The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 27, 1898

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1 V TWO CENTS. THE LAST OF THEJHIFFALO. Stockmen Dine on Them at Denver Today. The Greatest and the Most Novel Barbecue EVER SEEX IX THE WEST Fifteen Thousand People Eat Roast Buffalo, Bear, Elk, Antelope and Drink 200 Kegs of Beer. Denver, Jan. 27. Today is the great day of the National Livestock conven tion at Denver. More than 1.000 dele grates are present. Today the immense barbecue at which buffalo, deer, elk and Rocky Mountain sheep were served as food for probably the last time in America, took place. It was a gala oc casion; 15.000 people participated in the festivities. The buffalo barbecue, as it is called, was an unlimited success. For months four specimens of these rapidly disappearing genus have been fattening at the stock yards here, and today they were in perfect condition. The following was served: Eight beeves. Four elk. Four buffalo. Twenty-live sheep. Two bears. Twelve antelope. Ten thousand pickles, A ton of cheese. Five thousand loaves of bread. Two hundred opossums. Thirty barrels of yams. Two hundred kegs of beer. There were 23 cooks employed and 200 waiters, and one of the novel features was the waiters. The committee sent out invitations to 200 of the most prom inent men in Denver, such as the mil lionaire. D. II. Moffat: the preacher. Myron Reed, Wolfe Londoner, Mayor McMurray, G. Ross Lewin, ex-Governor Grant in short, all the prominent men who could be induced to put on a white apron and act as waiter for the day. Nearly all of these named served as waiters, and did their part well. Theaffair was held at the stock yards and the railroads furnished the extra trains needed to transport the people there and back, and the arrangements were most complete in every way. MANY PAPERS ARE READ. On Subjects of Importance to the Livestock Interests. Denver, Jan. 27. Governor Richards made a brief address before the Nation al Livestock convention and took the position that not only the arid lands but all the public lands should be given to the states. They would then, he claimed, soon be made to help pay the government expense and sooner be put in the hands of actual settlers. He fa vored the leasing of all arid lands for pasture lands, the revenues derived to be used in aiding their reclamation by actual settlers. He said the money de rived from the sale of public lands had been very largely used in states other than those in which the lands were sit uated to the advantage of the older, at the expense of the younger states. E. L. WoocTman, state engineer of Wyoming, spoke on "How best to pre vent clashing between sheep and cattle men on the ranges.' After going at some length into the history of the war between the sheep and cattlemen, he predicted that the day of range cattle herds will soon be past, and favored the leasing of public lands and the entire breaking up of free ranges as the only means of stopping cattle and sheep wars. R. M. Allen, of Ames, Neb., followed in an address on "The fattened steer." Mr. Allen is general manager of the Standard Cattle company and his ad dress was largely devoted to his exper ience in feeding. Then came a series of papers on "contagious diseases affecting values of live stock." Dr. Charles Gresswell, state veterinarian of Colorado, read the first treating on "the best methods of prevention." Dr. A. T. Peters, of the University of Nebraska, spoke on "Advancement In controlling diseases." He treated large ly of the various methods of vaccina tion, which he held to be the most ef fective system of fighting disease in live stock. "Ticks in Texas" was the title of a paper on splenetic, or Texas fever by Dr. Victor A. Norgoad, of Washington, D. C. He reported that experiments in dipping cattle infected w ith ticks in parrafine oil had proved successful in preventing the spread of the fever, and he believed the process of vaccination would within a year, to a great extent, solve the whole splenetic fever problem! Col. W. E. Skinner, manager of the stockyards of Ft. Worth. Texas, follow ed in a paper on the same subject. He expressed the hope that dipping exper iments would finally solve the problem. A. P. Bush, president of the Texas Cattle Raisers' association, spoke on "Best methods of enhancing live stock interest in the west." His ad dress was a plea for more systematic methods in stock raising, better breeds better feed and better care, he gave as the secret of success. M. E. Knowles. state veterinarian of Montana, treated the subject of "glan ders." Richard Gibson, of Ontario, Canada spoke on "Sheep in England and Can ada." He gave many of the peculiari ties of the different breeds of sheep in those countries and the reasons for their peculiarities. He gave figures to show the profitableness of sheep rais ing. He gave considerable attention to the methods of feeding and care of lambs, asserting that in many cases lambs has been made to gain an aver age of three-quarters of a pound a day from birth till ready for market He declared that English methods not only furnished the most rapid growth, but the best quality of meat. A vote of thanks was given by a ris ing vote for the paper. George H Wal lace, secretary of New Mexico, spoke on "Sheep in the United States."' Secretary James of the department of agriculture, has written a paper on "What is the government doing for the live stock interests?" The secretary was not able to attend, and his paper Was read by the reading clerk. CoL C. E. Adams, of Superior, Neb., THURSDAY EYENING. 1KB WMM spoke on "Denver as a live stock cen ter." He held that Denver's position was such as to make her the natural place for feeders raised on the plains of Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming and the northwest for the feeding pens of Ne braska and Kansas. F. J. Berry of the Union Stockyards, Chicago, spoke on the "Up-to-date horse and the export demand." He asserted that electricity and the bicycle had de stroyed the demand for small horses, but the demand for large, first quality animals is better than ever, and such horses bring good prices at all times. The committee on constitution and by-laws made its report and after amendments had been made, was adopt ed. The National Livestock association of the United States of America was the name chosen. The representation at the annual conventions is to include state delegates at large and representatives from stock associations, commission ex changes, chambers of commerce and ir rigation associations. STOCK GROWERS SELECTED By the Denver Convention to Form an Executive Committee. Denver, Jan. 27. The following exec utive committee was selected by the National Stock Growers' convention to day with the provision that governors of states not represented, be empower ed to appoint members for their states: Arizona, Col. Alfred S. Donan; Colo rado, John W. Springer; Idaho, A. B. Clark; Illinois, Charles W. Baker; In diana, J. B. Connor; Iowa. John A. Craig: Kansas. G. W. Melville: Michi gan, H. H. Hinds; Minnesota, Theodore L. Schuermier; Missouri, C. A. Thomp son; Montana, J. M. Holt; Nebraska, Peter Jansen; New Mexico. W. C. Mc Donald; Oklahoma, E. S. Donnelly: Oregon, R. G. Judson; South Dakota, Frank M. Stewart; Texas. A. B. Rob ertson; Utah, E. H. Collister; Wyom ing, D. N. Stickney. DENVER CHOSEN AGAIN. Stock Growers "Will Meet There Again Next Year. Denver, Jan. 27. Thomas Ward of Denver, made a short address today asking the stockgrowers' convention to return to Denver next year. D. R. McGinnis of St. Paul, withdrew the bid of his city and seconded that of Denver. Delegate Martin and others of Ne braska, made pleas for Omaha Mr. Stoller of Missouri seconded the nomination of Denver. Mr. Bush of Texas, also spoke for Denver. Omaha was then withdrawn and Denver was chosen unanimously. A resolution was adopted instructing the executive committee to endeavor to devise ways and means to erect a stock growers' building at the Omaha expo sition. The committee on resolutions made its report which was adopted. It touched upon governmental duty to the stcek growers, and opposed the anti vivisection bill. A resolution favoriig the cession of the arid lands to the states was defeated. "Kid" McCoy's Head Swelled. Buffalo. Jan. 27. In a letter to the Courier, Kid McCoy says that unless Fitzsimmonsor Corbett cover his money within six weeks from Jan. 25, he will claim the heavyweight championship and defend it against all comers as fast as they come. Fatal Explosion of Naptha. Baku. Jan. 27. Half a million poods of naphtha were burned and several persons lost their lives during a confla gration here. Fatal Gunpowder Explosion. Buenos Ayres. Jan. 27. Eleven persons have been killed by an explosion of gun powder at Flores, in the province of that name. The requirements of a medicine Is to lighten the burden of pain and cure. This brings us to the question of a rem edy, and Ta'bler's Buckeye Pile Oint ment is the only remedy for blind, bleeding or protruding Piles that is en dorsed by physicians. Cures the most obstinate cases. 50c. Geo. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Popeka avenues. TOPEKA, THE BUFFALO BARBECUE AT DENVER FROM ACTUAL DESIGNS FURNISHED GREAT WAVES UjH HER. City of Duluth, One of the Biggest Boats On the Lakes, Goes Ashore Sear St. Joseph, Mich., BOAT BllEAKS IX TWO Passengers Saved by the Life Saving Crew. Mrs. Tryon Dying From the Effect of Exposure. Chicago," Jan. 27. A telegram re ceived by the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation company own ers of the City of Duluth, which went ashore in a gale off St. Joseph, Mich., last night says that the passengers and crew of the steamer numbering 30 alto gether were safely landed at 5 a. m. today. The tremendous sea running made it almost impossible for tug boats to get near the steamer, but the life saving crew finally succeeded in get ting their ropes to the boat and the pas sengers and crew were slowly and with much difficulty brought to shore. The City of Duluth lies on a sandbar about 150 feet from shore. It is believed she will be a total loss, as she is pounding badly and unless the sea which is still running very heavily, goes down the boat will probably break up. Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 27. A special to the Associated Press from Benton Har bor, says that the steamer City of Du luth, wrecked of St. Joseph early this morning now lies broken lengthwise, through the center by the heavy sea. She afterwards fell to pieces by the swelling of her cargo of oats. The steamer and cargo were valued at $100. 000, with insurance of $70,000 on steamer and $10,000 on cargo. Among the 40 passengers including the crew all of whom were saved by the life saving crew, were three women, one an invalid aged 75. Chicago, Jan. 27. The spot where the City of Duluth struck is the same dan gerous sandbar at the mouth of the harbor on which it is supposed the ill fated Chicora and Its hapless crew went down three years ago almost to a day. It is one of the most danger ous and dreaded spots on the east shore and its exposed situation in a west wind and the tortuous channel make it a point of peril which mariners approach with anxiety and pass with rejoicing. Mrs. Wrn. Tryon, one of the ladies rescued is dying from the effects of the exposure, being badly frozen in the passage from the wrecked vessel to the dock. The Sultan and Our Missionaries. The Porte has demanded the recall of two American Missionaries from the province of Aleppo, on the pretext that their mission is likely to cause disturb ances. "The sick man of Europe," is as unreasonable as his political health is feeble. As a bright contrast to his obstinacy and stupidity, the people of America are acknowledging far and wide the beneficence of the mission of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, namely, to relieve and prevent malaria, rheum atism and kidney complaint, chronic dyspepsia, constipation and liver trou ble. The nervous, the weak and the infirm derive unspeakable benefit from its use. and it greatly mitigates the weakness and infirmities which are specially incident to advancing years. At the meeting of the grand lodge A. O. U. W to be held at Wichita on Feb ruary 22, the question of dispensing with the "level payment plan" and adopting the "classified plan" will be brought up. At present in Kansas no difference is made in price for admitting men of dif ferent ages. The younger members are in favor of making the difference. KANSAS, JANUARY JUDGE GROSSCUP HE11E Comments on Eugene V. Debs' Meth ods and Other Matters. Judge P. S. Grosscup, who presides over the federal court of the northern district of Illinois, arrived in the city this afternoon on the Santa Fe at 1 o'clock. He was met at the depot by Judge L. H. Thomson, presi dent .of the state bar association, thSi meeting of which Judge Grosscup will ad dress tonight, and ex-Chief Justice A. H. Horton. Judge Grosscup is a c c o mpanied by his secretary. GROSS CUP. W. E. Sampell. Until recently Judge Grosscup has worn a full beard, as shown in the small portrait of him in this article. He now wears only a close cropped moustache. He is a man six feet in height, shoulders slightly rounded as a result of which he is somewhat stooped, yet he walks with much activ ity. He is very cordial in his manner. The judge wears spectacles, as his eyes have weakened from much work. He is a mild mannered, dignified man, who, although a judge, refuses to seclude himself from public life, and is in touch with the times on all public questions. He said: "The methods now being pursued by Mr. Debs and his followers will not bring to the people he represents, the relief which they are demanding. They are proceeding in the wrong direction Mr. Debs is a malcontent. That de scribes him. He is essentially an agi tator, but he does not represent the or ganized labor of this country. "I believe in organized labor. Such bodies have large fields for work. Those which are successful are conservative in their own chosen lines. The great organizations of this country, fitly rep resented by the engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen, and organi zations of other similar characters, have a mission to perform, and they are suc ceeding in doing their work well. They are conservative. So long as these or ganizations confine their efforts to their own chosen vocations, they will be successful. When they attempt to depart in other lines, they will fail. When they follow their own lines then public sentiment, one of the most es sential features in such undertakings, is with them, and the end desired is at tained. When they disgress into other channels, public sentiment is against them, and failure follows. "The men who participated in the great strike of 1S94, now realize that they were mislead. Not a single one of them will now refuse to admit that he was wrong. They followed an agitator and failed. "These incipient insurrections, such as Mr. Debs caused, have had their proto types in all our past history. This will also be true of the future. They have never succeeded and never will. The present generation will not see a repeti tion of the insurrection of 1894 but fu ture generations will see them. A fath er tells his son he must not do certain things. Yet, the lad does it. He learns by experience. The people of this gen eration have had their experience and will submit to no repetition of it. The followers of Mr. Debs attempted to seize the government and throttle it but they failed." Bubonic Plague Violent Bombay, Jan. 27. According to the official report there have been 834 deaths from the plague during the past week. Today's Fire, At 12:1a o clock today firemen were called to the residence at 719 Tyler street owned by Elias "Shull and occupied by Henry Seiler. A defective flue was the cause of the fire. The damage was small. "Warmer Friday. v eather Observer T. B. Jennings says that for Topeka and vicinity the weather will be fair with a warmer air Friday. Subscribe for The State Journal. P. s. 27, 1898. "AVK I fc" lMt -X BY THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. NO ALARM. Secretary Long Regards the Tisit of the Spanish Warship Yiscaya to This Country as No Menace. SHE IS MUCH BIGGER Than the Maine, and Is a First class Battleship. "Work on the Brooklyn Going on Xight and Day. Washington, Jan. 27. The informa tion from Madrid that the Spanish gov ernment had decided to send the war ship Viscaya on a visit to American ports caused no comments in official circles. She is a formidable craft, larger, faster and more powerful than the Maine. Secretary Long said today that he had received no notice from the Span ish minister or from any other source that Spanish men-of-war have been or dered to visit United States ports. They were perfectly welcome to come and go as they pleased, he said, and, so far as he was concerned, he wTould be delighted to have them come. Spanish warships have frequently visited the United States since the insurrectionary movement broke out in Cuba three years ago without having excited the least unfriendly comment, and there was no reason why any significance should be attached to their coming again whenever they felt disposed to do so. The Spanish flagship at this station took part in the ceremonies connected with the dedication of the Grant monument in New York about a year ago, and also at the subsequent celebration in Philadelphia last sum mer, after which the Spanish admiral and his staff visited Washington and paid their respects to the president and the members of his cabinet. Washington, Jan. 27. A cablegram was received from Consul General Lee at Havana dated 5:30 p. m. last even ing. He said: "Have just received a visit from the commander of the Maine and will return it tomorrow. He had already returned official visits of Span ish and other naval vessels. No disor ders of any sort." Havana, Jan. 27. The government has reinforced the police at the Ameri can consulate, along the wharves, and on the principal streets, as a precau tion against any attempts to provoke a collision when the marines and crew of the United States warship Maine come ashore. New York, Jan. 27. Orders have been received at the navy yard to hurry the work on the cruiser Brooklyn in order that she may sail Sunday, the date named by the navy yard. Night and day gangs are working on the vessel. According to the yard officials the Brooklyn will be ready to sail Saturday and will be with the fleet on the fol lowing Monday. M'KIXLEY OFF TO NEW YORK "Will Speak at the Manufacturers' Banquet Tonight. Washington, Jan. 27. The president, ac companied by Mr. Porter, his secretary, left Washington at 10 a. m. over the Penn sylvania railroad for New York, where he will attend the banquet to be given at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight by the Na tional Association of Manufacturers. The president was met at the station by Mr. R. E. C. Smith of New York and Mr. Charles A. Moore of Brooklyn, the com mittee appointed by the association to es cort him to New York. "Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 27. For Kansas: Fair tonight and Friday; warmer tonight; warmer in east portion Friday; south erly winds. THURSDAY EVENING. MIKE THOMrSOX GOES FREE Arch Lord is Taking His Turn at Judge Hazen's Mill. The district court is still grinding away on liquor cases. Mike Thompson was acquitted this forenoon without trouble. A bottle of the stuff seized in his place was ana lyzed and found to contain less than 2 per cent of alcohol which makes it a non-intoxicant. The jury in the case against Walt Richards disagreed Wednesday evening and Harry Croft got out because the stupid Kansas City detectives could not identify any one. The case now on trial is one against Arch Lord, whose place is at Fourth and Kansas avenue. Two Washburn students are the principal witnesses. The first called was R. S. Pond. He testified to going into Lord's place on September 30, during the Fall Fes tival, and drinking beer in the basement where a gambling game was also being operated. Following is the line of ques tioning: Q. When were you in this place? A. September 30. Q.-What did you buy? A. Three glasses of beer. Q. Who sold the beer? A. Mr. Lord. Cross-examination by H. C. Safford: Q. How many times have you seen Mr. Lord since that time? A. Five or six times. Q. Did he have his hat on when you saw him in that place? A. I am not sure. Q. How did you know his name was Lord? A. He was pointed out to me by a man who said his name was Wood. Q. Where does this man Wood live? A. He said he lived here. Q. Did this man you took to be Lord have a mustache? A. I am not sure. Q. He might have had a mustache then? A. Yes. Q. Your memory is not very good on that point? A. No, sir. Q. You went in from the street? A. Yes, sir. Q. What was in the first room? A." Some cigar cases. Q. What was in the next room? A. Some billiard tables. Q. How many tables were there? A. I don't remember. Q. Were there any men there? A. Yes, there were two. Q. Were they playing billiards? A. No. One was guarding the cellar way and the other was trying to get down. Q. What kind of a looking man was on the door? A. I don't remember. Q. Was he larger or smaller than Mr. Lord? A. He was more slender, I think. Q. You say there was a gambling game there: what kind was it? A. I don't know anything about gambling and don't know what kind of a game it was. Q. Can you describe it? A. About all I saw was men putting down money and one man picking up most of it. Q. That was what would be called a cinch? A. Yes, I would call it a cinch. J. J. 31'COOK HERE.

With Aldace F. "Walker Disposing of Remaining Assets of Santa Fe. Receivers J. J. McCook and Aldace F. Walker are conducting the sale of the notes, accounts, mortgages and other as sets in the hands of the Santa Fe receiv ers at the court house this afternoon. The face value of the assets is several million dollars, 'but their real value is much smaller because many of them represent accounts which are outlawed and are uncollectable. Receiver McCook, wearing a shining silk tile, is conducting the auction. He reads rapidly from the list and at the end of each item pauses while Treasurer Edward Wilder of the Santa Fe makes a bid for the railroad company. All are being bought by the Santa Fe company, and on but one item was there any contest. That was on the Ott Tewksbury claim for about $25,000. Mr. Ott was present and bid $5,000, but Mr. Wilder bid $6,000 and the claim was sold like the rest to -the Santa Fe company. E. D. Kenna, gen eral solicitor, accompanied the receivers. TWO CENTS. UNIONMADE. New York Central and Lake Shore Railroads Now Said to Be United in One Road. A SUDDEX ACTIVITY And Advance of the Stocks of the Roads Are Accounted For by Brokers in This Manner. New York, Jan. -The Tribune says: Sudden activity and a heavy advance on the New York stock exchange in the stocks of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad and the Lake Shore Michigan Southern railroad are accompanied by a report that there is to be practically a union of the two lines. The gist of the report is that the stock of the Lake Shore, which sold yesterday at 1S6. is to be taken over by the New York Central, which will pay 200 for it in some new security to be Is sued. William K. Vanderbilt la credi ted with the belief that by a union of the two lines there will be a better con trol of the traffic and great economics mav be effected. The capital stock of the Lake. Shore is $49,466,500. The New York Central controls the West Shore, the Rome, Watertown Ogdensburg. the New York Harlem and the New York Putnam. Its total mileage of tracks owned or leased is 2, 294 miles. The capital stock is $100,000, 000. It is said that nothing is to be done definitely at present. The plans are pretty well formulated and only official sanction has to be given to them. The consolidation, if effected, will probably be under the name of the New York Central. The main offices will be In New York and the New York Central directory will control, with the present central officials at' the head of the new com pany. TEST OF SILVER. Yote on th'e Teller Resolution Will be Taken Tomorrow. Washington, Jan. 27. After transact ing some minor business the Teller res olution was laid before the senate and after considerable discussion it was agreed that the vote should be taken tomorrow at 6 o'clock, the senate to rneet at 8 o'clock and the last four hours of debate to. be -under the 15 minute rule. THE HOUSE. Bill Passed Making Santa Fe the Peimanent Capital of New Mexico. Washington, Jan. 27. In the house to day a bill was passed making Santa Fe, N. M., the permanent capital of that territory. Mr. Hitt, chairman of the foreign af fairs committee.reported from hl3 com mittee, with the recommendation that it lie on the table, the Lewis resolution calling upon the president for the auth ority under the constitution under which he negotiated a treaty that will bind the treasury to pay $4,000,000 to the Hawaiian bondholders. The Dem ocrats manifested a desire to discuss the report but the question was not de batable and the vote was taken by a yea and nay upon the demand of Mr. Dinsmore, (Dem., Ark.), the senior mi nority member of the foreign affairs committee. Poor Mary! Little Mary was very fond of the minis ter, Mr. Johnson, who was to leave town for a larger parish. When her mother in vited Mr. Johnson to dinner, Mary deter mined to say something particularly polite to tho minister, as It was her last chance to distinguish herself before him. At the table she waited patiently for a pauso in the conversation, then remarked in her usual distinct voice: "Mr. Johnson, I hear we ore going to have tho pleasure of losing you." Nug gets. Time's Changes. "Ah, how women do change!" said the quiet membar of tho club. "When I was courting Amelia, she snid that if I should die she would die too without a moment's wait. And now" He paused and sighed. "And now she has taken to hinting around that I ought to take out somo life insurance. "Cincinnati Enquirer. Of Course lie Had. "It iB truo that ho wears the uniform of a soldier," said the doubting one, '"but I understand he never has been tn any real engagement. "What!" cried the posted one. "Why, lie has been sued twice for breach of prom ise. Engagements' Well, I rather guess. Chicago Post. Slie Found Them. "Bridget, did you bring up that jar of blackberries I sked you to bring?" I did, mem. "You are sure they are blackberries, are you?" "Yes, mem, but I hod to open o dozen ja-ars befuro I found them." Chicago Tribune. The Crude Person. "Ah!" said the literary gent. "I natter myself I have made a neat phrase. Listen! Tho reeking .mysteries of a great city' how's that?" "What are you talking about?" asked the crtwle persoD. "Frankfurters?" Cin cinnati Enquirer. The Handles. "Why, Teddy, dear, what is the matter? Don't you like asparagus?" "Yes, Mrs. flirchutn, but the handles ere so hot!" Trained Motherhood. A. O. Saunders and J. S. Freeland. two young men who live southeast of Topeka, started Monday for Klondike. After stocking up at Seattle, they will leave there February 1, and they intend to re main in Klondike some time.

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOUEXAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JANTJARY 27, 1898. Na Word sa Pull of meaning and about which such tender recollec tions cluster a3 t hat of "Mother," yet there are months when her life is filled with pain, dread and suffering-, and she looks forward to the final hour with ar 1 o o m T is mm ic LI lilil ii y loreDodiflga, tear and trembling:. "Mother's Friend" prepares the system for the change takingf place, assists Nature to make child-birth easy, and leaves her in a condition more favorable to speedy re covery. It greatly diminishes the danger to life of both mother and child. Seat by Mail, on receipt of price, (1.00. Book o "Expectant Mothers free upon application. Tlti Bradfleld Begnlstor Co., Atlamte, 6a. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. CAUSES A FLURRY. tT. S. Government Orders 10,000,000 Founds of Smokeless Powder. Wilmington, Del.. Jan. 27. It leaked out here this afternoon that the powder firm of Dupont tfe Nemours, whose works are located on the Brandywine, near this city, today received an order from Secretary of the Navy Long cal ling for 10,000,000 pounds of smokeless powder. The Duponts have for more than a year been supplying the government with powder, but today's order is the biggest ever sent to it. The powder mills have been very busy recently, and In view of today's oraer an extra force will be put to work. The greatest secrecy Is main tained by the officers of the powder company concerning the order, and they decline to discuss it. The news of the receipt of the order by the Duponts caused a big: flurry in local financial circles in view of the de parture of the battleship Maine for Cu ba. TWIRLING TOES HATED. Crusade Against Dancing Begun by New J ersey Clergymen. Matawan, N. J., Jan. 27. The church goers of Matawan are arguing among themselves as to whether dancing is a sin. The Rev. J. Hoffman Batten of the First Methodist church, in a pre lude to a recent sermon said that he did not propose to use his pulpit as "a cow ard's castle." Then he read the rules of the church, commenting upon that rule which declares that it is a sin for a person to dance. Mr. Batten spoke of a dance that will be held on next Wednesday evening here, and said that he hoped that it would not be known that any members of his church were in attendance. The dance is in charge of a committee of young men of the village who stand high in the social scale. Mr. Batten said that the world, the flesh and the devil would be at this ball. WOMEN TO FIGHT. "Will Make a Stand for the Ballot in Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 27. The committee--tin general statistics in the house killed about a dozen small measures to day, and had its report sustained in every instance except one. This is in line with the policy to prevent the in troduction of trivial bills. A big fight will result when the San ders bill, permitting women to vote in school elections and to serve on boards of education and as school trustees, is reached in the house. Mrs. Eugenia B. Farmer.of Covington; Miss Laura Clay, of Lexington: Mrs. Josephine K. Hen ry, of Versailles, and other representa tives of the Kentucky Equal Rights as sociation, have been here for several weeks working for the bill, and it is understood the Twentieth Century club of Cincinnati, will later take a hand in favor of it- The bill passed the senate last session, but was killed in the house. PUBLISH THE PEXSIOTlTST Senator Cannon, of Utah, Prepares a Bill With That End in View. Washington, Jan. 27. Senator Can non, of Utah, has devised a plan to throw light on the pension business and prevent frauds. He introduced a bill yesterday which directs the secretary of the interior to at once prepare a list of all pensioners, the date of their en trance into the service, when discharg ed, present postofflce addresses, nature of injuries, date of Increases of pen sions, etc. In the cases of widows and orphans the names and service of those on ac count of whose service the pension is to be paid are required to be published. The act provides that this publication shall be in pamphlet form, each state and territory to form a separate pam phlet. Each newspaper is to be pro vided with all the lists in. the territory covered by such newspapers, and these are to be sent by the department with out solicitation. Are You Going to CalforniaP If so, please bear in mind thai the Santa Fe route limited train passes through Topeka westbound every Sun day, Tuesday and Thursday, and runs to Los Angeles in fifty-four hours, with through sleepers to principal California cities. It Always Fills the BilL "I had occasion to use Chamberlain's Pain Balm a few weeks ago on a sprained ankle, and it filled the claims made for It." W. C. Gould, Canal Do ver, Ohio. A sprained ankle will usually disable the injured person for three or four weeks, but when Chamberlain's Pain Balm is promptly and freely applied, a cure can be effected in from three to four days. Pain Balm also cures rheu matism; one application relieves the pain. For sale by druggists. Photographs all sizes, all prices. Leonard takes them, 613 Kansas avenue. The members of the First Presby terian church are justly proud of their quartette, and are making a strong ef fort to have a large attendance at the concert to be given by the quartette at the church auditorium upon Friday evening, Feb. 4. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try t, J. W. PHILLIPS. 12 West Eighth St. To 'Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Brorao Quinine Tablet3. Ali druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L, B. Q. on each tablet. Dandruff is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spreads and dries, forming scurf and causing the hair to fail out. Hall's Hair Renewer cures it. ZOLA HASNO FEAR Says the Authorities Dare Not Drive Him to Extremes. They Know He is Not a Man to Be Trifled With. TALKS OF HIS TRIAL. Declares Politics is Behind the Whole Movement. After the Elections Dreyfus W ill Be Freed. Paris, Jan. 27. Emile Zola, discussing his approaching trial, said today: "I will deny with all the emphasis of which I am capable that I ever wished to Insult the French army. It is a monstrous accusation. My books eve ry one betray my deep affection for the French nation, and what is the army since the advent of universal conscrip tion but a nation in arms? I have ac knowledged over and over again the splendid heroism of the French army and the readiness of each individual soldier to spring to arms at the first call by France. "Iam not fearful of the consequences. In this trial the authorities dare not drive me to extremes. I am known as a man who cannot be too far trifled with. "Later on they will say, 'The revision would, of course, have been granted eventually. It was quite unnecessary for Zola to act as he did. 'T his is what Louis XVI. said when the revolution broke out: 'It's quite unnecessary; I intended to grant the people liberty." "Of course, if I had done nothing, nothing would have been done. My act has forced on a revision, which will come as surely as I stand here. "There are the elections impending; bargains have been made and must be kept. The Deputies who by their vote seemed to condemn my action are merely anxious for re-election. The election past, the revision, if applied for in due form, will be granted quite as a matter of course. "The consequences" of the trial can not be very serious. To me a fine is trifling, and my Imprisonment- cannot be a long one. Civil suits 'brought against me by experts and others may be costly, but I am prepared to meet, them all; the more so that from various sources notably from Switzerland pe cuniary support to any extent has been offered to me. My books may suffer, but I have had no confirmation from my publisher of the report which ap peared in the papers that my new book is being countermanded in large quan tities by booksellers who had ordered stocks. "Personally, I am well, though tired and overdriven, but buoyed up by a splendid enthusiasm. I only regret that all these affairs have forced me to break my rule of daily work. I have not written a line for a month, and shall not be able to return to my writ ing table for another month. I have not even had leisure to think what my next book will be. "I am fascinated with the idea of writing the full history of the Dreyfus case, the psychology of which I would study. I don't, however, antici pate that I shall be able to do so. I have never met Dreyfus, and have no great admiration for him as a man. I understand his character is not a pleas ant one. "At the time of his conviction I fan cied he had been rightly judged, as you may well imagine, otherwise I would not have waited three years before speaking out. The revelation of his in nocence came to me just before I wrote the first article in the Figaro. As soon as this conviction was acquired, I hes itated not a moment, though well aware what it would entail upon me. "We have no papers but those of the smallest circulation. On the other side, in all the press of France, notably the Petit Journal, with its million copies daily, I am held up as the enemy of France because foreigners approve of my attitude. Tet I receive many warm letters of encouragement from French men. I receive on the average 500 let ters a day, of which barely 5 per cent contain insults. I am doubtful whether all my letters reach me. "Today I received anonymously a quotation from Renan's 'Life of Christ," which so absolutely fits the case of Dreyfus that I am sending it on to Maitre Labori for incorportation in his address to the jury. "This is most monstrous! It would break my heart were I not certain, as I again repeat, that truth will prevail. A great nation, thirsting for justice, will come to acknowledge the truth in the end tardily, perhaps, but surely; as surely as the wave breaks on the rock." ENGLAND MAY BUY IT. Negotiations Pending for the Pur chase of the Nicaragua Canal Route. Managua, Nicaragua, via Galveston, Tex., Jan. 27. L. Wichmann, agent of the English corporation, the Atlas Steamship company, limited, offers the Nicaraguan government a large sum in silver pesos, advanced from London sources, for Nicaragua's railway and steamship system from ocean to ocean, with a view of obtaining for the com pany connected inter-oceanic transpor tation across the country, including the canal route. The government Is considering the offer. WENT DOWN WITH 4 MEN. A Barge Sinks Before the Tow Dis covers It New York, Jan. 27. The Luckanbach tow boat. Walter A. Luchanbach, from Newport News, having in tow the barges Yonkers and Halcyon, bound for Providence, when off Barnegate last Sunday morning, discovered that the Yonkers had sunk with the four men on board. It is supposed that the Yonkers must have foundered in the heavy sea raised by the strong gale. TOTING FOR SENATOR. The Contest in Tennessee is Pairly Inaugurated. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 27. The two branches of the general assembly met in joint convention yesterday, and the vote taken the previous day for United States senator was announced. Another ballot was taken, resulting in McMillen receiv ing 4 votes. Turley 3 and Taylor 2. Two of the Populist members voted for McMiU ler and one for Turley. The other Dem ocratic votes were scattered. The Re publicans voted solidly for Tillman. Subscribe for The State Journal. Oio KMiMT INTANGIBLE FOES. THE SPANIARDS REPORT THAT THEY ARE UNABLE TO FIND THE ENEMY. HE DIDN'T SAY GOODBYE. Experience of an Adonis in the Wo men's Ward of the Asylum. Geo. W. Willetts of Kingman had an ex perience at the Topeki asylum a few days ago which will in the future probably cause him to guard, very carefully.against a visit to such an institution. Mr. Willetts is a man of medium height and wears, in addition to his good clothes and a neat hat, a very handsome blonde beard. Withal he is rather prepossess ing, especially in the minds of the insane women who are inmates of the asylum. Mr. Willetts was walking unconcerned ly through the corridors, examining the building, and was not a little annoyed by the frequent remarks from the women. "Oh, isn't he just too sweet for any thing," said one. "The deah boy!" chimed another. "Wouldn't he be a fine Santa Claus!" squeaked a voice. Mr. Willetts was getting "rattled" by this time, but the climax of his troubles came when a woman rushed out in front of him and exclaimed: "There's my sweetheart!" The gentleman from Kingman made ready to run, but he was too slow. The insane woman made a leap and threw her arms around his neck. He struggled to escape, but she hung on like a poor rela tion. The attendants attempted to interfere, but the scene was too ludicrous to admit of intelligent proceedings on the part of the spectators. The best they could do was to make a show of attempting to re lease the unfortunate visitor. The woman hugged the man until his breath was gone. She talked incoherent ly, but was not violent. Mr. Willetts' hat went rolling across the hall and was promptly seized by another woman, who stroked it fondly and said: "My lovey's hat came back." With one eye on the hat and the other on his tenacious friend, the visitor danced from one side of the hal lto the other, en. deavoring to get away. The more he struggled the tighter did the woman cling. Finally Mr. Willetts was released. His hat was restored, and, without waiting to say good-bye to his friends, he rushed to the street car, came to town and took the first train for home. LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS. "Town Topics," the second farce com edy to visit Topeka this week, will be seen at the Crawford theater tonight. This piece had a successful week's run at the Ninth Street theater in Kansas City last week, and is said to contain a number of clever features. The company embraces the following well known names: John V. World. W. H. Mack, William S. Kel ler, Sherman Wade, Chas. E. Graham, John Crowe and Misses Marie Leslie, Hul da Halvers, Ollie Hood, Ethel B. Payne, Alice Felicie, Nellie Ryan and Juliet Wil son. The prices are 75, 50 and 23 cents. lime. Scal'chi and her concert company stopped off in Topeka for a couple of hours yesterday on their way from St. Joseph to Kansas City, where they ap pear tonight. Tomorrow night they will be seen at the Crawford theater in this city in a double entertainment consist ing of a miscellaneous programme and the fourth act of the opera "II Trova tore." Mile. Marie Toulinguet, who ac companies Mme. Scalchi, was prima don na soprano of the Mapleson Imperial Grand Opera company last year and is said to possess an exceptional voice. Be. sides Mile. Toulinguet, the company in cludes Sig. Alberti, baritone; Mile, du Be-' dat, mezzo-soprano; Mr. Tom McQueen, tenor, and Sig. Gallia, pianist. At a matinee Saturday afternoon and on Saturday and Sunday evenings at the Crawford theater in this city Prof. W. E. Nankeville, who spent a number of years in Alaska, will lecture on the" Klondike and illustrate his lecture with cinemento graph views. Prof. Nankeville will be accompanied by several specialty artists and a vaudeville entertainment will be given in' connection with the lectures. An excellent concert under the direction of Prof, von Dahlen, will be given at the First Presbyterian church on the evening of February 4. RELIEF FOR ALASKA. TJncle Sam Pinally Charters a Steam boat and Starts Supplies. Portland, Ore., Jan. 27. Gen. Merri am, commanding the department of the Columbia, today chartered a steamboat to convey the supplies and baggage of the Alaska relief expedition from Van couver Barracks to this city, from which point they will be shipped to Dy ea by the steamer Geo. W. Elder on Feb. 1. Most of the pack animals and pack ers have been sent to Seattle, and from there they will go by steamer to Dyea. Whltmere Bros.. Barbers, 735 Kan. ave. ?rT 'Coins IN THE NAME OF RELIGION. Horrible Goings on of the Spaffordites in Jerusalem. T. J. Alley, an American citizen In Jerusalem, has issued a circular to the people of the United States directing their attention to Spaffordism, a new religion, which he declares is a fraud and little less than robbery of the vic tims who accept the peculiar theories of these teachings. The Spaffordites assert that they have been by special dispensation of Providence selected to people and re build Jerusalem for the second coming of Christ. Presumably to aid in build ing ,up the city the managers of the scheme require all persons who accept the faith to dispose of their goods and chattels, placing the money in their hands. A colony of ten people was raised In Smith county a few years ago among the number being David Yantis whose relatives are now disposing of their property in order to raise money to defray the expenses of a trip to Jer usalem for the purpose of rescuing him from the hands of these religious fanat ics. A brother and brother-in-law are now on their way to Jerusalem to bring Yantis home. According to Mr. Alley free love ex ists in the colony and the young girls belonging to families who go there are subjected to the most vile debauchery. Yet with such a record and such an ambition the agents of this belief travel through the United States and are con stantly securing new converts. Mr. Alley exposes the fraud by saying in his letter to the president of the United States: "This community which dignifies it self and at the same time disgraces all others of the name, by calling itself American, lives by preying upon the innocence of the unsuspecting. It does this by a show of godliness, and a claim to possessing special holiness, and fa vors from above. Their deluded ones are required to sell all their possessions, and had every dollar of the proceeds over to the head ones of the scheme, and hence on arrival they have no means of getting away, or even of writ ing to friends for assistance, and thus exposing the dark affair. "The marriage plight between hus band and wife is ruthlessly broken, and, as has been abundantly shown by those who have left the vile establishment by strategy, or desperation, and as some have declared, at the risk of their lives, and by other circumstances and evi dences, the community embraces the principle of free-love. "Some of those lured into the snare It is impossible to ascertain what pro portion are soon broken in spirit, dis couraged and cowed down beneath the strong hypnotic power of Mrs. Spafford, the head, and absolute ruler of the house, while those who are seen to brave the conditions, and hope for es cape, are closely watched, and kept from communication with any upon the outside, and all the while intimidated with terrible stories of the fate of those who dare to lift up the heel against them. The strange personage, the head, a rather small, blue-eyed, cramped featured woman of Norwegian birth, and determined bearing ,in a measured, rather trembling voice, promulgates her messages from her beautiful god, de claring them to set aside any Bible teaching that stands in disconsonance, and her faithful devotees more than willingly bow down in obedience to the "divine' revelation and behest. "She and that includes her votaries work chiefly upon the Norwegians and Swedes of America, but some Americans have embraced the scheme, and some of them now constitute her chief supporqt In the dark crime. Will not the friends of the ignorant and weak, towards whom their efforts are mainly directed, make diligent use of this statement and witnesses of standing, by wide circulation and pub lication in the papers, and save the peo ple from their greedy talons. "If the department will but take the pains of an official inquiry, that estab lishment will be found to have no standing in honor, truth, or common de cency among the worthy people of Jerusalem. "I would not trouble the department by particularizing here, but hope that their representations there may open the way for an official investigation of that troublous affair, so annoying to the consulate, and opposed to all good, that will not fail to elicit facts which, spread before the people of America, In so proper and forcible a way, will guard them against their dark machina tions, and save the home-land the shame with which they, by their assumed name, 'The Americans,' would stigma tize it." The communication is signed by the following persons of high standing In Jerusalem: A. Hastings Kelk, miister of Christ Church, and head of the English mis sion to the Jews; J. Gregory D'Arbela, director of Meyer Rothschilds hospital: E. G. Hinsman, M. E. Hinsman, Olivet House, proprietors; Rev. G. E. Wood house and M. A. Blyth, Bishop's House, Jerusalem: E. C. Fitzjohn, J. E. Smed ley, and R. Datzi, the Jewesses' Insti tution, Jerusalem: Louisa Barlee, L. J. S. Mission, Jerusalem: Melville T.Barg heim, proprietor the New Mill, Jerus alem. 600 Passengers for Alaska. Tacoma, Wn., Jan. 27. The steamer City of Seattle sailed today for Alaska, carrying 600 passengers. Subscribe for The State Journal. POSTAUBANKS. The Matter is Taken Up by the Senate Committee. Senators Butler and Mason Will Prepare a Bill. MR. GARY INTERESTED The Postmaster General Asks for Latitude And Suggests Two Per Cent as the Interest Rate. Washington, Jan. 27. The senate com. mlttee on postoffices and post roads to day had under consideration the advisa bility of establishing the scheme of postal savings banks in the United States. The discussion was general and the only conclusion reached was that Senators Ma son and Butler should prepare the bill, which could be used as a base for future deliberations. This was done because of the fact that there were a large number of measures before the committee, all looking to the same end. It is intended that the bill to be prepared by Messrs. Mason and Butler shall supplant all these, and they were requested to have it in shape to be taken up at the next meeting, to be held a week hence. A communication was read from Post master General Gary making suggestions regarding the details of the legislation proposed. Among other provisions urged by him was one giving the largest possi ble discretion to the postmaster general in putting the new system in operation. Mr. Gary stated that in his opinion the tendency is to make the interest rate too high. "The downward tendency of inter est rates is unmistakable," he said. He thought a rate too low preferable to one too high, and suggested two per cent as a prudent and reasonable rate. He also suggested the importance of providing certain postoffices or sub-treasuries as de positories for the postofflce funds because of the impracticability of making repay ments from Washington in case all the depositories should be located in Wash ington. DINERS OUSTED BY FLAMES Fire in a Chicago Restaurant Scares the Evening Guests. Chicago, Jan. 27. Fifty persons sitting at the tables in the American restaurant, State and Adams streets, at 8:30 o'clock last evening, were forced to flee into the street when fire was discovered between the ceiling of the cafe and the floors of the stores above. Members of the orchestra also sought places of safety and in their fright many forgot to take their instru ments with them. When it was learned the blaze was light several attempted to re-enter the restau rant for forgotten articles and for half an hour several policemen were kept busy preventing the more excited ones from hindering the work of the firemen. A waiter first discovered the blaze in the woodwork of the celling near the center of the main dining hall. He notified the cashier and an effort was made to pre vent those in the place from becoming excited. Those at the tables directly un der the blaze, however, started for the doors, and others, seeing the fire and smoke, followed. TO EDUCATE THE NEGRO. Mississippi Legislature Decide. to Continue the Appropriation. Jackson, Miss., Jan. 27. In the senate a few days since it was suggested to abol ish Alcorn college for colored boys, but no attention was paid to it. The Meth odist conference, in session at Yazoo City, became uneasy and appointed a committee of seven of its most prominent members to visit the legislature and protest. The committee appeared before the leg islature today and spoke earnestly for continued appropriations and were round ly applauued. It was admitted that Mississippi is doing more to educate the negroes than any state in the Union, and the Methodists will get what they ask for their college. THE MARTIN MONUMENT. Ex-Governor St. John's Suggestions Find Favor With the Public. The suggestion of ex-Govenor John P. St. John that the people of Kansas erect a monument over the grave of ex Governor John A. Martin at Atchison, meets with the approval of the public irrespective of party. F. P. Cochrane of Cottonwood Falls, who soldiered with Mr. Martin in the Eighth Kansas, said to a Journal re porter: "The suggestion from Mr. St. John should at once be considered by the people of Kansas. The citizens here have the opportunity to honor a great, generous hearted Kansan, who was one of the noblest and most loyal men in our state. He was a distinguished gov ernor. His administration is pointed to with pride and not viewed with alarm. Personally he was attractive even to his enemies. He was .a man of strong personality and deserves the highest honors which can be conferred upon his memory." Mr. Cochrane said further: "I am very much in favor of erecting a monu ment to Mr. Martin and am ready to contribute to a fund for that purpose." Upon being asked for a suggestion as to the proper method of managing the preliminary work he said: "I am not now prepared to say how the money should be collected but the people should have charge of the development of the idea." It was suggested to Mr. Cochrane that since Mr. St. John had made the first effort to secure a monument that he should have charge of the matter. To this he offered no objections but said: "Of course. Mrs. Martin, the widow and a most excellent woman, should be consulted in this matter and her wishes obeyed." Major Henry Inman said: "John A. Martin was a great man one of the best Kansas has produced. He should by all means have a monument." Sheriff Means, of Harvey county, also agrees that the plan should be put into active operation. Thomas H. Grisham, of Cottonwood Falls, formerly a Republican but now identified with the Populists, also Is In favor of the idea and will contribute to a monument fund. Governor Leedy also expresses his approval of the plan and stands ready to assist it in every possible way. FROM CHINA'S EMPEROR. The Former Chief of Police of San Francisco Receives a Handsome Banner. San Francisco, Jan. 27. The Chinese government conferred on ex-Chief of Po lice Crowley oft this city, last night, an honor granted to only one other white man, President Grant. It, was a large silk banner, richly ornamented, and the possession of which admits the owner to the imperial grounds in Peking the high est honor that can be given to a foreigner. Mr. Crowley was chief of police of this city for nearly twenty-five years, and his fairness to tho Chinese residents of this city induced some leading merchants of this city to petition for the privilege of presenting the banner to him. It was for. mally given to Mr. Crowley last night, with a handsomely illuminated letter. The banner is fifteen feet long and five feet wide, and is made of scarlet satin, em-( broidered with designs in silver and gold. The border of mandarin blue is magnifi cently decorated with Chinese characters, Interspersed with small mirrors in silver frames. This same decoration appears on an elaborate fringe on the lower edge. Across the face of the banner are worked birds and flowers. On one end is the em peror's name in royal green and four Chi nese characters a foot high, of spun gold. The other side of the banner is of white silk, on which the Chinese artist has de picted a battle scene. MUSICAL STRING TRUST. One Big Firm Proposes to Control All the Business. New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 27. With the opening of the new musical string fac tory in this city, there will be establish ed a combination or trust which will con trol the output of all musical strings manufactured in this country. The Na tional String company Is the firm, and it is the consolidation of all of the musi cal string interests in the United States. The firm was organized by the consoli dation of a large factory in Boston, Mass.. one In Belleville, N. J., and another in New York city. All of the musical strings used hereafter will be manufac tured in the new factory in this city, which has just been finished, and which has just been occupied by the firm. One hundred and fifty hands wilfcbe employed. COTTON MILLS OPENED. Located at Cordova, Ala., and Employ One Thousand Persons. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 27. The Indian Head cotton mills just completed at Cor dova began operation today, employing 1, 000 persons. The mills are the largest in the state, containing 50,000 spindles and 10,000 looms, with an annual consumption of 10,000 bales of cotton and representing an investment of $600,000. They were built and are owned by Bos ton capitalists, who are now preparing to double the capacity of their plant, making it probably the largest in the south. The output, which is coarse grade cloths, has been sold for several years ahead in China, and will be shipped thence as rapidly as prepared. Proximity to the cotton and coal supplies caused the mills to be located in North Alabama. WILL MAKE SILK HERE. French. Manufacturers Will Establish, a Plant at Bethlehem, Pa. New York, Jan. 27. Silk manufacturers in this country and abroad will be greatly interested in a move about to be made by Duplan Co. of Lyons, France, to re cover their American trade. The Frenchmen intend to establish a branch plant in South Bethlehem, Pa., and to turn out there the same goods now made only in Lyons. Members of the firm say there will be no wholesale cut in prices, and that a war in the trade is unlikely. Home manufacturers, how ever, will undoubtedly be affected to some extent by the operation of the Bethlehem plant, where the looms will be started on April 1. Duplan Co. are among the largest manufacturers of silk in Lyons. Before the Dingley tariff became operative they had a profitable trade in this' country, but that law has operated so favorably for American manufacturers that the Frenchmen found their trade going to their Yankee rivals. Surveyors Scared by Indians. Albuquerque, N. M., Jan. 27. The first Indian scare that New Mexico -has had for a long time occurred at the Indian village of San Felipe yesterday. The sur veyors for the low line irrigation canal had reached the village and commenced operations, when Indians began to gather from all directions. They were gorgeous ly adorned with war paint, and were also well armed with Winchesters, axes and other well known weapons of Indian war fare. They commanded the surveyors to stop work and withdraw from their coun try. The surveyors hastily retreated to this city. Gold Found Near Anniston, Ala. Anniston, Ala., Jan. 27. Deputy Marshal D. R. Burgess, while on a recent raid, found some very fine specimens of gold within a few miles of Anniston. One of the specimens was a nugget of virgin gold as large as a walnut and the other was a rich piece of gold-bearing quartz. Mr, Burgess will not say where he discovered the gold. Give the Children a Drink called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appe tizing.nouKphing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all vUio hseve used it because when properlyreaared it tastes like the finest coffeeVii is free from all Its injurious propertN. Grain-G aids di gestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit. Costs about as much as coffee. 15 and 25c. Official General Statutes. The General Statutes of Kansas. 1S97, In two volumes, compiled and annotat ed by by Judge W. C. Webb are now ready for delivery. Address, Kansas Statute Co., 825 Quincy street, Topeka, Kansas. Homeseekers' Excursion. One fare for the round trip (plus J2.00) on Tuesday, February 1, via the Santa Fe Route for tickets to Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Liberal limits and stopover privileges. Apply to agent Santa Fe Route for de tails. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry, Cold Cure cures colds in the head, colds on the lungs, old coMs, new colds and obstinate col-8, and all forms of crip. Stops snoezinp, discharges from the nose and eyes, prevents cauirrh, diphtheria, pneumonia, and all throatund lun troubles. These pleasant little pellets are absolutely harmless, have saved thousands of lives and prevented much sick ness. The Munyon Remedy Company prepare a separate cure for each disease. At all drusi?t3 25 cents a viaL If you urea medical advice write Prof. M uiiyon, 1506 Arch blreet, i'liLuuielphia. It is absolutely free. A iLOCAI, Disease CATARRI A Climatic Affection Nothing but a Iocs' remedy or change el climate will oure it. Get a well known pharmaceutical remedy. ,!fti5.fS i Ely's Cream Bain It is quickly Absorber Gives Relief at once. Opens and cleanses tht L Allays Inflammation. CULO'N HEAD Heals and protects th tmurane, Ivestoios tba Senses of Taste and Smelt. No Cocaine, So Mercury. .No Injurious drug. Full bizm 0c; Trial Size lOc, at Drujfjrlsts or bv mall. :1Y BitOTHKKS, 56 Warrtm &t, ISaw York. Y&SHIHfi Dirt of any kind on any thine quickly yields to the easy effort of the, housewife who uses this great cleaner. Largest package greatest sconomir. Ask the rocer for it. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1898. RAILR0AD NEWS. Santa Fe Grievance Committees of 0. R. C and B. of R. T. Appeal From Mr. Turner to Superintendent Mudge. THEY GltOW HESTLESS. Different Division OSicials HaTe Different Interpretation Of the Rules Relating to Time and Runs. General Superintendent H. TT. Mudge of the Santa Fe has been appealed to by the joint grievance committee of the O. PL C. and B. of R. T. in session in this city to place definite construc tions on several of the rules in regard to computing time under the present schedule which shall be agreeable to the men. When Mr. Avery Turner took the po sition of assistant general superintend ent it was understood that one of his duties would be to handle all matters between the trainmen and the company. Accordingly when the grievance com mittee decided that something had to be done in reference to certain schedule rules they went to Mr. Turner and asked him to place definite construc tions on the rules in question so that they could not be interpreted in differ ent ways by different division officials. Mr. Turner placed constructions on the rules, but then the committee was not satisfied to have them made permanent. Mr. Turner's constructions did not suit the men, and they told him so. He in turn tcld them there was nothing left to do but take the matter one notch higher, and in consequence the visits of the committee to Mr. Turner's of fice ceased and they waited for an op portunity of seeing General Superin tendent Mudge. Yesterday the committee secured the opportunity and called on Mr. Mudge. They explained their difficulties to him, and he is now considering the rules in controversy. If he fails to place satis factory constructions on them the com mittee will probably go another step officially, and take the matter up with General Manager Frey. In case an agreement couid not be arrived at, it might mean serious trouble between the trainmen and the company. But Mr. Mudge says there is but little possibility of any trouble, as he be lieves that within the next two or three days the matter will be satisfactorily settled. The trainmen claim that they have suffered much injustice in the past at the hands of division officials for the reason that there was no general interpretation of several of the rules relating to time and runs. POISONED B"5T A TARANTULA. A Katy Brakeman Has a Severe Ex perience at the Hospital. Dennison, Jan. 27. Jim Hemmingwav, a brakeman on the south end of the Katy, is back from the hospital at Se dalia. Mo., where he has been since last September under treatment for a tar antula bite. On the 9th day of last September, or rather the night of the 9th, he was braking on the Henrietta branch of the Katy, and at a place this side of Henri etta he dropped his switch lock on the ground while throwing a switch. In stead of taking his lantern to look for the lock he put down his right hand to feel for it on the ground. He touched a tarantula and was bitten on the tip of the middle finger of the right hand. He felt a sharp pang of pain at the time, but paid little attention to it and went on with his work. The finger swelled and became very painful, but still he kept on at work, thinking he would get all right in a short time. He was sent to the company's hospital at Sedalia for treatment, and there the finger was amputated at the first joint It healed up all but a small place which remained sore. He had considerable fe ver all that time, and his temperature ran all the way from 101 to 104 degrees Finding that the wound would not heal" the surgeons cut the finger again, and 27 times after that it was amputated, making 29 amputations of the member during the time. All the surgical oper ations were performed while Hemming way was having high fever, and it was impossible to administer opiates of any kind to allay the pain of the operation. The final operation was performed nearly two months ago. the hand being split from the knuckle of the middle finger to the wrist, and the finger be ing taken out back of the knuckle, then for a time the nurses rubbed the' right arm from the shoulder down, to get the poison out of it, and by a small grad ual process the wound healed and Hem mingway was restored to health. AMONG RAILROAD MEN. Engineer John Blake is now on the Cedarvale, Santa Fe, run in place of Mr. Prentiss who was removed to the Coffeyville-Cherryvale run. S. O. Slane who has been running the day yard force during Yardmaster Curtis absence at Chanute. has return ed to his position of night yard mas ter. Robert Cunningham, head clerk of the Santa Fe shops, has been promoted to the chief clerkship of motive power de partment of the Southern California railroad, with headquarters at San Bernardino, Cal., and he and his wife will leave for southern California Thursday morning. Foreman L. J. Wackerle of Osawato mie has been promoted to the position of assistant general foreman, made va cant by the death of C. Stevens, which occurred some two weeks ago at Kan sas City, Kan. G. C. Shaeffer. who was located as station agent at Wallace two vears ago, has succeeded S. W. Campbell as agent at Sharon Springs. Mr. Camp bell was given the station at Ellis. F. J. Best has been promoted by the Santa Fe officials from Douglass to Newkirk, O. T. He will leave in a few days for his work. W. S. Downing has been relieved as night operator at Syracuse and as signed to Pierceville. The Rock Island has a steam stone crusher at work in the Montrose quar ries in Jewell county, employing 50 men. Rock is being taken out to bal last the main line track between Belle ville and Smith Center. The 'Frisco railway officials have abolished the telegraph office at the de pot at Andover. Andover voted bonds to the 'Frisco road, with the provision that a depot.telegraph office and switch would be maintained. Now that the telegraph instruments have been re moved, the citizens of the township are going to sue the road for breaking their contract. During the year 1S97 on territorv of P Carrol, general foreman of the B and B. department of the Missouri Paci fic out of El Dorado, there were twelve wooden bridges replaced by iron gird- ers, aggregating in length 1,290 feet. Of trestle work there was 14 feet of con struction. 9.013 feet of entire renewal. 11,931 feet of new decking, 6.8S0 feet of trestle work drova and capped for re newal and 8,014 feet of trestle work capped. These were three combination bridges aggregating 440 feet renewed. In the line of improvements there were three new depots constructed; an addi tion with a storage capacity of 100,000 bushels to the company elevator at Coffeyville; four new water tanks;ten new stock yards. Depots and other buildings were painted at 13 stations. P. G. TO CHICAGO. To Enter Over the Burlington Track Through Service. Kansas City, Jan. 27. It Is announced here that arrangements by which the Kansas City, Pittsburg Gulf railroad will secure an entrance to Chicago have been all but completed. The entrance will be gained over the Burlington tracks out of Quincy, 111. The Pitts burg and the Gulf has already leased the right to use the Burlington station and terminals at Quincy and the Bur lington bridge across the Mississippi river. A contract for the use of the Burlington tracks by the Pittsburg Gulf for freight and passenger traffic between Quincy and Chicago has been j drawn up and is under consideration by President Stillwell. If the pending con tract with the Burlington can be effect ed, the Pittsburg Gulf will also es tablish through train service from Chi cago to the Gulf of Mexico, at Port Arthur. FROM WELLINGTON. Joe Devaney's bridge gang is doing some work near Oxford today. Mrs. Wm. Sehamerhorn is visiting friends at Conway Springs today. Engineer N. J. Huff is down from Wichita as a witness in the damage suit of Willey vs. the Santa Fe. Joe Bush began his two weeks as night hostler at the Santa Fe last ev ening. Louis Brinkmeyer is on the day shift. Joe Johnston, a former conductor in the employ of the Santa Fe at this place, was up from Caldwell last night on his way to Wichita. Joe is clerking in the Leland hotel at Caldwell. Engineer McCarty took the first de gree in the Masonic lodge last night. J. L. Kise, Santa Fe lineman, went to Woodward this morning "to make some repairs in his line." THREE WORTHY PROMOTIONS. Topeka Railroad. Men Who Began Their Work Under Supt Player. Mr. Harry Hillyer. chief clerk of the master mechanic's office at San Bernar dino, has been promoted to the position of chief clerk in the mechanical depart ment at Albuquerque, and Robert Cun ningham, who has been chief clerk at Ottawa has been promoted to the posi tion at San Bernardino in the place of Mr. Hillyer. Mr. Frank Cain, of Su perintendent Player's office has been promoted to the position at Ottawa. All three of these who have been pro moted have served their apprenticeship in Superintendent's Player's office in Topeka as clerks. Mr. Hillyer com menced his career with the Santa Fe 11 years ago, Mr. Cunningham was a clerk in Mr. Player's office 12 years ago and Mr. Cain has been holding the po sition of clerk for 10 years. O. R. C. ADJOURNS. Grievance Committee Elects Officers and Winds Up Business. The general grievance committee of the Order of Railway Conductors on the Santa Fe system has completed its la bors and expects to adjourn tonight. The committee has elected the follow ing officers for the ensuing two years: General chairman, John C. Ramsey, Chanute. Vice chairman, John C. King, Raton, N. M. Secretary, William Simpson, Argen tine. Mr. King said today: "The commit tee has disposed of a large amount of work and adjourns today in the best of spirits. The members are especially gratified with the fact that all business has been disposed of without a disa greement of any kind, among the mem bers of the committee or between the committee and the management of the Santa Fe. We have been treated with courtesy and consideration at all times and the company officials have taken much interest in our work. We feel that the session now closing has been especially beneficial to the organization. We have been kindly treated during our stay in Topeka." SERVICE CARD STOLEN. Mexican Central Conductor Finds a Slight Clue to a Mail Robbery. Mr. James M. Armfield, a conductor on the Mexican Central who used to be a conductor on the Santa Fe, is visit ing in the city and through his visit he has unearthed what is probably a mail robbery but who the robber is he does not know. Some time ago Armfield de cided to send his service card to Sup erintendent McClellan with a request that a copy be made out and sent him if possible as the card he had and en closed was badly worn from being car ried in his pocket. The card and letter were placed in an envelope and the en velope plainly addressed bore a five cent Mexican stamp. Mr. Armfield waited for an answer and did not receive one so when he came to Topeka he saw Superintendent McClellan and explained the matter to him. It was then found that Mr. Mc Clellan had received the service card from Lincoln, Neb., together with an application. Mr. Armfield's signature was forged although not very well. Mr. Armfield leaves Thursday for Mexico with the hope that his card may be found and the thief arrested. Mr. Hoe, the writer who forged his name and got the letter he does not know but supposes that it was stolen from the United States mail. BIG SANTA FE CONTRACT. Cottonwood Falls Stone Company to Furnish Stone for All Western Division Masonry. Cottonwood Falls.Jan. 27. The Chase County Stone company, through J. E. Duchanoyse, has secured the contract for furnishing all masonry put in this season by the Santa Fe on its western division. The contract is a large one, as many steel bridges will replace wooden tres tles and culverts. The quarry is just east of this city. Inspecting Santa Fe Lines Superintendent of Machinery John Player and General Superintendent J. J. Frey have left on a tour of inspec tion of the lines west of Topeka. Mr. Frey will accompany Mr. Piayer as far west as Albuquerque and from there Mr. Player will be accompanied by Mr. W. G. Mervine of the Southern Cali fornia. A thrill of terror is experienced when a brassy cough of croup sounds through the house at night. But the terror soon changes to relief alter One Minute Cough Cure has been administered. Safe and harmless for children. G. W. Stansneld, 632 Kansas avenue. STATE POLITICS. Levelling Defends the Admin istration Against Costigan. Says That Costigan Wanted to Be Insurance Commissioner. MR. LEWELLIXG SAYS That He Himself Asked to Have Him Appointed. Other Political News and Gossip of Kansas. Ex-Gov. L. D. Lewelling has come forward as the champion of Governor Leedy against the attacks made on the executive by W. J. Costigan of Ottawa, and accuses Costigan of trying to in jure the party to satisfy a personal spite. In reference to the attack made on the governor by Costigan, in a recent interview, together with some inside history of the Abilene convention, Gov. Lewelling said today: "I think Mr. Costigan's course is un wise in the extreme. He does not deny that his grievance against Gov. Leedy is chiefly personal. In my judgment. Gov. Leedy has given him no cause for this feeling of resentment. It is true that Costigan's friends, myself among the number, asked Gov. Leedy to make him insurance commissioner. The gov ernor expressed a desire to do what he might be able for Mr. Costigan, but in formed us, without much delay, that he could not give him this place. I had then, and now have, every reason to be lieve that Mr. Costigan might have had a position at the hands of the governor which would have been highly credita ble, and one which would have been fairly remunerative. "Mr. Costigan has been my loyal friend, and I do not desire this state ment to appear as an attack upon him; but I cannot defend his course, and earnestly hope that he will see fit to change it. What he has said about the Abilene convention, as wrell as about my desire for Gov. Leedy's nomination prior to that time, is all true. "It is true that Mr. Costigan, as many other loyal Populists, did what he could to bring about the governess nomination, but it is also true that Gov. Leedy has a keen sense of ap preciation of his friends, and his atti tude towards Mr. Costigan was no ex ception to the rule. But the latter em phatically declined, in advance, to ac cept any other position than that of su perintendent of insurance, and this the governor believed he could not, with propriety, bestow upon him." MAY FAIL IN THE HOUSE. Bill to Provide a Place for Judge Pet ers is DoubtfuL The supporters of the new federal dis trict bill seem to be wavering in the opinion that the bill will pass at this session of congress. The men who are behind it are confident that the meas ure will pass the senate, but they are doubtful of the house of representa tives. S. R. Peters of Newton, who is anx ious to have the bill passed so he may be appointed judge of the court, is es pecially interested. He has spent much time in Washing ton, but is now at home. He said: "This bill will pass the senate, in my opinion, without any difficulty. I have some doubt as to the passage of the bill in the house at this session, but I do believe it will go through at the short term." Phil Campbell and W. C. Perry re main in Washington to look after the bill, but its supporters now expect a unanimous report from the judiciary committee in favor of its passage. DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. For the Meeting of Prominent Kan sas Democrats February 24. J. Mack Love, chairman of the Demo cratic state central committee. Frank S. Thomas, Eugene Wolfe and Chas. K. Holliday, Jr., held a meeting Wednes day night and prepared the following programme for the Democratic banquet February 24: J. Mack Love. Arkansas City "What Are We Here For?" David Overmyer, Topeka "Restored Democracy." Claud Duval, Hutchinson "The Young Democracy." George W. Glick, Atchison "The Old Guard." Hugh P. Farrelly, Chanute "Trusts, the Menace of Free Government." E. E. Murphy, Leavenworth "Resub mission or Death." A. M. Jackson, Howard "The Feder al Judiciary." John H. Atwood, Leavenworth "Bryan." R. H. Lindsey, Kansas City "The Democratic Press." H. S. Martin, Marion "The Hope of the People." W. S. Glass, Marysville "The Issues and Our Platform." John Martin, Topeka "Kansas De mocracy, Past, Present and Future." J. G. Johnson, Peabody, will act as toastmaster. SENATOR LAMB ANNOUNCES. Is the Fourth Candidate for Congress in the Fourth. Senator G. H. Lamb of Woodson county, a member of the last legisla ture, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for congress in the Fourth district. This makes the fourth candidate who has officially avowed such intention. Senator Lamb in the last legislature was especially active in important leg islative matters. The other candidates are J. M. Miller of Council Grove, and J. S. Dean and J. W. Moore who are having a spirited contest over the Marion county delega tion. E. G. Pipp of Burlingame and H. B. Miller cf Osage City, are also talked, of. Mr. Pipp is in reality a candidate. A. O. U. W. Caused Postponement The real reason why the state meet- I ing of Democrats was changed from February 22 to February 24 i3 that a majority of the members of that party who will be present at the banquet are prominent members of the A. O. U. W. grand lodge of the state which meets at Wichita February 21, 22 and 23. In or- der to permit them to attend the grand lodge and to secure also the benefit of reduced rates to Topeka the date of the meeting and banquet was changed by Chairman J. Macs Jjove. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Lawrence Republicans have an nounced their intention of supporting J. D. Bowersock for congress in the Second district. o Douglas county Democrats and Pop ulists are fighting Congressman Mason Peters in the Second district for the purpose of putting forward Sam Bish op, a prominent young Democrat in Lawrence, for his place. Bishop was a candidate two years ago. Senator -John E. Hessin, whom the lawyers address as "governor," is at tending the meeting of the state bar association. He said: "In my opinion there is no demand for a new federal district in Kansas." Eugene Hagan is in Washington con ferring with the leaders of the sound money wing of the Democratic party. He will be absent two weeks. Mr. Ha gan is chairman of the Kansas state committee. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Examinations at Washburn college be gin Friday. The joint cases in the district court will be cleared up this week. Paymaster William Hobson of the Rock Island is visiting in Chicago. Next Tuesday the Y. M. C. A. bowling alleys will be closed for repairs. Henry Dillard is arranging to give a masked ball at Hamilton hall soon. S. H. Comer has purchased the First Avenue hotel and took charge today. Candidates for constable and justice of the peace are already circulating cards. Easf Fourth street near the railroad crossing is in a deplorable condition. This is the kind of weather people claim benefits the wheat, so don't complain. J. L. Campbell has sold $57.75 worth of lumber from the old Kansas avenue bridge. Dick Hodgins will build a bouse be tween Fifth and Sixth on Lincoln street this summer. J. J. Schenck, the lawyer, now occupies rooms with R. B. Welch in the Colum bian building. Mrs. George C. Stoker of 1206 West Sixth street is slowly recovering from a pro tracted illness. Mr. C. S. Sutton, auditor of freight re ceipts of the Santa Fe, is an accomplish ed 'cello player. The high school first term examinations have been completed. The new term be gins Monday next. Today was observed at Washburn col lege with prayer for colleges. Classes were dismissed at 9 a. m. Mr. R. S. Boyle, conductor on the Rock Island between Topeka and Caldwell, is ill at his home in this city. H. V. Donnell, who was graduated from Washburn college in 1S95, is now prac ticing law in New York city. A Topeka attorney says that the day of ranting attorneys has passed and that lawyers are now business men. John MacDonald returned Wednesday from Chicago, where he lectured on Rob ert Burns" before the Oakland club. Major Anderson has advised his son by a letter which is not to be opened until the boy is 21 years old, to keep out ot politics. Colonel J. W. F. Hughes has been given the contract for furnishing the coal for the county. The price is $3.20 per ton for Weir City. Dr. Daniel Whitmer Is at Christ hospi tal, where he is nursing a broken leg and sprained ankle, a result of the fall he suffered Tuesday. There is a four-year-old child in Topeka who can quote poetry from Kipling as glibly as a schoolboy can repeat the verses from his first reader. Columbia Council No. 50, Knights and Ladies of Security, will give a musical and literary entertainment at Lincoln Post hall Friday evening. The next entertainment in the Wash burn college lecture course will be a lec ture by Frank Bristol of Washington, D. C, on the subject "Brains." A short sketch of General Manager Frey of the Santa Fe appears in a recent num ber of the "Railway Conductor" under the head "A Self-Made Man." The first officer of the State Bar asso ciation to arrive for the annual meeting was C. C. Coleman of Clay Center, chair man of the executive committee. Dr. H. H. Miller of Rossivlle has again been compelled to enter a Topeka hospital for treatment. Dr. Miller is suffering with inflammatory rheumatism. Washburn college will probably Join the college base ball league this spring, which will include the state university, Baker university and Ottawa university. Clerk Sharitt of the federal court says that the New York Life part of the Hill mon controversy has not been dismissed. It will be as soon as Judge Williams ar rives. Major Anderson has received two larga pictures from the Santa Fe to be hung on the walls of the Commercial club rooms. They are scenes from the Rocky mountains. On a Washburn college trolley ca which left the transfer station Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock there were 26 meh on board and not one woman. All tho shoppers got home on the car 20 min. utes before that. A Topeka hardware man was exhibiting a patent shovel for removing snow from sidewalks yesterday, to a crowd of friends and prospective customers, when the shovel broke into pieces much to the chagrin of the dealer. There will be a meeting Saturday night in the Y. M. C. A. rooms on East Eighth street for the purpose of forming a Klon dike mining company. The meeting is called for the Santa Fe shopmen who are interested in the gold fields. The second trial of Dr. Samuel A. Johnston for implication in the Topeka grave robbery cases is set for trial at Alma for next Tuesday. M. E. Lowe was convicted at the first trial and the appellate court ordered a new trial in th Johnston case. The officers of the Kansas College Press association are as follows: President, L. A. McKeever, Salina; vice president, M. L. Sheffer. Atchison; secretary and treas urer, F. W. Potter, Peabody. The an nual meeting of the association will be held at Lawrence February 25. The small purple and white ribbon badges worn by Masons i3 the indication of mourning among the thirty-third de gree men. Recently a prominent Wash ington lawyer and a leading capitalist in New Orleans, both distinguished thirty third degree men, died. The badge of mourning is now being worn throughout the TTnited States by those who have ad vanced to that degree. There are about Mi These Fine Winter Decys "ftJhen. rh.etiraa.tio old husbands cannot join their wives on sRa-ting; expeditions twenty of the little badges being worn in Kansas. Miss Mabel C. Doughty, who teaches school in the George West district, north of Silver Lake, was seriously burned by a gasoline explosion last week. She was cleaning a dress with gasoline at night, and set the gasoline can near a lamp. The lamp was upset, striking the gasoline can and exploding the fluid. The flames caught Miss Doughty's dress, and before assistance could be rendered her she was horribly burned about the face and neck. The burns may prove fatal, as she has been unconscious most of the time since the accident. MASONS AT WICHITA. To Meet February 16-18 To Revise the By-Laws in a Radical Manner. The annual meeting of the Masonic grand lodge at Wichita February 16, 17 and IS will be the most important in many years, as a revision of the by-laws of the organization will come up for final consideration. The laws which .have gov. erned the organization for twenty-five years in Kansas will undergo, in some in stances, radical changes. The committee in charge of the work of revision is composed of A. H. Ellis or Beloit.J. C. Postlethwaite of Jewell City and T. E. Dewey of Abilene. The committee recently held a three weeks' session in this city working on the report which will be submitted to the grand lodge. A POLITICAL MARTYR. George Breyman's Persecutions Lead to His Being Rewarded. The state board of charities in giving George S. Breyman of Doniphan coun ty a position as supervisor at the Kan sas City blind institute, rewarded a man who has been the victim of the most bitter political persecution by members of his own family because he joined a Bryan club in the last cam paign and refused to withdraw and identify himself with the McKinley club. Breyman lived at Highland. He is a cripple and his wife is an invalid. He owned a small restaurant and lunch room, which was mortgaged for a small sum to his brother. In the heat of the last campaign Breyman became a member of the Bry an club, but was immediately ordered by his five brothers to resign his mem bership and join the McKinley club. He refused to do this, and the brother threatened to foreclose the mortgage on his property. Breyman said: "All right; foreclose. I propose to stay where I am political ly." His brother was as good as his word. He foreclosed the mortgage and drove his brother practically into the street. He has experienced great hard ship since that time. but the matter was presented to the board of charities and a place was found for the victim of a brother's displeasure. RAI LROAD TO DAWSON. Canadian Government Will Donate 25,000 Acres of Land Per Mile. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 27. The contract for building a railway from Telegraph creek to Teslin lake, leading from the head waters of the Stikeen to Dawson City, has been signed by McKenzie Mann, the road to be commenced at a point not yet decided upon near Glenora and run to Teslin lake over a country not very dif ficult for railway construction. The dis tance is about 130 miles. The Canadian government has agreed with the contractors to give 25,000 acres of land per mile as a subsidy. The rail way will be completed in time to permit of supplies being sent into the Yukon be fore next winter sets in. Steamers are to run from Teslin lake to Dawson City. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to "cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. 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 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all druggists. if!Mt!.l II J1-I MfM fc".tT. t4'Hill(f: J' it UNDER THE DOME News of the Kansas State De partments. An Amusing Reminiscence of Webb McNall. REACHES CONCLUSION That the Quickest Way to En courage Prosperity- Is to Pay Tour Debts as Fast as Possible. "I picked up this speech among a lot of old books this morning," said Insur ance Commissioner Webb McNall, as he held up a pamphlet containing a speech delivered on the currency ques tion by Charles N. Fowler, representa tive in congress from New Jersey, "and it reminded me of some old Kansas his tory in which Mr. Fowler is concerned. The reason Mr. Fowler became a con gressman and a financier, was due to the fact that he went east because he didn't like to live in a state where he owed the farmers $20,000. I was in the same boat with him, only on a smaller scale, but I staid here and paid off what I oved, and you see the best I could do was to get the job of insurance commissioner. "Along in 18S0 and 1881," went on Mr. McNall, "Mr. Fowler was in the cream ery business at Gaylord. He owned sev eral creameries, while I owned- only one. He busted, and so did I, but his liabilities amounted to about $20,000, while mine only amounted to $5,000. I buckled down as soon as I went over," mortgaged all the property I had, in cluding my homestead, and paid my creditors. Soon after Mr. Fowler bust ed, he packed up and slid out to New York, leaving his creditors in the hole. They are still in the hole. "You see Mr. Fowler had printed on the title page of his pamphlet the fol lowing: 'To secure speedy, general and permanent prosperity, our finances should be readjusted and our currency should be reformed.' Maybe he thought that in 'readjusting and reforming,' old debts could be wiped out. I have found out that one way to encourage prosper ity is to pay your debts." COMPANY E" K. N. G. Governor Leedy Will Give the Hutch inson Soldiers a Chance to Stay In. The trouble between Company "E" of the K. N. G. at Hutchinson and the state military board will terminate within the next two days by Gov. Leedy issuing a reprimand to Capt. R. A. Campbell, with instructions that it be read before the company. That is, the trouble will be termin ated if Capt. Campbell consents to read the reprimand before his company, which is considered doubtful from the fact that it will be made very severe. If Capt. Campbell refuses to accept and read the reprimand, he will be dis charged from the service of the state and the company probably disbanded. The trouble with Company "E" com menced several months ago, when charges were made to the military board that the company had participat ed in full uniform and with state arms in partisan political parades. This is directly against the provis ions of the K. N. G. HOISTS THE WHITE FLAG. Kew York Life Desires Peace Attor ney General Boyle to Aid. Quinton Quinton, as attorneys for the New York Life Insurance company, today commenced proceedings in the supreme court to set aside service cf summons under the quo warranto pro ceedings instituted there some time ago. This is a preliminary step on the part of the insurance company to have the proceedings dismissed, but Attorney General Boyle says this is unnecessary. He says the insurance company has ac knowledged the sovereignty of the state and is ready to comply with the law, and that the proceedings will be dis missed by him. The proceedings were brought by At v: SI S5 torney General Bo;yIe to oust the com pany from Kansas for the reason that it was continuing to do business in the state without a license. MR. STKYEES'S LATEST. Teachers Must Attend Associations, Etc., or Have Certificate Revoked. State Superintendent of Instruction W. B. Stryker has proposed an addition to the contracts between district boards and teachers which will not tend to make the teachers entertain more kind ly feelings toward the head of the state school work. On the other hand, it will probably be looked upon in the light of an imposition on their rights. Superintendent Stryker asks the co-operation of county superintendents in enforcing the additional provision, which is as follows: "It is also agreed that said teacher will pursue the professional course of study prescribed by the State Reading Circle board, or its equivalent; will at tend county and district teachers' asso ciations and follow the common school course of study adopted by the state board of education. "Continued failure to comply with the above conditions, one month's written notice having been given the teacher and district board by the county super intendent, renders this contract void at the option of the district board, the county superintendent concurring." HAUL CHILDREN TO SCHOOL. Stafford County District Has a Wagon Daily at the Pupils' Homes Superintendent of Instruction Stry ker has been notified that the school district including Macksville, Stafford county, and the three school districts adjoining, are to be consolidated. The three outlying school districts are small, and the building at Macksville is large enough to accommodate all the pupils. In getting the pupils into the Macks ville school a novel scheme is to be adopted by each of the three outlying districts. A wagon and team is to be procured by each district, and a boy hired to drive the children to school ir the mornings and out to their homes in the evening. There are not more than 15 children in the most populous of the three districts, and only one wagon will be required by each. The teams will be kept at the ex pense of the respective districts. STATE HOUSE NOTES. One of the attorneys of the Connecti cut Mutual Life Insurance company has made the statement that his com pany would continue to fight the Hiil mon case regardless of the action of the two New York companies. He said there was a possibility of the Mutual Life Insurance company effecting a compromise. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance company is preparing to try the case before Judge Williams, on February 14. o The state board of pardons will fin ish its first quarterly session next Sat urday. About 75 cases have been ex amined and recommendations will be made on them the day of adjournment Few pardons will be recommended. o A letter has been received In this city from. Senator Harris in which he says that he will use all his efforts in op posing the bill introduced by Senator Piatt to do away with state depart ments of insurance. The appeal case in the disbarment proceedings against H. B. Fleharty, formerly executive clerk to Governor Leedy and now deputy state oil inspect or, has been set for hearing in the su preme court in April. The appeal was taken to the supreme court by Mr. Fle harty from the Pawnee county district, in which he was disbarred from prac ticing in the courts of the state. Mr. Heflebower a Good Collector. The story of Kansas' present pros perity is tola in the report of the last half year's tax returns, which has been made up in the office of State Treasur er Heflebower. The report shows that $1,500,000 in round numbers has been re ceived by the state for the last half year's tax, and that this is over 70 per cent of the tax due. For years the per centage has never gone over 60 per cent usually being but little over 50 per cent. Whooping cough is the most distress ing malady; but is duration can be cut short by the use of One Minute Coiih Cure, which is also the best known remedy for croup and all lung and, bronchial troubles. G. W. StansSeid. 632 Kansas avenue.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOUEXAL, THTXRSDAT EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1898. The State Journal BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXV No. 23 OFFICIAL CITY PAPER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, 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 pystem. By mail, one year W-J1 By mail, three months Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building-. 800 and 802 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business officr- Bell "Phone 107 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone a.i New York address: 322 Potter Birilding, care American Newspaper Publishers as sociation, where tiles of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. DOCTORS AND THE FAITH CTXRE A Christian Science healer was fined $50 in Kansas City the other day for practicing her profession in her own way. Instances of arrests of this class of practitioners in the curative art have become frequent of late, seeming to in crease in proportion to the growth of the cult. While the courts are hammering away at those who practice the faith cure, hypnosis and methods of that class under whatever name known the medical men are coming more and more to acknowledge certain merits in the system if system it may be called. Discussing the relation of the medical man to these recently developed meth ods of healing the sick Dr. Albert H. Burr, of Chicago, in an article in the Medical Record says: As a rule he has overlooked the im portant relations of the mind to mor bid processes, and is too apt to regard its influence in the cure of diseases as of a minor or secondary importance. It is not creditable to the intelligence of the great body of scientific physi cians that so many of us ridicule or dis credit the cures, some of which are gen uine, wrought without the regulation agencies through so called faith healers, Christian scientists, and the like. We cannot ignore entirely the testimony of those who have been relieved and cured of maladies by these methods. It is time the medical profession ac knowledged candidly that such things are possible and do take place in a cer tain class of patients and diseases. It is time it learned to account for and ex plain these results through the opera tion of well known psychical laws. Every physician should be prepared to show that there is nothing miracu lous or supernatural about these cures. He should be able to demonstrate that the physician who devotes his life to the healing art can do all, and much more than this class of healers can do, no matter by what name they are known, without masquerading behind supersti tions, simply by comprehending and acting upon certain principles of psy chology and the laws which govern suggestion. If any physician thinks it is not time for the profession to wake up on this subject, let him look at those great in stitutions of divine healing and Chris tian science on the prominent boule vards of our city. Let him visit them and see his patients and his neighbors' patients flocking to them, and consider if it is not worth his while to employ intelligently a much neglected means of therapeutics which some of these laymen employ ignorantly and often harmfully. Many of these healers are tricksters and mountebanks, like the recent false Schlatter. Others are sin cere, but deluded as to the philosophy of the few cures they are able to bring about, which the intelligent physician knows are due to suggestion alone. These various schools claiming to prac tise mental healing, faith healing, di vine healing, Christion science healing, may all be classed under the head of psycho-therapy, which is a division of suggestive therapeutics. It is bv sug gestion that a mother sooths the pain of her little child who has pinched its finger In the door and runs screaming to her for aid. "Mamma will kiss the hurt all away. Now it doesn't hurt any more." The child believes its mother; the hurt is gone; its own faith has done the work; it dries its tears at once and goes back contentedly to its play. That is faith cure and divine healing and Christian science in a nutshell. Again, the mother instinct knows her restless wakeful babe needs sleep. She sings a soothing slumber song full of sleep suggestions and the babe closes its eyes in dreamland. That is hypnotism in a nutshell. Faith cure and hypnosis are both ruled alike by suggestion, and the mother, so far as child life is concerned, is the unconscious mistress of both. Ali we may hope to do in whatever form we employ therapeutic suggestion is to ex pand and improve upon her methods. Emperor William's friendship for Hayti was so strongly expressed by a visit of his warships that his young men were enabled to bring home a large sum of money as a token of the black republic's appreciation. The sudden rush of the people ready and anxious to dig the Nicaragua canal seems to indicate that somebody has had a tip. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) rA man can do anything, tomorrow. Some people laugh as if it hurt them. The dirtiest thing in town Is the in eide of a boy's pocket. Living up to ideals is like doing ev ery day work with your Sunday clothes on. An Atchison doctor says he considers a correct dinner all he can get for 25 cents. Nearly every young man has the no tion that something important is liable to go on down town at night. Very few people of mature years can hope to reach their grave -without be ing divorced or operated upon. After a married woman's sister has lived with her a few years, the husband begins to boss the sister-in-law in the same way he bosses his wife. Speaking of the many things that happen to cause a tender woman's heart to break, an Atchison man went home drunk the other night, and, not being able to locate the hat rack, hung his overcoat upon his wife's palm. When his wife saw the palm the next morning, there was a sharp, whip-like crack; her heart had broken. How customs change! If a nation Xvants to express its friendliness toward another nation, it sends it warships to its neighbor's ports. EX-RAYS. President Dole of Hawaii will be treated as well as if he were a king in stead of about a three-spot. Hutchin son News. Zola could afford a few riots for the advertising he is getting. Parsons Sun. Don't swear before a lady. A gen tleman will always permit a lady to swear first. Arkansas City Traveler. The season is too long; at least a dozen Atchison men are wearing hats that look as if they had been found in the Arabia. A man should get more than one hat in a winter season. Atchison Globe. Dr. Nansen refuses to lecture in this part .of the country. The climate is too severe for him at this time of the year, probably. Lawrence Journal. One of the unpleasant features of newspaper work on a Kansas daily is that the editor has to read proof on the financial speeches in congress. Hutchinson News. It is believed that the recent snows have greatly benefited the wheat. How ever, the question will remain in doubt until an opinion has been rendered by Attorney General Boyle. Ellis Head light. 4 In her latest lecture Mrs. Lease makes the statement that in her opinion the Russians will eventually control the world. Well, they have made a begin ning in Ellis county. Ellis Headlight. For fear that Spain may not be fully alive to our friendly relations, it might be well to land Gen. Miles and a small detachment of the army in Cuba. WAB3S REPUBLICANS. A Member of the Monetary Commis sion Tells the Party What to Do to Be Saved. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 27. It was not expected that the monetary con vention would remain in session more than two days, and this expectation was realized. It adjourned last night, subject to the call of the chairman, Mr. Hugh Hanna. The business of the convention was to indorse the report of the monetary commission, which is now before con gress in the form of a bill, and when this was done it promptly adjourned. Mr. Bullitt, in a speech, deplored the position of the Democratic party on the money question. He said he was very much in earnest in the question of currency reform. Both parties had done a great deal of coquetting as to the question of silver and gold. He ex pressed the belief that many southern states had voted for free silver from fear of negro domination rather than from an honest belief in the principles of free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. Concluding, Mr. Bullitt said: "I should be very glad if the honora ble chairman of this meeting, or some other gentleman who stands high in the Republican councils, could give a proper warning, which would be heard and heeded, too, that if the Republican party proposed to themselves to perpet uate their power in this country they must and they must with sincerity of purpose and earnestness of conviction and promptness and dispatch show to the people of this country that they are what they profess to be, in favor of the gold standard and of proper currency reform." Rufus Bullock of Atlanta, Ga., said: "In those states in the south where there is any danger' of numerical strength of the negroes, we are adopt ing a franchise based upon property and intelligence. "When that danger has disappeared, you will find our people as patriotic, as honest, as ready to sustain every good issue as any people on God's green earth." General Simon Buckner of Kentucky expressed himself as pleased with the commission's plan. John Harsen Rhoades of New York spoke in favor of the plan of the com mission. Other prominent speakers were Wm. E. Dodge of New York, ex-Gov. O. V. Coffin of Connecticut and Judge Craw.--ford of Texas. A resolution was adopted requiring that copies of the convention's proceed ings be furnished to members of con gress. A long resolution, prepared and sub mitted by the executive committee and which was enthusiastically adopted by the convention, expressed hearty ap preciation of the monetary commis sion's report and of the recommenda tion it embodied. The resolution recites the fact that the eleven members of the commission who are severally named, gave to their work "without any compensation or re ward, except the consciousness of duty well and faithfully done many months of arduous work at great sacrifice by each of them, in absence from home and in valuable time needed for their ow serious and important duties," and declares it to be the earnest conviction of the convention that there has never been in the history of our country a body of men more truly representative of all that is best in American life, manhood, patriotism and intelligence, nor one that undertook and fulfilled a greater task for the general welfare in a spirit of more unselfish aevotion to our country. The resolutions and the report of the commission were unanimously adopted by the convention. HAIR AN INCH LONG. Covered the Head of a Baby Midget Born at Dover. Dover, Ky., Jan. 27. About two weeks ago the wife of Commodore Gillespie, a farmer, gave birth to a child which was not much larger than an ordinary doll. It thrived fairly well until yesterday, when it took sick and died. Its head, when it died, was covered with a fine suit of black hair fully an inch long. Its feet were not more than an inch in length. It was so small that it could have easily been buried in an ordinary shoe box. P. G. Essex, the leading Attorney of Golden City. Mo., writes: "Have been troubled for years with Blind, Itching and Bleeding Piles, and one box of Beggs German Salve cured me entire ly. At druggists. like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti pation, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly cured by Hood's Fills. They do their work in j u CP (q) (yj 4ss) easily and thoroughly. fl Best after dinner pills. 25cents. All druggists. M Prepared C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass, the only Fill to take with Hood's SarsafarU'Jfa KANSASNEWS. Leavenworth Worried on Ac count of Low Record Of the Enrollment in the Pub lic Schools. LOWEST IX THE STATE. The Leavenworth Times Seeks an Explanation. Other Kansas News of General Interest. Leavenworth, Jan. 27. The Times contains a leading article on the small proportionate enrollment of pupils in the public schools at Leavenworth. The Times says: The tables just published by J. "W. Amis, assistant superintendent of pub lic instruction, give the school popula tion by counties and also the total en rollment. Leavenworth county appears with a total enrollment of only 3,621, but a foot note appended to the tables ex plains that the city schools are not in cluded. The public schools of the city have an enrollment of about 3,000 pu pils. Adding this to the figures for the county we get 6,621, which is about 1 in 5 of the population. That is consid erably lower than the average for the state (1 in Si). The low average for Leavenworth county is, however, due to the small number in attendance at the public schools in the city. The 3,000 pupils in the city only give an average of about 1 in 71-2 of the population. As a matter of fact it appears that the public schols in this city have a smaller enrollment than all the rest of the county, though the population of the city is double that of the remainder of the county. The public school enrollment of Leav enworth county is about 3.000 below what it should be, judging from other counties of the state, and the deficiency is almost altogether in the city. There seems to us to be three main reasons for this condition of affairs. The first and most obvious is that Leavenworth city is equipped more largely with denominational schools (Catholic, German Lutheran, etc.) than any other locality in the state. We can not give the numbers in attendance at these schools, but do not believe the disparity between Leavenworth and other places in this respect accounts for one-third of the Leavenworth defi ciency. Secondly, the schools are overcrowded and there is a serious lack of accom modation in the existing school build ings. Some parts of the city are practically out of reach of a school building. There is an unquestioned need of more room in the schools. The third reason is interwoven with the second, and is aggravated by it. It is that the law of the state is not en forced, and the children between the ages of 8 and 14 are not compelled to at tend. Hosts of children must be growing up in ignorance. ANNIE DIGGS' 30LONY. C. J. Lamb Returns With Praises For the Colorado Colonizatiou Scheme. Enterprise, Jan. 27. C. J. Lamb of this city, who has been spend ing the past six months with the Colo rado Co-operative colony, is again at home here. He reports the colony in a prosperous condition, with a strong working force at work on the colony ditch, backed by ample resources of property and cash, and full of hope and enthusiasm. The colony has undertaken, says Mr. Lamb, the building of a navigation system of considerable magnitude. They have a fine body of land, capa ble of a great range of production and plenty of water for its irrigation, and will be a well fixed community as soon as they complete their canal. Mr. Lamb also says that the men work fully as well, if not better, than wage workers, that the colony's business organization is constantly gaining in strength and that the work of the colonists is grow ing more and more effective all the time. Mr. Lamb has been an active worker with co-operative colonies for the past ten years, having spent about five years with the Topolobampo colony in New Mexico, and declares that his Colorado experience confirms his belief in the ul timate success of co-operation by work ing men, associated for production and distributed on terms of equality. SOURED ON PORT ARTHUR. Pittsburg Agent Claims the Company Mistreated Him. Pittsburg. Jan. 27. James W.Hughes, who has for almost two years been closely identified with the promotion of Port Arthur, has severed his connec tion from the company on account of the company's treatment of him. Mr. Hughes is outspoken with regard to the cause which led him to take this step. He gave up the rental and local real estate business which he had at the time that he accepted the local agency or rather the Crawford county agency for the sale of Port Arthur property. He claims that he was to be the sole agent in Crawford county employed by the company, but he claims that the company far from abiding by that agreement have placed other agents in the field which he believed was his, and his solely. Since Port Arthur property has been handled by other Pittsburg parties, he estimates that he has lost in the neighborhood of $1,800 in commis sions realized by other agents and he feels that his total loss by way of com missions which others had realized would aggregate for the 22 months he represented the company close to $6,000. He has made a demand upon Mr. Stil well for this amount. CRUSHED BY A DRAW HEAD. Railroad Company Introduce the Ar ticle in Court to Make a Point. Leavenworth, Jan. 27. A novel spec tacle was witnessed In the district court room yesterday. In the suit for damages for $10,000 brought by James J. Livingston against the Kansas City, St. Joe and Council Bluffs railroad it was in evidence that Livingston's foot was crushed between the draw-head of two freight cars. Dur ing the testimony for the defense four Burlington employes entered the room bearing between them a complete draw head, used on the system, which the railroad attorneys used in an attempt to demonstrate that the injuries com plained of could not have been received in the manner claimed. The defense will complete their testi mony in the case today and it is likely that a verdict will be reached before to morrow. Livingston was an employe of the St. Joe Light and Traction company and while engaged in unloading coal from a Burlington car a switch engine struck the car, the draw-head crushing Liv ingston's foot. MONEY IN CORN STALES. Cellulose Made From the Pith Sell For $4 Per Ton. Washington, D. C. Jan. 27. The far mers of Kansas will be Interested to know that the finest grade of cellulose can be made out of corn stalks. Mr. D. M. Frank of Kentucky is here in the city. In a conversation on the subject, he said: "The despised corn stalk, which for all these years the farmers have burnt as of no account, just as the cotton planter used to throw aside the seed of that plant as valueless, at last turns out to be of such worth as to pay hand somely for marketing. "Our farmers are selling it readily for $4 per ton, and on an acre producing 40 bushels of corn there will be at least two and a half tons of stalks. The uses to which the stalk is being put is one of the most extraordinary agricul tural discoveries of this day. At pres ent there are but two factories in the country that are equipped for making cellulose out of the material, one of which is located at Owensboro. "Cellulose is the pith of the corn stalk; its uses are varied and wonder ful and it has a market value of $400 per ton. War vessels are lined with it, and whenever a vessel so lined is punc tured with shot, the contact of the wa ter with the cellulose causes that to swell, closing the aperture and pre venting the water from entering be tween the ship's inner 'and outer walls." RAINY DAY CLUB. Ottawa Ladies Organize to Wear Short Skirts. Ottawa, Jan. 27. Yesterday afternoon several ladies met at the home of Mrs. George Piersol for the purpose of or ganizing a "Rainy Day" club, all mem bers of which will adopt and wear gar ments deemed suitable for a rainy day. The style is neat and adds much to the youthful appearance of the wearer. The skirt is cut just above the shoe tops and gives a grown woman the appear ance of a girl of the age of from 12 to 15 summers. A golf cap or a straw hat is worn. Rubber boots will also proba bly be worn in place of shoes, and rfide pockets put in. A member of the club came down the street this morning dressed in a "Rainy Day" costume, but she acted timid and scared. When she saw a man coming she would slip into a stairway until he passed and then she would walk close to the buildings to attract as little attention as possible. FIGHT FOR CONVERTS. Methodist and Episcopal Churches Contend For Saved Souls at Oskaloosa. Oskaloosa, Jan. 27. A religious con troversy of an unusual nature is in pro gress at Oskaloosa. The Methodist and Episcopal churches are contending for the converts made at a recent revival. The revival was conducted by the Methodists, but most of the converts were induced to join the opposition church on account of a sermon by the Kpiscopalian minister, in which he ap proved dancing. The converts were young people who desired to affiliate with the church, but did not want to give up dancing. The Methodist pastor did not relish the idea of losing the fruits of his work, and, after engaging in a personal quarrel with his Episco palian brother, has now decided to have the matter brought to the attention of the bishop of the diocese. IMPORTANT POSTPONEMENT. T. B. Murdock Changes the Date of His Silver Wedding Anniversary. El Dorado, Jan. 27. The Republican contains the following rather novel no tice: Owing to the almost unanimous re quest of the business men in town who expect to attend, we have concluded to postpone the celebration of our silver wedding till Wednesday evening, Feb ruary, 2d. The business houses do not close till 9 o'clock. Three hours later it is Sun day morning, and this will not give suf ficient time to celebrate, so Wednesday night goes, rain or snow, storm or bliz zard. Marie Antoinette Murdock. Thomas Benton Murdock. MARCHED WHEN HE WALKED. How J. C. O'Downey, a Deserter, Be trayed His Calling in Farmer's Clothes. Leavenworth, Jan. 27. Sergt. Ander son brought Chauncey I. Tupper, a deserter, here from Kansas City Kas., last night. On the night of December 10, Tupper. who was working on a farm south of that place under the name of J. C. O'Downey, attemped to break up a meeting of a literary society at Fry school house in Westport town ship, and was arrested and committed to the county jail. Once while the prisoners were exer cising in the jail it was remarked that O'Downey, as he was then known, had the military bearing common to men who have been in the army. He was ordered taken to the office and directed to walk around the room a couple of times. O'Downey disguised his military step for a while by lowering first one shoulder and then the other as he walk ed, but in course of time he involunta rily assumed Ihe carriage so natural to him. He at first denied that he had been in the army, but finally admitted that he was a deserter. LOOKS BAD FOR MARSH. Ex-Colorado Convict Must Stand Trial Charged With the Murder of A. "Vega Phil I ipsburg. Jan. 27. The brutal mur der of A. Vega in his place of business in Phillipsburg on the night of Decem ber 14th, seems to be about cleared up. Soon after the murder was committed suspicion pointed to one Ed Marsh, a barber who was at work in a shop in Phillipsburg at the time. He was ar rested, charged with assault with in tent to kill, but released soon after and held on another charge of stealing, and confined in jail, and is now serving out his sentence. Subsequent developments show that in all probabilfty he is the fellow wanted for the murder of Mr. Vega. Marsh was at one time a convict in the Colorado penitentiary, sent there for burglary, and gaining entrance to a store in about the same manner as the store of Mr. Vega was entered. The coroner's jury returned a sealed verdict after being in session with closed doors for several days. A detective was here some time working on the case, and while the cor oner's jury is sworn to secrecy, it is the general belief Marsh will be imme diately re-arrested, charged with the murder of Mr. Vega, as soon as he is turned loose from the jail sentence. He is now serving for theft. Marsh fled from Phillipsburg on the night of the murder, and was arrested the second day following in a farm house near Kensington. OPPOSE TRADING STAMPS. Merchants of Pittsburg Are Against the Scheme. Pittsburg.Jan. 27. The trading stamp scheme struck Pittsburg last month and a number of merchants signed contracts with the Co-operative Premi um association, allowing the associa tion 5 per cent on their sales where stamps were called for by customers. Some of the merchants will soon have to reduce the help in their stores in or der to raise the money to pay the 5 per cent. In many cases the per cent on the sales amount to from $30 to $40 per month. The result is that many of the mer chants are up in arms and declare they will make it warm for the association. AT WAR OVER A CHILD. An Orphan With a $3,000 Legacy Causes a Family Jar. Abilene, Jan. 27. A somewhat unus ual suit has been brought in the Mis souri court of appeals over the custody of Elmer Lewis, an orphan, whose par ents lived at Solomon, this county, and whose paternal grandfather lives here. The child lives with his maternal grand parents and is sickly and these grand parents are averse to giving him up. By his father's will, however, the father's father. Dr. A Lewis, of this city is his guardian and executor of Jiie es tate, which consists of $3,000 lij insur ance. This, too, goes to Dr. Lewis in case of the child's death beTore the grandfather's. The contest is between the grand parents on both sides of the family as to which shall possess the child. The court has taken original jurisdiction through habeas corpus pro ceedings. ROGUES FALL OUT. Osage Woman Jointist ftuarrels With the Man Who Sold Her Liquor. Osage City, Jan. 27. A very curious liquor case is being tried here before Justice Swartout. The case is brought against A. H. Dryfus. a wholesale li quor dealer of Kansas City, and the complaint was made by Mrs. Kate Gib son, a notorious joint keeper, formerly of Scranton, this county, but of late a resident of Kansas City. It appears that at the time of her de parture she owed Dryfus for liquors furnished and for which she failed to pay. She owned a house in Scranton which burned down some time ago and Dryfus managed to get hold of enough of the insurance money to satisfy his claim. When Dryfus appeared in this city last Saturday Mrs. Gibson, through her attorney, H. B. Hughbanks. had him arrested. He gave bond for $200 for his appearance for trial next Thurs day. Pensions for Kan sans. Washington, Jan. 27. Pensions have been issued as follows: Original Albert Brown, Kingman, $8; Wrm. B. Hill, Leavenworth, $12. Additional Wm. Roat, Russell, $6 to $12; Horatio G. Stalcup, Perry, $6 to $S. Restoration Greenbury Overstreet, National Military home, Leavenworth, $10. Original widows, etc. Josephine E. White, Argentine, $12; Joanna J. Fuller, Tecumseh, $8; minor of Isaac Blackford, Almena, $10. Alleged Horse Thieves Caught. Newton, Jan. 27. Sheriff Charles Judkins last night captured John Wix on, said to be wanted for horse steal ing in Ponca City, O. T. Last night two men drove into Webb's barn with a team of horses. One of the men stayed with the horses and the other went up town. Sheriff Judkins appeared and arrested the man at the barn, but the other man could not be found. A re ward of $100 was offered for the arrest of the men and it will be paid to Sher iff Judkins. Hutchinson Goes Dry. Hutchinson, Jan. 27. Hutchinson is in the list of "dry" towns today, the club rooms having been closed by in junction. There have been four incor porated clubs here, all with large mem berships. County Attorney Fall charges that the clubs are drinking and gamb ling resorts, and are a public nuisance. The club managers have temporarily closed their places. Alleged Substitute for Quinine. St. Paul, Jan. 27. The St. Paul Medi cine company has caused much com ment in its announcement that it has obtained from returned missionaries the secret of a perfect substitute for qui nine; one that has all the good qualities of that drug and none of its bad ones. The company claims this new discov ery, which it calls Salvitc, is an abso lute cure for fevers of all kinds, and medical men say this will prove quite a feature in the medical world. To Rebuild J unction City HalL Junction City, Jan. 27. The council decided last night by a unanimous vote to at once rebuild the city hall and op era house recently destroyed by fire. The city will build a building very much more substantial and modern than the one destroyed. Teacher Badly Burned. Lincoln Center. Jan. 27. Mrs. L. P. Moss, a teacher in the city school here, was horribly burned at her home last night by the overturning of a lamp. Her clothing was literally burned from her body, her arms, hands, back and neck being left in awful condition. Reading a Novel From a Pulpit. Abilene, Jan. 27. Rev. W. C. Wheeler of Chapman is reading an original se rial story to his congregation instead of giving sermons. It attracts larger congregations. FROM KANSAS TOWNS. SALINA A temporary organization of a Social Science club was effected yesterday. T. Fitzpatrick was elected temporary chairman and R. A. Burch, temporary secretary. Some 14 gentle men were present. The purposes for which the club was formed were dis cussed. The membership is to be limi ted to 20. A committee consisting of Dr. H. A. Cleveland and R. A. Lovitt was appointed on constitution and by laws. NORTON VILLE Miss Rebecca God dard of this city and Mr. Joseph J. Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., were married at the M. E. church here last night by the Rev. Thomas Campbell. The bridal couple left for Kansas City, where they will reside. SENECA R. D. MeCliman, county treasurer-elect of Nemaha county.while working with a sawmill near Granada, January 22. fell across the log carriage within six inches of the saw. As quick as thought he threw himself from his perilous position and saved himself. A second's delay meant death. WELLINGTON Nearly one hundred people in the picturesque costumes of the Acadian peasants will give a pro- EUREKA We I V-fT it; among "tobacco But Don't Stop TobaCCO SUDDENLY and wrench the. nrvf nrmnnftv ininnnorthpm 4-aim V An absoluteand kindly vegetable cure for the tobacco habit, a kindly antidote for tobacco poison. Use the tobacco vou reauire and take BACO-CURO.it will notify you when to stop by removing the desire. IT GENTLY WEANS. W give a Wrtttca Gainst to cure permanently mmj mm with tfare boxes, or refund the money. &oe. or SI a box, throe boxes g-uM-uteed ere) tf3,&0. Dragglst, or SCBSKA OLBX1CAL AND MHFQ CO., LA CftOSSB, WX& Osage City Shaft, Burlingame Shaft, Leavenworth Lump or Nut ALL GOES CHEAP. t JONES. Telephone 430. -POPULAR PRICE TAILORS- 610 Kansas Avenue. Theonly large, high prade Institution In the state fievotea exclusively to short hand and tyr Writing: hence Its phenomenal success. Superior system. Positions guaranteed graduates. l'J nd nleht sessions. Lessons t mail a snaclalU. AXIS A. E. CASlS. 2-630 Iua. A V duction of Longfellow's beautiful and most pathetic poem, "Evangeline," in pantomime at the opera house Tuesday evening, February 1. WELLINGTON Charles Booth of Peck, is in the city. He has the Klon dike fever and is going to leave next month for Dawson City with two other Peck citizens, Kred Ingle and James Duncan. Booth has sent his family to Minnesota. LIQUOR MERCHANT ASSIGNS Kansas City Dealer Fails With. $100, OOO Liabilities. Kansas City, Jan. 27. Michael Hoffman, a pioneer wholesale liquor merchant, as signed today to Grant I. Rosenweig. Trie liabilities are stated at $100,000 and the as sets and stock are worth $40,000 and real estate valued at $40,000. Mr. Hoffman established his business at Leavenworth, Kan., in 1S57 and transferred it to Kansas City when the prohibition law became operative in Kansas. EARTHQUAKE AT HELENA. Souses Shaken and Noises Heard That Sounded Like Explosions. Helena, Ark., Jan. 27. At 7:50 o'clock last night this city was startled by a se vere earthquake shock. Houses were shaken to their foundations and a suc cession of noises were heard that sound ed like immense explosions. There were three distinct shocks in quick succession, the first being the most severe and the three occupying less than a half dozen seconds. They were succeeded by a trembling or shaking motion, and not the usual swaying and waving motion. Telephone messages from country points indicate that the shock was felt at many places. Famous Ph.iladelph.ian Dead. Philadelphia, Jan. 27. Andrew M. Moore, senior member of the firm of Moore Sinnot, wholesale whisky dealers and owner of the Girard house, died today from a complication of dis eases, resulting from a severe fall two months ago. Mr. Moore was in his 8ith year. He leaves a fortune estimated at $5,000,000. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fe ver Sores, Tetter.Chapped Hands, Chil blains, Corns and all skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per fect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Swift-Holliday Drug company. The Shortest Route To Southern California is the Santa Fe. Pullman palace and tourist sleepers; and free chair cars (lighted by electric ity) to Los Angeles daily. A Bad Cough Cured. "Mrs. Sally Pennington, an old lady who lives near here, was troubled with a bad cough for a long time. She was so bad that she could not lie down or sleep at nights. After using one small bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy she could rest of nights, and by the time she had used three bottles, her cough had disappeared." E. K. Smith son, Arno, Tenn. This remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough and is famous for its cures of these diseases. For sale by druggists. Don't annoy others by your coughing, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue. G. A. Van Hall, the leading Druggist of 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. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. have found It 1 '-How Ridiculous! see a business man fumbling: his papers with a cigar or in his mouth. He cannot see, he cannot bear, he can not tbink. He is stunned by nicotine and his mental edges are slowly blunting while he nervously sucks or chews away The sit uation would be laughable if it were not pitiful. His business capital health and monev are slowlv oozingaway and clearer fWfcf?:! business brains are tak- yxfi ing the advantage. t Office 117 E. NT orris St Make Clothes That Fit. News and Opinions OF National Importance The Sun ALONE CONTAINS BOTH. Daily, by mail, $8 a year Daily and Sunday, by mail, $S a year The Sunday Sun Is the greatest Sunday Newspaper In the world. Price 5c a copy. By mail, $2 a year Address XII E SO. New Turk. 8th Ave. Stables. HORSES BOUGHT AND SOLD. A few Family IlnraM for tal now at LOW PRICES. Also, I.lvery and Boarding carefully lookeS after, prices RIQHT. If you want any thing in this line, call and see me Cor. 8th and Topeka lies. john"dudley, PI one 663. Preprlfton Frank Leslie's for February. The gold regions of the Klondike are described and pictured elaborately in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for February. The article is written by Henry Clay Clover, of Seattle, who gives an interesting account of the first discoveries and of the recent expedi tions, and tells in a practical way Just what is necessary to fit a man out for a years. The illustrations are numerous and excellent. Following this article is a paper on Alaska by 11. H. Ilerron, which contains a description of our far away territory, in which the maprical Klondike is situated. This also is richly illustrated. A 16x22-ineh map of Alaska accompanies these articles. There are many other attractive features in this number of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Rheumatism Cured in a Day. "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism, and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarka ble and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly ben efits. T. F. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster of Promise City Iowa, says: "I bought one bottle of 'Mystic Cure' for Rheuma tism, and two doses of it did me more good than any medicine I ever took." 75 cents. Sold by Swift Holliday Drug Co., 523 Kansas avenue, Topeka. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. We'll Do Your Hauling Right! TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephone 509 Kansas Are. szo office 395 House. F, P. BACON. Prop.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JAmiAEY 27, 1898. 5 C Ji liliiS t .rf W t I I F t El i SI: 1 1 Y y -fci. Jei. MA. Jufc. AT A Most Interesting Sale of Boys' Clothing, Children's Beautiful Reefer and Juvenile Suits, Yoang Men's Overcoats, v Silk Suspenders, Silk Neckwear, LaoaJried and Unlaandried Shirts. hi o GIRLS GET THE HONORS. Miss Hoble and Miss Monahan Re ceive Highest Grades at the High School. In the high school midwinter graduating class the two highest grades were receiv ed by girls. Miss Grace Eugenia Noble has been ejected valedictorian and Miss Alice M. Monahan salutatorian. The com mencement exercises of the class will be held at the high school auditorium Fri day evening. The commencement address will be delivered by Prof. E. E. White or Columbus, O. His subject is, "The Duty of the State in Education." The pro gramme as arranged for the exercises is as follows: Music High School Chorus Invocation ..........Dr. J. D. Countermine Vocal solo TV", von Dahlen Address Dr. Emerson E. White Vocal solo Miss Grace Huey Presentation of diplomas. Duet Miss Huey and W. von Dahlen Benediction Rev. M. L. Thomas The class consists of twelve girls and eight boys. Their names are, Grace Eu genia Noble, Dorothy Tuckerman. Adelia L. Brown, Dora Johnston, Myrtle V. Kel ley. Bertha L. Osborn, Augusta D. Strait, Florence M. Ward, Rose B. Davis, Ellen Allen, Alice M. Monahan, Anna MeGur naghan, Warren P. Chanty, George Fie derling, Harry A. Hulse, Frank E. Forbes, Aaron Hadley, Seth K. Chase, Delbert Kirkpatrick and Clarence E. Hamilton. PYTHIANS AT CONCORDIA. Second District Convention Fills the City With Visitors. Concordia, Jan. 27. The city of Concor. dia is just now blazing in colors of blue, yellow and red as a compliment to the many visiting Knights of Pytlras, who are attending the Second district conven tion of Knights of Pythias. The district includes the counties of Smith, Jewell, Republic, Washington, Rooks, Osborne, Mitchell and Cloud. The convention will continue for three days, at the close of which over 50 tyros, from various towns of the northwest, will be initiated into the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. This latter branch of the order will wind! up the festivities with the swellest ban quet ever given in this part of the state. Colonel Finley Smiley of Detroit, Mich., will deliver a lecture on Pythianism. The following is the programme for "Wednesday evening: Music Orchestra. Prayer Brother Knight Taylor. Quartette "Night of Joy," Mesdame3 Bloom, Peck, Miller and McDonald. Address of welcome Brother Knight G. M. Culver. Response Grand Chancellor W; A. S. Bird. Cornet solo Wm. M. Peck. Address "Pythianism," Colonel Finley Smiley. "Rathbone Sisters" Grand Chief Mamie E. Holcraft. Quartette "Coming Thro the Rye," Mesdames Atwood and Bowman, and Misses Millirons and McEckron. "Jewels From the Casket of Pythian Gems" By A. P. Riddle, Tully Scott and E. E. Murphy. Song Male Quartette Music Orchestra. After years of untold suffering from piles, B. W. Pursell of Knitersville, Pa., was cured by using a single box of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Skin dis eases such as eczema, rash, pimples and obstinate sores are readily cured by this famous remedy. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas avenue. Pure Buckwheat Flour at J. H. Hel ler's. 2J7 Kansas avenue. Not now cheap but how good Is th way we try to Co our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 Weat 8th. The Royal is the highest grade baking powder Known. Actual tests show it goes one third further than any other brand. flOYA! P0V0E0 Absolute. Pure WOVAL BAKtNO POWPF CO.. NEW YORK. i l 5 7130 O'CLOCK. "Springweight," 1 if HUNGATE, Auctioneer. KNOCKS OUT TAX DEEDS. Important Ruling in a Case by Judge McElroy of the Court of Appeals. Owners of tax deeds in Kansas are much alarmed because of a decision recently rendered in the northern de partment court of appeals. If this de cision should be sustained by the su preme court upon a review of the case a large majority of the tax deeds now on record in this state will be invalida ted. The decision was made on account of the peculiar verbiage of the statute and the court holds that where tax sales have been made and the printer's fees and the redemption fee have been added to the expenses of the sale, the deed is invalidated. The statute provides, in a number of places, for the payment of the neces sary fees but in the latter part of the law the words "interest charged" in stead of "interest and charges" appear and upon this the court based its de cision. The opinion was written by Judge S. W. McElroy. The decision was a great surprise to the lawyers and is one of the important subjects of conversation among those attending the meeting of the bar associ ation. Many of them who have cases of this character pending are preparing to proceed at once to knock out the tax deed by showing in court that printer's fees and the redemption fee have been made a part of the expense of the sale. The court decision leaves nothing on which the printer may hang a hope of reward for publication notices, except through the kindness of the attorneys or mortgage companies interested in the sale. The publication fees will come as a donation. MET EYABAND. Widow of the Late Senator Hearst Honored in Mexico. City of Mexico, Jan. 2?. Mrs. Hearst, widow of Senator Hearst of California, has arrived here and been cordially greet ed, the governor of the federal district sending one of the fine3t bands to sere nade her. Senator Hearst was a warm friend of Mexico, and at the time of the Cutting incident displayed his sympathy with this country and aided in resisting the pressure for war, supporting Presi dent Cleveland In his pacific attitude, hence the grateful regard In which the memory of the California senator is held in Mexico. AFRAID OF "A HOT TIME." It Was "With Fear and TremblingThat Mr. McDowell Sang the Parody Last Night. "The audience didn't know it, because I had my war paint on, but all the same I was as pale as a ghost when I went on the stage to sing the 'Hot Time' parody," said Mr. John G .McDowell, the principal comedian in "A Breezy Time" company at the Crawford theater last night. "Just before I went on one of the fellows told me about Stuart's experience here with Hffl,' and although I have a much better parody on 'Better Than Gold,' and had two or three minutes to prepare before going on, I was so shaken up that tot the life of me I couldn't think of the words. Of course I had to go on then and sing the 'Hot Time' parody, but I'll tell you my heart was in my throat when I started. I was all right when I found that it was going well, although someone started to hiss once or twice. "I can hardly see how Stuart had the nerve to stand up and sing when they were hissing him down as I've understood they did. It is the most embarrassing thing in the world for an actor to be mads aware that the audience don't want what he's giving them, and if I had been Stu art I would simply have given it up and walked down to the leader and asked him to play something else." "W. S. McNall Seeks a Divorce. William S. McNall, a brother of "Webb McNall, a guard at the state peniten tiary, has filed, in the district court of Leavenworth county, a suit asking for a divorce from his wife. Myrtle McNall. The plaintiff alleges abandonment and sets up in the petition that his wife re fuses to live with him. Vote on Scalping Bill. Washington, Jan. 27. The senate com mittee on interstate commerce agreed today to vote on the anti-scalping bill at its meeting next Thursday. Major Inman. author of the Old San ta Fe Trail, will recount an experience or two of the early days at the Kin dergarten Fagot party, Tuesday even ing, February 1. There are three little things which do more work than any other three little things created they are the ant, the bee and DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the last being the famous little pills for stomach and liver troubles. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue. Hear Henry Beerma.nn, Topeka's new violinist at Library hall, Tuesday even ing. February 1, at the Kindergarten Fagot party. HOW GIRLS FALL. Mrs. Thorpe Attributes Ruined Lives to the Ballroom. Says Nine-Tenths of the De pravity Among Women BEGAN WITH DANCING Observation Teaches Her That Parents Are Much to Blame. They Do Not Exercise Proper Care of Their Daughters. Police Matron Thorpe has some de cided views on the subject of the caus es of young girls' downfall. She claims that the ballrooms are responsible for nine-tenths of the unfortunate women. She does not make this statement on any theory, but on actual experience in dealing with hundreds of unfortunate girls and women in the past five years during her service as police matron. Hundreds of requests come to her ev ery month from mothers who have wayward daughters and wish them re called from their foolish ways. Mrs. Thorpe says concerning this point: "I most certainly believe that the ball room is a most fruitful cause of many young girls' downfall. They have told me that hundreds of times. Rarely do I ask an unfortunate girl how she was led into sin that she does not say that it was from attending dances. When a young girl, with all her natural mod- POLICE MATRON THORPE AND HER esty and delicacy falls from childish In nocence in the heart of the best city on earth, there is in every case a cause. These causes work, in many cases, so quietly that no mother can afford to be indifferent, believing it to be out of the question for her girl to fall into sin. A number of cases have come under my notice of even school children following practices of vice until the practice and result could no longer be concealed. The mothers of these children were at ease, waiting until their daughters were old enough to warn against such evils. "There are cases even in Topeka that dare not be brought to light most fearful things of which the over confident parents never dream! "Some children are addicted to vice. It is their inheritance. But wise teach ers and friends and pure associations can help them to overcome. Very many voung people fall into vice in the most natural way possible. To illustrate: A little miss of 12 has a girl's usual dis taste for housework. She wants to romp and visit. Her mother scolds, grows fault-finding and impatient. The girl's proud spirit resents this. She goes to chums with the confidences and for the sympathy she used to seek from her mother. Thus imperceptibly a gulf is fixed between mother and daughter. These associations are pe rilous. Before many weeks the young daughter may be seen with these asso ciates participating in a low dance in some obscure corner of town while her mother believes she is spending the night with some friend. Once in these low dances, a girl is over the verge. In a few days remorse comes in all its bitterness. It is the last straw thrown to the sinking child, but too often she tells herself, 'It's too late now. My life is ruined, and there's no use to at tempt to do right now.' Here is the place that many abandon all virtue and sink to the depths of a life of shame. When arrested for her lawless deeds the officers get the benefit of all the boldness and profanity and desperate idiocy to which she has been schooling her weak, girlish heart for months. However, they know from experience that a few days of detention and kind ness will bring out the better heart if it be there. "Many and many precious girls have owned to me that she met her moral death in the ballroom. Many a wretch ed woman in jail tells me of this, and that young girl who is attending these dances' and begs me to save them if possible 'Their parents don't know it' is invariably added." Regarding her duties as police matron in dealing with vice and crime Mrs Thorpe has this to say: "The police matron soon discovers that her 'woman's ward' is city long and city deep, and that she has many more to keep out of the jail than she has to care for after they are in it. Only about one-fourth of the very poor people are virtuous and law abiding. The police matron finds that many little children are reared in crime by thoughtless indulgent parents, and by vicious parents.. Hundreds of chil dren in this city are without parents' care, forquarrelingand divorced parents are usually worse than none. They are without schooling and practically do not have homes. Almost every wo man of shame in Topeka is the daugh ter of a drunkard or liquor seller. That this fact may be fastened in the minds of not only Christian workers, but men who drink, I repeat," she says, "that four out of every five women of vice are the daughters of drinking men. Many of them have good mothers who die early of sorrow and abuse." SANTAFE LOCAL NOTES. W. L. Havens, of the car shops, is sick. John W. Miller, of the car shops. Is sick. Delos Miller, of the car shops, is lay ing off on account of an injured foot. Newton L. Carter has gone to work in the car shops. Chris Swank has left the employ of the company. He worked In the car shops. The sample 50 foot furniture car i3 in the hands of the painters. Coach 114 and baggage car 858 are in for repairs. Coach 208 left for Kansas City on 114 having been through the shops. Switchman Will Philbin enjoys him self occasionally when going to the field by standing on the tank and re citing Shakespere. The car shops are turning out new cars at the rate of eight a day. J. J. Cunningham, of the auditor's office of the K. C. N. W., is visiting iii the city. Mr. Frank Ritchie, of Elliott's yard. has returned from a day's hunting at OFFICE AT THE CITY PRISON. Richland. He killed and brought back with him 72 rabbits and two jack rab bits which he distributed among the car repairers' force. J. L. Crook, inspector of foreign cars, is sick. Wililam T. Bassett is taking the place of foreign car inspector temporarily. Alva Courtney, of the coach cleaning force, is at work after a severe sick ness. Robert Wells is considered the best air brake inspector in the west. Lincoln Nason, of the car repairer's force, has returned to work after being sick with typhoid fever since December 8th. Engineer Coggins made up five min utes with engine 738, known as the "Sa cred Ox," on No. 3 between Topeka and Wilder. NATURE AKD THE BRIDE Were Dressed Alike in White Inci dent at the Santa F-3 Depot When 114 pulled into Topeka yester day the ends of the coaches were cov ered with snow and sleet and the trucks were white with frost and iee.A young man whose appearance led bystanders to believe he was from the country, opened the door of the car and looked out. He gazed at the ice and snow on the steps and at the frosted railing around the platform. He took a red bandanna from his pocket and wiped the railing, he kicked the ice from the steps and brushed the snow away as best he could. The haekmen, police men and newsboys watched the opera tions with wonder. "Wratcher got in der car, mister, "asked the newsboy. The mister referred to only blushed and re treated into the coach. Presently he came out and he was leading a young lady by the hand. The young man wore a happy smile and the young lady wore a white silk dress, a pair of white stockings and her shoes were partly covered by a pair of heavy rubbers, her hat was a symphony in white and the hand, as well as its mate, that was elapsed by the young man was clad in a white mitt. In her other hand she carried a white parasol. Over her shoulders was a white summer shawl. "Hack, sir, take you or your wife to any part of the city, sir," was the greeting he received several times from each and every haekman. "Papers, all the latest papers." yell ed the newsboy. But the couple was not to be bothered by trifles at least the bride was not, so she took a firm grip on the young man's arm and started him off up Fifth street. The snow banks along the sides of the sidewalk were in sympathetic tone with the white dress of the bride but she was oblivious to the crowd that stood and watched them out of sight. M'KENNA SWORN IN. He Now Sits With the Highest Judi cial Tribunal Washington, Jan. 27. Joseph McKenna has taken his seat on the bench of the supreme court of the United States as an associate justice. The official ceremony Inducting him Into this important office consumed less than four minutes and was simple in the extreme. Mr. McKenna had already taken the general oath of of fice before the chief justice, when he walked Into the court room bringing up the rear of the procession of the Justices. He, like ail the other members of the court, wore a long, flowing black robe. The court room was crowded in anticipa tion of the event. When he entered the chamber the new justice stopped at Clerk McKenney's desk, where he remained while the other justices took their re spective seats upon the bench. Chief Justice Fuller announced the presence of the new justice, saying: "It gives me pleasure to announce to the gentlemen of the bar that Mr. Joseph Mc Kenna of California has been appointed an associate justice of this court." The clerk handed McKenna a copy of the judicial oath and he read it in a dis tinct voice and then was escorted to his seat on the extreme left of the chief jus tice by Marshal Wright, the court re mainig standing. He was welcomed by a cordial shake of the hand from Justice White, his nearest neighbor, and by bows from the other members of the court, whereupon all took their seats. With this the ceremony concluded and the court proceeded with the business be fore it. DASHED TO DEATH. Three Workmen on a New York Building Fall Five Stories. New York, Jan. 27. An accident oc curred today on a new twelve-story building in course of construction, on Broadway, which will probably "result in the death of three men. The in jured are: George McNamara and John Hammond, plasterers, and Michael Sea man a laborer. Seaman was on the fifth floor superintending the building of a scaffold over an elevator shaft. He lost his balance and fell down the shaft. On the fourth floor where Mc Namara and Hammond were standing on a slim scaffold already erected over the elevator shaft. Seaman, who weighs about 200 pounds carried the scaffold on the fourth floor with him in his fa'.l and the three men crashed down to the sub cellar below. They were all intern ally injured and have slight chances for recovery. THE GREAT QUESTION. Secretary Gage Says the Currency Question Overshadows All Others. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 27. At the ban quet of the Chamber of Commerce, held last evening, telegrams were read from President McKinley, Secretary Gage and others. Secretary Gage said in part: "I regret that the pressure of public business prevents me from discussing the question of reforming the currency. Not since the struggle for the resumption of specie payment has a question pressed for a solution which has a greater bearing upon the material prosperity of our peo ple. "You have an empire in the Pacific northwest which is in its infancy. Your city and sister ports of Puget sound are the outlets of one of the richest regions in the world. Geographically, the com merce of the Orient is your. "Nothing will contribute more to draw capital to your section of the country than the conviction that the money standard is saf.? beyond impairment. "The recommendation I have made con templates the better security of that standard." ACROSS ARCTIC SEAS. Russia Will Run a Fleet of Boats to Siberia With Ice Plows Attached. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 27. Russia greatly desires to find means of communication between her north coast and Siberia by crossing the Arctic sea. It is said she will make some experiments. According to advices received by the steamer Braemer, Admiral Makaroof of the Russian navy has announced his belief that it is possible to travel to Siberia by water across the Arctic sea. He believes that regular communication with the north-flowing Siberian rivers can be es tablished through July and August by providing vessels bound for those ports with an escort of boats furnished with ice plows. The government is planning to test his project, being greatly encouraged by the success of the Danish ice-breakers in keeping Vladivostock harbor open thi winter. Something to Know. It may be worth something to know that the very best medicine for restor ing the tired out nervous system to a healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the Liver and Kidneys, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion, and is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for 50c or $1.00 per bottle at Swift Holliday drug store. J. G. Waters, Archie Williams, sr., Tom McNeal, Major J. K. Hudson and Major Inman will tell stories, and Wm. Shaner, Henry Beermann will furnish music at the Kindergarten Fagot party, Tuesday evening, February 1, at Libra ry hall. Homeseekers' Excursions. Tickets will be sold on the first and third Tuesdays of January, February and March via the Union Pacific to points in Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona and New Mexico, where the minimum round trip rate is $7.00 or over, at one fare for the round trip plus $2.00. For exact territory and full informa tion or tickets, call on or address, F. A. LEWIS. City Ticket Agent. J. C. FULTON, Depot Agent. The Short Story party. The Fagot party. Good stories. Good music. Good time at the Kindergarten's Fagot party, Library hall, Tuesday evening, Febru ary X. E. O. DE MOSS. Odd Fellows' Building, 523 Quincj? Street. Undertakers Finest ambulance in the west. SFREE to the public Day aad Nibt. OIR PRICES ARE RMS05ABLE. DE MOSS ct 4 Pliono 192. That New Home? BUILD IT RIGHT. We will assist you In the details. "W; will loan you money to build, or to take up your old mortgage, repayable in easy monthly installments. TOE mm LOO ASSOCiATIOl, 034 Kaunas A ve. Tel. SOS. 25c 50c ',"2L, Phons 37. Catalogue Free. Day end Night Sessions. 521 523 Quincy St. naBaaeaea8aeas se2soaBeK03Boaso oaeasoosaioBcm a I t he "Western Foundry AND MACHINE WORKS. Established 1875. GET PRICES BEFORE PTTRflH ASTXO ELSEWHERE. Z a j, t iopKa, CROWDS TO SEE DOLE. The Hawaiian President is Formally Received at "Washington. "Washing-ton, Jan. 27. President Dole of Hawaii has arrived, and in behalf of the government was welcomed by Secretary Sherman and Assistant Sec retary Adee. The presidential party was belated by storms along the way and it was three hours afier the schedule time that the train swung into the B. O. depot. A crowd of several hundred had assem bled on North Capitol street and three platoons of mounted policemen were on hand to act as an escort. As the train came to a stop, Mr. Sher man and Mr. Adee stepped on the rear platform and were met by Assistant Secretary Cridler, who conducted them inside for the first greetings to Presi dent and Mrs. Dole and their party. There was a brief and informal ex change and then the party filed out to the waiting carriages. As they alighted. Secretary Sherman and Pres ident Dole with Mrs. Dole standing be tween them, were photographed. Then Mr. Sherman offered his arm to Mrs. Dole and escorted her to Pres ident McKinley's carriage. The platoons of officers wheeled about the spirited bays of the White house carriage.step ped off at a lively gait and the party proceeded to the Arlington, where the Hawaiian executive will be the nation's guest. In the second carriage were Minister Hatch of Hawaii, Assistant Secretary Cridler and Mr. Dole's private secre tary. Following this was the carriage of Assistant Secretary Adee and Dr. Day, the physician of Mr. Dole. The fourth carriage contained Major Heistadt, representing the army; Lieut. Commander Phelps, the navy. There was no military display, democratic simplicity being observed at Mr. Dole's request. MEN OF MANY MINDS. Blake Up the Republican Contingent of the House Banking Committee. Washington, Jan. 27. At the execu tive session of the Republican mem bers of the house committee on bank ing and currency yesterday afternoon, the individual attitude of the members was polled and the procedure in the draft of the currency legislation map ped out. The Republican members of the com mittee decided to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each suc ceeding week until their work is end ed. A resolution offered by Mr. Johnson assigning each one present five minutes in which to declare his attitude, whether he thought there was a neces sity for banking legislation, and if so, what essential principles he favored for incorporation in the currency measure to be finally framed, was adopted, and the roll was then called. Mr. Walker favored a revision of the system which would take the currency business from the government and fur nish at once a banking on assets. He would not approve any plan materially differing from tins. Mr. Brosius of Indiana was opposed to the retiring of the greenbacks and to banking on assets to any degree. Mr. Johnson of Indiana urged the gold standard, retirement -of the green backs, eliminating the currency busi ness from the treasury and issuing new through national banks to take its place, the new circulation to be under national control. Mr. Van Voorhies of Ohio substan tially agreed with Mr. Brosius, while Messrs. McCleary of Minnesota, Fowler of New Jersey and Mitchell of New L. M. PEN WELL. PEfWELL &23 tuincy St. CANDY CATHARTIC n r a tr r. m a r CONSTIPATION ALL DRUGGETS m. m m m Formerly Topelca Foundry and Machice Works. Esteb. 18&i. m m .mL. nil The only place ia the city where you can Set a Complete Power Plan! from a team Engine to a Set Collar from stock. m m m m ft R. L. COFRAN, Topeka, Kans. Proprietor. nans. i rcprseior. m York had views along the lines of Mr. Johnson's policy. Mr. Spalding of Michigan opposed a declaration for the gold standard in so many words and was not certain that he was willing to have the greenbacks retired or to have credit currency. Mr. Hill of Connecticut favored the monetary commission bill and practi cally agreed with Mr. Johnson. Mr. Prince of Illinois opposed the specific declaration for the gold stand ard and thought the retirement of the greenbacks should be carefully dealt with and favored banking on assets. Mr. Capron of Rhode Island approved of allowing banks to extend circulation to the par value of their bonds, the in corporation of banks with stock, capi tal, and a diminifrhed tax on circula tion. This, he believed, would pave the way for a more extensive currency leg islation in the future. GOLD STANDARD FOR INDIA It is to Be Finally Established Within a Year. London, Jan. 27. Lord George Ham ilton, secretary of state for India, speak ing last night at Chisvvick, said he thought that during the course cf the next 12 months the government might take steps to establish a gold, standard for India. Lord George Hamilton read a dis patch from the Indian government stat ing that the revenue was coming in well, that the expenditure on the fron tier war was much less than had been anticipated and that the government expected to be able to meet without difficulty all disbursements for the present financial year, with the pros pect of a substantial surplus for next year's proceedings. Relief in Six Hours Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis ease relieved in six hours by the "New Great South American Kidney Cure." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure, this is yonr rem edy. Sold by Geo. W. Stansfield, 633 Kansas avenue, and Sim Drug compa ny, 607 Kansas avenue, druggists, To peka, Kan. Olof Ekberg, merchant tailor. 713 Kansas avenue, first-class suit of clothes for $25. a) A Io)V K, 4 Instant relief for gkin-tortured balnes ar.,1 rest for tired mothers in a warm hath tviili Cuticuka Soap, and a single application oC CuticukA (ointment), the great skin care. The only speedy and economical treatment for itching, burning, bleeding, Bcaly, and pimply humors cf the skin, scalp, and blood. Ib Bolfi thTonphotitthe woria. Pottbk Tftro ad Chsm Corkou.atios, SoSePropiiftors, Boston, ay -ilow lo Cure Every Baby Humor." mailed free. BABY BLEMISHES F"ZUZltiiX$?' OTtfteira

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TOPEKA STATE JOUEXAL, THURSDAY E VEXES Gr, JANUARY 27, 1898. GIGAI1T1CFRAUD. A Gang of Sharpers Swindles Many Farmers Ont of Considerable Sums of Money as Well as Produce. IXDUCED TO BUYSTOCK In the "Western Exporting and Importing Company," A Concern Organized to Market Farm Products in Europe. The "Western Exporting and Importing- company of Topeka is no more and many farmers in this vicinity are sev eral thousand dollars poorer. About two years ago the company wm organized. The president was J. S. Dummer, a farmer who lives near Tecumseh. J. B. Reed, who also lives near Tecumseh, was made treasurer, and Geo. C. Lockwood of Topeka was secretary. Who is responsible for the organiza tion of the company is a question that the farmers would like to have answer ed, but one of the promoters was Geo. C. Lockwood, the secretary, and Mr. Lockwood is the man to whom most of the money was paid and who took charge of consignments in the name of the company. The ostensible object of the corpora tion was to help the "downtrodden far mers," but it now seems that the real object was to bleed them. An agent of the company went out among the farmers and commiserated with them. He told them that they were being robbed by wolves in their own country, and that they were not paid nearly enough for their products. After the farmer had been worked up to the proper pitch the representa tive of the "Western Exporting and Importing company" explained to him that a company had been formed which would enable him to avoid the robber dealers at home and sell his products directly in a foreign market. Of course the farmer was interested. He is usually willing to listen to any new scheme without investigating it. But in this case it was pointed out that reputable farmers were behind the company and that it was simply an or ganization for mutual profit and pro tection. The only thing necessary was to pur chase one or more shares of stock at the nominal value of $10 a share. If he bought a $10 share that gave him a "shipping interest" in his own crop, so that he could send it to Europe through the company. But if he wanted to buy up the crops of his neighbors and avail himself of the "unequalled advantages offered by the company," he was to in vest $250 for 25 shares. It was pointed out that this was much the better way in which to transact the business. The suckers were numerous and the company treasury began to nil. Soon the first shipment was ready. It was sent to England, and in due time the shippers received a return. The price was not much more than would have been received at home, but it was ex plained that the market was poor. The call for the next shipment was promptly met. There is no way of tell ing how many farmers availed them selves of the "unequalled opportunity," buc the shipment was a large one. Jno. Garrett, who lives near Auburn, sent between 80 and 90 tons of baled hay and J. F. McLatchey and Samuel Buckman about the same amount. Other farmers sent more or less of their various pro ducts to take advantage of "the mar kets of the world." Geo. Corfleld, a man who had inter ested many of the farmers in the com pany, had been sent to England as the representative of the company, and he was stationed at Southampton. Pres ident Dummer also went to assist in disposing of the second shipment. The time for the returns of the ship ment came and the farmers watched every mail. Samuel Buckman was final ly loaned $200 by the company on his share of the hay shipment. Others may have secured small loans. Months passed, and still the money from Eng land did not come. Secretary Lockwood begged the farmers to be patient,, and they were as patient as they could be under the circumstances. But one day the crash came. Secre tary Lockwood told the stockholders who were Interested in the shipment, that Corfleld had turned out to be a fraud and that the consignment had not only been lost, but President Dummer ihad to leave England suddenly to avoid having the company sued for damages. Corfleld did not return. Some of the farmers still hoped that things would "be fixed up," but their hopes were dissipated entirely by the" stories told by Secretary Lockwood about the liability in England against the company, and they decided it was better to keep quiet. One day last December, Secretary Lockwood went to Vance Campbell, the attorneys, and said that the West ern Exporting and Importing company was in debt to President Dummer in the cum of $8,700. and he said that Dummer had instructed him to bring suit against the company for the amount. The claim was for money sltud to have been ad vanced by officers of the company to the corporation, but as the company did not buy or sell, it is difficult to see to what use such a large sum of money could have been put. One note was dated November 19, 1896, and was for $3,000 in favor of J. S. Dummer, president of the company. It was signed by J. B. Reed, treasurer, and Geo. C. Lockwood. secretary. The second note was dated Septem ber 1, 1896. for $1,400, in favor of Treas urer J. B. Reed. It was signed by Pres ident Dummer and Secretary Loek wood. The third note was in favor of J. B. Reed. It was for $325, and was dated August 12, 1S96, and signed as the sec ond. The fourth note was also in favor of the treasurer, and was for $2,000. It was dated August 3. 1S96. The fifth note was in favor of Robert Cooper, who does not appear as an of ficer. It was for $1,000, and was dated August 15, 1896, and signed by President Dummer and Secretary Lockwood. All these notes were assigned to Dummer before the suit was brought. After Secretary Lockwood, as agent of Mr. Dummer. the citizen, had in structed the attorneys to bring the suit, he went to J. J. Schenck, as Secretary Lockwood of the Western Exporting and Importing company, and instructed him to file an answer for the company. The answer was to be a general denial, which is the usual one when no defense is to be made. The case came to trial, and Mr. Dummer, the citizen, was given a judgment against himself, as presi dent of the company, and the other stockholders, for $S.700. Secretary Lockwood paid both attorneys. After the judgment had been, secured. Secretary Lockwood, as the agent of Mr. Dummer, wrote a letter to the far mers who had bought stock, informing them that he could be found at room 12 of the Real Estate building until Jan. 20, and that he would be prepared to accept balance due on their stock under the double liability, to apply on the judgment. He did this simply to "save costs." Many farmers responded to Secretary Lockwood's call, and he was busy for some time giving receipts. Mike Denin.a wealthy Jefferson coun ty farmer, paid $250 double liability without a murmur. There were a few who did not pay. They preferred to await developments. Following is a list of those who are liable for large sums who have not paid: J. F. Helms $220 19 J. F. Godwin 242 71 J. G. McConnell 187 50 J. F. McLatchey 130 00 There are also 13 men who have but one share of $10 who have not respond ed to the call of Secreiary Lockwood. Hungate Harvey have been em ployed by some of the stockholders to make an investigation, and they promise some interesting revelations. A. M. Harvey said today: "We propose to run this thing down and find out who is responsible for this outrage, and when the man is found we will not spare any pains to bring him to justice." Secretary Lockwood is out of town. DOLE WILL XOT WAIT. Will Start Back to Hawaii Next Week Treaty or No Treaty. Washington, Jan. 27. President and Mrs. Dole and the members of their party were up at 8 o'clock this morn ing, the chief executive and his wife taking their breakfast in their rooms. The president was kept very busy dur ing the forenoon receiving callers. Min ister Hatch was early on hand and was followed by ex-Minister Thurston, Sen ator Morgan of Alabama, who paid an extended visit to the islands during the last summer, and Mr. Crosby S. Noyes of Washington. In an interview with an Associated Press reporter. President Dole said: "I prefer not to discuss the question of annexation, as that would be emi nently inappropriate at this time dur ing the pendency of the question in the senate. I shall call on the president during my stay here and of course shall give him such information as he may desire respecting pending questions be tween the two countries. I expect to stay in Washington until the end of next week, when our trip homeward will begin. We shall go from here di rect to San Francisco.taking the steam er there for Honolulu. Certainly I should like to see the annexation treaty ratified by the senate before we leave, but we will not wait if such is not the case." President and Mrs. Dole have receiv ed many invitations to social functions during their stay here. This morning Mrs. Dole went to call on a number of friends in company with Mrs. Hatch, the wife of the Hawaiian minister. This afternoon Major Heistand, of the army, will accompany Mrs. Dole in a social call on Mrs. McKinley. Tonight the entire Hawaiian party probably will occupy a box at one of the thea ters. IT'S A BREWERS' FIGHT. Situation Among Pottawatomie Coun ty Officials Borders on War. There is a fight on between the coun ty attorney and sheriff of Pottawato mie county in which the attorney gen eral may be called upon to take a hand. Considerable excitement prevails over the condition of affairs in the county, which may result in serious trouble. A few days ago County Attorney C. W. Skene, a Populist, was arrested by Sheriff Huey, Republican, on a warrant sworn out before a justice of the peace charging him with malfeasance in of fice. The arrest was the result of charges made against Skene of being in league with the Heim Brewing com pany, and allowing violations of the prohibitory law by jointists in St. Ma rys, using that brand of beor. Skene at once brought habeas corpus proceedings before the probate judge and was released, but no sooner wras he released than he was again arrested on a warrant sworn out before another justiceof the peace. He was taken in to custody by Sheriff Huey in West moreland, but the same night was re moved to Wamego, some miles distant, for the purpose it appears of rendering him unable to secure release a second time. Probate Judge Hasty, hearing of the second arrest and the move of Sheriff Huey in taking him to Wawego. and yesterday dispatched an officer to Wamego with papers for Skene's re lease and summons for the sheriff to appear before him and answer for con tempt of court. Justices Pierson and Fee, who issued the warrants, were al so summoned to answer for contempt. Skene was released yesterday, and the contempt proceedings come up at West moreland today. Attorney General Boyle will probably take steps to prevent the further pros ecution of County Attorney Skene. A fight between Val Blatz and Heim Brewing companies for the control of the liquor business in Pottawatomie county seems to be back of the entire trouble. Skene proceeded against No vis and White, proprietors of a saloon and gambling house in St. Marys, and closed the place twice. Novis and White were the only agents of the Val Blatz company in Pottawatomie coun ty, and the charges against Skene were sworn to by them. Simmons Pays His License. Fred Simmons, the jointist who oper ates in the second story of the building at 810 Kansas avenue, has paid his li cense fine to the police department. The police docket shows that he was "ar rested" Wednesday on the "charge" of selling liquor and that he deposited $100 which was forfeited. This is the place which was formerly operated by Mike Thompson. Dancing at Library hall after the Kindergarten Fagot party on Tuesday evening, February 1. What pleasure is there in life with a headache, constipation and biliousness? Thousands experience them who could become perfectly healthy by using De Writt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue. A Comparison. New remedies put forth with exag gerated claims are continually coming up; some flourish awhile as fashionable novelties, but nearly all are forgotten before the end of the third year. On the other hand Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy has continually grown in favor and popularity during the past twenty five years. Those who once use it are so much pleased with the result that they nearly always insist on having it when again in need of such a medicine. There is nothing so good for a bad cold! Sold by druggists. Safe, sweet and satisfactory, Ayer's Pills are the best family physic. Ghost stories. Love stories, Funny stories and some Fish stories at Kin dergarten Fagot party. Library hall, February L state; BAR ASSOCIATION. Opens Its Session in tb.e Supreme Court Boom Today. The fifteenth annual meeting of the State Bar association has brought to Topeka a large crowd of prominent Kansas men. The members of the as sociation will listen to addresses to night and tomorrow, the meeting ter minating in a banquet at the Copeland Friday night. The first meeting of the association was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the supreme court rooms. Reports were received from the various special and standing committees after which Judge William Thomson of Burlingame deliv ered his annual address to the associa tion. This evening at 8 o'clock Judge P. S. Grosscup of Chicago will deliver an ad dress upon the subject "Popular Self Mastery The Duty of Lawyers Toward Its Promotion." Attorney General Boyle will deliver Judge Foster's address up on "The Pardoning Power Its Use and Abuse." Friday morning Judge W. G. Holt of the court of common pleas at Kansas City, F. L. Williams of Clay Center and John I. Games of the State University law class will address the association. The latter is the prize address of the 1898 law class. Friday afternoon Henry McLean of Paola, L. H. Perkins of Lawrence and Chas. F. Spencer of Topeka will speak. In his annual address before the State Bar association at 2 o'clock this after noon Judge H. L. Thomson of Burlin gamer" president of the organization, discussed the foundation of our govern ment and its separation into three sep arate forces, executive, legislative and judicial. He touched upon what he terms, the abandonment by the executive branch, JUDGE WILLIAM THOMSON, Prest. Kansas State, Bar Association. of the duties imposed upon it, and their assumption by the legislative branch, and vigorously attacked the spoils sys tem. He said: "Out of such conditions, grew and flourished a system: a system whose baleful effects upon good government were appalling. Under its regime, none might share in the appointive offi ces, whose credentials did not show a purchase right, by efficient party serv ice to some chief, who assumed for the time, the power and authority of a dic tator. Assistance at the conventions, or at the polls, were considerations which opened the gates of favor. The payment of assessments demanded with the boldness and brazen effront ery of a highwayman, from those al ready in oflice, was a condition prece dent to a continuance in the public ser vice. Competency, if united to oppo site political faith, was rigorously bar red out. Offices and places unneeded, were created and multiplied, to reward those, whose riotous clamor must be appeased. Importunate inefficiency, in the real race for official recognition, easily left merit at the post. Favored unfitness invariably distanced worth. Nor was ignorance a handicap to suc cess. The public conscience had be come perverted; nor were the people shocked, when partisan service, was the only commendation for the successful seeker of a public appointment. In the Belknap impeachment trial. Senator Hoar did not indulge in extravagant flights of fancy when he said: 'I have heard in the highest places, the shame less doctrine avowed, by men grown old in office, that the true way by which power should be gained in this repub lic, is to bribe the people with the of fices created for their service; and the true end for which it should be used when gained, is the promotion of self ish ambition, and the gratification of personal revenge. "Nor was it, alone, that the revenues of the nation had been prostituted to the vile purposes and abasements of designing partisans. The system struck its poisonous fangs into all with whom it came in contact, and dragged them down remorselessly to its own corrup tion and revolting level. "Every incumbent, of an office, was the victim cf the rapacious and preda tory demands, of the ruling party, de sirous of a continuity of public favor. No salary was too large, nor any sti pend too small to escape the ever vig ilant and alert vision, of assessors of the state and national committees. These political quartermasters, adjust ed, with the precision of tax gatherers, the proportion, which must be devoted to factional purposes. Such assessments suggested at first as fair, voluntary of ferings, to procure the success of a par ty cause, were at last demanded, as the price of a continuance in office. Among the clerks of the department, a reign of terror compelled them, to yield of their salaries, according to a scale fixed by political chiefs. And thus is unveiled, the pitiable spectacle, of an American citizen in the service of his country, bound supinely and forced by threats of imminent official demise, to .yield his independence, as well as his wa ges, to associations upon whcse favor his employment depended. Servility, thus engendered, was not greater in the feudal dependant, who did fealty to his lord, by approaching ungirt. and with head uncovered, and kneeling upon both knees, and placing his hands to gether between those of his chief, bound himself to the fortunes of the latter, by humbly saying: 'I become your man, from this day forward, of life, and limb, and of earthlv worship, and unto you shall be true "and faith ful, and bear your faith, for the tene ments I claim to hold of you.' Judge Thomson strongly commended tjcivil service reform. OLD BARNS TO GO. Street Car Company Will Use Mater ial in New Building at Twelfth and Jackson. The old street car barns will soon be a thing of the past. In a few days a force of men will be put to work tearing down the walls and carting away the material for use In erecting a new building just east of the new barns at Twelfth and Jackson streets. The old building, which is in a state of dissolution, is 125 by 130 feet in dimen sions. The new building will be 165 long and 48 feet wide. President Baker of the city railway says it is necessary to build tne new barns in order to furnish storage rooms for the cars and for the vestibules. The new building will be constructed of brick and stone. There are still several of the old cars used by the old horse car company still in the sheds. These will be taken to pieces and the material stored for futura use. The glass from the windows has already been taken out to use in the ves tibules on the trolley cars. STEELE PAYS ON 4 DOGS. Dog Tax Collector Makes a Visit to the Chief of Police. City Dog Collector Nels McConnell today presented a tax bill to Chief of Police Henry M. Steele. The latter re plied: "I always pay my dog tax, but I'll bet I could beat it in the supreme court if I chose." The tax collector produced his dog tax tags, and little book. "Well," continued the chief of police, "one of my fox-hounds has died and the other one is sick. Brownie Steele is over at my house. He is own ed by a syndicate of four. I have four dogs over there." McConnell got four tags ready, copied down the names of the blooded animals in which the head of the police depart ment takes so much pride, and the tax es were paid on. them. Then Chief Steele after puffing at a black cigar, said: "This is all foolishness to have an extra man to collect drg tax. If they would turn it over to the police we could do it for much less money, and do it better. Then, too, we could kill off a lot of these worthless curs." MOTLEY CREW WERE THEY Officials of Santa Fe Train No. 113 Go West in Variagated Costumes. The crew of 113 were attired in all sorts of uniforms when they arrived in Topeka, Their uniforms were burned in a small fire at the Kansas City Un ion depot and they had to do the best they could. Some of the coaches on the train were scorched and smoked. Near ly every train box that was in the de pot was burned so that the contents were seriously damaged or spoiled. The Pullman conductors uniforms es caped with a bad smoking and the "Wagner conductors also escaped. Both Arms Broken. Mrs. Newrich (before the Venus de Milo) La. but Mrs. Swellington must have areless servant girls New York Journal. Then Thy Wanted It. Senior Partner Well, I see you've sold that homely piece of goods we had so long. How did you do it? Smart Clerk I told our customers it was the last piece of the kind that we had .mported under the old tariff law and that ihe price would be increased 35 per cent on suoh material as soon as our present -tock was exhausted. Chicago Record. Eureka Springs, Ark., As a summer and winter resort cannot be surpassed. To this famous all-year-round resort round-trip tickets are on sale from all principal cities through out the country at greatly reduced rates. Double daily trains via the Frisco Line. A neat little pamphlet giving detailed description of Eureka Springs will be mailed free upon appli cation to Geo. T. Nicholson, General Passenger Agent, 'Pisco Line, St. Louis, Mo. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL General Notes of Society and: Personal Items. Recent Social Erents in Topeka and Vicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. fAH communications to this department must give the full name and address of the writer. Anonymous personals and descriptions of social affairs will not be published. The regular January meeting of the Daughters of the Revolution will be held January 28 at Mrs. Judge A. H. Horton's residence. Following is the programme: Business of the chapter. Song Armor Patriae Chapter. Incidents of Colonial Times By the members. Colonial Consolidation of the Colonies and the Steps Looking Toward the Ar ticles of Confederation Mrs. N.F. Han dy. Early American Poets Mrs. C. S. Baker. Music. The next meeting of the Daughters of the Revolution will be held February 25. The Ladies' Music Club. The Ladies' Music club met Wednes day afternoon in Mr. von Dahlen's rooms. The meeting proved to be an especially delightful one. Mrs. Hardt had charge of the programme for the afternoon, which was devoted to Chopin. She gave a very interesting and instructive history of Chopin's life and before each number she gave a sketch of the characteristics of the piece to be given. With the exception of the first number, which was by Schu mann, all of the selections were by Chop in. The following was the programme: Quartette The Gypsies Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Ferry. 2. Waltz op. 64, No, 2 Mrs. Barber. 3. Two Funeral Marches op. 72, No. 2, and op. 35 Violin, Mrs. Foster; violoncello, Mr. C. S. Sutton; piano, Miss Tracy and Mrs. MacLennan. 4. Revolutionary Etude C Sharp Minor Miss Tracy. 5. Song Maiden's Wish Mrs. Hodgins. 6. Nocturne op. 37, No. 2 Mrs. MacLennan. 7. Folunaise op. 22 Miss Bundy. 8. Berceuse Miss Martin. 9. Touth Aleyer-Helmund Miss Mitchell. The club will meet in two weeks with Mrs. MacLennan. The Chaminade Music Club. The Chaminade club met Wednesday afternoon with Miss Myrtle Jetmore and the following programme was given: Mazurka Moskowski Miss Perle Latham. Good-bye Tost Miss Myrtle Jetmore. In Tempo di Minuetto Moskowski Miss Lida Bergen. Could I Tosti Miss Emma. Dennis. Dance Hongriese Moskowski Miss Eleanor Work. It Came With the Merry May, Love Tosti Miss Florence Horn. Valse Moskowski Anna Campbell Tasker. The next meeting of the club will be held Wednesday afternoon, February 9, with Miss Perle Latham, Raff and Schu bert being the composers chosen. Two High Five Parties. Miss Ollie O'Brien gave two very de lightful progressive high five parties Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. There were 12 tables each day. On Tuesday the color scheme was helio trope; the ices and bonbons were tint ed a delicate heliotrope, and served with them were tiny bunches of violets. The prize, a large bunch of violets, was won by Mrs. W. H. Eastman. On Wednesday the prevailing color was pink, and daybreak carnations were used as were the violets the day before. Miss Mabel Wilson won the prize, a large bunch of carnations. Mr. and Mrs. Whitton Entertain. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Whitton enter tained "The Row" very delightfully on Wednesday evening at their home on West Tenth street. Much merriment was caused by playing the Floral Love Tale. The prizes were won by Dr. Wasson and Miss Georgiana Wasson. Salads and ice cream were served. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. L. M Powell. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bowman. Mr and Mrs. C. T. Bowman, Dr. and Mrs Wasson, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Mc Cabe Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Holman. Mr and Mrs. Wrm. Macferran, Mr. and Mrs M W. Macferran. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edson, Mrs. C. H. McCabe, Miss Wasson and Miss Roberta Wasson. The O. N. O. Club. The O N. O. club enjoyed a very pleasant dance Wednesday evening at Wetherell's hall. Those who danced were- Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Fleishman, Mr and Mrs. W. H. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Schoch, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Wool verton Mr. and Mrs. Wingert, Mr. and Mrs B. E. Pitts. Mr. and Mrs. Fred lies Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Nelson, Mr. and' Mrs. H. L. P. Hillyer, Mr. and Mrs. U B. McCurdy, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Garvey. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Spencer, Mr and Mrs. C. D. Skinner. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Shubert, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Reed, Miss Aline Lamy, Miss Pepin. Mr. J. H. Wetherell, Mr. Lou Culver and Mr. J. J. Falls. A High Five Party. Miss Olivia Van Tassel entertained several tables very pleasantly at pro gressive high five Wednesday evening, in honor of her cousin. Miss May Rush more, of Kansas City. Those present wor-d- Afis Willa Tomlinson. Miss Ger trude Willitt, Miss Pet Ritter, Miss Florence Van Tassel, Miss Edna Mil lice, Miss Edith Brewer, Miss Mae Da vis, Mr. Fred Glick, Mr. John Green, Mr. George McCoy, Mr. Harry Good rich, Mr. Lee Sidwell, Mr. S. Rushmore, Mr. Frank Squires and Mr. Roy Millice. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. Theodore Thomas attended the Assembly party in Leavenworth, Tues day evening. Miss Jean Wallace is spending the week in Kansas City. The marriage of Miss Ida Smith to Mr. Oscar D. Wolf will take place on Wednesday evening, February 2nd, at seven o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Smith, at 1013 Van Buren street. Only the im mediate relatives and a few intimate friends will be invited. The date of the marriage is also Miss Smith's birth day. Mrs. Shaw and Miss Darrah of Leav enworth gave a very brilliant reception Tuesday afternoon at which Miss The resa Rossington was of the receiving party. The Duplicate Whist club will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. T. E. Pounds. Miss Lulu Thompson has returned from a ten days' visit with her sister in Kansas City. Miss Grace Adams will return this week from Fort Madison, Iowa, where she has been spending the past month. Mr. and Mrs. George Lyles of High land Park are the parents of a daugh ter, born Tuesday, January 25. Wednesday evening about forty peo ple gave a very pleasant surprise party on Miss Mamie Crawford at her home, three miles east of town. The time passed very quickly in dancing and card playing. Delicious refreshments were served. Mrs. J. M. Todd and son Burt left Wednesday for Menon, Ark., to join Air. Todd who went about a month ago. They will make their home there. The members of the Suburban and the Kongenial Krew were very pleas antly entertained Monday evening at the home of Burt Todd. There were about sixty guests present and the evening was spent in dancing and card playing. Miss Thomas, Miss Morgan and Mr. Brintnall assisted in entertain ing. Madame Boger Gives Scientific Mas sage, Vapor, Perfume and Electro Thermal Baths. Removes corns and bunions. Home treatment a specialty. References Our leading Physicians. 506 Van Buren. Mrs. Luman Osborn of Chicago is visiting with Miss Belle Thompson. TO GET CONVICT LEWIS OUT Senator Jumper Asks for the Pardon of a Waverly Bank Robber. Senator H. G. Jumper of Osage county Is asking for the pardon of Frank Lewis, convicted of the daylight robbery of the bank at Waverly, Kan., and the killing of A. P. Ingleman, a pedestrian, in the excitement that followed. He appeared before the board of pardons this morn ing and made a speech in favor of the pardon, presenting among other papers a statement signed by the members of the jury that convicted Lewis, in which It was stated that the opinion of the jury had changed since the time of conviction, and it was now believed that Lewis was not guilty of the murder of Ingleman. Lewis was convicted In February, 1893, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The board will pass on the case before adjournment of the quarterly session SaU urday. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State J ournaL Chicago, Jan. 27. WHEAT The activity which marked the closing of yesterday's wheat market had nearly all disappeared at the start to day. A remarkable advance at Liver pool, (Efld at 1:30 p. m., caused a firm feeling, May opening at from 95 to 95c, against yesterday's closing price of 94c, with a moderate demand from shorts. Commission houses had selling orders, and with some selling against weekly "calls" by room traders, the tendency of the market for some time was downward. May declining to 9595e. A Broohall cable saying that Russia would probably soon become an Importer and reporting Odessa navigation again closing, had a steadying Influence, May reacting to 95 (Sc. Fliur news was strong, Minneap olis reporting a good export demand with 330,000 barrels sold. Other flour, points were not quite so favorable. Northwest ern receipts were 284 cars, against 307 cars last wert, Chicago received 21 cars, two of which were of contract quality. CORN Corn was steady with an in creased trade, commission houses being good buyers. Receipts were 117 cars. May opened a shade higher at 29c and rold at 29Sc. OATS Dull and steady. May opened unchanged at 23S24c and held at that price. PROVISIONS Dull. There was some realizing by longs and the tendency was downward. Hogs were lower. May opened unchanged at $9.97 and declined to $9.90. May lard opened a shade lower at $4.87 and sold at $4.SS4.S7. May rib opened 2c lower at $4.90, sold at $4.92 and eased off to $4.87. ozf -us s 'on 'useo iamva RYE Cash, 47c: May, 49c. FLAX Cash. $1.27; cash northwestern, $1.32: Mav, $1.29fil.30. TIMOTHY Cash, $2.75; January, $2.75: March, $2.80. Chicago Livestock Market. x Chicago, Jan. 27. HOGS Receipts, 26,000; left over, 2,300. Market fairly active, 5c lower. Light, $3.70 3.90; mixed. $3.753.95; heavy, $3.653.95; rough, $3.65g3.70. CATTLE Receipts, 19,000. Market gen erally 10c lower. Beeves, $3.905.40; cows and heifers, J2.25Q4.40; Texas steers, $3.50 4.40; stockers and feeders, $3.404.40. SHEEP Receipts, 20,000. Steady. Na tives. $3.1034.70; westerns, $3.604.70; lambs, $4.25 3. 60. Official yesterday: HOGS Receipts, 14,498: shipments, 530. CATTLE; Receipts, 8,793; shipments, 4, 557. SHEEP Receipts, 6.749; shipments, 2S6. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, Jan. 27. CATTLE Receipts, 7,000. Market weak to 10c lower. Texas steers, $3.934.40: Tex. as cows, $2.S53.45; native steers, $3(55.10; native coas and heifers, $1.50-S4.10; stock, ers and feeders, $3i5: bulls, $2.S0a3.75. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. if t. Pr. 19 Texas steers 121S $4.40 24 Texas cows 840 3.45 SG native steers 1534 5.10 21 native cows and heifers 912 4.10 49 stockers and feeders 615 5.00 8 bulls 919 3.73 HOGS Receipts, 13,000. Market slow, weak to 5c lower. Bulk of sales, $3.G5f? 3.77; heavies, $3.&(i3.S5; packers, $3.70'3 3.S2H; mixed, 13.603.82; lights, $3.55 3.72; yorkers, $3.703.72; pigs, $3.35 3.77. SHEEP Receipts, 4,000. Market steady. Lambs, $45.G0; muttons, $3114.45. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Jan. 27. WHEAT Offerings of hard light, prices l;&2c- higher; soft, fairly active. No. 1 hard, nominally 89c; No. 2, 87SS9c; No. 3, 86SSc; No. 1 red, 98c: No. 2. 97c; one ear mixed, 90c; No. 3, 9294c; No. 2 spring, 85S86c: No. 3, 81a83c. CORN Firm. No. 2 mixed, 24c; spe cial, 23c. OATS Firm, slightly higher. No. 2 white, 23iS24c. RYE Firm. No. 2, 43c bid, 45c asked. HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT Friday, January 28, AT High School Assembly Hall Chart Opens Thursday Morning at Row ley Snow's Drug Store. ADMISSION, 25 CENTS Only 250 Seats to be sold. HAY Active, firm. Choice timothy, $3.50 9; choice prairie, $7.507.75. BUTTER Demand limited. Creamery, 1417c; dairy, 1214c. EGGS Steady, 13c. Market Gossip. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission -Co., Brokers in Grain, Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Kan. Liverpool: Wheat d higher. Northwestern receipts: This year, Du luth 69 cars, Minneapolis 215 cars; last year, Duluth 30 cars, Minneapolis 152 cars. Chicago receipts: Wheat 21 cars, grade 2 cars; corn 117 cars, grade 12 cars; oats 97 cars, grade 14 cars. Receipts of Hogs: Chicago, 26,000 head; Kansas City, 17-, 000 head; Omaha, 7,000 head. Chicago: Inquiries are quite fully made throughout the northwest for the amount of marketable wheat. The result of these inquiries shows that about 22 per cent re mains in farmers' hands in Minnesota, about 8 per cent in North Dakota and about 14 per cent in South Dakota. Chicago: Estimated receipts tomorrow: Wheat,, 27 cars; corn, 110 cars; oats, 90 cars. Clearances four ports: Wheat and flour equal to 500,700 bushels. Kansas City: Hogs closed 510c lower. Cattle selling little lower. Sugar and Coffee New York, Jan. 27. SUGAR Raw, quiet and steady; fair re fining, 3 9-16c; centrifugal 96 test, 4 l-16c; refined, steady; crushed, 5c; powdered. 5 5-16c; granulated,- 5c COFFEE Dull. Today's Ranges of Prices. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com. mission Co., Brokers in Grain, Provision and Stocks, 110 West Siatth Ave., Topeka, Kan. Article. Open High Low Close Yea. WHEAT- Jan 102 105 102 104 loo May 95 July 85 97i,i 95- 85 87 95- 9434 87 85 JOK.JN Jan Mav July OATS Jan May Julv FORK Jan Mav LARD Jan 27 29 30 2S 27 28 27 29- 29- 29-?4 29- 30 3014- 30 3t- 23 23 23 23 2376-24 24'4 23-24 2414 23-24 22- 9 87 9 97 4 80-S2 4 87 4 90 4 62-95 22 23 23 9 95 9 97 9 95 10 05 9 95 9 92 9 95 10 05 4 77 4 S3 4 92 4 77 4 87 4 R2 4 92 May 4 87 RIBS Jan 4 92 May 4 90 4 92 4 95 4 92 4 87 4 92 4 95 Ranges of Prices on Stocks. Furnished bv the W. A. Michael Com. mission Co., Brokers In Grain. Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Kan. Stocks. Op'n High Low Cl'sei Yes. 1374 Sugar Chicago Gas Am. Tobacco Am. Spirits E. G. E Leather Lead M.,K. T. Pfd C, B. Q Rock Island C, M. St. P. A., T. S. F. A..T. &S.F.Pfd Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific Wabash Un. Pacific C. N. W N. Y. Central.. O. M C. C. C D. L. W. Reading Jersey Central. D. H G. N. W T. C. I No. Pac. Pfd.. Pacific Mail L. N 13734 87 9 36 64 35 39 9! 92 139 I "14 87 9' 37: 65 36 40 1W 94 96 13 31 118 92 S5! lt, 137 96V, 13S 96 -7 9 36 63. 3: 3S14 99 92 95- 12 3 87i.i, 87 9 64 35' 4(1 lO'Hi 93 95 13 l II714 91 31 1H 33' 12:: 119 75 35! 154 9 36 64 35 3H 99 92 95 13 SO 116 91 34 1X 331.4 122 117 74 35 153 22 94 113 14 25 65V 31 56 1 30 116 91 34 1S 33 116 91 344 l?e 33 122 117 74 35V. 152 2 33 12 I 122 119 7ti 36 154 22 94 113 14 25 66 31'4 n5 74 35V., 153" 2214 94 113 14 25 65 31 94 I 94 113 14' 112 11 25 2.5 06 31 56 I 64 3114 57V I 56 6 W. A. MICHAEL C0M3HSSI0S CO,. HO Weet Sixlb Aimm, Telephone 669. Topeka Kan. I A. GUHXE, Manager. Grain, Provisions, Stook3 You can buy or sell anything dealt In on the principal exchange of the country fhrouth us. Direct wires. Quick service. Reasonable marcins. Orders by wire, let ter or telephone promptly executed. Ref renca by permission, CENTRAL NATIONAL, BANK. Topeka, Kansas. UNION NATIONAL BANK, Kansas City. Mo. Kansas Cltv office, first floor Exchange buildine- We have same service and re sponsibility aa Kansas City office. E. 1.VX Freemen J. S. fiAKTIK Trfmnrer and See'y TELEPHONE 132. Lux Commission Co. mX I'ROYISIOXS A.D STOCKS, 526 KAXSAM ATE., TOPEKA, KS. BKFERKXCKS: Central Kattoital Banlf, Topeka. Bank of Topeka. t-You can buy or sell through us for imnis mediate or future delivery all commodities traded iu on auy exchange in the country. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. LOST An umbrella taken from Mrs. Sims' house the day of the musical; owner's name cut in the handle. Leave at 433 Lincoln. LOST A black fan spanpled with steel, on Tuesday evening', between 1027 Tyler st. and corner ot Tenth and Topeka aves. Please return to 1027 Tyler st. and receive reward. BUY gentlemen's old clothes; will pay good prices. 414 Kansas ave. M. Manson. WANTED We want to make good farm loans in eastern Kansas. Money on hand and every accommodation to bor rower. T. E. BOWMAN CO.. Columbian Building. FOR SALF mortgages. Choice eastern Kansas farm T. E. BOWMAN CO.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1898. 1 r i V II THE LITTLE REP STAMP Costs Only Two Cents, cut Takes a Letter a Long Way. COME DIFFIOULT POSTAL EOUTES. t7ncle Bam'i Mail Carriers Plod Through Arctic) Sbow and Swelter tnder a Tropie Bun Delivering letter In Alas ka Some Postmen Who Wear Stilts. The little red 2 cent postage stamp, vhioh you can buy singly or in sheets cf 100, has more of magic in it than the prestadigitateur's wand. Lick the back cf it carefully, stick it firmly on the up per right hand corner of a properly ad dressed envelope and then watch the deference paid to your missive and the ruddy vignette of G. Washington. Without the stamp your letter would Set no consideration, from any one, and tH. SUBCTsBAIf DELIVERY. fcy any other means it would cost yon hundreds of dollars to send it to places where, with the stamp affixed. Uncle Sam takes it swiftly and cheerfully for two copper pennies. Not only does the stamp insure you that the best transpor tation facilities in the country will be utilized to take your letter to its desti nation, but it puts a sort of defensive shield upon it a shield which it is a state prison offense to ignore. The maj esty of the law, backed by the farreacn ing power of the United States courts, protects the letter after you have stuck on the stamp and goes with it until the person to whom it is addressed breaks the envelope. During the year whicli has just closed it cost the United States over f 94,000, 000 to maintain the reputation for efficiency of the little red postage stamp. Uncle Sam received something in return, it is true, but not as much as he paid out by nearly $13,000,000. The transportation of the mails alone cost nearly $50,000,000. Perhaps you will argue that Uncle Sam ought to run his postal service on a more businesslike basis. He could make the mail service pay its expenses very easily, but do you want to return to the green 3 cent Btamp of a few years ago? I thought not. When you stick a 2 cent stamp on a letter, do you realize what a vast and complicated system you summon to your aid? Of course not. You have other and more immediately important things to think of. But do it once, just as a tribute to civilization. Suppose you live in Boston and want to tell your brother in .Mishawaka, Or., that Aunt Eliza, who used to make such fine mince pies for you when you were both boys, has passed over to the great silent majority. You write your letter, stick on yoar stamp and drop the missive into the bor at the corner of Tremont and Boylston streets. Half an hour later, perhaps in less time, a gray coated collector unlocks the box, scrapes your letter into a leath er bag hanging from his shoulder and hurries down to the general postoffice on .Milk street. In a few minutes more your letter has been thrown into a bag marked "outgoing domestic, west bound," and before two hours have elapsed it has begun its journey toward Oregon. From that time on, night and day, the fastest limited expresses whirl it across the continent. It goes through tunnels, across mighty rivers on ferries and bridges and over mountain ranges, never stopping, always hurrying on. Now, Mishawaka, Or., is a rather in accessible little place. It is more than CO miles away from the nearest railroad station, and it is farther than that from the nearest seaport where steamers stop. But there is a postoffice in Mishawaka, and Uncle Sam is bound to take your letter to Brother John. It will have to be taken across mountains, carried miles In a wagon and transported for some distance in a little stern wheel steamer, THE ALASKAN MAIL, tint it will reach Brother John as safely and as surely as if he lived in Dedham instead of Mishawaka. And all you have contributed to defray the expenses is 2 red cents. Only a little more than 60 years ago it cost 25 cents to send a letter from New York to Chicago. But from Boston to Mishawaka is not the longest stretch over which the 9 cent stamp will carry a letter. That aine little square of red paper is recog nized anywhere ia Mexico or Canada. tYj p- -V 111 It will ca,rry your missive clear up into the subpolar regions of Assiniboin or down into the tropio heat of Cam peachy. Uncle Sam ia ready to have it skated over white drifts by a dog team or packed lazily along a dusty highway by a sweating burro driven by a sleepy peon. Uncle Sam can afford to carry all of your letters cheaply because he does a wholesale business. In a majority of cases the 2 cents which you pay mora than covers the actual cost of transpor tation. But suppose you send a letter to Bill Slicer, who has gone up to Circle City, Alaska, to seek his fortune. As far as Juneau Uncle Sam has but little difficulty in carrying out the contract which the sale of the little red stamp implies, but at Juneau his troubles be gin. The mail route from there to Cir cle City is numbered 78,105, and it is probably one of the most difficult routes in our postal system. If you don't think go, just read this matter of fact report by the mail carrier on that route. He describes his last journey from Circle City to Juneau as follows I left Circle City Sept. 14. Our party poled up the river from Circle City to Dawson, SOO miles, in 11 days 3 hours. From Dawson we poled up to HcCormack'a Post, about 263 miles, arriving there Sunday, Oct. 24. We were compelled to lie over at Sixty Mile Post for five days. At McCormack's we abandoned our boats and started overland on what is known as tbo Dalton trail, about SuO miles to Chilkat, where we arrived safely after 25 days traveling through two to three feet of snow over a mountain trail. We started with 12 horses, and they were all dead before we got half way. I hope that this brief outline will be of some assistance and would be pleased to be at your Bervice for any information in my power. To have a man plod through three feet of snow for 25 days at a time, pole a boat for COO miles up stream along ice elegged rivers, drive 12 unfortunate horses to death and brave the terrors of Chilkat pass that's what you paid for when you bought your 2 cent stamp. On this particular trip the plucky mail carrier came through all right. He may not be so lucky next time. A mail carrier in Montana perished the other day while on his route. It was not an unusual occurrence. Every spring and fall the man who carried the mail from Cheboygan, Mich., across the straits to Mackinac Island used to risk his life on each trip. He crossed in a double ended sailboat and fought his way through fields of floating ice. In the winter before the ice broke np he used a dug team and sledge, and the mail is still carried from Mackinao to the mainland by the same method. Dr. Sheldon Jackson now proposes to carry mail over Chilkat pass and into Dawson City by reindeer teams. His plan may be adopted. There are many routes, especially in the western states, which are covered during the winter months only at the imminent peril of the carriers. The red Indian no longer lies in ambush for the STILTED POSTMEN OF THE FRENCH LANDES pony express rider, but the pony express is still in existence in some sections. The bicycle and trolley car are utilized in the east. In many suburban towns the free delivery system could not exist without the bicycle, while the trolley, penetrating where the railroad does not reach, has transformed sleepy rural vil lages into wide awake little towns with many urban airs and conveniences, among them that of two or more mails a day. But if the 3 cent stamp will do so much, the brown 5 cent stamp, bearing the face of General Grant, will do even more. It will take a half ounce missive to your missionary friend the Rev. X. Horter, though he wander into the very heart of darkest Africa. It will carry it to the sacred city of Mecca, where you yourself would not be allowed to go. It will cause it to be dropped at Madagas car or Samoa. In fact, China and Korea are about the only inhabited countries in which your brown stamp will lose its potency. But if you want your letter to be de livered by the most unique and pictur esque postmen in existence just send it to some peasant in the Landes of south ern France. The Landes lies between Bordeaux and Bayonne and is a stretch of sparsely inhabited open country. Formerly it was all waste land, but it has been partially reclaimed by the planting of pine trees, which are grown for the sake of the rosin obtained from them. There are feyr roads and many str?tches of marsh land. The peasants in order to get about over their wretch ed country have taken to the use of stilts, with which they cross marshes, wade through pools and go through brier laden brush without difficulty. What should be more natural than that the postmen should adopt stilts too. This they have done. They carry with them a long pole, which serves as a support In the winter, when the landes are covered with snow, the post man fits thin wooden skates to his stilts and slides across the top of the snow. He wears a long white cloak, lined with sheepskin and provided with a hood which keeps his ears warm and gives him a strange look. Altogether he is a most fantastic figure as he goes strad dling across the country. Some of our rural mail carriers are picturesque, but we have nothing equal to the stilted postman of the .Landes. Sewell Ford. BOCK ISLAND HEARING. Board of Charities Wants Rates for Switching Coal to Asylum Reduced. The honesty of the state board of charities was questioned this morning by Mr. W. F. Evans, assistant general attorney, during a hearing o the com plaint brought by the board against the liock Island Railway company over an increase in the switching rate at the state insane asylum at this city. The hearing was before the board of rail road commissioners. Over three months ago the Rock Is land freight department increased the rate for switching cars of coal and oth er material to the state insane asylum from $4 to $16 per car, and as soon as the bills at the increased rate were sent In, the board of charities refused to pay them and filed complaint before the railroad commissioners. The company continued to do the switching until a short time ago, when it served notice on the board that unless the bills were paid no more switching would be done. Since that time the state coal and other supplies have been hauled from the city to the asylum in wagons. The case came up for hearing this morning, and after trying for an hour to affect a compromise, the regular hearing was taken up. Attorney Gen eral Boyle asked the company to con tinue to do switching for the asylum, and leave the matter of compensation open until General Attorney Low re turned from the east and consulted with the board. This Mr. Evans refus ed to agree to, and in support of his po sition said: "That would leave us without com pensation for our work, and our bills have now been tied up for over three months." "But good gracious. Mr. Evans," said Atorney General Boyle, "you know the state board of charities will pay your claims as soon as this matter is set tled." "Well, yes. It's my impression that the board will probably pay the bills." replied Mr. Evans shrugging his should ers. "Xot an impression merely, but you know it to be a fact, don't you Mr. Evans?" said Mr. Boyle. "No, indeed, I don't know anything about it," returned Mr. Evans. "I don't know whether the board will pay its bills or not." Senator Jumper, one of the board, here took a hand in the discussion, and made one of his characteristiC'ripping" speeches. This Mr. Evans quietly ig nored by turning his chair around and engaging in conversation with General Freight Agent Boyd. The company says It Increased the rate because formerly there were sev eral industries on the branch track leading to the asylum, and the work did not have to be done for the asylum ex clusively. KEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the office of the register of deeds: Joseph Mason and wife to Joseph D. Mason and wife. $1,000, north 10 feet of lot 44S and all of lot 450 Kansas avenue, Paramore's addition. John R. Witt and wife to Lizzie Mitch ner. $500, lots 115, 117, 119 Main street, Rossville. Dwight H. Cady and wife to Ann Mc Cord, $1, lot 309 and west half of 207 Twentieth street, Shelton's subdivision. John R. Witt and wife to Lizzie Mitch ner, $1, lot 113 Main street, Rossville. Investment Trust company, by receiver, to L. W. Wilson, $22S, south 15 feet of east half of lot 4, Crane's Homestead block. BOYS SNOW BALL HIS WIFE And Charles Belville Swears Out a "Warrant for Their Arrest. Charles Belville, a North Topeka la borer, who lives on Jefferson street, has made complaint to Judge Atchison that a gang of small boys stormed his prem ises, armed with snowballs and hit his wife with one of the balls of compress ed snow. He swore to the complaint against Walter Holcomb, aged 15 years, David Gabriel, 10 years, John Grant, 15 years. Bert Berry, 17 years, Lon Berry, 14 years, and Chas. Berry, 12 years. All are North Topeka boys. The boys were arrested by Patrolmen Jenkins and Wood and taken to police station. Friday they will be arraigned before Police Judge Atchison on the charge of disturbing the peace. The snowball which hit Mrs. Belville crash ed through a window in the side of the house, and greatly frightened the in mates. CHOKED HIS PRISONER. Patrolman J enkins is Forced to Be Bort to Extreme Measures. Patrolman Jenkins Wednesday night had a fierce fight with Luther McNiel, a young North Topeka tough. Some time ago McNiel, who is 21 years of age, was bound over to the district court on the charge of highway robbery. The com plaining witnesses were the Kropf boys, who live north of the city, and who claimed that McNiel met them in the country and took from them their gun and other belongings. Thursday afternoon the Kropf boys were in North Topeka and McNiel followed them, swearing vengtance. They sought the protection of a policeman. When Pa trolman Jenkins warned McNiel to let the trolman Jenkins warned McNiel to leave the boys alone the young tough became boisterous and threatened violence to the officer. Jenkins placed him under arrest and in so doing the fight occurred. Mc Niel was Quieted by being thrown to the pavement in front of the Adams House and choked into submission. In police court today McNiel was fined $30. New Kansas Postmasters. Washington, D. C, Jan. 27. The fol lowing postmasters for Kansas were ap pointed today: Thomas Lyick, Hamlin, Brown county, vice L. E. Harding, re moved; George H. Valentine, Powhattan, Brown county, vice W. H. Ginnis, re moved. Household Gcds. The ancient Greeks believed that the Penates were the gods who attended to the welfare and prosperity of the fami lv. They were worshiped as household gods in every home. The household god of today is Dr. King's New Discov ery. For consumption, coughs, colds and for all affections of Throat, Chest and Lungs it is invaluable. It has been tried for a quarter of a century and is guaranteed to cure, or money returned. No household should be without this good angel. It is pleasant to take and a safe and sure remedy for old and voung. Free trial bottle at Swift Holliday's Drug Store. Regular size 50 cents and $1.00. Children and adults tortured by r burns, scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseases may secure instant relief by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It is a great Pile remedy. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas avenue. NORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left at the Kimball Ptg. Co., before 10 o'clock in the morning. Bread, -2 lb. five cents. Gem Bakery. No Fake. Bibles, albums and books at actual cost. Cromwell Jeffers. Bibles, albums and books at cost. In ventory sale. Cromwell Jeffera. Mrs. Jonas Lukens arrived home last evening from Kansas City. L. R. Taylor of Grantville was calling Gn North side friends yesterday. Mrs. Curry will move shortly from To peka avenue to 927 Kansas avenue. iiir. and Mrs. Newell and daughters Hat tie 'and Anna of Elmont were in town yesterday. The whist club will meet Friday evening at -the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Small instead of Thursday. Miss Bessie Henry, who has' been con fined to her home on Quincy street by ill ness, is now able to be out. The ladies of section 4 of the Kansas Avenue church met this afternoon at the i home of Mrs. Reed, 717 Morse street. j Rev. Wiley Bickell will lecture at the hall, northwest corner of Fourth and Jackson street, Sunday afternoon at 3 j o'clock, before the class of Christian oc- I cult science. His subject will be "Good and Evil." Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Parks entertained the N. I. T. club last evening. At the guests' table Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fulton and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Steinberger played. Mrs. Annie Gibb substituted for the hostess. Bessie Watts celebrated her thirteenth birthday anniversary last evening at her home on Quincy street by giving a taffy pull to the following little girls: Ada Munsey, Pearl Henry, Nellie Yonkers, Jessie Shellabarger, Ethel Wiley and Edna Davis. Shawnee council No. 1, F. A. A., has been divided into two sections, one led by Mrs. J. B. Betts and the other by Mr. S. L. Courtney. The two sections will seo which can get the most new members to join the order within the next 60 days. The loser will probably have to put up a supper for the lodge. Mrs. E. D. Small entertained Tuesday evening at her home, 127 West Gordon street complimentary to her nieces. Misses Katharine and Bessie Pennell of Atchi son. High five, hearts and whist were played. The guests were: Misses Pen nell of Atchison, Miss Chandler of Bos ton, Miss Chase of Elkhart, Ind., Miss Grace Peckham of Jersey City, N. J., Misses Edna Crane, Grace Weiss, Myrtle and Ivah Davis, Eda Smyth, Nellie Weth erholt, Lotta Ranney, Susie Gay, Lillian Whitelock and Miss Devereaux; Messrs. Lon Davis, Frank Davis, Walter Smith, Dave Sibley, John" Green, Ed Dennis, Fred McGiffen, Joe Morgan, Jay Keeler, Mart Wikidal, Fey Howell, Charles La gerstrom, Edgar Arnold, Harry Small and Dr. Hazlett. The head prizes, two dainty books, were won by Miss Weiss and Mr. Ed Dennis. Miss Edna Crane was con soled by a fancy calendar and Mr. Mc Giffen with a comic paper weight. Runaway Starts a Fire. J. S. Smith, a mover who has been camping in North Topeka, yesterday prepared to leave the city. As he was about to get into his wagon the team took fright at a locomotive and ran away. His little boy was in the wagon. On Railroad street. the team collided with a wagon breaking it, and later, near the fire station, ran into another wagon. The stove in the mover wagon was tipped over and set fire to the can vas. The chemical engine was called and put out the fire. No one was in jured. Prices for Kindergarten Fagot party at Library hall, Tuesday evening, Feb ruary 1, are single 50c per couple 75c. Good stories, good music. Dancing .aft er the programme. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE FOR 1898 A GREAT PROGRAMME. THE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, to run throughout the year. (For the first time all the modern art forces and re sources will be brought to bear upon the Revolution. Howard Pyle and a corps of artists are making over 100 paintings expressly for this great work). CAPTAIN A. T. MAHAN'S "The American Navy in the Revolution," to be illustrated by Carlton T. Chapman, the marine artist; Harry Fenn, and others. THOMAS NELSON PAGE'S FIRST LONG NOVEL, "Red Rock A Chroni cle of Reconstruction." Mr. Page has devoted four years to the story, and he considers it his best work. (Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst.) RUDTARD KIPLING, RICHARD HARDING DAVItr.JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, GEORGE W. CABLE, and others, are under engagement to con tribute stories during 1898. ROBERT GRANT'S "SEARCH LIGHT LETTERS" replies to various letters that came in consequence of his "Reflections of a Married Man" and "The Opinions of a Philosopher." "THE WORKERS" in a new field Walter A. Wyckoff .the college man who became a laborer, will tell about his experience wth sweat-shop laborers and anarchists in Chlcf.go. (Illustrated from life by W. It. Leigh.) THE THEATER, THE MINE, etc., will be treated in "'The Conduct of Great Businesses" series (as were "The Wheat Farm," "The Newspaper,' "etc, in '97), with numerous illustrations. LIFE AT GIRLS' COLLEGES like the articles on "Undergraduate Life at Harvard, Princeton and Yale," and as richly illustrated. POLITICAL REMINISCENCES by Senator Hoar, who has been in public life for forty-five years. C. D. GIBSON will contribute two serial sets of drawings during '93, "A New York Day," and "The Seven Ages of American Woman." The full prospectus for '98 in small book form (24 pages), printed in two colors, with numerous illustrations (cover and decorations by Maxfield Parrish), will be sent upon application, postage paid. Priee $3.00 a Year, 25 cts a IVurakr. Charles Striker's Sea's, Hew York. Rents, O o Situations, Real Estate, 4 Auction Sales, AND OTHER Classified Advertisements. SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Are you in need of work? If so, you are at liberty to use these columns for assistance in that direction. While this notice appears the State Journal will publish free on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas people, all notices of "Situations Wanted," not to exceed five lines, or thirty-five words, in length, provided that all advertisements of that nature are handed in previous to 10 o'clock Saturday morning: also on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday all ad vertising of this class handed in by 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. No advertisements of this nature to be started except on Saturdays and Wednes days. No obligation is incurred on the part of the advertiser. No worthy and needy man or woman need hesitate to take advantage of this offer. No one In business or having employment is ex pected to take advantage of it. but all others are Invited to avail themselves freely. The Topeka State Journal guarantees every day it is printed to give a local circulation by far moro th,n all other Dallies combined. This makes this pa per the cheapest, as well as the best, daily medium in Topeka. the classified ad vertisements below costing but Fi?c Cents Line. or 20 cents a line for a week;S0 cents by the month. VI ANTED HELP. WANTED At oil West St., a white girl for general housework, German pre ferred. WANTED Position by man and wife to take charge of kitchen in hotel or res taurant. Address W., care Journal. WANTED Good man who understands rasing pickles and garden truck by irri gation. Topeka Vinegar works, North Topeka. SITUATION WANTED Educated lady desires employment in city; can furnish references from different states. Address "Snow," this office. WANTED By middle-aged lady, position as housekeeper. Address Housekeeper, Journal oftice. WANTED Work as janitor; first class references. C. T. Bradshaw, Journal of fice. WANTED A place for a girl 13 years old. Call at 412 East Fifth st. WANTED Situation in Topeka, by ener getic married man, at any kind of hon est, steady employment; have had some experience at Hour packing; will work at anything for good, living wages. Address A. D. Carlton, Manhattan, Kan. WANTED Situation, by a first class cook; can give references. Address 2ul Jackson st. H. H. Bosustow. WANTED Reliable man, permanent po sition; stamp and references. A. T. Morris, care Journal. WANTED Girl for general housework. 5wi) Harrison St. WANTED Upright and faithful gentle men or ladies to travel for responsible, established house in Kansas. Monthly $o5 and expenses. Position steady. Refer ence. Enclose self-addressed stamped en velope. The Dominion Company, Dept. K, Chicago. REPRESENTATIVES WANTED, ladles preferrtd, who have acted as agents for a uterine tonic. Inquire at 122 West Sixth st. Kansas Springsteen Medicine Co. WANTED -MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To buy a home east of Santa Fe tracks. Address U32 Lake st. 1 WANTED Horses to winter, best of sta- bling and feed. 618 Kansas ave. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks, 50n; I mainsprings, 75o; crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar- anteeu. niu jewcu If hard up. Bee Uncle Sam. i12 Kali. Ave. AGENTS WANTED. AGENTS WANTED Male or female; new paying business, big money for you. Send address for samples and full partic ulars free. Chas. Marshall, Mfgr., Lock port. N. Y. AGENTS Quick men to visit stores: sell machine for printing signs, in 10 colore on tenets, bridges, rocks any "ough sur face. Arc Co.. 26 Arc St., Racine. Wia. ."0 A WEEK and expenses paid men to sell ciears on time. Experience unnec essary. The W. JL. Kline Co., St. Louis, Mo. FOR PENT HOUSES. FOR RENT House of 10 rooms. Inquire at SOI Morris ave. FOR RENT House of nine rooms, with ail conveniences. Inquire at northwest corner ot Fifth and Lincoln. FOR RENT-ROOMS. FOR RENT Nicely furnished front room, with or without board. 612 Jackson St. FOR RENT Office rooms at bed-rock prices. Inquire at room 2, old court house. FOR RENT Pleasant furnished rooms, two for light housekeeping. 307 E. 8th. FOR RENT Furnished upper east front room, with large alcove; furnace heat. 21 Quincy at. FOR RENT Choice store room and modern fiats. 214 East Fifth St. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT at 034 Kansas ave. Gas. heat, hot and cold water, bath SLi-i all conveniences, cingle or en su!ij. FCR SALE-MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE; 2 gray mares. 2 milch cows. 112 Walker ave., Auburndale. FOR SALE A No. 2 Remington type writer in good condition. A bargain. Address '"Typewriter," careJournal office. FOR SALE One stationary engine, thirty horse power; one forty horse power boiler; one set of woolen mill machinery, cheap. Inquire M. A. Miller, ti2S Quincy Street. FOR SALE Fresh cows, also pigs. Shep herd, end cemetery car line. FOR -SALE Hay, by the baie, ton or in car load lots, at 1012 North Kansas ave. Telephone 667. J. M. Wilkerson. MISCELLANEOUS. STRAYED A gray horse, weight about 1050 pounds, small wire cut on left front foot. Reward for return to 1303 E. Sixth. THE Ralston Home is now ready for boarders and roomers. 520 Harrison st. TRAPP makes rubber stamps, seals, etc. Telephone 656, 112 West Seventh st. WANTED AH friends of practical edu cation to know that Pond's Business Col lege is now giving its students the finest course of commercial science of any school in this state. Our doors are open for the public to visit. FOR RENT Small farm 3 miles from state house. Inquire 804 Kansas ave. TO TRADE3 OR SELL A good parlor or gan. 933 Kansas ave. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, is open daily except Sunday, from X to I p. m. E. M. Brockett. M, X. FOR VIEWS of residence or parlor. stock, croups, etc.. or photos of any interior or outside views see Farrow, 6U Kan. Ave. Viavi The best known remedy for women. Ladles In attendance. Kansas Viavi CD.. toiumoia Building, Topeka. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE, A good eight room modern home, east front, on Van Buren between Eleventh and Twelfth sts. For terms call at drug store 834 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 35 lots near the Santa Fe shops. So lots Twenty-first and Madison sts., 80 lots near Shorey. 8 room house and 1H acres near city limits. 80 acres 6 miles north, all on time payments or cheap for cash. M. Heery. 109 East Third. FOR SALE Choice vacant lots In Low man Hill, convenient to electric cars, also near church and school. Price from 550 to $75 each. W. M. Forbea. Uli West Sixth ave. LOST AND FOUND. FOUND Places to gel watches and clocks cleaned for 50c 80a Kansas ave., upstairs. MEETING every Wednesday, 3 p. m., at 307 Van Buren St.. Open to all. MONEY. J. H. S. at 114 East Eighth st. will make loans from six to eight hundred dollars on farms or city property, no commission, at 7 per cent interest. MONEY LOANED on chattels, valuables, etc. N. B. Campbell, 605 Kansas ave. MONEY To loan on Diamonds, Watches, Tyepwrlters, etc. M. J. NEWMAN. 117 West Fifth at. MONEY TO LOAN on farms or city property at reasonable rates. W. M. FORBES. 11 W. 6th Ava, LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe, 523 Kan. Ave. MILO NORTON, at 406 W. Sixth ave.. will make farm loans of J1.500 or over at 6 per cent interest. PAVING. IfOR first-class pavsns, sidewalk, or ouiiding brick, dried by steam and burned in down-draft kilns, the only way good vitrified brick can be made, call on W. Edson. sec y of C. C. V. Brick 4i Pav ing Co.. lis W. 6th Ave. STORAGE. liOUSEHOLD GOODS Packed, hauled, shipped or stored. 123 East Sixth. Tel. 18t. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER AND STOR AGE CO. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEK, Jeweler and Op tician. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems for rent; repairing of all kinds FUEL AND FEED. LEAVE your orders for coal, flour, feed and seds with Van Slyck. 50 W. 10th. i FLORIST: 31 KS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves, 817 Kas. av. 'Phone 602. W. C. GROVES, successor to R. J. Groves greenhouses 1173-75-77 Clay sc. store. 821 Kansas ave, 'Phone 2S3. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. CHAS. F. SPENCER. Attorney at Law. Bank of Topeka Building. Telephone 243. R. B. WELCH, Lawyer, suite 48, Colum bian Building. STAMPS, SEALS P NO STENCILS THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AVE.. TOPEKA. Send for catalogue and prices. TRAPP Makes rubber stamps, seals, etc. Telephone 656, 112 West Seventh st. TIN SHOPS. J. M. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, pumps ard tin roofing. 216 W. 6th. Tel. 359. PRINTERS. TOPEKA PRINTING CO., 112 Easi Sev enth st. Mail orders given prompt at tention. Print everything. Prices rmht. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DR. MARY E. STEWART, 634 Harrison st. Diseases of women and electricity. DA C. BARNES. M. D. Office 732 Kan. Ave. Residence 13th and Cla-. Office hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. Telephone 598 resi dence, and 16 office. QJ E. SHELDON, M. D.." Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. Ave. L. A. RTDER. M. D. OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon St and Central Ave., Noi th Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, fish ure, ulceration, etc MISSOURI PACIFIC, TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM., No. IS Leave Topeka 8:00 a. m. TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM,. No. 2S4 Arrive Topeka. ...,...,.J..,....,...6;00 p. m. AMUSEMENTS. WEW CKAWF0RD THEATER. Tnnndsjr, Jnn nary 37th The Broadway Commedians, World, Keller and Mack, In the Rollicking Farce TOWN TOPICS. 20 Star People. 5 Great Comedians. 10 Pretty Comediennes. 200 Hearty Laughs. Funniest Comedy on Record. PRICES a5e, SOe nntl 7Sc. Seats on Sale Tuesday. 11 EW CRAWFORD THEATER One BUa-bt, Friday, jaa. 2S. MME. Vi SGAIGHI, SO The greatest Contralto in the World and company of Operatic Celebrities including: MILE MARIE TOTJXINGTJET, Prima Donna Soprano Imperial Opera Co. Mile, du Bedat, Mezzo Soprano. Mr. T. McQueen, Tenor. Sig. A. Alberti, Baritone. Sig. C. Gnarro, Accompanist. Will present in Costume, with Scenery, etc., the fourth act of Verdi's Grand Opera, "IL TROVATORE." To be preceded by a Miscellaneous Op eratic Concert. EW CRAWFORD THEATER NRlDrdajr and Knndaj, n4i Saturday Matinee. January X-30. Pro W. E.Uankeville, In his Illustrated Lecture, ''KLOHDIgE' AND HIS ENTERTAINERS. Chas. Diamond, champion Harp Soloist of America; Wroth and Wakefield, rrof. Edward Miller and others. lO, 20 and SO Cents. Ii EW CRAWFORD THEATER Monday, January 3 X. R. E. PEARY Civil Engineer, TT. S. JU. THE GREATEST EXPLOEEB LIVET3. THE HESO OF HEROES. His New Lecture Explorations in Northernmost Greenland. The most successful Arctic Explorer of any age will graphically describe his thrilling experience in the Far North, and tell how he expects to reach the Pole on his next expedition. The most fascinating story of daring attempts and thrilling adventure ever told on the platform. Illustrated with 100 magnif icent lantern views. Reserved seats $1.00 and 75c and 60c. Tickets for sale at Rowley Snow's January 28th. pirst Methodist Church. TIKSOAY EVKSINB, FEB. 1. THE REV. DR. A. S. EMBREE IN HIS Lecture "A VACATION IN EUROPE." hart for reserved seats now open at Rowley Snow's. Tickets 5 cents. Keserved seats free. GOOD TIMES HAVE COME. 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8 TOPEKA STATE JOUEXAL, THURSDAY EVENmG, JANTJAEY 27, 1898 There are cough medicines that are taken as freely as a drink of ater from a dipper. They are cheap medicines. Quantity does not make up for quality. It's the qual ity that cures. There's one medi cine that's dropped, not dipped Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. There's more power in drops of this remedy than in dippersful of cheap cough syrups and elixirs. It cures Bron chitis, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough, and all Colds, Coughs, and affections of the Throat and Lung3. is now half price for the half -size bottles 50 cents. SIXALOA PLACER DISTRICT Mexicans' Rich Annual Clean-Up Crude Mining Methods. San 'Antonio, Jan. 27 J. R. Marmion, a practical mining man, arrived here to-day from a remote section of the state of Sinaloa, Mex., where he has been engaged in mining operations for the past three years, and said to a cor respondent: "In my opinion there are one or two placer districts in Sinaloa, Mex., that, if properly prospected, would reveal to the world a veritable Klondike. My be lief is based upon personal experience and observations while in that region the past three years, and from the fact that whole villages of natives turn out every year during the rainy season with their wooden pans and ancient methods of mining and clean up from $15,000 to $20,000 in one season. They only practice surface workings. A few months ago a native found a nugget of gold near Mazatlan which he sold in the latter city for $1,210. One of the finest placer districts in that state is around Bacubirito. Placers situated about 40 miles northeast of Mazatlan from an other good district. There are few Americans or foreigners in that whole region, and the richness of the placer districts is comparatively unknown to the outside world. The richest gold mines in the state are named San Jose de G-racia, which are owned by a com pany composed of Americans and Mex icans. The shipment of gold bullion from these mines run from $100,000 to $125,000 per month. The Rosario silver mine, owned by John L. Bradbury, the California millionaire is situated about 75 miles southeast of Mazatlan. An offer of $1,500,000 for this property was recently refused." Newest and Most Complete Train. The New Pennsylvania Limited is the up to date train of 1894. It made its Ini tial trip Jan. 12th, and has drawing room sleeping car running daily over Vandalia-Pennsylvania Short Lines, leaving St. Louis 1:00 p. m. Get partic ulars of W. F. Brunner, A. G. P. Agt., St. Louis. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it Sails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. TTe are anxious to do a little good in this world and can think of no pleas anter or better way to do it than by recommending One Minute Cough Cure as a preventive of pneumonia, con sumption and other serious lung trou bles that follow neglected colds. G. W. Stansfleld, 632 Kansas avenue. A Comparison. New remedies put forth with exag gerated claims are continually coming up; some flourish awhile as fashionable novelties, but nearly all are forgotten before the end of the third year. On the other hand Chamberlain's Cough Rem. -dy has continually grown in favor and popularity during the past twenty five years. Those who once use it are so much pleased with the result that they nearly always insist on having it when again in need of such a medicine. There is nothing so good for a bad cold. Sold by druggists. Safe, sweet and satisfactory, Ayer's Pills are the best family physic. Eureka Springs, Ark., As a summer and winter resort cannot toe surpassed. To this famous all-year-round resort round-trip tickets are on sale from all principal cities through out the country at greatly reduced rates. Double daily trains via the Frisco Line. A neat little pamphlet giving detailed description of Eureka Springs will be mailed free upon appli cation to Geo. T. Nicholson, General Passenger Agent, "Fisco Line. St. Louis, Mo. Official facsimile of Medal Awarded DR. PRICE'S CREAi.l BMiifG POWDER WORLD'S FALl.anCAGO, IS93 COSMORAMIG Will Be the Scene Presented at Hamilton Hall On the Occasion of the Carnival of Nations. SOCIETY TAKES PART. Topeka's Fairest Young Wom en Will Lend Their Aid To Lifting the Debt From the Orphans' Home. The Carnival of Nations which Is to be given at Hamilton hall the week of Feb ruary 7-12 will not only be a pleasing and varied entertainment, but will be a soci ety event. Most of the young ladies of the city will take part, either presiding in the booths or taking part in the na tional drills and other features. There will be over one hundred young ladies and gentlemen in costume. The interior of the hall will be lined with booths and the scene of the Pure Food show of last win ter will be duplicated, only that the booths will be much more attractive. The Carnival of Nations is to be given for the benefit of the Orphans' home of Topeka a most worthy institution. Con siderable indebtedness has been incurred in purchasing a permanent home for the friendless waifs, and the board of lady managers has done hard, earnest work to establish and maintain the institution. Mrs. E. B. Meredith, who so successfully managed the "Cinderella" performances last summer at the fair grounds, at which 10.000 people attended, is managing the "Carnival of Nations." This energetic lady has undertaken to give the most elaborate entertainment since her resi dence in this city, and the indications are that she will be successful. Hamilton hall will be decorated with palms and flowers, national flags and pennants. There will be lots of music furnished daring the week by bands and orchestras on each evening a differ ent programme will be given. The pro gramme of entertainment for the week is as follows: Monday evening, February 7-M3rand opening, with short concert by Marshall's band and parade of all nations. This will be led by the Carnival Guards, a mil itary company composed of young ladies in fancy costume. Tuesday afternoon Doll show in which several hundred dolls will be exhibited, and prizes offered for the finest dressed doll, the largest family of dolls, etc This contest is open to everyone. Wednesday and Thursday afternoons Specialties by the different nations. Wednesday evening Grand fancy dress ball, to be given under the direction of Harry L. Robinson. At present Mr. Rob inson is in the east and final arrange ments for the ball cannot be announced I until his return. Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat urday matinee The popular comic opera, "H.M.S. Pinafore," will be given by local talent. The cast for this production is as follows: Josephine Mrs. Phi Adams Buttercup Miss Emily King Ralph Ed Strong Hebe Mrs. W. T. Guthrie Sir Joseph Porter Frank Weightman Captain Harry Overholt Dick Deadeye L. M. "Wood Boatswain Harry Crow, and a full cho rus of sailors, his sisters, his cousins and his aunts. Saturday evening Last appearance of Gypsy band and the nations in costume. The arrangements of booths in the hall will be elaborate. For these some of the prettiest and most popular young ladies of the city have been secured. On enter ing the hall the first booth to be seen will be the popcorn palace in charge of Miss Emily King and the young ladies of the Sigma Sigma club. Next to this will be the Turkish booth, draped in Turkish style with rugs, tapestries, couches and pillows in the rich colors of the Orient. Miss Mabel Ray Martin will have charge of this booth and she will be assisted by Miss Martie Whaley and others. The French booth will represent the Royal conservatory at Versailles in the fifteenth century. It will be in charge of Miss Emily Elliott, who will be assisted by Misses Emma Dennis, Florence Horn and Margaret Bear. At the German booth a genuine Dutch lunch will be served (minus the lager beer). The booth will represent a Ger man kitchen and will be in charge of Miss Georgiana Wasson.assisted by Misses Grace Foulks and Jean Frost. Opposite the German booth will be the Spanish booth, made to represent the Court of the Fountain, In the Alhambra. Miss Frances Moon will have charge of it, and she will be assisted by Misses Wilson and Mabel Quigley. In the southeast corner of the hall there will be a Japanese tea garden in charge of Miss Mabel Baker, assisted by Miss Santa Waters and others. The Iceland booth will make a fine con trast to the others. In it frosted fruits and ices will be served. It will be in charge of Miss Harriet Jones. Assist ing her will be Miss Abbie Wilcox of Lincoln. Miss Etta Livermore of Olathe, Miss Grace Weiss and Miss Mabel Knowles. In the northeastern part of the hall the crepe paper and St. Valentine postof Oce will be in charge of Miss Mary Moon, assisted by Misses Lillian and Agnes Tefft. Lillian Whitelock and Edna Crane. Love letters will be secured there of the young ladies. An old baronial hall of England will be represented. It will be in charge of Misses Myrtle and Ivah Davis. Assists ing will be Misses Edna McClintock, Susie Gay and Gertrude Devereaux. Egypt will be represented with a Streets of Cairo, wedding procession, camel rides, donkey boys, etc. The Gypsy camp and witches' cave will be in charge of Miss Anna Jones, who wiiY be assisted by Misses Helen Wilson, Hila Hinckley and Martha Spivey. An effort will be made to procure the genuine Gypsy queen-elect, Mollie Fryer, who. is camped in North Topeka, and who will be crowned Queen of the Gypsies next May. Should this be done it would be one of the best drawing cards of the week's entertainment. FRISCO COAL FAMINE. The Scarcity Due to the Pressing of Barges Into the Alaska Trade. San Francisco, Jan. 27. It is all due to the rush to the Klondike, say the coal dealers when asked to explain the cause of the present coal famine, and then they add with a unanimity that shows they know whereof they speak, that the situation will grow worse un til the return of warm weather lessens the demand from household consumers. There is not a pound of coal in the market available for the retail trade, and only one cargo is due to arrive be fore Sunday. The ship Columbia, under charter to R. D. Chandler, is expected at any time with 2,250 tons from the East Welling ton mines, but it will not supply the or ders already on file. The big steamer Burmah Is due Sun day with 4,500 tons of coal for John Rosenfeld's Sons, and the Bristol ought to arrive Monday with 2,500 tons for the Dunsmuir company. As an instance of the desperate sit uation and the scarcity of steam ves sels, the Southern Pacific company was obliged to charter the Pacific Mail pas senger steamer San Jose and send it to the Puget Sound for a cargo of coal. The San Jose returned last Sunday with 1,500 tons, which she is now dis charging at Port Costa. Every steam schooner, even, that can make the voyage to Alaska and can be secured at any price has been gobbled up for the Klondike trade, leaving the coal and lumber dealers in a helpless position. A visit to the various wholesale coal dealers yesterday disclosed a condition that cannot fail to cause anxiety among all classes, and not one of the mer chants could see where there is any chance for Improvement during the next 60 days. DEER STRANGLED AT SEA. Hanged by Their Halters as the Glan ton Rolled and Pitched. New York, Jan. 27. Most of the fifteen reindeer that died on the steamship Glan ton on her rough voyage from Hamburg were hanged by their halters. They were tied tc stanchions between the decks. Some had their necks broken and some were strangled. They were knocked from their feet by the violent rolling and pitch ing of the ship. After nine had died in this way the others were unhitched from the stanch ions and put in a pen. The reindeer were brought here by James Niel. He collect ed them in Finland. Eight died on the long journey to Hamburg. He has sev enteen left, which he will take overland to Seattle and transport thence by water to the Klondike. TABOR IN D ENTER. He Has Accepted the Appointment as Postmaster. Denver, Jan. 27. Ex-Senator H. A. W Tabor, tho newly appointed postmaster-, is stopping at the Imperial hotel. "Last Friday I forwarded to Washing ton my letter accepting the appointment as postmaster." said he last evening. "To day I executed my bond for $125,000 and mailed it to Washington. Probably i shall enter upon my new duties on Feb ruary 1. "My wife and children will continue to live at home in the Ward district, where I expect to continue to engage in mining operations. Of course I shall reside in Denver. But if the position of postmas ter would have required me to abandon my mining operations I should not have accepted the postmastership. "Tomorrow evening I shall leave either for Ward or for Phoenix, Ariz., where I have mining interests." COST MORE TO SNEEZE. All the Big Snuff Companies Going Into a Combine. New York, Jan. 27. Pierre Lorillard, jr., when shown a dispatch today an nouncing the incorporation at Trenton, N J., of the Atlantic Snuff company with a capital of $10,000,000 said that he had heard that such a company was to be formed; that it was not a trust, but a plain business transaction, one big company having been formed, made up of several smaller ones. The companies which are already in the Atlantic Snuff company combined produce a trifle over one-half of all the snuff manufactured and the Ameri can Tobacco company, the George W. Helm company and the Pierre Loril lard company nearly all the remainder. Wanderings of an Overcoat When A. D. Hubbard was taken over to the slate penitentiary, he borrowed a fur overcoat of an old man named Gary. When the coat was sent back to Topeka it was taken to the police sta tion, where the officers thought it was a charity package. Accordingly, it was turned over to Police Matron Thorpe. The latter found a most needy man who was in need of an overcoat. It was a preacher who had but little of this world's goods. She gave it to him. Then Mr. Gary came after his fur over coat. When he learned what disposi tion had been made of his garment, he became indignant and talked about a damage suit. But he couldn't exactly locate the blame. The preacher will be asked to give up the coat, and it will be returned to its owner. Current History. Subscribers to Current History, the well-known quarterly cyclopedia of current affairs, will find the present number, which has been delayed owing to the removal of the publication from Buffalo to Boston, fully up to, if not ahead of. any of its predecessors, in general excellence of style, scope, and typographical appearance. The general plan of the work remains the same that of a systematic and concise sum mary of the world's news from the standpoint of an intelligent observer who is able to place events in their proper relations and proportions, and to discern their significance. No country, no incident, no movement, diplomatic, political, social, scientific, industrial, or otherwise, escapes scrutiny in this unique review. Comprehensiveness is not sacrificed to brevity, nor fairness of statement to political or religious bias. There is an abundance of illustration, maps being made a more prominent feature than heretofore, the present number containing 44 portraits and 8 maps. A few of the leading articles are- The Great Coal Strike: the Klon dike Gold Fields; the Greco-Turkish adjustment: the Cuban Revolt: the Eu- ropean Alliances; the Tariff, Currency. Bering Sea, and Hawaiian questions; Business and Industrial situations; British Engineering Strike: Austro Hungarian Crisis; Zionist Movement; Assasination of Castillo: Australasian Federation; Scientific Progress: Me chanical Inventions; the Mesa Encan tada; the Logia; the Lambeth Confer ence; career of General Neal Dow. Homeseekers' excursion tickets via the Santa Fe Route at very low rates Tuesday, February 1st. TO BUILD BACHELOR HOTEL St- Louis to Have a Costly Affair to Be Exclusively European. St. Louis, Jan. 27. Plans are being perfected for the erection of an elegant ly equipped bachelor's hotel at the northwest corner of Twenty-seventh and Olive streets. It will be a six-story fire proof structure of imposing ex terior, and elegantly appointed interior rooms, corridors, and all modern con veniences and luxuries. Innovations of French style will serve to make the place more than ordinarily attractive. In all there will be 200 rooms, each so arranged that it will be as well lighted as any other room in the house. There will be two elevators and a Turkish bath unexcelled by anything in the city. The hotel will be run on the European plan. It is expected that a buffet and cafe will be run in connection with the place. E. C. Simmons of the E. C. Simmons Hardware company is said to be one of the principal moneyed men who are backing the project. When seen yester day Mr. Simmons said: "Yes, I am interested In it. It is proposed that the hotel be built upon my property at the northwest corner of Twenty-seventh and Olive streets. Mr. C. H. Deitering came to me and laid his scheme before me. He said that he could raise the money to build the ho tel that he described. I agreed to take the value of the lot in stock and that is all that I know about it, and all the in terest I have in it." BOUNCED FROM HIS CLUB. Millionaire Cheney is Reinstated by the Courts. Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 27. Judge Pratt, of the common pleas court, today granted an injunction restraining the board of trustees of the Toledo club, the swell society organization of the city, from depriving Frank J. Cheney of membership and the privileges of the club. Some months ago the board of trus tees met and passed a resolution de priving Mr. Cheney from membership and the privileges of the club on com plaint of John N. Mockett, another member, who charged Mr. Cheney with alienating the affections of the former's wife. Mr. Cheney at once began in junction proceedings in order to protect his rights in the club, but when the case came up for trial they were not prepared to defend, and the court ren dered the verdict set forth above. Mr. Cheney is the millionaire medi cine manufacturer qt this city, while Mr. Mockett is the big clothing merch ant. The above is the first of a se ries of suits pending between Messrs. Mockett and Cheney. There is anoth er suit due to come up this week in which Mr. Mockett sues Mr. Cheney for $50,000 for alienating his wife's af fections. Range Kings and Queens. Denver, Jan. 27. Mrs. John F. Gregory, the editor and manager of a magazine de voted to the interests of cattlemen and their families, arrived in Denver yester day. The magazine, which under he care has grown until it has a wide circu. lation, is a gem of art and is called "The Kings and Queens of the Range." Mrs. Gregory comes to Denver from the cattle convention at San Antonio, Tex. New York Rents Going Down. New York, Jan. 27. Rents on Manhattan Island are going down. Owners and agents no longer deny this. In the tene ment house district .the drop has been at least 20 per cent within the last few years. The same holds good in the downtown of fice buildings. A man may rent an office today in a new building, with all the modern improvements, for less money than he paid a few years ago in some, old, ramshackle structure without an elevator. The same holds good of the new build ings, say in Broadway above Canal street, where lofts are renting as low as 40 cents a square foot. Kentucky Asylum Flooded. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 27. The heavy rains have caused the water to rise at the eastern Kentucky lunatic asylum until fully six acres are submerged. The east end of the building is partially under water. The gas plant has been disabled, and candles furnish light for the inmates. The backwater from the cavernous sewer is discharging large quantities of sewage into the lake surrounding the building, and an epidemic is feared. $1,000,000 Worth of Guano on Clip perton. City of Mexico, Jan. 27. A syndicate of American capitalists have applied to the Mexican government for a concession granting them exclusive control of guano deposits on Clipperton island. Formal possession of this island was recently taken by the Mexican government. It is asserted that the value of the guano is over $1,000,000. The American company offers the government a large royalty. COMMON SENSE CURE. PYRAMID PILE CURE CURES PILES PERMANENTLY BY CURING THE CAUSE. Remarkable Remedy Which is Bring ing Comfort to Thousands of Sufferers. Probably half the people who see this article suffer from piles. It is one of the commonest diseases and one of the most obstinate. People have it for years and just because it is not imme dia tely fatal they neglect it. Careless ness causes no end of suffering. Care lessness about so simple a thing as piles has often caused death. Hemor rhages occurs during surgical treat ment, often causing death. Piles are simple in the beginning and easily cured. They can be cured even in the worst stages, without pain or loss of blood, quickly, surely and com pletely. There is only one remedy that will do it Pyramid Pile Cure. It allays the inflammation immediately, heals the irritated surface and with continued treatment reduces the swel ling and puts the membranes into good, sound healthy condition. The cure is thorough and permanent. Here is a voluntary and unsolicited testimonial we have lately received: Mrs. M. C. Hinkly, 601 Mississippi St., Indianapolis, Ind., says: Have been a sufferer from the pain and annoy ance of Piles for fifteen years, the Pyr amid Pile Cure and Pyramid Pills gave me immediate relief and in a short time a complete cure. Druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure or will get it for you if you ask them to. It is but 50 cents per package and is put up only by the Pyramid Co. Mar shall, Mich. WHAT WE COULD SATE. $300,000,000 a Year Paid to Foreign Ship Owners. New York, Jan. 27. There were few empty seats when the manufacturers' convention assembled last night. The proceedings opened with an exhibition of a series of "trade charts." which were fully explained by Fletcher W. Hewes. The transactions of the United States with Great Britain up to the close of the civil war, Mr. Hewes said, were about equal. In 1865 we sold $103,000,000 of our goods to Great Britain and bought $85,000,000 from that country- Since 18S0 we had sold to Great Brit ain annually about $400,000,000 of our goods and bought but $200,000,000 of their manufacturers. Mr. Hewes advocates American reg ister and insurance of American ships for the re-building of our merchant ma rine and the saving of between $200, 000,000 and $300,000,000 yearly in addi tion to the $30,000,000 subsidies given by foreign governments to their vessels, which has to be paid back by American manufacturers in high charges of transportation of their exports and im ports in foreign bottoms. This vast sum, which goes out of the country an nually could be savd, Mr. Hewes maintained, if our merchant marine were kept at the same standard as it was between 1796 and 1S37. This evening a banquet will be giv en at the Waldorf-Astoria, at which President McKinley will be present. FATAL WHISKTwAR. Oklahoma Postmaster Tried to Close Saloons and is Beat en to Deatli. Wichita, Jan. 27. Tongawa, a little town just across the line in Oklahoma Territory, is in a state of riot over an attempt of the churches, led by the Bap tist denomination, to drive out the sa loons. Eli Blake, a Baptist deacon and post master at Tongawa, who began the agita tion against the saloons and who has led the fight, was waylaid on his road home from the office and beaten to death by a gang supposed to be acting at the sugges tion of the saloon men. Blake had been receiving letters of warning for a week. Saturday he hired C. R. Meachem to stay at the city hotel to obtain information concerning a gambling den and saloon lo cated on the second floor. Monday four arrests were made on the affidavit of Meachem, and the saloon men attempted to secure the release of the prisoners by force. Four police were ordered from Blackwell, and the disturbance quelled for the time. Last night Blake was assault ed and killed while on his way home. Parties of horsemen rode through the town in a threatening manner. Today four arrests have been made and the ex citement is high. The Blackwell police have been requested to return home, as it is thought their presence has led to the sudden violent demonstrations of the Whisky men. PROHIBITIONISTS MEET. They Are Holding a National Confer ence in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Jan. 27. A national con ference of prohibitionists is in session at the Grand hotel with an attendance of about 200 from nearly all the states in the union. The conference is merely advisory, not being a delegate conven tion. The presiding officer is Mr. Samuel Dickie, of Michigan. Among those present are Joshua Levering of Maryland; Hale Johnson of Illinois and many other prominent men of the par ty. The day was taken up in reading papers and discussing topics relating to temperance work. The Shortest Route to Southern California is the Santa Fe. Pullman palace and tourist sleepers and free chair cars (lighted by electric ity) to Los Angeles daily. THE FIRST STATE DINNER Of the Season is Given by the Presi dent and Mrs. McKinley. Washington, Jan. 27. The President and Mrs. McKinley entertained the di plomatic corps last night at the first state dinner of the season. Contrary to the usual custom, Secretary of State and Mrs. Sherman assisted in receiv ing the guests in the east room. The decorations of the state dining room consisted largely of roses and orchids. Alternate placques of these flowers were laid the length of the table. The mantels were banked with flowers, roses, hyacinths and carnations, while a profusion of smilax was draped above the doors, cobweb-like from the ceiling and chandeliers. The window spaces were filled with palms and rubber plants. Mrs. McKinley appeared in a gown of heavy black velvet with diamond orna ments. The guests were: The President and Mrs. McKinley. The British Ambassador and Lady Pauncefote. The German Ambassador. The French Ambassador. The Mexican Minister and Madame Romero. The Netherlands minister. The Minister of Sweden and Norway. The Minister of Brazil and Madame Mendonca. The Minister of Guatemala. The Minister of Chile and Senora De Gane. The Minister of Venzeula and Senor ita Eliza Andrade. i The Minister of Austria-Hungary and Mme. Von Hengelmuller. The Minister of Switzerland and Mrs. Preda. The Spanish Minister and Senora Du puy De Lome. The Minister of Denmark. The Hawaiian Minister and Mrs. Hatch. The Minister of Ecuador and Senor ita Carbo. The Minister of Portugal and Vis countess De Santo-Thyrso. The Minister of the Argentine Repub lic. The Minister of Japan. The Minister of Hayti and Madame Leger. The Minister of Belgium and Coun tess De Lochterveldo. The Chinese Minister and Mrs. Wu. The Minister of Peru. The Minister of Costa Rica and Se nora De Calvo. Senator and Miss Morgan. Representative and Mrs. Hitt. Representative Dinsmore. The Charge D' Affaires of Italy. The Charge D'Affaires of Colombia and Senora De Rengifo. The Charge D'Affaires of Russia. The Charge D'Affaires of Turkey. The Charge D'Affaires of the Greater Republic of Central America. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Sher man. Senator and Mrs. Davis. The Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Day. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams of Chicago. Mrs. P. H. Sheridan. Mrs. William B. Hazen. DR. C. 0. BROWN'S CASE. Says He Will Soon Make Another and Complete Confession. San Francisco, Jan. 27. There was a division of opinion at the meeting of the Bay conference at which Dr. C. O. Brown was expelled from membership and the opposing factions are contend ing as to whether he should be expell ed from the ministry, or be reinstated in case he should show a spirit of true Christian repentance. The verdict simply excludes him from affiliation with the churches of this coast. The ecclesiastical council of Chicago, which has accepted Dr. Brown into its fold is -the only body that can give the decree of expulsion and it now lies with that organization to decide whether he shall be received back into the fold. Dr. Brown has announced his intention of appearing at Metropolitan hall on Sunday evening next, at which time and place he will make another con fession not to a select assemblage of pastors, but to any and all comers. San Francisco, Jan. 27. Dr. C. O. Brown in an interview said: "I said nothing to any of the Chicago friends after I had determined upon the course I have pursued for the reason that I thought San Francisco the proper place for my acknowledgement. I have writ ten to the Chicago association that If its members so desire, I will upon my return say face to face what -duty re quires. I have no desire to escape any utterance or situation which duty now requires. "I have seen many of the friends whose support I accepted upon a false basis and I shall see others to make what amends I can. Without exception, they have received me with a kindness which is both surprising and gratify ing and to my mind a very superior il lustration of Christian charity. "The members of Bay conference.who were justly opposing me have over whelmed me with invitations to their homes, some of which I have already availed myself of; others I shall avail myself of in the near future. I do not know how soon I shall return to Chi cago; not until I have done what duty requires here." THEY STONE THE JEWS. Outrages Continue at Algiers to a Limited Extent. Algiers, Jan. 27. Several isolated outrages were perpetrated here to day. A number of Jews were stoned and badly injured. A native, a Spaniard, fired 'at a French non-commissioned of ficer, missing him, but wounding a lady. MINERS GAIN THEIR POINT. 200,000 Soft Coal Miners Given an Advance of 10 Cents Per Ton. Chicago, Jan. 27. The interstate con vention of bituminous coal miners came to an end last night, at the close of the tenth day of its deliberations. The miners seem to have gained their point, and 200,000 soft coal diggers will se cure an advance of 10 cents a ton and a uniform day of eight hours with uniform wages for day labor. The agreement, which will take effect on April 1, was adopted with but two dis senting votes. The new scale is based upon a sixty six cents rate in the Pittsburg thin vein district for screened coal, with a rela tive price for run of mine digging. BLOWING ITSELF. Grand Waste of Money Reliev ing Klondike Distress That Doesn't Exist. New York, Jan. 27. Bids for the transportation of 500 reindeer and their attendants from New York to Portland, Ore., or Seattle, have been opened in the office of Deputy Quartermaster General A. S. Kimball. About 25 rail roads were represented at the bidding, the lowest bid being that of the Ca nadian Pacific, which offers to trans port the reindeer and attendants with forage and food supplies for the party at the rate of $247.60 per car. Other bids ranged as high as $400 per car. These reindeer will be used in the government relief expedition to the Klondike, for which $200,000 has been appropriated by congress. The expedi tion will leave the Pacific coast about the middle of February in charge of Brigadier General Henry C. Merriam, U. S. A. The supplies which the government is sending to the suffering miners in the Klondike consist chiefly of bacon, bread and coffee. Lieut. D. D. Devere and the Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson went to Norway some time ago to buy reindeer to be used in the expedition and succeeded in buying 500 at from $10 to $15 per head. They al so engaged 75 Laplanders, who, with their families and household effects, will be part of the relief expedition. The Allen line steamer Manitoba has been chartered for the trip and is now on the way from Alton, Norway, with the reindeer, Laplanders and sufficient sup plies to last until the party reaches the Pacific coast. KANSAS DAY. The Occasion Will Bring Together More Than the Usual Number of Politicians. The president of the Kansas Day club Arthur Capper is enthusiastic over the prospects for a large attendance at the annual meeting Saturday. Over 150 places at the banquet have already been reserved, 50 more than have been reserved in past years. Mr. Capper said: "This being a po litical year and the unusual large num ber of candidates combined, makes the members enthusiastic. I am sure we have all we can accommodate, 175, at the banquet. WILL WELCOME DIAZ. The President Returns From a Tri umphal Tour of the Country. City of Mexico, Jan. 27. President Diaz is expected to arrive home today and will be received by a division of the army, consisting of two brigades, and the jockey club will give him a banquet of welcome. It is the first considerable trip the president has taken into the interior for some years, and the popular mani festations of rejoicing all along the route has been greatly gratifying to him. People have turned out in crowds ev erywhere and many incidents showing popular enthusiasm have been record ed by the press. BRATE MISS FIELD. Daughter of the Ex-Justice Prevents a Conflagration. Waterbury, Conn. Jan. 27. Miss Bessie Field of California, daughter of Stephen J. Field, the recently retired justice of the United States supreme court, perform ed an act of signal bravery last even ing. As a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lamb, she was entertaining a caller. At torney Joseph Anderson, Jr. The portieres caught fire from a lamp and before the fire was discovered the entire room was in flames. She saw the fire first, and with out warning her caller jumped, at the risk of igniting a light dress that she wore, and tore down the drapery and at the same time picked up some blazing rugs and threw mass out of the window. Then, with the assistance of the guest, the fire was extinguished. WHAT INSURANCE HAS COST Kansas in 26 Years Has Paid in Pre miums $25,000,000 More Than She Got Back. E. C. Little has a pet scheme state insurance and he firmly maintains that the state should go into the insur ance business because the events of the past year have definitely demonstrated that the state has the right and the power to regulate insurance companies. "The insurance companies," he said, "seem to imagine because a state has no right to secede that it has no rights at ail. Another fact brought in this running fight was that there is a vast amount of humbug about these insur ance companies. We have always supposed that the great companies were miracles of financial stability. However, it appears that very fre quently they are not in a position to en dure critical examination." Mr. Little shows that the thirteen New York life companies have vast re sources and assets, according to their reports, "but relatively speaking," he says, "they have no assets and no re sources except their debts." He says further: "The census shows that their total assets December 31, 1889 were $380,000,000. The report shows that the net present value of all the outstanding policies in force December 31. 1SS9, with 4 per cent interest was $337,000,000, a small enough margin, which they de clared to be their liabilities. The real facts were that their liabilities were $2,173,000,000, as shown by the same cen sus. They figured out a percentage of losses that showed that only $357,000,000, of it was in any danger of being calle l for, but they had agreed to pay over $2,000,000,000, of insurance and only had $390,000,000, with which to pay it. "The fire insurance companies were in the same fix. The assets of the 1 926 fire and similar companies were listed at $328,000,000, while the ri3ks in force amounted to $18,000,000,000. Of course many of these people won't die at an inconvenient time and much of this property won't burn at an inopportune moment, but those are the resources and those are the liabilities of those companies. The insurance companies are not, never were and never will be proper bodies to furnish insurance to the people. Instead of being the sound est institutions on earth they are the most unsound pure wheels of fortune. A few epidemics and insurrections and we would have no insurance in this country. "During the year 1896. fire Insurance companies from other states and coun tries received $1,544,000, from the people of Kansas and paid them $900,000 in los ses, taking $600,000 out of the state. The life insurance companies from a d's tance collected premiums to the amount of $1,300,000, and paid losses to the amount of $354,000. taking about $950,000 out of the state. There is $1,500,000 that this 'state has paid out for which it has absolutely nothing to show. Dur ing the last 26 years Kansas has paid $45,000,000 in premiums and received $20,000,000 for her losses, losing $25,000, 000 by the transaction, money which absolutely left the state. "There should be, there must be some way by which the people can receive a reasonable insurance at a reasonable rate. These great companies have never shown any disposition to make such a rate. Wrhile individuals would suffer, it would be an absolute and def inite gain to the people of Kansas if no outside company was allowed to do a dollar's worth of business in this state, even if no insurance was written. As the business is now conducted, it may be a good bet to insure property or life, but there is no business about it. In surance is not a business proposition as now conducted. A man can do as well at almost any game that has an ele ment of chance in it. Of course our people have had the Insurance, but the insurance companies get the money. The whistles come too high." Mr. Little says the state of Kansas would do well to take hold of the mat ter and attend to the insurance busi ness itself. Assessors could fix the rates on property in this state and par ties could pay their premiums in to the county treasury just if they were taxes. Unless a man wanted the insurance he 'need pay nothing. The scheme is summarized as fol lows: "First The rates that the people now pay for insurance are so excessive that the necessity for some improvement commends itself to the judgment of every man. "Second The insurance companies write risks so astoundingly in excess of their capital that their business is not a business, but an adventure. "Third The principal of state insur ance inaugurated by Bismarck.has been demonstrated to be a success for 15 years and iifat least five countries. "Fourth Such profits as accrue would enter the public treasury and benefit the entire commonwealth if the state should engage in the business. "Fifth The state can give its people a cheaper insurance than they have ever had. "Sixth The state of Kansas can give the people a safer insurance than any other possible and owes it to its people to do so." TO CLOSE UP KLONDIKE. Rumors That Canada Will Exclude Aliens From the Gold Fields. Toronto, Ont., Jan. 27. A special dis patch from Winnipeg says: "Word comes from Ottawa to en gage a reliable man to carry important secret dispatches from the minister of the interior to Commissioner Walsh at Dawson City overland. "Hayes, the celebrated guide of Prince Albert, has been secured. He will make the run in 35 days with a dog train. "It is believed the government has decided not to allow aliens to hold min ing claims in the Yukon owing to the attitude of the United States rovern ment towards Canada trade interests on the Pacific coast."" HARD WINTER IN IDAHO. Intensely Cold for Seven Weeks With Snow From 6 to 15 Inches Deep. Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 27. The past two uiis nave been tne coldest in i.. is section "for many years. The thermom eter registered 19 below. At Bancroft it was 44 below and at Market Lake 34 below. It has been intensely cold for several weeks and the snow all over southeast ern Idaho is from six to fifteen inches deep. All stockmen have been com pelled to feed for several weeks past and are becoming alarmed at the threatened shortage of hay. The sheep, men bave had to drive their flocks from central Idaho and begin to read.