The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 3, 1898

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TWO CENTS. THURSDAY HEXING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 3, 189S. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. i V. i i M p i A CLEARLOSS. President Williams of the Chem ical National Bank, Doesn't Believe the Institution Will Get Back a Dollar OF QUINLAN'S LOANS Made to Speculators Without Proper Authority. Thiuks the Cashier Was and Is Out of His Mind. New York, Feb. 3. Mr. Quinlan's res ignation as cashier of the Chemical Na tional bank announced yesterday, is as follows: New York, Jan. 31, 1S9S. To the Directors of the Chemical Na tional Hank. Gentlemen: Within the last few months I have made loans without con sulting the president to the amount cf about three hundred and ninety-three thousand ($393,000) dollars, on collater als which I knew that you would not approve and hence I have concealed these loans from you by methods which were not right. I have not been inter ested personally in them and have not received one dollar of the proceeds of them, nor In but one instance received any benefit from them and then but for a moderate amount; nor have I ever speculated to the extent of a single share in Wall street. My error has arisen from over confidence in the rep resentations of those to whom these loans were made and while I hope eventually no loss will arise from them, I acknowledge the justice of the re quest for my resignation which is here by presented, both as a director and as cashier of the Chemical National bank. This terminates a faithful service (until the above) of 36 years to the institu tion, which has justly been the pride of tny life. Kespectf ullv. Win J. QL'IXLAN JR. Tie l-ans made by Mr. Quinlan were on western securities of various kinds and were negotiated by Francis Grabie, a promoter of land, mining and irriga tion schemes. Ihe firs', known of the affair by Pres ident Williams was when Quinlan call ed upon him at his home on Sunday last and made a full statement. It is conceded that Quinlan as cashier, had the power to n ake the loan, but it is lieid that in a transaction involving ro large an amount of money h. should have consulted the president. Mr. Wil liams said today: "We think that ab solutely the worst Is known and are strongly in the hopes that Mr. Quinlan's expectations are true and that a large part of the money will be recovered. We would rather face the matter and let the public know the whole truth. "In my opinion," said President Wil liams, "Mr. Quinlan has been made the victim of clever schemers. I believe that he has been mentally irresponsible for months, though there was nothing apparent in his actions to betray this to us. "Mr. Quinlan had known M. Grabie for some time and six weeks ago, when the latter asked lor a loan of S3. 000 to help along some scheme of his, Mr. Quinlan gave it to him. Then came an other loan of $5,000, which was also granted. Next Silver was brought into the deal, then, to save the loan, first made, Mr. Quinlan made them another loan of an equal amount, and to save that, he gave them another. "In this way, in a little more than six weeks the amount of the loans was run up to almost a half a million dollars. It was not until it reached this figure that we knew anything about it. Then for the first time Mr. Quinlan seemed to realize that something might be wrong with his accounts. So last Sunday he called on me at my home. "I was simply dumbfounded. I had never before had the slightest suspicion but what Mr. Quinlan was all right mentally. Then I realized that some thing must be wrong or he would never have loaned money to Grabie and Sil ver or have advanced even the most trivial sums on the security they had given him. I examined it and decided it was almost worthless and made up my mind that the bank would lose eve ry cent it had advanced. "Mr. Quinlan combatted this idea: he still insisted that the securities were good and would fully recover the amount he had loaned. I was not able to persuade him otherwise and at last told him he must resign and do this at once in a letter to the directors. He was fearfully broken up by mv decision but did as I told him. The letter was written Monday and briefly states the case. "Then when it had been given to the directors Mr. Quinlan left the bank for his home in Brooklyn. I suppose he is there now. "1 want to say this for Mr. Quinlan Not the slightest suspicion of dishones ty rests upon him. I do not beiieve that lie profited by these loans to the extent of one cent. Every dollar of this bank's money which he gave out went to these two men, and he would never have giv en them anything, to say nothing of the large amounts they obtained until they had made him believe their securities were good. "I am firmly of the opinion that Mr Quinlan is out of his head, and that his trouble is due to overwork. He has been with us 36 years, and has made his way tip from office boy. During all that time lie has been indefatigable in his la bor. "Of the men who got the money from Quinlan, Silver is the only one known to me." President Williams estimated that Silver received $150,000 and Grabie $243 -oon.

The directors held a meeting last night and a number of clerks were put at work on the books. It is not known at present what course the directors in tend to adopt in regard to getting their money back. Grabie was once president of the Ed monton Stone company, and six months ago the company moved to Philadelphia It is stated that Grabie was president of the Interstate Land and Canal Co and that he is still president of the Union Hill Mining company in which ex-Gov. Pattison and Benjamin Tracy are said to be interested. John S. Silver is connected with the New York Carbon company, the head quarters of which are at Newark, N. J. Mr. Quinlan lost nearly all his own private fortune some years ago in pro tecting the name of a relative who had been speculating on the stock exchange during the panic, so that he has nothing with which to make good any losses arising from his bad judgment in the present case. The Chemical National bank is one of the most prosperous of its kind in the country, and should all the amount loaned by Mr. Quinlan prove a loss, the bank's credit would not be affected. Its shares of the par value of $100 have sold for more than $4,000 each within a short time. The directors are George G. Williams, James A. Roosevelt, Freder ick W. Stevens and Robert -Goelet. Cashier Quinlan was also a director. The latter is 53 years of age. During the 36 years he was cashier, he never took a vacation. Francis Halpin, assistant cashier, Is acting cashier of the bank, pending the selection of a successor to Mr. Quinlan. MILLIONS LIKE MATCHES. Mr. Grabie Was a King Among West ern Promoters. Chicago, Feb. 3. The Tribune says: During the last ten years in which Francis Grabie. the man to whom Cashier Quinian of the Chemical Na tional bank of New York loaned in the neigborhood of $'50,000 of the bank's funds, has been engaged in floating the stocks, bonds and mortgages of his western enterprises among investors in the east not less than $3,000,000 has been realized. Intimately associated with Mr. Gra bie has been W. K. Kurtz, formerly of Kansas City and Omaha and now of New York. The principal investors in the speculations of the two men are located in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts "and New York. Connecticut furnishes the long est list, although the amounts will be smaller than in Philadelphia and New York. Offices were opened in many of the leading towns of Connecticut and Mas sachusetts and maintained in a lavish style while the stocks and bonds were being disposed of. Money was not re quired for the transfer of stock in any of the enterprises if good notes were to be had and as a result today many peo ple find themselves in straightened cir cumstances by being compelled to meet notes now coming due. For many years Mr.- Grabie has en joyed friendly relations with some of the western officials of theChicago, Bur lington Quincy railroad. So close were these relations that he was let in on the ground floor for townsites when the company extended its lines to the Black Hills. He went ahead of the builders and secured the land where the company was to locate its stations from one end of the extension to the others. Where the two branches join ed the line to Deadwood and the ex tension to Billings, Mont., was selected as the site for the end of the divisions and here it was deemed certain that a good railroad town would go up. Here the town of Edgemont went up. Mr. Grabie secured title to the land around the junction point the same as he had at the stations along the line. He had been attracted to the possibilities of improving the country through which the railroad line passed by irrigation and two irrigation companies were formed. It is said his big irrigation schemes are good ones and if they had been properly managed they would have made good returns but with that restlessness of an insatiate promoter, he no sooner got an enterprise under way than he ceased to look after active operation and was on with the next. 1 here was stone" in the vicinity of Edge mont and he conceived the idea that the town should be the great manufactur ing point of the country for grindstones. He forthwith organized the Edgemont Stone company with a capital of $250, 000 and spent a large sum in building the plant for the making of grindstones. The town needed buildings. He or ganized a building syndicate, got a large amount of eastern capital into it and began putting up buildings right and left along the business streets of the place. Most of the buildings were rented and it is claimed that this part of the scheme for making a metropolis of Edgemont is not a bad one, if it too had been properly managed'' The buildings are there and if the title has not been alienated by mortgage the owners of the stock in the syndicate ought to real ize something for their money. Mr. Grabie next started the construction of a smelter at Edgemont, which he be lieved was to be the beginning of one of the greatest smelting plants in the west. The smelter is not yet completed but it represents an outlay of at least $100,000. In 1S9(J Mr. Gfable brought in to existence the Union Hill Mining com pany. For a number of years he had been accumulating mining claims in the Black Hills district. When Mr. Grabie had some 50 of these claims he thought it was time to float a company, and by getting eastern capital interested he might be able to do something with the properties which had tied up a good deal of his ready money. Accordingly he gave several excur sions out to the Black Hills from Chica go and Omaha about two years ago. The prospective mines were near the great Homestake mine which had turn ed out millions for the late Senator Hearst and his associates. The financial operations leading to the formation of the Union Hill Mining company were somewhat peculiar. It had a capital stock of $2,000,000. and of this Mr. Grabie received $1,800,000 in payment for the 50 claims which he deeded over to the company. The re maining $200,000 worth of stock was held in the treasury and was to be sold and the proceeds devoted to the opening of the mines. ilr. Grabie went about to sell his stock. He gave away a fair percent age of it to get people interested in the company and sold about $1,000,000 at prices ranging from 50 cents on the dollar down. After he had got this far along he brought into being another company which he called the Edgemont and Union Hill Smelting Co., which was given a capital stock of $3,500,000. Then gradually the property of the first company was transferred to the new corporation and its capital stock in creased to $6,000,000. Of this amount Mr Grabie took $4,800,000, and $1,200,000 was left in the treasury. The original plan was continued, by which the treasury stock was to be sold and the proceeds devoted to the development of the property. Rv this time many people of promi nence in the east had been brought to a point where they were not only inter ested in the company but permitted the use of their names on the list of officers and directors. Mr. Grabie was enabled to go forth with the following formid able list of capitalists who vouched for the prospectus of a mining scheme. It was as follows: Officers: President Robert E. Patti son. president Security Trust company, Philadelphia. Vice President Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, ex-secretary United States navy New York. Treasurer Thomas Bradley, Phila delphia, director Security Trust com pany. Secretary G. A. Fletcher. Philadel phia, merchant and director Union Trust company. Directors J. E. Andrus, New York (Continued on Sixth Page.) MSB IRMT. Outbreak of the Klondike Fever in Western New York Causes Men to Give Up Good Po sitions and Businesses TO JOIN IN THE RUSH Three Hundred People Stay Up All Sight To Listen to a Returned Klon diker Talk. New York, Feb. 3. Many people from western New York are giving up good positions putting their all into outfits and starting for the Klondike region, says the Rochester correspondent of the Times. The return to Franklinville, Cataraugus county, of one Dan Frazer, seems to have been the match which ignited the rapidly spreading flames of excitement. In less than ten minutes after Frazer landed in his native town 300 persons had surrounded him and he was kept busy answering questions until 4 o'clock the next morning. Fra zer talked willingly enough about his experience, but about his own fortune was reticent. "I am satisfied," was the most that could be drawn from him. Perhaps this reticence fired excitement more than the most golden tales could have done. At any rate the leaven worked so well that there started back to the far northwest Tuesday with Frazer a large party. Just how large cannot be told till the men leave Seattle. From Franklinville alone, 19 went. Thirty-two joined the party at Sala manca, Buffalo, Rochester and many towns contributed others. Among the pilgrims were John Rhoden, president of the" Franklin First National bank and his wife. The brigade is headed by A. B. Rabbins. The week of Frazer's return brought back to A. B. Bower and C. M. Gillette of Byron, Genessee county and Menzie, Mosier Lee former Caledonia men. The appearance and tales of these men roused all Genessee county to the high est pitch of excitement. Six Italians who left Le Roy last summer were reported to be earning $10 to $15 per day. Bower and Gillette confided to some of their friends that they owned two and a half claims, for one of which they would not take less than $30,000. Their tales have proved so alluring that when these men return on March 1, they will be accompanied by as many Genessee county folks as can raise the necessary money. How widespread is the interest, is proved by the immense crowds that gather from every part of the county when one of these men speaks in public. Each and every one of these gold seekers gives the scarcity of provisions during the winter months as his reason for re turning at this time. Other western New York towns, which cannot boast of the return of their Klondike pilgrims, are making the most of letters from the far away Eldo rado. There is not a village so small or so poor that it has not representa tives present or prospective in the Yu kon gold fields. Holley. Orleans coun ty, sent a party of six this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Clark of Perry, Wyoming county set out Tuesday. Their plan is to open a hotel on the Yu kon. Three Hornellsville men have joined a big band whose members placed $1,000 each in a common fund and will share all things equally. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 3. As the gate way between the east and the Klon dike, this city has for some weeks been the witness of many returning parties of gold finders and of parties of gold seekers. The daily trains to the coast over both the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern are crowded, many of the parties being made up in the Northwest and outfitting here.but more of them coming from the east and stop ping off here to add to their supplies and outfits. Two new local companies have just been organized and started for the gold fields, but they have no present inten tion to dig for the metal themselves, having both formed dog train com panies and planned to make their share of the money by hauling supplies. Most of the men in these companies are rail roaders and about half the stockholders go along to work. Nearly every city in this state has contributed a share to the number of Klondikers and most of them have giv en something to increase the army of dogs now en route to Alaska. So ac tive has become the market for large dogs that the local police receive daily complaints at the disappearance of val uable canines but in most cases have been too late to reclaim the four-footed property. One woman found her dog crated ready for shipment: before an of ficer could be called the train pulled out with her dog. Several have been res cued at the depot. Worcester. Mass., Feb. 3. A party of 40 men from this city and vicinity left today for the Alaska gold fields. A crowd of nearly 3.000 persons was at the railroad station to see them start. The gold-seekers intend to operate in the Copper river country. Vancouver, B. C. Feb. 3. The steam er Islander sailed last night for Alaska with over 300 passengers and all the freight she could carry. She had also a number of horses and nearly all the Klondikers have dog teams. TOM ANDERSON IN CHARGE Of Captain John Seaton's Headquar ters in This City. Captain John Seaton has abandoned his intention of maintaining headquarters from which to direct his campaign for governor at the Copeland, and has rented a suite of rooms in the Curry building, 627 Kansas avenue. Major Tom Anderson has joined the Seaton forces and has been designated by Mr. Seaton to take charge of the head quarters during the absence of the latter from the city. Captain Seaton's headquarters are in the rear of the Commercial club rooms and Major Anderson can take care of both easily. He is a good hand-shaker and will look well to the details of the cam paign. C. F. Mercher, Jr., who does Major An derson's work, will be Mr. Seaton's sten ographer. He Is now at work. THE AUDITORIUM. Something Which. May Prove Inter esting but Yet Has Nothing to Do "With It So far as personal abuse is concerned it may relieve the fldgetty young gen tleman who sits in state on the edi torial throne of the Capital to know: that the editor and proprietor of the State Journal, although a young man himself, is still the oldest editor in point of service on any one paper in Topeka; that he considers it no disgrace to have started with nothing in Emporia, af terwards putting his entire savings into a Topeka paper thirteen years ago, bid ding for it at auction at receiver's sale a higher price than any Topeka man was willing to go; that while the editor and sole owner of the Journal still lives in a small rented house, there is no mortgage on the State Journal newspa per, that it pays all its bills as they be come due and has no debts; that the State Journal building erected two years ago when the times were so hard that no individuals in Topeka were put ting up business blocks, has a small mortgage on it much smaller than even the record shows and which will be paid off entirely long before it is due and which is not a lien on anything connected with the State Journal ex cept the real estate; that the editor of the State Journal is one of the largest depositors in Mr. Mulvane's bank and considers it a first class bank none better in the state. We sometimes think Mr. Mulvane knows more about banking than he does about newspapers but then the Capital is a very good newspaper too in its way. We really don't see what all this has to do with Topeka's auditorium, nor why the Capital has dragged it into the subject. In connection with the Capital's au ditorium article the reporter of that pa per makes the statement that John R. Mulvane does not own the Capital and never has owned it, the Journal knows that the Capital reporter misrepresents Mr. Mulvane and does him great injus tice. It is no disgrace to own the Cap ital, although some few people may think so. Mr. Mulvane ought to be proud of the paper and probably is. The Capital reporter, who made his mistake, is referred to the following testimony of record in the recent case of J. E. Baker vs. J. K. Hudson, No. 7.214 in the United States circuit court in the government building in this city: "Court convened pursuant to adjournment- John R. Mulvane, a witness, called on behalf of the complainant, being first duly examined.cautioned and solemnly sworn to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in answer to direct interrogatories pro pounded to him by E. S. Quinton, esq., counsel for complainant.testified as fol lows, to-wit: Q. I will ask you if you are acquaint ed with what is known as The Topeka Capital company? A. I used to be. Q. What do you mean by that? A. I am acquainted with it. Q. That company is editing what is known as The Topeka Daily Capital at the present time, isn't it? A. No, sir. Q. I will ask you if, in every issue of The Topeka Daily Capital this does not appear: Topeka Daily Capital, by the Topeka Capital comj s.-.iy. Harold T. Chase, editor; Dell ieizer, business manager?" A. I expect it does. Q. The Topeka Capital company then is not editing that paper, is it? A. No, sir. Q. Who is editing it? A. I am. Q. You individually? A. Yes, sir. Q. What has Harold T. Chase got to do with it? A. He is my hired help. Q. He signs it as editor? A. As my employe. Q. Who is paying the debts of that paper? A. I am liable for them. Q. All the debts, then, you are liable for? A. I think so; I am paying them at least. Q. You get all the profit or revenue that comes from it, do you? A. I suppose so. Q. You know whether you own that paper up there or not? A. Yes, sir. Q. You get all the revenue and profit from it, do you? A. Yes, sir. Q. You don't appear anywhere in the paper as being individually responsible in this paper? A. I don't know whether I do or not. Everybody knows that. Etc., etc. MR. WEIGHTMAN'S CONCERT A Large and Pleased Audience Greet Him at His Benefit Entertainment Frank Weightman's benefit concert at Library hall Wednesday evening was well attended, the hall being filled. The programme consisted of classical and comic songs and humorous recitations by Mr. Weightman. He was assisted by Mrs. A. R. Lingafelt. Miss Pearlade Prescott, Miss Annie Bundy, M. C. Hol man, J. A. Paul, C. L. Reeske and the Modocs. Miss May Higgins, Messrs. E. C. Lew is, W. F. Roehr and J. J. Falls were the accompanists for the musical numbers. Mr. Weightman's part of the pro gramme was as follows: "Shop Walker" LeBrunn "By the Fountain" Steven Adams "Mary" "The Nipper's Lullaby".. Bond Andrews He also sang a solo with the Modocs, a duett with Mr. Reeske and a trio with Messrs. Holman and Paul. The con cert was appreciated by the audience and encores were frequent. FINE CHURCH BURNS. Presbyterian Edifice Costing $50,000 at New Albany, is Destroyed. New Albany, Ind., Feb. 3. The First Presbyterian church, the largest in the city, was destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $20,000. The fire was caused by a defective flue. The First National bank building, ad joining, was damaged $2,500. which is covered by insurance. The church was built in 1S52. Ellis County Dry. Hays City. Feb. 3. Ellis county is dry again. Alvis Staab was today convicted on five counts, Martin Gross on one count, for violating the liquor law. Joints are now all closed NO REASON IN IT. Leading Citizens and Promo ters of the Auditorium Talk About the Agitation of the Proposed Site OF CONTENTION HALL. Question Was Settled in Best Manner Possible Many Months Ago and No Change Can Be Made, Unless Some Generous Topekan Gives a Site Outright. The question of a site for the Topeka auditorium is one that was carefully canvassed a year ago, and at that time both the Auditorium association and the city council decided that the only available site was the City park. Edward Wilder, one of the prominent members of the Auditorium association and also one of the recognized leaders in every movement for the advance ment of the city,-said today: "I regret Very much that there seems to be so much partisan feeling for and against the construction of the auditor ium in the City park. It is purely a business question and ought to be set tled without hard feeling, and I should be sorry to believe that any considera ble number of citizens would refuse to contribute unless their judgment as to location is accepted. I have advocated the park, not because of any real estate interest, not because of the desire to secure thereby an improvement of that portion of the city, but simply because, against my personal preference for a more central location, a careful consid eration of all the elements in the problem has forced the conclusion that the park location is the best. My rea sons are: "First The purpose of the auditorium is mainly for large conventions or gath erings requiring very much more space than can be had in the opera house or Hamilton hall, and the seating mini mum of 6,000 compels a building that will be entirely unsatisfactory to an audience which could be accommodated in our present halls. A half filled audi ence room is a serious drawback to an entertainment, and I do not understand that it is desired to erect a building which can be used as an excuse for wrecking legitimate enterprises of our citizens. "Second The convention and other uses of the hall will be largely in sum mer time, when doors and windows must all be open, and unless the build ing is set back from any traveled street 150 feet, it will be impossible for speak ers to reach their audience, and the pleasure at any large concert will be seriously impaired. The use of the building for such purposes will be quite as largely in the day time as in the ev ening, and unless the greatest degree of quiet, is secured, we shall have utterly failed in our purpose. No site up town has yet been named on which a building to accommodate 6,000 sittings could be erected without occupying all the area up to the sidewalk line, and in such a case a trolley line or any considerable traffic on paved street would make the building nearly valueless for its legitimate purposes. Anything less than an entire block, or possibly three-quarters of a block, ought not to be consid ered. "Third The cost of such a central site added to the cost of the building is, I fear, more than can be raised, even though we should all prefer to be with in three blocks of Eighth street and Kansas avenue, rather than seven blocks away. "Fourth The inevitable improvement of the City park is not at all the reason for putting the auditorium in the park, but I think it will be found a legitimate consolation for a selection which, it seems to me, is almost unavoidable for the reasons above stated." E. H. Crosby, another member of the association, said: "There Is no use of further agitation of the question. The City park has been selected, and since no one has come forward to donate another site, it will have to be built in the park. I do not see why people should complain about the location." M C Holman I believe that the op position to the City park location is coming from men who want to sell real estate. They see In it a chance to dis pose of some property somewhere at a good price. I would call the opposition an effort to boom real estate or dispose of it The City park is where the audi torium should be built and will be built. W C Stephenson Follow up the op position to the City park location and you will find at the other end some one with a piece of real estate to dispose of. The City park is the place for the audi torium and there is where it will be built. Some of the croakers might of fer to donate a site. Charles P. Adams There are many people who would prefer to have the auditorium up town but since it cannot be without expending $10,000 or $15,000 for a site it seems to me that there is nothing else to do but pull altogether to build it in the City park. An auditor ium is what the city needs. Charles S. Elliott The question is not so much where the auditorium will be built, but when it will be. This agi tation will do no good and may divide the people so that it will be difficult to raise the money. The City park loca tion is all right. A. W. Dana What is needed is an auditorium and if it can not be built up town then put it in the City park. Wm. Green What is the use to go over ground which has been thoroughly canvassed. The City park is the best place for the auditorium and both the association and the city council has de cided to build it there. The location is surely as central as could be desired. Qtto Kuehne There is no sense in re viving this talk about a site for the auditorium. Everybody is ready to work for the building where it was de cided long ago to build it and it is fool ishness to talk about any other site. Secretary C. H. Nettels It has been almost a year since the auditorium as sociation and city council decided that the building should be in the City park. It is a question that has been regarded as settled. No one was willing to do nate a site. I do not believe that the question of changing the site from the City park will ever be suggested at the meeting of the association. Councilman J. S. Warner I would like to know if there is a business man in Topeka who would like to have the auditorium by the side of his business house. I know that if it was built next to me I-would move out. Neither would any one who has a residence want the building near the house. The City park is the natural location for such a build ing., I shall propose to take around two lists when the canvass for sub scriptions is made and if a man says he will not give if the auditorium is loca ted in the City park then put his name down for an up town location. In that way it will be found which is the most practical location and I would not ob ject to the building being placed some where up town if more money can be raised for an up town site. A SILVER KLONDIKE. A Deposit Found in Mexico Which Runs 26,000 Ounces to the Ton. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 3. Mining men in this city are excited over a phenom enally rich silver deposit discovered the other day on the line of the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific road in Mex ico, about 100 miles from El Paso. Francisco Consado, of this city, dis covered the deposit three miles from the railroad track, where it had been tramped over for months unnoticed by railroad men. Consado brought sam ples of the ore to this city which has assayed 26,000 ounces of silver to the ton. WATER COMPANY FIGHTS. Will Resist the Enforcement of the New Rate Ordinance. All doubt about the attitude of the w-ater company in reference to the new ordinance making a 20 per cent reduc tion in rates, was removed today when the company through Rossington. Smith Dallas filed a suit for injunction in the federal court to prevent the city from forcing the new rates on the com pany. Judge Williams granted a temporary writ and set the hearing for February 14. There is no dispute about the city having the right to reduce rates, the only question being what is a reasona ble reduction. This is only another link in the chain of endless litigation that has character ized the history of the water company during the past five years. While the lawyers are wrangling the people will be compelled to wait. All this proves how necessary it is for every city to own its own waterworks and all other public utilities. All corporations of this sort are stubborn and extortionate. END OF A MAN KILLER. Hanging of Doc Tanner on the Klondike Trail. Seattle Wn., FebY 3. "Boys string me up, if you like, but remember' you are hanging the steadiest man with a six shooter that ever came out of Montana. You say it's all right to hang me, and I guess it is. I'm only sorry I didn't get the rest of 'em." With these words Cowboy Doc Tanner faced his execu tioners on the morning of January 2, at Valdes Pass. The men who passed sentence on him were members of a party of Massachusetts prospectors bound for the Copper river country, Alaska, and the crime for which Tan ner paid the penalty was the killing of N. A. Call of Worthington, Minn., and William A. Lee of Lowell, Mass. The expedition consisted of 40 men, and Mr. Tanner had joined them in Seattle on their way north. He was supplied with an outfit and taken into membership, but unmindful of the fact he was quarrelsome and so overbearing that his companions decided that he must leave the party. On the evening of January 1, a meeting was held in Call's tent and during the conference the statement was made: "We must get rid of Tanner; let him take his share of the outfit and shift for himself. We are up here for business and we mean what we say." There were four men at the meeting and no sooner had the remark been made than the flop of the little tent was pulled aside. The cowboy stood there, six shooter in hand. "Boys, I overheard your talk about me," he said. "I'm here for business." Before his victims realized what had happened, Tanner had shot .twice and the bullets pierced Call and Lee through the chest. Tanner fired again, but his preceding shot had extinguished the candle and the bullet did not take ef fect. One of the remaining members crouched down behind some baggage, and the other, cutting his way out of the tent, gave the alarm. Tanner, sup posing the three men to be dead, took a station in some brush and waited. It was not long before he was surrounded. "You'd better surrender your gun," was called out to him. "If you say so, boys, I'll do it," was his response, and he then handed over his weapon. The miners at once con vened and by an overwhelming major ity decided that Tanner should be hanged. There was some discussion over the question of shooting him, but the majority decided on the rope. When notified of the decision. Tanner observ ed that he hoped that they would not tantalize hirn by stringing and let him down again before he was dead. He was led out in the snow during the early morning. He fearlessly allowed the rope to be tied about his neck and so met his doom. Tanner was buried face downward. A. C. Lobbe of San Francisco, who witnessed the execution, said he never saw such an exhibition of nerve. Tan ner declined to make a statement other than to say that at years of age he was left an orphan. Call and Lee had families. "DESIRABLE SITES." Desirable sites that have been suggest ed are the hay market at Fourth and Jackson streets, the old skating rink property at Seventh and Van Buren streets, the vacant lots on the east side of Quincy street south of Sixth, and the old street car barns on Tenth street. Capital. Those sites are desirable, to be sure, but who is going to pay for them? Money talks. SHOW JFJORCE. British Squadron of India, Aus tralia and the Pacific Ordered to Reinforce the China Fleet at Once. IF RUSSIA HOISTS The Russian Flag at Port Arthur Great Britain Will Sieze the Chinese Province, Chusan. Shanghai, Feb. 3. The China Gazette says the British Indian, Australian and Pacific squadrons have been ordered to be ready to reinforce the fleet in the far east, thus giving the British admiral a fleet capable of coping with "any combination opposing British policy." "In the mean while," adds the China Gazette, "the Brit ish claims in the Yang Tse Kiang will be supported by a strong squadron stationed at Chusan, to which place two other war ships are en route. In the event of Rus sia hoisting her flag over the forts at Port Arthur, the British admiral has been ordered to hoist the British flag over Chu san and the Japanese fleet will ascend the Yang Tse Kiang as soon as the river rises. "About 7,500 Russian artillery and cav. airy and quantities of stores and muni tions have arrived at Kirin, the capital of the Manchurian province of Kirin." WELL, PROVIDE THE SITE. The Capital still continues its objec tions to the City park as the site for the auditorium, but as yet offers no other, and appears to have made no plans to secure another. As the Journal has stated, time and again, it prefers an up town site if it can be got without ex pense to the city; the Journal was orig inally for an uptown site until it found one couldn't be had. The Journal will cheerfully agree to work for the audi torium up town if the Capital will pro vide the uptown site. But it seems nobody is rushing forward with a $10,000 or $20,000 piece of property for this pur pose. Why doesn't the Capital produce the site if it doesn't like the one chosen by the Auditorium association, which by the way is doing the work of raising the money and ought to have the most to say about it. The City park is nearer to the busi ness center of the city than Kansas City's auditorium is going to be. Rarelv is the convention hall in the heart of the business district of a city. Prop erty is always too expensive there to put comparatively non-paying buildings on it. Another thing, auditoriums are not built primarily for profit on the invest ment. They are built by public spirit for indirect profit; to help the town, the business interests, the social inter ests, the city's reputation for hospital ity and, by state capitals, to show the capital city '3 concern for the welfare and convenience of the state and national conventions and assemblies. If there were big direct profits in an auditorium people with money would fall over ea h other to secure the franchise and priv ilege of building om?. One big con vention alone brings money enough to a city to build an auditorium, but the money is widely diffused and the bene fits not all in dollars and cents. Hence these enterprises must be fostered by generous public spirit and subscriptions. Topeka people who are asking fo have the auditorium placed on a prominent business corner, are like children cry ing for the moon. They are asking for something nobody else has. However, if anybody is philanthropist enough to give such a corner, the Journal together with all the people in Topeka will wel come the gift with great rejoicing. But unless the Capital can produce the do nor of such a site or raise the money to buy it, it ought not to throw obstacles in the path of the Auditorium associa tion, which has an arduous task enough as it is. Put up or shut up. In brief the Journal's position is ex actly that as shown by interviews with citizens: we must have an auditorium now and rather than not have it at all build it on a site which has some op ponents. The Capital's position is, let the au ditorium be postponed for years rather than build it in the little park between North and South Topeka, down by the most beautiful bridge in the west. The reputation of Topeka is at stake now. Topeka has no place for a big gathering. We lose thousands of dollars every year and no one knows how many conventions because we have no assembling place. Topeka just now, this month, has the great gathering of creamery interests and we had to beg a generous firm to vacate its business room to give us even an unsuitable place, and pay three per cent interest on the cost of an auditorium to accom modate this one meeting. Another thing; the location of a site up town will not create entire harmony, nor dispel all opposition. There are those who are as strongly in favor of the City park site as they are in favor of some intangible site elsewhere. Those who favor the City park have: the site located; they have ten thous and dollars undisputed in cash for a building thereon; they have Otto Kuehne's promise to raise three thous and dollars for the building on this site. Those who favor another site have: absolutely nothing except talk! talk!! TALK! Again we say, put up or shut Up. Mrs. Samuels and daughter Ora and Mrs. Davidson and daughter Daisy will go to Leavenworth Sunday to attend the wedding of their niece. They will also visit in Kansas City.

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The blue clay entirely fills the six inch piped during the eruptions and arises slowly above the top of the casing, exact ly as sausages emerge from a sausage machine. until the top is so high inthe air that it becomes overbalanced; then five or six feet of the length topples over up on the ground. The continued upward movement of the clay in a, few minutes causes more of the column to topple over. This has continued until circular pieces of the blue clay aggregating several hun. dred feet in length have been deposited on the ground in the vicinity of the well, necessitating the employment of men to remove the" huge deposits lest the top of the casing become completely buried. A thrill of terror is experienced when a brassy cough of croup sounds through the house at night. But the terror soon changes to relief after One Minute Cough Cure has been administered. Safe and harmless for children, G. W. Etansfield, 32 Kansas avenue. WANT VVANAMAKER. Pennsylyania Republicans De sire to Name Him For Got, lie Is Coy and Says He Doesn't Want Public Office. FIGHT OX QUAY BEGUN He is Accused of Being Respon sible Fcr Conditions Which His Party Associates Declare to Be Disgraceful. Philadelphia, Feb. 3. The anti-Quay movement in the Republican party re ceived an impetus here at a conference at which there were present about 400 representative business and party men from all sections of the state. The con ference was held under the auspices of the Business Men's league. The conference was called to order by Elias Demer, of Williamsport, who stated that the meeting had been called in behalf of Republicans of the state who desired the election of a governor who would administer the affairs of the state without the dictation of any one man. The conference was In session about three hours. Quite a number of speech es were made denunciatory of the Unit ed States senator from Pennsylvania and particularly censuring the political methods of Senator Quay. The domi nant faction of the state legislature al so came in for its share of reproach. The sentiment of nearly all the speak ers was in favor of the nomination of John Wanamaker as the candidate for governor of the Republican party at the coming fall election, although the names of Congressmen Dalzell and C. W. Stone were frequently mentioned and applauded. After a lengthy discussion a resolu tion was adopted urging Mr. Wanama ker "to permit the use of his name," for the office of governor at the ap proaching Republican primary elections and at the Republican state convention. Great enthusiasm was aroused in the earlier part of the meeting by the read ing of a letter from John Wanamaker. It was dated Ossadow Island, Georgia. Mr Wanamaker expressed regret that a prior engagement has prevented his at tendance at the meeting with the pur pose of which he was fully in accord. He wanted it distinctly understood that he did not desire public office and sug gested Judge John Stewart, Henry C. McCormick, John Dalzell, Major E. A. Hancock and Col. E. A. Irwin, as names from which could be selected a govern or not to be owned by any one. A c ommittee of seven was selected to notify Mr. Wanamaker of the action of the conference and ask him for permis. sion to use his name as a candidate for governor. The conference adopted a lengthy platform of principles in the form of an address to the Republican voters of the state. It declared the condition of politics in the state to be disgraceful and that this condition has been brought about by the expenditure of money to corrupt and debauch the vot ers. The present senior United States sen ator, the platform eays, is understood to desire re-election and he, more than any other man, it says, is responsible for the present corrupt condition of state politics. His defeat for re-election is urged upon the voters. ELIOT WITH ANDREWS. Harvard President la for Free Speech and Action. Boston, Feb. 3. The keynote of the addresses given by Judge F. A. Gaskell, Attorney-General Knowlton, and Pres ident Eliot, of Harvard, at the annual dinner of the sons of Brown, here last night, was approbation of the action of the alumni and thp farnitu n-p University in sustaining the stand tak en uy rresiueni Anarews last summer President Eliot said that the freedom of speech advocated by the alumni faculty and president of Brown Univer sity was fitting for an American insti tution. He thanlfpH them ...v.,-. they had done, and said it was an im portant to American youth. Attorney General Knowlton said that one of the most, jmportm duties or a college was to teach men to think for themselves. IN A STRAWSTACK. A Steer Lives Imprisoned for Ninety Days. Frederick, Feb. 3. On October 20 last James Houck, vice-president of the Franklin Savings bank, advertised that a young steer had strayed from hi3 farm. The animal was given for lost until Friday, when of the colored men noticed several hens going in a hole in a straw stack in the barnyard. Think ing they had a nest he crawled in about fifteen feet in search of the eggs. He came out quicker than he had gone in, declaring the stack was haunted, as something had kicked him. Another man was sent in to investi gate and he came out exclaiming that something was alive in there, as he felt a hairy leg, and it had also kicked his hand. An investigation was made when the missing steer was actually found under the straw, where it had been imprisoned for 99 days witnout food or water excepting the straw which it had subsisted on The hands on the place now recalled the fact that on the second day's threshing they ob served the steer standing against the stack, which had been made the first day, and saw the straw falling over the animal. but thought it had moved away. When rescued it was very weak and emaciated, but is doing very well now, being fed on boiled bran. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores. Tetter.Chapped Hands, Chil blains, Corns and all skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per fect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Swift-Holliday Drug company. Can't Express Her Thanks, Scrofula Sores, Terrible Itching, Entirely Cured, Mrs. Emily Ford, Eldora, Hardin Co., Iowa, writes: "I can't express my thanks for the box of Beggs German Salve, as it has entirely cured the ter rible itching and burning, that was in my ankles, caused by scrofula sores." At druggists. Dandruff is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spreads and dries, forming a scurf and causing the hair to fall out. Hall's, Hair Renewer cures it. A SCENE IN HAWAII. ONE OF THE MANY BEAUTIFUL. PINEAPPLE PLANTATIONS FOR WHICH THE ISLANDS ARE NOTED. Not least among the many agricultural products of the Hawaiian islands are pineapples. These beautiful plantations are for the most part in the valleys and plains, which are extremely fertile, while the uplands are more adapted to grazing than to tillage. Other products of the Islands are wheat, coffee, sugar, cotton, to bacco, cacao, arrow root, mulberries, yams, sweet potatoes and taro or breadfruit. The agricultural exports have been gradually Increasing for the past half a century. OVER A GYPSY'S WORDS. A young Girl Brooded Until She Be came a Mental Wreck. Aurora, Jnd., Feb. 3. A gypsy fortune teller is said to be responsible for the ruined life and probable death of a bright and beautiful girl residing with her pa rents on a farm West of Dillsboro. The victim is Mary Hess, aged 18,daugh ter of Joshua Hess. The beginning of her misfortune dates back to last summer, when a band ot gypsies camped on the land of William H. Greene, a neighboring farmer, and ere. ated some little excitement among the young folks in the vicinity by the pretend, ed wonderful gifts one of the old gypsies possessed for revealing the future. A number of young people visited the camp one Sunday, Miss Hess being with the crowd. Her constant merriment offended the old hag, who was making money by telling the fortunes of the visitors, ana she persisted in her determination to re. veal the destiny of the gay and fun-loving girl. Yielding to the requests of her com. panions, Miss Hess allowed her fortune to be told. With the heartlessness of a demon the old woman fiendishly portrayed the direst misfortunes, misery and degradation that could possibly befall a mortal. The ter rible story as it came from the lips o the torturing hag tilled the young girl with horror and blasted the joyousness of her gentle nature. She returned home only to brood over the appalling1 fate that awaited her as told by the gypsy, until health failed and her mind gave way. Broken in body and wrecked In mind, the once happy and beautiful girl is rapidly going to a premature grave and must be constantly watched and guarded to pre vent her committing suicide. Her sad fate fills everyone with horror who knew her and have learned the history of her ruined life. IS A POISON FREAK. Hot Pins and Poisons Hare No Terrors for Beno Stomach Like an Ostrich. Columbus, Feb. 3. Harry Beno Is in town. Born 28 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., of an English mother and an Egyp tian father, he has for the last 20 years followed a life that would have killed 999 in 1,000 the first 24 hours. Beno is a liv ing defiance to all laws of chemistry as far as they apply to the human body. Strychnine, belladonna.mercurlc chloride, brimstone are alike indifferent to him. Neither do pins, awls, hot-pointed instru ments or like matters disturb his nervous system. That he has a nervous system seems likely from the fact that he cannot drink alcoholic liquors without trembling afterwards, the same as other mortals. Another of his feats Is to stop the beating of his heart for six seconds at a time. He appeared before a class at the Star, ling medical college. Before this class he caused his heart to stop beating for six seconds, had an awl driven an inch into his head, and took one-half grain of bel ladonna, one-fourth grain of strychnine, three drops of laudanum and the brim stone from several matches. All this was without giving the slightest evidence ot pain. Tomorrow he will again appear be fore the, class and will take any poison In any amount up to 10 grains and will also permit students to run redhot nails, pins and like articles into his flesh. The only recompense he receives from this is a voluntary collection from the students. Another peculiar thing about the man is that all things taste alike to him. He says he cannot distinguish between ham and beefsteak, except by looking at them. He only eats one meal a day. BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR is for women's diseases and irregu larities. It cures everything that is commonly called a "female trouble." T- -fd rl iT-ii't -v. tvrun ell T Vi feminine organs of generation, driv- j2 ing out weakness and imparting strength; stopping unnatural drains, and regulating the monthly flow in every instance. It makes sickly and weakly women strong and well again. $1 a bottle at drug stores. Send for a free book about it. The Brcdfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, NOAH ALLEN PLEASED. Thinks the St. Louis Conference Was a Populist Harmonize r. Galveston, Feb. 3. A reporter called on Mr. Noah Allen, chairman of the Populist executive committee for Gal veston county and asked him for- a statement of his views concerning the action of the recent conference in St. Louis. In response Mr. Allen said: "First of all I was greatly amused at the various reports sent out to the daily press. They were, like Joseph's coat, of many colors, misleading in the extreme and calculated to create wrong and confusing impressions of the work done. Had I not passed through sev eral conflicts and been accustomed to such misrepresentations of Populist and other reform gatherings, I might have lost my bearings and jumped at the conclusion that our party was split wide open and gone up the flume, leav ing us poor Pops floating around in the air like political orphans with no home to go to, trying to find out in some mys terious way where 'we were at.' The national organization committee was formed to promote Populism, not to destroy, and its aim is to aid the na tional committee to steer clear of break ers in the future. It was the aim of that conference to inaugurate a plan for fu ture action, whereby every genuine Populist may have a voice in the orga nization and management of the party, calling its conventions, making its plat forms and nominating its candidates that our party-may nut be sidetracked and Bryanized on a single issue in 1H0O. It was simply a move to reunite our forces upon the Omaha platform and prosecute or work along the orig-inal lines of Populism, without the silver plating, Bourbonizing influences. "There may have been some radical men there who wanted to make war on $enator Butler and those of the nation al committee who agree with him in matters of parts' policy, but they did not prevail in declaring war or seceding from the national committee. But while the warlike element did not prevail the sentiment of the conference was unani mous in favor of an absolute divorce from all old parties and a clean cut, go-it-alone on the Omaha platform policy In the future. I believe the conference was a success and will bear good fruit." MRS. BURNETT'S BOOK. Finishing What She Hopes Will Be the Greatest American NoveL New York, Feb. 3. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett sailed for Europe on the Campania, and will stay in London till October, when she intends to re turn to this country. "The man object of my trip is the completion of a story in which I have been really interested for years," she said. "It will -be, I think, my best work the achievement of my life. I have always so regarded It, and yet, strange to say, I have allowed years to intervene between its beginning and completion. This new book will be cal led 'The Great Willoughby Claim.' That at least is what I have called it up to the present time. That is the name by which the Scribners have read it and are now urging me to complete it. "The idea of 'The Great Willoughby Claim' came to me because of a discus sion I heard about the great American novel. The construction I put upon the term is a story that shall embody the greatest amount of local coloring that shall show the dialect of various parts of the country, that shall teem with life as It Is all over the great American con tinent. 'The Great Willoughby Claim' begins a scene in a small aristocratic southern town, then it shifts to the mountains of North Carolina a mining region; then to a fashionable southern resort, some such place as the White Sulphur Springs. From there the sto ry goes to a manufacturing town, some such place as Springfield or Hartford, and from there to a small village. Then it comes to Washington." FEET 18 INCHES LONG. Tennessee Has a Negro Who is 'Sight Feet TalL Gallatin, Tenn., Feb. 3. "Bud" Ro gan, a negro of this place, is the great est living wonder in the world. "Bud" is eight feet tall and has a reach with each arm extending to ninety-six inch es, the greatest in the world, and twenty-one inches more than Fitzsimmons'. His hands are eighteen and one-half inches in length, and his finger nails are about the size of silver 25-cent piec es. He is almost a skeleton, yet he weighs 156 pounds. But the most peculiar features are his feet. They are eighteen inches in length and are as large around as an ordinary man's leg. No shoes have ev er been found that he could put on, and in consequence he has to keep them wrapped in a blanket in cold weather. Another strange thing connected with him is that he cannot walk, step nor stand upon his feet, his nether limbs being too small and weak to support his own weight. "Bud's" condition is due to a disease which has enlarged his bones. He is very ignorant, and though he has often received good offers to put himself on exhibition he has refused them through fear that he will be kidnapped. Don't annoy others by your coughing, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all throat and. lung troubles. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue. FIESTA AT TILL A DE SERIS Bull Fights, Gaming and Masquerades to Enliven the Day and Night. Hermosillo, Mex., Feb. 3. In its various features the fiesta that began today and Is to continue thirteen days in the old "Villa de Seris, across the Sonora rive from this 'city, is the greatest in the his tory of these gala occasions in this part of Mexico. The presence of hundreds of Americans has been the occasion for lav Ish preparations. For the bull fights the most ferocious beasts the agents of the managers could secure were procured, and are now in corrals waiting the espada of the matador, who arrived from the City of Mexico today. Managers of the games are also present from the capital and brought with them $100,000 with which to back monte, faro and roulette. All the games and the various booths are set up in the plaza, under the shadow of the old mission church, and with liquor, lunch and curio booths form a circle. There are several gambling tables, at which the cost of play ranges from 1 centavo up to no limit. From present indications the attendance will average from 7,000 to 10,000 daily. Two features of the fiesta, flowe day and the great masquerade, have not yet been given definite dates, but will be set for probably next Saturday. The aU tendance at the masquerade will prob ably reach 25,000, and preparations for it are said to be the most elaborate in the history of Hermosillo. Flower day is also an occasion for masking, and participants in this feature throw flour or flowers at will. It Is only at the time of the fiesta that public, gam ing is allowed here, and at this time everybody hazards money, limited only by his resources. TOUGH AS THEY GET. Nearly Three Hundred Drunken Men in Complete Control rt; at Great Wellington. Tacoma, Feb. 3. Reports from Welling ton, at the western end of the Great Northern tunnel, Indicate a serious state of affairs, the entire force of employes having been on a drunken spree since Monday, many of them running around with their clothes half torn off and mak. ing night hideous with their howls. Eight stabbing affrays are reported to have taken place, two of the participants being badly wounded and four men have been arrested and are now in jail in Seat tle. It is hard to believe the stories brought back by passengers on the Great North, ern overland. If anything like the state of affairs exists that these men- claim, Wellington Is the toughest town in the entire country. There are 250 men at work on the tunnel and approaches. Fully fifty hobos and tough characters are hanging around the eamp at pay day for the purpose of robbing the laborers. Three saloons are running night and day. Only the vilest kind of liquor is sold, but In great quantities. There is twenty, three feet of snow on the ground, and this has piled up around the saloons until the doors can only be reached by tunnel through the snow. The saloons cannot be seen at all from the railroad track, and the snow blanket over them shuts out all light and keeps In the noise made by the drunken laborers and hobos. Trouble begins as soon as the laborers are paid, and is caused chiefly by the men out of employment. The tunnel workers get drunk and the trouble commences. As soon as a man shows his money the gang of hobos in the saloon commence to fight, his pockets are rifled and he is thrown in. to a convenient corner to sober up. BORED FOR 50 YEARS. Has Col. .Johnson Been by That Tiresome "First White Child" Story. Another "first white child born In Kansas" has been discovered. This time it is Col. Montgomery Bryant of Wichita. For nearly a half century Col. A. S. Johnson of Topeka has been pointed out as the first white child born in Kan sas. For a few years (that is before he could talk plain) Col. Johnson bore the honor meekly, as becomes a man of his quiet disposition, but as he older grew and came to manhood and receiv ed letter after letter, asking for the ex act hour of his birth, and when a new claimant would spring up every few months, the distinction of being "the first child" became somewhat monoto nous. It was not until a few years ago, however, that Col. Johnson began car rying a stiletto in his boot to use on every man who started out with: "Colonel, I understand you're the first, etc." The last claimant to the honor of be ing the "first white child" is therefore a subject which Col. Johnson does not care to discuss. He was playing seven up to the St. Ananias club rooms with F -P. Baker. Norris L. Gage and Sam Radges, when a reporter dropped in on him. The room was redolent with the odor of boiled cabbage, which the janitor was preparing for his own use in the base ment. The play was stopped a.nd Col. John son was handed a clipping about the new claimant. He read It and then a look of ennui overspread his usually passive features. "Tes, I have heard of this," said he. "I have been hearing things of this kind for 50 years, and I am tired of it. I am not to blame because I was born in Kansas, but I think I do deserve some credit for staying here all these years and being pestered with this anecdote about my birth. "I don't know whether I was the first white child born in Kansas or not, and I don't care. If people would only let me alone, I would be satisfied to let anvone else take the honor." When Col. Johnson was asked wheth er he knows the latest usurper, he re- Pl'5To, I never heard of him, but it is possible that he was born before I was. I suppose that any number of white ba bies were born at Fort Leavenworth be fore I saw the light of day, but what does It matter? I don't care when they were born or where, and I had no con trol over the circumstances of my own birth." Col. Johnson turned and resumed play, and in two minutes was unmer cifully beaten by Col. Radges. WHIPPINGPOSTS. Return to the Old Method of Punishment. Is Strongly Adyocated by Some Eminent Jurists FOR WIFE BEATERS. Judge Ong of Cleveland and Judge Tuley Of Chicago Are Among Its Ear nest Supporters. Cleveland, Feb. 3. Judge Ong, who hag been hearing divorce cases, declared in an Interview today in favor of the whip ping post for cruel husbands. He said: "When a woman comes into court and appeals to me for relief, when she is do ing all she can to support herself and children, has a good character and a mis erable creature in the shape of a hus band, I would give such a woman relief by divorce and order an injunction if there were not a word on the subject in a single statute of Ohio. I believe in es tablishing the whipping post for all such cowardly creatures as these husbands. "The great trouble is, first, the saloon; then, back of It, are the wholesaler and the brewer. The last two pose in the community as respectable, when, in truth and in fact, their wealth and their com forts are just so much taken from poor women and children through their drunk en husbands." Chicago, Feb. 3. The great prominence given the Ratelifle case in New Tork has aroused a sentiment in favor of punish ing wife beaters at the public post In the minds of many. A test of the feeling in Chicago has been made with the result that if Judge Murray F. Tuley, Judge Oliver H. Horton, Rev. William M. Law rence and Police Justice W. T. Hall had their way, wife-beaters would be tied to a post and soundly whipped. This would be done in full view of a contemptuous populace. It would be where fathers and mothers could point out to their children the miserable cul prit, writhing and groaning as the salt was rubbed into his bleeding wounds, and say, as did the Puritans of old: "See, my child; that is what happens to a man who beats his wife." Judge Murray F. Tuley said: "I have supreme contempt for a man who will beat his wife. It is the most brutal form of crime. The wife is completely at the mercy of her husband. If he beats her, I think he should be taken out and pub licly whipped. The punishment is too dangerous to be placed within the power of justices, however. I think wife-beating should be made a misdemeanor, to be tried by a jury In a court of record. Then, if convicted, the offender should be sen. fenced to the whipping post. I was In New Mexico for some time when men were sentenced to stripes for all kinds of offenses, including burglary, thieving, etc. My experience there makes me think it would be unwise to put the whipping post Into general use, as It would have a bad effect. But I think It is the only adequate punishment for that one of fense." Judge Oliver H. Horton If a man Is so brutal as to physically beat his wife no punishment can reach him except the whipping post. I do not favor all dis putes between man and wife being settled by the whip, but when a man goes out and deliberately gets drunk and comes home and beats his wife for the sake of beating her, he ought' to be tied to a post and publicly whipped. Dr. William M. Lawrence I believe In whipping as a punishment, not only for wife-beating, but for other offenses, par ticularly the polite crimes. The remedy must be of such a character as to make the crime disgraceful. If we had whip ping, I would make it public, where ko daks could be leveled at the man being punished. We are gradually approaching a period of revolution, there is so much crime. The public sympathy is with crim inals. Most of them have political "pulls" and can escape justice. This must be stopped. The whipping post is one method to stop it. Justice W. T. Hall I believe in It hearti ly. There are numbers of cases coming before me every day which merit it. When a man beats his wife and drives her out with a child at 1 o'clock in the morn ing he ought to be whipped. When a son, angered at some trifle, strikes and kicks his mother, he deserves a thrashing. As it is now, these offenders are fined. Perhaps they pay their fine, and perhaps they go to the bridewell, bring their po litical influence to bear, and get pardoned out. They should be given a dose of their own medicine. The Greatest Discovery Yet W M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, III.. "Chief says: "We won't keep house without Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and colds. Ex perimented with many others, but nev er got the true remedy until we used Dr. King's New Discovery. No other remedy can take its place in our home, as in it we have a certain and sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, etc." It is idle to experiment with other remedies, even if they are urged on you as just as good as Dr. King's New Discovery. They are not as good, because this remedy has a rec ord of cures and besides is guaranteed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottle free at Swift Holliday's Drug Store. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25e. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. Children and adults tortured by burns, scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseases may secure instant relief by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It is a great Pile remedy. G. W. Stans field, 632 Kansas avenue. G. A. Van Hall, the leading Druggist of Butler, Mo., writes: "We are hav ing splendid success with Beggs Blood Purifier and Blood Maker. It is one of the best sellers we ever had and gives satisfaction to all who have tried it. We take pleasure in recommending it. At druggists. Safe, sweet and satisfactory, Ayer's Pills are the best family physic We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. Subscribe for The State Journal. f "g"' j W It-pi!1 "-""jUSt"1 "Yld ftirp rnrw frlH in the hfad. COids OD the lungs, old colds, new colds and obstinate coles, arni all forms of crip, titops sneezing, discharges from the nose &na eyes, prevents cauixrti, diphtheria, pneumonia, and all throaiand lung troubks. These pleasant little peltetsare absolutely hurruless. have saved, thousands of lives and prevented much sick ness. The .Munyoii Remedy Company prepare a separate cure for each diseusn. At all druirgiKts 26 cents a vial. If you need medical advice write Prof. Munyon, 1505 Arch, fcslreet, Philadelphia. It is absolutely free. Don't be so economical in plumbing a" to get'dishon est work. Insist on good work and pay the right price, it will prove economy in the end. If do it, it is sure to be righfc in quality and price they are up-to-date in Plumbing Heating and Lighting. TOPESA. Absolutely First Class. J. C. GORDON, Prop. Building and Ecan 13!1 Year. Association, T0KpllA- MONEY TO LOAN. Real Estate Security. Long: Time, Low Kate Monthly Payments. Old Mortgages Lifted. New Houses Built. For particulars call at Room 15, Columbian Building:, on Sixth street. IS 1 -V TT7 (M 1, ISoYA. -.ZW AS 1 ILTS CREAM BALM Is a poKitivetrnre. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60 cents at DmcrffistP or by mail samples 10c by mail. EL.Y BROTHERS, 66 Warren St, Mew York City. I bVDS? ining quicKiy yieiaa bo laa easy effort of the housewife who usea this great cleaner. Largest package greatest economy. Ask the firocer for it. We'll Do Your Hauling Right! TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephone 509 Kansas Aye. 320 office. 395 House. F. P- BACON, Prop. Presco Go. I The I Lopeland, Convenient Incite 3 BtotT SS.00, General Offices and $3.00 Business Center. Per "D&y. i mm

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1898. Telephone 252. WE HAVE the Largest, Lowest Priced, riost Reliable Grocery Store in Topeka. Dealing hare will bring appreciation with it from the standpoint of economy and quality both. No goods sold without a guarantee of satisfaction. A trial order is our best advertisement. With each $5.00 order for other goods, we give 23 lbs finest California Granulated Sugar for $1.00. With a $10.00 order 34 lbs for fi.oo. Sugar Cured California Hams, per lb 05 Dry Salt Meat, per lb 04M Lion, Arbuokle's and Levering's Coffee, per pkg Q Sugar Cured Hams, fully warranted, per lb Good "White Lard, per lb 05 Greeley Colorado Potatoes, per bu 70 11 lbs. Wright's Wisconsin Pure Buckwheat Plour 25 12 lbs. Fancy Handpicked Michigan Navy Beans 25 7 lbs. New Lima Beans .25 1 gallon can Apples 1 gallon can Peaches 1 gallon can Apricots 2 cans 3-lb. 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Farnia 20 tb Pearl Hominy 12 lb bulk Scotch Oats 10 Tb Green Peas 6 tb Tapioca 10 lb pail White Fish Large pail table Syrup Large pail Jelly 5 tb pail Apple Butter .20 .25 .23 .15 .25 .25 .15 .10 .10 .10 .10 .10 .25 .15 .25 .25 .25 .03 .10 .10 .10 .25 .25 .-3 .25 .25 .25 .45 .45 .35 tb can Plumb Butter lb can Peach Butter Ib can Mince Meat th crushed Java Coffee tb Golden Rio Coffee tb Java Blend Coffee .10 .10 .10 .25 .10 .20 1 lb Java and Mocha Coffee 1 quart bottle best Bluing 3 cans Lewis Lye 10 bars Si!k Soap 14 bars Peet Bros. Rex Soap 8 pkgs. washing Soda same as Pear line 20 Tb Sal Soda 8 Tb Gloss Starch 9 bars White Russian Soap 6 pkgs. Bird Seed 6 pkgs. Corn Starch 6 Tb wood box Gloss Starch 6 pkgs. Faultless Starch 3 sacks Table salt 2 boxes Mason's Shoe Blacking No. 1 and No. 2 Lamp Chimneys... .35 or !05 .05 .05 MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY- UNDER THE DOME News of the Kansas State De partments. Historical Society Undertakes a Great "Work of Research. ALL ABOUT COItOXADO Eugene Ware, Judge John Guthrie and Others May Delve Into Spanish Ar chives in Their Search. Just, where did Coronado cease his jour ney in search of the golden city of the plains? This is the question that Eugene Ware and Judge John Guthrie of this city and L. R. Elliott of Manhattan, on the part of the State Historical society, mean to determine within the next few months. The determination is not sought after with any hope that possibly there may have been such a city and its treasures now lie hidden beneath the sod of Kan. AO SLEEP FOR TIiIS.EE MQJTIIS. One Cause of Sleeplessness That Can Be Readily Overcome. Mr. Wm. Handschu of 46th St. Cotton Alley, Pittsburg. Pa., expresses himself as follows regarding the new remedy for that common and obstinate disease, piles: "I take pleasure in statins' that I was so afflicted with piles that for three months I got no regular sleep; I became completely prostrated: the doctors did me no good; my brother told me of the new remedy for piles, the Pyramid Pile Cure: 1 purchased from my druggist three 50-cent boxes and they completely cured me. I am once more at my work, and but for this excellent medicine I should be on my back. I take great pleasure in writ ing this letter because so many people are sufferers from this trouble who like myself did not know where to look for a. permanent, reliable, safe cure. Experience with the Pyramid Pile Cure in the past three years has demon strated to the medical profession, as well as to thousands of sufferers from piles, that it is the safest and most ef fectual pile cure ever offered to the public, containing no opiates or poisons of any kind, painless and convenient to handle, and being sold by druggists at 60 cents and $1 per box, is within the reach of every sufferer. Very frequently two or three boxes have made a complete cure of chronic cases that had not yielded to other remedy for years. There is scarcely a-disease more ag gravating and obstinate to cure than the various forms of piles and it is a common practice to use ointments, salves and similar preparations con taining dangerous poisons to remove the trouble. The Pyramid has super ceded all of these ineffectual remedies and no one suffering with any rectal trouble will make any mistake in giv ing the Pyramid a trial. If in doubt as to the nature of your trouble send to the Pyramid Drug Co.. Marshall, Mich., for a valuable little book on piles, describing all forms of the disease and describing the method of cure. Any druggist can furnish the Pyra mid Pile Cure as it is the best known and most popular remedy for piles, and if you ask him he can doubtless refer you to many people in your vicinity who have been cured completely by it. 112 East 6th. Street. 4 pkgs. Cond. Mince Meat 1 qt. bottle Tomato Catsup Good Gunpowder Tea per lb Good Young Hyson Tea per lb Good Japan Tea per Tb 2 tb Japan Tea Sif tings Old Fashioned Canadian Maple Syrup 1 quart can gallon can 1 gallon can 1. California E?aporated Fruits. 3 tb Evaporated Apples 3 Tb California Apricots 3 Tb California Blackberries 1 Tb California pitted Cherries 3 Tb California Peaches 3 Tb California Pears 3 Tb New Currents 7 Tb California Prunes 3 Tb California Raspberries 4 lb fancy Dates Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel, Ib 6 tb California Raisins London Layer Raisins pr tb 4 tb Seedless Sultana Raisins .25 .25 .15 .25 .25 .25 .25 .50 .25 .15 .25 .10 .28 Wolff's Pure leaf Lard. 3-lb. cans 5-lb. cans. 10-lb. cans 20-lb. cans. .$1. Use C. P. Baking Powder. We guarantee every can. You will find that it is just as good as Price's or Royal, and don't cost you half as much. Queensware and Tinware. Decorated Chamber Sets $2.40 Large Clothes Hampers 1.00 Lunch Baskets, 25c, 30c and 40 Lunch Boxes 15c and 20 Square cup and coffee department Dinner Buckets 30 F0-lb. Flour Cans 60 Granite Cuspidors 20 Granite Soap Dishes .lo Star and Daisy Clothes Ringers, $1.75 and 2.00 Glass Lamps, complete 25 Set Cups and Saucers 45 1 dozen Dinner Plates SO 100 piece Decorated Dinner Set.... 6.50 sas, but simply to perfect the ancient his tory of the state. Mr. J. V. Brower of St. Paul, Minn., last year made a survey of the state with a view of determining Coronado's route, and recently published a volume contain ing the results of his archaeological in vestigations. The explorations were In complete, however, and at the annual meeting of the State Historical society he brought his work to the attention of that body and asked its co-operation in completing the survey. Accordingly, Messrs. Ware, Guthrie and Elliott were appointed as a committee to co-operato with Mr. Brower in a continuance of his investigations. Today a letter was received from Mr. Brower by Judge Adams, secretary of the historical society, suggesting that the work be taken up at least by the 1st of March. It is probable that the commit tee will arrange for further explorations at once. Mr. Brower is inclined to locate the terminus of Coronado's journey at a point 15 miles due south of Manhattan. The researches may even be extended to the Spanish archives, if there are any records of Coronado's explorations there. IS THAT THE WAY THEY DO In New York? Bequest Employes to Vote as Their Employer Wishes. There is at least one New York man who according to his own statement is a firm friend of Kansas. He Is Mr. F. G. Babcock, president of the Bank of Hornellsville. New York, and the prin cipal! stockholders in a horse and cattle j breeding farm in EUswortn county, one of the finest in the state. Recently, Secretary of State Bush sen corpora tion blanks to the company, as he has to all companies chartered under the laws of the state, and the blanks were forwarded to Mr. Babcock to fill out. In his reply to Mr. Bush, after mention ing the business in hand, Mr. Babcock says: "I have always been a firm friend of Kansas, but the press of the country, particularly for the past five years, in cluding often times even a portion of the press of your own state has given the state a black eye. However, peo ple in the east, who once thought that a Kansas mortgage was not good for anything are beginning to find out that they are. The state of Kansas is re ducing its farm mortgages much faster than anv state in the east, not even ex cepting the great state of New York, j I am a Worker but 1 am for Jvansas. "P. S. When you run for secretary of state again, or for any higher office, I'll request all my men to be sure and vote for you." PRINCIPLE ABOVE ALL. Annie Diggs Says That by Eights Mr. Sing Should Remain Librarian. Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, the newly ap pointed state librarian, is sorry that the man whom she succeeded in office, Mr. James L. King will be compelled to give up his position. A sympathetic na ture and a thorough belief in civil ser vice law is responsible for this feeling on the part of Mrs. Diggs. "Of course I am not sorry that I got the appointment." said she. "but I re gret to see Mr. King go. after having worked here for several years and un derstanding all the details of the work. I had hoped that he would receive some federal appointment, but I hardly think now that he will. I am a firm believer in civil service, and I think that every position, federal and state, which is purely routine and of a clerical nature should be included under the civil serv ice law. I am very happy indeed to have received the appointment as state librarian, but had the position been placed under the civil service law even after I had expected to pet it, I would have said 'amen' to the law and felt per- fectly satisfied." I RAILR0AD NEWS. Oldest Santa Fe Engineers and Commencement of Service. Union Pacific Makes a Record For Fast Time. ARIZOXA COAL FAMIXE Caused by Delay of Transporta tion at Williams. Las Yegas Hospital Being Thor oughly Fitted Out. The following is the list of engineers in the employ of the Santa Fe who stand at the head of the seniority list of their respective divisions and the date of the commencement of their service, the four highest being taken from the different lists of the different divisions: Chicago Division James L. Moor, January, "87. Gordon R. Cook, January, '87. J.-iy W. Faulkner, F2bruary, '87. Frank W. Childs, AprU, '87, Daniel W. Dairy, June, '87. Ellis H. Marshall, July, '87. Morris E. Wuite, July, '87. Wm. Prescott, July, '87. John S. Zehrung, August, '90. Nez L. Cooper, August, '90. John A. Coulter, October, '90. Charles B. Gumore, October, '90. Eastern Division B. F. Collins, August, '78. J. Higgins, September, '78. D. E. George, July, '79. C. K. Page, September, '80. B. Monroe, January, '79. Vm. Rain, March, 'SO. F. E. McKeon, January, '82. Southern Kansas Fred C. Chick, February, '70. John Bus well, July, '70. AVm. H. Low, September, '70. Warren J. Kelly, September, '75. Middle Division J. W. Hastings, July. '76. Bert Monroe, April, "79. James Rollo, May, '79. Lyman Pears, May, '78. Israel Conroe, July, '77. John Snyder, May, 'SO. Harry Johnson, December, '80. Wm. H. Tamplin, April, '81. Southern Division John L. Case, August, '78. J. R. Tronslot, June, '79. Harry Balling, March, '81. L. M. Johnson, July, '81. J. M. Phillips, October, '82. James Hayes, October, '83. Carl Mac, October, '86. John Rain, December, '86. Panhandle Line F. W. Merrell, August, '84. David Gillott, February, '86. R. J. Buswell. July. '86. J. M. Buswell, April, '87. "Western Division "Wm. Parr, September, '75. W. T. McMurray, December, '76. Ed Robinson, December, '79. John Madigan, November, 'SO. New Mexico Division Peter Schmidt, July, '88. Melville J. Ritter, November, '88. Albert M. Wilson, January, '89. Albert McCreary. March, '89. Patrick Boyle. January, '8S. Aubyn Allison, December, '90. Judson J. Young, June, '91. Charles Newcomb, May, '93. James Sturrock, September, '80. WTm. Schultz, July, '81. John Becker, October, '83. John H. Low, May, '84. Rio Grande Division 4 Wm. Hockett, May, '76. A. P. Hill. August. 'SO. J. P. McMurray, February, 'SI. J. E. Piper, October, '82. RESPONSIBILITY OF SIX MEN. Great Switching Plant at Chicago Under Their Care. Chicago, Feb. 3. The Times-Herald says: In a little house, half of glass, that nestles down amid a network of tracks near Hammond, is controlled the desti ny of over 200 trains a day. Six men have within their hands the lives of hundreds of people during each period of 24 hours and upon their care and watchfulness rests the safety of thous ands of dollars' worth of freight. Their working hours are spent in the cabin of one of the largest interlocking switch ing plants in the United States, and one that is surpassed by few in Great Britain. From this little house run nearly 12 miles of one-inch pipe leading to switch es and locks, the most distant of which is not over 1,242 feet. The men who did the work weighed this pipe as it was delivered to them, and when the work was over it was found that 47 tons of it had been buried under the network of tracks. v Signals, conveying to the engineers the correct idea of the location of switches, are operated from the little house by means of two wires, one gov erning each of two directions that the warning may take. There are nearly 100,000 feet of this wire, or about 21 miles, and the signal farthest distant from the house is but 2,492 feet. Over all these tracks more than 200 trains pass every 24 hours. In their movement over 50 train orders and 50 telegraph messages are required daily. To so systematize this great work that two men working together could do it all was a problem. Its solution has ad ded great laurels to the reputation of interlocking switching devices. It was at first the intention to erect only a part of the big lever plant, but as the work progressed the interested companies decided that all might as well be done at once, for the time when complete fixtures would be needed could not be far distant. Hence 224 levers have been placed in this little house, 100 feet long by 16 feet wide. At present only 157 of them are in use, and of these 45 govern 68 switches, 43 operate 70 locks and 20 crosisng bars, 6 govern 19 crossing bars and 63 operate 63 sig nals. In placing the signals the standards of three railroads were used. The Chi cago and Western Indiana uses the us ual form of semaphore signal, and the State Line and Indiana City road a de sign that is standard on the Pennsyl vania lines. The arms for these two companies are painted yellow, while all other signals are red and green. Two men work together in the opera tion of the plant, and each set puts in eie;ht hours a day. Compressed air gives the power. In addition there is one repair man who has charge of the maintenance of the plant, and one lamp man. HAD THE CAR TO HIMSELF. Passenger With a Package of Dyna mite Creates a Panic George Bayless, manager of the tele phone exchange at Topeka, went to Wakarusa on 113 on the Santa Fe and he would not have had to deliver his ticket if he had been so inclined and as it was he had but few companions and nil for f bp ronertn that h V. o ,1 i lap a bundle of dynamite to use in blasting the rock to set a new line of poles in. When Baless arrived at the depot he went into the waiting room and sat down. The package was mark ed in big red letters, "DYNAMITE," and the ones who sat near kim moved. The newsboy looked at the package and said in an inquisitive way "Dyna mite?" and when Bayliss nodded he walked away crying "Noo York papers, full account of the blowin' up 'er the Palisades." Bayless got on the smok ing car and placed the bundle on his lap. "Guess I'll go back to the chair car," said the man who shared the seat with him. "I feel sort of-worn out." A man across the aisle glanced at the big red letters, picked up his overcoat and said to his companion, "Believe I'll go into the next car, just to be on the safe side." "Is that a fact or just a bluff," asked a bewhiskered individual. "Why, it is dynamite," said Bayless and in-two minutes he and the picture papers and frmlt belonging to the train' boy were the only occupants of the car. The conductor came in and said that all the passengers of the smoker had crowded into the chair car on account of the dynamite and that the chair car was crowded and asked Bayless to go back to the chair car so the men would return. Bayless started, but he only got as far as the door of the chair car. The man with the whiskers was standing by the door'and when he saw Bayless coming he held the door shut and bolt ed it. "You can't come In here," he cried through the keyhole," my wife and chil dren are in here and you can blow the express car to pieces if you want to but you can't come in here." Bayless did not go in. LAS VEGAS HOSPITAL. Chief Surgeon Kaster Is Making a Model Home for the Sick. Chief Cook J. B. Long of the Santa Fe hospital at Las "Vegas says that when the hospital improvements are completed it will be the finest hospital of its size in the country. New floors and plastering and many improvements in the equipment will make it the same as new. "The credit of the whole change belongs to Dr. J. P. Kaster," said Mr. Long, "he has given the work his per sonal attention and has been there a great part of the time. We shall be sorry when the work is completed and his visits become less frequent." BURNING SANTA FE TUNNEL Causes a Coal Famine in New Mexico and Arizona. San Diego, Feb. 3. As a result of the burning of the tunnel on the Santa Fe railroad, it has become necessary for San Diego to supply a large portion of New Mexico and Arizona with coal. Orders have been received here the past two days for several train loads of coal to be sent out along the line of the San ta Fe Pacific, as the entire supply from eastern mines has been shut off. If traffic is not soon resumed over that portion of the Santa Fe it will be necessary for the coal company here to charter extra vessels to load with coal for this port. FASTEST RECORD TIME. Union Pacific Flyer Makes Phenome nal Time From Cheyenne to Omaha. Denver, Feb. 3. A special to the Re publican from Cheyenne, Wye, says: A phenomenal railroad run was made yesterday between this place and Oma ha, on the Union Pacific. The eastbound passenger was delayed by a broken en gine and in order to get the United States mail to Omaha for its eastern connections, a special train of an en gine and two mail cars was made up here for a fast run. The train left here at 7:45 in the morning and reached Omaha at 3:45 in the afternoon, a rec ord of 517 miles in 8 hours flat, the fastest long distance run recorded. The run from North Platte to Omaha, 290 miles was made jn 246 minutes. FROM WELLINGTON. Roy Winger, son of A. M. "Winger, is reported quite sick with tonsilitis. Firemen Bowden and Blake have "accepted" places on the extra board for the present. Three cars of Kramer Bros.' flour left Wellington this morning over the Santa Fe for Antwerp, Germany. Engineers McCarthy and Hansen are new additions to the extra board since their engines are temporarily "laid up" for lack of work. Engines 62 and 268 were taken out of the service yesterday. This puts En gineers McCarthy and Hansen and Firemen Blake and Bowden on the sel dom list. B. Cross, foreman of the bridge and building department of the Santa Fe, came down from Wichita to locate the new ice house. The material is all here now and work will begin on the struc ture at once. FROM NEWTON. Resident Engineer Earl left this morning for Guthrie to stake out the new bridge over the Cimarron. A change has been made in the wip er's force. Marshal, Turner.Keizer and Kirkhoff have been assigned to the day shift, and Holmberg, Weber, Burns and Lehman, the youngest men in the ser vice, have been put on at nights. Engineer Thos. Murphy of the southern division has decided to locate in Arkan sas City. Conductor Frank Ira has returned to work after several weeks' layoff. Conductor Frank Beers has resumed his run after a layoff of sometime on account of a sore eye. Engineer Byron Dick and Fireman James Johnson have been assigned to 511 and will run on the passenger chain gang. C. J. Kilmer of Topeka. an engineer under Resident Engineer Meade, is here checking up the records in Engineer Earl's office. L. P. Paddock of Wichita is a new employe of the Well-Fargo express company here. Mr. Paddock is an old Topeka boy. Engineer T. B. Jones and Fireman Hunsicker have assigned to the 897. one of the big Dickinson engines, and will run in the passenger service. Dispatcher E. M. Utterback, who has been working at Arkansas City, has re sumed his old position here and Opera tor Charles Priesly has been sent to Wichita. STRAIGHT BILL OF FARE. What the Railroad Boys at Arkansas City Eat The Arkansas City Traveler says: The railroad boys at times have a few leisure moments off of the road. A crowd was in the Hub restaurant this morn ing and prepared the following bill of fare which the proprietors of the Hub will serve hereafter: Hot Box on toast, 3c. Stewed round Pins. 3c. Ex-List on half shell, Oc. Hard belled broken Links, 2c. Dry dope Fricassee, lc. Pickled Fusees. 2 for 5c. Norman Switch Block, raw, 10c. Black Oil and Sard Sandwiches, lc. Fried M. C, B. Brasses, 5c. Rock Ballast and Brown system free with all 10 cent orders. Osage, Strip and Scranton Slack in season. NOW A NEW ENGINE. Locomotive 735 Which Was in the Lang Wreck Entirely Built Over., Engineer James E. Thomas made his first trip out of Topeka Wednesday on engine 735 pulling the Atchison freight 120. Fireman James Patterson had the left hand sid of the engine. This is the first trip for 735 since it was in the Lang wreck in charge of Engineer Brenham. It has been through the shops and entirely built over so that except in number It is practically a new engine. It was out on a trial trip with Engi neer Amos Heeler to break her in. TO DOUBLE DECK CARS. Santa Fe Will Have a Number of Freight Cars So Fitted. The Santa Fe is expecting an increas ed traffic in live stock during the. com ing season and an order has been plac ed with the car department for a double deck to be fitted in 50 of the single deck stock cars. With a double deck attachment the cars can carry twice as many sheep and hogs than with the single deck and with the top deck drawn up to the roof out of the way the cars can be used for cattle and horses. The work of placing the sec ond deck in the cars will commence at once and the cars will be in readiness for the coming shipping season. SANTA FE LOCAL NOTES. Charles Sheffield has resumed work after a couple of days' of sickness. "Wm. Bartles of the track department is sick with pneumonia. Frank Henry has returned to work in the boiler shops after six weeks' sick ness. Steam shovel 99,653 is in the car shops (or repairs. Dining car 1,057 is in the shops for re pairs. Will Havens of the car shops was ta ken to Stormont hospital, where he will J ue operated upon ior an access. L. G. Hammond has a weight of sor row raised from his shoulders since his favorite dog recovered from the rheu- matism. Philip Sousser of the coach shops is away on account of the death of his sister, who lived southeast of town. Clarence Chance of the freight de partment leaves for the Klondike Fri day. Geo. Bradshaw of the coach depart ment is still sick at his home on Chand ler street with grip. The California limited No. 3 and the Colorado and Utah express No. 5 were reporter one hour and thirty minutes late. Edward Davis, night car inspector, has been sick with rheumatism at his home for some time and was taken to the hospital Wednesday. He may go to the hospital at Las Vegas to be treated for his rheumatism. Henry Deever has been promoted from car repairer to night car inspector at Topeka. J. A. Seering of the car repairing de partment has purchased a home in Oakland and will move there. Geo. Hawes of the boiler shops at Ar kansas City has left there and return ed to Topeka. LIKE POSTAL SERVICE. Railroads in Mexico M-st Not Tele graph. Messages for the Public. New York, Feb. 3. The Mexican gov ernment has published an order to the Mexican National Railroad company and the Mexican Central Railroad company notifying them that they must discontinue handling commercial and other telegraph messages between the United States and Mexico. According to the government the railways may use their telegraph "solely to serve in safeguarding the running of trains." The effect of the order, if fully carried out, means that the telegraph service in Mexico must be carried over the federal lines. MORRILL TELLS OF KANSAS Says the Gold Standard Would Carry if it Had a Fair Show. Washington, Feb. 3. The executive committee of the National Sound Money league, organized in Chicago soon after the national election, held a conference here today with some of the state vice presidents of the league. The meeting was without special significance and no announcements were issued. Among those present were President George E. Leigh ton of St. Louis, M. E. Ingalls of Cincin nati, John K. Cowen of Baltimore, H. P. Robinson of Chicago, Secretary E. V. Smalley of St. Paul, W. C. Cornwell of Buffalo, W. A. Blair of North Carolina, John B. Jackson of Pittsburg and W. H. Royal of Virginia. A letter written by ex-Governor Morrill "Three from two you can't, Bays the schoolboy. Right Three from two you can't, either in dol lars or dividends or sarsaparilla. It takes the best sarsaparilla root to make the best sarsaparilla ex tract. The best sarsaparilla come3 from Honduras, C. A., and -the Dr. Ayer Co. practically controls the entire product. Yet others claim to be making best sarsaparilla. They must be making it out of the remainder left after subtracting three from two. But, three from two you can't." You can't make the best sarsaparilla without best root. You only get the best when you which is made Trholly from the best root imported from Honduras. o I Special Sale Embroideries Tomorrow and Saturday at The Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co. The largest stock and the best values in them we have ever shown. Those in our south window give some idea of the bargains we offer for this special sale. With them we offer 200 pieces of India Linen at the following special prices made for these two days only, and only to the buyers of Embroideries and Xluslin Underwear Regular 8c value in India Linens, 5c yard. Regular 15c value in India Linens, ioc yard. Regular 25c value in India Linens, 15c yard. Limit 10 yards to each buyer. Fruit of the Loom, 36 inch Bleached, 5c yard to buyers of L'm broideries or fluslin Underwear (10 yard limits.) The Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co. 13 715 of Kansas was read, in which he stated that the sound money sentiment was rap idly gaining ground in his state, and in his judgment would carry it if divested of all other issues, state or local. A proposition was made looking to a consolidation of the league with the In dianapolis monetary movement, but the sentiment of the meeting was against it on the ground that the Indianapolis move, ment had for its prime object reform in banking legislation, while the league more particularly advocated the gold standard. The conference adjourned to meet in Chicago some time in April next. SNAP SHOTS A T HOME NEWS The bonded debt of the city of Topeka is now $336,500. The salaries of Topeka teachers per an. num are $65,000. Thirty men are employed in the Topeka fire department. Lawrence Chamberlain is now attend ing the state university. "The Colored 400" is arranging for a cake walk in Topeka on February 25. Dave Norton of this city, son of Jona than D. Norton, will enter West Point in June. "Miss Francis of Tale" has been booked by Manager Crawford for the evening of April 2. Miss Gibbony of the district clerk's of fice has a fine collection of potted plants in her office. Adams street north of Fourth street is being improved by the laying of a maca. dam roadway. Mrs. Annie L. Diggs is able to be at he work again in the state library after sev. eral days' illness. The St. Ananias club now has $500 in the treasury. It is the richest club in ready money in Topeka. The team from Siloam lodge No. 22S will go to Wichita February 15 to eiera. plify the work of the order. Mr. James Moore of this city sang two solos at the dedication of the new post chapel at Fort Riley Sunday. Harry L. Heald, the Topeka attorney, teaches a class of ten little colored boys every Sunday afternoon in Tennessee, town. A Raymond Whitcomb excursion train will pass through this city Friday over the Santa Fe en route to the Pacific coast. City Engineer Barnes is now prepared to tell anyone the location of every case of disease in Topeka during the past two years. Henry E. Dixey, of "Adonis" fame, will be in Leavenworth on February 16, and Manager Crawford is trying to book him for Topeka. Dixey is now a magician. Dr. and Mrs. Countermine of the First Presbyterian church have returned from a trip to Kansas City, where they heard the English evangelist. Dr. F. B. Myer. Weather Observer T. B. Jennings will display weather signals on the Columbian building as soon as a pole is erected for the purpose. At present signals are dis. played every day by Colonel J. W. P. Hughes at his office on lower Fifth street. Chas. C. Price and (Prof.) Geo. W. Jack, son, both colored deputy constables, have announced themselves as candidates tot the Republican nomination as constables. G. A. Shumacker will address the Sat. urday Night club this week on the sub ject of "Mammon." A rate of one fare for the round trip has been agreed upon by the Kansas roads for the state oratorical contest at Lawrence on February 25. The rate will be good only from towns where colleges included in the state association are located, name ly, Topeka, Ottawa, Olathe, Winneld and Baldwin. Jennie Dale, aged 11 years, daughter ot John Dale of 413 Railroad street. Wed. nesday boarded a westbound Rock Island train and rode as far as Alma. She re. turned in the evening and was returned to her parents by the police. She said she wanted a ride and thought the train would go east and she could leave it at the Union Pacific depot. There is a wealthy man living on Har. rison street between Sixth and Eighth streets who won't have snow and ice cleaned off his walks. His sidewalk is now covered with ice an inch thick, and the neighbors say they will take up a collection to have it removed. There is a city ordinance prohibiting the leaving of snow and ice on city sidewalks, but the city ought to remove snow from side, walks. This leaving of it to "property owners" is a lamentable fizzle. Killarney and the Rhine," as presents of Kansas Avenue ed by the J. E. Toole company at the Crawford theater last night, was an ex. hibition of bad acting. The company was crippled by ono of the leading men belns called east by the illness of his wife, ana the audience was small enough to dis hearten an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" show, and the kindest thing that can be said is to suggest that these conditions were in a measure responsible for it. But it any of the members of the company, in eluding the star himself, can do credit able work on the stage, they failed to make the effort last night. The perform, ance did not equal many of the popular price performances seen here this winter. 30 VESSELS WRECKED. 20 Persons Drowned and $2, 000,000 Property Loss, the Record of New Eng land's Storm. Boston, Mass., Feb.' 3. A score of per sona were drowned and two million loss inflicted by the storm that swept over eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Monday night and Tuesday morning. Four unidentified bodies lie at the coro. ner's office in Gloucester. Five more ar in Lynn, brought over from Little Na. hant, where the schooner Charles H. Briggs was wrecked. Twelve unidentified corpses are reported to be at Baker's island, in Salem harbor. They, too, must have manned some of tha schooners which were lost in Gloucester harbor. That there are others in tha waters of the bay seem almost certain. Wreckage is strewn up and down the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod. Thir. ty schooners were wrecked in Massachu setts bay. On land the loss by tha storm seems to have been confined entire, ly to property. Twenty-four hours elapsed before direct telegraphic communication was restored between Boston and the rest of the world. In most of the smaller towns the trolley lines are still crippled. The cost of the storm in this city is estimated as follows: Boston Elevated Railway company, $221.. 000; city of Boston, $75,000: Western Union Telegraph company, $20,000; Postal Tele, graph company, $10,000; Long Distance Telephone company, $3,000; New England Telephone company, $10,000; electric light companies, $4,000; fire alarm and police signal service, $5,000; fire loss due to dis abled equipment and defective wires, $100.. 000; steam railroads, damages to property and loss to income. $125,000; loss to ship ping interests, $250,000; loss to Boston's business interests, at least $600,000. Total, $1,428,000. CLIMAX OF COLD WAVE Is Beached at Springfield, Mass. 17 Degrees Below Zero. Springfield, Mass., Feb. 3. The colli wave which moved into this section on yesterday morning reached a climax this morning with the temperature ranging from 8 to 17 degrees below ze ro. The railway and electric car traffic has been restored, but trains from dis tant points are late. A Clever Trick. It certainly looks like it, but there is really no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulant to the Liver and Kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures Constipation, Head ache, Fainting Spells, Sleeplessnes and Melancholy. It is purely vegetable, a mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bit ters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guaran teed. Only 50c a bottle at Swift Hol liday drug store. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. The richest at Klondike finds is Besa Little Giant Pills. They cure not only constipation, sick headaches and bil liousness. but relieves all kinds of dis order. Take no substitutes. At drug gists. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. Whitmere Bros., Barbers, 735 Kan. ave.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1898. The State Journal BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXV No. 23 OFFICIAL CITY PAPER TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. raily edition, deliverefl by carrier, 10 rents a week to any part of Topeka or euburbs. or at the same price in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier system. ly mail, one vear $3.60 By mail, three months .90 Weekly edition, one year &J PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Buildinp. 800 and 8C2 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room Bill 'Phone 577 New York address: 322 Potter Building, rare American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, where tiles of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. THE CAMPAIGN" ITT CONGRESS Congressman Curtis' assertion that 17111011 of the talk indulged in on the floors of congress is merely intended for home consumption, confirms the Jdea generally held of it, by the addi tion of what may be regarded as ex pert testimony. Congress has been in session two months and no legislation of a general nature has been attempted beyond the passage of some of the appropriation bills. Concerning these bills there has teen little or no discussion, but about them have been hung days and weeks of talk and hundreds of pages of the Congressional Record. The civil serv ice, the Cuban question. Hawaiian an nexation, anything in fact which con tained the essence of political capital has been eagerly seized upon by the partizans of the various political faiths represented in the halls of congress, w ith a hope of exerting an influence on the fall elections. Fortunately for the country congress has lost its power to influence the busi ness of the country in a damaging way. It cannot meddle with the tariff or with the currency because the members would not dare to disturb the former, and there can be no agreement regard ing the latter. The passage of the Teller resolution by the senate did not create a ripple in commercial circles because it was well understood that it would be defeated in the house. The senators knew this "when they passed it. When the house banking and curren cy committee gets its bill ready for the reform of the monetary system along the lines of more firmly establishing the gold standard as recommended by Sec retary Gage and the Indianapolis mon etary commission, the house will in all probability talk about it for some weeks and pass it with the certain knowledge that it will be defeated in the senate. The people understand the play, and it has ceased to interest them except in the sense that they are called upon to foot the bills. Aside from the enactment of necessa ry appropriation bills, the present ses sion of congress has been and will con tinue to be mostly devoted to fighting the battles of the campaign of 189S. It is now suspected that Mr. H. H. Boyce, who was engaged in buying votes for Hanna at Columbus, is Old Man Livingston, who figured in the same capacity in Mr. Ingalls' interest in this city in 1890. "The Slaughter of the Innocents" is what the vote in the house on the Teller resolution is called at WTashington. The innocents are the members of the ma jority who fear that their chances of re-election are gone. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Fanaticism is faith turned sour.

Whispers and runaway teams make the break-ups. Pleasure soon palls when it costs nothing. A shaggy camel may bear a smooth burden. Friendship may soon die, but enmi ty never. i All men are fools, but only the wise stop being so. I Knowledge puffs up. Wisdom lets the Wind out. When you have nothing to do, never go after help. r The devil never has to waste any bait to catch a loafer. He who robs under the shelter of law is the most daring and cowardly thief of the day. Minutes are the mosaics of time, the ages are those of eternity. Christmas is man's "Declaration of Independence" of the devil. Adversity gives the great man a chance to show how great he is. Trying to love is an absurdity; love is spontaneous combustion. A "realistic" novel is an exposure of Its author's itching palm. A Pennsylvania court has granted a woman a divorce because her husband furnished nothing for the house but the coal and ice. Did she want the earth? Gov. Bob Taylor's mascot has fail ed him at last. He could not fiddle himself into the United States senate. CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS. A bad memory is the skeleton in the liar's closet. When a young man or a clock gets too fast, a setback is necessary. There is more action in an ounce of kitten than in a ton of elephant. Some men are born great, some achiee greatness and others become humorists. The man in the basement can always undersell his competitor on the floor above. The man who goes to church because he has nothing else to do, is an idle worshiper. A lady writer says the coming wom an will have her own bank account. RVe have been waiting for her several lears. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) Remember that people "talk" on very slight provocation. Some men have such a horror of debt that they become narrow. After a girl passes 26, she should quit the baby stare. After a man is thirty, in thinking of coasting he considers the walk back. However sad a man may feel, he loses his look of sadness when eating a good dinner. Every man believes that under cer tain circumstances, he has a right to lie to a woman. A man who has scattered a good many compliments, says that it pleases a man more to compliment his children than it does to compliment his wife. GREAT BUSINESS MONTH. January Bank Clearings "Were Never Exceeded but Once. New York, Feb. 3. Totals of bank clearings at leading cities for January as reported to Bradstreets bear testi mony to the immense volume of busi ness, representing commercial, financial and speculative transactions passing through the banks during the opening month of 189S. The total clearings at 77 cities of the United States, a few western cities be ing estimated owing to telegraphic in terruption by the storm, aggregate $9, 965,000,000, a slight gain, one half of 1 per cent, over December, 1897; of 33 per cent over January, 1S97; of 30 per cent over January, 1S96. With the exception of the month of December, 1S92, the top of the boom before the panic of 1S93, the month just closed furnishes the largest total on record. Even as compared wun December, 1892, the increase is a trifling one, only about one-tenth of 1 per cent. The feature of the clearings in Jan uary was the almost unanimous nature of the increases, only four cities in the United States showing decreases as compared with a year ago. Gains at the large cities have been a feature of the month. At New York an increase of 42 per cent is shown, as compared with a year ago; at Chicago 35 per cent, and at Boston 13 per cent. Two of the four decreases shown are in the cotton manufacturing centers in New England. Canadian bank clearings make an equally good showing, aggregating $114,447,290, an increase of 30 per cent as compared with last year. AMERICAN FRUIT SHUT OUT Germany Excludes It on Alleged San itary Grounds. Berlin, Feb. 3. The Prussian minister of finance has issued an edict which goes into effect immediately, prohibit ing the importation of every kind of American fresh fruit. The decree has been sent to all the German ports and frontier stations ex cepting Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtem burg. The United States embassy was not previously warned and the United States ambassador, Mr. White, sent a formal letter to the foreign office today inquiring upon what authority this In imical step was taken. The United States consul at Hamburg Dr. Hugh Pitcairn telegraphs that 16,000 barrels of American apples have been forbidden to be unloaded, and that two trains full of American fruit have also been forbidden to cross the frontier at Emmerich, which, aside from Ham burg, is the principal place of entry for American fruit. On receipt of this news, Mr. Wrhite sent a second and stronger remon strance to the foreign office, calling at tention to the evident violation of the treaty. At the foreign office it was learned that the Prussian government prohib its the entry of American fruit on sani tary grounds, claiming that California and other vermin threatened German trees and fruit. NAIL DRIVING FOR CHARITY The "Woman "Who "Won the Same Who Gained First Prize for Sawing "Wood. Matteawan, N. Y., Feb. 3. The wood sawing contest between young women last Friday night for the benefit of char ity was such a drawing card that they f were invited to engage in a nail driving contest last nignt. It took place at the Dibble Opera House. There were seven contestants, all young women well known in the town. Prof. Anton J. Wiechers was the judge. Money was freely bet on the result. Several heavy pieces of joist were brought on the stage. They were laid on the floor in front of the women. By the side of each joist was a hammer and a pile of ten-penny wire nails. At the word "Go" the contestants each grabbed a hammer and a handful of nails and be gan to work for the leading prizes. They all dropped upon their knees in front ot the excited audience and worked with a vim. Once in a while one of them would hit her thumb with the hammer, but they all kept at it until time was called by Prof. Wiechers. The winner was Bell Moshier, who won a watch in the wood-sawing contest on Friday evening. She had driven 24) nails up to their heads within the specified time. She was awarded a beautiful piece of silverware. The girls had four min utes in which to drive the nails, with a rest of one minute after the first two. 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. The Shortest Route To Southern California is the Santa Fe. Pullman palace and tourist sleepers: and free chair cars (lighted by electric ity) to Los Angeles daily. 18 Photos for 25 eta. Leonard's. mousness Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges tion and permits food to ferment and putrify iD the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache, Lr feisomina, nervousness, and. If not relieved, bilious fever I blood poisoning. Hood's Fills stimulate the stomach, rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, con stipation, etc. 25 cents. fold by all drtijieists.. XUe uui rUia to take with Hood's cjarsaparilla. J(DJS Pills WAR IN THE CAMP May Lead to the Mustering Out of Company M-, X. N. G. There is trouble in Company M, K. N. G., stationed at Topeka, and the company may be mustered out of the service. The trouble originated among the of ficers. Some of the members charge that Lieutenants Frank J. Frank and Huddleston are jealous of Capt. J. E. Towers and want him deposed. A peti tion, asking the removal of Towers, has been circulated, but both Frank and Huddleston disavow any connection with the document. Lieutenant Frank, who is next below Capt. Towers, has been threatening to resign for some time. One of the mem bers of the company said today that the resignation of the lieutenant would be received tonight, and after that there would be no further trouble, but wnen Frr k was seen, he took a different po sition from that anticipated. "I had intended to resign," said he, "but I have'ehanged my mind and will remain with the company. The boys in sist that I shall stay, and I will do so." "What do you know about the peti tion for the removal of ToWers?" "I know nothing about it; nothing whatever. I heard that something of that kind was started, but it was stop ped by the colonel. Why, it would be insubordination to circulate anything of the kind, and ir I did it I would be sub ject to court martial. I am a good friend of Towers. I have known him a long time and visit him every day at noon. I have nothing against him and there is no truth in the report that I am fighting him. I want to see the compa ny built up, and that is why I am going to stay." But when Capt. Towers was seen, he admitted that there had been some trouble, but he said that he did not care to talk about it. "I understand that Lieut. Frank in tends to resign tonight, and when that is done, it will be a matter of record. The military board will stand behind me, and I have no fear of the result. The trouble is that some people do not seem to understand who is in charge of the company." The history of Company M has been interspersed with failures and disap pointments. The company was once mustered in by General McCrum and he afterward became sorry and rescinded his action. Then it was given another trial. But when the time for the officers' examina tions came, they all failed. The mili tary board hesitated about mustering the company out at this time, but final ly Lieut. Smith of the adjutant gener al's office agreed to hold a special school for the instruction of the officers of Company M. This is held every Mon day evening. The purpose of the in struction is to prepare the officers for the next examination, which is in May, when they are to be given another op portunity to prove themselves compe tent officers of the guard. The trouble may put an end to all this as well as to the life of the com pany. It was the purpose ot tne organizers of the company to make it the "Gov ernor's Body Guard." KEEN SCENT. Remarkable Development of the Ol factory Nerves. Elizabethtown, Ky., Feb. 3. Near Stephenburg.a village in the- southwest ern part of the county.lives a negro boy who has developed a remarkable sense of smell. He is blindfolded, and in a crowd of people, no matter how large, he can tell who had on a certain hat on his head or who wore a glove the last time after these articles have been removed from the head or hand. He smells the hat or glove and then passes around among the crowd and locates the last wearerThe little negro is below the average of his race in intelligence. He is a puzzle to the local physicians, who of one accord admit that no such devel opment of the olfactory nerves has ever come under their observations before. BEARS WERE THICK. Michigan Hunter Kills Pour Inside of Twenty-Five Minutes. Clare, Mich., Feb. 3. WTilliam Poat, who lives seven miles from Clare, broke the bear-hunting record last week. He was examining a huge tree that had blown over, with upturned roots, when a good-sized bear came out. Mr. Poat "plugged" him. No sooner had the echo of the shot died away before another bear came from another side. and a shot from the rifle soon silenced this one also. Mr. Poat thought he would get his game together and prepare to go home. As he attemped to extricate the first bear another stuck his enout out. Mr. Poat grabbed his gun, and No. 3 lay dead at his feet. He again began to pull one of the dead bears from the hole when a gruff growl was heard, and one of the largest she bears ever seen here came out for a fight. The next mo ment she was dead. Four bears had been killed within twenty-five minutes, single handed, a feat that few men have ever achived in this country. GAVE UP TOO SOON. Divorce Denied a Couple Who Had Lived Together But a Month. Kansas City, Feb. 3. George L. White, a young man, was before Judge Slover in the circuit court yesterday asking for a divorce from Margaret White. They were married last March and lived together but a month. "Why do you wish a divorce?" asked the judge. "I couldn't get along with her." "How do you know you could not?" "Why, I tried it." "You tried it for a month?" "Yes, sir." "You didn't live together long enough to find out if you could get along." "I did find out, judge. She went to mat inees and base ball games and wouldn't do the housework or put up my luncheon when I went to work." "Don't recite your grievances to this court," Interrupted the judge. "A couple who give up after only a month of try ing to get along have not tried hard enough. The court refuses the divorce." Caught at Belleville. St. Louis, Feb. 3. It is just learned that the Belleville police have in their clutches Paul Miller, alias Ed Ginger, the man who is charged with the murder of Fran ces D., Sarah A. and Elsie Newton at Brookfield, Mass., on the night of the 7th of January. The Shortest Route to Southern California is the Santa Fe. Pullman palace and tourist sleepers and free chair cars (lighted by electric ity) to Los Angeles daily. P. G. Essex, the leading Attorney of Golden City. Mo., writes: "Have been troubled for years with Blind, Itching and Bleeding Piles, and one box of Beggs German Salve cured me entire ly. At druggists. KANSASNEWS. Sterens County Seat War to Ceme Up Again. Arrest of Sam Robinson, To Be Tried for Murder. KILLING OF SAM WOOD And SherifF Cross and Party An Episode of the Feud. Jim Brennan Now Running a Saloon in Oklahoma. Denver, Feb. 3. Samuel Robinson was released last Sunday from the Col orado penitentiary, after having served eight years for robbing the postofnee at Florissant, and was immediately ar rested by the United States marshal, charged with the murder of Govern ment Land Agent Robert Hubbard in No-Man's-Land, in 1888. Sam Robinson's name was at one time very familiar to the people of western Kansas. Stevens county is in the extreme western part of that state. It is one of the distinctively "short grass" counties. The drouths of recent years have caused it to be almost de populated, but there was a time when it had several thousand inhabitants and was the scene of much activity. In it occurred the bloodiest of the county seat wars of Kansas. Sam Wood, who founded Woodsdale, in Stevens county, was one of the ablest of the Kansas boomers. He served in the state legis lature several terms and was for years before his death one of the most pic turesque and well known characters of the state. At about the time that Woodsdale was founded Hugoton also was laid out in Stevens county, and the fight for the county seat at once began. The Woodsdale party was headed by Sam Wood and the Hugoton faction by Charles and George Cook, J. W. Cal vert and Sam Robinson. Hugoton was chosen as the county seat at the regu lar election, but, as usual, fraud was charged, and warrs" t were placed in the hands of Sheriff tjruss, who was a Woodsdale man, for the arrest of Rob inson, Calvert, the Cooks, a man named Jackson, and a few other Hugoton men. Almost all the men who were wanted by the sheriff went with a pic nic party into the neutral strip on the day he started out with five deputies, among whom was Hubbard, to arrest them, and the posse followed them. The Hugoton men was acquainted with the sheriff's intentions, and when they descried him and his party approach ing those for whose arrest he had war rants mounted horses and succeeded in eluding him. The sheriff gave chase, but after riding several miles lost all track of the men. He and his posse dismounted about 3 o'clock near some haystacks, and after eating lunch took off their arms and laid down to rest. While they were lying about in the sun the Hugoton fugitives came upon them unexpectedly. Blood was running high on both sides, and the Hugoton men determined to take advantage of this opportunity to rid themselves of a few of their enemies. Led by Robinson, they crept up on the sheriff and his deputies, who soon found themselves without arms, and at the mercy of those whom they had been only a few minutes before pursuing. But little mercy did they find here. Robinson had already resolved upon what should be done. He covered the sheriff with his Winchester, and told him to stand up. Dazed with fear, the officer fell on his knees and begged for mercy, but while he was still pleading Robinson put two bullets through his heart. Four other men were served in the same way by him. The sixth and youngest was turned over to the tender mercies of a man named Chamberlain, a county commissioner of Stevens coun ty, who followed the example set by Robinson, and shot his man twice. Aft er deciding that their victims were all dead, the Hugoton party mounted their horses and rode away. The news of the killing created a tre mendous sensation in Kansas. The part Robinson took in it soon became pub lic through the statements of the young men shot by Chamberlain, who did not die, and who is still living in western Kansas, and he fled from the state. He was not heard from again until a year later, when, he, assisted by Bud Noble, robbed the postofnee at Florissant, Col. For that crime Robinson was given eight years in the Colorado peniten tiary, where he was incarcerated until last Sunday. The strip of country in which Sheriff Cross and his deputies were murdered was known at that time as the "neu tral strip," or "No Man's Land," and it was a question at that time under whose jurisdiction it was. The Cooks, Calvert, Jackson and Chamberlain were arrested by the United States officers, and finally taken to Paris, Texas, for trial in the federal court. The United States attorney was assisted by Sam Wood in prosecuting them, and, after a long and sensational trial, they were all convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Their case was carried to the supreme court, however, and they were granted a new trial. In the meantime, they were admitted to bail. Through some legal hook or crook they escaped a sec ond trial, and all are at liberty. The last act in the Stevens county war occurred when, in 1891, James Bren nan shot and killed Sam Wood. Stevens county had no court house at that time, and district court was held in Hugo ton's only church. A few minutes after noon one day, while court was in ses sion, Wood drove up to the church in a buggy, in company with his wife and her sister, alighted, and started to en ter. He had hardly passed the out side door when he was fired upon by Brennan, who was standing in the ves tibule. WTood turned and ran outside, pursued by Brennan. A few feet from the door he fell. His wife had already leaped from the buggy, and when he fell she threw herself upon his body to protect him from another shot from Brennan's revolver. It was charged that Brennan was only a tool in the hands of some of the most prominent men in western Kansas, and it looked for a time like more blood would be shed. Brennan, who gave himself up immediately after the killing, was in carcerated in the Reno county jail until he was arraigned for trial on the charge of murder. Practically every man in the county was drawn on the special venire, and it was found impos sible to select from among them 12 men unprejudiced enough to try the case, and the suit against him was nolle pros'ed. He immediately left Kansas and went to Oklahoma, where he is now engaged in the saloon business. ABE LINCOLN OWNED IT. History of an Old Table Bought in a Wichita Second Hand Store. Wichita, Feb. 3. Mrs. Matthews went into a second hand furniture store and asked them if they had any old furni ture. The dealer stud there was a. wal nut table that looked old enough for anybody. He priced it at 75 cents and Mrs. Matthews took it. Last evening George Horner came to Dr. Matthews and said: "Doctor your wife bought a table that I sold at the second hand store. It has a history. It has been in our family ever since I was born, and I am now 53 years of age. Abraham Lincoln gave my father that table at New Salem, 111., in 1843. It has been in three fires, but every time it was rescued. I lost my trunk and everything I had in a fire up at the stock yards in this city, ex cept that old table. Somebody car ried it out." Place for Mrs. Lou Hanback. Leavenworth, Feb. 3. Miss Dickens, matron of the Old Ladies' Rest, has re signed, and Mrs. Hanback. of Kansas City, Kan., has been appointd to fill the place. The change will be made today; Miss Dickens leaving and Mrs. Han back taking charge. PROM KANSAS TOWNS. TROY The Denton Journal and the Leona Hustler, two Doniphan county newspapers, have stopped publication this month. WELLINGTON The county has re ceived a draft for $6,826.48. the amount of taxes due for the year 1S96, from the old Frisco branch, running through the southern portion of the county. The county has had considerable difficulty in collecting this tax. WICHlTA-r-Work on the boulevard in the new City park has been formally opened and Paul Mellinger went around to Mayor Ross' house at 6 o'clock and told him that they expected him to be on hand promptly at 7 o'clock to throw the first shovel of dirt. The mayor was on hand promptly at the appointed time. OSBORNE Andrew Eller, a promi nent young farmer living twelve miles northwest of here, was killed yesterday afternoon by the accidental discharge of a revolver, which dropped from his pocket as he was getting into a wagon. GALENA John Husley was killed this morning by falling timbers in a prospect shaft on the H. C. Butcher. Trustee, Mining company lease. The tub, in hoisting, caught the timbers, causing them to fall, killing him in stantly. LEAVENWORTH Dan Mahoney. an employe of the Terminal Railway company, attempted to make a coupling last evening and slipped on the icy ground, falling beneath the cars. His right leg was broken by the fall and the wheels of a heavy loaded car passed over his left leg, mashing it. EL DORADO A man claiming to be Albert Dehaven was given lodging in the city jail last night and this morning gave himself up to the authorities, say ing that he forged a check on the Farm ers' bank, of Odessa, Mo. BALDWIN The assignment of Lieutenant James T. Kerr, Seventh in fantry, as professor of military science and tactics at Baker university, Bald win, Kan., has been revoked, and Lieu tenant William F. Clark, Second caval ry, has been detailed, to take effect March 20, relieving Lieutenant Ernest V. Smith, Fourth infantry. LEAVENWORTH E. N. Eurley, a member of CompanyH. of the Soldiers' home, died suddenly while sitting in a chair at the. Commercial hotel last night The cause of his death is un known, but is supposed to be heart dis ease. WEIR CITY Since last Saturday Marsh Patton, aged 14, son of Farmer H. H. Patton, has been missing. He was sent to Weir Bros.' mine to take his brother's dinner, and has not been seen since. It is thought he may have struck out to visit an uncle, who is a wealthy stockman in Nebraska. The boy had a little money. LAWRENCE As a result of the term examinations at Kansas university there were forty-seven double failures among the students, necessitating that many leaving school. ATCHISON John J. Donahue, ser geant of police from February, 1893, un til the same month 1895. has sued the city of Atchison for $1,500, which he claims for overtime during the above period. He alleges that he worked 16 hours a day, and as eight hours con stitutes a legal day's work, he is enti tled to pay for the extra time. LAWRENCE The Usher guards, of ficially known as Company H, of the K. N. G., will give their fourth annual ball on February 22. In connection with the ball the prize drill contest between members of the company will take place. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Feb. 3. Pensions have been granted as follows: Original William A. Davis, Fort Scott, S8. Additional William Mortimer, Bluff City, $6 to $S. Increase Jordan Reynolds, Emporia, $20 to $30; James W. Casteel, Cedarvale, $17 to $24. Original Widows, Etc. Minor of George S. Wells, Great Bend, $10. New Revenue Collector Deputy. Leavenworth, Feb. 3. Revenue Col lector Sutton has appointed U. S. Sar tain to be special deputy collector for Wyandotte county to succeed F. p"eagan resigned. Mr. Feagan resigned in or der to accept a permanent and better, paying position in the office of the Kan sas Smelting company at Argentine. WILD BILL'S SHOOTING. A Litle Exhibition of Skill Given While Siding Along a Street in Topeka. From the New Tork Sun. The last time I saw Wild Bill," said the ex-Kansas man, "was in Topeka in the fall of '74. He was wearing his old blue army overcoat and at the hips were two bis bunches where his six-shooters hung. He was walking down Kansas ave. nue when I noticed him. His brown mare Nell was tied to a hitching post in front of a store. He untied her, mounted and rode down the street as hard as she could go. As he rode he swung half round in the saddle, pulled out one ot his guns and began shooting at the sign 'groceries' above the door of a little one story wooden shop. When he was past and the row was all over some fellow who investigated found that all six bul lets had struck inside the letter O in tha sign. It was just a little exhibition ot how he could shoot on the run for the amusement of whoever happened to be in sight." Standard Oil's Big Steamship. Chester, Pa.. Feb. 3. Roach's ship yard in this city concluded a contract to build for the Standard Oil company the largest tank steamship ever con structed in this country.. The ship will be 364 feet in length, 48 feet beam and 23 feet deep and will be built to carry oil in bulk. But it gives good results, is clean and" pleasant to use. Try it. The price now is $4.00 per ton for Lump or Furnace Coke, and $5.00 per ton for Crushed Coke. The Excelsior Coke and Gas Co. Telephone Orders to No. 79, or Call at 435 Kansas Avenue. E. O. DE MOSS. Odd FelloWs' Building, 523 Quincj? Street, t D n d e r t a k e r s Finest ambulance In the west. t FREE to the public Day and DE MOSS Phono 192. That New Home? BUILD IT RIGHT. We will assist you in the details. We will loan you money to build, or to take up your old mortgage, repayable in easy monthly installments. THE SAYIAGS LOAJ ASSOCIATION, 634 Kansas A to. Tel. 60S. he T AND MACHINE WORKS. "Pcf aMicliOfl Ift1? lSlsl UllbiieU. XOiO. GET PRICES BEFORE PITRCH ASTKO ELSEWHERE. rRBMeiieaaiaii rPhone 31. Catalogue Free. Day and The on It lirn. high trade institution In the state devotea exclusively to short hand and tyr ts phenomenal sueeess. Superior system sHions eiramd cracliiate. IJM arid nlcht sessions. Lessons b mtaii a. snaelatty. MiIBiaESZfllT Iilfiils""" 2 J. C. Elliott, 728 KANSAS AVE. BtasEas5cieBaiBeiaiifBBM Maa)B3HisaeaBH iA HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TQ SHAVE WITH." JS THE PROPER THING Everybody Reads RELIEF MEASURES TAKEN. Government Expedition Will Not Be Far Behind the Spring Bush to Alaska. Washington, Feb. 3. General Merriam, commanding the department of the Co lumbia, has notified the acting secretary of war that he has completed the details of the relief expeditions to be sent out by the government tothe gold region in Alas ka and to the Klondike. These are as follows: Major D. H. Rucker is assigned to command and take temporary station at Dyea. where he is to establish a camp and supply depot. Captain George Kuh len, assistant quartermaster, is designate ed as quartermaster and commissary of the expedition and is to report to Majo Rucker at Dyea. Captain D. L. Brain ard, commissary of subsistence, has also been assigned to duty at Dyea, as pur chasing and disbursing officer of the ex pedition. Captain Bogardus Eldridge, with a detachment consisting of Lieuten ant E. W. Clark and fifty enlisted men ot the Fourteenth infantry, together with First Lieutenant F. M. Kemp, assistant surgeon, and two enlisted men of the hos pital corps, fully armed and equipped for escort duty in the interior of Alaska with 100 rounds of rifle ball ammunition pet man, are ordered to proceed from Vancou ver barracks to Dyea and report to Majo Rucker. First Lieutenant Guy H. Pres ton, Ninth cavalry, in charge with Lieu tenant Ryan, Ninth cavalry, and the pack trains from the department of the Platt, forage to include May 31, are assigned to duty at Dyea. Orders have been given to the chief commissary of the department of the Co lumbia to ship by steamers from Portland and Seattle about February 5, 12,000 com L. M. PENWilLL X" I kuT r 3U4w. J j, IV? rr'Tki FEfWELL, 523 Qxiiiicy St- 1""" a sceieaBEm ioiBicsitiaia ester n foundry Formerly Topeka Foundry ana Machine Works. Etuib. I80. The only p!ace In the city where you can g get a Complete Power Plan! from m Steam m Engine to a Set Collar from stock. R. L. COFRAN, I Topeka, Kans. Proprietor, m QBoaioa Night Sessions. 521 523 Quincy St. AUN A K. CAHAH. 28-eao Sslls Guns and Ammunition S He RENTS GOOD GUNS to responsible parties. n o His store is Headquarters for Sportsmen 5 FOR HOUSE-CLEANIMGi the State Journal plete rations, with proper proportion of subsistence stores and property, and also tandem and single sleds, to Major Rucker at Dyea. LELAND A RICH !M. His Property in Doniphan Coun ty Valued at $200,000. Frank Elliott, editor of the Troy Timea and executive clerk to Governor Leedy, who is at present waging a fight on Cy Leland, has been making an examination of the amount of property held by Mr. Leland in Doniphan county and the amount of taxes that he has been paying on the same. Elliott states that the ex animation shows Leland to hold property amounting to $300,WO. and that on this basis he should pay something over 2,m. As a matter of fact, he says, he pays about Leland was chairman of the board of county commissioners of Doniphan coun ty for 23 years, and Elliott charges that he fixed his taxes to suit himself. Elliott and Fred Close were talking in the governor's office today and the olt charge, often made against Leland. that while chairman of the board he took tho opportunity of punishing his enemies by raising their taxes, was brought up. Close stated that it was Leland's methods in this regard that caused him (Close) to lose his farm in D.oniphan county, saying that after he became entangled with Le land politically his taxes increased year by year, and this fact was virtually re sponsible for the loss of the property.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1898. it if U f t 1 if 5 V v '.J 'i 1. WHEN JERKY IS STRONG. Mr. Simpson Always Lines Up in Front When There is Politics in the Debate. (From the Washington PoSt.) The heated debate concerning pros perity in the house developed some pleasantries between Gen.Henderson, of Iowa, and Representative Jerry Simp son, of Kansaa, who always lines up in frcnt when political talk of that char acter has the right of way. A great deal of confusion attended the proceed ings, and while Representative Ridgley, of Kansas, was speaking. Gen. Hender son rose to a point of order. "The Kansas delegation are making so much noise," said he, -'that we can not hear the gentleman from Kansas," v. hieh produced laughter. "I call attention to the fact," retort ed Mr. Simpson, "that the gentleman from Iowa Is making considerable noise here, and I cannot hear the gentleman who is speaking." Following which was this colloquy: Gen. Henderson I was taking a nap, ts I always do when Kansas speaks. (Applause.) Representative Ridgley Never mind; we will put you to sleep, politically, in 1000. Representative William A.Stone Not unless you prove that prosperity has not returned. The spirited confabs between Mr. Dingley, the floor leader of the Repub licans, and Representative Jerry Simp son, of Kansas, are not entirely without precedent. The two had an interchange of words last summer during the con sideration in the house of the Dingley till. There was a provision in that measure, allowing logs, cut on Ameri can soil, to be floated down water courses that flow into foreign territory and back again. The provision was in tended for the benefit of Maine lumber men, who operate on the headwaters of the- St. Croix river. That river, on it3 v,ay to the sea, forms the boundary line between the state of Maine and the province of New Brunswick, so that logs floated on its waters would be much in Canadian territory before reaching the great sawmills at Calais where they are manufactured into lum ber. Mr. Simpson thought he smelled a rat in the provision of the bill, and in quired of Mr. Dingley about it. The latter explained it to him in detail, stating that the same principle had been embodied in the Ashburton treaty between this country and Great Brit ain, many years ago. A little later Mr. Simpson secured the floor of the house and made a bitter attack on Mr. Ding ley because of that provision of the bill, at which Mr. Dingley explained to the house, as he had done for Mr. Simp son, the reasons for the clause. AXOTHEK BALL SCHEME. Manager of the Des Moines Team "Would Like to Come to Topeka. Since the base ball fans of Topeka proposed last fall that Topeka be rep resented during 189S in the Western as sociation, several chances have been open to Topeka, whereby she could have a team in the association for the pres ent year, but each chance was allowed to go by, and for some time base ball talk has been scarce, but now comes another chance, and on the face of it is a good offer if Topeka wishes to ac cept. Manager S. F. Frick of the Des Moines team writes to James R. Wick formerly secretary of the Topeka bali club, that he would like to bring his 1S97 team to Topeka to play the sea son of 1898. The team that fought for the pennant under the name of Des Moines last year, was a good team and fought hard for third place. At present $1,000 has been subscribed by the business men of Topeka towards establishing and maintaining a first class ball team in Topeka during the coming season. One thousand dollars would be at least a very good nest egg towards the amount that would b needed. Mr. Frlck has made no defin ite figures, but wishes to hear from some one in Topeka who is in a position to talk business. This proposition is probably the best that Topeka has re ceived, as the man who manages the team wishes to bring it here intact, and if arrangements are completed the team would be here In time and condition to commence the season. Mr. W. J. Black, Bennett R. Wheeler Horace Hall, H. A. Auerbach. Clarence Smith. F. A. Nipps, J. R. Wick and others who were instrumental in rais ing the present money that is subscrib ed will probably call a meeting to con sider the matter. There is a demand in Topeka for good ball, by a good team, in a good circuit that will be something like the ball that Topeka rooters were brought up on when Goldsby and Goldsbvs men fol lowed strictly the diet of ball given on the menu. Topeka wants more of that kind. DOLE DINED AGAIN. President of Hawaii on a "Bed of Roses" at the Executive Mansion. Washington. Feb. 3. The second card reception of the season was held at the executive mansion last evening Two thousand guests were in attendance. The diplomatic corps were received first, being especially invited to meet President and Mrs. Dole, who were placed between Mrs. MeKinley and Mrs Hobart in the receiving line. The cab inet was represented in the receiving party by the wives of the secretaries except Miss Wilson, who took her fath er's place, and Mrs. Bliss, who was ab sent. Mrs. Griggs, wife of the new attorney es Defied. rr WIFE (Who is beitv knocked aiout.to huebMvd who hogging h&ve dotve. general, occupied the position filled by Mrs. McKenna at the last reception. The decorations were more beautiful than usual, consisting of roses and azaleas in the blue parlor and azaleas and annunciation lillies in the east room, the flowering plants being bas keted by palms, smilax and foliage plants. The Marine band, stationed in the conservatory, and the Sixth Cavalry band in the corridor, furnished the mu sic. After the diplomatic reception, followed the other guests. When the reception was over, supper was served for the receiving party and a few es pecially invited guests in the upper cor ridor. N. Y. DEFENSES COMPLETE. The Estimate for Fortifications Is Cut Away Sown in the BilL Washington, Feb. 3. The house, after three days spent on the District of Co lumbia appropriation bill, mostly in polit ical discussion, passed the measure yes terday and then took up the bill to pro vide fortifications and coast defences foL the country. Mr. Hemenway (Rep., Ind.), in charge of the bill, explained its provisions. The estimates of the department for fortifi cations and other works of defense, arma ment, etc., were $13,71S,7T1, while th amount carried by the bill was but $4. 144,912. In discussing the harbor defense works erected under this policy, Mr. Hem. enway stated that the defense of New York harbor was complete. He quoted the chief of ordnance as having said to him that not enough war vessels could now enter the harbor in the face of the present defense system to materially dam age the city. It is arranged that the general debats should close today at 3 o'clock. Mr. Underwood (Dem., Ala.) criticised the fortifications bill because it did not provide for the inauguration of defense works at the harbors along the coast ot the Gulf of Mexico. Mobile harbor would be the first harbor entered by the Spanish fleet if we should be involved in a wa with Spain. Mr. McClellan (Dem., N. Y.) also criti cised the bill. At 5 p. m. the house adjourned. JUDGE'S NEW MOVE. It Consolidates With Leslie's Weekly aud Demorest. New York, Feb. 3. The weekly publi cations. Judge, Leslie's Weekly and Dem orest's Magazine, have been consolidated. The papers will hereafter be published by a new corporation known as the Arkell Publishing company, of which W. J. Ar kell is president, with offices at the Judge building. The new company has $1,000,000 of capital stock and $500,000 of bonds, with which the existing stock and bonds of the three different publications have all been taken up. The three publications and the book publications connected therewith have been purchased at different times by Mr. Arkell and his associates. There will be an English edition of Judge, the publica tion of which has been arranged for with a London house. Victor Gillam of the Judge staff will be in charge of the for eign cartoon department in London, to which city he will move early next fall. Mr. Hamilton, present manager of Judge's art department, will have charge of the joint art staffs. DIVISION OF IRRIGATION Is Provided for by an Amendment to the Agricultural Appropria tion BilL Washington, Feb. 3. In the senate yesterday Mr. Warren (Wyo.), offered an amendment to the agricultural ap propriation bill to establish a division of irrigation and reclamation of arid lands at a cost of $7,300; and providing for investigations of the methods of building and operating irrigation ca nals and of all methods of storing and distributing water in the reclamation of arid lands, at a cost not exceeding $14,000. No action was taken on the amendment. After the reading of the bill the sen ate adjourned. "YON YOHSSOX" DEAD. Gus J. Haige Passes Away in the Prime of Life. Cleveland. O.. Feb. 3. Gus J. Haige, the actor, known the country over as "Yon Yohnson,"died at his home in this city today. He was 36 years years of age. We are anxious to do a little good in this world and can think of no pleas anter or better way to do it than by recommending One Minute Cough Cure as a preventive of pneumonia, con sumption and other serious lung trou bles that follow neglected colds. G. W. Stansfleld, 632 Kansas avenue. What pleasure is there in life with a headache, constipation and biliousness? Thousands experience them who could become perfectly healthy by using De Witt's Little- Early Risers, the famous little pills. G. W. Stansfleld. 632 Kan sas avenue. is' hert-'Wel'l M'KINLEY LIKES IT. Is Pleased With the Suggestion of a Department of Industry. Washington, Feb. 3. A joint commit tee composed of Ferdinand W. Peck, of Chicago, president of the National Business league; Theodore C. Search, of Philadelphia, president of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers and John W. Ela, of Chicago, counsel of the National Business league have had an interview with the president in the interest of the proposed department of commerce and industries. The com mittee represented to the president the general concensus of opinion which they had obtained in favor of the proposed department and requested the president to issue a special message favoring leg islation in that direction. It is under stood that no definite reply was made by the president, but there seems to be a general understanding that he is in sympathy with the movement and will take such action as he deems proper in furtherance of it. These gentlemen have also arranged with the interstate commerce commis sion of the house to have a hearing be fore that committee on Friday at which hearing they will lay before that com mittee the results of the correspondence they have had in regard to this matter. DRIVEN FROM NEW MEXICO There is an Exodus of Insurance Com panies From the Territory. Denver, Feb. 3. A special to the Re publican from Santa Fe, N. M., says: Of the 41 fire insurance companies en gaged in business in New Mexico, it is estimated that fully one-half will retire because of the new legislative act. re quiring a deposit of $10,000 in cash or its equivalent, barring United States bonds, with the territorial treasurer. The Pacific coast, companies as a rule will remain. The Fireman's Fund of San Francisco was the first to place its deposit. Among those who have positively an nounced their withdrawal are the Phoe-rf- of Hartford, the Royal Exchange and the Home of New York. LEAVE TOPEKA. Doctor J. B. Hibben and Family Lo eate in Kansas City, Kansas. Mrs. J. B. Hibben is in Topeka today arranging for the shipment of house hold goods to her new home in Kansas City, Kansas. Doctor and Mrs. Hib ben. for the last five months have been in Kansas City, Chicago and New York where the former has taken expert in structions and studies in the treatment of special diseases. Dr. Hibben now locates in Kansas City to practice in his specialties. The two will be great ly missed in this city with which they have been prominently identified for so many years. NOTHING AGAINST HANNA. Not a Thing Has Been Proven by the Investigating Committee. Columbus, O., Feb. 3. The senate committee investigating the alleged charges of attempted bribery in the re cent senatorial contest, held a short session last evening and examined one witness, John D. Taylor, of this, city, at whose home Mr. E. G. Rathbone was a visitor during a part of the senatorial contest. The purpose of calling Mr. Taylor T. as to prove that Major Rath bone joined H. H. Boyce. who is alleged to have attempted to bribe Representa tive Otis at the Taylor residence on January 10, when It is claimed, Boyce came to the city. Mr. Taylor could not remember Mr. Rathbone's being at his house on that day and gave no information regarding the alleged hack ride of Rathbone and Boyce. The Hanna people are consid ering the matter of taking a hand in the investigation and may subpoena some witnesses including the leaders in the anti-Hanna movement and others who may have information that it is desired to bring out. HUNG BEFORE BREAKFAST. Short Work Made With a Murderer by Copper River Miners. Seattle, Feb. 3. The steamer Alliance has arrived from Copper river, bringing the news of a double murder and lynch ing at Valdes on January 2. M. F. Tanner, a Montana cowboy, killed M. A. Call of Worthington. Minn., and Wm. Lee, of Massachusetts. The miners hanged Turner next morning. TJ. P. Securities Sold. New York, Feb. 3. Pursuant to the order of the federal court, the sale of the securities under the Union Pacific collateral trust, took place here. After Kuhn, Loeb Co. had bought $3,300, 000 securities, the sale was stopped, sufficient money having been received to pay off the outstanding notes. Kuhn, Loeb Co. represented the reorganiza tion committee. 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 drug gists. There are three little things which do more work than any other three little r bee and DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the last being the famous little pills for stomach and liver troubles. G. W. Stansfleld,. 632 Kansas avenue. 7 ;EL:m-v "NIGHT WIND." "Come hither, my daughter. I would fain hold converse with you." It was the great chief, Red Fox, who gave utterance, to these words, and they were addressed to Night Wind, the most beautiful maiden of the Ogalalla tribe, who, In response to her father's request, now emerged from the large tent which stood in the middle of the village. "What is it, fatherf ehe asked, and gazed at the commanding figure of the chief with startled interest, as if she feared to hear what he was about to say. And now, while we leave the chief and bis daughter conversing together, let us take a cursory view of the region imme diately surrounding and note the pictur esque attractiveness of the locality. It was ail ideal spot for an Indian village, for the tents were pitched in a majestic forest of great trees, overshadowing a smooth and grassy slope, at the foot of which flowed the upper Snake river. Hera and there a bright flower lifted its petals above the grass. The birds sang sweetly in the trees, and all the glories of nature seemed in glad aocord. But to return to the chief and his daugh ter. The fair Night Wind listened with a palpitating heart to the words of her father. "Tomorrow Swift Arrow will return to our village, bringing as tokens of victory the scalps of our hereditary foes, the Sis kiyous." said the chief. "He is now the second leader of our tribe, and when I, the great Red Fox, am gathered to my fa thers and take up my eternal abode in the happy hunting grounds he, Swift Arrow, will be the first chief of the Ogalallas. She who is now daughter of the great chief must be wife of the new chief." "No, dear father, no!" exclaimed Night Wind, sinking to her knees and lifting her bands in pitiful entreaty. "Swift Arrow is a great chief, but he is cold and cruel, and I can never love him." "I have given my solemn promise, and Red Fox always keeps his word." "Let me go to him and I will plead with bim to release you," said the beauti ful maiden, clutching at her father's arm with hands which were laden with orna ments of gold and precious shells. "Why do you ask this?" demanded Red Fox, a heavy frown crossing bis stern fea tures. "Because, dear father. I love another." "His name, girl!" "It is White Moccasin." The eyes of Red Fox flashed ominously. "White Moccasin is tho son of Sleeping Buffalo, my sometime foo, said he. "But he is brave and strong and hand some," urged the maiden. "He has hunt ed in the forest and brought me the rarest of birds. He is the most expert of all the fishermen in the tribe. As an equestrian I am sure that he cannot be excelled by any of the young men of your acquaint ance. Father, dear, I love White Mocca sin, and I feel that life without him would be burdensome indeed." "Speak no further, exclaimed the chief in great anger. "You shall marry a chief. Tomorrow he returns, and you shall go to his tent as soon as the great medicine man can perform the ceremony usual to such occasions. Retire to your tent, please, and lot us hear no more foolish discourse in regard to White Moccasin." With a heavy heart Night Wind slipped Into the privacy of her own tent and gave herself up to the most sorrowful medita tions. White Moocasin was away on the chase or she might have gone to him for comforting advice. All night she lay awake on her couch of soft furs". In the morning she heard distant shouts and knew that Swift Arrow and the vic torious members of tho tribe were return ing to tho villago. Subsequently she heard tho warcries and the shrill incantations which accompanied the dance of triumph, but she did not go out to join in the fes tivities. It was approaching dusk when she heard a rustling sound outside of the tent, and a voice asked, "Night Wind, are you there?" "Who is it?" she asked, considerably frightened. "It is your faithful lover, White Mocca sin." With a glad cry she sprang from her couch and with set eyes and straining muscles sent the boat flying with the swift current. But the pursuers, with two pad dles to a boat, gained at every mile. Their shouts could be heard more distinctly, and when White Moccasin looked baok he saw in one canoe the figure of Swift Arrow and in another the sinewy form of Red Fox. And now what sound broke on his ear? It was the thunder of the cataract ahead. If he stopped to make a landing, he would be captured, whereas to stop and surrender would be infamy. Ha called to Night Wind and said: "Listen. I will push the canoe ashore and fight them as they come. You escape." "Nol" she shouted. "Let as die to gether!" "Night Wind, listen," he entreated. With a sudden leap she wrested the pad dle from his hands and threw it far over board. The pursuers shouted in dismay. Red Fox loved his daughter and had not allowed his braves to fire at the flying canoe. White Moccasin and Night Wind stood erect in tho canoe, clinging to each other and waving defiance to the old chief. A groan of mortal agony escaped Red Fox. At that moment his own canoe was safely grounded. He saw his daughter and the undaunted White Moccasin whirl through the moonlit vapors and disappear into the awful abyss of waters. Chicago Record. Jane Eyre' Gowns. Although the author of "Jane Eyre" considered the author of "Emma" "a very incomplete and rather insensible woman," she was certainly of her mind concerning clothes when she packed Jane's trunk on the occasion of departure from Lowood to Thornfield, says a writer in Lippincott's. There was the plain black frock which, "though Quakerlike, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety." One clean white tucker, the black silk of which Mrs. Fairfax fastened for its owner on the oc casion of her first evening with Mr. Rochester; the best dress of silver gray, purchased for Miss Temple's wedding, and which was too fine to be worn "except on first rate occasions," and the lilac ging ham in which she threatened to be mar ried when Mr. Rochester was bent on fol lowing the custom of tho light novelists. We hear a vast deal concerning Miss In gram's clothes, and very queer ones they were, almost confirming the early critics in the suspicion that the author of "Jane Eyre" must be a man, since no woman would array a lady in a morning gown of sky blue crape and twist an azure scarf in her hair for breakfast but I must confess that I have never seen what good tho fine clothes of this beauty did her. Certainly it was the owner of the clean white tucker who became Mrs. Rochester and whose name, emblazoned in gold, shines forth on our library shelve Subscribe for The State Journal. m s Rents, Situations, Real Estate, Auction Sales, AND OTHER Classified Idvertisettienfs. SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Are you in need of work? If so, yoa are at liberty to use these columns for assistance in that direction. 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