The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 28, 1898
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Ft rf v, v, TWO CENTS. FRIDAY EVENING. rf TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY 28, 1898. FRIDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. I I 1 I r -1 4 v.., j! V' MOREJVAR. 100,000 Men Being Prepared by the Turkish Government For Service in Roumelia in the Spring. BULGARIA THREATENS Sublime Porte Does Not Like the Attitude Of the Little Kingdom to the North. London, Jan. 2S. The Constantinople correspondent of the Standard says: The minister of war, Riza Pasha, has been ordered to prepare SO regiments, with a minimum strength of 1.700 men each, for service in Koumelia next spring:. The attitude of Bulgaria is causing uneasiness and the porte has sent re monstrances to such effect. London, Jan. 28. The' Vienna corres pondent of the DafTy Telegraph says it Is reported there that Kurds are devastating- Armenian villages in the neigh borhood of Russian villayets and that the Armenians are retaliating. The cor respondent adds that there is complete anarchy in the Asiatic provinces of Turkey. TOM JOHNSON SELLS. Disposes of His Stock in Cleve land's Street Railways. Cleveland, O., Jan. 28. It is stated that Tom L. Johnson has practically sold out his interest in the big Consolidated street railway of this city. Mr. Johnson origi nally held between 12,000 and 15.000 shares of stock and was the largest shareholder in the company. It is understood that the stock has been absorbed by friends of Henry A. Everett, the former president of the company. GERMAN FETE DAY. Celebration of Emperor William's Birthday More Observed Than Usual. Berlin, Jan. 2S. The celebration today of the birthday- of Emperor William was more general than usual. The public and other buildings were decor ated with flags and busts of his majes ty where everywhere displayed. The emperor received the congratulations of his mother, the ex-Empress Frederick and the German princes, including the kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg. The newspapers, excepting the so cialist organs, published congratulato ry articles. The socialist papers deplore the monarchic feeling, and the conserv ative and Agrarian press urge the em peror to show courage and abolish the general franchise and workmen's right of coalition. During the early morning there was a great musical reveille b ythe bands of a whole brigade which awoke the pop ulation. A ceurcassier of the trumpeter corps sounded the reveiile from the cupola of the castle. There was much open indignation at the shutting off of all traffic in the dis trict around the castle. In the evening the illuminations of the city were very fine. One store Ehowed 12.500 electric lights. The United States embassy was il luminated and the United States am bassador, Mr. Andrew D. White partic ipated in all the festivities and attended with his staff the gala performance at the opera house. The French ambassa dor, the Marquis De Noailles, was dec orated with the grand cross of the Red Eagle. GREAT STRIKE TO END. English Engineers Tote to Ac cept Terms Offered by Employers. London, Jan. 2S. A majority of the engineers have voted in favor of ac cepting the terms of the employers. The exact figures have not yet been divulged, but the proportion is said to be about 25,000 in favor of acceptance to 11,000 against it. IX PAUPER'S GRATE. Heir to a Million Florins in Potter's Field. Chicago, Jan. 2S. Edwin Ohrnstich, heir to one million florins ($400,000) in Buda Pest, Hungary, and for whom the police have been searching, lies in a pauper's grave in the potter s field. While agents and lawyers were search ing the world aver for one of the heirs to the millions of Buda Pest's greatest banker, the object of their quest occu pied a maniac's cell in the county asy lum. Ohrnstich died under his right name, but with a pauper's number op posite it on the books of the asylum. A letter was received yesterday by chief of detectives. Colieran, requesting him to look for Ohrnstich. The letter came from Buda Pest and said that a fortune awaited Ohrnstich as his father had died recently. Today Attorney N. J. Waldman called at detective head quarters and told the story of Ohrn stieh's fate. According to Waldman. who claims to be an old school mate of Ohrnstich's, the latter died a maniac's death, the result of his wife's alleged Infidelity. Mrs. Edward W. Ohrnstich was considered one of the most beau tiful women in Austro-Hungarv where she married the son of the banker. She reigned belie of society in that city un til rumors of her infidelity became cur rent. She is now, says Waldman liv ing as the wife of a French nobleman, an officer In the French army. When young Ohrnstich learned the state of affairs he parted from his wife and shortly after came to America, arriving in New York in October, 1866 He se cured employment with A. H. Hoerner a New York bond broker, and came to Chicago as the latter's agent. Free Homesteads. Washington Jan 2S.-The senate com mittee on Indian affairs has authorized n favorable report upon Senator Petti grew's bill for free homesteads on aban doned Indian reservations as an amend nient to the Indian appropriation bill Th Pettigrew bill has passed the senate "tw'pe as an independent measure, but has fail'eS to secure consideration in the house. SEALSKIN PAJAMAS. Dr. Luella Day of Chicago, Will Go to Klondike Prepared for Cold. Chicago, Jan. 28. Sealskin pajamas are the thing on which Dr. Luella Day places great emphasis when she speaks of the costume in which she will incase herself to shut out the cold, icy blasts of the Chilcoot pass. She is going to the Klondike and wiil sail from San Francis co February 1 and she wiil be one of the few daring persons who will dare the ter rors of the pass during the ice-bound sea son. The party of which Dr. Day will be a member will contain no other woman than herself. She will be the physician to the others. When she is accoutred for the over land trip she will appear in a sealskin cap with flaps that fall down over her shoulders, a sealskin jacket that will reach to her knees, a pair of sealskin pajamas and a pair of rubber boots that reach above the knees. She will also carry a fur-lined sleeping bag which is like a pillow case with a running string at the open end. FAMILY FMY ALL GOLIAD. Drank Milk From a Cow Which Died of Hydrophobia. Pittsburg, Jan. 23. W. H. Howey, who resides .near Monmouth, in this (Crawford) county, is quartered at the residence of F. M. Symmes in this city, taking the madstone treatment, fearing hydrophobia. Mr. Howey's case is a peculiar one. In the latter part of November his dog went mad and bit one of his horses and a cow. Mr. Howey did not believe the dog was mad at the time and was not convinced until the suffering canine died in convulsions. The cow and horse also died, but the family used the milk from the cow up to within a day or two of her death. Some time last month Mr. Howey be gan to have trouble with his right arm, which commenced swelling and paining him very severely and he was at a loss to account for it. Finally he remem bered that a few days before the dog died that he had a small sore on the back of his hand. and that the dog came to him and licked it. He at once be came alarmed and tried poultices and all remedies he could think of. His arm grew rapidly worse, and the pains ex tended to his shoulders. His physician advised him to come here and try the madstone. The original sore on the hand had al most healed over.but the stone was ap plied and adhered at once. Within two hours the severe pains began to leave his shoulder and upper arm. Mr. Howey is frightened so that he is almost hysterical, and will not let his friends leave him. He is afraid also that the lives of his family are en dangered from using the milk of the cow. KILLED BY A BLOW. Brother of the Giants' Cateher Loses His Life in a Quarrel. Denver, Colo., Jan. 2S. Claude J. Wilson, a brother of Park Wilson, catcher for the New York base ball team, has been killed in a quarrel with Ed M. Calkins of Grand Junction, Col orado, which took place in the Union Stock Yards hotel. The trouble grew out of an insulting remark addressed to Calkins by Wil son. Calkins struck Wilson with his fist, knocking him down. Wilson's head struck the floor with great force, and when picked up he was dead. It is believed that the fall, and not the blow, caused the death of Wilson. Calkins is a young cattleman and is highly connected in the state. He is under arrest. DIAZ WELC031EDH0ME. President of Mexico Given a Cordial Reception on His Return. Mexico City, Jan. 28. President Diaz and party arrived here today after their three weeks' trip to the coast and inter ior over the Mexican Central railway. There was an immense concourse of people at the station to greet the pres ident and all along the route from the station to his private residence the peo ple hronged the streets and balconies by thousands giving him a cordial re ception. The flags of all nations float ed from the buildings. Troops lined the entire distance, being ordered out as a mark of respect. The president looks well. The superb new train of Pullmans built for the president were used on this trip. FIRE AT 31T. STERLING One Han Killed and Property Worth, $100,000 Destroyed. Mount Sterling, 111., Jan. 28. The most disastrous fire in the history of Mount Sterling broke out this morning and be fore it was out Albert Piper was killed by a falling wall. Constable Snodgrass and two other men were injured and over $100,000 worth of property was burned. The Bloomfield hotel was entirely de stroyed and almost the whole block went with it. KILLED 1011 A SANDWICH. Lunch, Stand Kan Commits Murder "With. His Fist. Cincinnati, Jan. 2S. John Donnelly died at the hospital today from the ef fect of a knock down blow administered by Ben Green last night. Donnelly and a friend had refused to pay for sandwiches ordered at Green's lunch stand. Green followed and overtook him, knocking Donnelly down, his head striking the curb. Donnelly and his friend were drunk. Famoxts Kentucky Horse Sold. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 2S. The famous stallion Xorval. 2:14. sire of Countess Eve. 2:09Ii, was sold todav to J. C. Lin r.eman of Lima, O. He was owned by the late R. P. Pepper. Price not known. Colonel Pepper paid $15,000 to the late Senator Leland Stanford of California for the stallion. Destructive Russian Hurricane. Odessa, Jan. 28. A hurricane has worked immense destruction in this dis trict, whole villages having been de vastated and the damage to shipping is enormous. J. G. Waters. Archie Williams, sr., Tom McNeal, Major J. K. Hudson and Major Inman will tell stories, and Wm. Shaver, Henry Beermann will furnish music at the Kindergarten Fagot pi.rty, Tuesday evening, February 1, at Libra ry hall. LOOKED SWELL Lord and Lady Pauncefote En tertain 200 Guests At the British Embassy at Washington Last Night. MILADY WAS SHOWY In White and Pink Satin With Diamond Tiara. Men Wore Pink Frock Coats and Powdered Hair. Washington, Jan. 28. The stately British embassy on Connecticut avenue presented a brilliant scene last night when the ambassador and Lady Pauncefote entertained 200 guests or SIR JULIAN more at a ball. In the early part of the evening a reception was given fol lowed a short time before midnight by a cotillion, many young people remain ing to dance. The two large drawing rooms and the spacious ballroom with the broad hallway and dining room were decorated with palms and tropi cal plants with azelias, roses, and pink and white carnations. The British ambassador and Lady Pauncefote welcomed the guests in the second drawing room, which is typical of English homes with the rich furnish ings and heavy hangings. Lady Paunee fote's gown was of white satin, richly brocaded in a striking design of pink. She wore her splendid tiara of diamonds and a diamond necklace and looked the court lady to perfection with powdered hair and patches of court plaster. The fair guests present in their gowns of exquisite and delicate fabrics and jewels with powdered coiffeurs, the whiteness of their complexions and hair relieved by court plaster and the men for the most part in pink frock coats, made their appearance in the most pic turesque fashion. Nothing like it has been seen for sometime. An orchestra furnished music during the evening and in the dining room a table was spread, decked with pink and white carnations and the magnificent silver plate which was at one time part of the service of King George the fourth. Vice President and Mrs. Hobart were among the guests. Several members of the cabinet were also present with their wives and the diplomatic corps was ful ly represented. DOLE SEES THE SIGHTS. Hawaiian President Goes to the The ater and Otherwise Enjoys Himself. Washington, Jan. 2S. After spending all day in his room attending to corre spondence. President Dole went out for the first time to visit the theater last night. The entire party occupied boxes at the Lafayette Square to witness Hoyt's "Stranger in New York." Col. Summer, commandant at Fort Meyer, has arranged a special cossack drill in the riding hall. For Saturday evening. President Dole has accepted an invitation to the annual dinner of the Gridiron club. SHE WEDS AN INDIAN. White Teacher Marries a Full Blood Piegan and Deserts Her School. Great Falls, Mont.. Jan. 2S. Mrs. Min nie Cushrnan, a white woman teacher in the Fort Shaw schools, was clandestinely married to Carrott White, a full blood Piegan Indian, at Dupuyer yesterday. The bride is a daughter of C. C. Bate man, chaplain of the United States army at Fort Belknap and formerly at Fort Assinaboine. She is a handsome brunette, 26 years old. Two weeks ago the couple applied for a marriage license here, but White being a ward of the government, it was refused. They then proceeded to the Blackfoot agency, where Major Fuller de clined them marriage. Today they drove to a ranch near Dupuyer,where they were met by a notary, and it is alleged that he, under a misrepresentation, secured them a license. The ceremony was perform ed by a justice of the peace. Mrs. Cushman. by a former marriage, has a daughter 9 years of age. She has deserted her post and with her husband has gone east on a wedding tour. British Cabinet Meets. London, Jan. 28. The British cabinet re assembled today for a lengthy session. if 0fZ2 u 0f Iff MISS OVERMAN REJOICES. She is Glad That Dr. Brown Has Ac knowledged Their Mutual Shame. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 2S. Martha Over man. who accused Rev. Charles O. Brown, D. D.. pastor of the First Congregational church of San Francisco, of immoral con duct, at the church trial two years ago, is an active worker in the Hope mission of this city. In commenting upon Dr. Brown's confession before the Bay con ference this week. Miss Overman said: "I am glad for his own'soul's sake that Dr. Brown has finally made this confes sion. I have wondered how he has held from it as long as he has without his conscience breaking him down. I knew I was right when I made the confession to clear my own conscience of guilt, and it mattered not to me whether he did so or not, so far as a public vindication of myself was concerned." ARANGUEREN FALLS. Insurgent General Who Shot Ruiz Has Been Killed. Havana, Jan. 28. Lieutenant Colonel Benedicto, with the Spanish Reina bat talion, surprised, near Tapaste, this prov ince, the camp of the insurgent Brigadier PAUNCEFOTE, General Nestor Arangueien, killing Aran gueren and four privates', capturing live of the insurgents and wounding others, who made their escape. The body of General Arangueren was brought by train to Havana and delivered to the military authorities. After identi fication it was sent to the morgue. Gen eral Arangueren was evidently about 24 years of age, of fair complexion, with blonde hair and a small moustache. The body, which shows two bullet wounds, one in the head and one in the right leg, is dressed in cashmere pantaloons, gray woolen coat, yellow shoes and gaiters comparatively new. It is said that the gaiters and the vest once belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Jocaquine Ruiz, the aide-de-camp of General Blanco, who, having gone last December to Arangue ren's camp with terms of surrender, was executed by Arangueren, or with his ap proval. According to the Spanish authorities Brigadier General Arangueren was sur prised while on a visit to a young M man in Pitafarm, between Campo Florida and Tapaste. He was wounded, and on try ing to escape was shot dead. Among the prisoners is the father of the young woman. He was the dynamiter of Arangueren's band. Captain Sigsbee of the United States warship Maine, accompanied by Consul General Lee and Lieutenants Howard and Hallman of the Maine, paid a visit today to General Parado, the acting captain general, who received them courteously and cordially. They expressed themselves as well satisfied with the interview. The warships in the port are flying colors in honor of the birthday of Em peror William. Artillery General Fuentes today visited the German schoolship Gneisenau. New York, Jan. 28. The Herald's Ha vana correspondent gives these details of the killing of General Nestor Arangueren, the Cuban insurgent leader: Arangueren with a small band was sur prised in a well concealed hut in the Tapaste hills by the Reina battalion un der command of General Benedicto. The insurgent general was seated at a table writing when the Spanish troops sur rounded the house. At the first volley several of the rebel band fied, but Aran gueren, with four others, was shot. JAIL FOR WEYLER. Public Prosecutor Demands Sentence of Two Months in Prison. Madrid, Jan. 28. The public prosecut or demands a sentence upon Lieutenant General Weyler of two months' impris onment. United States Minister Woodford's note, announcing the cruise of the Maine and the reply of the foreign min ister, Senor Gullon, intimating that a Spanish war vessel would visit Amer ica are both couched in markedly polite and friendly terms. It has been decided to send the first class cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa to America instead of the Vizcaya, be cause the latter's commanding officer. Captain Concas, in the course of a lec ture before the Madrid geograDhical so ciety, in 1S96 censured the United States in a manner that provoked the then American minister, Hannis Taylor, to demand an explanation. Admiral Bermejo, the minister of ma rine, has ordered the fleet to concen trate at Cadiz. A trans-Atlantic steam er will be chartered to supply the ships with coal and stores. A local news paper asserts that measures have been taken to keep United States Minister Woodford's residence "under surveil lance." BACK TO WASHINGTON. The President Leaves New York for the Capital. New York, Jan. 2S. President McKinlev left for Washington on a special train from the Pennsylvania depot at Jersey City at 11:3Q o'clock today. CALLEDJACK. Colored President of the Hay tien Republic Doesn't Like Our Minister There So He is Recalled. IT APPEARS HE TOOK Part With the Germans in the Recent Trouble Which Brought Emperor Wil liam's Tessels to Hayti. New York, Jan. 28. A special to the Herald from Port Au Prince, Hayti, says: It is rumored here that the United States minister to Havti. William F. Powell, has been recalled at the request j of the German government on account of his connection with the Luder's inci dent, which resulted in Germany send ing war ships here to collect indemnity. Emperor William's birthday was celebrated by the German colony by a banquet aboard the Geier. Every for eign vessel in the harbor was decorated in honor of the occasion. IT'S IN THE BLOOD. Amelie Rives' Cousin Becomes Insane. New Tork, Jan. 28. Hallie Erminie Rives, the young southern author and cousin of Princess Trebetzkoi, formerly Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler, is a patient at the sanitarium in Brooklyn. Un nerved by hostile criticism of her re cent work, "Smoking Flax," and over taxed by the efforts to get out another volume dealing with southern prob lems, she was removed from the Wal dorf yesterday and taken to a sanitar ium for treatment and rest. GIRAFFE SCARED THE1I "Women in the "Town Topics" Stam peded by a Stage Animal. The stage giraffe came near being the undoing of the "Town Topics" company at the Crawford theater last night. It gave the entire female portion of the aggregation an attack of hysterics as a whole, and succeeded in causing one of the number to pass from hysterics to a faint. The excitement occurred some time before the performance. Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. S. Kel ler, one of the owners of the show, re ceived from Chicago a stage giraffe, which is to be used in the future as a feature of the third act of the piece. The giraffe arrived late in the afternoon and Air. Keller did not see it until he went to the theater in the evening to make up for the performance. Then he decided he would put it together and try it, and with the aid of one of the other members of the company he set the thing up. The giraffe cost Mr. Keller $150, and is about as natural looking as a stage giraffe can be made. It is operated by two men, and its eyes, ears and tongue work in a very natural way. About the time the giraffe was set up and calmly paraded around the stage the female portion of the company arrived. The stage was lit up dimly, and Mr. Keller at once took it into his head to have some amusement. He communi cated to his partner, and the giraffe galloped off to one side behind the scenery and waited for the ladies to get on the stage. They soon appeared, filing on the stage singly and making for the dressing rooms. But before they could reach the dressing room an nex the giraffe was upon them. In the dim light of the stage the gi raffe looked much more lifelike than it would under the glare of arc lights, and there was a series of screams that would have done credit to several com bined melodramas. Then there was a wild rush for the protection of the dres sing rooms, and an exciting tumble as they gained them and then the slam ming of doors. But in shutting the doors one of the members had been left out, simply be cause she was oblivious of her sur roundings, giraffe and all. This was Miss Bessie Phillips, who at the sight of the supposed animal on the stage had received such fright that she drop ped to the floor in a faint before reaching the dressing room. Her companions did not see it, but Mr. Kel ler did, and hurriedly disengaging him self from the stage animal he picked her up and called her companions back. In a few minutes she regained consci ousness, but was so excited for some time that she could hardly dress for the stage. MONEY GUARDIANS. County Treasurers of Kansas Are in Convention Today. The county treasurers are in session at the court house today. The principal business of the session is to discuss methods of systematizing the work of the office of county treas urer. The following treasurers and treasurers-elect are attending the meeting: S. H. Conkright, Cowley; C. H. Pat teson, Dickinson: W. A. Mallison, Dick inson; Samuel B. Moore, Douglas; A. L. Coe, Douglas; J. B. Blair. Montgom ery; G. W. Seaver, Miami; F. M. Stahl, Shawnee: H. M. Philips, Shawnee: C. W. Oldridge, Franklin; Henry H. Eber hardt, Saline; Charles F. McAdams, Saline; R. T. Stanfield, Republic; J. M. Lee, Wabaunsee; C. A. Porter, Phil lips; G. W. Kabler, Kingman; E. W. Wallacej deputy, Shawnee; G. B. Rey nolds, Lincoln; F. M. Nelson, Osage; W. C. Gould, Pratt; M. J. Lloyd, Sedg wick; C. N. Lawrence. Pawnee; J. G. Donnell, Wichita; J. W. Garrison, An derson; J. Wr. Shields, Anderson; J. R. Livingston, Marshall. THE FROZEN EAST. Mercury Goes 24 Degrees Below in New Hampshire. Hanover, N. H., Jan. 28. The weath er in this vicinity last night and early this morning was the coldest of the season, the thermometer here this morn ing registering a temperature of 34 de grees below zero. Bangor, Me., Jan. 28. A cold wave prevails over eastern Maine today, the mercury going down as low as 16 below at 6 o'clock a. m. Maloney, N. Y., Jan. 28. This wa3 one of the coldest days of the year in this section of the state, the thermom eter registering 25 degrees below zero. LAST DAY OF DEBATE. Senate Meets at lO O'clock and Takes tTp the Teller Resolution. Washington, Jan. 28. In accordance with agreement the senate convened at 10 a. m. today. By unanimous consent the routine business was waived, and Mr. Stewart of Nevada opened the last day's discussion of the Teller resolu tion. Mr. Stewart maintained that money, whether gold or silver, was a creature of law, the creation of money being in heritent in all independent nations. He said that this statement had been up held by the highest tribunals and cited history for several instances of such creation of money. After a legal discussion of the money question, Mr. Stewart said, referring to the speech of President McKinley in New York, last night, that he regretted to see the president had not studied this question more deeply and that he was utterly misguided. He quoted the fol lowing sentence from the president's speech: "Nothing should ever tempt us nothing ever will tempt us to scale down the sacred debt of the nation through a legal technicality. Whatever may be the language of the contract, the United States will discharge all of its obligations in the currency recog nized as the best throughout the civil ized world at the time of payment." Mr. Stewart thought this was a re markable statement which meant simp ly that nothing but gold was good enough for the bondholders. McKinley, said Stewart, refers to the option of the government to pay its obligations in either gold or silver as a mere techni cality, and he did this, too, in the face of his own vote in favor of the resolu tion we are considering. Now the pres ident calls this option of the govern ment worth thousands of millions a mere technicality. "What language for a president to use!" exclaimed Mr. Stewart. "We cannot use this money in the treasury unless it is recognized by other nations of the world as the best money. The despots and gold syndicates of Europe are to name the kind of money regard less of what the law of the United States may be." Referring to Secretary Gage, Mr. Stewart said he believed the secretary to be an honest man a man who would not rob a bank but, he said, it was difficult for Mr. Gage to look at this question except from the standpoint of a banker. He thought it unfortunate that the president had placed the treas ury department in charge of bankers, but he was glad the president had thrown off the cloak and made the is sue directly with the people. Mr. Cannon (Utah), followed in sup port of the resolution. He believed that the onlv way in which the parity of sil ver and gold as money could be main tained was to accord equal privileges to both metals at the mints. He held that the only other way to maintain the parity was to put interest bearing ob ligations upon the people. He firmly denied that the advocates of free coin age were in favor of anything but a 100 cent dollar. "We do not believe, however," said Mr. Cannon, "in the defied dollar of Grover Cleveland which is worshiped by the present, administration." He criticised the president for attending banquets of millionaires in New York, there perusing his menu bound in gold and then declaring in favor of paying government obligations in gold in vio lation of the nation's right to dictate what money they shall be paid in. HEAT $1.10. Leiter Says He Will Soon Be Ready to Sell. Chicago, Jan. 28. January wheat was bid up to $1.10 today, a cent above the highest point reached during the De cember squeeze. May at the same time sold up to 98c. The bulge in May was started on a sharp closing advance at Antwerp and brokers for Leiter helped things along by bidding up January. Leiter people say the May price is now close to the market set for the sale of their line. Some reaction followed the advanced, January closing at $1,08 and May 97. MONEY OR YOUR LIFE. A St. Louis Robber Puts His Request in "Writing. St. Louis, Jan. 28. The ease of the young man who was arrested in an at tempt to hold up President Madill of the Union Trust company last Tuesday and secure $3,000 at the point of a pis tol is as mysterious as ever. Today the following letter which was handed to Mr. Madill by the man at the time of the attempt was made public for the first time: "Mr. Madill I have been employed to come here on a most unusual errand, which though very distasteful is very urgent. To save words I have tried to put the nature of my business in writ ing which I want you to read from be ginning to end before making any com ments, for the end may seem brighter than the beginning. I will tell you now that I stand ready to blow your brains out if you make the slightest outcry, so I warn you not to do so. "Mr. Madill, I have been employed by two people who I suppose will benefit richly by your death; for they have of fered me $10,000 to kill you. It was planned to kill you at night, but before committing such a crime, I decided to first come here and give you a chance to save your life. I am a desperate man desperate for money and when I tell you that I must have the money to save my life, you will understand why I am willing to commit murder and take a chance at the gallows to get it. "Mr. Madill, I do not want to kill. I am doing this for money only, and if you want to save your life, there is but one method, and that is by advanc ing me $5,000. I am not a common crim inal, Mr. Madill, and I do not wish to either kill or rob you, and if you pay me this money and promise not to try to prosecute me, I will promise you up on the honor of a man to repay every cent of it to you. "Mr. Madill, I think you understand the situation. It is a matter of money or death. If you want your life spared, say so. If not, say so; and God be with your soul if you say so." The robber, who still refuses to give his right name, exactly duplicated the performance of the mysterious man who robbed President Moffat of the Denver bank on March 29, 1889, of $21, 000. A warrant, covering the case, was sworn out today. PUT IN THE DUNGEONS. St. Louis. Jan. 28. Jailer Huebler se cured information that a plot to liberate twelve desperate prisoners was to be car ried into effect today, and as a result of the attempt James Nolan alis Oldham, awaiting trial for burglary, and eleven other plotters are now in the dungeons. The bars separating the exercise guard from the bull-pen had been sawed and the bars protecting an outer window were THERE'LL BE TROUBLE NOW. Four German Sailors From the Ironclad Kaiser Attacked by Chinese at Kiao Chou Bay and Slain. ONE MAN DECAPITATED Chinese Authorities Unable or Unwilling to Repress The Mobs of Chinese Who Did the Work. London, Jan. 28. It is anounced in a special dispatch from Shanghai received here today that four German sailors have been murdered by the Chinese. Shanghai, Jan. 28. A dispatch from Che Foo to the Mercury of Shanghai gives details of the assassination of a German sailor named Schulz, belonging to th cruiser Kaiser, while on outpost duty at Tsimo, the extreme German post in Kiao Chou bay. The crime, which was committed by the Chinese rabble on Mondav night last, w;is not discovered until three men of the corporal guard were making the rounds in order to relieve the sentries. Then Schulz was discovered, bis head having been severed from his body. The reliev ing guard was directly afterward met by a hundred natives, and after a stubborn fight it is reported that all the sailor" were killed. Twelve natives were killed during tha fighting. It is added that in consequence of the outrage the greatest excitement prevails at Kiao Chou, and it is believed the inii dent will form the basis of further Ger man demands upon China. IN EASTERN WATERS. Latest News of the Situation in China San Diego, Cab, Jan. 28. The British gunboat Egeria arrived here unexpected ly this afternoon from the south en route from England to Esquimault to join the British squadron. She stopped last night at Mazatlan. All on board are well. Berlin, Jan. 28. The German cruiser Getion has again left Aden with steam colliers to rejoin the cruiser Deutschland at Sokotra. London, Jan. 28. It is reported that Lord Salisbury informed the cabinet at the meeting yesterday that China had practically accepted the British offer of a loan. London, Jan. 28. A special dispatch from Shanghai says the Japanese fleet is cruis ing off the coast of Shan Tung. CHINA IS COatJETTING. She Plays Past and Loose With Rus sia and England. Pekiu, Jan. 28. The report that Rus sia has offered China a loan on the same terms at Great Britain is con firmed. London, Jan. 28. It is announced in a special dispatch from Pekin that aft er Russia had offered China a loan on the same terms as Great Britain, China invited Russia to guarantee to defend her against the possible displeasure of Great Britain. Russia, it appears, was evasive in her reply, but a similar guar antee asked of Great Britain against Russia was promptly agreed to. RUSSIAN FLEET HELPLESS. No Coal at Port Arthur to Put in Ves sels' Furnaces. London, Jan. 28. The Russian fleet at Port Arthur, according to a special dispatch from Shanghai, is helpless for want of coal, being unable to steam even to Vladivostok. It is added that the Japanese coal firms which had contracted to supply the Russian fleet, have defaulted. FRIENDLY, TOO? Spain Will Send Over a Fleet of Torpedo Boats. Madrid, Jan. 28. The Herald says that beside the active squadron which will shortly leave Cadiz, a fleet of four torpedo boats and five torpedo boat de stroyers will be sent to guard the coasts of Cuba. FLQURF01l CUDA. Seventh District to Send a Train Load Decorated With Banners. Wichita, Jan. 28. The committee ap pointed by the Commercial club to so licit aid for the Cuban sufferers, com posed of Messrs. A. C. Jobes, S. C. Ashton, C. G. Cohn, T. G. Fitch and H. G. Toler, yesterday started out to get subscriptions. They only put in an hour and a half and got 7,350 pounds of flour, besides 2.000 pounds which it is said that the Methodist Sunday school scholars have raised. Everyone approached seemed only too willing to aid the Cubans. It is confi dently expected that Wichita alone will contribute at least 50,000 pounds. It has been suggested that if the Big Seventh district gets seven or eight car loads of flour, that banners be printed and placed on the sides of the cars stat ing that it was contributed by the Seventh congressional district of Kan sas, the best wheat raising district in the world. COAL TO GO UP. Operators Will Raise the Price 25 Cents a Ton and Give 40 Per Cent to the Miners. Chicago, Jan. 28. The Tribune says the coal operators wi!I shortly advance the price of their product 25 cents a ton as the result of the interstate joint confer ence of operators and miners, which con ceded an advance of 10 cents a ton lor mining. Suicide of a Wellington STa-a. Wellington, Jan. 28. Frank L. Col lins, a half brother of Ed L. Taylor, a Santa Fe brakeman committed su.cite yesterday by jumping into a cistern. The act was committed while in a fit of despondency caused by ill health. His body was discovered about fifteen minutes after the deed was committed and taken out, but life yas extinct. I Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 28. For Kansas: Part ly cloudy tonight; Saturday cloudy and i warT: variable Ainrs.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1898. SNOW TRAIN T0JO0NDIKE. Seven LocomotiTes Are Nearly Completed With Cars SNOW TRACTION LOCOMOTIVE AND CARS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN CHICAGO FOR KLONDIKE REGION 10 MERCURY No potash no mineral no danger in S. S. S. This means a great deal to all who know the disastrous effects of these drugs. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed Purely Vegetable. S. S. S. forces the disease oat through the skin doe3 not dry up the poison to decay the bones, like mercurial mixtures do. To Convey Provisions Over the Snow to Dawson. TO GO OYER THE PASS. Trip From Dyea to Be Made in Thirty Days. Expedition Will Start About February 15. Chicago, 111., Jan. 2S. George T. Glover, a Chicago inventor, has solved the prob lem of getting supplies into the Klondike region this winter by means of his snow traction locomotive. Seven of these loco motives are now building in Chicago and New York and thirty-two freight and pas senger cars will be made at Portland, Ore., for this work. These will start by February 15 for Dawson City over the Dalton trail. "The locomotives that are now being constructed for this Klondike trip," said 2V!r. Glover, "will weigh about eight tons each half the weight of the logging lo comotives. Their capacity will be about 1U0 tons burden respectively. I rind that an eifcrht ton machine will do the work ciuicker and easier. The seven locomo tives are now practically ready for ship ment to Portland, where they will be as sembled and then shipped, together with thirty-two cars, to Dyea. Here they will be put up and placed in readiness fui the expedition which leaves that point on 1-Vbruary 15. for Dawson City, in charge of Captain Brainard of the United States army. "Chilcat pass will be the greatest ob struction encountered on the first trip. There is r.o part of the pass, however, that presenter a grade greater than 30 per cent. These locomotives can climb such a grade readily. Each machine wiil have a steam windlass attached, and by means of this the train can easily pull it self up at a remarkable speed. I cal culate on getting over this pass in less than 4S hours with the Jirst train. The "Way once opened, subsequent travel will be easier. "Captain Brainard thinks that the trip to L'awson uy win require auout oo clays. I think days will be more accurate. Some bridging will doubtless have to be done, and parts of the trail opened up by blasting. However, these thing's are readily obviated. "The. cost of building and equipping this train will be less than $y5.0X. Each lo comotive will cost about $4,uu0. The pas senger ami rreignt cars and their trans portation to Dyea will not exceed $5,000. "On reaching Dawson City, four of the locomotives will be used in transporting supplies and passengers to and from the various points and villages located in the Klondike gold tields. The others will re turn and make another trip before the Winter in Alaska is over." The Snow and Ice Transportation com pany, which owns the right to the Glover locomotives, will receive 25 cents a pound for transporting the food supplies for the Vntted States government to Dawson City. There will be Iw) tons in this ship ment. Mr. Glover was the first to solve the problem of getting traction on snow. He experimented for years and spent a pmig fortune in developing and accomp lishing this mechanical result. The locomotive is very simple in con struction and principle, consisting of a boiler, twin engines, driving wheels and oilier necessary appurtenances, support ed in a steel frame. The frame rests upon runners, fore and aft, and the loco motive proper is hinged to the frame by steel beams. The great feature of the machine is a huge traction wheel between the runners. There is a drum in the wheel and the wheel is rotated by horse power ranging from twenty to sixty. gear ed from live to one up to nine to one. The heat from the boiler, furnace and the exhaust steam is utilized in the drum, in to which it is conveyed through the trun nions. By this means the wheel is kept hot all the time. About the wheel V ehaped teeth. by 12 inches, are set ir regularly. The action of the heat from the cylinder prevents the snow from clog ging it and at the same time compresses the snow into a solid mass, thereby giv ing sut'licient resistance to enable the teeth to pull a train burdened with a 200 ton weight. ARKANSAS VALLEY SHEEP. Ihe Farmers Are Feeding at Least 150,000 This Winter. Denver, Jan. 28. "Our road is especially interested in building: up the sheep in dustry In the Arkansas valley," said J. H. Lynch of Pueblo, live stock agent for the Santa Fe road for western Kansas and Colorado. "There are now about 150,000 head of sheep feeding in that section of the state, and the prospects are that the number "will be greatly increased next season. As a eheep state, Colorado is pushing rijrht to the front. The large amount of al falfa that is grown here is attracting southern sheepmen, who are commencing f o realize the advantages to be derived from shipping to the state and feeding iurinsf the winter. The quarantine regu lations and the fine climate are also in Colorado's favor, and it is on the rie:ht way 'becoming the greatest sheep state in the country. The stockmen in the ntiddle western states have more stock in their pens today than they have had for many years. There are more cattle located along the Santa Fe line in west ern Kansas today than ever before. Those oattle have been purchased in the west during the past few months, and show how prosperous the farmers are in that section of the country." Are You Going to Calfornia? If so, please bear in mind that 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 Iin 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. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It. J. W. PHILLIPS. 612 West Eighth St. Dandruff is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spreads and firies, forming- scurf and causing- the hair to fall out. Hall's Hair Renewer cures it. Yvhitmere Bros.. Barbers, 735 Kan. ave. Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment give3 instant relief. It allays inflam mation and heals. It is prompt in its action and positive in its effect. It is the kind that cures without pain or discomfort. It is for piles only. 50c lubes, 75c F. W. W1LLIARD A SKEPTIC. He Believes Denver Will Not Be a Great Distributing Point Denver, Jan. 28. 'I do not see why Denver can ever become such a lurge dis tributing center for stackers and feeders," said F. W. Williard of Topeka, Kan., su perintendent of the fuel department of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe road. "It is too far away from the large ranges, which are in the southwestern states. "The state promises to become an im portant one for the feeding of sheep, ow ing to the large amount of alfalfa that is raised here. That farming product prom ises to revolutionize the things in the stock feeding business. It can be raised at a very small cost, owing to the fact that two and three crops can be harvest ed each year off the same field. Down in Arizona the stockmen are branching out out quite extensively in the hog raising business. They are fattening them on alfalfa, too. Sounds strange, does it not? But it is true, nevertheless. The hogs like it, and it fattens them in fine shape, too. After a crop has been harvested, the hogs are turned onto the stubble, and they eat it as if it were so much" corn. Not much corn is raised in those south ern states, and alfalfa is taking its place." LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS. Mme. Sofia Scalchi, who at one time divided honors with Patti. will be heard in grand opera at the Crawford theater in this city tonight. The fourth act of the opera "II Trovatore" will be put on in full costume. The part of "Azucena" will bo taken by Mme. Scalchi, and the other principal parts of the opera by Mile. Touling-uet. Mile, du Bedat, Sig. A. Al berti and Mr. Tom McQueen. Preceding the act of opera a miscellaneous pro gramme will be rendered, in which Mme. Soalchi will sing her famous solo, "Xobil Signor," from the "Huguenots." Prof. W. E. Nankeville's lecture on Klondike will be given at the Crawford theater tomorrow afternoon, followed by lectures on Saturday and Sunday even ings. The lectures will be illustrated by einementograph views, and vaudeville numbers will be introduced in connection with them. The prices will be 10, 20 and 30 cents. Tim Murphy, of "Texas Steer" fame, will be seen at the Crawford theater next Tuesday evening in a double comedy bill, "Sir Henry Hypnotized" and "Old In nocence." "Killarnev and the Rhine" will he at the Crawford theater next Wednesday evening, Edna "W hitney and her vaudeville eomnanv Thursday evening and "The South Before the War" Friday aud Sat urday evenings. Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, is booked to deliver a lecture at the Craw ford theater next Monday evening under the auspices of the high school lecture course management. Several of the best vocalists in Topeka will participate in the concert to be given at the First Presbyterian church on next Friday evening. The prices have been fixed at 23 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. TARAL COMING WEST. The Famous Jockey May Ride for a Chicago Firm Next Season. New York. Jan. 28. Fred Taral, long the premier jockey, said today that he expected to be called west any day now. Taral has a contract to do the riding for Bromley Co.. the Chicago turf firm which had considerable hard luck last season, yet not nearly so much as has been exploited in the newspaper re ports. From what turfmen say and from what was intimated by Taral himself, the star jockey's trip to the west means more than a conference of the employ es and the owners. It is believed that Bromley Co. will race next season for the most part in the west, and if that decision is reached Taral will be little seen upon the metropolitan tracks. Taral claims that he will be able to ride next season at 109 pounds, but the jockey looks heavy enough to weigh 129 pounds. He says Bromley Co. will have an extensive stable of handi cap horses and also some fast 2-year-olds to introduce. Ballard's Horehound Syrup is the best known remedy for Consumption, Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Chest Troubles. Every bottle is guaranteed. It is the best remedy for children. 25 and 50c. Geo. W. Stansfield. 632 Kan sas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka avenues. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. 519 fsfr. eret-7 4 I!' KIN LEY SPEAKS Delivers an Address at the Banquet Of the National Manufacturers' Association IN GREATER NEW YORK Declares the Government Will Pay Its Debts In the Best Money Regardless of the Contract. New "Fork, Jan. 2S. The third annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States, which took place last night at the Wal-dorf-Astor hotel, was one of the largest and most elaborate affairs of the kind ever given in this city. One thousand guests were seated at the tables. The banquet hall was magnificently decorated, the tiers of boxes being draped with silken banners. The pres ident's ilag was suspended over the head of the table from the president's box. Seven long tables extended the length of the room and 16 small tables were placed on either side of the rows of the long tables. The tables were elaborately decor ated with flowers and potted plants. The dais where the president and other guests sat was also adorned with many flowers. From the reception room up the broad stairways to the banquet room were lines of palms and ferns. The menu cards were very elaborate. They were volumes of vellum bound in undressed kid, with a monogram burn ed into the corner, surrounded by a scroll. There were etchings of "Liber ty," "The Brooklyn Bridge," "Indus try," a scene on Wall street, "Com merce and Transportation," and some of the large buildings in New York. The president's menu card was the same as that of the other guests, except that the edges w?ere in gold, and the words, "The President," in embossed gold on the cover. The wildest enthusiasm prevailed when President McKinley was intro duced. Men stood in their seats; wom en in the boxes waved their handker chiefs, and the uproar drowned the speaker's voice. The cheerine and clapping of hands were redoubled when a toast was drunk to the president. President McKinley said: "Mr. Toastmaster, Members of the National Association of Manufacturers and Guests: For the cordial character of this greeting I return my thanks. The genuineness of your -welcome is full compensation for having left Washington at an unusually busy sea son in order to participate in this in teresting meeting. "I scarcely need remind you that we do not meet as strangers. Neither your business organization nor your social reunions are altogether unfamiliar to me. I have been with you before, not as a guest, as now, but rather in the capacity of host. I recall that, as gov ernor of the state Ohio, it was my pleasure to welcome you to the city of Cincinnati on Jan. 22, 1895, at the initial convention of the Manufacturers' asso ciation. "I well remember the occasion. It was a cold day. You had lost every thing but your pluck, or thought you had. Courage was the only friend your grief could call Its own. I note with satisfaction your improved appearance now. You are more cheerful, in the countenance, more buoyant in spirit, more hopeful in manner and more con fident in purpose. "Then, too, there are more of you here than there were at your first meet ing. Distances are, of course, the same, but traveling has been resumed. Your speeches and resolutions in the first convention were directed mainly to the question of how to regain what you had lost in the previous years, or, if that was found impossible, then how to stop further loss. But your object now, as I gather it, is to go out and possess what you have never had before. You want to extend, not your notes, but your business. I sympathized with your purposes then; I am in full accord with your intentions now. "I ventured to say, at the gathering referred to. as reported in your pub lished proceedings, speaking both for your encouragement and from a pro found conviction: 'This great country cannot be permanently kept in a state of relapse. 'I believe you will.re-oceupy the field temporarily lost to us, and go out to the peaceful conquest of new and greater fields of trade and commerce. The re covery will come slowly, perhaps, but it will come, and when it does we will be steadier and will better know how to avoid exposure hereafter.' "I have abated none of the faith I then expressed, and you seem to have regained yours. "National politics can encourage in dustry and commerce, but it remains for the people to project and carry them on. If these policies stimulate in dustrial development and energy, the people can be safely trusted to do the rest. "The government, however, is re stricted in its power to promote indus try. It can aid commerce, but not cre ate it. It can widen and deepen its rivers, improve its harbors, and devel op its great national waterways; but the ships to sail and the traffic to carry, the people must supply. The govern ment can raise revenues by taxation in such a way as will discriminate in favor of domestic enterprises, but it can not establish them. It can make com mercial treaties, opening to our manu facturers and agriculturists the ports of other nations. It can enter into reci procal arrangements to exchange our products with those of other countries. It can aid our merchant marine by en couraging our people to build ships of commerce. It can assist, in every law ful manner, private enterprise to unite the two oceans with a great canal. It can do all these things and ought to do them; but with all this accomplished, the result will still be ineffectual unless supplemented by energy, enterprise and industry of the people. It is they that must build and operate the factories, furnish ships and cargoes for the canal and the rivers and the seas. It is they who must find the consumers and ob tain trade by going forth to win it. Much profitable trade is still unenjoyed by our people because of their present insufficient facilities for reaching desir able markets. Much of it is lost be cause of a lack of information and ig norance of the conditions and needs of other nations. We must know just what other people want before we can supply their wants. We must understand .ex actly how to reach them with least ex pense, and if we would enter into the most advantageous business relations with them. The ship requires the ship pers: but the shipper must have as sured promise that his goods will have a sale when they reach their destina tion. "It is a good rule, if buyers will not come to us, for us to go to them. It is our duty to make American enter prise and industrial ambition, as well as achievement, terms of respect and praise, not only at home, but among the family of nations the world over. There is another duty resting upon the national government to coin money and regulate the value thereof. This duty requires that the government shall regulate the value of its money by the highest standards of commercial hon esty and national honor. The money of the United States is and must forever be unquestioned and unassailable. If doubts remain, they must be removed. If weak places are discovered, they must Vie strengthened. Nothing should ever tempt us nothing ever will tempt us to scale down the sacred debt of the nation through a legal technicality. Whatever may be the language of the contract, the United States will dis charge all of its obligations in the cur rency recognized as the best through out the civilized world at the time of payment. "Nor will we ever consent that the wages of labor or its frugal savings shall be scaled down by permitting payment in dollars of less value than the dollars accepted as the best in ev erv enliehtened nation of the world. Under existing conditions our citizens cannot be excused if they do not re double their efforts to secure such financial legislation as will place their honorable intentions beyond dispute. All those who represent, as you do. the great conservative and the progressive business interests of the country, owe it not only to themselves, but to the people, to insist upon the settlement of this great question now, or else to face the alternative that it must be again submitted for arbitration at the polls. "This is our plain duty to more than seven million voters who, fifteen months ago, won a great political bat- j tie on the issue, among others, that the United States government would not permit a doubt to exist anywhere con cerning the stability and integrity of its currency or the inviolability of its obligations of every kind. What ef fort, therefore, is required to make the j9 settlement of this vital question clear and conclusive for all time, we are bound in good conscience to undertake, and. if possible, realize. That is our commission our present charter from the people. "It will not suffice for citizens now adays to say simply that they are in favor of sound money. That is not enough. The people's purpose must be given the vitality of public law. Bet ter an honest effort with failure, than the avoiding of so plain and command ing a duty. "The difficulties in the path of a sat isfactory reform are, it must be admit ted, neither few in number nor slight in degree; but progress cannot fail to be made with a fair and thorough trial. An honest attempt will be the best proof of sincerity of purpose. Discus sion cannot hurt, it will only help the cause. Let us have full and free dis cussion. We are the last to avoid or evade it. Intelligent discussion will strengthen the indifference and encour age the friends of a stable system of finance. "Half-heartedness never won a bat tle. Nations and parties without abid ing principles and stern resolution to enforce them, even if it costs a continu ous struggle to do so, and temporary sacrifice, are never in the highest de gree successful leaders in the progress of mankind. For us to attempt noth ing in the face of the present fallacies and the constant effort to spread them is to lose valuable ground already won and practically to weaken the forces of sound money for their battles of the future. "The financial plank of the St. Louis platform is still as commanding upon Republicans and those who served with them in the last campaign as on the day it was adopted and promulgated. Happily, the tariff part of the platform has already been engrafted into public statute. But that -other plank, not already builded into our constitution, CATARRH OF THE STOfiACH. A Pleasant Simple, But Safe Effectual Cure For It. Catarrh of the stomach has long been considered the next 'thing to incurable. The usual systoms are a full or bloat ing sensation after eating, accompa nied sometimes with sour or watery risings, a formation of gases, causing pressure on the heart and lungs and difficult breathing; headache, fickle ap petite, nervousness and a general play ed out, languid feeling. There is often a foul taste in the mouth, coated tongue, and if the inter ior of the stomach could be seen it would show a slimy, inflamed condi tion. The cure for this common and obsti nate trouble Is found in a treatment which causes the food to be readily, thoroughly digested before it has a time to ferment and irritate the deli cate mucous surfaces of the stomach. To secure a prompt and healthy di gestion is the one necessary thing to do, and when normal digestion is se cured the catarrhal condition will have disappeared. According to Dr. Iiarlanson the saf est and best treatment is to use after each meal a tablet, composed of Dias tase, Aseptic Pepsin, a little Nux, Golden Seal and fruit acids. These tablets can now be found at all drug stores under the name of Stu art's Dyspepsia Tablets, and, not being a patent medicine, can be used with perfect safety and assurance that healthy appetite and thorough digestion will follow their regular use after meals. Mr. N. J. Booher of 2710 Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111., writes: "Catarrh is a lo cal condition resulting from a neglect ed cold in the head, whereby the lining membrane of the nose becomes inflam ed and the poisonous discharge there from, passing backward into the throat, reaches the stomach, thus producing catarrh of the stomach. Medical authorities prescribed for me for three years for catarrh of stomach without cure, hut today I am the happiest of men after using only one box of Stu art's Dyspepsia Tablets. I cannot find appropriate words to express my good feeling. I have found flesh.appetite and sound rert from their use. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the safest preparation as well as the sim plest and most convenient remedy for any form of indigestion, catarrh of stomach biliousness, sour stomach, heartburn and bloating after meals. Send for little book, mailed free, on stomach troubles, by addressing Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. The tablets can be found at all drug stores. is of binding force upon all of us. What is it? 'The Republican party is unreserv edly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1Si9; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. 'We are unalterably opposed to ev ery measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the .credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by in ternational agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and un til such agreement can be obtained the existing standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolable the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most en lightened nations of earth.' This is in reality a command from the people who gave the administration to the party now in power and who are still anxiously waiting for the execu tion of their free and omnipotent will by those of us who hold commissions from that supreme tribunal. i nave tonight spoken in a somewhat serious strain because I believe it is due both to the membership of this associa tion and to the conditions under which this assemblage has met. The confer ences and systematic efforts of such a body of men as this are capable of in finite good to the respective communities m wiucn ine members live and to the naiion at large. "The country is now emere-ine- from trv ing conditions. It is onlv iust beginning to recover from the depression in certain lines of business long continued and alto- gemer unparalleled. Progress, therefore will naturally be slow, but let us not be impatient. Rather let us exercise a just patience and one which in time will sure ly bring its own high reward. "I have no fear for the future of our Deloved country. vv hue I discern in its present condition the necessity that al ways exists for the faithful devotion of its citizens, the history of its past is as surance to me that this will be as it al ways has been through every struggle and emergency, still onward and upward. It has never suffered from any trial or been unequal to any task. Founded upon riht principles, we have nothing to fear from the vicissitudes which may lie across our pathway. The nation founded bv the fathers upon principles of virtue, educa tion, freedom and human rights, molded by the great discussions which establish ed its sovereignty, tried in the crucible of civil war, its integrity confirmed by the results of reconstruction, with a union stronger and better than ever before, stands today, not upon shifting sands, but upon immovable foundations. "Let us resolve by our laws and by our administration of them to maintain the rights of the citizen, to cement the union by still closer bonds, to exalt the stand ards of American civilization, encourage the promotion of thrift, industry and economy and the homely virtues which have ennobled our people, uphold the sta bility of our currency and credit, and il lustrate the purity of our national and municipal government: and though the rain descends and the floods come and the winds blow, the nation will stand, for it is founded upon a rock." TOM. ETAN CHOSEN". Is Made Vice President for Kansas of the Manufacturers' Association. New York. Jan. 28. The third and last day of the National Association of Man ufacturers' convention opened with a dis cussion of the state taxation of foreign corporations. Theodore E. Search of Philadelphia was unanimously re-elected president. Charles A. Schieren. ex-mayor of Brooklyn, was re-elected treasurer of the association and E. P. Wilson of Cincinnati was re-elected secretary. Vice presidents were elected from each of the states represented, including the following: Kansas. Thomas Ryan; Mis souri. Ij. P. Kingsland; California, J. G. Hamilton. The convention voted to hold its next meeting in Cincinnati. 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 remliy is Intended especially for coughs, Colds, croup and whooping cough and is famous for its cures of these diseases. For sale by druggists. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. Ballard's Snow Liniment is the most penetrating liniment in the world. It cures pain and inflammation of all kinds quicker than any other known remedy. Price 50c. Every bottle guar anteed. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka avenues. I was almost physical wreck, ths result of mercurial treatment forblood poison ;S.S.S. i a real blood remedy, for it cured me iier manentlv." Henry Roth, 1848 South Ninth Street, St. Louis, Mo. Books free address, Swift Specific Co., Atlanta. PRINCESS CHIMAY WINS. Suit. Involving Fortune of Xate Cap tain Ward. Detroit. Mich., Jan. 2S. A case hepun six years ago in the local courts, involv ing the fortune of the late Captain F.her B. Ward, amounting to Jti.SGo.oou, was de cided in the supreme court in favor of the defendants. The suit was brought to force an ac counting by the executor of the estate, Orrin W. Potter of Chicago, and the widow. Mrs. Ward-Cameron-Morrow, of Chicago; her two brothers. Thomas R. and John H. Lyon, and others were made co defendants. Thfe plaintiffs were Dr. Orville W. Owen and six other relatives of the dead multi millionaire, who claimed that the estate was not legally administered; that de fendants had refused to account to plain tiffs and that there has been a fraudu lent arrangement between the adminis trator, the widow and her two brothers for the purpose of depreciating the value of the assets and buying them at a low figure. It was alleged that this was ac complished through false quotations in trade journals, resulting in a forced sale, at which the Lyon brothers purchased the stock in behalf of the defendants, clearing over $3,000,0.0 by the deal. Princess De Chimay receives annually $CO,oeo from the estate. Give the Children a Drink called Grain-O. It fs a delicious, appe tizing'.nourishingfood drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-O aid3 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 4 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 $2.00) 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 liwute for de tails. The requirements ot a medicine Is to lighten the burden of pain and cure. This brings us to the question of a rem edy, and Tabler'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. DOc. Geo. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Popeka avenues. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. Is your child puny, peeked and peev ish? Does it fret and cry without seeming cause? Does It have convul sions? If so, is has worms.and White's Cream Vermifuge will safely expel them and restore its health. 25c. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan. Ave., and Miller's Pharmacy, Cor. 6th and Topeka Ave. No SOOT, NO CLINKER, BIT PLENTY OF HEAT...... Prairie Creek SemiAnthracife Is the best of the Arkansas product Handled only by us. A number of our best citizens have made the test. The Southwestern Fuel Co., 634 Kansas Ave. Telephones 193 and 144. Great Western Steam Dye and Cleaning Works, 117 East Seventh Street. Does the best work in the city of Dye ing, Cleaning and Repairing on Ladies' and Gentlemen's clothing at reasonable prices. Give us a call. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. C. F. B.0DIGER, Prop. m NATIONAL STABLES eilchrlil Brot Fropri. H S Good turnout deliTored to any part of the city. m BOARDING A SPECIALTY- ft 'PUa.M. 7M J.ektra St. J'-'l-J'i'.wM'''T! i 11. 1
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1898. 3 Sample FREE TO LADIES. A Remedj- for Ladies Only You Need Not Tell Your Troubles Simply Send Name and Address and Get a. Trial Package Free That May Save Your Life. few Any lady reader of this paper can have a trial package of a remedy that is today the standard for female diseases. It makes no difference whether she is a sub scriber or not, she will receive a full size sample package prepaid by mail, simply by sending- her name and address to the Hazeline Company, South Bend, Ind. It is worth her while to send for this free sample. In McPherson, Kansas, it cured a lady who suffered constanly over 10 years from various womb troubles and after being- treated by 12 different doctors who failed to relieve her. A lady living in Toto, Starke Co., Ind., writes that this famous remedy cured her daughter, who was so sick with difficult monthly sick ness that she was in bed most of the time. From Sacramento, Cal., a lady writes that this remedy does away with surgical operations and was saved the danger and torture of the knife by being cured by Hazeline. A lady in Silver City, New Mexico, says that when she began using the remedy five months ago her suffering was so intense that she nearly went insane, but the timely arrival of Hazeline saved her reason and cured her so she is now healthy and happy. Miss Anna B. Foss of Granite Falls, Minn., writes that for years she suffered mere TALMAGE'S MARRIAGE. Causes Rev. Dr. Sunderland to Resign the Position of Co-Pastor. Washington, Jan. 2S. Almost simultan eously with the announcement of the marriage of Rev. Ir. T. De Witt Tal mage to his third wife in fact on the very day that the marriage of the promi nent divine was made public Lr. Byron Sunderland, who is associated with Dr. Talmage in the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of this city, an nounced his intention to resign his charge. As Dr. Sunderland has been connected with the church for over 40 years and is greatly beloved by his congregation, his proposed resignation, which he made known from the pulpit, caused great sur prise and much comment. The minister was loth to talk of his resignation, but said "1 am so overshadowed by another man that there is no use of my talking about it. I have been contemplating this move for some time past, and made up my mind to it finally when I learned that Dr. Tai mage was to get married. After I retire Dr. Talmage will become the head of the church. I presume, of course, he will have an assistant, as he simply does the preaching. This is in accordance with an understanding that I had with him before he accepted the call to the First Presbyterian church. I expect to leave the church at the beginning of my sum mer's vacation." 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. 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 5 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all drug gists. Safe, sweet and satisfactory, Ayer's Pills are the best family physic. 5 is it 4e fie- y ackafies than she could find words to tell and was depressed in spirit and despondent beyond measure because doctors and remedies failed. Hazeline cured her of prolapsus and leucorrhoea and she can now take long walks, without fatigue, whereas she was sick and worn out all the time before. Mrs. Theresa Koch, 604 Sedgwick street, Chicago, writes: "I am willing to tell every suffering lady, either personally o by letter, how your remedy cured me of years of frightful suffering." Mrs. Rosa Puttbrese of Alden, McHenry Co., Ill begs to have her name sent to all ladies who suffer that she may have an oppor tunity to tell them how she was saved a life of suffering by this grand remedy. Mrs. Josephine Stotz, 233 E. 6th St., New Tork, believes it her duty to tell how she was cured cfter 12 years of Intense pain every month and of ten between times. All of these letters and a great many others on file convince you that the free sample is worth sending for. No matter whether you suffer little or are an invalid send for this matchless and won derful remedy that is perfectly free and will cure you. Don't wait a day but write at once, simply your name and address. THE HAZELINE CO. (Incorporated), 124 Bressler Block, South Bend, Ind. GET 1T031EN ON YOUR SIDE, Says J. Waldere Kirk, and the Men "Will Follow. Kansas City. Jan. 2S. J. Waldere Kirk is still at the Coates House, attracting at tention by his variety of raiment and re newing friendships he formed when he worked in Kansas City some years ago. Those who know him call him "Jimmie," and ask him how he does it, and he smiles and keeps still. "Letters from women?" he said. "Hun dreds of them. In proportion to its size, New Yerk sends the greatest numbers, but St. Louis is not slow. How about Kansas City? Well. now. we really ought not to talk about them." "What do you do with them?" "File them away. Oh, yes. I keep them all. 1 have my secretary answer a good many of them, but I teil you there are very few women who have my autograph. Liable to stir up trouble in the home if any of them are found lying 'round. "I don't believe a man can say enough nice things about the ladies. It's good policy, for if you get them on your side the men will follow." DR. EMBBEE'S SUCCESS. His Early Struggles Reviewed by an Admiring Friend. (From the Lawrence World.) Rev. Mr. Embree, who is going to leave Kansas for a larger field, will take no end of fight out of the state with him. Since he was a mere bdy and went off to war his life has been a continual tight. When he came to Kansas Mr. Embree started at the bottom. He secured a charge down in Johnson county as assist ant to Rev. Mr. Houk. He did his work vvel and received so little temporal re ward that he did his own washing. He never flinched, but stood it out, and when conference met he was sent to North Lawrence. His ability deserved better, but he made no complaint. Then we be lieve he went to Manhattan, then to Hia watha and so on the rounds until his ability was recognized and he was called to Topeka. IMMENSE TRANSFER BOAT. Contract for Largest Hull Ever Built on "Upper Mississippi. Dubuque. Ia.. Jan. 2S. The Iowa Iron Works of this city has closed a contract with the Texas Paciiic Railroad company for building the largest hull ever con structed on the northern river. The boat will be used at New Orleans for transferring cars, and will be 300 feet long. F,6 feet beam, with 15 feet 5 inch guards, a total beam of 87 feet over all. It is about the same length as the big St. Paul packet, but will have nearly SO feet more beam. In the construction of the hull 7S0 tons of steel will be used and not less than $25,000 will be paid for labor in Dubuque. The California Express Leaves Topeka daily at 1:23 p. m. via Santa Fe Route and carries Pullman Palace and Improved Tourist Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair Cars through to California. This is the line offering quickest time, shortest distance and greatest comfort every day in the year. RAILROAD NEWS. The Katy Will Hare a Model Hospital Car. Desire a Method of Getting Their Maimed to Hospital F110M DISTANT POINTS Superintendent McClellan Talks of Topeka's Union Depot. Can Think of No Available Site at Present. Denison, Jan. 28. J. H. Reno of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen re turned yesterday afternoon from Se dalia. While there he was at the Katy hospital, and saw plans for a car that the hospital department is very anx ious to have adopted for sick and in jured men who have to be transported from Texas to Sedalia for treatment. Mr. Reno said in regard to this car: "Dr. Yancey, chief surgeon, wants the hospital car adopted for the trans portation of sick and injured from Texas to the Sedalia hospital. He has plans for such a car to contain about four sleeping berths in the center, and at one end have a department fitted up for a surgeon with a full supply of medicines, such as would likely be needed in such cases. The car would be sent to Texas when there were bad cases of sick or injured employes, and they could be taken to the hospital without running; the rjsk of making the condition of the patient worse from the strain and annoyance of long travel. As it is now, an employe must pay his sleeping; car fare or ride in a chair car or day coach, a very bad thing- for a se vere case of sickness, and such modes of conveyance often work a hardship on the patient, whereas the car pro posed would remove all the serious ob jections to travel so far to the hospital. A man could be placed in one of the berths in the hospital car and taken to Sedalia with very little inconvenience and annoyance." OWNED BY CLAUDE DUVAL. EC S. Montgomery Has a Watch. Said to Have Belonged to the Fa- mous Highwayman. TI. S. Montgomery is making a collec tion of watches of different styles. He has one that shows two dials and is of the best make having 30 jewels. One dial will show eastern time while the other dial shows western time. Probably the watch that would at tract the most attention is one that has a history. It is said to have be longed to Claude Duval, a notorious highwayman of England who was no ted for his gallantry. Pie would not rob a woman. The case is of silver and quite heavy and like the movement is hand-made. The watch chain consists of long links that are adjusted with springs. When the chain is in its nat ural state it is much shorter than when drawn out. The movement is of the old fuzee and chain pattern that is still used by the manufacturers of today in chronometers. Besides the minute, sec and and hour hands it has a calendar hand. It is in good running order. The workmanship shows that while watchmaking in the present century may be far ahead of what it was when the Claude Duval watch was made yet the makers of watches in those days made them on the same principle that the best time keepers of today are made. GIRL, LEFT BEHIND. Mother and Daughter Separated at K. C. Reunited in Topeka. While No. 3 of the Santa Fe was waiting in Kansas City, a lady dressed in the finest of furs handed a letter to her daughter, aged 5, to mail. The lit tle girl got off to mail the letter and before she returned the train pulled out of the depot and she was left. The mother was almost frantic as she told her story to the conductor. The con ductor telegraphed back to Kansas City at the first stop and at Topeka the anx ious mother received word that her daughter would arrive in Topeka on No. 1. The mother left the California Limited and waited for No. 1 when she and her daughter continued their jour ney. The mother was profuse in her ex pressions of surprise that the railroad officials should take so much pains to find her daughter and to restore her to her without any harm. AMONG RAILROAD MEN. Conductor Loosley is the "whole thing" on the Caldwell branch. He is mail clerk, conductor and baggageman. Aaron Gwinn, a brother of the well known Milan baseball player, "Fattie" Gwinn, is working in the Rock Island shops at Caldwell. The Rock Island roundhouse at Cald well will be enlarged and other im provements made in the shops and yards at that place. Everett Howell, night clerk at the Atchison union depot mail room has ta ken a postal run on the Santa Fe between Leavenworth and Topeka, and E. A. Leavitt of Leavenworth, has ta ken his place. P. H. Mellen, who was a clerk in the railroad offices at Las Vegas, left for Klondike about a year ago and is re ported as having sold out his inter ests there for $265,000. The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad com pany is erecting a large water tank at Angel station. J. L. McGuire, a machinist from Ra ton, took employment in the San Mar cial shops recently. F. B. Sanford, former general pas senger agent and freight agent of the Maricopa Phoenix road is now again connected with the line, this time in the capacity of assistant freight agent. The Santa Fe Pacific Railroad com pany lias had a force of 40 or 50 men at work on two bridges near Albuquer que for the past two weeks, and it will require about one more week to com plete the work. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men gave a ball and supper Thursday night, the 27th inst., at La Prade's hall, Albuquerque. They had the Fort Win gate string band. Fred Pingrey's painting crew- and painting machine are at San Marcial, after having improved all the railroad buildings at Rincon and Silver City with coatings of paint. The machine is stationed on a flat car. FROM NEWTON. An office is being built in the center of the old roundhouse for the use of the boss painter. A new directory of engineers and fire men has been placed in Foreman Tis dale's office. It is an improvement over the old one as it is larger and in every way better. Dispatcher TJtterback, who was sent to Arkansas City a short time ago has been transferred hack here and Dis patcher Charles Priestly will be trans ferred to some other point. J. W. Rounds has moved his family from Nickerson. Mr. Rounds is an em ploye of the Santa Fe in the building department. The new hot water pump has been I placed on its foundations in the round j house and will be ready for use in a day or so. It will be run with steam i from the back shop. I Foreman Ed Rouch of the bridge and I huilding gang is superintending the j moving of the east end switch shanty. The shanty is being moved farther east in the yards, j Engineer R. Smith and Fireman WTi!l I Blatchley were sent to Florence this morning to run out of there. Machinist Robert Hughes and a help er were sent to Great Bend this morn ing to put a snow plow on the 68. FROM WELLINGTON. E. D. Igou has resumed -his old posi tion as chief clerk and cashier at the Santa Fe freight office. Hiney Glaman commenced his duties as assistant ticket agent at the union depot, succeeding J. E. Bottorff who will take Harry Bixby's place in the freight office. Engine 376, with the snow plow, went to Spivey last night. The crew con sisted of Conductor Sommers. Engineer Pryor and Fireman Keever. Trainmas ter E. A. Austin accompanied them. Two engines have been faithfully at work at Spivey for the last 48 hours trying to clear the tracks there, but had to give it up and send for the snow plow. Frank Myers, chief clerk in Superin tendent Dolan's office at Wichita, has tendered hi3 resignation. He has ac cepted a similar position at Winslow, Ariz., on the Santa Fe Pacific. Mrs. J. F. Hart, wife of the Santa Fe water service man, is reported to be quite sick. C. E. Botkin has returned from New ton and resumed his position as night watchman at the Santa Fe yards. Engine 491, pulling a freight train, which left here at 3 o'clock, broke a truck when just this side of Kiowa and was wrecked. The "wrecking train" went out to clear up the wreck. "OWNEY" IN A MUSEUM. Hide of the Famous Tramp Postal Dog Mounted. Washington, Jan. 28. "Owney," the famous tramp postal car riding dog, has reached his last resting place the postoflice museum. His hide was mounted at the "Smithsonian institute, and this morning was placed in a glass case among the other famous curios in the museum. "Owney" was the most celebrated tramp dog that ever lived. About 14 years ago he followed a mail wagon In Albany to the railroad station where he boarded a postal car. From that date to his death in Minneapolis last year he traveled hundreds of thousands of miles in mail cars through every state in the union. One day last sum mer he bit a little girl who became too familiar with him and was shot. MOURNED BY ALL. Death of Miss ,Eudora Wright Re gretted by Railroad Men. Miss Eudora Wright who died at the Santa Fe hospital of appendicitis had been a nurse there for some time and was the favorite of all the railroad men who had been in the hospital. Among the shopmen and trainmen all along the road there are many who will be pained to hear of her death. Short services were held in Topeka and Mrs. Wright accompanied the re mains of her daughter to Aurora, 111., for burial. GO TO CIMARRON. Santa Fe Land Sale to Be Made There by Receivers. Col. John J. McCook, Mr. Aldace F. "Walker, chairman of the Santa Fe board of directors; Mr. E. D. Kenna, general solicitor, and Treasurer Ed ward Wilder left Topeka in a special car attached to Santa Fe train No. 5. at noon today for Cimarron, Kas. There the official sale of the Kansas land in cluded in the assets of the old company will take place tomorrow. This land includes all the land owned by the old company which was not used in the right of way or for building pur poses. All such land went to the new company at the time of the foreclosure sale. The sale is to be conducted at Cimarron simply because the bulk of the land included in the assets is in that section of the state. It will be purchased by Treasurer Edward Wild er for the new company on a nominal bid. probably $10,000. although its value amounts to several times this amount. Thi3 sale will practically close the Santa Fe receivership as far as Kan sas is concerned. The land owned by the old company in New Mexico, Colo rado and Arizona will not be sold until some time in March. Wrhen this land is sold the receivership will be ended, and the old Santa Fe railroad company, of which Col. C. K. Holliday of this city is now president, will pass out of cor porate existence. CUTTING DOWN INTEREST. Rock Island Refunding Five Per Cent Bonds Increased Earnings. New Tork, Jan. 2S. The new 4 per cent 90 year bonds of the Rock Island railroad are offered in exchange to hold ers of the present 5 per cents, the lat ter to be estimated at 1.03 and ac crued interest as of May 1. The circu lar making the offer contains a letter from President Cable announcing that the issue of 4 per cents is $100,000,003 and that $52,000,000 were sold to retire the 5 per cent bonds and $5,000,000 7 per cent Chicago Southwestern bonds. Mr. Cable says that by refunding the an nual interests charges will be reduced $496,621. It is also stated that Rock Is land's net earnings for the mine months ending December 31, (December estima ted) increased $1,525,198 over the corres ponding period of 1896. Better Bridges for the Rock Island. The Rock Island Railway company will spend several thousand dollars in Kansas and Colorado this year replac ing wooden bridges with substantial structures of iron and masonry. When the road was first built through Kansas i ana Colorado the majority of the small er bridges put in were wooden struc tures. These are to be this year re placed. Damage Suit Fails. Leavenworth, Jan. 28. The Burling ton road won in the trial, wherein Jas. Livingston of St. Joseph sued for $10, 000 damages. The jury last evening held that Livingston was hurt through his own carelessness and that his in juries are not permanent. To Start a New Series of Numbers. The new 50-foot furniture cars that are to be built by the Santa Fe may start a new series of numbers. The freight cars are numbered as follows: I Refrigerating cars 2 to 298; fruit 3101 to j 3713: furniture 6001 to 7200; box cars 10001 to 21291; palace stock cars 67001 to j 67438; single deck stock cars 50001 to 52470; double deck 69001 to 69488; coal 70001 to 7901S; fiat cars 90001 to 91S01; ballast 9S001 to 98350; way cars 1 to 399. DEER FIGHTS STALXION. Drives the Horse Away After Inflict ing Fatal Injuries. Huntington, Pa., Jan. 28. Mrs. John C. Crownover, living at the foot of Stone mountain, witnessed a. rare sight last night. In the barn yard was a stallion, half a dozen cows and a big buck deer with wide spreading antlers. The buck and stallion were engaged in a deadly combat, and from appear ances the buck was coming out the victor. Mrs. Crownover grasped a pitchfork and attempted to separate the warring beasts. The deer kept right on piling in blows with his fore feet on the stallion's head and shoulders until at last the van quished horse dashed through the en closure. The buck trotted back to the mountains, which is full of deer this year. The stallion may not recover. DINK BOTTS TURNS UP. Relates a Story of Fatalities in Neck ties. New Orleans.Jan. 28. Col. Dink Botts of Calcasieu, is in the city. The colonel has been seeing the sights of upward of three days, and the longer he stays, the longer he wants to remain. He now thinks he may be here a week before visiting his friends in Mississippi. "People's superstitions interest me more than any other one thing about therh," said the veteran from the rice belt. "There are some common supersti tions that apply to people generally then each individual has his own freaks and oddities. It is one of the latter kind of persons I have in mind. This person was a playmate of mine. We went to school together and grew up together. Lem, or Whispering Lem, as the boys called him, is one of the really famous characters of our parish. He is, indeed, one, but he won't wear a necktie. That is no detriment, though, for they tell me Jay Gould wouldn't wear a tie, either. Jay's reasons were other than Lem's, however. Everytime Lem wears a necktie something serious happens to him. The first time he wore a tie his house burned down. Now, this is no joke. I am telling you what everyone in Lake Charles knows to be history. Years afterward he again at tempted to wear a tie, and on that day his saw mill burned down. Then the festive decorations about the collar were abandoned for years, when on a bright sunny morning the necktie hater thought he would again try his luck. He put on a bright, flashy decorator and started out. "But it was fatal. While In the bar her shop getting shaved the dreaded fire bell sounded, and it was announced that the big saw mill of which Lem was the manager, was burning down. It was an inevitable ill-omen. "The other day my old friend's bright charming niece got married. It was a church wedding, and one of the social events of the season. Lem was in. it. But the tie. A fine one was procured, and the champion of the necktie super stitions was urged to wear it. He did not say a word, but got away from the crowd. When the ceremony occurred, Lem appeared without the adornment, and his daughter later found the tie in his coat pocket." FARM FERTILIZATION. Department of Agriculture Sends Out Important Information. Washington. T. C. Jan. 28. The second number of "Experiment Station Work.' prepared under the direction of Director A. C. True, has been published by the agricultural department as a farmers' bulletin. It contains a great deal of in formation on topics of interest to the farmer, the most important of which probably is that relating to the value of common crops for forage and a discus sion of the question whether farmers can mix their own fertilizers economically. On this latter subject the bulletin says the unanimous conclusion reached by the two permanent stations which have given the closest attention to the subject is that it is entirely practicable and eco nomical under certain conditions for farm ers to buy the different fertilizing mater ials in the crude stock and to mix them on the farm, and they have made every effort to encourage and assist them in the practice. There is no doubt that ashes are a valuable fertilizer when used with proper care and discrimination, but there is considerable danger that they may be and are at present overestimated by farmers and money is expended m manv cases in the purchase of ashes which might be more economically used in buying other forms of fertilizer. TO RUN A GOAT RANCH. Business Philadelphia Men are Start ing in New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. M.. Jan. 28. C. S. Onder donk of Philadelphia, representing a com pany of Philadelphia capitalists interested in the tanning of hides, has leased the Canada Des Los Alamos grant in Santa Fe county for the purpose of using it as a goat pasture. The headquarters of the business will be at Laray Junction. It is pronosed to fence the grant and stock it with goats. The grant contains lo.Oft) acres and other pastures will be leased in various sections of the territory and stocked. The skins of the animals are to be shipped to Philadelphia, where one house alone will handle the product. Owing to the drv atmosphere and almost continu ous sunshine, it is said the goat pelt from New Mexico and Colorado makes the best kid glove material and pelts from this region command a high price from French manufacturers. LAN (i THY IX A FIX. Must Prove Her Rights to Property Obtained from Abingdon Baird. London. Jan. 2S. Mrs. Langtry is about to appear as defendant in a suit which i will entail the laying bare to the public of her relations with the late Abingdon Baird, the millionaire sporting man, who was well known in the United States as the patron and financial backer of the pugilist, Charley Mitchell. He is credited with having lavished large sums of money upon her, and to have atoned for the black eye he is said to have given her with the gift of a fam ous race horse, as well as a sum of money alleged to have amounted to as much as $200,000. That Mrs. Langtry has. however, lost this deed of gift is apparent from the fol lowing advertisement which has been ap pearing in the leading newspapers here: "Information required concerning a deed of gift, signed by a well known sporting man, now deceased, by which a race horse and a large sum of money were deeded to a lady. The deed is supposed to have been lost in Mayfair in 1SS. In the event of the lo?t deed being established the party giving information leading to its recovery will be liberally rewarded." The California Express Leaves Topeka daily at 1:25 p. m. via Santa Fe Route and carries Pullman Palace and Improved Tourist Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair Cars through to California. This is the line offering quickest time, shortest distance and greatest comfort every day in the year. Homeseekers' excursion tickets via the Santa Fe Route at very low rates Tuesday, February 1st. THE Wholesale and Retail Groceries, Fresh Meats, Queans ware and Tinware. Bargains All the Time Here You- practically get goods at retail for wholesale prices. Get our prices on anything you want, and then you will see what your saving will be. With every order of $5.00 or more we will give 22 lbs finest California Granulated Sugar for $1.00. Lion, Arbuckle, Levering and 4-X Coffee per pkg 10 3 lb crushed Java Coffee 25 1 lb Golden Rio Coffee 10 1 lb Java Blend Coffee 20 1 lb Java and Mocha Coffee .25 2 cans 3-Ib solid packed Tomatoes.. .15 4 cans Sugar Corn 25 3 cans Kearly June Peas .25 6 cans Boston Baked Beans 25 7 cans Oil Sardines 25 Mustard Sardines per can 05 4 cans Salmon 23 Warren's Al Salmon per can 10 Pettijohn's Breakfast Food pr pkg .10 WTheatling per pkg 10 3 pkgs. Aunt Jemima Pancake flour .25 3 pkgs. .Ralston Pancake flour 25 3 pkgs. King's self rising Buckwht .25 3 pkgs. Famia .25 20 lb Pearl Hominy. 25 12 rb bulk Scotch Oats. .25 .25 10 rb Green Peas. 12 lb hand picked Navy Beans 25 No. 1 Sugar Cured Small Skinned Hams, per lb OS'a Fancy California Sugar Cured Hams, per lb 05 11 lbs Wright's Wisconsin Pure Buckwheat Flour 25 1 quart bottle best Bluing, 10 3 cans Lewis Lye 23 30 bars Silk Soap 25 14 bars Peet Bros. Rex Soap 25 8 pkgs. washing Soda same as Pear line 25 20 lb Sal Soda 25 8 lb Gloss Starch 25 9 bars White Russian Soap 25 Good white Lard pr lb 05 Dry Salt Meat pr lb 4y2 Sugar Cured Hams per lb 7 6 pkgs. Bird. Seed 25 6 pkgs. Corn Starch 25 6 fb wood box Gloss Starch 35 6 pkgs. Faultless Starch 23 3 sacks Table salt 05 We have secured the agency for C. P. Baking Powder it is guaranteed as good as Royal or Price's and costs half the price. Try a can. Now is your chance to lay in a good supply of Flour. We are making the lowest price. MAIL ORDERS SKIPPED PROMPTLY. cr. The Star Grocer. TELEPHONE 352. Kelall. GOLD whose house is conspicuously clean, whose work worries her least, whose leisure time is greatest, how she manages The chances are ten to one she will answer "I do all my cleaning Sold by all grocers. Largest package greatest economy THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago. St. Louis. New York. Boston. Philadelphia. "A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOUL. BAR CAIN." MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHE USES aEes9seeeaens saas&eao&SHSHOMRe nsasssBOEOEenesr at T ne AND MACHINE WORKS. Established 1875. GET PRICES BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. CABBIES BESIEGE GOULD. Troubles of Edwin Gould in Hiring a Coachman. New Tork, Jan. 28. All men were coachmen to the pale, haggard young man who, with a haunted look, craned his head through a narrow opening in the door and met visitors today at room 53, Western Union building, which is the office of Mr. Edwin Gould. "Go way!" he said. "Go way!" We don't need any coachman. Mr. Gould has already hired one. Go way!" "Who'd you ever drive for?" he asked a reporter, who rang the bell. Then he added quickly: "But it's no use. We've got a man. Tou needn't show any let ters. They've all got letters." All this was the result of an adver tisement by Mr. Gould for a coachman. For three days his office has been be sieged by handlers of the reins and whip, and today, after the place was filled, the stream of applicants contin ued. 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 your rem edy. So& by Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue, and Sim Drug compa ny, 607 Kansas avenue, druggists. To peka, Kan. Subscribe for The State Journal. 6 lb Tapioca 10 lb pail White Fish... Large pail table Syrup. Large pail Jelly 5 lb pail Apple Butter.. 3 lb can Plumb Butter.. 3 lb can Peach Butter... 2 lb can Mince Meat .45 .45 .35 .25 .10 .10 .10 DRIED FRUITS. 3 lb Evaporated Apples 3 lb California Apricots 3 lb California Blackberries 1 lb California pitted Cherries 3 lb California Peaches 3 lb California Pears 3 lb New Currents 7 lb California Prunes 3 lb California Raspberries 4 lb fancy Dates Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel, lb .2" .23 .2' .11 2? 50 25 .15 6 lb California Raisins 23 London Layer Raisins pr Tb 10 4 lb Seedless Sultana Raisins .23 2 boxes Mason's Shoe Blacking .03 No. 1 and No. 2 Lamp Chimneys... .03 4 pkgs. Cond. Mince Meat 25 1 qt. bottle Tomato Catsup 15 Fancy white Col. Potatoes per bu.. .70 Old Fashioned Canadian Maple Syrup...... 1 quart can .30 gallon can 60 1 gallon can 1.10 Good Gunpowder Tea per lb... Good Toung Hyson Tea per lb. Good Japan Tea rer lb 2 lb Japan Tea Sittings .25 .25 .25 .25 Tin. 1 1 a EAST SIXTII ST. DUST. n o s 4T a rs fi svk with 'Wash'"! Powder n m GS M Western Foundry Formerly Topeka Foundry and Machine Works. tsUib. 1865. w The only place ia the city where you can Set a Complete Power Plan! from Steam Eugia to a Set Cellar from stock. R. L. COFRAN, Topeka, Kans. Proprietor. 9 n m m H ENGINE JUMPS THE TRACK. Locomotive at Milwaukee, Wis., 3Buns Through a Brick WalL Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 28. A locomo tive on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road jumped the track at Fowler street last night and ran clean through the brick wall of the F. Bergenwald Co. warehouse. The engine went half through the store before it stopped. A number of workmen had narrow escapes. The damage amounts to several thousand dollars. Many People Cannot Drink coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. You can drink Grain-O when you please and sleep like a top. For Grain-O does not stimulate; it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. B'or nervous persons, young people and children Grain-O is the per fect drink. Made from pure grains. Get a package from your grocer today. Try it in place of coffee. 15 and 25c. To Care Coimtlpatioti Vorever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or Sa If C. C. C fail to cure. drujrKists refund money We'll Do Your Hauling Right! TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephone 509 Kansas Ave. 320 oce. F. JP. BACO.IJ, Prop.
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TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1898. The State Journal BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXV No. 23 OFFICIAL CITY PAPER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally 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 system. By mail, one year --..$3-60 By mail, three months .SO Weekly edition, one year 59 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building. 800 and S02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 6i7 New York address: 322 Potter Building, care American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, where files of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. WILL THE PIN DROPP 'Although repeated assurances that all Is tranquility in Havana and that the scheme of autonomy is being carried out successfully, there is clearly a feel ing abroad in the world that something unusual is about to happen In Cuba. What is going to take place may be well understood in what are called "di plomatic circles," but the common peo ple are as yet in ignorance. That some important change in the Cuban situa tion is about to take place is being em phasized by the fact that armored cruisers of various nations are gather ing fn the harbor of Havana for the un doubted purpose of being in readiness to protect the citizens of the nations to which they belong should their services be needed when the crash comes. The United States ship Maine had scarcely cast anchor in Havana harbor before she was followed by two other armed vessels, one floating the English and the other the German flag. To these the tricolor of France is about to be added. The serenity with which all these movements are viewed by the United States and Spain as well as by the oth er European governments, seems to in dicate that there is an understanding. Perhaps after all as has been suggested more than once on the floors of con gress,the settlement of the Cuban prob lem hinges on a question of dollars and cents and that this part of the matter is in process of adjustment. Spain has incurred an immense debt, on account of the Cuban war and the insurgents also have borrowed money on the strength of their prospects for ultimate independence. Men who wield the largest influence in the affairs of nations hold these securities those of Spain and those of Cuba. When an ar rangement is reached by which the bond holders will be in the way of get ting interest on their investments the Cuban matter will probably be speed ily settled. The indications are that this has been accomplished. As a further evidence that the end is close at hand it may be noted that r.e-rrspaper correspondents are rushing to Cuba from everywhere. The election of Judge McComas in Maryland, and the defeat of Gorman, marks the downfall of another political boss. Democratic bosses seem to be shorter lived than Republicans of the same class. Gorman, Brice and Hill are in retirement, but Piatt, Quay and Hanna axe still doing business at the old stand. WHAT "WE" IS SAYING. There is a certain kind of intoxicating drink sold in Centralia that would make a man poison, his own dog. Centralia Jour nal. Two of our young ladies were seen flirt ing with the "Katy" conductor Sunday evening. Stop it, girls. It is not lady like. Mound Valley Herald. Geo. W. Shields is building a stockade that will be pig tight, horse high and proof against long horns. Lindsborg Rec ord. Horton boys are blooming out in fine shape. Six of them are having full dress suits made this week. W. F. Connor and C. M. Lewis will initiate theirs at one of Prof. Hudson's swell parties at Topeka. Horton Headlight. Some miscreant broke about thirty win dow lights in the west side of the Bap tist church one night the last of the week. Anyone low enough to do such a trick is an object of pity. Baldwin Bee. Mrs. R. B. Garnett is assisting Robert in catching up the work in the county clerk's office. She says Rob "assists" her with the dishes, beds and sweeping. It's dollars to doughnuts, though, that Rob ert gets the best end of the reciprocity arrangement. Mill City Reveille. The editor has provided himself with a stuffed club and a double-barreled shot gun. and the first yahoo who comes around here hunting trouble will be accommo dated. Office hours, from S a. m. to 6 p. m. Cimarron Jacksonian. A man in Burlingame has the world where the hair is short. He has added a barbershop to hisblacksmithing establish ment, and now a gentleman in need of a "scrape" can have his nose pulled and his face mowed while joyfully listening to the soul inspiring strains of the anvil cho rus. Success to the tonsorial blacksmith. Carbondale Carbondalian. Isn't it about time to recognize the bel ligerency in the case of Mr. Ingalls and Mr. Leland? People with currency plans should re member that there are twenty-one members of the house committee.and there are so far not quite enough schemes to go around. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) The majority of marrying stories are Started by the girls themselves. As a rule, homely people are much braver than good looking people. An alimony of $20 a month is worth more to a woman than the average husband. The local agent of a railroad is chang ed about as often as a planing- mill burns down. 1 It is doubtful if any woman loves the Lord to the extent of being willing to loan her cut glass for a church social. i An Atchison man has figured it up that he has spent $300 in the last four years on raffles, and never won a thing-. Getting converted and going- to the mourners' bench must be a good deal like walking back up hill after coast-tug-. STATEBAR. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Bar Association. Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, Heads the Main Address. TAKING A LOOK AHEAD Prophesies a Change in Form of Our Ciril Life. Addresses Made by Noted Kan sas Lawyers. Judge P. S. Grosscup of Chicago de livered the principal address secured for the state bar association at the meeting Thursday night. It elicited the highest commendation from the lawyers. He discussed "Pop ular Self-Mastery: The Duty of the Lawyers Towards Its Promotion." He said: "The lawyer, in his relation to socie ty, is much more than a mere practi tioner. From Rome to America, the lawyer has always been somewhat of a public man; the public man somewhat of a lawyer. The American lawyer is linked with every achievement in American history. "In the whole history of America there has been no period when the conditions of the present, and the pros pects for the future were so interesting. The day now passing is unique. It sees us standing, as never before, with our backs almost wholly to the past, and our faces to the future. Parties have lost the force of sheer partisanship. With less regret than ever men swing loose from past party affiliation and with greater ease than ever ally them selves to new political movements. Until 1890, a majority in any political election of 30,000 or 40.000 was regarded as large; a majority of 100,000 as phe nomenal; now a majority of 100,000 votes in such states as New York, Ohio or Illinois, ia looked upon as meagre so meagre as to be indecisive. Voters cut loose from their parties,-not singly, as of old. but in armies. The pendulum that marks political victory and defeat swings through long reaches and with rapidity. There is no longer any clear line of political cleavage. The genera tion we live in is puzzled and in doubt. The cause of all this is that we have moved forward in history. "For the first time in a century the ground looks clear for a new civic movement. From what corner of the horizon it will rise; what banners it will carry; who will captain it, I know not. But it will come. There is no stop to the time piece of civilization; the hand of the clock now points to a new era of political agitation and de bate. "So interesting a prospect breeds HENRY M both the alarmist and the optimist; the former ringing at midnight the fire bell, the latter pressing upon us at noontide his potions for restfulness and sleep. The alarmist tells us that ev erywhere the rich are becoming richer, and the poor poorer; that the great corporations are absorbing, not only the property.but the power of the coun try; that political virtue and personal i L. H. PERKINS, of Lawrence. integrity are retreating before an ad vancing pest of greed; that city coun cils, legislatures, congresses, the courts, in fact all the depositories of power of government are but shambles wherein are sold whatever the seller has to give and the purchaser is able to pay for; in short, that money is king, the government institutions of our country his instruments, and the people at large his slaves. In the visions of these men we are approaching a cata clysm. Indeed, if what they think they see are not what the boys are supposed to see at night, nothing short of a cat aclysm can purify us. "They bid us hold our ears to the ground if we think there is no wide spread muttering of discontent; they start at times and inquire if those sounds against this century's evening sky are not the rumble of the oncom ing chariot of revolution and disor der. "The blind optimist, on the contrary, sees nothing and hears nothing out of the common. Preachers of discontent and agitators for change are, to his no tion, only howlers of calamity, and bode no mischief more alarming than the occasional cries of the coyote here and there through the evening land scape. Wealth, he admits, is concen trating; aggressive captains of indus try are gathering into their own hands the reins of what was hitherto wide spread individual industry; men are flocking into organizations which in turn federating, concentrate their pow ers both of resistance and attack, and the grumbles of discontent may be heard on every hand; but. says he, wait for good times, and these misshapen apparitions will disappear as swamp fogs before the rising sun light. "The wealth of the civilized world, after all, is only the trophy of man's triumph over nature. It measures what, from barbarism to the highest civilization, he has rescued from the forces of his environment. It belongs, not sentimentally merely, but in every day reality to every individual of the race. "Greed, I admit, is common, and dis honesty and corruption crop out here and there in unexpected places. Legis latures have been corrupted; courts purchased, and the powers of the gov ernment, in many instances, misdirect ed along lines of selfishness and in justice; but these instances of degen eracy are and I have measured my words carefully as rare today as in any extended period of Anglo-Saxon history. They stand out more distinct ively and appalling than their predeces sors, because their background is a larger and whiter general public conscience. "We have seen, in our day, some physical manifestations against social order; we heve seen armies of idle men tramping toward the country's capital in quest of incoherent measures of re lief; we have seen colossal factories bar ricaded by their owners, and defended against the assaults of infuriated workmen; we have seen the business of great cities brought to a standstill, and the transportation lines of a conti nent paralyzed; but we never stood face to face with a social upheaval so fuil of menace as that captained by Daniel Shay and his followers. They constitute our type of industrial and moral malcontents, and they have nev er yet been outdone. The symptoms are varied, now of one character and now of another, but the disease is con stant, inherent, and incurable nervous unrest, universal and eternal. It is a cLEAN, of Paola. disease that even prosperity cannot cure. Indeed prosperity frequently breeds unrest. Discontent sits in silks oftener than in rags, and feeds at the table as frequently as upon crumbs. When prosperity comes to men and wo men, it stimulates hopes that the inev itable revolutions of fortune are bound to disappoint. Such disappointment is a graver personal disorder than poverty or starvation; for it is the starvation of hope, and such starvation, universal and long: continued, breeds a hundred fold more discontent than any real star vation of the body. "It is enough to say that in the orbit of our national movement we are ap proaching the most perilous of all so cial and political conditions. The con dition of social introspection; the condi tion of looking within the social struc ture to see how fares each one of us in comparison with his fellow. But the mere fact of popular unrest need not dismay us. It is, indeed, in the last analysis, the genius of human progress. They belong to American manhood. They lie legitimately in the pathway of the republic, and are needful to the test development of our future. I fear no issue, no agitation, no discussion JUDGE P. S. GROSSCUP, Chicago. (Made today by our staff artist from a Fitting at Topcka especially for the State Journal the "only photograph taken of Judge Grosacup since he parted with his beard.) that falls upon Americans sobered by thoughtful patriotism, and cultured in to a capacity to wait. To a people thus tempered every debate is progress; ev ery public storm, howsoever charged with lightning, only a prelude to the clearing up of future skies. Unless ar rested and greatly sobered, it will mark our transition from a people capable of self-government, to .one ruled by alter nating impulses of jealousy and ca price. "The prime quality of good citizenship is. after all, good sense and charity. Neither the ultra radical nor the ultra conservative can help us much. "When these convulsions are over, the nations who survive will bear toward each other a relation never known be fore. "Wars of fire-arms and carnage will ultimately cease. I believe in the eventual federation of mankind; in a time coming when no ship will plow a foreign sea. or touch at a foreign port; when no lines of boundary will be traced by the glint of opposing lines of upturned bayonets; when no cry of wrong, whether it proceed from "the low skies of Siberia, or the azure depths of the south land, will go unheard or unrighted; when tribunals will sit by permanent constitution as they now sit by special treaty, to de termine the controversies of the globe. The increasing power of public opinion as an universal moral force; the spread of the Anglo-Saxon tongue: the co-ordination, through the telegraph, of the L. C. BOYLE, political and financial nerve centers of the world; and the increasing facili ties and disposition of people from ev ery quarter of the globe to intermingle, are the prophesies. "But peace on earth there will never be. That human restlessness, which has, from the beginning of time, found vent on the world's battle-fields, will remain undiminished, to press for ward the destiny of the race. Battles will take place, but their scene will be in the forum instead of the field, and their weapons forged in the armories of intellect and conscience instead of the arsenels of fire and steel. The greatest battles of the race are yet to be met; .but its he roes will be, not the leaders of armies, but the leaders of public opinion; of public opinion disciplined to the sober restraints of a campaign fought out upon the high plains of reason and charity." FAVORS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Judge Foster Says Many Criminals' Lives Are Not Worth Prolonging. Judge C. G. Foster of the federal court favors capital punishment for treason, premeditated murder, criminal assault and train robbery. These ideas were developed before the meeting of the state bar association in an address written by the judge, but owing to his absence in California, read by Attorney fill y,llWwlK if YiliF General Boyle. The judge says: "The man who can deliberately take the life of his fellow man, or by force robs an innocent girl of that which is dearer to her than life is a creature in the similitude of man but at heart a demon and his life is not worth prolong ing. There can be no good purpose served by continuing his existence. The folly of shutting such a man up from his fellows, feeding and clothing him and appointing a man to guard him with a loaded gun to prevent further mischief is not humanity but maudlin sentiment and tends to breed that class of malefactors. Compromising with sin is little less than a crime and indi cates a decadence of the moral senti ment of a community and will event ually undermine the state. So long as folly is not a crime, there will be silly women who will carry flowers and sweetmeats to the wretch who has rav ished a sister or murdered a wife, but thank God; it is not such shallow patep who represent the moral sentiment of the people or to whom is given the task of enforcing the laws." Judge Foster says of the work of the state board of pardons: "A tribunal of pardons should have no place in the economy of civil govern ment among men. Its very existence is a menace to good government and the enforcement of laws. It speedily becomes a tribunal for the nullification of the laws. It becomes a receptacle into which is dumped falsehood, per jury, gossip and chicanery. It begets a system of brokerage and traffic in condoning crime. A board of pardons begets a multitude of unworthy applica tions for executive clemency. It usurps the functions of the courts by a set of men unlearned in the law, bound by no rule of evidence, justice or common sense. And, therein lies the danger to civil government. A tribunal with a $5 a day lawyer at its head sitting to dil ligently inquire into the facts of a case which has passed through the course of a judicial trial, with astute counsel, to contest every point in the case and an intelligent judge and jury to determine law and fact upon a full hearing of all the evidence is such a travesty on jus tice and truth s should bring the blush of shame to a people who tolerate it." Speaking of the judicial methods of Attorney General. trying persons accused of crime, Judge Foster says: "It will be well to suggest a doubt whether a law permitting a party ac cused of crime to be a witness in his own behalf is a step forward or back ward in the law of reform. My long experience on the bench leads me to be lieve it holds out an invitation to the accused to add perjury to his other of fense and he seldom hesitates to accept the invitation. The law maker who is simple enough to believe that the man with the gallows or penitentiary star ing him in the face would scruple to hold up his hand and invent a false hood is too innocent for this wicked world." Judge Foster also suggests that where thieves steal a man's property, instead of working out a fine he should be compelled to work to the extent of the value of the property, on public works, the state indemnifying the loser of the property. MIGHT WILL BE RIGHT. John L Games Represents State Uni versity Law SchooL The state bar association has adopted the custom of permitting the student in the senor class at the state university law school, who prepares the best paper during the year, to appear on the an nual programme of the association meeting. (Continued on Sixth Page. KANSAS NEWS. Arctic Explorer Dyehe Pleased With the Idea Of Taking His Celebrated World's Fair Exhibit TO THE SHOW AT PARIS It Will Cost 310,000 to Make the Display. Other Kansas News of General Interest. Lawrence, Jan. 28. The movement started in Leavenworth last week to raise money to send Professor L. L. Dyehe with his museum to the Paris exposition in 1900 meets with his ap proval, provided that enough money is raised for him to make as large or a larger exhibit than the one he had at the World's Fair. "It would take $10,000;' said Professor Dyehe, "and there is no use going un less I can take the whole museum. Some people made the mistake at Chi cago of putting up little exhibits on the side of the wall which no one would see unless they happened to run into them. I believe in doing things on a big scale and if we are going to advertise Kansas and the university, it ought to be done right. However, the Paris exposition is not a long way off, and $10,000 is a big amount to raise. But I would like to go just the same. If every town show ed the same liberality that Leaven worth shows, Kansas would certainly be well advertised at Paris," ARKANSAS RIVER UUESTION. Queries Addressed to Complaining Farmers in "Western Kansas. Wichita, Jan. 28. Silas Rutledge, C. E. Tupper, H. J. Oldfather, C. F. Hyde and Charles Clasen, who constitute what is termed a "river committee," at Colurch, IS miles above this city on the Arkansas river, and who have in charge the plan of campaign in the proposed action to prevent the diverting of the water of the Arkansas into the irriga tion canals in eastern Colorado, and western Kansas, have issued a circular j letter to farmers residing along the river, and with it the following list of j questions: 1. State when you first noticed a de i crease in the flow of the Arkansas riv i er, and when it became a usual thing lor tne Pea to be dry in summer or fall. 2. What effect has the decrease in the flow of the river had upon your farm and the community? 3. Has the channel been filling up gradually since the flow has begun to decrease, and has there been a growth of willows and grasses over the chan nel, thus filled up? 4. State fully the disadvantages to you and your neighborhood caused by the river bed being dry in the summer and fall. 5. Please offer any suggestions that you may deem proper on this subject. VOICE IK" THE "WILDERNESS. W. C. T. U. Lecturer at Leavenworth Declares Prohibition is Not Dead. Leavenworth, Jan. 28. Mrs. Helen Harford, national organizer of the W. C. T. U., lectured in the Methodist church last evening to a small audience. Mrs. Harford declared that prohibi tion was not dead and the law was bet ter enforced in Kansas than many of the other laws on the statute books of this state. Among" other points that she thought was that the preachers of the gospel were not fighting the liquor traffic with sufficient nerve, and if a divine would speak once a month on the prohibition question, that at the next state conference that minister would be changed to another town. Mrs. Harford also said that there was not a Methodist church in the country that used fermented wine in its communion services now, as the re sult of the appeal of the W. C. T. U. In favor of its discontinuance. HARPER EDITOR SUED. L. P. Burgess Charged With Criminal Libel by Cattlemen. Kingman, Jan. 28. A warrant has been sworn out in the district court of this county charging S. P. Burgess.pub lisher of the Harper Sentinel with criminal libel. The warrant was placed in the hands of Sheriff Davis who left for Harper last evening to make the ar rest. The case grows out of an article which appeared in the Harper Sentinel on January 7th, charging that William Barber and Tom Richards, two well known cattlemen of Harper county had purchased 60 head of steers, tops out of a herd of 300. of Simmons Bros., big stock dealers living near Nashville, this county; that they had paid one dollar a head on them; that when Barber and Richards went to get the cattle several of the best head were missing; that when they asked what had become of them Simmons Bros., insisted that they wprp nil there 1nt n thpv wart xi.-Vion they were purchased; that afterwards, Mr. Richards found 32 head of the steers he had bought in the neighbor hood. The complaint is sworn to by H. F. Simmons. HAVE 3,700 RABBIT TRAPS. How Wellhouse Son Protect Their Various Orchards. Leavenworth, Jan. 28. One of the in cidents of orcharding on a large scale is the constant warfare which it is nec essary to wage on the rabbits that are so likely to work great destruction to young apple trees. This is illustrated by the operations of Wellhouse Son, who are recognized as the apple kings. For their orchard in Osage county they used a carload of lumber in the construction of 1,700 rabbit traps; for their three orchards in Leavenworth county they have 1,600 traps, and in a Miami county orchard, 400 traps. These traps consist of a box 22 inche3 long, made of ordinary six-inch lum ber, one inch thick, closed at one end, and with a wire gate in the other end, which is closed by contact of the rab bit with a trigger after he has entered. About four feet of lumber and four feet of No. 12 galvanized iron wire are consumed in the making of each trap, which costs from 12V to 15 cents. AT THE BICKEEDTKE HOME Support Given It Very Generous by Friends. Ellsworth, Jan. 28. The board of man agers of the Mother Bickerdyke home and hospital is very much pleased with the generous contributions from corps and friends. Enough bedding has been sent to last the hospital for a long time. Several corps have furnished rooms en tire and the Russell county ladies furn ished the reception room elegantly. Suf- ficient money for current expenses has been given. Major Hood of Emporia putting $100 into the treasury. Mrs. Chase, chairman of the board, has just been notified that a carload of coal, given by Messrs. N. E. Wood and W. C. and Chris Beck of Pittsburg, Kan., has been shipped to the home, the Fris co and the Midland roads carrying it at half rates. About 20 applications for admission have been received. Three, besides the matron and supervisor, are now com fortably cared for, three 'are going soofi, and more will follow as soon as the board is assured of a certain income for maintenance. K. OF P. AT CONCORDIA. Programme of the Meeting for the Three Days Interesting. Concordia, Jan. 28. The first conven tion of the Pythian lodges in the Second district was called to order in Castle hall of Lincoln lodge No. 27, Wednesday and the rank of page was conferred up on two applicants. The program for Wednesday evening was an "open meeting." Castle hall had been handsomely decorated, and about six hundred guests had assem bled. Music, vocal and instrumental, and addresses by prominent members of the order, constituted the evening's enter tainment. The convention Thursday effected permanent organization. Grand Chan cellor W. A. S. Bird was chosen as chairman and W. T. Short of Concordia, as secretary. The following committees were ap pointed by the grand chancellor: On Uniform Rank Close, Guger and Wheatiey. Endowment Rank Fry, Sturges and Culver. How to Avoid Suspension WilLey, Simmons and Ambrecombie. How best to Increase Membership Byram, Buckley and Young. Rathbone Sisters Mosely, Misell and Hamilton. On Conferring P. C. Rank at District Conventions Paradis, Baldwin and Branch. Some of the subjects were briefly touched upon, and then the rank of Knight wasconferred uponEsquire Har ry M. Davies, by Lincoln lodge No. 27. At 12:30 p. m. the convention took a recess until 1:30 p. m. the Belleville lodge then conferred the rank of Knight upon Esquire Maddox. The rank of Knight was conferred at night upon Esquire Wilson. Among the high officials of the order present are Brig. Gen. Joe H. Lyon, of the Kansas brigade Uniform Rank, and Colonel Finley Smiley. POSTMASTER AT NORTON Candidates Desire to Hold an Election as Beloit Did. Norton, Jan. 28. Since Judge A. H. Ellis has set the precedent of voting to settle postoffice complications several candidates have suddenly appeared for the office of postmaster of this city, many of them being favorable to an election here for the same purpose. So far the names of Fred Duvall, edi tor and publisher of the Courier, the only Republican paper in the town, Jes se AVright, F. M. Snow, Wilson Adams, J. C. Latham, F. S. Hazelton and Frank Lockard have been brought out. As thepresent postmaster's timedoesn't ex pire until a year hence, and Postmaster Joint is giving good satisfaction, change will hardly be made before 1S99. Poultry Show at Pratt Pratt, Jan. 28. The second annual poultry show opened Wednesday, for a four day exhibit, with John C. Snyder, of Oklahoma, as judge. A large num ber of birds are on exhibition. There Is a large list of premiums, ranging from six months' subscription to lo cal papers to a sweepstake prize con sisting of a horse. Fire at Pratt. Pratt, Jan. 2S. Fire destroyed the confectionery establishment of F. Har lenske, the meat market of W. F. Barnes, and the confectionery store and bakery of W. T. Peel, here yesterday. Harlenske and Peel were partially in sured, but Barnes had no insurance. The origin of the fire is not known. Pensions for Kan sans. Washington, Jan. 28. Pensions have been granted as follows: Increase Zephaniah Roberts, Garden City, $24 to $30. Reissue Samuel A. Taylor, dead, Pratt. $20. Original widows, etc. Phebe Bell, Marvin, $8; minors of John A.Campbell, White Cloud, $12; Mary A. Rose, Neola, $8. FROM KANSAS TOWNS. DOUGLAS. Link Riadon caught the first fish of the season a fine channel cat Monday morning, January 17. It was caught on a trot line, and he had to break the ice to get it out. ATCHISON. There was a serious ac cident on the south Fourth street last night. While a party of young people were coasting a bob sled going at a high rate of speed, it overturned, and almost simultaneously another bob sled collided with it. Ingalls Gale had one of his legs broken, Miss Lillian Frazier was painfully injured about the back, and Mrs. Percy Good was badly bruised. ATCHISON Mayor Donald, E. M. Gannon, F. M. Gannon, F. M. Baker, Fred Logeman and R. B. Drury have gone to Chicago to see if there is any chance for Atchison to secure a pack ing house. WATHENA. This city will soon be surveyed by the state geologist. It is believed that large quantities of coal and gas underlie this section of the country. FORT LEAVENWORTH Forty-two men were vaccinated at the hospital yesterday. BALDWIN The following notice has been received here from Washington: By direction of the president. First Lieutenant James T. Kerr, Seventeenth Infantry, is detailed as professor of military science and tactics at Baker university, Baldwin, Kansas, to take effect March 20, 1898. to relieve First Lieutenant Ernest V. Smith, Fourth Infantry, who will join his company. FLORENCE Several merchants of this city were swindled out of consider able cash yesterday by two smooth rogues. They first worked their game at Helsby's grocery where they bought about a dollar's worth of goods and gave a forged cheek for $12.50, receiving the amount over their purchase in cash. The name of John Bartley, a jeweler, was forged to the check. The same game was played at the Cyclone store and at the hardware store of Hanson Walter, a blind man. The other checks were forged on George Cable and Jos eph Benson, also jewelers. They then left town. ATCHISON Alfred D.Cain died here yesterday. His illness began a year ago, and, although he had been con fined to his home almost constantly since last May, he took an active inter est in public affairs until the early part of the present week.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1898. 5 New Model. h 'A N OPPORTUNITY for Year right to crofit Are you satisfied with the Avenue prices you paid last year and the values you obtained? No? Well, try the New Model way this year you'll be glad you did, a year hence. New Model prices and New Model values are worth the turning over a new leaf. At Actual gf-as. C r z 4r Cloaks, Capes, Feather vU5 L Boas, and ladies' and children's Fur Sets. CltHfi9 Z. Mottled Eiderdown Will II Cloaks, with white Angora Fur trimming, p- ages 2 to 4, tomorrow Brocaded fining silk, a few colors only, tomorrow IOC Crochet and knitting silk, black and colors, tomorrow per spool 5 RfQf Quality table Oil i -Wl. Cloth, tomorrow 2.2. 9-4 unbleached Sheeting, regular 15c goods, tomorrow IIC VE ARE HAVING dreii's Shoes. If you are looting for a Shoe that is well made and of good leather, this is the place to get it. It M ill pay you to take a look at these Shoes. Thirty days' time will see our Shoe Department jammed full of spring goods. We need every inch of space. Winter goods must go. Children's good solid shoes, 5 to 8 483 Misses' and youths' button Shoes, 13 to 2 69o Women's spring heel or heel shes 693 Hen's buff lace Shoes 89 B $1 felt-lined velvet slippers $1.25 tur trimmed felt Ju liettes Si.25 giove gr. foxed felt1 bals $1.25 kid foxed felt bals. fi.25 pebble grain foxed button Great Cut in Prices On Ladies' Shoes. $3.48 fine vici kid Shoes. .$2,48 $2.75 fine kid lace Shoes. 2.25 $2.50 good don. lace Shoes 1.9S 12.48 good don. but. Shoes 1.98 $2.25 cloth top turned Shoes I.75 Men's Overcoats. Hen's Dress Overcoats, strictly all wool, beautifully made and trimmed, perfect fitting, a big value at $10. Saturday's Special price $6.45 Men's fine all wool black Kersey Dress Overcoats, silk velvet collar, French faced, clay worsted lined; very stylish, Saturday's Qrj fr Special price 1 ,iJJ Hen's black color, cotton Socks, fast Saturday's Special price 4c The New Model a HOBOES' PARADISE. Spot in Indiana Kept Always Warm by "Waste Gas Burning. Anderson. Ind.. Jan. 28. "Hoboes' Para dise" is the name of a section of Alex andria which is attracting a great deal of attention at present. It takes in most of the bottoms lying just opposite from the Big Four station, and is kept light night and day by the gas which is wast ing from the oil wells which have been drilled in that section of the town. There are about ten of them, and the amount of gas that is burned from the pipes has an influence on the air, making it as warm and nice as. an inclosed parlor. The ground under these lights is sandv, and has been baked nice and warm for some distance down by the continued warm atmosphere. Tramps have found this out. and at times 30 or 40 of them are In camp tinder the big flaming pipes. Some of them have taken up permanent residence for the winter. TUNNEL 20 MILES LONG. Concession is Asked for a Great En terprise in Mexico. City of Mexico, Jan. 28. The depart ment of encouragement has received a petition asking for a concession for a tunnel twenty miles long in the state of Guanajuato, the object being to drain some valuable mines now flooded. The Work will cost many millions of dollars 7ie CSiothfng S New Model. BARGAIN CHANCES For Saturday's Thrifty I Shoppers. you to beg-in the New by last year's experience. U n d e rwearif"' and Hose tary Vests and Pants, regular 90c grade, tomorrow yv Ladies' regular 25c ribbed, seam less black wool Hose, p- tomorrow I-jC Seamless Hose, regular 25c quality, tomorrow Sea island Er;:;;; ftt medium and dark effects, light shirting styles Tomorrow IOC Another lot of twenty pieces, light styles, regular 10 cent 1 quality Tomorrow y2L Patterns SS, fit- ur McCall Ba zaar Patterns only 10c and 15c. A DR1VI In Ladies' and Chil- Children's rubber Sandals 20c Misses' rubber sandals 20c Ladies' rubber sandals 35c Men's rubber sandals 40c peciai 200 nen's heavy weight cassi mere Pants, medium and dark shades, all sizes, never offered for ess man $2, Saturday's Special price $1.65 A big line of boy's long pant Suits, brown plaids and checks, a j.uu vaiue, Saturday's Special price $2.45 Hen's wool fleece lined Under wear, in drawers nnlir h kind, J JV.. Saturday's Special price 29c Finest all wool derby ribbed Un- ucrwear, me f land $1.25 kind, Saturday's Special price 79c Supply Store. oiAin uiiu iimicj and it is believed by competent engin eers will be entirely practicable and re sult in a large profit to the company conducting the work. APPEAL FOR CUBA. And Incidentally for Money Made by the O. N. G. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 2S. The Ohio National Guard association today asked congress to grant Cubans the same belligerent rights which the pro posed confederate states of America had. They also asked congress for in creased appropriations to the national gxiard of the state. WHALEBACK IN NEW HANDS Steamer Christopher Columbus Pur chased by the Goodrich Company. Milwaukee. Jan. 2S. The purchase of the whaleback Christopher Columbus by the Goodrich Transportation company was reported here today. Captain J. G. Keith is "reported as say ing that the report of the sale is correct and that the Goodrich company had to buy it for self-preservation. "The race was too swift." he is quoted as saying, "and the battle too strong last year, and besides I declined to handle the steamer, in deference to my other interests." POLICEMAN A PREACHER. One of the Best Members of the New York Force In a Pulpit New "Fork, Jan. 28. When Rounds man William Nesbitt nreached at East J Chester on Sunday night it was not the j first time that he had occupied a pulpit, j He was preaching long before he be came a policeman, and he has been on the force sixteen years. He is an old fashioned Methodist of the shouting kind and believes in noise, enthusiasm, experiences, testimony, grace, and mus cular Christianity. He is also regarded as a worthy member of the force and has been particularly successful in ar resting thugs and the worst of crim inals. T-TP at the Wakefield substation to which Nesbitt is attached, one of the comrades said in answer to a question whether Nesbitt was more preacher or policeman: "I don't know what kind of a preacher he is, but he's a darned good policeman." This eloquent trib ute supplements the reports from ec clesiastical quarters, where Nesbitt's services are in great demand. Concerning himself Policeman Nes bitt says: "I'm a policeman preacher, not a preaching policeman. I've earned my promotion by sticking to my busi ness, but I'm a member of another or ganization that I count it a great honor to fight for. I give battle to the devil and his workers when I can, hoping some day to give all my time to it." Policeman Nesbitt has averaged preaching once a Sunday for twenty years. SEN.LINDSAY CALLED BACK Kentucky Democrats Demand His Resignation and Call Him Traitor. Louisville. Jan. 28. A Post special from Frankfort. Ky., says: .v.Aft,$r a hot debate in the lower house of the Kentucky legislature adopted a sub tul? resolution offered hv Representa tive Iselson of Hardin, calling on United btates benator Wni. Lindsay to resign if he cannot support the platform. During the course of the debate such words as 'party traitor," "recreant to his trust'.', and "gold bug" were freely bandied about. Representative Desha, a silver Democrat from Harrison county, openly denounced benator Lindsay as a traitor to his par ty and called upon him to return home and face an outraged constituency. Others who made hot speeches along this line were Representatives Trimble, Nelson, Petty. Orr and Hickman. The resolution was adopted by a viva voce vote, but on motion of Representative Pulliam was re considered in order that the original reso lution introduced by Representative Saun ders of Union some time since, be passed. The Saunders resolution was then taken up and passed by a vote of 55 to 35. Messrs. Orr, Nelson. Lackey, Pulliam, Chilton and Mount making hot speeches denouncing the course of Senator Lind say. Messrs. Bradbury, Cooke, Hobbs, Letterle and Mocquet. all Democrats, vot ed against the resolution, saying that they did so in the interest of harmony. DOG LIVERY STABLE. Alaska Firm Will Have Dogs to Rent for Freighting and Pleasure Sleighing. Chicago, Jan. 2$. James H. Ingram of New York and Thomas Wilson of London are on their way to the Klondike grold fields for the purpose of dealing in dogs. They will buy and sell dogs, and also do a dog- livery business. They expect to take in a large quantity of supplies with the 2X dogs which they have already had shipped to Skaguay. They will arrive in Dawson about April 1. Not only for the purpose of doing a freighting business will the dogs be used, but they will also be rented for pleasure sleighing. Business can only be done in the winter time, but the experimenters hope to be able to get such rates as to enable them to take a vacation in the summer. As the use of dogs is practically the only means of freighting in the country, they feel con hdent that their stock will be kept busy. Another party of twelve fortune hunters arrived from Kalamazoo, Mich., and will depart for the Stuart river tonight. The Wolverines have formed the Kalamazoo Mining and Prospecting" company, which is on the communistic plan. The com pany is well equipped, having in its pos session a sawmill, an engine and boiler, a pump and a small lighting plant. The whole outfit only weighs fifteen tons. From Skaguay they go over the White pass to Lake Bennett, where the sawmill will be set up and a steamboat built. WAR ON THE NUDE IN ART. Ohio Pastor Threatens to Have a Mer chant Arrested. East Liverpool, Jan. 2. Rev. J. S. Rea ger of the Wellsville M. E. church last night preached a sermon against the nude in art. and closed by declaring he would cause the arrest of H. Streets, a promi nent merchant, if objectionable pictures were not removed from his show windows. Streets removed the pictures, but today announced that he had consulted an at torney and the pictures wouid go back again. Rev. Mr. Reager came to Wellsville from Cleveland. He conducted a fight against variety show bill boards two years ago in that city. New Lease On Life. BROKEN IN HEALTH, EMAN CIATEB AND FEEBLE, MAN GIVES UP TOO SOON. In All Kidney Troubles Morrow's Kid neoids Effect a Permanent Cure, Restoring Vigor and Vitality to the Whole Body. Man cannot be well all the time. Like all machines he needs attention regularly. Neglected, he soon becomes a wreck. If there is a desire to keep the human body in proper condition, it should have a thor ough overhauling at regular intervals. No irregular methods will accomplish the de sired result. The human body is peculiar. Every or gan is in sympathy with every other or gan, consequently the injury of one organ acts indirectly upon its neighbors. Blood is the body's nourishment; life it self depending upon its purity. Kidneys make the blood pure; blood disorder indi cating disordered kidneys. The kidneys hold the key to health. Morrow's Kidneoids are the only known remedy that will absolutely restore full function and health to the kidneys. Mor row's Kidneoids were discovered at a time when the world needed them most, as to day kidney diseases are more prevalent than ever before. To facilitate the action of Morrow's Kid neoids, the stomach must first be put in a normal condition. For this purpose Liver lax was prepared by the same eminent chemist to be used in conjunction with Kidneoids. Liverlax is the best laxative to use with Kidneoids, because it is prepared to scientifically blend with the action of Kidneoids and is in direct line with their na ture. If your bowels are not in condition. Liverlax will regulate them, after which Kidneoids take up the work systematical ly and make a radical cure. Ask your dealer for Kidneoids in yellow tablet form and Liverlax in ganules, red in color. If he does not keep them, you can get them of the Herb Medicine Co., Springfield, Ohio. Kidneoids, postpaid, 0 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50. Liver lax, 5 cents a box. DRAPER IS CONVICTED. Murderer of Hastings is Sentenced to Life Imprisonment St. Louis, Jan. 2S. A special to the Post Dispatch from Jacksonville, 111., says that the jury in the case of Chas. L. Draper, on trial for the murder of Chas. L. Hastings, brought in a verdict today, finding him guilty. He w as given a life sentence. A few months previous to the murder, which occurred on March 31, 1S97, the two men were in the employ of Judge Kirby, the abstract man of Jackson ville. Draper lost his position and soon after started in the abstract business for himself. It was supposed that he had, at different times, stolen records from Judge Kirby's office, and a watch was set to catch him. On the night of March 31. Draper was caught by Hast ings in the act of stealing some of the abstract records and the two men fought with knives. The latter was killed. When found next morning Hastings had 172 cuts on his body. Draper was arrested and is said to have made a confession to a minister, but this was later denied. When the case came up for trial Draper's attorneys put forth the plea of insanity. Yester day the case was given to the jury. Today a verdict of e-uiltv was rptumpd j and Draper was immediately sentenced to imprisonment for lite. LEOPOLD BUY$HER. King of the Belgians Pays$400, 000 For the May Flower. New York, Jan. 28. A special to the Herald from Paris says that Leopold, King of the Belgians, has bought the May Flower for $4tX),0CO. Locally the Herald says: The May Flower is now at Erie basin, where she has been laid up since her ar rival at this port from Newport last Sep tember." "'She has been ordered to South ampton as soon as she can be ready for the sea. Messrs. Tames and Lemovne of this city, in whose charge the May Flower was placed when she was sent to Erie basin, have given orders to use all possi' ble haste with the work required. This was at once done, and the yacht will be ready to sail m less than a fortnight. INDIANA MIDWAYS TO STOP Fair Association Will Bar Immoral Shows in the Future. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 2S. The sec retaries of 25 of the leading fair asso ciations in the state met here today and passed resolutions in favor of ev ery fair association within the state ex cluding from fairs all immoral shows. An effort was made to amend the res olutions so as to make it read "or any thing that tends to pollute the morals of the youth," but it failed, secretaries arguing that the original resolution covered the ground. It was explained that the fair asso ciations in the state were never trou bled with such exhibitions until after the World's fair at Chicago. COAL TRUST ENJOINED. California Court Declares a Coal Deal ers' Combine Unlawful. San Francis5o, Jan. 28. In the United States circuit court today Judge Mor row rendered his decision in the case against the coal dealers' association of California, granting a preliminary in junction restraining the corporation from acting in connection with the rules for the maintenance of the price at which coal was to be sold to consumers. The application for the restraining order was made by the government up on the grounds that the association was in opposition to the terms of the anti-trust act of 1890. The court held the constitution and by-laws of the as sociation unlawful. TOO MUCH GOLD. Reserve Reaches $163,000,000 the Highest Point in Seven Years. Washington, Jan. 2S. The gold re serve today reached $163,670,000, the highest point in about seven years. The accumulation is becoming something of a burden and the government is no longer encouraging its deposit. TO EXPLORE COPPER RIVER Government Will Send Out an Expe dition for That Purpose. Washington, Jan. 2S. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn is arranging to send a mili tary expedition up the Copper river route in Alaska to map out the .topography of the country and finally establish the value of this route to the Klondike gold fields. War department reports indicate that this may turn out to be the most feasible of the winter routes, and that is one reason for sending the expedition now. The treasury department has been called upon to transport 25 men who will com pose the expedition, but has reported that it has no available revenue cutter afford ing the necessary accommodations, so the pai-ty probably will be sent north on one of the regular merchant steamers. TO RETURN OUR CALL Tisit of Spanish Warships De manded by Polite Usage. Madrid, Jan. 28. A semi-official note just issued, in relation to the visit of the United States battleship Maine to Cuba says: "This necessitates Cap tain General Blanco sending a battle ship as well as the cruiser Viscaya to visit American ports. The visit will be made the occasion of festivities in honor of the Spanish sailors and the different naval commanders will ex change visits. The forthcoming fes tivities are regarded here, as well as in Washington, as a pacific demonstration calculated to be satisfactory to both countries." MAD KLONDIKE RUSH. Steamer leaves Tacoma With 240 Passengers and 800 Tons of Freight Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 28. Loaded to the guards with 240 passengers and 800 tons of freight, the steamer City of To peka sailed from Tacoma for Juneau and way ports. Honor for Deputy Auditor McCabe. Guthrie, O. T-, Jan. 28. Secretary F. G. Adams of the Kansas State Historical societv has formally notified deputy Ter ritorial Auditor E. P. McCabe of this city that the historical society has elected him to a membership of that body. McCabe is a negro, and will be the only member representing his race in that body. J. H. Gregg, of Dundee. Kan., writes: "My little daughter who has been trou bled with Croup ever since she was three months old, I never found any thing to relieve her until I tried Beggs Cherry Cough Syrup.and that has cured her entirely. I think it is the best Cough Syrup on the market. At druggists. HARTMAN IS BITTER. Montana Representative Has a Fling at Speaker Reed Washington, Jan. 28. The house In committee of the whole yesterday re sumed consideration of the Indian ap propriation bill. Mr. Hartman, (Sil. Rep.) Montana, got the floor on a proforma amendment and for 15 minutes he held the attention of the house in a speech denouncing the Republican party for its position on the financial iiuestion. He ridiculed Secretary Gage's definition of bimetal lism in the latter's speech at Philadel phia on Tuesday. The Republican par ty he said, foreclosed its right to use the term bimetallism when the St. Louis platform was adopted. The whole drift of the purpose and intent of this administration had been avowed and proclaimed by Secretary Gage be fore the banking committee; it was to irrevocably commit the government to tne gold standard. Mr. Hartman said that he knew that many Republicans were opposed to the retirement of the greenbacks. "But," said he, "what will they do about it when the banking and currency com mittee report the bill to retire the greenbacks? If we may judge the Su ture by the past there is little doubt of the result. This is no longer a house of representatives," he cried in stentorian tones. "It is a house of registers it is a house to register the will of those who control it." Mr. Hartman proceeded to give an account of a chapter of history, a "mis erable scene," he denominated it, which occurred in 1894, when the bond bill was before the house. "The bill," he said, "never had the endorsement of a Repub lican platform or a Republican caucus. "I was then," said he, "one of a little band of rebels solemnly pledged to vote against the bill. Just before the vote was taken we counted noses and num bered 72. I rejoiced that the bill was beaten. The cloak rooms were filled with the mutterings of rebellion against the domination of those in con trol. Then suddenly the party whip be gan to crack and I saw the slaves file out of the cloak room one after another and vote for the bill, their consciences condemned. In this house," he contin ued, "we should change the oath. In stead of taking an oath to support, pro tect and defend the constitution of the United States and perform our duties to the best of our ability we should at the opening of each session, swear to sup port, protect and defend the constitu tion provided we can obtain the consent of the leading nations of the earth and to perform our duties if the speaker will permit us to do so. THEY ENVY KANSAS. John J. McCook Says That's the Feeling of Eastern Peeple. Gov. Leedy held a reception for nota ble guests at his office this morning. They were Col. John J. McCook and Mr. Aldace F. Walker, the former San ta Fe receivers, Judge P. S. Grosscup of Chicago and Mr. E D. Kenna, general solicitor of the Santa Fe. The govern or and his guests chatted on different subjects for half an hour, the principal one being the prosperity in Kansas. Mr. Walker started the ball rolling by saying that the Kansas farmer was just now a contented man. Governor Leedy remarked that: "I guess we did as well last year as the most of them," and Col. McCook here took it up and proceeded to tell the Kansas executive that Kansas had done far better than the "most of them."- "I remember the time when eastern people made a prac tice of ridiculing Kansas," said Col. McCook, "but now they sit back and envy her." FATAL TERRITORY FIGHT. Two Government Officials Killed While Attempting to Arrest Whisky Peddlers. Fort Smith, Ark.. Jan. 28. Passengers from Indian Territory today bring word of the fatal shooting of two government of ficials and the wounding of a third. At Inola, I. T., this morning United States Marshal Gabe Beck, while attempt ing to arrest Bill Miller and Joe Phelps, whisky peddlers, was shot and wounded in the shoulder by the latter, who then sought refuge in a house. Deputies Hess and Bussey then attempted to dislodge them. The peddlers opened lire from a window and both officers fell to the ground. The battle was witnessed by the passengers of a train that stood in the depot, and they brought the report to this city that both officers were killed. SKATING CARNIVAL. National Skating Contest at Pough keepsie Will Have Good Ice. New Tork, Jan. 28. The ice at Spring Lake, Poughkeepsie, is in perfect con dition for the national championship events, which will take place there to morrow afternoon and on Monday and Tuesday. A number of the crack skat ers are already at the lake. J. K. McCulloch, of Winnipeg, who in 1896, won the quarter mile, five mile and ten mile races in succession, in fast time, has arrived in New Tork and has entered for all the championship races. nA uncertain quantity is Bellefeuille, of Rat Portage, who has, it is said, de feated McCulloch. The contest between these two will, therefore, be watched with interest. for a"honey exhibit. Finney County to Make a Showing at the Omaha Exposition. Garden City, Jan. 28. E. S. Tucker, representing the Omaha exposition, af ter interviewing the leading citizens on the subject of having Finney county represented in the Kansas exhibit, finds all in favor of the movement, and a committee composed of H. F. Mason, E. J. Tyle. D. R. Menke. E. M. Hatcher, M. F. Griggs, H. V. Lawrence, R. P. Hoover and I. L. Deisem has been se lected to work for the county's inter ests. A honey exhibit, under charge of A. D. Bennett, the most extensive pro ducer of honey in the state, has been proposed. No finer honey is produced anywhere than from the alfalfa fields of Finney county. A Jointist Pardoned. Governor Leedy this morning pardon ed George Pack, a jointist of Olathe, from the Johnson county jail. Pack was convicted of selling liquor last Oc tober, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a fine of $100. He served his time in jail, but being unable to pay the fine at the end of 30 days, he continued to stav there. He has been in Jail since October 2. Governor Leedy con cluded that he had received sufficient punishment for the offense. Messrs. Wood,- Keller and Mack and their company pleased a fair audience at the Crawford theater last night with their piece "Town Topics." The per formance was made more pleasing from the fact that the majority of the "stuff" introduced by the three comedians was original. Several good specialties were introduced by different members of the company. These Remarkable CLEARING SALE PRICES I; Will make you and your jl Money part company I At "The Palace" Tomorrow, II j Winter Goods Must Qo H Profit, Cost or Loss No Object! INVESTIGATE THESE SPECIAL OFFERS FOR TOMORROW. We offer you choice of Men's Winter Suits or Overcoats that formerly were $6.00 and $6, 50 Great values these. We give you the most re markable values yet known All those Fine Kersey Over coats that we advertised such great bargains at SO. CO and worth it go at Six Sixty. $435 jo none reserved not even auu xrousers. Tomorrow Special Night Robes, 75c, goods. Boy's Clothing. Manhattan 70c, $1 Knee Pants Tomorrow Shirts. 45C $2.50 Childs' Eee- tf All Fancy fers Tomorrow 1 ron Shir;s sold $1.50 55 All Wool Knit Iron Knee Tomorrow Pant Suits Tomorrow 1 Your Choice 709 KANSAS AVE. ROTTEN "REPUBLICS." Incapacity for Self Government in Central America Again Apparent. 'New York, Jan. 28. A special to the Herald from Managua, Nicaragua, says that advices just received in that city from San Salvador state that a revolu tion in Salvador is imminent. So far as can be learned the cause of the discon tent which threatens to break forth in open rebellion is the serious financial and political condition in Salvador.com bined with the alleged gross misrule of the government. In addition to these conditions the relations of Guatemala and Salvador are considerably strained now, and this adds to the excitement in Salvador. Four large banks in Salvador have failed. The only prominent bank there now, which is safe, is the Bank of Lon don. GOULD-LEITER SYNDICATE Fails to Get tne Canadian Railroad Contract Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 28. H. M. Kersey of New York, who organized a company which includes L. Z. Leiter of Chicago; George Gould, J. W. Mackay, and other American capitalists, made a strong ef fort to get the contract for the building of the All-Canadian route to the Yukon. Kersey was in the city for several days endeavoring to secure the contract and has gone away greatly disappointed. MacKenzie and Mann of Toronto. who secured the contract, will receive from the Dominion government 25,000 acres of land per mile in the district of the sixtieth parallel of latitude and west of the MacKenzie and Laird rivers. In addition to this land grant from the Do minion government the contractors will receive 5,000 acres a mile from the Brit ish Columbia government. When the railway is built the time between Vancouver and Dawson City will be reduced to seven days. There will be a sea trip of six hundred miles, taking nearly two days; a river trip up the Stikeen of one and a half days, then 150 miles by rail to Teslin lake, and the remainder of the time will be occupied in crossing the lake into the Yukon and down to Dawson. EDUCATE MOUNTAINEERS. University to Be Established in the Cumberland Mountains. Chicago, Jan. 28. The board of direct ors of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial universitv held a business meeting at the Palmer House today. Permanent officers and directors were elected, but their names are withheld for the present. The body is composed of men, princi pally from Chicago, who intend to build in the Cumberland gap in East Tennes see a university with all the improve ments of the modern institutions of learn ing of the large cities of the north, to ed ucate the youth of the mountain districts of that part of the country. The university is to stand as a monu ment to Abraham Lincoln, and at present General O. O. Howard is at the head of the movement. Although the university is to be undenominational, it will be es tablished under the auspices of the Pres byterian church. The board has already obtained posses sion of the buildings set up in the gap at the time of its boom as a summer resort a few years ago. These include a large hotel, "The Four Seasons." and a sani tarium, both of which will be used for dormitories. The property, which was acquired for $13,000, is said to be worth SlOO.OfW. Two colleges in the neighborhood are to be taken in under the charter. Wash ington college and Tusculum college. The university will be for both men and women. nc 1 1 it 111 T, af I! $3.65 You cannot fail to buy one of these elegant Suits or Overcoats, J gems of the Tailor's Art. hand- j somely made and lined, S12.M i J values Tomorrow at only S8.65. AT We again give you chaice of Very Best Suits, (black Worsted excepted.) Very Best Ulsters, Very Best Overcoats, that sold from $15 to $25 Enough said only $12.50 Buy uv a nair of our Mftn's $1.15 Hairline Wool C'asslmere rants worth double the price. Tomorrow Men's fancy 85c and $1.00 Your Choice 42c Special Hat Sale. Bosom Manhat- 27 dozen Men's Brown and at $2, $1.75, 1 Black Fedora Uats silk 1 trimmed $2 Kinds. at 95c Ior:3)l.oo AUERBACH GUETTEL. HULIT DENIES A RUMOR. Says Mexican Government Will Not Oppose Immigration of Choc taws and Chickasaws. Antlers, I. T., Jan. 28. Mr. A. B. fin lit of Topeka, Kan., the agent for the Mexican Land company, who is work ing to locate a colony of Choctaw In dians in Mexico, is in the city. When asked about the report that the Mexi can government had declined to allow the Choctaws to establish a colony in Mexico, he most emphatically denied the report and said that he had permis sion from the president and congress of the republic of Mexico to locate a colo ny of Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in the republic and that they would be allowed to make and enforce 4ieir own laws. He said the prospects for the consum mation of a deal are brighter than tney were before he took the delegation of Choctaws down there in December. This delegation has made a very favor able report and advised the Choctaws to dispose of their land here and go to Mexico. WHISKEY MEN WANT TOOL. Kentucky Distillers Make Renewed Efforts to Get Together. Louisville, Jan. 28. Today a commit tee composed of the most representa tive distillers and business men of the state sent out a circular letter to a'l distillers of the state asking them to come into a mammoth stock company or pool to be incorporated under the state laws. The committee will be giv en the privilege of fixing the valuation upon the distilleries that come into the combine, JSyeryboc- Says So. Cascarets Cmnd(y Cathartic, the most won derful nicdicaliiscovery of the age, pleas aut and refreshing to tho taste, act. gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 25, 50 cents. Sold An 1 guaranteed to cure by all druugists. Pure Buckwheat Flour at J. H. Hel ler's, 2! 7 Kansas avenue. Not how cheap but how good Is ths way we try to to our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th. The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. 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6 TOPEKA STATE JOTJENAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1898. EW MODEL. and Relishes of every -trices. Give your pocket-book trading at the Model. We Granulated Sugar, 19 lbs S1.0 Extra C- Sugar, 20 lb l!oO Pure Maple Sugar, 1 lb IO Buckwheat Flour, 11 lbs 35 Soap, 15 bars 35 Bulk Oatmeal, 12 lbs j5 AH Package Coffee IQ Good Rio Coffee, 1 lb J5 Oatmeal, 1 package 5 Pettljohn's Breakfast Food, 1 package jg Wheatling, package JQ Grain-o, 1 package rt Pancake Flour.any kind, 3 pkgs 25 Sweet Corn, 2 cans 5 Best Tomatoes, 3 cans 25 Early June Peas, can 5 Baked Beans, 1 can 5 Catsup, 1 gal. (In bulk) 35 Mince Meat, 4 lbs 25 Pearl Barley, 7 lbs 25 Good Rice, 5 lbs 25 Corn Starch, 6 packages 25 Mackerel, 1 kit 45 THE NEW MODEL Xlempsr Pastons. STATE BAR. Continued from Fourth Page.) John I. Games, a foot ball player and athlete, who has represented Kansas educational institutions in the state or atorial contests, on the gridiron, dia mond, in the rushes and in church choirs, had the "prize" piece this year and he delivered it before the associa tion. The subject was, "The Eleventh Amendment," an addition to the consti tution of the United States, which pro vides: "The judicial power of the Uni ted States shall not be construed to ex tend to any suit in law or equity com menced or prosecuted against one of the citizens of the United States by citi zens'of another state or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state." At the outset Mr. Games suggests "that were the conditions among men perfect, there would be no need of law, but we should err in affirming that there were no law. For, though it be silent always, because never trans gressed, it would still exist in absolute perfection. The human mind has sought in all ages to write the basic rules of right in statutes and constitutions. To give force to them in the conduct of life Is the ultimatum of civilization; the measure of mankind." Mr. Games is not in full accord with the doctrines of the eleventh amend ment. He believes if the state can make obligations, it should be held re sponsible for them. He said: "Honesty demands good faith on the part of the state in all her dealings with men, but it doth not lie in the mouth of the courts to command it. If hard bargains are made with the state, those who make them must abide the consequences and trust to the clemency of their state for relief. Might must forever rule the world, but the might iest of all is mercy, for it doth sit above the sceptered sway of kings and be comes a monarch better than his crown. It does for man yet more than justice can, for justice hath a heart of stone and in her remorseless scales she weigh3 not weakness, ignorance, nor human inperfections; irom her blinded eyes tears never fall and in her deafen ed ears the sobs of human voices never sound, but the mercy of men and of etates teaches us all that diviner grace ct charity, we trust, will one day make andruff IS anaerous When dandruff appears it is usu ally regarded as an annoyance. It should be regarded as a disease. Its presence indicates an unhealthy con dition of the scalp, which, if neg lected, leads to baldness. Dandruff should be cured at once. The most effective means for the cure is found in AVER'S HAIR VIGOR. It promotes the growth of the hair, re stores it mhen gray or faded to its original color, and keeps the scalp clean and healthy. "For more than cight Tears I was greatly trouoled with dandruff, and though a young SUU1, my hair was fast turning grav and fall- inKouc. tsaianess seemed inevitable until I began to 1 1 cor mi W The dandruff has been entirely removed and my hair Is new soft, smooth and glossy and fast regaining-its original color." L. T. VALLE, Allenton, Mo. Q ii s NEW MODEL. Your Sunday Dinner "Will give you the more sat isfaction for the knowledge that it was economically pur chased. In addition to the "necessaries," we have a fine line of imported Olives, Sau ces, Salad Dressings. Pickles kind and all at New Model a surprise this year by won't be undersold. Table Peaches, 1 can Table Pears, 1 can Table Apricots, 1 can Warren's Ai Salmon, 1 can Good Salmon, 3 cans Large California Prunes, 7 lbs Good Raisins, 6 lbs Evaporated Apricots, 3 lbs.... Evaporated Raspberries, 3 lbs Dried Grapes, 4 lbs K. and P. Baking Powder, 25 oz. can Buttermilk Soap, 1 box Catsup. 3 bottles Royal Salad Dressing, 1 bottle Cbow-Chow, 1 bottle Tar Soap, (10c size), 5 bars.... 1 X L Soap, ii bars Clairette Soap, lobars Silk Soap, 10 bars Mustard Sardines, 3 cans Cocoanut, 1 package Cracked Homily, 12 lbs Pineapple, 2 cans....- 10 10 10 10 25 25 25 25 35 25 15 8 25 25 10 25 25 25 25 IO 5 25 25 SUPPLY STORE. Sisth Quincy. this world-wide rule of might the rule of right." THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION". L. H. Perkins Talks on a Subject He Thoroughly Understands. The address of L. H. Perkins of Law rence, as published in full below, was one of the most scholarly of the produc tions presented to the State Bar asso ciation. Mr. Perkins is an able attor ney, with a big practice along financial lines and in connection with real estate loans. He has made a special study of English constitutions and spent three years as a resident of London and stu dent of English law. He said: A Study in the English Constitution. It was a wise saying of a great teach er of philosophy in my college days, who, when we complained that we could not understand Carlyle, in his great prose poem, was wont to say: "Young men, do you know the French Revolu tion? If not, how do you hope to un derstand Carlyle?" No man who is not a student of his tory will ever understand the spirit of a constitution. No man who conceives that history is the story of kings and ministers and intrigues and conquests in war and peace, or even the rise and fall of em pires, will ever understand the spirit of a constitution. He who would interpret a constitution must first know history and then be come imbued with the philosophy of history. The roots of the present are buried so deeply in the past that to comprehend the fruit one must know the food it fed on. We are joint heirs of all that has been. It and we compose The Now. What a marvelous inheritance is the accumulated wisdom of the ages! And what great luck not to have been born too soon! I had rather live in Lawrence under a Pop administration than to have been cast out of the Garden of Eden with Adam: or to have gone down into Per sia with Alexander; or to have been burned at the stake between Latimer and Ridley. Facts, events, the things that came to pass are the warp, causation in the woof of history. Constitutions are the residuum of ex perience. They should represent the combined wisdom of all the people past and present. They flow from the peo ple to the people. They are the aggre gate voice of the people. In the main, the old saw, "Vox Pop uli Vox Dei" will be true; with certain notable exceptions as "Vox Populist! Vox Diaboli." We are so prone to think of a Consti tution as a sacred writing, numerously sign, formally adopted, fixed in form, firm in foundation and unchangeable as the everlasting hills, that we are at first lost when we approach the English constitution. We have grown used to the unwrit ten common law, but an unwritten con- stitution presents obstacles, numerous, weighty, well-nigh insurmountable to a foreigner. How shall we come at it? Where shall we find it? How shall we recog nize it? What manner of thing is this gradual growth of fourteen hundred years, which men call the English con stitution? 1 As there were men before there were manners, so there were manners before there were human laws. Constitution is the name of the ulti mate or fundamental law to which all other laws must conform. Hence the roots of the constitution of a primitive people must be sought in the primitive manners and customs of that people. Old England is not the fatherland of Englishmen. The ancient Briton, sav age or Romanized, concerns us little in the study of the English constitution. As the Indian retreated before the Pilgrim Fathers, so did the ancient Briton give over his birth-right to the conqueror, and Angleland became his henceforth no more forever. One of the most remarkable migra tions in history was the movement of the Angles from the peninsula of Schleswig, where authentic history first finds them.tothe island of Britain. They moved with their wives and children, their tangible belongings, and their household gods, their manners, their customs and their laws, and left a des ert behind them. Standing on the cliffs at Ramsgate, the eastern-most extremity of England, looking over the German ocean toward the rising sun, we may, in fancy. see the coming of Hengist and Horsa and their landing at Ebbsfieet. and witness the dawn of English history in merry Eng land in the year of grace 449. This is holy ground which first felt the thrill of the tread of Englishmen. Pirates and roving adventurers! do you say? Heathen worshipers of Woden and Thor! Subverters of Christianity and a higher civilization than their own! Merciless butchers, who devasta ted the land with fire and sword and refused all quarter to the race they dispossessed! Yes. all this and more. In their conquest of extermination our fierce forefathers swept away the language, the literature, religion, cus toms and laws of Birton and Roman and transplanted in that plundered soil their own. But from the ashes of this ruin sprang a nobler type of manhood than that which rjerished In the name. Following the Angles came their kin dred the foaxons, from the same Ger man shore, with Cerdic at their head who gave to the new Anglo-Saxon Eng land its first dynasty of kings. And so it will be in the manners and customs of the primitive Angles and Saxons that we shall find the first rud iments of the English constitution. On an occasion such as this when the greatest of all the graces is brevity, you would beg to give me leave to print if I presumed even to open up so charming a theme as the early manners and customs, religion and laws of the primitive Angles and Saxons in their Fatherland, and in Old England before the Norman Conquest. It must content me for the most part to refer vou to the Angli dwelling upon the" Lower Elb as Tacitus describes them 18 hundred years ago, and the Saxons in Holstein as found by Ptolemy A. D. 120, and to the Salic Law; the Lex Angliorum and the Lex Saxonum. The ancient Angles and Saxons had no kings, and it is curious that king ship among them was the product of conquest on British soil. Caesar describes the German tribes as having no central magistracy but a common council for each tribe. Tacitus says in the Germania that a few of the "tribes were monarchical, but most of them had no kings. They f.yioe their lenders and maintained a civitas or state, the general assembly of which was a gathering or the nostes, open to all the freemen of the tribe. There were classes, nobiles.ingenui, 11 berti and servi, and ranks among the nobles, principes, duces and sacerdotes. In the century and a half from Cae sar to Tacitus we seem to see the end of nomadic life, and the beginnings of vested individual property in land. The several Germanic tribes were bound together by kinship, similarity of race, tongue, religion and manners, which were preserved and propagated by imitation not by authority. From what we know of the progress of barbarous races it is easy to believe that during the two centuries after Tacitus when we practically lose sight of the Angles and Saxons their pro gress in civilization was slow. Such as it was, they brought their civilization with them, in the fifth cen tury, to Britain. There were then the nobles, the freemen and the slaves. Their simplest political division, the vicus, was the township, which is the modern English parish. The pagus or hundred was presided over by the bishop or eorl. There were traces of the Mark sys tem. There was always the right of election of all chiefs and leaders. There was the Frank Pledge, and the enforced dependence of every man on some great noble, whereby the ceorl became the eorl's man, and, though a freeman practically bound to the soil. The new conditions brought great changes. New strifes brought new em ergencies. The step from ealderman to king would follow easily after some great victory. It was a habit of the kings of old time to farcy they were descended from the gods; hence we presently find the house of Cerdic the lineal descendants of Woden. A heptarchy of petty princes is not a state, but when they become merged into one united kingdom there comes the consciousness of individual nation ality, and their manners and customs are the fundamental law of the land, and when recognized as such, they are the constitution, without any writing or signing or enactment and even without any legislature. The great council or general assembly of the wise men, called the Witenage mote, was the fountain of all power. It made the unmade kings. It was the court of last resort. It made the laws. It levied the taxes. It freely counseled the king in peace and war. It consisted of the great landed nobility, the arch bishops, bishops, abbots, priors and knights; but the commons had no voice in the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemote. It was pre-eminently a government of the aristocracy to which the great men of the realm were summoned by the king, and attended in person, in their own behalf. Not until two hundred years after the Norman Conquest, is there anything approaching representation. The story of the Norman Conquest, with all its lessons and modifications of existing institutions is one of the rich est mines in the history of civilization. It is not worth while to encumber ones head with many dates, but a few 1 are worth remembering. Among them is 1066. With the fall of the Saxon monarchy came the powerful personality of the Conqueror; and the Normans, with their pride, their arrogance, their contempt for the Saxons and for all laborers and craftsmen; but also with their courage, their intellectual and physical vigor, their statecraft, and their broader civ ilization. There was no such difference between Norman and Saxon as between Saxon and Briton. They were from kin dred stock, and above all they had adopted a common religion. Five hun dred years before the Conqueror, St. Augustine had landed at Ebbsfleet on the very spot where, a century and a half before, Hengist and Horsa first set foot. This little village in the Isle of Thanet should be held more in honor than any spot in England, for it wel comed the race to its new fatherland, from whence it has replenished the earth: and it welcomed the standard of the Savior of mankind. The assimilation of the races was slow, but it saxonized the Norman, in stead of normanizing the Saxon. The modification was great but the result was immense growth in individ ual and national character. The great est modification of Saxton institutions was the complete adoption of the Feu dal system. Before the Conquest feudalism had taken hold in England but it had never rested with so heavy a burden as on the Continent. There was every reason why William should desire the most rigorous estab lishment of the system in England. His whole life and training were imbued with It. No one knew better its cen- cr3 asy to Take asy to Operate Are features peculiar to Hood's Pills. Small in size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one man said You never know you have taken a pill till it is all over." 'J5c. C. I. Hood Co., Proprietors. Lowell, Mass. The only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. trallzing power. He knew the greed of his barons and how to satisfy it. Feudalism permeated all ranks, first binding the barons to -the king, then binding their dependents- to the barons, but it rested heaviest on the common people. The villeins or serfs were In abject slavery and their only friend was the common law, which, with many beneficient provisions slowly ameliora ted their condition, and finally wrought their emancipation. We have, then, at this period of the evolution of Anglo-Saxon institutions, the powerful influence of Norman feu dalism, a highly centralized monachy, looking hard towards absolute despot ism; with vast wealth and untold pat ronage in the crown; and the residue of power vested in a baronage largely cre ated by the crown; but the people were servants or slaves, and did well to keep a whole skin, without meddling in af fairs of state. Such vast powers has at times been wise ly used by a great king.but it is not trans missible. His descendants will abuse it and become tyrants. England escaped from bondage through the weakness of her kings. English liberties fattened on the foibles of the unworthy descendants of the Conqueror. While Richard of the Lion Heart was listing a phantasmagoria in the Holy Land, the shackles were fall ing from the great commonalty of Eng land, and the barons were learning less obsequious subservience to the crown, and more consideration for their de pendents who were their strength in arms in a conflict with the king. John was a special dispensation of providence, and the weakest and wick edest of kings became the mightiest in strument for the upbuilding of English constitutional liberty. On a balmy day in the month of June, 1891, a pair of travelers on pleas ure bent, might have been seen board ing a London and Southwestern rail way train at Clapham Junction and alighting at the picturesque old town of Staines, about five miles from Windsor Castle, and near the eastern boundary of the Windsor Great Park Across the Thames to the northwest ward and on the south side of the river lies an open grassy meadow, stretching some two miles along the river. There is not on earth a more peaceful bit of pastoral landscape, nor one so big with the story of English liberties. This is the plain of Runnymede. Here on one other day in June, six centuries gone by, the barons of Eng land extorted from their baffled tyrant the Great Charter of liberties, which is now our common heritage. The travelers look in vain for some memento, some lettered monument, some cairn or stone to mark the birth place and the shrine of English liber ties. Across the Thames Is Ankerwycke, where stands the hoary yew tree, now more than 30 feet in girth, where fat old Harry VIII. first danced upon the green, then wooed and won fair Ann Boleyn. Midway in the islet where John's de termined barons made their stand after the final parley in the plain of Runny mede, and where the tyrant met his masters face to face, and where was signed and sealed the greatest writing since that which Moses fetched down from Mount Sinai. A building, said to have been built to commemorate the great event, still stands on Magna Charta island, and the table on which the charter was signed, is still preserved. If we were politicians, instead of law yers, I should, per force, be intensely American, and hold up all things Eng lish to ridicule, and try to assist the American eagle to unjoint the tail of the British lion. But on your undertaking not to be tray me at the hustings, and in this intellectual privacy, and among men who recognize that the fountains of our jurisprudence lie deep down in the English common law, I may venture to touch up the other side of the British aristocracy, and remind you that to the barons of England, whose lineal de scendants now compose of the house of peers, we are indebted for Magna Char ta, and all the blessings of liberty that have flowed from it as from a mighty river, swelling ever as it flows, glad dening the hearts of men for six hun dred years gone by, and bearing its pledges for the future into all lands where the English tongue is spoken. So, if, as Mr. Gladstone says, we have to day, "A sneaking kindness for a lord," it is founded in gratitude for that which the down trodden commons could not have achieved without the aid of the powerful barons of England. Magna Charta was not the first char ter of rights granted by English kings. but it was the first, which, to use a modern figure in constitutional con struction, was self-executory. William granted a charter in 1071, but it was empty promises with no power outside of the throne to enforce it. Henry I. granted a charter and Steph en two of them, and Henry II. another, but, like that of the conqueror, they had none of the elements of contract; there was no remedy for their viola tion. Guizot in his history of representa tive government, luminously observes: "Liberties are nothing until they have become rights, formally recognized and consecrated. Rights even when recog nized are nothing so long as they are not maintained by forces independent of them, in the limit of their rights. Convert liberties into rights, surround rights by guaranties, intrust the keep ing of these guaranties to forces capa ble of maintaining them, such are the successive steps in the progress towards a free government. This progress was exactly realized In England. Liberties first converted themselves into rights; when rights were nearly recognized, guaranties were placed in the hands of regular powers. In this way a representative system of government was formed." The charters of William and Henry I. and Stephen and Henry II. were vio lated with impunity, but the barons formulated a plan whereby if the rights guaranteed by the greate charter were violated, they might lawfully levy war upon the king and seize his castles and lands until their grievances were re dressed. The charter provided that they should select 25 of their own number who were clothed with joint powers of a vigilance committee to determine when the abuses existed and umpires to decide when they were corrected. They could not appeal to national sentiment or to the public conscience and obtain relief, so they reserved the right to appeal to arms; and to insure the support of the commons, if for no higher motive, they conceded to their vassals the same immunities they ex torted for themselves. The immortal 39th article makes no distinction of persons: "No freeman shall be taken or im prisoned or be disseized of his freehold or liberties or free customs, or be out lawed or exiled or any otherwise de stroyed; nor will we pass upon him nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." And the 40th article is worthy of the decalogue: "We will sell to no man, we will not delay or defer to any man either right or justice." The great charter as signed June 19, 1215, contained 63 articles, but most of them related to the exigencies of that time and are of no special value now except to the student of constitutional history. In this age of the absolute supremacy and preponderance of the law, when we are ruled by the law alone, and as Pro fessor Dicey well says: "A man may be punished for a breach of law, but he can be punished for nothing else," it is hard to imagine a resort tocivil war to redress grievances; but it was an effectual guarantee adapted to that rude civilization. We cannot stop here to consider the revocations, re-enactments, modifica tions and confirmations of the great charter; neither can we take up in de tail the circumstances that produced the petition of right or the bill of rights, but these three, to borrow an apt phrase from Lord Chatham, may be called "The Bible of the English Consti tution." The simile Is apposite because they are the principal written parts of the constitution. The general fabric of the constitution resembles in its expansiveness the com mon law. In its cardinal principles the English constitution requires a government by an hereditary, limited monarchy, and a representative parliament, summoned of the whole realm, consisting of the peers and the elective representatives of the commons. The king in parliament, consisting of the lords, spiritual and temporal, and the commons, comprise the government and the fountain of all power. Without the sanction of parliament, no law can be made or changed and no tax imposed. The first recognition of the lords and commons, was the great assembly at Salisbury in 1070, where all the land owners of England became the men of the conqueror. The rights of the hereditary peers are founded in the right there conceded to be summoned to every great assembly, and participate in the councils of state. But the birth of the house of commons was 200 years later when the rebel Earl I Simon de Montfort overthrew his I brother-in-law, Henry III., and sum I moned an assembly which met in Lon don, Jan. 30th, 1265. This assembly 1 formed the basis for the modern Eng lish parliament. In the reign of the Third Edward par liament began to assume its present form and constitution, and about the year 1377 we find the first mention of the speaker of the house of commons. It was then in fact what it is now on ly in name, the lower house. But the power of the Commons grew apace. Their right to grant taxes eas ily grew into the right to initiate all money bills and supplies, and a stop page of supplies became the most pow erful engine for the redress of griev ances. In natural sequence of their right to participate in all legislation, came the right of liberty of speech and immuni ty from arrest. Then followed the re cognition of their right of impeachment of all great officers and ministers of the crown. This marks an epoch in the development of the English constitu tion. The impeachment of the royal favor ite, Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in 1386, was a great victory over Rich ard II. It was a mighty acquisition of power, and a precedent which was freely followed then, but rarely exercis ed in modern times. The exclusive power of impeachment resides in the commons, the power to try impeachments in the house of lords. This is the highest criminal judicature under the English constitution. For the student of political philoso phy there is no more profitable study than the growth and development of ai T7 1J..V. rn H n mtnt dlirinSf t Vl last Llltf JligUSU iJdi iimi.v... 0 500 years. I Formerly it was the province of par liament to petitionthe king, but now that parliament is the real sovereign and all moving power for the public weal flows from the "king in parlia ment," all petitions are addressed to parliament. The term, "the king in parliament, implies that the reigning monarch is one of the component parts of parlia ment, in its broadest acceptation, and is necessary to complete the sovereign governing -power of the realm. As at present constituted, parliament is divided into two houses, the lords and the commons. They are housed in the imposing new palace of Westminster, with its front age of nearly 1,000 feet upon the Thames; built in the late Gothic or perpendicular style, at a cost of more than 15 million dollars, said to contain 1,100 apartments, and altogether bewil dering in Its magnificence. The upper house, so-called, consists of the peers, who sit by hereditary right or by creation by the sovereign, or by virtue of office, as the English bishops, or by election for life, as the Irish peers, or by election for each parliament as the Scotch peers. They number about 530. They rep resent the landed aristocracy. They are possessed of vast inherited wealth which most of them do not increase by use. Among the hereditary peers are many of the most ordinary intelligence, who, if stripped of their rank and wealth, would be nowhere in the survival of the fittest- i They have always possessed and will always possess a few of the greatest scholars, the brightest lawyers, the wisest judges and the broadest and safest statesmen of the nation. They excel in conservatism. They are not, as a body, eager politicians. They are, as a body, inclined to be apa thetic. No hereditary chamber can be of a high average ability. The eldest son, however stupid, inherits the peerage. The youngest son of the same family may become the leader of the house of commons. The one will continue to be an ass by divine right. The other a marked man among men, by his own merit. Nevertheless, let no man, who does not know, condemn the house of lords. Its conservatism is the best balance wheel in the English constitution. It is a house of revision, not of veto. In anvstruggle with thecommons where the latter are backed by public senti ment, the lords must finally yield. It has no such deadlock power as our senate. If the country demands a measure and the commons pass it and send it up, the lords may send it back once, twice, thrice: meantime public sentiment crystalizes; the first white heat cools oft; a few months of discus sion clears the atmosphere. But if the people still demand it, the lords must bend to the constitution and the will of the people prevails. Let no man be too fast to say that this is worse than our own scheme of legislation. It works well. If is none the worse because it is not new. The lower house, so-called, consists of the knights of the shire, or represen tatives of counties; citizens, or repre sentatives of cities; and burgesses, or representatives of burroughs. They number 675. No English or Scottish peer can be a member of the house of commons. Neither can a clergyman of the Church of England nor a minister of the Church of Scotland, nor a Catholic priest. Certain government officials are al so excluded, but with few exceptions any male subject of her majesty, resi dent in Great Britain and 1 years old, may "stand" for parliament. If the Lords maintain the dignity of the nation, the Commons do the busi ness. Alomentous duties, besides legislation, devolve in the House of Commons. It elects the Prime Minister, who is for all intents and purposes the President of the nation. There is no officer in our government, except the President, who approaches the English Premier in pow er. He has no tenure of office except the conffidence, which means the will, of the house of commons. The prime minister selects the cabi net, which stands and falls with him. The cabinet consists of: The first lord of the treasury, who is generally prime minister. The lord high chancellor. The president of the council. The chancellor of the exchequer. The secretary of the state for the home department. The secretary of state for war. The secretary of state for foreign af fairs. The secretary of state for the colonies. The secretary of state for India. The first lord of the admiralty. The lord chancellor of Ireland. The chief secretary of the lord lieu tenant of Ireland. The chancellor of the duchy of Lan caster. The president of the board of trade. The lord privy seal, The president of the local government board. The president of the board of agricul ture. Seventeen in all and through them the prime minister dispenses the mighty patronage of the United Kingdom. While a resident of London for nearly three years I made it a duty, whenever possible, to read everyday the greatest of all newspapers, the London Times, and keep a file of it for reference. It was almost equivalent to a college educa tion, both in work and in profit. It taught me, among other things, some of the great uses and functions of the house of commons. Besides making the laws and electing the premier, it is the great training school for public opinion. The lord chancellor is the keeper of the king's conscience but the house of commons is the keeper of the nation's conscience. It is the trysting place for grievances. The debates in the house fills the press, and the great morning dailies put the best brains the queen's coins can buy into their editorial and critical reviews of the proceedings of the house of com mons. -Thus it becomes, through the publicity of the press, the greatest of all public educators. The Englishman, who Is not quick of perception, is powerfully tenacious of a habit once acquired. His morning bath is not more indispensable than an ac curate knowledge of all that was said and done yesterday in the house of commons. Through the medium: of petition al most anything can be brought before the house. This of course includes much that is good and a vast deal of rubbish. The ministry alone can propose to tax the people. Of course, in theory, the sovereign is the ruler, and, in fact, is clothed with an immense amount of latent power, and with much real power, on the digni fied and ornamental side of the govern ment. The things the queen might lawfully do, within the constitution, would fill pages. But the things she really does do, are largely spectacular. The crown is "the fountain of honor," but the prime minister is the real exec, utive of the. nation. This is a favorable point of compari son with the American constitution. In England there is almost a complete blending of the executive and legisla tive departments. The prime minister, elected bv the house of commons, selects his cabinet from the parliament. By a venerable fiction they are the queen's ministers. In point of fact the ministry are the rulers; the real executive body. They are of parliament; the creatures of it; yet they can destroy .it and appeal to the country. But they must fetch up to the new parliament a majority of the ministry or the ministry falls. Ac cording to the constitution no ministry can stand without the confidence of the house of commons. The cabinet is a remarkable board of control; mum and mysterious in its proceedings. It has no secretary and keeps no minutes: it meets behind closed doors. Even the newspaper man who has been everywhere, was never at a cabinet meeting. No matter how much the members differ in secret, they are a unit in public. Their motto should be E pluribus unum. Seventeen hearts that beat as one.. The apparent advantage of the Eng lish cabinet system of government is that there can be no deadlock between the executive and the legislative. A vote of censure means that the ministry must resign or prorogue parliament and appeal to the country. Then the people say whether the ministry is r:ght or wrong. If the majority of the house of commons is still against them they all go down together, and a new prime minister forms a new cabinet. Plainly there is more elasticity in a cabinet 'than in a presidential form of government; thus much may be predi cated without affirming whether it is better or worse in practical efficiency. The judiciary is the most independent department under the English consti tution. All the judiciary from the justice of the peace to the lord chancellor are ap pointed, nominally by the crown. The lord chancellor and chief justice on the recommendation of the prime minister: all the rest on the recommendation of the lord chancellor. The only political office in the Judi ciary is that of lord chancellor, who has only civil jurisdiction. All the oth ers hold for life or during good behav ior, and are not removable by the crown, except on the motion of both houses of parliament. The splendid apostrophy of Lord Brougham to the judiciary should be taught to those who decry the courts, and remembered by those who exercise their high office. He says: "Thus the judicial power, pure and unsullied, calmly exercised amidst the uproar of contending par ties by men removed above all contam ination of faction, all participation in either its fury or its delusions, held alike independent of the crown the par liament and the multitude, and only to be shaken by the misconduct of those who wield it. forms a mighty zone which girds our social pyramid round about, connecting the loftier and narrower, the humbler and the broader regions of the structure, binding the whole to gether, and repressing alike the en croachments and the petulance of any of its parts." The modern courts of England are all founded on the ancient judicature of the realm. Above the petty courts the high court of justice corresponds with our district and circuit courts. The queen's bench division of the high court of justice is the superior criminal court. Then comes the court of appeal; and finally the house of lords, which is the court of last resort. By immemorial custom only the law lords participate in these legal pro ceedings of the house of lords. Three cr more, consisting of the lord chancel lor, the lords of appeal in ordinary, and lor, the lord of appeal in ordinary, and the great lawyers who have held high judicial office constitute this court of last resort. The evolution of the English constitu tion from the primitive polity of the Fatherland, through all vicissitudes of the changeful years; through the mighty, oft-times bloody, struggles of religious controversy; through the tri umphal march of the Anglo-Saxon race, from the simple habits of a rude civilization, to the highest refinement of artificial society; is a subject so vast, so various in its differentiation, that to comprehend it in its entirety, one must know not only the facts of history and the characteristics of the race, but also the human heart, and the motives that impel men to action under a given environment. The student of political philosophy, discovering our forefathers in a state of what Professor Freeman calls "Healthy barbarism," will find the keenest delight in tracing their growth from infancy to the highest type of manhood, and of statecraft, the world has yet produced. Along with Creasy and Green and Guizot and Hallam and Bagehot and Taswell-Langmead and Bishop Stubbs. he will lay hold upon the moving force, the causation; and conceive a new no tion of the fabric of society and how came to pass this aggregation that we call the state. His richest reward will be in finding that institutions and laws and consti tutions belong to the race, because thev are evolved and sifted and purified not by a generation, but by all generations of the race; and that today the science of government, in its highest tvpe, is predicated on the evolution of Anglo Saxon manners and customs. The composition of the English race is an important factor in comprehend- The consanguinity of the low German stock from which sprang the Angles and Saxons, with the Northmen, the Danes and the Normans, no doubt accounts for the marvelous blending of this com posite race. While each successive inroad of con quering force has modified the basic law, leaving it full of inconsistencies and imperfections and anomalies and apparent contradictions, yet they are for the most part self-correcting, and in very great part self-executory. It will remain for America alone to demonstrate, not in one century nor in two, whether the English constitution be not the ripest product of constitu tional development the mind of man has yet evolved. It was not adapted to our environ ment. The halo that surrounds a kin?, and the filial homage accorded to the throne of an ancient monarchy, and the spectacular establishment that sur rounds it, are wanting here. We could not more adopt it than a babe could adopt a father. But it is, all over, adapted to the Eng lish race in England, and in spite of ail inroads and changes and modifications it has steadily grown through forty generations, unique in its homogeneity, strong, elastic, beautiful, harmonious, and big with the all-sufficiency of its resources for the requirements of the nation for all time to come. POWER IS DANGEROUS. F. L. Williams Arraigns Present Laws of Impeachment. F. L. Williams of Clay Center ar raigned the present law of impeach ment in his address to the bar associa tion. He asserted that the ordinary im peachment proceedings before a branch of the legislature is usually brought to subserve some sinister political pur pose and passed upon by men anxious to punish a political opponent. He also said: "An examination of the trials in the various state courts will show that an impeachment is seldom attempted in good faith, but is usually the out growth of political strife, and charges are made for the purpose of removing and destroying some offending official whose chief fault may be his inability to keep the friendship of his accusers. "The fact that a conviction may be had only when the offense charged is indictable and that the rules applicable to trials are the same as in ordinary courts, argues against the necessity of maintaining the impeaching power. "The weakness of senates shown by a comparison with the judges of our ordi nary courts argues against the effi ciency of impeachment courts. The fact that decisions are always given under the influence of partisan prejudice and that motives other than a desire to purify the public service, lie beneath the charges argues that the impeach ing power is dangerous." He recommends that it be removed from the power of legislatures and con fined to courts. NEW CONSTITUTION NEEDED. Henry McLean Criticises the Populist Legislature. In addressing the bar association, Henry McLean of Paola, who is a Pop ulist, stated that the need of a. new constitution for the state of Kansas is universally admitted. "Self government," he said, "is but an ideal towards which all modern gov ernments are tending. The main rea son why we do not have a full and com prehensive system of self government is because a large body of our people are not yet believers in self government or, if they do believe in it, their in terests are opposed to its realization. The various classes of men. as a rule, do not believe in the ability of the American people to govern them selves." Mr. McLean called attention to the fact that the people who are directly chafed with the responsibility of ad ministering the government, or rather sustaining the demand that it be right ly conducted, too often neglect this and permit political affairs to take care of themselves. As an example of the re sult of this condition, he said: "The legislature of 1897.. although it was perhaps the least corrupt of any legislature that has assembled since before the York-Pomeroy episode, al though among its members were some as loyal and true men as were ever elected to office, wholly failed, as its predecessors had done, to give satis faction to the people. Enough mem bers of that legislature so far forgot the radical demands of their constit uents and became so extremely con servative that the legislature, as a whole, gave greater satisfaction to the party which opposed it than it did to the party which elected it. The great est service which the last legislature rendered the people of the state is that it showed them beyond any question that representative government is net democratic government. To thi3 great benefit the most venal, as well as the most conservative members, contribut ed most. If the last legislature failed ignominiously in putting into execution, to any considerable degree, the cardinal tenets of the party which elected it, what might the people expect from a constitutional convention made up of the same class of men?" Mr. McLean, as indicated by the sub ject of his address "A People-Made Constitution." recommends that Kan sas should have such a document. Of the present constitution he said: "It has checks and hindrances which not only impede the smooth and natural de velopment of our institutions, but they amount to positive obstructions to any development at all. It repudiates the fundamental principles of self-government by the people and it substitutes the most vicious form of minority rule (Continued on Eighth Page.)
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1898. THEWHEELTURNS And Nick Chiles is Again Before Judge Hazen. His Second Appearance on Ac count of Last Fall's Doings. LORD IS CONVICTED. Not of Selling Liquor in Viola tion of Law Bat of Maintaining a Nuisance at Fourth and Kansas Avenue. The jointists are playing a return en gagement in the district court. The court commenced on the second round and the first case called was against Nick Chiles. Wm. Green, D. H. Forbes and J. P. Griswold were excused from the jury after they were In the box. P. I. Bone brake is a member of the jury. J. J. Henderson a Washburn student was the first witness. He was exam ined by County Attorney Jetmore as follows: Q. What is your business? A. I am a student at Washburn col lege. Q. How old are you? A. I am -5. Q. Are you acquainted with Nick Chiles? A, Yes, sir. Q. -Were you, on September 28 last, Sn the dining hall at the fair grounds? A. Yes. Q. What time were you there? A. Between 9 and 12 at night. Q. Whom did you go there with? A. Mr. Pond. Q. How did you get in? A. We got into the east end and south door. Q. What was the west end used for? A. A dining hall. Q. Did you meet any one at the door? A. Yes. Q. Who was it? A. I think it was Mr. Chiles. Q. Can't you be positive? A. No. but I think he was the man. Q. What was he doing? A. Keeping the door. Q. Did you see him assist any one to go in? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did this man In charge of the door have hold of the door? A. He was standing just outside the door. Q. Did you drink any thing in there? A. Yes, sir. Q. Whom did you get it from? A. The bartender. Q. How many bartenders were there at work? A. Five. Q. How many people were in there? A. The room was full. Q. Were they colored or white? A. Colored. Q. Did you know any of them? A. No. Q. What did you drink? A. A couple of glasses of beer. Q- Did you pay cash or get checks? A. I got checks from a man near the door. Q. How many did you give for the beer? A. Two. Q- Have you any of these coupons with you? A. Yes. Here they are (witness ex hibited three coupons purporting to be "for lunch"). Q- Do you remember of buying a bottle of beer? A. Yes. Q When did you get that? A- We went back again and got that. Q. Did the bartender pull the cork? A. Yes. Q- What was done with the bottle? A. Mr. Pond took it. Cross examination by Frank Herald. Q- You went into the dining hall on the evening of the 2Sth. A. Yes, sir. Q- What had you been doing that evening? A I was around on the fair grounds looking for joints. Q Did you drink any thing before that? A. No, sir. Did you ever drink any beer be fore? A. Yes. Q. Have you drank any since? A. No. Q. How did you happen to break loose during the Fall Festival? A. To get evidence. Q Did you report to any member of the Committee of Seventeen what you had been doing? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where? A. At Mr. Tillotson's office. Q. Were you reimbursed? A. I got some money. Q. How much? A. Two dollars and 15 cents. Q Why did you not go into some of the other places? A. A policeman was protecting one of them and I did not think it wise to try to go in. Q. Whom did you buy those chips of that evening? A. I don't know. Q Was he a white man or a black man A. A black man. Q. Isn't it a fact that you bought the chips of a white man? A. No, sir. Jasper N. Howard was next called Q Do you know Nick Chiles? A. No, sir, except by sight. Q. Did you see Nick Chiles Festival week? A. Yes. Q- Where did you see him? A. In the dining hall. Q. Were you ever in the east end? A. Yes, sir; I was there Wednesday night. Q- Were you there on Tuesday? A. Yes, I was near there a short time. Q. What did you see? A. I saw people coming and going out of the dining hall. W. F. Ellison was the next witness. Q. Did you have a contract for let ting of privileges with the Committee of Fitteen? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you lease the dining hall? A. Yes. Q To whom? A. To Mrs. Chiles and Nick Chiles. b 1 ou rented them the whole dining A. Yes, sir. ?CTWhom did you make the contract wltii A With Mr. Chiles. ea'sitend?yOU k"OW What Was In the A. Yes; I think I know. 28Q Tell what was there on September A. I am not sure I can tell on that After a great deal nf xt-i-r,r,o-n P-1H "J" :-.""f,".iS iur. ...y cjtusra witnout sayin positively whether he knew what wa s was u'us on ou oepiemoer Zs. E. F. Grote, Mr. Ellison's partner was next called. Q. Do you know what was in the east end of the dining hall? A. Yes, sir. Q. What were they doing? A. Selling drinks. Q. What was it? A. They called it beer. Q. Did you drink any of it? A. Yes. Q. What was it? A. I am on oath and cannot swear positively that it was beer. Q. It was on tap, wasn't it? A Yes. Q. Did you have any talk with Nick Chiles about renting the dining hall? A. Yes. Q. What was said? A. I told him I didn't think it safe to rent it to him. R. S. Pond, the prosecuting witness, was next called. Q. Do you know Nick Chiles? A. Yes. Q. Do you know where the east room is at the dining hall on the fair grounds? A. Yes. Q. Were you there on the evening of the 28th? A. Yes; I was there with Mr. Hen derson. Q. Did you see Mr. Chiles there? A. Yes. Q. Where was he? A. At the door. Q. What was he doing? A. When soldier boys came along he would say, "that is all right, boys, glad to see you walk in." r Q. Had you seen him before? A. Yes. Q. Where? A. The evening before when I tried to get in, he would not let me in. Q. Who was in the building? A. A great many people. Q. What did you do when you got in? A. Mr. Henderson bought eome checks. Q. Did you get any beer? A. Yes, Mr.Henderson got two glass es. Q. Did you hear any of the bar tenders speak to Chiles? A. Yes, one of them called out "Nick, checks, don't go for bottles of beer do they?" I thirk Nick answered "no." Q. Did you go back again? A. Yes, sir. Q. What did you buy? A. Mr. Henderson bought a bottle of beer. Q. Have you that bottle now? A. Yes. Q. Will you get It? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Pond then produced a bottle and County Attorney Jetmore took it and said: "Major Dallas will you please lend me your corkscrew?" Major Dallas was not confused. He replied, "I have three at home but I do not happen to have one with me." The cork was finally extracted and the liquor bubbled out of the bottle. Mr. Pond took a sip at the bottle and said it was beer. County Attorney Jet more looked at the bottle longingly but finally passed it to Attorney Herald without sampling it. LORD IS CONVICTED. The Nuisance Count is the Only One Hade to Stick. A surprise has fallen on the commu nity. A jointist has been convicted in the district court. This "innocent vic tim o circumstances" is Archibald Lord whose place is at the corner of Fourth and Kansas avenue. In the conviction of Lord ex-County Attorney Safford lost his first liquor, case since he went out of office. He naturally feels somewhat irritated and says the case will be reversed. Lord was charged on four counts with selling liquor, but was convicted on the nuisance count. The first witness was R. S. Pond a Washburn student who was followed by B. O. Fall also a student. Following is the questioning: Q. Are you acquainted with Arch Lord? A. I know him when I see him. Q. Were you at the corner of Fourth and Kansas avenue during Festival week A. Yes. Q. Whom did you go in with2 A. With R. S. Pond. Q. Where is that building? A. At northeast corner. Q. Did you go into the basement? A. Yes. Q. How did you get there? A. We went through a partition and down a stairway to the basement. Q- What time in September did you go there? A. Thursday of Festival week, which was September 30. Q- What did you do in the basement? A. Drank a couple of glasses of beer. Q. Who sold it to you? A. Mr. Lord. Q. How was he dressed? A. He had his hat and coat off, but had no apron on. Q. Was there a bar there? A. Yes. Q. What kind was it? A. It was a plain bar. Q. How many were in there? A. About fifteen or twenty. Q. What was there besides the bar? A. Two or three gambling tables. Q. Did you see where he got the beer? A. Yes; he drew it with a beer pump. Q. Who paid for the beer? A. I did. Q. Did you see any other sales? A. Yes; I bought two more. Q. Whom did you buy of? A. Mr. Lord. Q. Whom did you pay? A. Mr. Lord. Q. Did you see any other sales made? A. Yes; Mr. Pond bought three. Q. Whom did he pay? A. Mr. Lord. Cross-examination by H. C. Safford: Q. You were playing the part of de tective that week? A. Yes; in that far. Q. Did you get any pay? A. No. sir. Q. Did you expect any? A. No, sir. Q. Did you tell Mr. Craig that you would pay him what you owed him for room rent as soon as you got paid by the committee of seventeen? A. No, sir. Q.What did you tell him? A. That as soon as I got my witness fees I would pay him. Q. What man did you talk to about spotting for the committee of seven teen? A. I talked to no one. Q. Did you have any understanding with anyone? A. No, sir. Q. Whom did you report to? A. Some times Mr. Stone and some times Mr. Foster. Q. Were you furnished any money? A. No, sir. Q. Were you ever reimbursed? A. Yes, sir; partly; one of the college boys got a check from Mr. Stone to cover the amounts he spent and what I did. Frank Herald, for the defense, cross examined the state's witness, Robt. Pond (Washburn student), as follows: Q. Was Nick inside when you were there? A. Yes, he went to the door two or three times. Q. You are pretty anxious to convict Nick? A. No, I guess not. Q. You went in to get beer to convict him, didn't you? A. No. If he was selling liquor I want ed to convict him. Q. You went in for the committee of seventeen? A. No. Q. You reported to them? A. Yes. Q. They paid your expenses? A. No, I paid my own expenses. Q. Did the committee of seventeen ever give you any money? A. Yes. They gave me 50 cents once. Q. That all? A. Yes. that's all. Q. Don't you think you are a pretty cheap man? A. I think that was all they gave me. Q. Are you sure Nick was in there? A. Yes. Q. How was he dressed? A.- In his shirt sleeves. Q. Have a mustache? A. I don't remember. Q. Hair curly? A. I don't know. Q. Did you get in Monday night? A. Part way. Q. Soldiers were running the place that night, were they? A. I guess they were. Q You got in all right the other night? A. Yes, I did. Attorney Frank Herald moved that the state be required to state the counts on which it relied for a conviction. County Attorney Jetmore gave the state's side as follows: "The state elects to rely for a conviction on the first count, for the sale of two glasses of beer on the evening of September 2S, 1S97, made by a bartender, employed by Nick Chiles, and drank by J. J. Henderson and R. S. Pond, as testified to by Henderson and Pond. "The state elects to rely for a conviction on the second count on the sale of a bot tle of beer made on the evening of Sep tember 2S. 1S97, made by a bartender, in the presence of Nick Chiles, for which 25 cents was paid, as testified to by Hender son and Pond. "The state elects to rely for a convic tion on the third count on the two preced ing counts and such other evidence which bears on the case." Attorney Herald stated to the jury that the defense would prove that Nick Chiles was not at his place at the time the wit nesses said they saw him, but was at his hotel uptown. He said that for the nuisance clause, they would suggest that he had already been tried for that. "Shell" Young, employed by Nick Chiles, was called by the defense. Attorney Herald: On Monday evening, what time did Nick Chiles come to the hotel? A. About 7:30 or 8 o'clock; not later than 8 o'clock. Q. On Tuesday evening what time did he come uptown? A. About 8 o'clock. Q. Did he stay uptown both nights? Cross-examination by Mr. Jetmore: Q. You are talking about this last Fall Festival? A. Yes. Q. You said you were his bartender? A. No, sir, I didn't. Q. You have tended bar there, haven t you? A. No, sir. Hatton Etherly. ex-fireman, testified to Chiles leaving the fair grounds dining hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings by 8 p. m. Cross-examination by county attorney: Q i'ou were down there at the dining hall? Yes. y! Were you tending bar there? A. No. sir. Q.Didri't Nick run the place? A. His wife ran the dining hall. QDidn't Nick superintend the build ing' of the bar and fixtures in that east end? A. I don't know. Q. Nick might have had charge of that place? A. He might have had. q.Do you know who had charge of the place? A. I do not. With this the defense closed Its case and the state did not offer any testimony In rebuttal. Judge Hazen dismissed the Jury until 1:30 o'clock to prepare instructions. TEST TOUR EYES. "O, Loss of Sight! Of Thee I Most Complain. "O loss of Sight! Of thee I most com plain." Thus wrote Milton of his blindness. mT. v. n,,Qt csitlvf and delicate organ of the body is the most neglected. Thousands or persons io&e euuiw v partially their eyesight, when a few i i, i fima u-nnTrl havp saved to them an inestimable blessing. C. H. Morrison ot tuo va.n. avc, a graduate Optician and has had years of valuable experience, will examine your eyes free and tell you if Glasses will be beneficial. He uses no poisonous medicines, he will give you a correct fit and if you do not need glasses he will tell you so. Dancing at Library hall after the Kindergarten Fagot party on Tuesday evening, February 1. Music Clubs to Meet in St. Louis. Chicago, Jan. 28. The board of di rectors of the national federation of music clubs has decided to hold the next general meeting in St. Louis in the spring of 1899. A large sale of tickets is being made for the Presbyterian concert on Febru ary 4. The proceeds of the concert to be giv en by the First Presbyterian quartette on February 4, are to be devoted to the musical expenses of the church. Stop that barking by the use Bal lard's Horehound Syrup. It arrests the cough, allays irritation of the throat and relieves congestion of the lungs in a day. It is safe and pleas ant to take and never disappoints. 2ao and 50c. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka avenue. 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 1. Is your liver tired? does It fall to do Its duty? If bo, don't neglect its call for help. A few doses of Herbine may save you a spell of sickness. Herbine is the only perfect liver medicine. It cures Chills and Fever. 75c. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan. Ave., and Miller's Pharmacy, Cor. 6th and Topeka Ave. Mr. Waldemar von Dehlen will sing a solo entitled "Wondorous Song" by Schmann, at the Presbyterian concert on February 4. 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, 'Fisco Line, St. Louis, Mo. Ballard's Snow Liniment will cure Lame back. Sore Throat, Wounds, Strains, Bruises, Cuts, Old Sores. La dies, it will cure your back-ache. Geo W. Stansfield, 632 Kan. Ave., and Mil ler's Pharmacy, Cor. Cth and Topeka avenue. 18 Photos for 25 cts. Leonard's. Tabier's Buckeye Pile Ointment re lieves the intense Itching. It soothes, it heals, it cures chronic cases when sur geons fail. It is a scientific certainty. Us sales increase through its cures, it is no experiment. Every bottle guar anteed. 50c. Tubes, 75c. Geo. W. Stans field, 632 Kan. Ave., and Miller's Phar macy, Cor. 6th and Topeka avenue. yf aW ii S Rents, Situations, Real Estate, Auction Sales, o o AND OTHER Classified Advertisements. SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Are you In need of work? If so, yon 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 mora than all other Dailies 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?e Cents Line, or 50 cents a line for a week;50 cents by the month. WANTED Position by man and wife to take charge of kitchen in hotel or res taurant. Address W., care Journal. 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 office. 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 2ol Jackson st. H. H. Bosustow. WANTED Reliable man. permanent po sition; stamp and references. A. T. Morris, care Journal; WANTED Upright and faithful gentle men or ladies to travel for responsible, established house in Kansas. Monthly $uo and expenses. Position steady. Refer ence. Enclose self-addressed stamped en velope. The Dominion Company, Dept. K, Chicago. REPRESENTATIVES WANTED, ladies preferred, who have acted as agents for a uterine tonic. Inquire at 122 West Sixth 6t. Kansas Springsteen Medicine Co. WANTED-MISCELLANEOU3. WANTED Second hand hot-bed sash. Address C, box 754, Station A, Topeka. WANTED To buy clean rags at 3 cents per pound. Hall Lithographing Co., op posite Grand Opera House. WANTED To buy a home east of Santa Fe tracks. Address 332 Lake st. WANTED Horses to winter, best of sta bling and feed. 61ti Kansas ave. AGENTS WANTED. AGENTS Quick men to visit stores: sell machine for printing ligns. in 10 colors on fences, bridges, rocks any rough sur face. Arc Co., 26 Arc St., Racine, Wis. $30 A WEEK and expenses paid men to sell cigars on time. Experience unnec essary. The W. L. Kline Co., St. Louis. Mo. FOR RENT-HOUSES. FOR RENT A well furnished eight room house, 1321 West Sixth st. FOR RENT House of 10 rooms. Inquire at S01 Morris ave. FOR RENT House cf nine rooms, with all conveniences. Inquire at northwest corner ot Fifth and Lincoln. FOR RENT-ROOMS. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with board, at 319 Quincy St.; references ex changed. 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. Sth. FOR RENT Furnished tipper east front room, with large alcove; furnace heat. 421 Quincy st- FOR RENT Choice store rooma and modern Hats. 14 East Fifth at. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT at 934 Kansas ave. Gas. heat, hot and cold water, bath ai-d all conveniences, single or en suit FOR SALE-MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE 2 gray mares. 2 milch cows. 112 Walker ave., Auburndale. FOR SALE 20 new beehives and lumber. 1319 North Harrison st. FOR SALE One stationary engine, thirty horse power; one forty horse power boiler; one. set of woolen mill machinery, cheap. Inquire M. A. Miller, 62s 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. I Telephone 667. J. M. Wilkerson. MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT 90 acres situated Just south of reform school: will rent for cash. Call at Fifth Avenue hotel. I. D. Joseph. WANTED Partner with five or six hun dred dollars, to take share in grocery. Address W. S., Journal office. NOW is the time to attend your cloth ing, spring suits and overcoats, house hold goods. A. Hirbour, 702 Jackson St. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks. B0c; mainsprings, 75c; crystals. 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, see Uncle Sam, 612 Kan. Ave. BUY gentlemen's old clothes; will pay good prices. 414 Kansas ave. M. Manson. HATS cleaned and blocked for 25-50c: we don't turn them wrong side out and tell you they are cleaned. A. Hirbour, 702 Jackson st. STRAYED A gray horse, weight about 1US0 pounds, small wire cut on left front foot. Reward for return to 1503 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 6t. LADIES, have your tips, plumes, gloves, dresses cleaned or dyed. A. Hirbour, 702 Jackson st. WANTED All 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 TRADE OR SELL A good parlor or gan. 933 Kansas ave. FREE DISPENSARi ot Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, Is open daily except Sunday, from 1 to 3 p. m. E. M. Brockett. M. D. FOR VIEWS of residence or parlor, stock, groups, etc., or photos of any Interior or outside views see Farrow, U Kan. Ave. Yiavi The best known remedy for women. Ladies in attendance. Kansas Viavi Co., 2 Columbian Building. Topeka. FOR SALE Or trade for real estate, meat market and grocery. Address P. S., Journal office. FOR SALE Must be sold, 6 room house. 2 lots, Jefferson St., convenient to busi ness, Santa Fe shops, or depot; $100 to $150 cash, balance 12 per month. 13 acres, close to city, beautiful loca tion for suburban home, $00 per acre. 1 lot on Harrison St., corner Fourteenth, $200. These prices are for quick sales. No more like them. See J. W. FERGUSON CO., Agents, 625 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN CO. 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, 35 lots Twenty-first and Madison sts., 60 lots near Shorey, 8 room house and 17 acres near c'ty limits. SO 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 150 to J75 each. W. M. Forbes, US West Sixth ave. LOST AND FOUND. FOUND Places to get watches and clocks cleaned for 60c 805 Kansas ave.. upstairs. THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. MEETING every Wednesday, 3 p. m., at 307 Van Buren St. Open to all. MONEY. 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. MONEY LOANED on chattels, valuables, etc. N. B. Campbell. 605 Kansas ave. MONEY To loan op. Diamonds. Watches, Tyepwriters, etc M. J. NEWMAN, 117 West Fifth at. MONEY TO LOAN on farms or city property at reasonable rates. W. M. FORBES, 118 W. th Ava LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Blscoe, 623 Kan. Ave. riLO NORTON, at 406 W. Sixth ave.. -LAwlll make farm loans of .&0u or over at 6 per cent interest. PAVING. K70R first-class pavius. sidewalk, or ouilding 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 Pav ing Co.. 116 W. 6th Ave. STORAGE. HOUSEHOLD GOODS Packed, hauled, shipped or stored. 123 East Sixth. Tel. 186. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER AND STOR AGE CO. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Op tician. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. BICYCLES. riiircRA i v v v. t. cm wi. J- Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems ior rent; repairing of all kinds. FUEL AND FEED. LEAVE your orders for coal, flour, feed and seds with Van Slyck. 509 W. 10th. .T.TrT- -t t i;. t'T. it lir e.t. c FLORISTS. 31 KS. J. K. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves.Si: Kas. a v. 'fhone602. W. C. GROVES, successor to R. J. Groves greenhouses 1173-75-77 Clay St.. store. 821 Kansas ave. 'Phone 283. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. CHAS. F. SPENCER, Attorney at Law. Bank of Topeka Building. Telephone 243. R. B. WELCH, Lawyer, suite 4S, Colum bian Building. STAMPS, EAL-, AND STENCILS THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 73 KAN. AVE.. TOPEKA. Eend for catalogue and Iwrlcea, TRAPP Makes rubber stamps, seals, etc. Telephone 656, 112 West Seventh st. TIN SHOPS. J. M. BAIRD. hot air furnaces, pumps and tin roofing. 210 W. 6th. Tel. 39. PRINTERS TOPEKA PRINTING CO., 112 East Sev enth st. Mail orders given prompt at tention. Print everything. Prices right. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DR. MARY E. STEWART, 634 Harrison at. Diseases of women and electricity. J DA C. BARNES. M. ZK Office 73S Kan. Ave. Residence IStli and Clay. OfAce hours: fi a, m. to 11 a. m., and S p. m. to 6 p. m. Telephone 698 resi dence, and 16 office. SE. SHELDON, M. I..' Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. Ave, L. A- RYDER. M. D. OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon St. and Central Ave., Notth Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhofl system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for pile, fistula, fish ure, ulceration, etc MISSOURI PACIFIC. TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM., No. 15 Leave Topeka 8:00 a. m. .TOPEKA FT. SCOTT ACCOM.. No. 886 Arrive Topeka 6:00 p. m. AMUSEMENTS. HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT Friday, January 28, AT Bigh School Assembly Hall Chart Opens Thursday Morning at Row ley Snow's Drug Store. ADMISSION-, 25 CENTS Only 250 Seats to be sold. fl EW CK AW FORD THEATER Oaie Sight, Friday. Jao. 28. soIIa scalchi, The greatest Contralto In the World and company of Operatic Celebrities Including: MLL2 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. MEW CRAWFORD THEATER Ralardsy nnd Snndny, uu (1 Kklurilay Matin r-e. Jaunnry S9-SO. Prof. W. E. Nankeville, In his Illustrated Lecture, AND HIS ENTERTAINERS. Clias. Diamond, champion Harp Soloist of America; Wroth and Wakefield, 1'rof. Edward Miller and others. 10, 20 and SO Cents. H EW CRAWFORD THEATER Monday, January SI. R. E. PEARY Civil Engineer, TJ. S. N. THE GEEATEST E2PL05ES LIVING. THE HERO OP EEF.0SS. 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. Prices 75c, 50c and 25c. Tickets for sale at P.owley Snow's January 28th. pirst Methodist Church. TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 1. THE REV. DR. A. S. EMBREE IN HIS Lecture "A VACATION IN EUROPE." Chart for reserved seats now open at Rowley Snow's. Tickets 25 cents. Ue&erved seats free. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, Jan. 28. WHEAT For the first time in nearly two weeks wheat today showed signs of radical weakness. May, which closed esterday at STlfuc openid today at 96i (j-?sc, with plenty of selling orders at those figures, which caused a further de cline to Ittic almost Immediately. Liver pool, opening strong at 'aVAd advance, had reacted d on some futures at 1:30 p. m., while Paris was up only p'JiIO cen times. The chief bear factor, however, was the weekly Argentine shipments, which amounted to 8trl.O,) bushels. Within two weeks Argentine has shipped nearly half as much wheat as all last year and this fact had a derided effect on traders. Northwestern receipts were liberal. 394 cars, against cars last week and 194 cars a year ago. Chicago receipts were 23 cars, only one of which was contract. Some of the heaviest traders were good buyers of May at the decline, and with this support the market reacted to 97c. Later it weakened again and declined to 9t;v.rd'-ic. Trading was Quite active all morning. CORN Corn was slow and weak with wheat. There was moderate scattered liquidation. Receipts were light. 102 cars, ilay opened 'mc lower at "ii"jg!i'.iC and sold at 29'ie. OATS Lull and easv with other grain markets. Sales of :XI.(K0 bushels for di rect export were reported. Receipts were 106 cars. May opened "4c lower at 24c and advanced to 24c. PROVISION'S Provisions were affected by the heavy run of hogs and the wheat weakness and opened weak and lower. Good support was given later and prices recovered, the market becoming Arm. May pork opened MiC lower at J9.9r'4. de clined to $9.922 and reacted to $10.05. May lard opened 2-sc lower at t4.ff). declined to $4.85 and reacted to $4.90. May ribs open ed 5c lower at M .90. old a s"hade lower and reacted to $-1.21'i 4.95. BARLEY Cash, No. 3, 27U-,tf40c. RYE Cash. 4Sc May, 4jc. FLAX Cash. $1.27; cash northwestern, $1.32: Mav. $1.29. TIMOTHY Cash, $2.!; January, $2.S0; March, $2.S5. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago. Jan. 2. HOGS "Estimated receipts of hogs to day, 41.000: official left over. 5.55S. Mar ket slow-. 5c lower. Light. J.I.SKS.S"- mix ed. S3.70&3.90; heavy, $3.60&3.9o; rough, $J.0 (Ji 3.65; CATTLE Receipts. 6.000. Weak to Vtc lower. Beeves, $3.soi3.'4.30; cows and heif ers, $2.40$4.35: Texas steers. $3.50Til.io; Btockers and feeders, $3.30i4.30. SHEEP Receipts, lij.OuO. Slow, 1AC lower. Yesterday's official: HOOS Receipts. 32.099; shipments. 7.194. CATTLE Receipts, 18,33s; shipments, 5. 0S6. SHEEP Receipts, 31.229: shipments. 1. lower. Native sheep. $i3.ti0; westerns, $3.5ofi4.55: lambs, $4'a5.So. Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow, 24,000 head. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, Jan. 2S. CATTLE Receipts. 4.0H). Market ik to 10c lower. Texas steers, $:Jfi4.2".: Texa cows, $3n3.50: native steers. fc."0u4.90: n i tive cows and heifers, $1.5Ji4.1o: stockera and feeders. $3.234.90: bulls. $2.3-"i',i4.'5. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 36 Texas steers 1219 $4.25 52 Texas cows 7M S.fO IS native steers l'l-W 4.i"0 23 native cows and heifers H 4.J1 32 stockers and feeders 4is 4.W 8 bulls lltj 4.oj HOGS Receipts, 20,000. Market slow to weak and 10c lower. Bulk of sales. f! tf 3.70; heavies. $3.6T.'fS.75: packers. $3.4"'. 3.75: mixed,' $3.551 S.73: lights, $:i.3"a3.72!2; yorkers. $:j.70'(i3.72V4: pigs, $3.3D'.i3.C). SHEEP Receipts, 2t0J. Market strong. Lambs, $4.75t5.U; muttons, $3.75'u4.75. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas Citv. Jan. 25. WHEAT Hard. VuVc. higher: sift held higher, with no demand. No. 1 hard, 9U-; No. 2. S7Wu91c: No. 3, 86fiX7c: No. 1 rod, 90c: No. 2," SSf! 90c one car mixed. 92c; No. 3. 92ta5c; No. 2 spring, SlWuiavi No. 3, S5fei ,se. CORN Slow early.closed lie higher. No. 2 mixed, 24fr2r.c. OATS Rather slow, but firm. No. 2 White. 22H''34c. RYE Firm. No. 2, 44c. HAY Firm. Choice timothy, $S.50j9; choice prairie, $7. 2511 7.50. BUTTER Slow. Creamery, llfUic; dairy. 12";14c. EGGS Steady, receipts liberal. Fresh, 130. Market Gossip. Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com mission Co., Brokers In Grain, Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Kan. Hogs: Chicago, Kansas City and Oma ha. 5ri10c lower. Receipts of cattle: Chicago. 6.000.steady; Kansas City, 4,000, steady; Omaha, l.sj, steady. Receipts of hogs: Chicago, 41,000; Kan sas City. 20.000: Omaha. Liverpool: Wheat, d higher. Second Liverpool cable: Wheat Hd lower. Minneapolis: Receipts of wheat today, S22 cars. Chicago: Estimated receipts tomorrow: Wheat, 53 cars; corn, 1''5 cars; oats, 175 cars. Northwestern receipts: This year, Min neapolis 322 cars, Duluth 72 cars: last year, Minneapolis 182 cars, Duluth 12 cars. The Cotton Market. New York, Jan. 2s!. COTTON Spot closed quiet. Middling upland. 5 15-16c; middling gulf, U 3-lttc. Sales 78 bales. Galveston, Jan. 2S. COTTON Quiet and steady. Middling 5V4c Sugar and Coffae New Yotk. Jan. 2S. SUGAR Raw, steady, centrifugal PS test, 4 l-16c; refined. steady: crushed, 5c; powdered. 5 5-lttc: granulated, C'fcc. COFFEE Dull but steady. Today's Kanges of Prices. Furnished by the W. A Michael Com mission Co., Brokers in Grain. Provision and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka, Kan. Article. Open High Low Close Yea. WHEAT Jan 106 110 105 ll? 104 May ?H 9s MMi SO's-H July bja 5"s i7Va CORN l Jan 27- 2774 27-6 ST 2! May 29-VH 2976 i&b 9'-,-'i July 30Vi 3o7i-31 3o?i-.6 3r-g- 3o OATS Jan 334 23 23--4 2.134 21 May 24 24i-74 24 2i14-ti 24 'i July 2274 23 2274 23 3 PORK Jan 9 82 9 82 9 SO 9 90 9 95 Mav ...9 97 9 92 10 05 10 00 10 05 LARD Jan 4S2 4 S3 480 4S0 4f2 May ...4 90 4 92 4 85 4 87-92 4 92 RIBS Jan 4 87 4 S7 4 87 4 87 4 92 May 4 90 4 95 4 87 4 90-92 4 95 Today's Ranges of Prices. Furnished bv the W. A. Michael Com mission Co., Brkers In Grain. Provisions and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave., Topeka. Kan. Stocks. I Op'niHigh; Low ICl'seYes. Sugar" 1S9M 1S,4 "137" 137mi3r Chicago Oas 97V 97V2 9K"4i 9 97 Am. Tobacco 877, SvU ST'-i i7: 74 Am. Spirits 9 9 9 9 9'i E. G. E in'A, 3';i, 3T)4! 36 S''. Leather 644 64, 4 6i Lead Sasi 3S3 35V 3i4, Sf.v, M.,K. T. Pfd 40'2 40' 39 i 39V 4V C. B. Q. KWTa 1007, 99A 99 .lt"iL. Rock Island 94 94'2 3?4i Kl'n C, M. St. P. m 5i4 --'i &V-4 A..T. &S.F.Pfd 81 H 31U, 30'i 31 St Manhattan 117?. 117V4 in;i,2! lieu, uv-i Western Union 92 2M, 9ov 517 Mo. Pacific Sft 35ss 34-"ii 35 84 Wabash lxsfc IS" I 1S4 1"i Un. Pacific 3-F 341 33 j 3::t C. N. W 1234 125 I 123 12l'i 12 ;I N. Y. Central.. 11?4 11!I 11'4 ll-3 im C). M 76 7Hi! 76 i 7V. D. L. W 1534' 153J 158 153 1154 Reading 221 22'i 2241 22'4 :-2'i Jersey Central. 95 95 I 94 I 94V WM O. N. W 14"'! 15 143t; 15-, 14 T. C. 1 2-.-l 25V 25V 24.. 23V, No. Pac. Pfd.. Si'vtii 667b I 64V 67 I W. A. MICHAEL CO'jDISSSIQJ C3,. HO Wnl Sixth iwaat, Telephone 669. Topeka Kan. II. UU1I5CE, Maun iter. Grain, Provisions, Stock3 You can buy or sell anything dealt in on the principal exchange of the country through us. Direct wires. Quick bervice. Reasonable margins. Orders by wire, le, ter or telephone promptly executed. Ref erence by permission, CKNTRAL NATIONAL BANK. Topeka, Kansal UNION NATIONAL BANK. Kansas City. Mo. Kansas Citv office, first floor Excl-.ang building. Wa have same service and r ponsibility a.3 Kansas City office. U.K. UX Irelen S. QAKTIS InrwoB4 See'y TELEFU!(E 152- Lux Commission Co. GUAR, FEQYISI3SS AID STOCKS, S2 KAIfSASi AVE., TWPEKi, IA3". BEPEBBSCKS: Ctril Scllsaal BU, Topeka. Bilk mt Tapefca. HTYou can buy or sell through ns for imire tnediato or future delivery ail coinmod.Ue lra4al in on any exchange m tuecouulry.
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