer In the least at the hands of Flo Irwin, her sister, who is this year playing the part of the 5 t i 618 Kansas Avenue. mk9 estern f-oimdry n Formerly TopeUa Foundry ana Mueuine Works, t2b. 1866. n M The only place in the city where you can get a Complete Power Plant from c 5team Engine to a Set Collar from stock. R. L. COFRAN, gw a o 13

n (Cans. Proprietor. widow. The piece is a farcical comedy conceit, full of witty speeches and re partee, and interspersed with catchy music and clever songs. The sale of seats opens tomorrow morning. "A Bunch of Keys," the clever fare" which first brought the name of Hoyt into prominence in the theatrical wo: U, will be seen at the Crawford theater next Tuesday evening. Miss Ada Bittb ner is playing the .part of Teddy this year, and the advance notices state that 'A Bunch of Keys' has been pol ished up to date." Tomorrow night Aliss Katherine Al vord will appear at the High School Assembly hail in class'c impersonat'ons as the third r.umbor of the High School lecture course. Miss Alvorci's ability in this class of entertainment has won for her much complimentary com ment. The up-to-date IjUnch and Short Or der Restaurant, Tbe Cremerie, 7-5 Kan sas avenue. SCOTT SCOTT. HOW THEY TRAIN. The Fmnoits F.niliinll 'Fran of IIik lTtiiYrMlIy fit' :12ctit;?A.i. "When I took charge of the foot-bal team for the University of Michigan, 1 at once ordered coffee abandoned and I'ostum Cereal Food Coffee used as a beverage in its stead. The hoys have used it with most gratifying results. Every athlete who comes under my charge must abandon coffee, and Pos tum Is always advised. I find it builds flesh, strength and muscle and makes a steady heart." THOMAS COX, Trainer. But they have it made right, lit for men to drink, and not like the weak sort of hope-destroying, emasculated driveling liquid too often put on an in nocent public for I'ostuni. It has no flavor and little food value, when under boiled: on the contrary, it has a delic ious Java like, piquant flavor, rich deep coffee color and is heavy in food value, when it is allowed to continue boiling full fifteen minutes after boiling com mences (remember, after boiling com mences). A good article of diet cannot be prepared with "a lick and a prom ise." Athletic trainers are almost univer sally putting their men on Pcstiim ir place of coffee owing to the effect flf coffee on the heart and the certainty of its inducing shortness of breath in time of exertion. Postum has been analyzed by many prominent Chemists in America, and its ingredients are known to practically all prominent physicians. It is very strong in the peculiar elements or parts needed by Nature to reinforce the nerve cen ters of brain and body. Its adoption by Wheelmen, Foot-ball teams. Boxers. P.unriers and Athletes in general, has come as a natural step, when a pure ar ticle is found that really supplies a de cided need. Brain workers need as careful feeding as Athletes. Postum properly made (and that's easy) is a most delicious hot beverage. Postum is the only cereal coffee yet discovered, with a coffee taste, that is pure and free from low grade coffee or other drugs.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1897. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL General Notes cfSocietj and Personal Items. Recent Social Events in Topeka and Vicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Iowa (AH communications to this department must give the lull name and audrtss or the writer. Anonvmous personals ana descriptions of social affairs will not bo lu bus. lieu. The regular Wednesday evening dance to, k place last night at "Wether ell's hall. Those who danced were: Mr and Mrs. W. F. Fchoch, Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Pitts. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Kelson, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. P. Hilly er, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Hhubert. Mr. and Mis. F. II. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Doran, Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. C. i. Skinner. Mr. and Mrs. 1.. D. Keel, Mrs L. S. Woolveiton, M:ss Myrtle Da v.s. Miss Ivah Davis. Mr. Lou Culver, Mr Charlie LasH-strm, Mr. In Da vi'V Mr. J. II. Wetherell and Mr. J. J. Falls. Miss Allans' Party. Miss Emily Allen entertained at a very pleasant progressive high five par ty last evtning at her home in Potwin. complimentary to her svdest. Miss Flor ence Hogue of Olathe. Her guests w.-re- Miss Edn.i Steele. Miss Augusta Hayes Miss Ethel Heriebt wer. M ss Pearl McFarland. Miss Lillian Mclar la nd Miss Ma,- Lange. Miss I Ada. Ber K n. Miss Kmina Dennis, Miss Eleanor Work Miss Jean Frost, Miss Martha Bradshaw. Miss V.'illa Tor.'.linson, Miss l.ielie Campbell, Miss Nannie Hopkins, Alis Klia Ramsev, Mr. Hugue, Mr. Edward Dennis. Mr. Miles, Mr. Hop kins. Mr. lialph Valentine, Mr. Ben CrHwf 11. Mr. Fred Gordon, Mr. Otis Ailen. Mr. tieoige Allen, Mr. Ed. Little. Mr Luther Xellis. Mr. Carl Nellis, Dr. H' Kebome and Mr. De Forrest Jetmore. Miss Hou:ue. who possesses a very sweet voice, sang several songs. The remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. Arj Informal Musicale. Mr. Malcolm James entertained a few of his friends last evening- at an infor mal musical and dance at Mr. R. E. Thomas' studio in the St. James budd ii After a short but excellent musiJ ai"rrogramme was given the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. Vm.irgf those present wera: Miss Editn Ott Miss Emma Hager. Miss Mamie BaiVd, Miss Ludelle MeMasters, Miss Hel-n Hutterly, Miss Mary Chase. M.ss Calia Witt, Miss Alice Goodhue of Den ver. Miss Florence Stewart, Miss Flor ence Hiliver. Mr. Clan Dolman, Mr. John Buchanan. Mr. Tom Whitmer, Mr. Har'i v Hamilton. Mr. Otis Eaiton, Mr. Al. Hulitt, Mr. Curtis Bailey, Mr. Clarke Dailev. Mr. Dean Waters, Mr. Paul ltoehr. Mr. George Thacher and Mr. Day Carr. Tadiock-Church. A quiet home wedding occurred yes terday noon when Miss Viola Church and Mr. James M. Tadiock, county su perintendent of Phillips county were married at the 1. ride's home on Morris avenue. Ilev. P.. M. Ames of Wash ington, I!!., tin le of the bride officiated. Mr. and. Mrs. Tadiock will take a trip south after which they will go to house keeping in Phillipsburg. Notes and Personal Mention. Mis. J. C. McClintock and daughter Ruth are sending a couple of days in Kansas City. Mrs. n. 11. Miller has gone to San An tonio, Texas, to spend the winter. E. E. Hoj kins, of Kansas City, spent yesterday in Topeka on business. Mrs. A. P. ilder returned from Kansas Citv last evening. Mrs. C. R. Krauthoff of Vanvouver Barracks, has arrived to visit her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. A. Dienst. Mrs. W. H. Johnson is visiting Miss Carrie Titus in Kansas City. Mr. W. A. Miller, who has been visit ing his son, O. G. Miller, for the past two months has returned to his home in San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Littlefield and daughter, Mis3 Franc, spent yesterday in Kansas City. A number of the society girls will as sist at the annual Christmas market riven by the Ladies" Aid society of iraoe cathedral on Friday and Satur day. Those assisting are Miss Edna Crane, Miss Georgiana Wasson, Miss Annie Jones, Miss Eo'oerta Wasson and Miss Liliian Whiteloek. Mrs. Bulwer and daughter. Eessieof St. Joseph, who have been visiting Mis. Ray. on West Sixth street, have left for their new home in Silver City, N. M. Miss Lenna Short spent yesterday in Kansas City. Mrs. Forrest King arrived today from Chicago to visit Mrs. George Larimere. The Bunglers will dance this even ing at Hudson's hall. X. II. Baker, of Jasper, Col., is In town on business. Miss Marion Kenderdine will leave the last of next week for Las Vegas, X. M.. to spend a cotipie of months with her sister, Mrs. Byron Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Magill and son, Wilbur, of Fort Madison, la., will spend the holidays with Mrs. Magill's mother. Mrs. Martha Adams. Mr. Lincoln McCaslin is in Hoy t. on business. Mrs. D. C. Tevis and little daugh SUDDENLY and rack the nerves. ns, take BAC0-CUR0, (it gently weans). If you tealthy nerves and a clear brain will result. Mil It will notify you when to stop by removing the de sire. Write for Proofs of Cures. 50c or $1 boxes, 3 boxes (guaranteed cure) $2.50. If jour druggist cannot get it, we will send it. Eureka Chemical and Manufacturing Co., La Crosse, V7is. ters, of St. Louis, will spend the holi days with Mrs. L. McCaslin. Miss Marie Keisow has been elected secretary and treasurer for the Crystal steam laundry. The marriage of Miss Sarah Norton and Mr. Maurice "Ward took place Wed nesday evening, December 8, at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Norton, of 3U0 Branner street. Rev. F. E. Mallory performed the ceremony. The bride wore a very pretty gown of white organdy. The rooms were prettily decorated, the par lor with white lilies and the dining room with pink and white carnations. After the ceremony was performed a clelicioti3 supper was served in the din ing room. Only the relatives and most intimate friends were present. Mr. and Mrs. Ward will be at home to their friends at 915 North Madison street, where they wiil go to housekeeping at once. Attend the opening of Light Per kins's new confectionery and fruit store Saturday eve, at .31 Kansas ave nue. The ladies of Grace cathedral have "Quo Vadis."$1.25; "The Choir Invisi ble." $1.45 at their Christmas sale in Eagle fc Curry's window Friday and Saturday. SOUTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left nt the Kimball Ptg. Co.. befora H o'clock in the morning. Bread. 2 lb. five cents. Gem Bakery. A new line of Wall Paper for 1S98 Just received. Cromwell Jeffers. Ladies' Trimmed Hats at half price at Costley Post, North Topeka, Kan. Picture framing neatly done. Our prices are reasonable. Cromwell Jeffers. Chief of Police Henry M. Steele is having his house painted. Mrs. McCormiok of West Gordon street is very ill at her home with heart trouble. Miss Mary Daub, who has been vis iting in Carbondale for the past three weeks, will return home tomorrow. The chorus of the Kansa3 Avenue M. E. church will meet this evening at the home of W. H. Cheney, corner of Har rison and Morse streets. Mrs. Wise and children, Fay and Paul, of 118 AYest Gordon street, will leave Friday for Cape Girardeau, Mo., where they will visit Mr. Wise until after Christmas. Miss Nellie lies celebrated her 14th birthday anniversary last evening by entertaining seven little friends at a taffy pull at her home, 1104 Monroe street. Her guests wehe Misses Grace and Effie Page, Jessie Campbell. Eleanor and Zella Lukens, Eda Putnam and Mabel Skinner. Miss Ada White and Mr. Elmer Eld ridge v ere married Tuesday night about 9 o'clock by Probate Judge Dol man at his home, 122 West Gordon street. Mr. and- Mrs. Eldridge left im mediately for a short trip. The groom, who is well known on this side, drives for the Mid-Continent mills, and the nride was formerly employed at Wright's restaurant. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Little, parents of Mrs. Chance of 1312 Topeka avenue, are going to the Indian Territory for the purpose of teaching the Bible as taught by Luther of old. Mr. and Mrs. Lit tle have been teaching here for over a year and will be greatly missed in thi3 community and will be heartily wel comed in their new field of labor. The following officers were elected Tuesday evening by Star lodge 331 A. O. U. W. Past master workman, W. E. Slichter: master workman, G. W. Betts: foreman, Frank Russell; over seer, M. Grondyke; recorder, J. II. Mc Nary; financier. W. C. Steele; receiver, J. M. Shellabarger inside watch, Lee Altman; outside watch, B. O. Purdem; guide, Frank Allen; trustee. W. A.Mau pin: delegates to Grand lodge, C. A. Starbird; alternate, Geo. W. Baird. William Greon Sons were at the semi-annual letting of contracts for supplies for the different state institu tions and were awarded the contract to furnish the following groceries to the State Soldiers' Home at Dodge City: Evaporated apricots, baking powder, bluing, sugar, tea, canned tomatoes, plug tobacco, smoking tobacco, cur rants, raisins, oat Hakes, evaporated peaches, prunes, pepper, nutmeg, rice, sal soda, cinnamon, graham Hour, cod fish, grapes dried, ginger, hominy, lye, crackers and sage. PRAISES FIST-FIGHTING. Gov. Eradle7 Says Any Blan in Ken tucky Who Defends Himself Thus Ought to be Encouraged. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 9. In remitting a fine against Sylvester Johnson of Nelson county, who haa engaged in a. list fight, the governor said: "Any man in Kentucky who gets in to a difficulty and defends himself by using his fists deserves a pardon. "He is an unusual specimen, and ought to be encouraged." After hearing some friends continual ly praising Chamberlain's Colic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy, Curtis Fleck, of Anaheim, California, pur chased a bottle of it for his own use and is now as enthusiastic over its wonderful work as anyone can be. The 15 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all drug gists. Spreckel3 Buys a Ranch. San Francisco, Dec. 9. The King ranch in Monterey county has been purchased by theSpreckels Sugar com pany. The price paid is said to have beii $300,000. The land will be devoted to the cultivation of sugar beet3 for the supply of the new factory at Sa linas. Bubscrite for The State Journal. ooacco ormentors The pleasure of living is in living well not living ill. Throat, mouth and eyes are ruined by tobacco the system is generally poisoned by it. Bon't Stop Tobacco Use the tobacco you require and do this, strong. It is the original Guarantee Rem edy, (Money re funded if it fails to cure.) 7v IS A SURE THING, NOW The Auditorium to Be Taken Up by Topeka People Practically En Masse After the Christmas Holidays. Ed-ward Wilder and P. I. Bonebrake Express Confidence in the Early Success of the Project. The close of the coming year must see Topeka with an auditorium capable of seating several thousand people. This is the sentiment of the Topeka Commercial club. This is the sentiment of the business men of Topeka. This is the sentiment of every energetic and public spirited citizen of Topeka. The matter is to be again taken up Immediately after the first of the year, and will then be pushed through with out interruption. Some of the most prominent men in Topeka are so in terested in the erection of an audito rium that they are willing to let the fall festivities lapse for one year and devote the entire time, if need be, to the auditorium. This will probably not be necessary. If the matter is taken up at once after i v EDWARD WILDER. the first of January. Topeka can have an auditorium by fall. The dedication of it can be made part of the festivi ties. "Personally, I would be willing to give $1,000 towards the building of the auditorium rather than not have the building." said Treasurer Edward Wilder of the Santa Fe today. "An au ditorium will be of untolu cenent to Topeka." This is the extent that Mr. Wilder, one of the most substantial men of Topeka, is interested in the auditorium. There are scores of energetic Topeka men as interested in the project as is Mr. Wilder. "No one can reflect on the benefit the town will derive from an auditorium and not be interested in it," said Mr. Wilder, continuing. "It will bring big meetings and conventions to this city, and out of every hundred men who come to Topeka, there will be some who will become interested in the town and eventually move their families and property to Topeka. Besides, consider the money that every convention will bring to Topeka, and the benefit the merchants of the city will derive from hundreds of people visiting this town yearly. Every convention of any prom inence in the state Topeka can then se cure as well as interstate and national conventions of different kinds. "In my opinion the most suitable lo cation for the auditorium," Mr. Wilder went on, "is the city park. In the first place it will be a pleasant location for such a building from the fact that one side can never be shut in, and it will be fairly convenient to all the hotels in the city. By building the auditorium in the city park the coal hole money can be used, and it will be the means of extending the business portion of the city as far as our handsome new bridge The property along lower Kansas avenue, in the district known as 'Smoky Row,' is practically all owned by Topeka parties, and if they could P. I. BONEBRAKE. see a way of doubling their invest ments by the erection of new buildings, they would gladly tear clown the old ur.es and put up structures that would be a credit to the principal business street of the city. I think I am safe in saying that with the new bridge and the atiditorium, it would be but a short time til! lower Kansas avenue would be transformed from a place of dives and tumble down buildings to a pros perous business portion of the city "I believe the plan of selling shares of stock at $1. with coupons for future entertainments to be given in the budding to the amount of $3 attached, would be one of the best methods of rai::ing the amount necessary for the erection of the building. I think the matter can be taken up 'immediately after the first cf the year, and then it should be pushed straight through without any interruption or delay. Ev ery public spirited citizen in favor of building up the city, and there is no better step to take in that direction than the building of an auditorium." jlr. p. I. Bonebrake, president of the Central National hank, is also heartily in favor of taking up the auditorium after the first of the year. "Let taxpaying get by first." said Mr. Bonebrake. "and then start the work with energy. "There is no question of the benefit i -V s c to the town to be derived from an au ditorium," continued Mr. Bonebrake, "and no citizen who has the welfare of Topeka at heart can fail to appre ciate it. We ought by all means to have the auditorium, and we should have it by the close of the coming year." A suggestion is made by the Journal in regard to the merchants' shopping excursions that have been started. If a popular 10 cent entertainment could be given in the auditorium for the visitors, it would probably result in bringing three times as many. These entertainments could be planned espec ially to be part of the merchants' excursions. MISSOURI BANK METHODS. Certain Officers Misused the Officers' Money Right Along. Kansas City, Dec. 9. The govern ment authorities who have investigated the affairs of the Missouri National bank say that when the case is tried next spring there will be startling de velopments, showing the manner in which the bank's money was nrfisused by President Rieger and Cashier Cov ington. E. P. Moxey, the government's ex pert accountant, said yesterday that soon after the organization of the Mis souri bank, January 2, 1891, Rieger and Covington began using the bank's money for private purposes, but that the bank's officers could not be indicted on these charges because they Were outlawed by the statute of limitation, which prevents prosecution three years after the crime has been committed. Mr. Moxey said that these practices were similar to the transactions cited in the first three counts of the second joint indictment on which the president and cashier were arraigned in the fed eral court yesterday. Rieger and Cov ington, he said, let thousands of dol lars of the bank's money on straw notes, and the persons to whom the money was ostensibly paid never re ceived it, and that Rieger and Coving ton did receive it. The second and third counts of the indictment charges that Rieger and Covington discounted a note of M. W. Oliver of the Standard Liquor company for $21,000, and Mr. Moxey says that Oliver swears that he never received the money. The gov ernment charges that the president and cashier received the money and used it themselves, and the government authorities say they will show how it was used. Rieger and Covington, it is charged, worked together for the disposal for their benefit of the bank's money. Rieger signed a cashier's check for $4,500. with which fifty shares of the bank's stock were bought from H. K Wright Co., the brokers. To supply the place of the money taken out in this way R. D. Covington's note, of which the interest and principal were never paid, was deposited in the bank. It was to cover up the possession of paper of this kind, the government charges, that false reports were made i to the comptroller of the currency, on which there are twelve counts in the in dictment. J. V. C. Karnes, chief counsel for Rie ger and Covington, said today that the policy of the defense had not yet been decided. He had not read the indict ments and did not know whether or not any demurrer would be filed. "There is plenty of time," he said, "the case does not come up for trial until next April." KILLED BY A DERRICK. Engineer Edwin G. jSTourse is Dead Rock Island. 111.,. Dec-. 9. Edwin G. Nourse. assistant engineer in charge of construction of the New Cresent bridge, was instantly killed by a fall ing derrick this morning. Mr. Nourse was one of the best known and most successful scientific engineers in the west. He designed the railroad terminal at the World's fair grounds in Chicago. For many years he was chief engineer of the Chicago and Evanston railway, and was iden tified with the engineer department of the Milwaukee, Northwestern and San ta Fe systems. Obituary Notice. Mrs. II. M. Dutton died last night at 7 o'clock at the home of her son-in-law, J. H. Foucht. Mrs. Dutton was the widow of M. R. Dutton and the moth er of H. E. Dutton, who was formerly proprietor of the Lutton House, and of Mrs. Foucht, who died some time ago. Mrs. Dutton came to Kansas with her husband in 1S54 and located at Os kaloosa. They built the first hotel in that city and after living there for a time sidd and went to live on a farm 'tear Grantville. From there thev moved to Lawrence, where they lived for a few years. From Lawrence they came to North Topeka and became the proprietors of the Adams House, and soon after established the Dutton House. Selling out this hotel they went to De Funiak Springs, Fla., where they again went into the hotel business. Upon the death of Mr. Dutton in Flor ida, Mrs. Dutton returned to Topeka and has been living with her son-in-law, J. H. Foucht. Mrs. Dutton was well known in church circles and was a member of the Baptist church, holding her mem bership in the church at Lawrence. She will be buried in Lawrence by the side of her husband. The funeral will take place at the residence of J. 11. Foucht. 712 Taylor street, tomorrow at 12 o'clock. After the services the body will be taken to Lawrence on the 1:55 train. Notice. The undersigned will discontinue business at once entire stock of boots and shoes goes on sale at cost and be low Saturday. December 11. Store closed all Friday p. m. to mark down and arrange stock. This is a genuine, bona iide, closing out, discontinuance sale. It lasts only limited time. Parties owing us. please call at once and settle. Fixtures for sale. McLAUCHLAN CO. New place 726 Kan. Ave., Cremerie, Scott Scott. Allays Nerv ousness, re lieves the H eadache, Cramps and rflili Nausea, and so prepares the system that the time of recov ery is shortened and many say "stronger after than before con finement." It insures safety to life of both mother and child. All who have used "Motfcer Friend" say they will never be without it again. No other rem edy robs confinement of its pain rioci "TO EXPECTANT SIOTIIKRS" mailed Tree, containing valuable information and vol ancary testimonials. s The SRACFIELD REGULATOR CO, ATLANTA, C A. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AT S1.0O PER OOTTLl. BOYCOTT EXPRESS ORDERS f Bankers Say Express Companies Do Not Play Fair. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. .9 At a meeting of the council of administration of the Mis souri Hankers association great dissatis faction was expressed at the treatment accorded the country bankers by express companies.. It was agreed by all that the express companies' rats were excessive and many bankers complained that the service was faulty. It was further charged that some of the companies were doing a banking business themselves on the capital of others, much to the injury of the licensed institutions and contrary to the laws of the state. The meeting was behind closed doors and resulted in the adoption of a resolu tion, the tenor of which was that the association discouraged the cashing of ex press companies' money orders and great ly favored a new method which provides for the shipping of money through the Vnited States mails in registered pack ages with an insurance attachment. KANAKA BELLES PROTEST. Hawaiian Annexation Would Bring Loss of Social Frestige. Washington, D. C, Dec. 9. Representa tive James A. Tawney of Minnesota was j among the congressmen who spent their i vacation in Hawaii. lie returned a i strong annexationist. Mr. Tawn.-y gives a new and interesting explanation of the opposition to annexation among tne na tives. Ke says it has its origin with the Hawaii women. In explaining this oppo sition. Mr. Tawney said "The Hawaiian women, in opposing an nexation, have an eye to their future so- ial prestige. The native women are now recognized as the equals of the white wo men and are classed in the same social set. There is a disposition on the part of the white women, however, to ;lass the native females as negroes-, and the natives believe that annexation will in crease the number of white women In the islands to such an extent that eventually they will be relegated to the negro clt'ss entirely. The na tive women are doinj everything in their power to arouse sen timent against annexation, but their ef forts thus far have nut met with much success." WONDROUS BEAUTY LEA VES Mrs. Napoleon Sarony Marrie3 and Sails for Europe. New Tork, Dec. 9. The Fulda took away from America yesterday a oman whose wondrous beauty has been admired by the whole world, although compara. atively few persons have ever met her face to face. Her name is Mrs. iDomen cio Bonnano, and she is a bride for the second time. She has never been an act ress or posed as a professional beauty, yet. excepting perhaps Lily Langtry and Maude Branscombe. she has been photo graphed more times and in more poses than any other living person. For Mrs. Bonnano's first husband was Napoleon Sarony, the man who first made of photography an art. And nothing pleased the little French magician of the lenses so much as to make pictures of his beautiful wife in all sons of artistic poses particularly in some oriental garb and investiture to which her type of beau ty best lent itself. Sarony died suddenly a few months ago, and on Wednesday evening Mrs. Sarony was married to Domenico Bonnano. a. wealthy Italian merchant of this city and an old friend of the Sarony family. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnano go to the Riviera for their honeymoon and will be absent from the United States all winter. ON VIRGIN GOLD. Message of Invitation Will ba Sent to the President San Francisco. Dec. 9. A slab of quartz with veins of gold prominently showing will convey California's invitation to President McKinley to attend the golden jubilee of the discovery of sold. Chair man Parsons of the executive committee has promised to secure a suitable piece of the precious rock and will have en graved on its face the message which wdl bid the president come to California to re ceive a miner's welcome. SAILS BLOWN TO SHREDS. Steamer Clyde Reaches Port Badly Disfigured. Valetta, Island of Malta. Dec. 9. The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation company's steamer Clyde, Captain Gor don, which was overdue at this port, has arrived, here from Marseilles. The Clyde encountered a terrific hurri cane in Gulf of Lyons, during which all her storm sails were blown to shreds and her commander was compelled to heave her to for 4S hours. The Clyde had about 100 passengers on board. J 30 POOL ROOM CASES Are on the Court Docket at St. Louis. St. Louis, Dec. 9. There were 130 pool room cases against pool room proprietors and employes on the docket of the police court Wednesday morning, the result of the live raids by the police. In the cases of the Brooklyn, Van Studdiford and P:i cilic pool rooms, a continuance was grant ed until December Hi. and juries were called for in each batch of cases. The remaining 100 cases were continued until December lo also, but no request was made for juries. AGAINST ANNEXATION. Zi03 Angeles Chamber of Commerce Fasse3 Resolutions. Los Angeles. Cal.. Dec. 9. The Chamber of Commen e has declared itself opposed to the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands and has passed a resolution declaring toat annexation would materially affect the beet sugar industry in this state. INGEKSOLL TO PREACH. Dying Atheist Vant3 "Pagan Bob" to Speak at Eis Funeral Valparaiso. Ind.. Dec. 9. Uncle John Baum. a resident of this county for over sixty vears, died last nU;ht. aged Nt. He was a well known atheist, and before he; death asked that Colonel Robert O. Inuerfoll be secured to preach his funeral sermon. He went from Michigan to Fort Dearborn in 1S25. CHARTERS FILED. The Bohemians of Republic county have organized a fraternal union, something which is unusual among that nationality. The Western Bohe rnain Fraternal union is the name of the organization. The three men named as trustees for the first year are as follows: F. L.-Houc'ek, Wesley Skoc dopole and Vaclav Novak. Other in corporators are; V. -Kromarka, Auc tion Varius and Vailaw Kasha. The Wichita Grain and Stock com-p-'nv has been ir.oorpora ted with a cpp'tal cf $500. The directors are A. S. Pierce, W. E. Pierce and W. H. Berth of.. To Cur a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. -Ml druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. Th Cremerie, 726 Kansas avenue. SCOTT SCOTT. It is easy to catch a cold and just as easy to get rid of it if you commence early to use One Minute Cough Cure. It cures coughs, co'.ds, bronchitis, pneu monia and all throat and lung troubles. It-is pleasant to take, safe to use and sure to cure. G. W.Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue. Everything in season at the Cremerie. SCOTT SCOTT. PAN-AMERICAN FAIR. William, E. Curtis Gives a Sinner When it is Talked Over. Washington, Dec. 9. The ministers and charges of the Latin-American re publics were the guests of William E. Curtis at the Arlington last night and met at dinner the directors of the Pan American exposition which is to be held at Cayuga island, near Niagara Falls, in 189. All the American republics and Hawaii were represented, except Peru. The other guests were Secreta ry Bliss, who .was a member of the Pan-American conference; Mr. Adee and Mr. Chridler. assistant secretaries of state, were among the guests. After the dinner, Mr. W. H. Carylety, director general of the Pan-American exposition, explained the plan and scope of that enterprise in an informal manner. TO MAKE UIG '.LIBRARIES. A Bill to Compel Authors to "Donate Copies of Their Books. Palo Alto, Cal., Dec. 9. H. C. Nash, librarian of Stanford university and J. C. Roweil, librarian of the University of California are at work on a scheme, which if carried out will materially change the copyright laws of the coun try and at the same time build up large national libraries in a number of the big cities of the United States. The plan is to require authors obtaining the protection of a copyright to supply copies of their work to several deposi tories located in cities in diffefent sec tions of the country. Senator Perkins will introduce the bill in the United States senate. It was di rect the establishment of additional de positories in the cities of Chicago, Den ver, San Francisco and New Orleans. 10,000 CATTLE A MONTH. "Will be Required to Supply the Hav ana Market. San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 9. Represen tatives of the two great syndicates which control the Cuban cattle trade. S. F. Berndes Co. and Centro De Los Encomenderos. have just effected a consolidation and are now here arrang ing for the purchase of big herds of cattle in Texas and in northern Mexi co. J. R. Stahle, of Kansas City, will have charge of this department. The Havana trade alone will require ten thousand of beef cattle a month for an indefinite period. ROBBED IN HIS STORE. Boston Druggist Assaulted and.Ro lieved of $1,200. Boston, Deo 9. Newell Paine, proprie tor of a drug store in Tremont street, was assaulted last night and robbed of $1.2M by an unknown man who entered his store about 11 o'clock. The robber drew a revolver with the remark: 'T am a des perate man and want your money." Mr. Paine resisted and was felled sense less. He will recover. FRANCE TAKES A HAND. Three Cruisers to ba Dispatched to China Immediately. London, Dec. 9. According to a special dispatch just received from Paris, the French cruisers Jean Bart, Isley and Al ger have been ordered to prepare for im. mediate dispatch to China. Missouri and Kansas Debate. Lawrence, Dec. 9. Football will not be the only factor hereafter in deciding annua! supremacy between Missouri and Kansas. The debate is now as sured. Rules and regulations have been adopted which will probably be re tained as the constitution of the asso ciation. The contest was givento Kan sas this year and will be held in Fra ser hall on the evening of the third Fri day in March, 1S9S. Individual Communion Cups. Philadelphia, Dec. 9. The congrega tion of the First Baptist church, Cam den, N. J., will adopt -the new idea of individual communion cups. At the last services the pastor. Rev. J.W. by all, exhibited samples of the cups. There are 600 communicants in the church. To Cure a Cold in Ona Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Ali druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. Eritish Secretary Dead. Washington. Dec. 9. Mr. Osborne Mc. M. Kavanagh. third secretary of the British embassy, died here today of ty phoid fever. Miss Allie Hughes. Norfolk, Ta., was frightfully burned on the face and neck. Pain was instantly relieved by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, which healed the injury without leaving a scar. It is the famous pile remedy. G. W. Stansfield, C32 Kan. Ave. The Cremerie's new place, 726 Kansas avenue. SCOTT SCOTT. Scott Scott. The Cremerie, 72G Ave. TODAY'S MARKET REPOltT. Furnished by the Associated Pre33 to the State Journal. Chicago, Dec. 9. WHEAT In the first fiftien minutes of trading today December wheat sold up to $1.05. the highest price in this market for years. The opening was extremely nervous, bids at the start ranging all the way from $1.0i. to 51,04. The bull ciiciue. headed by Allca Greer and the Leiter bro&ers. attempted to keep the market down by sellirg. but shorts were appar ently thoroughly frightened at last and probably 250. oU) bushtls were put on the market "before there was any le'-up. In the meantime De ember-hid sold to S1.-.-3. but a reactoin then ensu"d. the price-getting down to $1.03''-. The pen"ral belief that the December bulls intended to carry the deal in that option to a finish was strengthen ed by the announcement that contracts have been closed to ship all the wheat east ail-rail when delivered. De cember was not alor.e in its display cf streiiL'th. iMav was verv strong- in svm- pathy. opening ro e higher at 91c. and 1 advancing at once to 92'c. It stlbse I quently reacted -to li'S1"6c. but with a I very strong undertone. January was also firm and sold up to 94c on the belief that January shorts will be in a bad way if the December clique moves away all the cash wheat. Bullish news was not want ing. Northwestern receipts were moder ate. R15 cars, against 753 cars last week and 678 cars a year ago. Liverpool was strong, up d bf fore the opening here. On the other hand, the Price Current re rort was rather bearish. Statistical news, however, was relegated to the background in the excitement over the rapidly devel oping December wheat deal. CORN AND OATS Corn and oats were almost entirely neglected and prices scarcely moved during the morning. Prices "were firm with wheat, but in view of the sharp advances in that article the gains were small. May corn opened c higher at 2S'-c. sold at 2Sc and back to 2SVc. Receipts were 373 cars. May oats opened Vic higher at 22e and held at that p-ire. Receipts were 392 cars. PROVISIONS Notwithstanding the heavy run of hogs and weaker yard prices provisions were fairly steady. The strength of the grain markets caused some covering by shorts. May pork open ed unchanged at $8,45 and sold at $X 42. January lard a shade higher at $1.25 4.27K'- Jenuarv ribs a shade higher at 4.17M.T74.20 and held at S4.17i. B A RUS yCaah. No. 3. Wi 42c. KYJ3 Cash and December, 47c; May, 4!' FLAX Cash and December. $1.11; cash northwestern, $1.15: May. $1.15. TIMOTHY Cash, $2.1; May, J2.S0. Chicago IiivestocK Market. Chicago, Dec. 9. HORS-Estimated receipts of hosrs to day, 45.000: official left over, 2..V9. Market slow, weak to shade lower. Light. S:i.'J5 3.40: mixed. &!.25&3.42s; heavy, $S.if.'j(. is. -so; rough. rJ.iwua.). I C ATT LB Receipts. 7.500. Market slow j at recent decline. Christmas cattle. $T..l Ytd i 5.'50: beeves, $3.4015.10; cows, and heilVrs, U.T54I4.20: Texas steers. $2. 90ft 4.10; stock, i ers and feeders. $2.U)ii 4. 10. I SHEEP Keoeipts. l.'S.IKX). Sfe'rrdy to I strong. Lambs, steady to 10c higher: na tive sheen. :2.7r,-TI4.70; westerns, $Xwr"i lambs, $3.Tr,ff(r,.sti. Official vesterday: HOGS Receipts. 40,107: shipments. 3.021.' CATTLE Receipts, 17,201; shipments, 4.. 299. SHEEP Receipts, 13.3G3; shipments, 10. 908. Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow,' 32,000 head. Kansas City iiivestoci Markot. Kansas Citv. Dec. 9. CATTLE Receipts, Cool Market slow to weak. Texas steers. l",fri.O): Texas cows. $2.':i''n :l. 15: native steers. $V25-Vi4. i; native cows and heifers. S1.7,V(f 4.10; pt-.n-k-! ers and feeders, $2.75'a4.4o; bulls, $2 :,j'ii 3.i;r. HOGS Receipts. 15.000. Mnik"t weak to 5c lower. Bulk of sales. JS.22Vr3.3-: hav i ies, S.-jOfi..S-i1-,; packers, .;3.1:2' 3 C5: mix j ed. ?:i.2A':t.::2U; lighta. 3.15-ii3.30; york i ers. S".27Wrf ;:..",o: pigs. $37(3.20. SHEEP Receipts, 3.0HI. Market strong. I Lambs. :t 5. ro: muttons, Jv.."0'i4.75. i REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 22 Texas steers 1 ?3.t i 32 Texas cows vs 3.15 i IS native steers lull 4.v0 3S native cows and heifers 4:u 4.1'' 47 stoekers and feeders 47t 4.40 S bulis 1334 3. Co Ivansas City I'roduca Market. Kansas Citv, Dec. 9. WHEAT About 1c higher as a rule, rather dull. No. 1 hard, CSc: No. 2, s:;r Jm';.c: No. 3. 82'n ,s2V,c No. 4. Tissue: No. I red. 96c; No. 2, M'.c: mixed, 92c; No. 3. VI ff!ilV'.c; No. 4, Stiff! &iie; No. 2 spring, Sse; No. 3. snifcc. CORN Active, about steady. No. 2 mixed. 22:ti''i 23c. OATS Slightly lower. No. 2 white, 2.7 i 2:io. RYE Firm. No. 2. 43"2fi44c. HAY Active, firm. Choice timothy, $S..VW8.75: choice prairie. $7.25'(i 7.7.0. BUTTER Weaker. Creamery, lSf;2(c; dairy, 13)5c. EGGS Weaker n heavier receipts. Strictly fresh, lSc storage, llffil3c. Toda v'a Range of Prices. Purnished mission Co., and Stocks, Kan. by the W. A. Michael Com Urokers in Grain, Provisions 110 West Sixth Ave., Top-ka, Stocks. 1 Op' nj High j Low jCl'se Vrs. WHEAT i I I Dec 1 02' id 00 ll 02 ;1 07 May 9254 j 91tl KT-si 90'a July 84 M5b S3"-s 63ij Ki-i CORN I I Dec 2514 2.wi 2.-.141 2.-v May 2s-4t 2S7xi 2ys 2is 2ss OATS (ill Dec 21M.I 22V, 21'il 22 I 21 May 22 22i 22( 22; 22 PORK III! Dec 7 35! 7 35 1 7 351 7 351 7 22 Jan 8 2)1 8 25! s 20 1 8 25. X 2o Mav 8 451 8 5i S 42j S 501 S 45 LARD II!! Dec 4 221 4 22 4 221 4 1-2' 4 15 Jan 4 25 4 30) 4 251 4 30 4 25 May 4 421 4 471 4 42 4 47 14 42 R1RS I Dec 4 2 i 4 201 4 2l 4 20. 4 17 Jan 4 17 4 221 4 1 71 4 i2; 4 17 May 4 3o 4 35) 4 3o 4 3-': 4 30 Sugar and Coffee. New York. Dec. 9. SUGAR Raw. firm: fair relinins. :--c; centrifugal 9tt test, 3 5-lf.e: granulated. 5c. COFFEE Firm. No. 7, Ce. The Cotton Market. New Yrork, D.c. 9. COTTON Spot cotton steady. Middling uplands, 5c; middling gulf, (il6c Ranges of Price3 on Stocks. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission Co., Brokers in Grain. Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka, Kan. Stocks. I Op'nlHigh) Low lOl'sejYes. I Sugar 13'-4: 111 l:..-;1.t 1M.'. 14V, Chicago Gas Kl4i 9! M'i 94! !f.'i Arn. Tobacco 87j Skk! S7;4 &8;-4t S7L4, Am. Spirits H 'V--- V' E. G. E 34 I 34 34 34 33i Leather G4 KA4i 64 Gi! Lead 35l :,5 35 :r M.,K. T. Pfd 36j 36'-. 36; 36 C. B. Q. 9S 9S3 9 9S Rock Island 91 914 91 91 91 C, M. St. P. 95) VT, 9-5 I 9.5V 9,-a A., T. fir S. F. 13i 13l 13 12 A..T. &S.F.Pfd 30 30 l 3 1 Manhattan 106 los 1 ;5V 1" !'5 Western Union f-9 9oj i !Vv,i x9 Mo. Pacific 34) 35; 34i 35-, 34 Wabash 1S,I J7l 1 l1! 1H Un. Pacific 25 2S..i 23) 24: 15 j C. N. W 122'-, 123! 122! 123 .123 N. Y. Central.. 3o7 lox! l')7! J,S lo7", C. C. C 36 37 I :C I ?6 V 36 I Reading 22 22 21i' 21 21 i Jer. Cenrtal S5 ?5 M -SP,: D. i- H 109 '-4 1 109 V 1"9 I 1C9 ;l'J9 Omaha 7S: 7'"V I '.'A 7-"i i T. C. 1 16! 26 26 I 26i 26 I No. Pac. Pfd.. 5s 5s 57 4 1 FV r-7- Pacific Mail 31 31 3 31j 31 L. N S6 D7 oUmi ii-;s, o6a Markot Gossip. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission Co.. Brokers in Grain. Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Kan. Liverpool. 1:30 p. m.: May wheat. d higher. English country markets steady. Liveroool: Wheat. d hither. Chicago receipts today: Wheat 21- cars, grade .',2 oars: corn 373 cars, grade 2 cars: oats 332 cars, grade 55 cars. Receipts ol hogs: C hicago. i,.mi neao: Kansas City, 17.0'M) head; Omaha, 7,a0 i head. I Northwestern receipts- This year. M.n 1 neapolis 716 cars. Duluth 69 cars, totals j S15 cars: last year. Minneapolis 5i0 cars, 1 Duluth :m) c:irs. total 67o cars. J Liverpool. 2:20 p. in.: Wheat quiet. De I -ember d. May d up. Mart h '.d lower. Corn, December d lower. Mar, h d higher. J Liverpool: Corn closed. December and February d up: wheat, December d, j Mav d up for the day. I Forecast: For Kansas City- and vU in I ity. probably lisht shower this evening. I fair Friday, cooler tonight and Friday, i For Kansas, showers. prob:-blv turning to snow and colder ioniKiil. J ri'iay o.; -oi unsettled weather wiih cold.-r m cast-find central portions. Exports four ports: Wheat. 33. .OKI bushels- fiou- V 140 barrels: corn. 2..J.UKI bush els: oats. 491 .W.0 bushels: wheat and ii.iur equal to' 53'.:.f bushels. Chicago: Estimat-d receipts tomorrow: Wlieet. 215 cars: corn. 423 cars; oats, 360 cars:" hogs. 32.0G-J head. Puts Mav wheat. 91"5ftl'.4'": calls May wheat. 93'ti94e; puts May corn. 2s'-'ii2SHc.. calls May corn, 2V'o2Se; puts January pork. $S.10; calls January poilc, $3.35. E Lex. President. J. S.GAavix. C. C. Chkistik. i rpiisiir. Vice President. S. I. Smith. Seo'y. TU:rilSE 133. Lux Commission Co., Grain, Provisions Stocks. OSO KAKSAS AE.,TrfHA,HAJI. R!FFll:tCIS: Union TCation;;! I'.aak. Kansnt City. Central ation;il Uuk..'l(iMca. ISituount Kauk cf Commerce, Kansas City. IBi:k ol iojjcka. tWoa can buy or sell through us. for 1m. mediate or future ileiiveiy. ail coinmod-tlp uaasd iu ua auy excliiujjje ia th coau-ry.

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