The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 14, 1898

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If ft rf jf r 7 .c. TWO CENTS. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 14, 1898. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. vW ir I V. A TALL WHITE MAN SHOOTS KWONG WEE DANGEROUSLY And Then Robs the Defenseless Laundryman of All the Cash in His Money Drawer and Makes His Escape in Broad Daylight. Kwong Wee's Leg is Per forated, the Bullet Going Clear Through. SHOOTING OF Kwong "Wee, the Chinaman who keeps a laundry at 113 East Fifth street, was shot Sunday noon by an unknown man. The bullet entered his right leg just above the knee, went downward and splintered the bone, severed two branch arteries, injured the ligament of the knee joint and came out below the knee. The wound is consid ered a dangerous one. "Concerning the shooting there is mystery. The young Chinaman has but little knowledge o English and he is somewhat bewildered over the affair. About noon Sunday a man entered Kwong Wee s laundry and began talk ing to him about laundry work. The latter sat at a small desk near the laun dry bundles. The man suddenly asked Kwong Wee if he had any money. Wee shook his head. Then the man left the laundry room and walked across the street to the Office block. In a few minutes he returned and when Kwontr Wee came into the front room and asked the visitor what he wanted, the latter mumbled something which the Chinaman did not understand. Kwong Wee sat at his desk, while the man sat on a counter near by. He suddenly drew a revolver from his pocket and as suddenly fired. The muzzle of it was but a foot from Kwong Wee's leg. Immediately upon firing, the man ran out of the store. Kwong Wee says that lie stole all the money which was in the money drawer, something over $3. The man dropped the revolver in his flight. It was found to be a new one. Dr. F. H. Martin was called some time after ward, lie examined the wound and found that the bullet had passed entire ly through the right leg. The bone and branch arteries were injured. Dr. Mar tin said today: He had bled profusely from the wound when I was called. It took me an hour and a half to stop the flow of blood. If any of the clothing was driven into the bone the wound will probably ba a most serious one. I am afraid the joint will puff up and in that case it will also be most serious. I think the ligament has been injured. If any septic matter has been forced in to the wound there is no telling how se rious it may be." K. P. DEAL DENOUNCED. Senator Harris Says the Government's Policy is an Outrage. Washington, Feb. 14. The Kansas Pacific deal will be aired in the senate. It is asserted by Senator Harris of Kansas and others who have constantly fought the schemes of the reorganiza tion committee, that the administration has acted in bad faith to the senate in the matter and has deliberately deceiv ed congress of its intentions in order to carry through its scheme without legis lative hindrance. When the attorney general announced that the government would ask for a postponement of the sale of the Kansas Pacific branch. Senator Harris called on him at the department of justice and asked the point-blank question if the postponement announced was made in good faith. Attorney General Griggs said it was. and that it expressed the decided policy of the administration. That was Tuesday last. Four davs la ter, after congress was thrown off its guard, the administration reversed its policy and announced its gift of $7,000, 000 to the reorganization committee. Senator Harris will present a resolu tion in the senate denouncing the policy of trickery resorted to by the adminis tration, and will tell the senate how it was tricked. Senator Harris said to day: "The action of the government is an outrage. I was dubious about it when it said that a postponement would be asked, but when I called on Attorney General Griggs on Tuesday and he as sured me that it was made In good faith I accepted it as true. This breach of faith on the part of the administra tion should be known by the country It has prevented legislation prohibiting the president from accepting less than the full amount of government indebt S Si fjLJ ill'1" iSWmM WMmi f Willi SI II III The Doctor Thinks It May Result in the Ampu tation of the Leg. I i i f ii i i n i j i i i i 1 1 M f MM KWONG WEE. Kwong Wee telegraphed for his uncle. Wing Wah to come from Kansas City. He arrived this morning. He is a Chinese merchant there, and is reput ed to be well-to-do. He will probably take his nephew to Kansas City where he will receive good care. The news of the shooting did not reach the police until 6 o'clock Sunday evening. Chief Steele investigated the case. Today he said: "The Chinaman says that the money drawer was rob bed of something over $3. I haven't found out who the fellow was who did the shooting. The money drawer might have been robbed afterward, for there were lots of people up there after it oc curred." KwongWee was seen today by a re porter. He sat up in his couch in the rear of his laundry. He is 20 years of age and would be taken for a good looking Chinaman. "Man come in," said be, "an' I at to bacco store. I come in and ask what he do. He go out. Cross street; back again. I sit in chair. He sit on counter. He shoot my leg and take money from drawer. I badly hurt. I no know man. He tall." Further than this he was unable to give a description of the shooting or the man who did it. A clue to the robbery was obtained at the Sixth Avenue hotel. Sunday two rough men entered the hotel office and created a disturbance. The clerk thinks that if there had not been several men in the office he would have been held up. Kwong Wee has been in Topeka but a few months. He purchased the place at 11312 East Fifth street, which had been kept by Kwong Hing. He had been in the United States four years. He is a hard worker. Unlike many of his coun trymen he is not addicted to the use of opium. He loves cigarettes, however. His couch at his place of business is novel. Over the bunk, which is covered with a rich drapery, there is a canopy from which is draped white curtains. On a table near the couch there is a lamp and several packages of ciga rettes and a can of tea. Kwong Wee suffers considerable pain from the wound, but does not make a fuss about it. edness, and has enabled the reorganiza tion committee to carrout its plan for defrauding the people." Senator Morgan of Alabama said: "It is the biggest steal which has come to my notice since I have been in public life." BRYANJCOMINC. "Will Attend the Democratic Banquet Here February 24. William J. Bryan will attend the Dem ocratic meeting and banquet in Topeka February 24. The following telegram was received to day: "Lincoln. Neb.. Feb. 14. ISPS. "J. Mack Love. Chairman Democratic State Central Commitee. care Frank S. Thomas. Topeka. Kansas: I have arranged with Mr. William J. Bryan to meet our committee February 24 and to attend the banquet in the evening. "J. (J. JOHN-SON. "National Committeeman." Mr. Johnson went from Topeka to Lin coln a few days ago to personally invite Mr. Bryan to come to Topeka. The Dem crats are highly pleased with the accept ance of the invitation. Mr. Bryan's speech will be made at the banquet. No other meeting will be held, but he will have a conference with the state committee, which will be in session at that time. Miss Lou C. Johnsmeyer of Randolph arrived yesterday and will visit Mr. and Mrs. C. Kaser of S15 Quincy street, this week. ALL TO GO OCT. Cotton Mill Strike- Will Probably In clude Every Operative in New England. Boston, Feb. 14. At a meeting yester day in this city of 55 representatives of textile unions in New Kngland, it was unanimously voted to recommend that all unions call out the operatives In every cotton mill in New England. The meeting was practically the out come of the recommendation which Presi dent Gompers made to the Federation of Labor last Sunday, in which he urged the different unions to unite on some settled policy regarding the mill situation in New England. At that meeting a committee of four was appointed to take charge of the mat ter, and after a conference this committee recommended that a general meeting be held to take definite action. Sunday the representatives of the various national textile associations assembled in the Wells Memorial hall and for four hours discuss ed the situation from every standpoint. The primary object of the meeting was to devise some method of rendering as sistance to the New Bedford strikers. The matter was put to a vote, no one being registered against the motion that the different unions should order a gen eral strike in every cotton mill in New England until satisfactory adjustment of wages could be- arranged. It now remains for the various national unions to take action on the recommenda tion, but what this action will be is a matter of conjecture. If all should acqui esce and vote to strike, 147,000 operatives would undoubtedly cease work ami the manufacture of cotton goods throughout New England would be at a standstill. BRYAN REFUSES A TOGA Could Be United States Senator From Nebraska if He Would. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 14. An extraordi nary political situation prevails in Ne braska. It is probably the logical result of the activity of Mr. Bryan and other friends of bimetallism in the state since the presidential campaign. But in any event the situation is regarded as unusual by those who have watched the trend of political affairs in the state for the past quarter of a century. Much of this activity among the sil ver men is due directly to the efforts of Mr. Bryan. The champion of bimetal lism has written during the past few months hundreds of autograph letters to his friends in this and adjacent states urging them to maintain their political organizations with Increasng vigil dur ing the interim between the election of last fall and this year. Particularly has Mr. Bryan cautioned the congressional organizations to be on the alert. There will be six members of congress elected in Nebraska this year. Mr. Bryan de clares today that he has no doubt that all congressmen returned from Nebras ka this year will be pledged silver men. The state has been flooded for some time with literature on both sides of this topic, and the relative merits of the financial question are attracting much, attention among country literary so cieties, grange meetings and similar or ganizations where live questions are discussed. One thing especially has endeared Mr. Bryan to the friends of silver in Ne braska recently. That is his refusal to even attempt to dictate the political af fairs of the state of Nebraska. Of course it is no secret that the allied sil ver forces will in all human probability elect the entire legislature and all the state officials this year. As Mr. Bryan's mere suggestion is ac cepted by his friends here as the law of the silver party in the state, touching party policy, he could easily indicate every man who should fill an official po sition in the state this fall. Of course this would mean the naming of the next United States senator from Nebraska to succeed William Vincent Allen. The various factions of the allied sil ver interests have urged Mr. Bryan, as a political necessity, to express bis pref erence on these subjects, which he has firmly refused to do. All he will say is: "Let none but true and tried friends of bimetallism be placed on guard at this hour, as the su preme struggle between the forces car rying on financial battle is about to be gin." It is no secret that W. J. Bryan will not be a candidate for United States senator. This is absolute. He could have it without even asking for it. All that would be necessary would be for Mr. Bryan to refuse to make his friends understand clearly that he is not a can didate. Senator Allen is a very popular man in Nebraska and will be a favorite to succeed himself with Mr. Bryan in his present attitude. Gov. Holcomb is pro bably Mr. Allen's strongest opponent. This is his second term as governor. Many of Senator Allen's friends are try ing to secure Holcomb's nomination as governor for a third term- in order to place him out of Senator Allen's way. Holcomb might agree to this, but the allied silver forces of the state are be lieved to be too Democratic to violate the established rule against third terms in the governor's chair. SENT HIS SON TO JAIL. The Rev. C. C. Luce of Edger ton Disgraces His Own Boy For a Small Theft. Leavenworth. Feb. 14. Bert Luce of Edgerton, aged 14 or 15 committed petty larcenv in his own home. His father. Rev C. C. Luce, had the boy arrested on that charge, and as a result the boy was brought here to serve a jail sen tence of ten days. The costs will keep him five or ten days more. As the boy is voung and bright, our sheriff will al low him- to come In contact with the more hardened prisoners as little as possible. OLD SOLDIERS KICK. Topeka Post G. A. R. Scolds McKin ley and Objects to Publishing Pension Names. Topeka post G. A. R..' at a meeting Sat urdav night, adopted resolutions de nouncing the management of the pension department at Washington, and criticised President McKinley for failure to men tion the old soldiers in his last message to congress. The resolutions say that the old soldiers made it possible for Mr. McKinley to be come president of a united country, and express regret that he should seem un mindful of that fact. The attack on the president and the pension department is due to the proposal to publish the names of pensioners. The resolutions are very long. The committee which prepared the de nunciation was composed of O. H. Coul ter. J. M. Dumenil and G. W. Weed. The proposition to publish the names of all pensioners is denounced as treasonable and an insinuation that the pensioners are suspected swindlers. LEE MAY GO. Consul General to Cuba Has Been Writing, Too. Spanish Authorities Claim to Hare a Letter BY GEX.FITZIIUGH LEE Which Is Quite as Interesting as De Lome's. Gen. Lee Always Tery Frant on Cuban Matters. New York, Feb. 14. A dispatch to the World from Havana says: There is a rumor that the palace authorities have a letter written by Consul General Lee the contents of which are as Interesting, even exciting for Spain as the De Lome letter to Canalejas was for the United States. It is said that Gen. Lee's frankness in conversation insures the existence of such missives and the opinion is openly expressed that Gen. Lee too must go. New York, Feb. 14. It, is now known on the highest authority that the real reason for sending the United States torpedo boat Cushing, to Havana, was that the Spanish authorities have been tampering with mail sent to the battle ship Maine in Havana harbor, says the Washington correspondent of the Her ald. This resulted In Capt. Sigsbee of the Maine sending a protest to Washington with a suggestion that a regular service be established between Key West and Havana by means of torpedo boats. On the strength of this protest the Cushing was despatched to Havana. Although it has been frequently re ported that official mail has been tam pered with in the past. Secretary Long said last night that he had received no reports from Capt. Sigsbee saying that the Spanish authorities had interfered with his letters in any way. "The dispatch of the Cushing to Ha vana," he continued, "was in line with the department's action in sending the Maine on a friendly visit to that port and the Montgomery to Santiago de Cuba and Matanzas. I expect she is now or will be soon on her way back to Key West." TUGS ARE BUSY Looking for Cuban Filibusters in Long Island Sound. New London, Conn., Feb. 14. Two customs officials from Bridgeport ar rived in this city at 3:46 this morning and boarded one of Captain Scott's tugs. Immediately afterward the tug steamed down the.bwrbor and out into the sound. It is stated that these offi cials have been instructed to patrol and search the eastern end of Long Island sound for the purpose of intercepting a suspected filibustering expedition. TRYING TO PICK A QUARREL. That's What the St James Gazette Calls the President's Course. London, Feb. 14. The St. James Ga zette this afternoon referring to the De Lome incident, says: It appears that President McKinley Is really making a serious incident out of the affair. He is not satisfied with the prompt resignation of De Lome A dis avowal from Spain and an apology are now demanded from Madrid and this is a little too much for Spanish pride. Is the American government, which has had for some time ample justifica tion for intervention in Cuba, if it had been able to make up its mind to inter fere, going to pick a quarrel over this paltry business? Those interested in historical parallels will recall that Napoleon III., in 1870, refused to be satisfied with King Wil liam's disavowal of his kinsman's can didature for the Spanish throne, and demanded a declaration from the King of Prussia that he would never permit such a candidature to be revived. War followed immediately. SENATE INVITES THE HOUSE To Join It in Recognizing Cuban Bel ligerency. Washington. Feb. 14. Senator Morgan today reported from the committee on foreign relations the amendment offered by Senator Allen of Nebraska recognizing the belligerency of Cuba. The report was against mailing it a part of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, but the report, which was quite long, stated that the senate had already acted on this mat ter and was still of the same opinion, and would be glad to have the house co-operate in securing a recognition of belliger ency. THERE WILL. BE REGRETS. Spain Will Make the Amende Honor able for De Lome's Act. New York. Feb. 14. A dispatch to the world from Madrid says: A formal statement of regret at the censure of Dupuy De Lome's conduct, coupled with an expression of sincere de sire that the Canalejas letter incident shall not impair the present friendly re lations between the governments of Spain and the United States or interrupt the ne gotiations for a commercial treaty, will be made by foreign Minister Gullon immediately- following the gazetting of the royal decree accepting Senor De Lome's resignation and appointing his successor as Spain's representative at Washington. On the other hand the Washington cor respondent of the World says that Spain has not disavowed responsibility for the utterances of Senor De Lome and does not consider that any disclaimer of that char acter is necessary U. S. MARINES DROWN While Attempting to Swim Ashore at Colombo, Ceylon. London, Feb. 14. Mail advices re ceived here today from Colombo, Cey lon, say that Barnes and King, marines belonging to the United States cruiser Raleigh on her way to China, were drowned during the night of January 24. It is supposed they started to swim ashore "oh a lark," thinking they were able to scale the breakwater. Finding thi3 impossible they shouted for help and boats from the Raleigh went to their assistance. As the boats ap proached Barnes was seen to go down. Neely and McCartney of the Raleigh's crew dived after Barnes, but failed to grapple him. King had already disap peared. The bodies were recovered. KANSAS BANK SALARIES. Commissioner Breidenthal's Report Shows That They are Modest. Statements sent in to Bank Commis sioner Breidenthal, giving the receipts and disbursements of the banks of Kansas as required by the new banking law, show that the salaries of Kansas bank officials are not large, as is gen erally supposed. On the other hand, many of the sal aries are small for the class of work performed. The statements are sworn to. There are in the neighborhood of 373 state and private banks in Kansas. The sworn statements just sent in by the officers of tbese institutions show that less than 25 presidents of the state and private banks draw salaries. Many peo ple believe that all presidents are on the pay roll. Those who draw pay devote their en tire attention to the bank's affairs. The salaries of these are mostly under $1,000 a year. Three of them draw $2,500; a dozen or more draw only $500 a year each. The average salary of cashiers is about $1,000 a year. A number draw from $1,800 to $2,500, but these are off set by the 200 or more who get from $G00 to $720 a year. The cashier of the largest bank in the state gets only $2, 500. The cashier of one western Kansas bank gets $25 a month and boards him self. Kansas bank clerks as a rule are not overpaid. Some cf them get as high as $1,000. but the average of them get about $480. "Clerk hire, $200," is a favorite entry on the statements. Only one bank in the state spends over $1,000 a year for running expenses. That is the largest one, and its salary list last year aggre gated $13,040. Of this amount, the presi dent got $2,500 and the cashier $2, 500. The next highest was $8,500, the third $5,680, and the fourth $4,790. The rest all run under $4,000. The expense account all told of the majority of them averaged less than $2,000. WHOLETLEET Of Ships Waiting at Philadel phia For Wheat. Will Carry 3,000,000 Bushels of It to Europe. Philadelphia, Feb. 14. Fifteen steam ships are now in port loading, or wait ing their turn to load, the grain that is coming to this city from the west in great quantities. Their aggregate carrying capacity amounts to over 3,000,000 bushels and all the grain elevators at Port Rich mond, Washington avenue and Girard Point are kept busy meeting this heavy rush upon them. This big grain fleet consists of the British steamships Anne Moore, Briar dene, Cyrill, Cyrus, Cape Comarin, Strathgarry, Vizcania, Bjargvin, Lang ham, Florence, Aurelia, Barely and Vic toria; the Italian steamship Glenarchy and the Swedish steamship Ovidia. During the past week 13 other vessels, not including regular liners, were char tered to load grain here and the pros pects for large shipments of corn, wheat and oats were never brighter. A number of the vessels recently or dered came here from Hampton Roads, their charters having been effected while they were at sea. HIGHBINDER'S KNIFE 12 Inches Long Used to Kill a Chi nese Girl. San Francisco, Feb. 14. Yit Sing, a Chinese girl, was murdered at her home at the corner of Bartlett alley and Pa cific street this morning, shortly before 1 o'clock, bv Charles Dean, a half breed Chinese. He had disguised himself as a negro, and when she opened the door in answer to his knock, he stabbed her to death with a 12-inch highbinder's knife. He made his escape but later surrendered himself to the police. HER LEG IS BROKEN, Mrs. "Jack" Gardner Badly Hurt and Boston Society if Inconsolable. Boston, Feb. 14. Mrs. Jack Gardner has broken one of her legs. Just how and when the accident occurred the public is not permitted to know, but the queen of Boston society is confined to a couch, sur rounded by devoted atendants who do all that duty and affection can prompt. It is said that the break is a bad one and that Mrs. "Jack" is having a hard time of it. All the social functions in which she was interested as a promoter have been declared oft. At irppnt shp receives close friends at the bedside. Those not privileged to call until she can see them with more of the formalitv exacted by conventionalities leave their condolences and best wishes. Notwithstanding her affliction. Mrs. Gardner will attend the Pugno concert at Music hall next Friday afternoon. She will be lifted from her carriage at the door of the hall and, after being deposited in a rolling invalid chair, will be wheeled across the floor to her seat. WICHITA BANK PAYS OUT. Comptroller of Currency Declares a Pinal Dividend. Washington, Feb. 14. The comptrol ler of the currency has declared divi dends in favor of the creditors of insol vent national banks as follows: Fifteen per cent The Keystone Na tional bank of Erie. Pa., 20 per cent, the First National bank of Benton Harbor, Mich.; 5 per cent, the Humboldt First National bank. Humboldt, Kan.; 40 per cent and a final dividend of 5.S1 per cent, the 'Wichita National bank, of Wichita, Kan. Topekans Going to Wichita. The past masters and a few of the del egates from Topeka held an interesting meeting Saturday night at K. P. hall for the purpose of making final ar rangements regarding transportation and accommodation of the Topeka lodges who will attend the A. O. U. W. Grand Lodge at Wichita, Feb. 22. The Santa Fe was selected as the route and the delegation will leave Topeka Sun day, Feb. 20, at noon. A. M. Hoener, grand guide, one of the most prominent workmen in the city to whom great credit is due for the the erection of the Fall Festival arch, seems to be the choice of the Topeka lodge for the next grand foreman. A DEATHBED TALE Carter Roe, a Blue Cut and Elmdale Bobber, Hid a Box of Money Near Skin ner's Ice House. THE BOX IS DUG UP By Unknown Parties and Car ried Away. Ex-Sheriff Wilkerson Looks For the Boodle BUT HE FINDS OXLY A Hole in the Ground The Story Told By Carter Boe Just Before His Death at BedwelFs. The discovery of a freshly dug hole near the Skinner ice house in Garfield park has thrown every one in that vi cinity into a fever of excitement, for the place shows plainly that a box was ta ken from the excavation and in that box it is supposed was $l,300,part of the booty hidden by a gang of robbers who had their headquarters in Topeka until 1895. The mysterious Blue Cut train rob bery in 1895 near Kansas City and the attempted robbery of the bank at Elm dale may both be solved by the death of Carter Roe, who died on January 23 in Bedwell's asylum east of Topeka. Carter Roe was a tough character who was a close friend of the Robbins boys in North Topeka.For nearly three years he has been .an inmate of Bed well's asylum, suffering from what doc tors call melancholia. Early last fall he was taken with quick consumption and grew rapidly worse until he died. A week before his death he became ap parently rational. One day he called Mr. Bedwell, the superintendent of the asylum, to him and said faintly: "I want to go to North Topeka." "Why do you want to go over there?" asked Mr. Bedwell. "I have some money there," replied the dying man. "I can get $1,300 if you will only take me." "Where did you get so much money?" asked Bedwell. "I earned some of it," said Roe In a faltering voice. "Did you rob a train or a bank and got the rest?" The man stammered and blushed and then began to cry. He finally told Bed well that he wanted to relieve his mind before he died and then told him the following story: "Yes, I have been in a bank robbery and a train robbery too. I did not get anything in the bank but got the money that is now buried in North Topeka from the train." Mr. Bedwell bent down over the man. It was a great effort for him to speak, but he whispered the details as well as he could. "It was on April 29, 1895 that we broke into the bank at Elmdale. We got in all right and we were drilling a hole in the safe, and got it almost through when some one heard us, and they awakened several people, and we had to get out to keep from being caught. "Only a little while after that we rob bed the train. That time we got $8,700. There were six of us and we brought the money to North Topeka, where we divided it and each of us got $1,300. I was afraid to keep so much money about me, and one night I put it into a little wooden box and took it over near the stone ice house near Garfield park and buried it. I can find the place, I know, for it was just about three feet from a stump that was south of the ice house. "Then I went to Springfield, where I was arrested, and then they put me in here. I wish you could get John Wil kerson to come here and I will tell him what I have told you. I want to get this off my mind." Mr. Bedwell did not think seriously of what the invalid said, but a few days after he took the trouble to go to the place indicated by him at Garfield park. He found no stump and concluded that Roe's mind was wandering when he told the story. "That story you told me was all bosh," said he to Roe. "There is no stump there." "It is true," said the sick man. "If the stump is gone, I can find the place from the bearings if you will only take me over." But the man was not able to stand on his feet, and Mr. Bedwell feared that the effect of the trip would be more than he could stand. John M. Wilkerson was sent for at the request of Roe, and he told the same story to him. He told him exact ly what he had told Bedwell. In no particular did the words differ. A short time afterward Roe died. Wilkerson asked Roe about the loca tion of the train robbery, and was told that it took place near Marysville. He wrote to the authorities at Marysville, Kan., and the town of the same name in Missouri, and has now come to the conclusion that the man referred to the Blue Cut robbery of 1895, when a large sum of money was taken from an ex press car near Kansas City. He tund the story of Roe about the EimdaTe bank robbery was exactly cor rect in every detail and this more firm ly establishes the belief that the man had told the truth. It was not until last Friday that Mr. Wilkerson and Mr. Bedwell decided to make some measurements and begin the search for Roe's share of the booty. They went to the place indicated by him and were startled to see a large square hole about three feet deep. In one corner was a place about a foot square where a box had been taken out the box which they are satisfied contained the money. The hole is supposed to have been dug and the box taken about a week ago. They found boys who said the ground was not disturbed a week ago last Thursday. Now both Bedwell and Wilkerson are lookin for the man who did the digging, but they have not the least clue. Ex-Sheriff Wilkerson says: "In the summer of 1895 I went to Springfield, Mo., where Roe was held to await the arrival of the officers from here. He was wanted for burning a house near the Baughman ice house, belonging to a man named Thomas. When I got there Vhe was demented. But I thought he was shamming and brought him back. But he continued to grow worse, and was finally sent to Bedwell's. I heard little of him until he sent for me three weeks ago and told the story about the robberies and money. When Roe was arrested in Springfield he had a fine set of burglar's tools on his person. "I now believe that he told the truth, In the asylum before he died, for he seemed perfectly sane then." CARTER ROE'S CONFIDENCES. Tells About Hiding the Money Near Skinner's Ice House. During Carter Roe's confinement at Bedwell's asylum. Ralph Elerick attend ed him. Mr. Elerick became well ac quainted with Roe and the latter in trusted him with many confidences. He was grateful to the attendant for the kindness shown him and when he was taken very ill and he was told that he could live but a few days, he called Mr. Elerick to him and said: "Kl, I am go ing to tell you something. I want you to get a buggy and take me over to North Topeka. I have $25 hidden in the ground there." Mr. Elerick told hint that he could not do that as he (Roe) was too feeble. Then it was that the sick man made the confession to him. Among other things he said: "I hid a box of money in the ground about 30 steps south of the old Skinner ice house near Garfield park. There is over $1,300. The money was gotten from the Blue Cut robbery. I want you to have all that money, for you have been so kind to me while I have been here. Go over and get the money after I am dead. It is yours." Roe told the attendant of several in cidents of his life and admitted having been one of the principals In the at tempted bank robbery at Elmdale in 1895. He stated that they were scared away before they got the plunder. Today to a reporter Mr. Elerick said: "Yes, Roe made a confession to me be fore he- died. He was 35 years of age and he died at the asylum on January 23. He told me that as I had taken good care of him that he wished me to have money which he had hidden in North Topeka. He wanted be to tak;; him over there, but he was not able to go. He confessed that the money hid den there was some he had procured from the Blue Cut robbery in 1S95 and he told me that he had been one of the party that made the attempt to rob the Elmdale bank. I don't know anything about the attempt to dig up the box. Roe told me that it was hidden about 30 steps from the old ice house near Garfield park. I can't get away from the asylum and so I haven't been able to see if Roe told me the truth. Mr. Bedwell has been in town some but I don't know what he has done. You are pretty near it when you mention John M. Wilkerson's r.aine in connection with it. Roe was a robber. That was evi dent. He told me of several exploits. I can't say what I shall do about the money, should it be recovered. I think it by right belongs to me. Roe certain ly intended it for me when he made that confession." WHAT MR. SKINNER SATS. Did Not Hear of the Treasure Trove Until Sunday. Councilman O. D. Skinner, who owns the land in which the digging has been don, was notified of the affair Sundnv. He made an investigation and found that nis information had been correct. Today he said to a reporter: "I went over to my land and found thnt someone had been digging holes in the ground. Most of the digging was about 100 to 150 feet south of the stone ice house. I could not do anything about it, for I n-nt the land to another purty. But I notiii.-d my tenant of it and asked him to watch the place. I know but little of the rets,-, but I am satisiied that this crippled at tendant Elerick is entitled to the money, and whnt I have done has been to protect him. He took care of the man, and when Roe died he told him to go and dig up the treasure. I propose to do what I can for Elerick. although that is not much, as I rent out the land to a tenant. The dig ging was done on my land on Thursday and Friday evenings. Some of the hole.-) were quite deep, while others were begun and left." MORE .WAR ENGINES. England Will Build Four Addi tional Armored Cruisers. Glasgow, Feb. 14. The British govern ment has invited tenders for four first class armored cruisers of. 21,009 horse power and slishtly less tonnage than the Powerful, which vessel is of 14,2JU tons displacement. NO APOLOGY iNIGHT. Spain is Inclined to Let De Lome's Sentiments Stand. New York, Feb. 14. A special to the Herald from Washington says: The De Lome incident is still unset tled. The cipher dispatch received from Minister Woodford was not entire ly satisfactory. It was taken to the president by Assistant Secretary Day and after a short conference between them, Mr. Day sent another cablegram, to Minister Woodford. It is said that Minister Woodford's cable was a report of his interview with the Spanish minister of foreign affairs which showed that no direct dis claimer had been made by Spain of that feature of the De Lome letter which lias been interpreted to indicate the incincerity of the Spanish govern ment in the matter of autonomy and in the negotiations for a commercial treaty. Madrid, Feb. 14. EI Liberal com menting on the De Lome letter says it was a private document of which the government misunderstood the text. It is semi-officially stated that official claims cannot be founded on a private letter, that Spain acted rightly in ac cepting the resignation of Senor Dupuy De Lome, and that the ministers de clare that any claims whatever are in admissible. TO MARRY A HAPOLEOH. Queen of Holland Xay Wed Prince Louis The Hague, Feb. 14. There is some talk of the betrothal of Queen Wilhelmina to Prince Louis Napoleon, now "colonel of the MRS. HILLMOX'S ILLNESS Will Probably Cause a Postponement of the TriaL Judgre John K. Williams arrived just be fore noon today and the arguments for a continuance of the Hillmon case are be ing" heard this afternon. It is generally believed that the continu ance will be granted, as both sides have affidavits from physicians who say that Mrs. Millmon-Smith,, the plaintiff, is nut able to be hexe. 0 ft

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1898. WHAT DO YOU DRINK? ftTany Kidney Troubles Traced to Poi sonous Beverages A Remedy Discovered. The enormous increase In the con sumption ot all kinds of beverages re gardless of their ingredients has re sulted in a material increase in the number of people with disordered kid neys, this fact being attested by lead ing physicians who report a constant Increase in the number of patients af flicted with this trouble. Many of the popular drinks of the day being composed of essential oils and coloring matter contain a sediment of a highly deleterious character. This matter lodges in tne kidneys retarding their action and making it impossible for them to filter the blood as nature Intended. As a result the blood is forc ed to carry its impurities through the system over and over again until every function is deranged and disease takes a. hand. It does not require a physician's knowledge to recognize the symptoms of disordered kidneys. Dull pains in the back, sallow skin, continuous head ache, loss of flesh and the absence of ambition are positive indications which no one should neglect. Although physicians have long realiz ed the growing danger of kidney trou bles they seemed unable to provide an adequate remedy, until John Morrow, on eminent chemist, of Springfield, Ohio, after long research succeeded in pro ducing, under the name of Morrow's Kidneoids, a remedy that promises to upset all previous methods of treating the kidneys. Morrow's Kidneoids are composed of a peculiar combination of remedial agents the full strength of which have been concentrated in small pills. They act directly on the weakened kidneys eliminating all poisonous deposits, strengthening the tissues, reorganizing the functions. The fact that nearly ail diseases have their origin in the blood coupled with the knowledge that the of. fice of the kidneys is to filter the blood Of all effete matters, the retention of which result in the most serious conse quences make obvious the importance of such a discovery. The results obtained from the use of Morrow's Kidneoids even when taken without a physician's direction have been so remarkable as to justify the gratitude of the entire world being laid at the door of this scientific discovery. Morrow's Kidneoids are now on sale generally. If not to be had of your dealer, they will be sent postpaid on receipt of 50 cents per box or 6 boxes for $2.50 by the Herb Medicine Co., Springfield, Ohio. FOR QUEER ADVERTISING. Deacon White Called Down by the Slew York Exchange, I New Tork. Feb. 14. S. V. White, who a little more than a month ago was rein- stated to the privileges of the New York i Stock Exchange, having failed to meet his obligations in 1S93, has succeeded in in- j voking the censure of the governors through his peculiar methods of adver- tising. Mr. "White has been known for j many years as a "plunger" and, while at times he has been successful, his busi- t reps record includes three failures, with i natalities considerably m excess or a mil lion dollars on each of the last two occa sions. His creditors in the ISirZ failure were paid in full, as the result of lucky speculation with funds left in his hands by them, but those of 1893 were less for tunate. It is said, however, that he has paid more than $.0,0i0 in cash, and that he arranged for the remainder of his ob ligations in a manner satisfactory to the Stock Exchange. It took Mr. White just about a month after his reinstatement. to get fairly warm in his seat; then he begin to look around for the best means to regain his position as one of the leading operators on the board. What he wanted was money, and on the principle of letting his wants be known he advertised in the newspapers for 'thoroughbreds" who would put up funds to remain in his hand for two years, and at the end of that time he promises to make an accounting. He was careful r.ot to make promises of great profit, but he wrote of chances of two to one that those trusting him would be amply re warded. Furthermore, he was not look ing for investors, but for men who would take losses without "squealing and profits without undue exultation," he advertised. The directors of the exchange did not like the deacon's methods, and told him so. PULLMAN COMPANY, It is Said, "Will Unite With the Wag ner Concern. New Tork, Feb. 14. It is rumored in fin ancial circles that the Pullman Palace Car company is about to consolidate with the Wagnes company. Robert T. Lincoln, who is chairman of the executive commit tee of the Pullman company, was at the Holland House today. Mr. Lincoln said that he had no knowl edge that a consolidation of the two com panies was about to take place. There was also a rumor that the Pull man company was on the eve of distrib uting its great surplus to its stockhold ers. The surplus amounts to nearly $7, OoO.OOO. Cc-Operative Agricultural Colony. San Antonio, Feb. 14. About 300 American railroad- men, employed on roads in Mexico, have organized a co operative agricultural colony. The colony will be started with a capital of 5100.000, which will be invested in lands. At a meeting held in San Luis Potosi, Mex.,the following officers were elected: President, D. W. Sharpton; vice presi dent, John H. Thompson; general man ager. William Breckway; secretary and treasurer, A. E.Froelick. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It. J. W. PHILLIPS. B12 West Eighth St. Horueseekers' Excursions. Tickets will be sold on the first and third Tuesdays of January, February and March via the Union Pacific to points in Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona and New Mexico, where the minimum round trip rate is J7.00 or over, at one fare for the round trip plus $2.00. For exact territory and full informa tion or tickets, call on or address, F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent. J. C. FULTON, Depot Agent. Ftop that barking ty the use Bal lard's Horehound Syrup. It arrests the cough, allays irritation of the throat and relieves congestion of the lungs in a day. It is safe and pleas ant to take and never disappoints. 25c and 50c. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka avenue. OASTOIIIA, !i n CA.STOH.XA, H fsa- sT It e OABTOniA, tis ha ll a: STARVING STRIKERS. Pitiable Condition of the Cotton Sill Operatiyes At New Bedford and Other Points in Strike District. SOUP HOUSES SET UP. Mad Rush for a Contribution of Fish. "Window Smashed by the Eager and Hungry Crowd. New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 14. The visitor to New Bedford, will be struck by the thousands of idle people to be seen on the streets, the silent factories, which give out no sign of life, the empty 2,000 houses which have been va cated by operatives now in refuge in other places, but, saddest of all, will he be struck by the destitution which drives men, women and children to fish markets and soup houses, more like ravenous beasts than the thrifty em ploye with his deposit in the savings bank, which New England economists have so persistently painted. The fol lowing description from the New Bed ford Evening Standard tells the story: "No one anticipated that there would be an unbridled onslaught or any such scenes as led one young fellow who was caught in the rush at Dollard's fish market to remark that if he had known beforehand what he was going through he would have borrowed a football rig. "When the distribution at Dollard's commenced it was intended to distrib ute 500 pounds of fish which had been contributed by a Boston firm. Soon a crowd gathered and the sidewalk be came packed, the later comers extend ing out into the street and well onto the street car track. "Everything went along decently and in order for a few minutes, but the pro ceeding appeared siow to the waiting multitude, and every one in the crowd was seized with an idea that the supply would soon be exhausted and that some would get left. Then a wild rush was started.everybody apparently being de termined that he would not be the un fortunate. In the crush the men who had charge of the distribution were swept away from the barrels, through the market and almost against the wail In the rear. One man caught in the rush, while trying to extricate himself, was forced through the large show win dow in front. "When the contribution from Boston was exhausted the crowd was still clamoring and an equal amount from Mr. Dollard's own stock was dispensed before it was possible to clear the place. The breaking of the window per mitted a little ruse on Mr. Dollard's part and the passage of a dozen or two smoked haddock through the hole help ed to transfer the excitement and the crowd on the sidewalk. "Each person was given a fish weigh ing three or four pounds, or half of one of twice that size." Besides these scenes at the fish mar kets half a dozen soup houses have been set up in various parts of the city around which are to be found men, wo men and children clamoring for their share. All this has been done despite the local city pride which would have prevented it, the efforts of those in charge of the affairs of the poor, and that mythical bank account. Here is one of the richest cotton spinning cen ters in the union, where the factory treasurer reigns like a king, where the dividends of a generation have made them prodigal, where it was asserted the "help" was in heaven when com pared with the condition of their south ern brothers. They had been enjoving that superior wages which the Ark wright club thought so exorbitant that it could stand a 10 per cent cut, and yet, within one week after they have been closed out they are penniless and starving! "Indeed," said Mrs. Harriet Picker ing, one of the most intelligent of the strikers, "there is suffering among the poor. There is pride among the weav ers and they would not have their pov erty known, but live on a crust and look smilingly at the world. But yes terday a neighbor of mine, the father of a family, fell upon the floor in a dead faint. Dr. Huff was sent for and he said: "Poor man, it's only the hun ger!' My God!" exclaimed the lady, wringing her hands in a paroxysm of grief, "the world does not know how we are starving even now, while we walk around and try to look cheerful." MORMONS NOT WELCOME. Excitement Created by Their Inroad Into Florida and Churchmen Are TJp in Arms. Tampa, Fla., Feb. 14. This section of tho state is alive over the advent of a number of Mormon elders, and the people in the different towns have openly ex pressed their intention of driving the Utah proselyters from their midst. Already from some small country settle ments trouble has arisen over the work of the Mormons and in two cases the preachers were driven out of the place under threats of whipping if rhev remain ed. There are a number here in Tampa. The people are somewhat excited over their doings and are watching them close ly. The pastors of the churches have issued an address of warning against the Mormon elders now in this locality, from which the following is extracted: "The secular press informs us that 2.000 Mormon missionaries are making their headquarters at Chattanooga. Tenn.. and from that place as a center they are go ing throughout our southern land to spread their pernicious and immoral doc trines. They are making an earnest ef fort to establish Mormonism in Florida and their representatives have reached Tampa and are busy among our people. They desire the use of our churches and wish to be countenanced as Christian men. They have no claims upon us and deserve no recognition at the hands of the Chris tian public. They are enemies oflour po litical institutions, of our homes, of all soeial order as well as of our common Christianity. Their presence in a com munity is an impeachment of its intelli gence and an insult to its morality. As ministers in this city, we owe it to the people of the community to give them some warning." The city officials have warned manv of the elders that they are liable to arrest on a charge of vagrancy, as thev ask for food and aid. and that they had better move on. There is an undercurrent of opinion among a certain element that more stringent measures should be used. If any converts are announced it is prob able that the elders may get into trou ble. Homeseekers' Excursion. One fare for the round trip (plus $2.00) on Tuesday, February loth, via the Santa Fe Route for tickets to Ar kansas, Arizona, Indian Territory, Lou isiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Liberal limits and stopover priv ileges. Apply to agent Santa Fe Route for details. O O Q DISPENSARY LAW KILLED. South Carolina Liquor Law Killed by the Legislature. Columbia, S. C, Feb. 14. At the night session of the house the referen dum bill was taken up and killed by postponement. Then the house dealt what friends declared to be a vital blow to the dis pensary exempted the counties of York, Pickens and Oconee from the operations of the dispensary laws. The exemptions were made without a fight. It is feared many other counties will follow. WHEAT MARKET ACTIVE Southern Kansas Farmers Pushing Their Grain to Market. Wellington, Feb. 14. The wheat mar ket of southern Kansas which has been unusually dull for several months past, is picking up lively now and grain' is moving rapidly. The market has been growing steadily stronger for the past two weeks. The increase in the amount of wheat brought in since the rains has been very marked. This is due to the confident feeling among the farmers over the crop outlook for 1SS8. Many farmers are disposing of all of their 1S97 crop on the strength of the outlook for the future. There are hun dreds of thousands of bushels of Sum ner county wheat still in the bin, but the greater portion of it will no doubt go to the market within the next few months. The prices being paid by the local buyers are the highest. Good hard wheat brings 80 cents a bushel. There is a large amount of this quality of wheat brought in here daily. REBUILDING NEW YORK. Construction of Skyscrapers Still in Full Blast to Meet the Growing Demands of Tenants. New Tork, Feb. 14. The builder is working wonders in the metropolis. It is not alone in the construction of sky scrapers that rapid advance has been made, for an equal improvement in the tenement house districts may be mark ed. Following close on the heels of the asphalt pavers came the pullers-down, and six and seven-stroy, up-to-date tenements, with exposed plumbing, hardwood finish and other improve ments now stand on the site of many old rookeries. The extent of these im provements on both the East side and West side, in the most densely popula ted districts, is hardly appreciated by the public at large, but the real estate men and the builders know what is go ing on, and so do the "boys who do the work." On the lower East side the complex ion of things is changing rapidly, and, with easy money and low rates of inter est, the improvements now under way there are bound to be pushed further than they would have been under the conditions that ruled a year or so ago. While the number of dwelling houses on the market is enormous, the pro jected improvements uptown, especially on beautiful Riverside drive, convince observers that the speculators in soil, brick and mortar feel sure of an exist ant demand somewhere. Another fea ture of this species of betterment is the march of the office building toward the gay heart of the town. It is said that the building recently completed on the southwest corner of Twenty-second street and Fifth avenue is being well rented, and this successfully corralling of tenants has undoubtedly had its in fluence upon prospective buyers in the locality. Higher up the hustling agent reports progress, but he is playing hav oc with the earning power oi the less pretentious structure alongside the steel-ribbed giant he represents. CABLE TALKS OF ROMANCE. The Author is the Guest of the Twen tieth Century Club Chicago, Feb. 14. George W. Cable told the Twentieth Century club today how to see our life as romance sees it. It was the fifty-fourth meeting of the club and was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Jones, 1S34 Prairie avenue. The house was rich with decorations of lilies and cut flowers, and the odor- of these seemed in rare harmony with the mood of the author whose talk led through im aginary woodlands and fields, down dingy lanes and into quaint gardens. Mr. Cable's address was a literary con fidence, in that it showed his hearers the sort of living there is in romance, in writ ing stories. He got at the motive of ro mance and found it to be living, and in proportion as we learn to live in romance, to turn from reading tales to living their truths into our own lives, he said, we appreciate the real merits of authorship. As fidelity and courage form the arch upon- which all character rests, he found that all stories of living rested upon this twain also: and. if stories like Othello and Lear proved exceptions, it is because they are stories of mislivlng and their themes are the great errors that men crystallize in cold art but must isolate and shrink from in living. The best in stories. Mr. Cable declared, helps one's experience and lends real en joyment to the real days of life. Everyone could not live a good story, but every one's history is full of good story mat- O O Q3 terial, and he who enjoys a romance with the best understanding of its truth and its art best knows how to live and to enjoy the story part of living. The author then bestowed courageous criticism upon readers. He said it mat tered more what was read than what was written, and how reading was done more than anything. Reading that is not as similated is as bad as overeating. Reading that does not send us back to nature wiser, truer, happier artists of living is a mistake, he said, and it means a lack of appreciation for romance. A lack of ro mance in readers, he found, was a lack of true religion. Without the romantic idea, reading could not be rightly under stood in science, literature, art, romance or life. Healthful emotion, the right feelings, as a key to unlock the chambers of the house of life, Mr. Cable almost deified. Mr. Cable expressed his disgust at daily newspaper literature, and said if he were the emperor of the universe he would have most of the great Sunday papers printed in volapuk. TAX ON BACHELORS. Bill Introduced in Trenton to Slake Single Men Pay $2 Yearly. Trenton, Feb. 14. Assemblyman Wel ler introduced his bill to tax bachelors this morning. Mr. Weller is married. "I am perfectly serious in my desire to see this bill become a law," he de clared. "It is a highly moral bill and will work for the best interests of the human race." The bill taxes every unmarried man in the state $2 a year, "whether he lives with his parents. or not." It orders eve ry tax assessor to make out a list of the unmarried men in his district be tween May 30 and August 20 of each year, and directs v that all bachelors shall make a true'return to the asses sors regarding their single condition. It so happens that some of the bright est men in the state are bachelors, but that is not the fault of Jersey's charm ing women. After some joking about this very important bill, Speaker Wat kins gravely referred it to the commit tee on the state lunatic asylum. Speak er Wratkins has never known connubial bliss. It is prophesied with great cer tainty that Governor Voorhees will ve to the bill if it ever gets to him. The governor is a bachelor. The introduction of the bill had one effect. It was proved that Speaker Watkins is not confirmed in his bach elorhood. During the noon adjourn ment today he and several bachelor friends went to the State school and the speaker made a speech to the brainy and beautiful pupils. "It is evident the argument is current that a tax on bachelors will encourage matrimony," said the good looking orator. (Loud cheers and shrill cries "It will! It will!") "I for one don't intend to groan un der the burdensome tax," cried the speaker, looking straight at a tall, handsome girl with red hair. (Prolonged cheers.) "I hope all my single constituents will plunge at once into the sea of matri mony," concluded the speaker. If women could vote Speaker Wat kins would be elected in a week to any office in the people's gift. Opponents of the bill have found a precedent against the tax. Early in 1837 the petition of William Mcllroy, Esq., was presented to the house, ask ing: "A modification of existing laws relative to taxes, in favor of single men." The petition, which suggested the repeal of the annual tax of $2 on bachelors, was referred to a committee of three bachelors and two widowers, who, after long deliberation, reported against the bill. They said: "The tribe of bachelors labor under many imputations, but your committee has yet to learn that grave legislation is to be made the implement for per petuating popular prejudice. The rail lery, which might grace a convivial board, becomes grotesque and incon gruous when it obtrudes itself into the sanctuary of justice." Quoting from Lord Bacon's works, the committee said: "The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried men." They are "best friends, best mas ters, best servants." leaving, the com mittee thought, little to be said of the married men except perhaps they are the best husbands. In closing the committee considered that humane legislation should not lay burdens on the unfortunate. "In palliation of the misdemeanor all are not guilty of celibacy of malice pre pense. Such legal legislation is a sur vival of sumptuary provisions of the ancients or the blue laws of New Eng land, and a disgrace to the state of New Jersey." The report served its purpose. Its hu mor and hard common sense was so ap parent that the act laying a tax upon single men was soon repealed and has never since appeared upon New Jer sey's statute books. 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. Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment re lieves the intense itching. It soothes, it heals, it cures chronic cases when sur geons fail. It is a scientific certainty. Its sales increase through its cures, it is no experiment. Every bottle guar anteed. 50c. Tuber,, 75c. Geo. W. Stans field, 632 Kan. Ave., and Miller's Phar macy. Cor. 6th and Topeka avenue. GRASSHOPPERS Were Never Thicker in Kansas i,Than Ducks and Geese Are Said to Be on the Rivers of Alaska. RETURNED TRAVELER Declares He Has Seen the Sky So Full of Them As to Obscure the Sun for Thirty Minutes. St. Louis, Feb. 14. According to Dr. W. V. Kingsbury, Alaska is a verita ble Klondike for the sportsman. Ducks and geese swarm there by the million. The rivers and lakes are black with them in the spring, and fall. They are so thick in the air at times they cast a shadow over the face of the earth. In numbers they equal, if not surpass, the now obsolete pigeon roosts in their palmiest days. Any hunter may lay in enough duck and goose meat in a few days to last for a year. Dr. Kingsbury spent several years in Alaska with the United States survey ing commission which fixed the bound ary of the territory. During that time he experienced some remarkable en counters with ducks and geese. "Yes, sir, Alaska is the greatest coun try for ducks and geese in the world," said Dr. Kingsbury today. "Every per son who goes to Alaska should be pro vided with a good 10-bore shotgun. Enough ducks can be killed in the spring to last until the fall. In the fall another supply can be laid in to tide over the winter months. "Why, I have seen ducks so thick overhead that the sun would be ob scured for 30 minutes. During the sec ond year we were in Alaska the ducks made so mtreh noise along the Yukon that we could not sleep. We could not frighten them away from near our camp on the bank of the river, and con cluded to lay in a big supply of duck meat for the coming winter. Besides, our meat supply had grown very scarce, and we were in actual need of flesh food. "There were 10 of us, with good shot guns and plenty of ammunition. Well, the way we slaughtered the ducks and geese was a caution. We had duck for breakfast, goose for dinner and duck for supper. The next day we ate goose for breakfast, duck for dinner and goose for supper. Talk about eating 30 quails in 30 days! That feat isn't in it with the feat of eating duck and geese three times a day for six months. Say, when it comes to eating, don't say duck to me. I have had enough duck orf goose to last me a lifetime. I have eaten all varieties and species of the bird. Duck hash, duck soup, duck salt ed, duck in every conceivable way. duck at all ages, duck till you couldn't rest was our lot that winter. And the most disagreeable part of it was that the birds were all fishy." "How many did you kill?" asked the reporter. Dr. Kingsbury turned to a diary which he kept during the ttip. Pres ently he looked up, and in the most matter-of-fact manner said: '"Two thousand five hundred and forty-nine ducks; four hundred and eighty-seven geese. "Why, that's nothing," continued Kingsbury, "we only hunted a short while. If we had gone into it in dead earnest we could have bagged as many more. But what was the use of wast ing ammunition? We killed too many as it was and got very sick of the salted meat before we were through with it. "Take the Indians, for instance. They lay in a big supply of duck and goose meat every fall. They generally pre fer the geese, because they are larger and can be preserved better. They hunt geese with clubs and manage to kill hundreds in one night. The geese generally land on sandbars at night. Two Indians will watch a certain sand bar until it is pretty well covered with game. They will pull out from bank in their canoes. One lands at the head of the island and the other at the foot. When each has time to affect a land ing and tie his boat, the man at the head of the island gives a signal and both start in beating the geese with their clubs. The geese are usually sleepy, weary, and when they are dis turbed suddenly loose their heads. Be fore they can clear the island, hundreds have fallen victims to the clubs. At dawn the island appears to be full of dead geese. On one occasion over 500 geese were bagged by two Indians on an island in one night." HIGH KICKING IN COURT. It Cost a Giddy New York Blonde Five Dollars. New York, Feb. 14. Before Magistrate Olmstead, In the Yorkville court, this morning. could utter a Warning and before the court officials could stop her, May Stanley, a blonde-haired young woman, who had been arrested, gave an impromp tu exhibition of high kicking by lifting her foot over the head of Agent Dimond of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The woman, with Sarah Smith, both young, had been arrested for refusing to pay their fares in a Third avenue cable car. The Stanley woman is a "high kicker." The women had been drinking when they boarded a Third avenue car at Twenty-first street after midnight this morn ing. They thought to have fun wTith the conductor by refusing to pay their fares. When he wanted to put them off the car they laughed at him. and began to give exhibitions of high kicking. Tho con ductor had the women arrested. When arraigned the vivacity of the Stan ley woman attracted several persons about the inner part of the court room. "I'll give you an exhibition, judge." she said, and before she could be stopped she had kicked over the head of Agent Ui mond. who stood near her. The agent blushed and moved back into the crowd, while Magistrate Olmstead. a former pop ular newspaper man. said: "Young woman, you must not do that here. That is not permitted in this P The Stanley woman was fined $5 and her companion was discharged. The latter hurried out and came back in a few min utes with the money. Both left the court laughing. Give the Children a Drink called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appe tizing.nourishingfood drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-O aids di gestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit. Costs about as much as coffee. 15 and 25c. So-To-fca for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tosacco habit cure, makes -weak men strong, blood pure. 60c, 61. All druggist MAJOR ANDRE'S FATE. The liesson His Capture Teaches to Many Who Heed Advice. On a fine autumn day in 1780, a handsome young man on horseback halted at a place in Westchester county New York, where the road to Manhat tan Island divided. The horseman knew that if he chose the right hand road, he would save time but run great risk, for he was a British officer, and the right road was infested with vigilant American partisans. So he turned to the left, hoping for a safer, if longer journey to the British lines. He fell into the hands of three Americans, and every grammar school boy knows what happened soon afterward. Major John Andre, young, brave and ambi tious, was hanged as a spy. That was one example of the important results that flow from trifles. Here is another told by Mr. E. P. Shumy, of Lebanon Springs, N. Y. "After an injury received while about my business," he said, "I had very se vere pains in the region of my kidneys, attended with great soreness and ten derness, as well as considerable bloat ing of the abdomen. At times it seemed as if there were a twenty-five pound weight dragging down each of my hips. One of the most skillful physicians of Pittsfield, Mass., pronounced mine a INTERVIEW WITH SCHENCK He Tells of One Case in Which Sis System Was a Success. New York, Feb- 14. In a letter just re ceived Dr. Victor Neesen, a young Brook lyn physician who is pursuing his studies in Berlin, gives some interesting facts about Dr. Schenck. Dr. Neesen recently went to Vienna from Berlin to have a talk with the man who is reported to have discovered the secret of regulating the sex of human offspring. "When I called at Dr. Schenck's house," Dr. Neesen writes, "I found the street blocked with carriages of all descriptions, from cabs to fashionable landaus. A group of well dressed people stood on the stoop of the house waiting to be admitted. Many of the ladies wore diamonds and rich furs. Some were young and beauti ful. There was a plentiful sprinkling of English and Americans among them. "After a long wait I was ushered into the sanctum of Prof. Schenck. He arose, extended his hand and bade me be seated. He told me of what he had done in the way of experiments, and of his joys and sorrows. I then asked him if he knew how the news of his discovery got out. He said, in reply: 'Yes. the wife of a Parisian Journalist was sent to me by her French physician. She was despondent because of her lonely home. I assured her that I could help her, and then, with my experiments in mind, I asked her if she desired a boy or a girl. She was astonished at my question, and asked me if I was joking with her, when, with all seriousness, I told her that I was not. Only half be lieving what I said, she told me that both she and her husband wanted a boy. The woman underwent treatment, and in due course of time she had born to her a bouncing boy of 12 pounds weight. The husband was so overjoyed that he told his experience to his friends, and so it got into the newspapers.' -ls it true?" 1 asked, 'that your system is mainly based on regulation of the mother s diet?' The quality and quantity of food di gested has largely to do with the pro duction of male or female offspring, but just what influence this has I may not say at present. When my experiments have fully matured I will lay the whole matter before the medical society to which I belong, and through that before the world. It is not that I desire to keep my researches secret and thus enrich my pockets, as I might do. I decline to say anything now simply to protect my peace and quiet until my experiments are per fected, when I will give them to the world for what they are worth.' 'Do you use any drugs or chemicals In your treatment?' "I do, occasionally. But they have nc specific action on the determination of the sex. I use them simply as a means of raising or lowering the state of the general health.' CAPTURE OF A WILD MAN. Fought Desperately After Having Been Lassoed and Manacled, San Antonio. Tex., Feb. 14. The mys terious wild man who lived in the woods and terrorized the people of Nueces coun ty for several months past was today landed in the insane asylum here. Several attempts were made to capture him, but he foiled his pursuers by his craftiness. Finally some cowboys, mount ed on wiry mustangs, hunted him down in the chaparral and roped him. The capture was not completed, however, even when thev hurled the nooses of their lar iats over "his head and tightened the coils ki Tho wil.l m!in bad her- culean strength and fought desperately. His captors managed to get a pair ot handeurrs on nis wn.-.i.3. l-ul jerked his hands npart the chains con necting the bracelets snapped as if the links were of paper. They put a second pair of handcuffs on him and he snapped them with equal ease. He was confined -v.r-,,,ia Chricti until broueht i here. He has the strength of a giant. although of only medium height. His feet and hands are small and shapely, and his high brow anu wen iormeu neao mui cate that he was once of. fine intelligence. His beard reaches to his waist. After using a 10c trial size of Ely's Cream Balm you will be sure to buy a 50c size. Cream Balm has no equal in curing catarrh and cold in the head. Ask your druggist for It or send 10 cents to us. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. I suffered from catarrh for three years; it got so bad I could not work: I used two bottles of Ely's Cream Balm and am entirely well; I would not be without it. A. C. Clark, 341 Shawmut Ave., Boston. Not how cheap but how good Is the way we try to do our work. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 14 West 8U. case of Bright's disease in its early stages. "I grew worse under treatment. I was obliged to give up all work for sev eral months. I had three kinds of med icine, to be taken in turns, yet was not helped by them. Finally needing more medicine, I went again to the doctor, but he was then away. I went to C. T. Hemenway's store and purchased a bot tle of Warner's Safe Cure. On my way home I dismissed the doctor. "I was much benefitted by the very first bottleful, which gave a new tone to my stomach as well as to my kidneys. A dozen bottles gave me such relief that I could go to bed and sleep, something which had not been possible for a num ber of weeks. I improved gradually, yet steadily. During my illness I lost over forty pounds in weight, but I soon regained it. I feel sure that I am per manently cured, and that there is no lingering trace of Bright's disease in my system." Possibly if Major Andre had followed the right hand road, he might have been captured and hanged anyway. That is a matter of speculation. The fact Is in the case of our friend in Lebanon Springs, that the doctors absence led him to try Warner's Safe Cure. How lucky that the' doctor was not at home. SCALE IS A MYTH. Out of 4,00O Packages of Fruit In spected but Two "Were Infected. Berlin, Feb. 14. The government expert investigation to ascertain whether the San Jose scale may exist in sun-dried fruit continues. Consul Pitkin reported to the United States embassy today that out of 4,000 packages of fruit which arrived at Ham burg recently two small lots, shipped from Infected California districts, were stopped. No northern fruit has so far been found infected. The lot3 stopped during the past fortnight from California were So noma apples. During the coming week 900 packages are expected. Afterwards there will be a few straggling lots. The government tests are quite fair. Samples are only taken for the purpose of examination. though the examination takes a long time. RATHER A DEMOCRAT Than a Republican Governor Who Would Sign the N. Y. Cartoon BilL Albany, N. Y., Feb. 14. At the meeting of the State Editorial association here the chief interest centered in a speech of E. H. Butler, editor of the Buffalo News, who, in speaking against the Ells worth libel and cartoon bill, said: "The bill is a damnable outrage. It is the out growth of soured ambition and petty spite. No governor of New York state could sign such a bill and hope for a sec ond term. I will say frankly that I would support a Democrat rather than a Republican governor who would sign this SEW GOLD FIND. Late Arrival From Alaska Reports Rich Strikes on Henderson Creek. Portland, Ore., Feb. 14. J. L. Schroedcr of San Francisco, who left Dawson City December 20, has arrived on the steamer Oregon. He reports that just before he left rich strikes had been made on Hen derson creek about seventy miles south east from Dawson, and that additional rich finds had been made on Bonanza and Hunker creeks. He also reports that very rich quartz ledges have been located on Stewart river and that a party of 20. headed by an ex perienced mining engineer, had just left Dawson for that location. He said that the strikes on Henderson creek were so rich as to cause quite a stampede to that locality. Ballard's Snow Liniment is the most penetrating liniment in the world. It cures pain and inflammation of all kinds quicker than any other known remedy. Price 50c. Every bottle guar anteed. Geo. W. Stansfield, 632 Kan sas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka avenues. To Core Couatipatlou f orever. Take Cascareis Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25a If C. C. C fail to cure, druggists refund money Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment gives instant relief. It allays inflam mation and heals. It is prompt in its action and positive in its effect. It ia the kind that cures without pain or discomfort. It is for piles only. 50c. Tubes, 75c. 110 MERCURY No potash no mineral no danger in S. 8. S. This means a great deal to all who know the disastrous effects of these drugs. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed Purely Vegetable. S. S. S. forces the disease out through the skin does not dry up the poison to decay the bones, like mercurial mixtures do. I was almost a physical wreck, the result of tiercurial treatment Book! free; address, Swift Specific Co, Atlanta. for blood poison SS s is a real blood remedy, f I f vs lor it cureu mo jjer- v s. V V tnanently." Henry X, 7 N Koth. 1848 South Ninth Jj W J Street, St. Louis, Mo. iLS VH" KLS

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1898. 3 RAILR0AD NEWS. The Rock Island Preparing For Fast Service. Puts on Three Additional Work Trains Near Belleville. BALLASTING TRACK. Philadelphia Locomotive Works' Ilapid Engine Building. Section Foreman's Unique Re quest for a Sew Hand Car. Belleville, Feb. 14. About the first of March the Rock Island will have three work trains on the road between Cuba and Smith Center, besides a steam shovel at work getting oat shale at the beds near Cuba and a stone crusher in operation at the Montrose stone quar ries. The shale will be used between Belle ville and Courtland, while the stone ballast will be used from there and on to Smith Center for the present. The company are putting their road in first class shape, preparatory to meet the increasing business and for the recep tion of the fast passenger service, now contemplated by the Kock Island road. Between Belleville and McFarland there has been a rapid increase in the com pany's business and extra trains are running daily. CENTRAL BRANCH ITEMS. News of Interest From the Nortli Por tion of the State. Greenleaf, Feb. 14. John De Long, special agent of the Missouri Pacific road, is here in consultation with the B.oss boys, recently arrested here for promiscuous shooting in one of the Greenleaf business houses. Division Superintendent I. II. Luke and Chief Dispatcher W. E. Brooks of Concordia visited Greenleaf Friday. Mrs. Chas. Ross contemplates mov ing to Goodland soon, where her hus band is running an engine for the Rock Island. W. C. Cullom, day operator in the Greenleaf depot, was presented with a substantial bedroom set by the em ployes of the Missouri Pacific road here in memory and recognition of his excel lent services and recent marriage to Miss Nellie Foster. Mrs. Hattie Williams, the excellent hostess of the railroad eating hotel, Pomeroy. of Greenleaf, is favorably spoken of for department president of the Ladies of the G. A. R., to be elect ed in Wichita at the convention in April. Mrs. Ida Priest, wife of Engineer W. A. Priest, and Mrs. Hattie Williams, wife of A. H. Williams, proprietor of the railroad eating hotel. Pomeroy, will join the Greenleaf gun club immediately or. its reorganization this spring. Both ladles are experts with the gun and can down a jack rabbit on the hop. skip and jump or a quail on the wing with as accurate precision as any ex pert marksman in this part of Kan sas. There are all sorts of rumors among the railroad boys in Greenleaf about the new Missouri Pacific time card which is expected to appear about the 20th. The one most talked about among the employes is that the Central branch passenger, now leaving Atchison at half past 12 o'clock noon, will leave at S:35 in the morning, reaching Stockton, the terminus, about 8 o'clock p. m. ON THE ROCK ISLAND. Items ofInterest to Railroad Men Generally. Belleville, Feb. 14. G. W. Pryor, late hostler in the Rock Island roundhouse here, has succeeded I. J. Ketchum as foreman of the roundhouse and car re pairer. Mr. Ketchum has been trans ferred to Topeka, where he assumes a similar position for this company. Mike Kerens of Phillipsburg has been given the position of hostler in the Belleville roundhouse. W. E. Dauchey of Topeka, of the Rock Island, superintendent of the maintenance and construction depart ment west of the river, was a Belleville visitor Thursday. F. C. Smith of Colorado Springs, west ern division superintendent of the Ruck Island looked in to see how the Rock Island boys at Belleville were getting along Thursday. Tha chief talk among the Belleville Rock Island employes is the reported fast train the company are about to put on between Chicago and Denver to compete with the Burlington. The train w ill only stop at divisions, and will have to run about 50 miles an hour. The Rock Island cut 3,000 tons of ice off their pond here in Belleville. They also shipped out 2,000 tons to other points on this system. LITTLE CHILD'S LIFE. Saved by the Nerve and Heroism of an Engineer. Delphos, O., Feb. 14. The little four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Will was playing on the railroad track when the P., Ft. W. and C. fast line came thundering along. The engineer saw the tot on the track and realizing that he could not stop in time to save it, he reversed his engine and climbed along the boiler and down onto the pilot and picked the baby up before the train hit it, and the little one was restored to neighbors unhurt, who were attending the mother, who had fallen in a swoon when she witnessed the impending catastrophe. Bystanders were loud in their praise for Engineer Hutchinson, whose won derful deed preserved the innocent's life. DESTROYED HIS HAND CAR. Section Foreman Moriarity Gives a Gentle Hint for a New One. A section foreman by the name of Moriarity walked up to a small station on the cut off a few days ago and sent the following message to headquarters. Several days afterwards he was asked why he did not explain and he said he thought the dispatchers could guess the rest: Extra pulled by forty nine. Running an hour ahead of time. Couldn't see it very far What I want's a new hand car. AMONG RAILROAD MEN. John P. Irby, a brakeman on the San to Fe, has retained A. H. Wyeoff to bring a suit against the Atchison. To peka Santa Fe railroad for $25,000 for Injuries to his spinal column which he received July 17. 18a5. by a train going through a defective bridge in southern Colorado and from a fall which he in curred at Socorro August 26. 1S97. oi account of a rotten hand hold, which aggravated the former injury of the spinal column. The next homeseekers' excursion on the M., K. T. will be run on Tuesday, February 15th. The warm weather has started the tramps on the road and "Katy" train men report that they are coming out of their w inter quarters in droves. A spotter wearing a Masonic charm is said to have been working on the Memphis route between Sprl.-gfield and Kansas City, and as a result two popular conductors have been dismissed for insufficient accounting to the audi tor. Two more are said to be on the carpet. Machinist Hinch of "Wellington, has has resigned his position at the round house to accept a position In a ba.nk at Guthrie. Engineer A. F. Keith of Goodland will shortly resign his position with the Rock Island and go to Colorado and engage in mining. Passenger Conductor Frick out of Goodland has resigned and will move to his farm in Iowa. F. A. Beer has been given the run. C. M. Gevrez. the Rock Island agent at Stuttgart, has been transferred to Burlington, Col. Owing to slack business it became necessary to reduce the number cf ex tra firemen on the Newton board. Fire men Luick, Conners and M. Smith, who were taken during the rush, were dis charged. Fireman Milton Goodwin, who was promoted out of the roundhouse, was put back at wiping. Fireman Con ners has gone to Albuquerque where he has a position in sight. The Missouri Pacific is hauling a number of ties, rails and other material for the construction of an extention on the Hutchison and Southern railway from Kiowa south. FAST ENGINE BUILDING. Philadelphia Company Builds Four Locomotives for Great Britain in Thirty-One Days. Philadelphia, Feb. 14. The shortest time on record for building locomotives has just been made by the Baldwin works in the construction of four en gines for the British government to use in moving supplies and munitions of war in Africa. No European works could reach the speed necessary for John Bull's requirements, and the or der was placed with Baldwins under a contract to finish the engines in sixty days. The contract was given on January G, and in a fortnight the British govern ment cabled to know if the engines could be finished befor the time set in the contract. Baldwins replied that the engines would be shipped on Febru ary 15. Work went on with remark able rapidity, and two weeks ago. when a notice was sent that an engine inspector would come over to inspect the engines, Baldwins replied that the locomotives wculd be ready before .the inspector arrived. They were ordered to hold them until the inspector arrived, and, although all four engines were finished In thirty-one days, they were obliged to wait until they had been inspected. SANTA FE PROMOTIONS. Several Changes on the Oklahoma Division Made Recently. There has been several promotions on the Oklahoma division caused by the resignation of Mr. Frank L. Myers, chief clerk to Superintendent F. T. Do lan and the agent at Arkansas City, Mr. J. D. Sweeney. Mr. W. W. Burnett who has been in the superintendent's office here for the past four years, goes to Arkansas City as agent, Mr. Ed Worrill takes Mr. Burnett's position and Mr. Stillwell who has been Mr. Cross' clerk, takes Mr. Worrill's position. Mr. G. B. Heath erir.gton, of Arkansas City, comes here as chief clerk under Mr. Dolan and Mr. J. D. Pound will leave here for Arkan sas City to take the position made va cant by Mr. Heatherington. Mr. C. L. Ransom will fill the place formerly held by Mr. Pound. SPREADING THE GUMBO. The Rock Island Repairing Its Track Out of CaldwelL The Wellington Journal says: The Rock Island work train in charge of W. E. Baird, foreman, pulled in from Dav enport, Iowa., this morning to begin the work of taking the gumbo from the Rock Island kiln across the creek. The train consists of a steam shovel ap paratus and a string of flat cars for hauling the gumbo along the track for distribution. Roadmaster Neal is su perintending the work. The steam shovel apparatus is just out of the shops after extensive repairs. The shovel requires eight men to op erate. A force of twenty-four work men will be employd to accompany the train and spread the ballast. The gum bo will be spread on the track between Riverdale and Caldwell, which is in worse condition at present than any stretch of track on the Rock Island system. It will require some time to complete the work. KILLED IX AN ELEVATOR. New York Woman Meets Death in a Peculiar Manner. New Tork, Feb. 14. Mrs. Arthur Levy, wife of a member of the whole sale clothing firm of Hays, Goldberg Co., was instantly killed last night in an elevator at the Holland House.. A party of ladies, of which Mrs. Levy was one, had accepted an invitation of H. C. Marks, a St. Louis merchant, to go to the Holland House, where he was a guest, and look at a display of photo graphs which he had gathered. On entering the elevator, Mrs. Levy placed her hand upon her forehead and complained of dizziness to her compan ions. Before they could reply the ele vator boy had started to close the door of the shaft, gripped his lever and the car shot up with a bound. Almost at the same moment. Mrs. Levy reeled and fell with her head out of the door. The elevator was about an inch and a half from the walls of the shaft and, as far as the solid walls would permit, her head extended out. There was a crash, and the boy, with a dexterous move, brought his car to a slop at the first Might. It was too late. Mrs. Levy lay lifeless on the bottom of the elevator, her head crushed in as if by a heavy bludgeon. It had been struck by the slight projection of the first floor into the elevator shaft. LIFE EVERLASTING. Cleveland Girl Wants to Tell the World How to Live Forever. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 14. Etta Mich aelson, a pretty and well educated girl living at 469 Broadway says she has dis covered the secret of perpetual life. "When I announce this," she said, "X realize that the whole world will laugh at me. I cannot help that. I cannot disclose my secret unless ten men me;t to hear what I have to say. I want them to thoroughly investigate what I tell them." The girl's mental condition is said to be all right and her request to meet ten men to whom she will reveal her secret will undoubtedly be granted. Subscribe for The State Journal. ST. JOHN IS ARRAIGNED At the Bar of the W. C. T. U. Opinion in Olathe Because He Signed Druggist's Petition to Probate Court FOR A LIQUOR TE11MIT Indignation Meeting Was Called for Sunday Afternoon. It "Was a Gathering Resulting in Much Talk. Olathe, Kan., Feb. 14. Not since the original package excitement in this city, about ten years ago, has there been as lively a public meeting held as was held in the Baptist church yesterday afternoon. The storm center was ex-Governor St. John. A few weeks ago three of the druggists here tiled petitions with the probate judge asking for permits to sell liquor. The petitions will come up for hearing this month. The law requires the signatures of twenty-five men and twenty-five wo men of the ward in which the drug store is to locate on each petition. One of the druggists got ex-Governor St. John, who lives in another ward, to sign his petition. This stirred up the Women's Christian Temperance union as never before, and a meeting was called for 3 o'clock yester day afternoon to protest against the granting of a permit to sell whisky, as prayed for by ex-Governor St. John and others. The church was soon filled with men and women and the W. C. T. TJ. was out in force, as also was Mr. St. John, to ex plain his action. Captain Clark was made chairman and H. E. Tracy secretary. Senator Parker was first to speak. He opposed the petition, and called on Mr. St. John to explain why he so prominent and able a leader and temperance advo- cate had. after so many years of prohibi tion in the city, signed the first petition asking for a permit that had ever been presented to the probate court, and liv ing, too, in a ward where his signature had no legal effect. Mr. St. John's explanation was that he wanted liquor sold legally by the drug gists. He said that if permits were re fused they might sell in violation of law. The crowd listened in patience for a few minutes, but soon questions began to come from all parts of the audience at once, and the ex-governor was under su.-h a fire from his own people as never be fore. "Have you not. in all your speeches, declared Olathe to be the freest from in toxicating drinks of any city in the coun try?" was asked of him. "Why do you now advocate the granting of permits? You have been with us in years gone by; 'whv are you against us now?" The questions came so thick and fast from Senator Parker. Judge Tlindman, Rev. Mr. Ooddard and women of the tem perance union that no answers could be given. JuJce Hindman made a redhot speech, declaring that upon such questions the AS'. C. T. t". had always been right, and at this time he would follow under their wise leadership instead of following the "inexcusable course" of St. John. Others could not wait, but arose and emphatically protested against the action of St. John and the granting of a permit, two or three trying to be heard at once, until the meeting began to look like a hot nolitical gathering. Such temperance w:orkcrs as Captain Clark. H. L. Burgess, Rev. Mr. Goddard. Rev. Mr. Barnes. Mrs. H. M. Hall and Mrs. McMillan made ear nest sneeches against the application. During three hours of the exciting and stormv proceedings. Major I. O. Picker ing was the only one in the audience to come to the defense of St. John. Major Pu kering is the father-in-law of the drug gist who first liied the application. The major waxed very vehement during the course of his remarks: three-fourths of the audience left the building while he was talking and the meeting was abrupt ly adjourned. Judge Hindman read a resolution, but there was such a sudden breaking up of the meeting that it was not voted on. AN EDITOR POISONED. Gus Leftwich, a Missouri Newspaper Man. Dies at Gallatin. Gallatin. Mo.. Feb. 14. Gus Leftwich, editor of the Gallatin Democrat, died at his residence in this city at 3:08 o'clock this morning from the effects of arseric poison, supposedly contained in coffee which he drank for breakfast on Sat urday morning. His wife who also drank coffee, is considered out of dan ger. Editor Leftwich was one of the best known, most influential and most suc cessful newspaper men in the state. hav ing edited the Miami News and Rich mond Conservator before purchasing v. ivi,.rj t- loet Attm1 T-T wjis fn- rolling clerk of the last general assemb ly and twice presiaent or tne boutnwest Missouri Press association. No other clew than accidental is ob tainable as to the cause of poisoning, two boxes of rat poison having been kept on the shelf immediately over the coffee pot. Weather Indications Chicago, Feb. 14. For Kansas: Gen erally fair tonight and Tuesday; colder in west and north portions tonight; de cidedly colder Tuesday; brisk southerly shifting, to northwest winds. EX-GOVERNOR ST. JOHJf A VALENTINE DID IT. So-Called "Comic" Valentine Angers a Dayton, O., Man and He is Shot Twice. Dayton, O., Feb. 14. Little Joe "Wein steiger returned home at noon today and displayed to his mother and father a comic valentine. The latter was drunk, and at once be came furious. Little Joe was roughly kicked out of the house and the mother was compelled to run upstairs and lock herself in a room to escape the hus band's anger. In the meantime Weinsteiger procur ed an old, rusty gun and his revolver, and armed in this manner he appeared in the front yard. Mrs. Weinsteiger ventured to the front window, and the husband instantly shot at her. The bullet shattered the glass, but the wife escaped uninjured. Officers Buckley and Geyer were the first to appear on the scene, and as soon as the madman sighted them he began to shoot. Both officers returned the fire. Eight or nine shots were exchanged, but. al though Weinsteiger stood out in full view, the officers were unable to place a bullet at the right spot. The patrol wagon with a squad of of ficers came dashing up, the horses foam ing from the fast run of two miles. Weinsteiger got in the first shot, aim ing at the officers as they made a dash for the maniac. The officers returned the fire. One bul let struck Weinsteiger's left hand, shat tering the bones, while the other pene trated the right forearm. Although in this manner rendered helpless, Wein steiger continued to fight and struggle until he was practically beaten into insensibility. F. D. COBURN TO PRESIDE. Kansan Likely to Rule Over Chicago's Corn Convention. Chicago, Feb. 14. Corn growers and men interested in obtaining a wider field for corn products, will convene next Wed nesday at the Great Northern hotel. The convention will be unique in its way, and from it much of importance to farmers, millers and machine manufacturers the country over is expected. It is to be the first corn convention in the historjr-of the nation. Nearly every oneof the middle western states and a goodly number of the far western com monwealths will be represented. The governors of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Ne braska have appointed delegates to rep- resent those states at the convention, and it is expected that two of the state execu tives will be present. The Illinois. Indi ana and Kansas boards of agriculture will have special representatives here, and so will the government experiment stations and the state universities of many of the western states. F. D. Coburn. who is called the "pros perity statistician of Kansas. and who is being mentioned as a candidate for gov ernor, is likely to be chairman of the con vention. In a recent interview he gave a little corn talk, in which he said: "Corn leads all American crops, both in area and product. It is the largest arable crop grown In any country, and in measured quantity in a single year it has exceeded the wheat crop of the civilized world. I believe we are on the eve of a development in corn, corn growing and the uses of corn products which will al most revolutionize western agriculture." The object of the gathering is to devise plans for educating the people at home and abroad to an appreciation of thevalue of corn as food. The corn millers will oc cupy the foreground at the meeting on this score. They say the people aie not fully aware of the manifold possible uses of corn as food. They have made arrangements for a practical demonstration of their claims at 24 Washington street, where they will conduct a frte corn kitchen. There will be cooked, bv expert chefs, bread, crack ers, table delicacies and also some new corn dishes which have not tickled the .m,!-.,. miatp nit tn dntt' More than j this, they will have the kitchen employes use a maize soap 111 asuins lmt ui.-mk- and cooking utensils, this soap having for its basic ingredient corn oil. Cooking classes will be instructed and lectures given on the general use of corn as an effective diet. The domestic science com mittee of the National Farmers' congress and the secretary of the National Pure Food association. Miss Emma C. Sickles, will co-operate in this demonstration. Two hundred delegates are counted on to be present at the convention by B. W. Snow, chairman of the committee on ar rangements. It is probable that not a few railroad officials will be on the ground, so much importance do they at tech to the corn interests in the United States. Then there will be many rep resentatives cf the agricultural press and agents of large concerns that depend up on corn and corn by-produc ts. TO BOOM EXPOSITION. Two Cars With 60 Representatives From Omaha Will Strike Kansas. Fort Scott, Feb. 14. On February 26 a delegation consisting of sixty representa tives of the Transmiss'ssippi exposition, to be held in Omaha commencing June 1. will arrive in Fort Scott for the purpose of meeting the business men of Fort Scott. The delegation is traveling in two Pull man palace cars and will arrive over the Memphis road at 2:10 p .m. TO TAX OLD 3IAIDS, TOO. Urs. Charlotte Smith Wants the Bachelor Tax Law Amended. New York, Feb. 14. Saturday being a legal holiday. Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who moved to New Jersey Friday, did not have such a busy day in her headquar ters, Taylor's hotel. Jersey City, but she was occupied in laying plans for this week's crusade against bachelors and old maids. Mrs. Smith's object in opening head ouarters in Jersey City is to aid the bill ccials A partial list of the many 85c Bed Spreads, hemmed ready for use, gljQ f 1.25 Bed Spreads, extra size,' ready for OA. use, at An excellent line of Marseilles Spreads, from An extra heavy LL Brown Muslin, 6c yd. at A fine soft finish Bleached Muslin, 6c yd, at LONSDALE MUSLIN," "GREEN Ticket Brand," For Tuesday and Wednesday C yd only (Limit 20 yards), at DC Amoskeag Apron Ginghams, Best Made," f" at DC Yd ioc Percales, fast colors at. tic 36in. Percale, fast colors at A. H. Rice's Filo and Embroidery guaranteed fast color fl Dry Goods, Cloaks, Millinery, Shoes introduced in the legislature by Assembly man Frank M. "Weller, providing for a tax on bachelors. She claims that the bill should be amended so that old maids shall be taxed, too. "I certainly believe in a compulsory marriage law," she said. "Every man and woman should be married." Mrs. Smith had dodgers distributed as a part of her campaign. The dodger was headed: "Appeal to the citizens of New Jersey." It advocated that the bill be so amend ed as to tax old maids who didn't marry, provided they had an annual income of $5,000 or more, the tax to be devoted to paying for the keeping of decrepit old bachelors who are more than three score. Further, all hands were to pay a tax of $10, instead of the $2 originally imposed. The dodger went on: "We earnestly appeal for the homeless old bachelors, who have been matrimonial and financial failures in life. New Jersey has 4S.M0 women who support husbands by their labor. The mental and physical strain has brought thousands of good and true women to an untimely grave endeavoring to provide for ornamental husbands. It is to be deplored that this class of hus bands is alarmingly increasing in this state." Meanwhile the Bachelors' club of Hoboken has taken measures to fight the bill. POLICE MUST SHATE. Atlanta Patrolmen Not Allowed to Wear Stubby Beards. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 14. The policemen in Sergeant John Abbot's squad must shave three times a week or lose their jobs. This peculiar edict went forth this morning when Patrolman Debray re ported for duty with a stubby growth of two weeks on his face. He was laid off until it had been removed, and the sergeant informed his men that in order to preserve the neat appearance of the force and to prevent their beards being violently handled by obstreperous pris oners this new rule would have to be complied with. The policemen protest, but they have no other alternative and the shaving crusade will begin at once. MOURNS LOST FISHERMEN. Gloucester, Mass., Honors the Memo ry of Its Dead. Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 14. Glouces ter's annual tribute to lost fishermen was made yesterday. The annual me morial service, under the auspices of the Gloucester Fishermen's institute, was held in the First Baptist church before a large audience, many of whom were relatives and friends of lost fish ermen. Practically all of the clergy men of the city were present and par ticipated in the services, which opened with select scripture sentences by the chaplain of the institute. The memorial list which was read shows that 96 fish ermen lost their lives during 1S97, their average age being 31 years. There are 17 widows and 45 children left to mourn their loss. A large percentage of the unfortunate fishermen were natives of the British provinces. FAVORS "JACK" HARRIS. Convention to Nominate Second Dis trict Congressman Meets at His Home. The political friends of J. P. Harris of Ottawa won a victory over the re maining Republican candidates for con gress in the Second district by securing for Ottawa the convention which will nominate the candidate for congress. The date of the convention is fixed for May 3. As Ottawa is Mr. Harris' home it is expected that he will have his supporters marshalled from every corner in the district and present a sol id front to the opposition to his nomina tion which will be divided among five other candidates. This convention will be one of the earliest held in the state and was so fixed in deference to Air. Harris' wishes. If he is again nominated he will make a house to house campaign in the dis trict. ATTACKED BY RABBITS. Illinois Farmer Driven Into His Barn for Safety. Hinsdale. 111., Feb. 14. James Hess, a farmer living three miles north of this town, was seriously injured in a battle with rabbits here yesterday. He was feeding his sheep when a large pack of rabbits attacked him and, though he fought valiantly, he was driven into the barn and badly hurt. He stayed there until noon and when the dinner bell rang he made a dash for the house, but was cut off and was obliged to retreat in to the stable again. At 4 o'clock the rabbits evidently gave up the siege and retired in fine or der led by an old buck as large as a dog. The last seen of them they were going over a hill five miles away and the hill was gray with them. Where they came from is a mystery and a posse i- being organized to hunt them. The cough, so distressing to consump tives, is greatly relieved by Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. for This Week-Only PRICES THAT WILL MAKE YOU COMPANY WITH YOUR MONEY. bargains we are giving. r, Men's heavy work Shirts, worth 65c each Men's heavy Overalls, well made, worth 65c pair nen's Work Gloves, worth 25c pair nen's Work Gloves, worth 50c and 60c pair Men's heavy mixed Socks, worth 8c pair flen's heavy wool Socks, worth 20c pair nen's heavy Cottonade Pants, worth 98c pair Men's heavy Oil Grain Shoes, worth 1.25 pair 1.35up worth A r. iC Yd ICvd 5c Yd 5c Yd worth 7aCYd Men's Fine Dress O 1 v. O3C Yd lhuics rine uress snoes, worth $2.00, Silks,,

f rriwk DJSTF) IBU TERS cr BARCrAftS, THEY LIKE M'NALL. Some Missourians Who are Pleased With His Course. Kansas City. Feb. 14. For once "Webb McNall, the superintendent of insurance for Kansas, has taken steps which meet the approval of the agents at Kansas City and the latter are just now greatly en joying the lead which Mr. McNall has struck. Mr. McNall's latest order is to require all companies doing business in Kansas to report the compensation paid to all officers in the shape of salaries, commissions. etc. Policy holders 'are deeply interested in this matter and hope he will follow out his action by insisting on getting the information he requires. McNall declares that officers who get $100 a day every day in the year ought not to complain if McNall's examiners charge $5 a day for a few days in making ex aminations. John A. Hall, president of the Massa chusetts Mutual, was in Topeka last week and had a conference with McNall. It is generally believed that he came all the way from Massachusetts to secure a re versal of the order issued by McNall. It would be exceedingly interesting to know just how much the officers of the big com panies receive. In this connection it is said that four presidents of life insurance companies in New York receive as large a salary as the president of the lTnited States (S50.000), and one is reported to have said that he preferred his present position to the chief magistracy of the nation. Some of the vice presidents are compensated at the rate of S35.ux) a year, and all live in hopes of succeeding to the presidency. Fo or five other positions pay as high as Szo.OOO a year. Some of the other officers are said to be compensated as follows: Sec ond vice president. $25,000: actuary, $15 0); general counsel. $15,000; treasurer, $15,000; auditor, $10,o00: assistant secretaries or treasurers, $10,000. STATE HOUSE NOTES. The Klondike Irrigating and Canal com panv of Syracuse, Kan., has filed its charter in the office of the secretary of state. The Wichita rate hearing, which was set for Thursday of this week in Wichita, has been postponed by the railroad com missioners because suitable accommoda tions could not be provided them in that city- The last warrants stamped "not paid for want of funds" were paid by State Treasurer Hefiebower Saturday. "The credit of the state is once more good.' said Treasurer Hetlebower as he redeem ed the last warrant. A requisition has been issued by Gover nor Leedv on the governor of Nebraska for Jean Lagrange, wanted in Jefferson county on the charge of forgery. He is in custody in Nelson, Neb. WAR IS IMMINENT. Nicaragua and Costa Rica A.bout to Fight It Out New Tork, Feb. 14. The correspond ent of the Herald in Managua tele graphs: "Two British warships are now in Nicaraguan waters and more are ex pected. One of these now in Nicara gua is at Corinto and the other at San Juan del Sur." The Herald's Washington correspond ent savs: "There is a general impres sion among Pan-American diplomats here that Costa Rica and Nicaragua are very near war. Both governments have assumed belligerent attitudes ac cording to information which has reached Washington and which has been printed in the Herald and it is the expectation of Central Americans in this city that President Zelaya will de mand a disavowal cf Costa Rica's re sponsibility in connection with the rev olution in Saif Juan del Sur." SEWER PIPeTcOMBINE Fails Because Some Companies Re fuse to Join. Akron, Ohio, Feb. 14. The sewer pipe combination, by which it was planned to organize an $11,000,000 corporation out of the companies doing business in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, seems to have gone the way of all pre vious attempts at similar combinations. The committee appointed to obtain the signatures of manufacturers to the agreement report that several large plants have failed to join the move ment. As a consequence the formation of the proposed i-ompany has been about declared off, although it is hoped to get together again some time in the future. GLADSTONE IS IMPROYED. His Whole Family to Start Soon for a South of England Watering Place. Cannes, Feb. 14. Henry Gladstone says his father and the whole family intend to start about the end of this week for a South of England watering place. Mr. Gladstone's physician thinks his patient has attained the utmost benefit from his stay on the Riviera, Planning a Panther Hunt. Hartville, Mo., Feb. 14. The citizens of Hartvilie are worried somewhat ev ery night by the screams of a huge panther that is at large in the wood lands close by. A party is being ar ranged to make earnest pursuit in order to capture the animal. We do mending and sew on buttons .free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. PART We don't see how you can well keep from it "Santa Fe" Special s. 45c 45c 15c 35c 5c 12k 65c 98c Shoes, from $1.30 up to 3.00. 1.48 Low est prices ever made on Children's School Sho.s. All Underwear at Less than wholesale prices. All Blankets and Comforts Less than Cost. fit K and useful articles CHANGED HIS PRINCIPLES All Because Jerry Simpson Got Him $1,000 of Pension Money. H. C. Townsend of Hutchinson, a vet eran Republican, is unable to decide whom he will support for congress in the Seventh district. He has declared against Chester I.Long and also against Judge Botkin, and is reported to be in clined towards Jerry Simpson. Mr.Townsend feels particularly warm towards Mr. Simpson because he re cently secured for his Hutchinson friend a serivce pension which has been pending before the department at Washington 18 years. Five United States senators from Kansas and a long line of congressmen have attempted to secure recognition of this claim but to no avail. One day last week Jerry Simpson "strolled" over to the pension offices and called upon the commissioner. He inquired about the Townsend claim and secured the papers in the case. He then informed the commissioner that the case had been pending 18 years. "It will be reached in due time," re plied the commissioner. "We think 18 years too long for a. case like this," said Mr. Simpson. "We have done all that could be done," said the commissioner. "Unless this case is reported upon within a very short time 1 will present a resolution in the house asking for an inquiry into the case," said Mr. Simp son. Then did the commissioner unbend and told Mr. Simpson the papers would be taken up and examined at once. Congressman Simpson then returned to the house and in three hours receiv ed a note saying the Townsend claim had been allowed. Mr. Townsend receives nearly $1,000, sufficient to buy a nice home in Hutch inson and he has already applied the money to that purpose. "I have been a Republican all my life," said Mr. Townsend, talking about the case to a friend, "but I am now in a very tight place. I won't support Long or Botkin and dislike to vote for a Populist but Jerry Simpson is the on ly man who has helped me any." This statement is all the more inter esting because Mr. Townsend is a ward politician of influence at Hutchinson and always goes to conventions and party gatherings. Attention, Lincoln Circle No. 1. Ladies of the G. A. R.- Owing to Lin coln Post hall being occupied, the regu lar meeting of February 15th is hereby postponed until Tuesday. March 1st. Mrs. ANGIE SPRAGUE, Pres. MARY L. GAYLOKD. Sec. To-rl i-Jbi-- -fjr llfty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes wenk men strous, blood pure. 50c, 31. All druggists. Why is it every sarsaparilla which tries to sell itself, ranges itself against Ayer's as the stand ard Why is it that -all have to offer extra inducements bigger bottles, fancy wrappers, cheaper price anything, everything, but the one inducement of quality 'Hi iaa o4J3iii Baa '3 has never been equaled by any cheap imitation of it, and quality tells, just as blcod tells. II Is tse SissSsra. "I have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla for mora than twer.ty-five years, and have never heard anything but words of praise from my customers not a single complaint hz3 ever reached im. A preparation must possess great merit to maintain such a repu tation. I believe your Barsaparilia to to tee best blood purifier that has ever been introduced to the general public. I oftea hear other manufacturers say that this 13 "as good as Ayer's," but no one ever yet heard itr.id that Ayer's was "as good" aa any other kind. They always set Ayer's up as the standard of excellence," S. F. Botce, Dulcth, Minn. TO

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENESTG, FEBRUARY 14, 1898. The State Journal BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXV. No. S8. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER TERMS "OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally eaitton, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where this paper baa a carrier system. By mail, one year .55 Sy mail, three months Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Buildinsr. S00 and 802 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Business office Bell 'Phone JQ7 Reoorters' Room Bell 'Phone 577 New York address: 322 Potter Building, care American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, where files of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. THE NATION'S GROWING WEALTH. Among all the changes -which have taken place in the world of trade and commerce none is more worthy of note than the altered relations of the "United States to foreign countries. From a borrowing country it has almost at a bound become a loaning country. "While much talk is being indulged In about maintaining our credit with other cations so that their capitalists will feel tio hesitancy in making investments here or in loa.iing us money, the banks of the United States have $80,000,000 loaned in Europe. Mexico is negotiat ing with New Tork capitalists for a loan of $100,000,000 to take up bonds held on the other side with every indication that she will be successful, and Japan is an applicant for $100,000,000 more which she will probably get. Not only has the United States money in abundance to loan but her capital ists are extending their operations into every part of the "Western hemisphere. They are building railroads and factor ies and opening up coffee plantations in Mexico. They are Investing in all sorts of enterprises in various countries of South America, They are ready to dig the Nicaragua canal. A syndicate of American capitalists has just invest ed $1,000,000 in a cigarette factory in Havana. That this condition is not temporary "but is destined to continue and develop must be apparent when the trend of commerce is considered. A few years ago we sold little else abroad besides wheat and cotton. Now the markets for these staples, especially cotton have not only been enlarged and extended but we are selling many im portant manufactured art'cles in all parts of the world. The balance of trade must inevitably be in our favor for years to come thus continuing to pile up surplus capital In a country with so much already that investments must be sought outside. The only drawback to the situation is the fact that business is being done at a. small margin- of profit else the money of the country would not go out hunting employment elsewhere when there are so many and varied resources but partially developed at home. Money which goes abroad does so be cause it finds a more profitable field. A new and undeveloped field like South America and Mexico very naturally yields better returns than those coun tries whose material w-ants have been supplied to a great extent. But the $SO,000,000 loaned in Europe is there be cause the interest rate is higher and the loans to Mexico and Japan will be made for the same reason. The day is not far distant when the United States will be the richest coun try on the globe in proportion to both population and area. The government has bested the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific, but it should do some extra training before entering the ring for the main event with C. P. Huntington. 'Atchison Globe: The editor of a Law rence paper regards "Quo Vadis" as a moral book. In Lawrence, mind you, where the girls refuse to play with a boy who drinks, smokes or chews! Still, In "Quo Vadis," a banquet was given at which the women wore nothing, not even their hair down their backs. THE MARTIN MONUMENT. Concerning the commendable move ment to erect a monument to John A. Martin the Atchison Globe, on the an niversary of the admission of Kansas into the union says: "A great deal of unnecessary fault is found with Atchison, and the people are often told it ia their duty to do un reasonable things, but it really seems to be their duty to aid in the movement to erect a monument to the memory of John A, Martin. His grave is un marked, through no fault of his wife, and. his fellow citizens in Atchison should take an interest in the move ment 'originating in Topeka to erect a monument over his grave. An editor is never appreciated until after he is dead, but John A. Martin, although one of the most useful men who ever lived in Atchison, has been dead nine years without receiving the appreciation due him. He ran one of the notable pa pers of Kansas; he was remarkably loyal to Kansas and to Atchison; he had a fine record as a soldier; he had been governor of the state: he was an excellent writer, yet his grave in Mount Vernon cemetery is unmarked. Atchi son people, usually so just, should do better than this. When John A. Mar tin ran the Champion, one of his asso ciates was Noble L. Prentis, another man who was never appreciated as he deserved. Fourteen or fifteen vears ago the Globe stated that if its editor was publishing a big newspaper, his first act would be to hire Prentis. He has been chief editorial writer on the Kansas City Star several years, and his work is very highly appreciated. "We don't believe it ever was in Atchi son, though he did some excellent work here." President McKinley Is making his brand of prosperity an expensive article to some people. Among them the Un ion Pacific reorganization committee might be cited as a conspicuous exam ple. GLOBE SIGHTS (From the Atchison Globe.) Every man believes he is a good, live citizen. iWe know of a man who has .worried six months over a trouble that he could fix in an hour. Most people make a mistake in think ing unfavorable comment is preferable to no notice at all. Some people's idea of a rattling good time is to get up a surprise party on a friend, and find all the family in bed. "When a woman quits worrying about her husband's flirtations, it is time for her friends to begin worrying about her. About the time a man rea.ches an age when he can be useful, he is compelled to pay a good deal of attention to sick ness. i "When a woman wishes she was a man, it is with the Idea that she would show the men how to be nice to a wo man. I Society is greatly shocked: an Atch ison girl appeared at a party recently, and left the girl who is visiting her at home! l If you fall down on some business matter that you should' have accom plished, look back and see if you can not charge it to your tendency to have a good time. Some time a country like the princi pality of Monaco for instance may try to extract money from Hayti and get hurt. There is one distinguishing character istic about the Ohio Republican politic ian; he doesn't know when he is whip ped. CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS. A self-made man never ceases to praise his maker. The wise woman marries for protec tion as well as for revenue. It is seldom difficult to appear natural if you have no object in view. You can easily convince the man who has lost that it Is wrong to gamble. "When a man's sins find him out they're apt to hang around until he comes in again. I Prescriptions are often worth their weight in gold to the physician, the druggist and sometimes the undertaker. There may be wives who drive their husbands to drink, but there are lots of other husbands who would like to have such w ives. VOTE FOR PARTY. (Written for the State Journal.) Say, fellows, what's the use to- think Or vote to. suit yourselves? The party bosses give the wink That lays men on the shelves. You'd better get yourself In line. The band's begun to play; The slate's made out if you are left fon't try to run away. But stand and gulp the dose right down, 'Tis sure to do you good. You've got no right to sulk and pout Or get In angry mood. The people haven't got the say Of Tvho shall run or shan't, And if they try to make you bolt. Just tell them that you can't. For don't you know, that little bee Is buzzing in your hat. And if you bolt the bosses once They've got you after that. The bosses bolt the ring, you know. Whenever they can't rule. And that's the way they discipline Their little boys at school. They want to "keep the party pure, And run the whole machine: But when another tries the game They fire him through the screen. So vote the party ticket. b03s, It's just the thing to do. And if the wheel is big enough 'Twill turn around to you. ABOUT LINCOLN. James L. King, ex-librarian of Kan sas, has an entertaining article in this month's North American Review on Lincoln's skill as a lawyer. Mr. King says: In the opinion of the judges and prac titioners with whom Lincoln was asso ciated during his quarter of a century at the bar his most prominent charac teristic was his rare faculty for detect ing and disclosing the controlling point in a legal battle. But not less than this was his clear, full, orderly and accurate statement of a case; always so fair and logical that it was often said that after Lincoln had summed up the important facts in a controversy there was but lit tle occasion for argument on either side. He habitually employed at the bar the same care and skill in the use of words and the expression of ideas which he so often afterward exhibited when called to a higher field of labor; instances of which are seen in all his state papers, and In the changes for the better which he made in the writings of his scholarly secretary of state, particularly in the correspondence relative to the Trent af fair, which probably avoided a war with England. A fine example of the grandeur of his diction is to be found in his Gettysburg address, which has a permanent place in the literature of the world. He thought vigorously and thorough ly, but did not speak quickly. In real ity his hesitation was only the result of his great care always to know his ground. His habit was, before speaking or acting, to deliberately look through, around and beyond every fact, state ment or proposition involved, and sub ject it to' his wonderful powers of per ception and analysis. This required time but it made him successful in every im portant undertaking. While he thought much, he could not truthfully be called a great reader. He knew thoroughly the work of Coke, Blackstone, Stephen, Chitty, Starkey and later Greenleafs Evidence and Story's Equity. He gave but little time to searching for prece dents, or studying what is called case law. From "Lincoln's Skill as a Law yer." The Santa Fe Route Has adopted the axle electric light sys tem of illumination. 'Tis the first line to do so. A well-lighted car costs you nothing but adds to your comfort when traveling. Constipation Causes fully half the sickness in the world. It retains the digested food too long in the bowels and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indl- r L gestion, bad taste, coaled PW tongue, sick headache, in- j soninia, etc. Hood's Fills ii,BinnctimHnn on1 oil ita results, easily and thoroughly. 25c All druggists. Prerared by C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. Ilia only Pills to take witl Rood's Sarsaparilla, DEBS ANALYZED. Geo. Hughes, Socialist, and Son of the Author of "Tom Brown at Ox ford," Writes of the Man. One of the most Interesting charac ters and best Informed socialists in Kansas, not excepting G. C. Clemens, is George Hughes of Chase county. Mr. Hughes is a son of Thomas Hughes of England, ex-member of parliament and author of the stories so dear to all the boys, "Tom Brown at Oxford and Rug by." Mr. Hughes was in Tennessee with the Rugby colony awhile, but is now lo cated on a ranch in Chase county. When E. V. Debs visited Topeka, Mr. Hughes came to hear him and gave ni3 opinion of the man as follows: To the outward senses MrDebs pre sents a very pleasing picture of a gen tleman in the conventional sense of the word. He is tall, erect, very bald, with an expressive sensitive countenance.His manner is cordial and his language and method of utterance are as beyond re proach as those of any man I have ever seen in Mayfair or Fifth avenue. It was almost a shock to me to behold the man as he is, after the scurrilous de scriptions one has read in those organs which helps to form public opinion, which are such a questionable addition to our national intelligence. So much then for what of Mr. Debs appears to the out ward senses: it bears that test, which is said to be infallible in judging the conventional gentleman; namely, that if he were standing silent and unknown among a lot of men, one would notice him and would not know why. This, however, is very immaterial, for it is when one approaches that part of man which lights and forms the outer man, that one becomes really conscious that one is in the presence of a true man. It becomes evident to any eyes that can see, that here is a really man ly man, whose soul dwells higher than his stomach, from the fact that like ev ery great man, he is possessed by his idea "They master us and force us into the arena, where, like gladiators, we must fight for them." And further his Idea is that which 1900 years ago mastered and led to death the greatest man that ever lived. And one can see that as Mr. Debs has already passed free from all cowardice, through bribery and slander and persecution so like the master of old for the cause he is proclaiming, he will be faithful to the very gates of hell. With clear if not rhetorical eloquence, with artistic allusion to nature and quo tation from those singers who have sung liberty and the rights of man, with facts that will stand the test of any searching mind, Mr. Debs from his large experience of laboring mankind and their conditions and trials, diagnosed the social problem and our dire need of remedy. His audience of at least 1,200 people would testify to his skill and truth. For my part, and I claim to have heard some of the best, I have never heard a speaker who had a clearer or more sanguine and thorough belief in true knowledge of his statements. Mr. Debs did not tell us of his plan of Social Democracy, he gave us no hint of its methods or requirements, he confin ed himself to a refutation of statements made by Judge Grosscup, his diagnosis, and an appeal which showed the na tion's need of a speedy and radical rem edy from the death distilling system of competition and greed which exists to day. The two things which are really block ing the way of progress today are our blind worship of party. Though as a Christian I am bound to be a socialist, I must frankly confess that with my present incomplete knowledge, I am not convinced of the wisdom of another party, am indeed at present inclined to think that more good will come from all of us adhering to the Chicago plat form as the first step and voting that wa y. But I do declare that he who is un hesitatingly following wherever the truth shall lead him, cannot dare to miss hearing and explaining the idea of so true a man as Mr. Debs. It is with the purpose of moving men of all par ties to hear him and without bias to consider his plan, it is because I know that, whatever their ultimate conclus ion and action may be after hearing him, their sense of patriotism will be more logical and purer, and their act ion in any direction more full of broth erly love and the knowledge of our present chaos, that I have written this at such length. GEORGE HUGHES. MISS HANXA'S MARRIAGE. Senator's Sister Will Be Married Guietly at Thomasville, Ga. Cleveland, O., Feb. 14. The marriage of Miss Lillian Converse Hanna, sister of Senator Hanna, and Mr. S. Prentiss Baldwin will occur Tuesday at Thom asville, Ga., the winter home of Miss Hanna's sister, Mrs. Jones.Miss Hanna and Mr. Baldwin left Cleveland for Thomasville on Thursday, accompanied by Mrs. J. F. Pickands, another sister of the prospective bride. No Invita tions have been issued, and the wedding will be celebrated in the quietest possi ble manner, in the presence of only the members of the Hanna family and one or two friends. Mr. Melville Hanna's family is spending the winter in Thom asville, and Mrs. Jones and her family are there also. Senator and Mrs. M. A. Hanna will not go to Thomasville for the wedding, because of the fact that Senator Hanna's presence is required at Washington. After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Bald win will remain in Thomasville for a visit, and will return to Cleveland after a short trip. They will live at the home of the late Mrs. S. M. Hanna, mother of the bride, at 730 Prospect street. It is largely on account of Mrs. Hanna's re cent death that the marriage will be so quiet. The announcement of the en gagement of Miss Hanna and Mr. Bald win a short while ago caused considera ble surprise to society in this city, ow ing to the disparagement in the ages of the interested persons. Miss Hanna is 12 years or more the senior of her pros pective husband. KLONDIKE FEVER Strikes an Ex-Congressman From Texas He Will Go. Galveston, Feb. 14. ExCongressman Miles Crowley has sold his homestead and leaves within a few days for the Klondike. He knows nothing about mining, but is a giant in strength, and is not yet 40 years old. Crowley has had quite an adventurous career. He came here from Boston a penniless youth, and was a general roustabout for several years. He became a fire man, and then went into politics. While serving as state senator he was nomi nated for congress. He has a smatter ing of legal knowledge, and a remarka ble aptitude for landing right side up with care, regardless of his escapades. He thinks the Klondike offers a good field for his talents. KANSASNEWS. Wichita to Lose the State G. A. R. Encampment. Cannot Raise $1,000 for the Necessary Expenses. BILLED FOR APRIL 21. Forty-Second Communication of Masons in Session. The John A. Martin Monument Fund Growing. Wichita, Feb. 14. This city in all I probability will lose the G. A. R. en campment. It cannot raise the $1,000 necessary that was pledged at Chanute last spring to bring the encampment here. After several hard days work the committee have only succeeded in rais ing $250. The encampment was advertised for April 21, and the attendance would probably have reached four thousand visitors. The 500 G. A. R. posts of the state all send from one to ten repre sentatives, and the encampment will be made the occasion of the grand lodge meeting of the W. R. C, the Ladies' Aid and Sons of Veterans orders. The attendance would be more likely to ex ceed four thousand than to fall short of that. A one fare rate has been se cured on all railroads. All the extra rooms at the hotels have been engaged already. People who expected to come have been writ ing ahead to be sure of accommodation and as a result the hotel rooms have been taken. In this connection the Eagle says: "If the meeting is taken away after it has been called to meet here and so ad vertised, it will give the city a black eye for years to come. Wichita has professed an ambition to be known as the convention city of Kansas. It has made a good start, but to let the en campment slip away will put the city below where it started." CORONER FALLS DEAD. Wyandotte County Official Dies Sud denly Saturday Night Kansas City, Feb. 14. A. R. McLeod, coroner of Wyandotte county, fell dead, Saturday night, at his home. Sixth street and Sumner avenue. Heart disease of a very sudden form was the cause. Dr. McLeod had been apparently as well as ever all day, and had attended to his duties as usual. After supper he went to his room, and as he went to sit down he fell over dead. He had not complained of any unusual feeling of any sort and death was instantaneous. He was 34 years old and leaves a wife and three small children. He was elected coroner on the fusion ticket last fall, and had filled the duties of the of fice in a very capable manner. FORT SCOTT ARSON CASE. Sensational Evidence Continues to Come Out Against Mikesells- Fort Scott, Feb. 14. Sensational de velopments came thick and fast in the Mikesell arson case today. Four rela tives, John Barrick and wife, B. F. Mikesell, Jr., and Joseph MeQuitty, are under arrest, charged with having been implicated in the burning of the Mike sell home. The Barricks have confessed to burning, in their cook stove, on the night Eugene Mikesell and wife were first arrested, a lot of silk dresses and other clothing and furnishings, which had been removed from the house be fore it was burned, and numerous other articles are being accounted for which were on the bill on which judgment was recovered against the insurance com panies, and which were supposed to have gone with the house. STARTS ON A LONG RIDE. German Girl Mounted Astride a Stol en Horse, Headed for South Dakota. Holton, Feb. 14. Mary Arnold, a re putable German girl of 18, who has been working in the family of Henry Butler, 12 miles south of here, is thought to have stolen a horse from D. T. Hawk ins, who lives a mile from Holton. A German girl mounted, astride and without a saddle, on a horse answering the description of the one stolen, has DR. WURTH'S OPINION OF THE NEW DISCOVERY IN MEDICINE. A Remarkably Successful Remedy for Dyspepsia, Indigestioh and Stomach Troubles. Dr. Wurth, in commenting on recent discoveries in medicine said: There is none which is certain to be so valuable and far reaching in benefit as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, the new stomach remedy; I say far reaching, because people little realize how important a sound stomach and vigorous digestion is to every man, woman and child. Indigestion is the starting point of consumption, heart disease, Bright's disease, diabetes, nervous prostration, liver troubles; why is this so? Simply because every nerve, muscle and tissue in our bodies is created ahd nourished from the food we eat. If that food is, by reason of a weak stomach, compelled to lie for hours, a sour, fermenting mass of half digested food, it poisons the blood and nervous system, creates gas which distends the stomach and bowels, causing pressure on the heart, lungs and other organs and seriously impending their action. He says further, the point to direct attention is not the nerves, nor heart, nor lungs nor kidneys, but the stomach, the first cause of all the mischief. The remedy to use for indigestion and weak stomachs is not some cathartic, but a remedy which will digest the food, increase the flow of gastric juice, ab sorb the gases, and Stuart's Dyspep sia Tablets will accomplish exactly this result in any case of stomach trouble, because these tablets are composed of the digestive acids, aseptic pepsin, Golden Seal and Bismuth, pleasant to taste, and not being a patent medicine, can be used by anyone with perfect safety. I believe Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will cure any form of indiges tion and stomach trouble except can cer of stomach. Full size packages of Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets are sold by druggists at 50 cents. A book on stomach diseases together with thousands of testimonials will be sent by addressing Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich, been seen several times, each time go ing west and each succeeding time farther away from the place j from which the horse is supposed to have been taken. At one place near the Marshall county line, where she stopped for food, she gave her right name and said she was looking for work. It is thought by some that she became homesick and started to go to her fath er who lives at Highmore, S. D. DEATH OF JUDGE HOXJK. Leading Kansas Jurist Passes Away in Chicago After a Protracted Illness. Hutchinson, Feb. 14. Judge L. Houk, one of the foremost lawyers of the west, died Saturday in Chicago, where he was taken from this city a year ago for medical treatment. He was for ten years judge of the Ninth judicial district and was widely known as an eminent jurist. In 1896 he was a leading candidate for the Repub lican nomination for judge of the ap pellate court for the central division of the southern department, and was for 20 years recognized as one of the most prominent members of the Kansas bar. His body will be brought to Hutchinson for burial. TRAIN LOAD OF EMIGRANTS. Settlement of Iowa Farmers to Locate at Yates Center. Tates Center, Feb. 14. A train-load of emigrants, with household furniture and farm utensils, is on the way to Kansas over the Missouri Pacific. The emigrants come from Sloane, la., and are ready to occupy land at once. S. H. Houghland is in charge of this train, and during the year 1897 induced 212 families to locate in Kansas and sold 6,000 acres of unimproved land. MASONS AT WICHITA. Forty-Second Session of the Grand Lodge of Kansas Gathers. Wichita, Feb. 14. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Kansas convened in this city today in forty-second annual communi cation. The headquarters of the Grand Lodge is at the Carey hotel. On Tuesday evening the evening be fore the opening of the Grand Lodge Siloam Lodge No. 225, of Topeka, by special request of the Grand Master, will confer the third degree. On Wednesday evening the grand offi cers will confer the third degree before the Grand Lodge. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Feb. 14. The following pensions have been granted for Kan sas: Original Thomas J. Framill, Paola, $6; Enoch Guffey, Blue Mound, $S; Wil bur E. Campbell, Kiowa, $8; Benjamin McMillan, Glasco, $6. Increase Jacob E. Teney, Hale. $12 to $17; William G. D. Weed, Downs, $8 to $12. Reissue Special February 1, Henry H. Cook, Ottawa, $24. Reissue and Increase William D. Fairbairn, Claflin, $6 to $8. Original, Widows, Etc. Sarah M. Higgins, Leavenworth, $12; Margaret A. Jacobs, Dighton, $8. Original Thomas L. Cruzan, Cedar vale, $8; Frederick H. Barber, Kansas City, $6; Joel Bundy, Barclay. $8; Ed mond A. Wright, Lecompton, $6; Georga Burke, Kansas City, $6; Peter N. C oil man, Harvey ville, $6; John F. Cox, Cherry vale, $6; William Buettinger, Leavenworth, $6: William Gatch, Otta wa, $6; James W. Eaton, Chanute, $6. Renewal Enos Bray, Montana, $8. Increase Samuel Shepherd, Kingman. $10 to $14: John W. Eaton, Baker, $14 to $17; John Bressner, Eureka, $8 to 10; Stephen Parsons, Alta, $6 to $12; 'Squire Sweeney, Tonganoxie, $S to $12. Reissue Special Feb. 4, Henry Clay ton Townsend. $8. Original, Widows, Etc. Martha E. Whitney, Peoria, $8. Gates for Congress Fort Scott, Feb. 14. Ed C. Gates, a prominent young lawyer of this city, announces himself as a candidate for congress from the Second district. He was the Republican candidate for the place of state senator from this district in 1896. It is thought that he will have the solid support of the Bourbon county delegation. Bridge Builders Strike. Chanute, Feb. 14. Eighteen men.em ployed by Contractor Tom Hedderman at bridge building on the Santa Fe near Flat Rock, struck Saturday for higher wages, demanding 15 cents a day more. A raise in the price of board seems to be the trouble. All but two are still out. Representative Bennett Dying. Herington, Feb. 14. R. J. Bennett of this city, representative from this dis trict (Dickinson county) lies at the point of death with cancer of the stomach. His health has been very poor since the last session of the legis lature, and he is gradually failing. Ex-Governor Glick Contributes. Atchison, Feb. 14. The Globe's John A. Martin monument fund is growing. Ex-Governor George W. Glick contrib uted $25 to it yesterday. FROM KANSAS TOWNS. "WTCHITA Judge Dale was taken ill Saturday and was unable to attend court. C. H. Brooks was appointed judge pro tern and received the verdict of the jury in the case of Went vs. Clapp. Mr. Brooks then discharged the jury for the balance of the term. NEWTON The Knights of Pythias of this city met Saturday evening and completed arrangments for the recep tion of the delegates to the district con vention of the lodges of the district composed of Harvey, Butler, JlcPher- son and Marion counties. Grand Chan- i cellor W. S. Bird. of Topeka will be here to take part in the convention, as will Major General J. H. Lyons of Leaven worth. FREDOXIA Judge Stillwell today fined Robert Hall $100 and sent him to jail for thirty days for selling one bottle of beer. He also sentenced Robert Shelton to the penitentiary for eight years for statutory assault. Shelton has been sentenced three times before, once to jail and twice to the peniten tiary. FORT SCOTT The Citizens' Nation al bank and the Bank of Fort Scott have filed suits to test the validity of the law taxing judgments. The coun ty attorney says they have discovered a way out. Should the banks finally win these cases, the decision will be of value to every owner of a judgment in Kansas. HOLTON Professor W. t. Kuhn of Campbell university, has sold his stock in that concern to the other resident members of the company, and will go into the grain business, having bought the elevator of J. G. Elliott. Professor Kuhn's place in he university will be filled by D. T. Kize, the popular science teacher of last year. LEAVENWORTH The veterans of the National Soldiers' home at this place are preparing a petition asking congress to pass an act permitting them to vote on president and members GOLD Irge package of the world's best cleanser for a nickel. Still greater economy m 4-pound package. All grocers. Made only by 'THE K. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago. St. Louis, New York. Boston. Philadelphia. J. M. KNIGHT, combine Undertaker, a 406 KAXSAS AVE.. Wr" TELEFK0XE 52. y -f' H f f OPEN DAY AND NIQHT. i lklZ. Wiirtw W ir7'R?f cuacucs uau unrers in livery ui at- WHT PAT EXORBITANT PRICES OF OTHER FIRMS VUES J Vfll T Adult Cloth Caskets, six silver handle ana plate for.. Sis.oo Adult Cloth Casket, six textile handles and plate for... Itt.oo j "AM Adult Cloth Casket, six textile handles, satin lined, for 20.00 rl Children's Casket t oo RI TV Fine Metalic Caskets for Adults 6.1.00 OU I The Boyd Grave Vault for 4 tW Fine Hacks furnished for Parties, Weddings and Operas at low 1 prices. Haftks heated with Lehman beaters. 'Phone 52. Hard and Soft The Best Full Weight Competition Prices GOAL HAY, GRAIN R. T. KREIPE, Telephone 708. 25c 50c CANDY JJ CATHARTIC "ttLh"i In I I S I The Western Foundry AND MACHINE WORKS. Established 1875. GET PRICES BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RULES. GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF -POPULAR PRICE TAILORS 610 Kansas Avenue. Make Clothes That Fit. of congress. By special act of congress the veterans at the Dayton and Pacific homes vote on national affairs, and the old soldiers here pray for the same right. CRIER OF WAR CRYS. Miss Theresa Smith Sells 4,388 Cop ies in Kansas City and Wins a Prize Kansas City, Feb. 14. In a competi tion in the sale of the War Cry. the or gan of the Salvation Army, Theresa Smith of Kansas City, a member of the army, won the third prize of $50. She sold in all 4,388 copies of the paper. Her greatest weekly sale was 1,050 cop ies, which she sold in the week ending January 13. The competition was open to every city in the United States and Kansas City ranked third. DUST. l J PZ Fine funeral cars. heares. r-alace i ree ambnnce to tra.ns er any j part of the city day or night. J AND FUEL. 693 E. 4th St ALL DRUGGISTS Formerly Topeka Foundry and Machine Works, Estab. lt6- WOOD The only place in the city where you can Zet a Complete Power Plan! from Steam Engine to a Set Collar from stock. R. L. COFRAN, Topeka, Kans. Proprietor. H Ballard's Horehound Syrup is the best known remedy for Consumption, Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Chest Troubles. Every bottle is guaranteed. It is the best remedy for children. 2S and 50c. Geo. W. Stansfield. 632 Kan sas avenue. and Miller's Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka avenues. 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. Don't Be Annoyed.... With Poor Work and Bad Service. TRY THE- Topeka Steam Laundry.

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TOPEKA STATE JOUEXAL, MONDAY EYEXING, FEBRUARY 14, 189S. A Sorry Plight for a Man To be. in when he finds his Hat has become to small for his dome of thought. Just bring your head around here and we will fix you up all right. We have all sizes, shapes and colors in fine Derbys, Fedoras and Stetson shapes, but only one quality, best; one price, lowest. 602 Kansas ftve. A RACE OF MARTYRS. Bishop Satterlee so Characterizes the Armenians. New York. Feb. .14. Bishop Henry T. Sauerlee of Washington delivered an address to the Armenians of Calvary Parish, at Calvary chapel last night. Bishop Satterlee chose for his subject the recent massacres of Armenians by Turks and his late visit to Russia to try to pc-rsuade that country to inter fere in behalf of the helpless Armenian Christians. The bishop first gave an account of his visit to the present emperor and empress of Russia, and the dowager empress. Maria Feodorovna. sister of the Princess of Wales, paying: "I told them I came in the name of Christ and was received by them in the name of Christ. I then S'.ve personally into the czar's own hands the petition of 4' million Christians in behalf of the Turkish Armenians. Afterward, when I returned to England, at the request of Mr. Gladstone, I went to Hawarden and pave him an account of my interview with the czar." Bishop Satterlee then told how, when the immigrants came to America on the steamer Obdam and were detained by the government, he received a tel egram from the Catholicus Etchmiad zin. saying the prisoners were godly people, who could earn their own living, which telegram he laid before the au thorities at Washington and obtained the release of the immigrants. Bishop Satterlee closed his address as follows: Of all the persecution of Christians in times past, even the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian. A. D. 303. none compared with this one. I cannot un derstand how- God allows it to be. "'God is going to bring a great thing out of the present persecution of the Armenians. The Armenian church is the oldest church in the world by DO years, and I.60O years ago Armenian children were taught in their Sunday schools to read the Bible. From that day to this they have been a race of martyrs. By and by God is going to make the blood of the martyrs the seed of the church. I don't know how it will be, but a great biessing is coming to the world through Armenia and those who have brought about the persecu tions in the east will be punished by-God." tied set in this office, I'd have you un derstand." "L'nele Dave" threatens to do the same thing w ith the first violater of the Inscription as the office force threaten ed to do with Mr. Williams lock him up in the big vault all night. KID MTOY SUED. His Wife Brings Action For a Divorce. St. Louis. Feb. 14. A special to the Post Dispatch from Hamliton, O., says: It has just developed in this city that on Janu ary 8 Charlotte Selby filed a petition for divorce in the common pleas court against her husband. Norman Seiby. Tne defend ant is known to the world as Charles C'Kid") McCoy, the pugilist. The ground alleged is unfaithfulness, and alimony is asked for in addition to the divorce. No defense has yet been made. The suit has been kpi very quiet. NORTH TOPEKA. UNCLE DAVE'S ULTIMATUM Anybody Caught Smoking in the Treasurer's Office "Will Be Locked in the Vault. A large sign will soon be placed in position in a prominent place on the railing directly in front of the entrance door to the state house treasury de partment bearing the following inscription: NO SMOKING ALLOWED HERE. It will be placed there by order of "Vncle Dave" Heflebower. and will mean just what it says. It -will be the only sign of its kind to be found in the state capitol building, and will tell the story of a crusade against tobacco in the office of the state treasurer. The crusade was started long ago among the employes of the office, all of whom, "with the exception of Assistant State Treasurer Williams, are opposed to the use of tobacco, but up to this time the courtesy of allowing visitors in the office, to smoke, if they wished, has always, been respected. Now the crusade is to be pushed a little further and visitors will neither be allowed to smoke or chew while in the office. "I never could see but one use for to bacco." said Treasurer Heflebower to day. "That is to kill lice on calves and mules in the spring time. I never have used it and none of the employes in the office use tobacco with the exception of Wiiliams. We shut Williams off from uing it in the office long ago under the threat of locking him ail night in the vault, and now we mean to keep the air wholly pure. We are a very sancti- Items intended for this column should be left at the Kimball Ptg. Co., before 10 o'clock in the morning. Bibles, albums and books at cost. In ventory sale. Cromwell Jeffers. No fake. Bibles, albums and book3 at actual cost. Cromwell Jeffers. The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. McCormick. is very ill with typhoid fever. The ladies of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church are making arrangements for an Easter bazaar. Mr. Beverly of Manhattan was the guest Saturday of his brother, J. L. Beverly of Quincy street. The W. T. K. club will meet tomor row afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. M. Petro, 1014 Van Buren street. Mrs. Sharp of 1122 Central avenue went to Emporia this afternoon to at tend the funeral of her brother-in-law. Little Josie Hitchcock entertained about 20 young friends Saturday after noon at her home, S15 Harrison street. In honor of her fourth birthday anni versary. Mr. Davis of Louisville has moved to this place and bought property west of North Topeka. He will move his family down as soon as the roads are in good condition. Rev. Reitch will arrive tomorrow and be the guest of R.ev. M. Schuff. pastor of the German Baptist church, for sev eral days. Rev. Reitch will hold serv ices in the German Baptist church Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ev enings. A large congregation was present at the North Christian church yesterday evening to listen to Rev. M. L. Everett's second sermon of the series. "The Mak ing of Man." The subject for last ev ening was "The Foundation of Man." Charles Boltinghouse, who has been captain at fire station No. 1, has re signed his position and will leave the 22d of this month for Klondike with the I. A. Strauss company. Mr. Bolting house has been succeeded at the station by Oscar Perkins. A. V. Miller died this morning at 3 o'clock of pneumonia, at his home. S15 Van Buren street. Mr. Miller was about 65 rears old and was the father of Min er Bros., the printers. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Kansas Avenue M. E. church. WHERE WORDS ARE RIFE One of the Many Debates at tlie "Crenierie" Goes Too Far. tercation might have resulted in a bloody personal battle. Webb MeXall and his handling or the insurance companies was the bone of contention, and the altercation started in a discussion over the justice of his actions in dealing with the companies interested in the Hillmon case. Over myer defended McNall's actions, while Montgomery condemned them. At first the discussion was carried on between mouthfuls, as the two men sat at the counter and ate lunches, but it soon grew so heated that the lunches were NATIONAL AID ASS'fl. Xinth Annual Session Opens in This City. Official Reports Show a Large Increase in Membership. Election of Officers Kesults in the Choice of Alonzo Ward all of To peka as President of the Society. The ninth annual national convention of the National Aid association, a fra ternal, beneficiary organization, opened at Lincoln Post hall this morning at 19 o'clock and will continue tonight and tomorrow, closing tomorrow evening. The association will meet in executive session during the entire convention. It has been suggested that tomorrow night's meeting be thrown open to the public but this has not been decided upon. This is the only beneficiary organiza tion in the United tates which issues a joint policy to a man and his wire. This feature is one of the principal induce ments used by the organizers to secure new members. The membership during the year just closed has Increased from 5,500 to 7.3U0. the most prosperous year in the history of the organization. The work of push ing the membership is being carried on mainly in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, although it is getting a strong foothold ton, P. E. Moss, Lincoln, and A. S. Prather, Beloit. Frank Bixby, Fullerton, Neb. Henry J. Clark, Council Bluffs, la. Arthur Lawrence, Dolan, South Da kota. R. A. Southworth, Denver. Tonight the ritual work of the order will be exemplified by Home lodge of Topeka, and a number of ne'v candi dates will be admitted to membership. The following committees have been named and are at work: Credentials A S. Prather, Arthur Lawrence, O. S. Dornblaser. Order of business R. A. Southworth, J. T. M. Swigart, Mrs. Julia Harris. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnisiied by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago. Feb. 14. WHEAT Opening pi ices in wheat today showed some decline from Friday's fig ures. May starting c lower at &7Ss,ft1e. This was due to the action of the Liver pool market. Spot wheat there was strong and higher, but futures Were weak and sd low-r. and there was some selling here on that account. Northwestern re ceipts were large. KjS cars, against 60 cars last week and 255 a year ago. Chi cago receipts were 111 cars, 13 of which were contract. The market held for a time around opening figures, but ad vanced on receipt of later Liverpool ca bles quoting March up rt. This started shorts to covering. There was very lit tle wheat for sale at first and the price was bid up to yS1c before offerings be came liberal. Then a slow decline ensued. the market getting down to '.'Te. Consid erable buvmc was done on tne reports or disappointing threshing returns from Ar gentine and consequent reductions in tne exportable surplus figures of that coun try. CORN Corn was fairly active. There was considerable selling by room traders at thei start on the heavy receipts. S45 cars, and in sympathy with the opening David Overmyer, Topeka's prominent attorney, and Frank Montgomery, an editorial writer on the Kansas City Journal, had an altercation in the Cremerie restaurant at noon today, and had not bystanders interfered, the al- TOPEKA NOW HAS A E FIrstCIass I iano House 3 f fjpEsiL J! t) "'Is wM im. j&mdkJM K. jJ Mr- jfm 5 P 5 3? C. P. ADAMS' riusic Pavilion, 113 West Sisth St. HELEN STOWELL JACKSON, V. P. L. K. LEWIS. Director and General Dep uty for Kansas. ALONZO WARD ALL, President. S. D. COOLEY, Secretary. DR. M. WARE, Medical director. By these we couquer: STEINWAY IVERS POND BRADBURY ADAM SCHAAF Having just completed arrangements to handle the famous Steinway Pi ano, we now offer to To peka people a handsome array of first-class pianos from which to select. Oar Store Contains Nothing: bat ths Best mi ii iisiuiiiiii iiisiiciiisiiiiiiim U( l k v k btl f I t b M V W k V i D V forgotten and the entire time given to the debate. The two men first faced each other, sitting on the counter stools, but this position wp.s quickly abandoned as not sufficiently an animated one. and they stood up and moved closer together, gesticulating violently and gradually raising their voices as the discussion progressed. Finally they found themselves so close together that they were compell ed to gesticulate at either side to pre vent' striking each other in the face. It was just at this point that Mr. Over myer uttered a remark not calculated to compliment Mr. Montgomery on his veracity. "Take that back." shouted Montgom ery as he suddenly shot one hand out on the counter and picked up the heavy catsup bottle. "Take that back. I say." and with the last remark he raised the bottle by the neck with the apparent intention of bringing it down on the at torney's head. Just what the outcome might have been it is difficult to say, had not sev eral of the men at the counter stepped in and separated the two men. Both had flushed faces and were breathing hard, and after the separation glared at each other for several minutes. The two men moved away from each other at the instance of f riends, and Montgomery soon left the restaurant. Inside of ten minutes he returned, however, and walking up to where Mr. Overmyer was sitting tendered him an apology for his actions. Mr. Overmyer accepted the apology and the two men shook hands. Subscribe for The State Journal. In the Dakotas, Texas, Florida, and Col orado. The following officers for the ensuing year have been elected: National president Alonzo Wardall, Topeka. National first vice president Evan Jones. Dublin, Texas. National second vice presllent Helen S. Johnson. Corry, Pa. National secretary S. D. Cooley, To peka. Medical director Dr. M. Ware, Lady Lake, Fla. Auditing committee W. H. Biddle, Emporia: A. B Smith, Topeka; P. E. Moss. Lincoln, Neb. Chairman of committee on woman's work Elizabeth M. Wardall. Topeka. Directors W. McCauley, Hoisington; L. K. Lewis. Topeka, Kan.: S. D. Cool ey. Topeka, Kan.: J. T. M. Swigart. Lin coln. Neb,; H. P. Sayles, Ames. Ia.: Arthur Lawrence. Doland. S. Dakota: J. B. Meroney. Mansfield. Texas: T. B. Springs, Bolivar. Texas: Wesley Bran denburg. Jacksboro, Texas. Director's present are: J. W. Mc Cauley, Hoisington: L. K. Lewis, Tope ka:: S. D. Cooley. Topeka: W. Branden burg, Jacksboro, Texas: J. B. Meroney, Mansfield. Texas; T. B. Springs. Boli var. Texas: J. T. M. Swigart, Lincoln, Neb.: H. P. Sayles. Ames. Ia. Arthur Lawrence, Dolan, South Dakota. The organization has a. membership of 7.300. Delegates are elected for each 1,000 members in each state. Those present are as follows: Texas Mrs. Annie L. Walton. Fort Worth, O. S. Dornblaser, Hillsboro. Kansas Mrs. Julia, V. Harris. Wel lington, Kev. I. T. Underwood, Heising- decline in what. Everything offered was taken, however, and early sellers were later forced to cover. May opened 's'Jic lower at :T-o. sold a shade lower and advanced to Ae. Realizing later caused a reaction to 3oe. OATS Oats were quiet but steady. A good export business was reported early. Receipts were -liberal. 42 cars. The strength of com helped. May opened lower at in'c and advanced to 2j.i2c. I ROVISIOXS Pro:sions were very strong and active. The hog market was higher. There was a general demand for nli products, pel k arid ribs beins especi il Iv active. May pork opened b-'n l'"tc higher at $10.7"i 10.S-) and advanced to $10.0. May lard opened 2e hiuher at So.121- and ad vanced to $5.20. May ribs opened a shade hie-her at 5.3 and advanced to $3.otXy; 5.3.. BARLEY Cash. No. 3. 31"S42e. RYE Cash. 4Hc: May. 41-2 Uc. TIMOTHY Cash, i2.i0; February. $2.S0; March. CLOVER $5.00. FLAX Cash. $1.22; cash northwestern, $1.27; May, $1.2J. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago. Feb. 14. HOGS Estimated receipts. S4..T. Market fairlv active, steady to shade higher. Light. taS-MOS; mixed. $3.5rfj4.i'Ti4: heavy. $3.Sjv,4.10: rough. S3.&,Va 3.S. CATTLE Receipts. 1j.3'. Good cattle steady, others weak to loo lower. Beeves. $;.St5.43: cows and heifers. $2.1'.'4.5i: Texas steers. $3.oya4-40; stockers and feed ers. t3.5-.4.E0. SHEEP Receipts, IS. W0. Market steady to stroner. Natives. $3.10r4.7t); westerns, $3.jya4.5,v: lambs. 4.4ya5.75. Official yesterday: HOGS Receipts. 14.07S: shipments, 4.053. CATTLE Receipts. 435: shipments, 1S5. SHEEP Receipts. 1,174; shipments. 217. Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow, 26,tM. 11 709 KANSAS AVE. AUERBACH A. GUETTEL. ur Special Trouser Sale, j Has caught the town every man in Topeka must need Pants we never inaugurated a sale at a more opportune time everybody's buying Pants our prices compel sales. 4 EyeOpeners in Trousers This week nen's very finest $4.50 and fs tailor maae 1 rousers. perfect in fit and finish, very finest 01 fabrics, our special price is Men's all wool worsted Cheviot and Casslmere Trousers, made stylish and excellent, are f 3. 50 ana f 4 kinds, on spec at only Every pair of winter Pants in our in our entire stock that old at $2.25, $2.50 and $2.75, really in creaiDie values we offer at the eye opening price of $3-75 d Cheviot and ade stylish and 3.50 and rj ,a,sa,e5:2.45 r Pants in our that old at 2.75, really in- ;$i.45 3 EjeOpeners in Men's Fine Suits This Week. Gentlemen's extra fine Suits are small lots of Winter Suits, some medium weight for early spring wear, made and trimmed in best possible manner, single and double breasted, are small lots left from $10. $11 and 12 s: Suits- special sale ?5 O CIO only this week V "i5V Here's a snap sure Men' Pants are small lots that sold at $1.50 to Jean Pants among them these we oifer you at s all wool of kinds f3, some 95C t P 1 M 1 1 ii ii it y ii N B i VOL" SEVER SAW Men strictly all wool sack suits. single and double breasted in ten different patterns. .are small lots 5. o, o.75 suits. Your size is nere. You can own one this week only for BEATEf C.1S VOL ISE A.Y 0VERC0.U 1 is. 1 uur sue $3-50 If you can use an Overcoat now is the time to buy it. No need of us quoting price. Will sell you one at less than cost a great deal less. ."lake it your business to cali. We wi:l save you big money. i IS If H r f! yeOpecers in Eoys' Clothing This Week. ".I'Vf'.i Boys Corduroy and Cassi mere strong Knee Pants, 35c 1 f f and 50c values; special at. All Boys' 75c and $1 All Wool Knee Pants, best made --this week at only One lot Boys Knee Pant 5uits,.sizis 11 to 15 years, excellently made, were sold from 1. 45 to $2. 50. t While they last take f Cf your choice, at '45c Boys Fin Knw Taut Fi;irs strictly all ool vt-rv 1-iiPiy matie sizes J to 15 jturs- were r4-."0 siud f..0C you caiicot niirss it f Choice 'J Lis -Week at V-y3 I:oy I on ;r-Pant Su it-sand lioul le brn-i-tUM iii: ri;aue are W. 50 i.cd ;7 va aics Jliib Week cho:ee at ail woo! '.v $4-95 Special EyeOpeners in Hats. II we One Si! k Is all we ask for a verv fins I. CO SoftorSniT Hat tlie kind we ATr Trimmed Soft ur Itm-new guarantee to suve 1 on for you. C'sty,e. We save you I on th: li.u Kansas City Livestock Market Kansas Citv. Fib. 14. CATTLE Receipts. 4.-i. Best grades steady, others wetk. Texas steers. yi 4.4: Texas cows. $3.5-I4-15: native steers. S3.7iyri5.oc. native cows and heifers. iiVa 4.25: stockers and feeders, $3. 754. 15; bulls. C63.75. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 02 Texas steers 449 $1.40 2 Texas cows 101(5 4.15 native steers t-W4 5.0. 21 native cows ana heifers ltrtS 4.S5 27 stockers and feeders hA 4.!5 8 bulls l'l'i 3.75 HOGS Receipt?. Market steady to strong: and active. Bulk of gales. $.;.7a;t 3.30: heavies. $'..754: packers. $:i.wj(j mixed. ',.VKii3.fi7i2: litrhis. Jo..Vc3.so: york trs. $iX7.".'.3.vi: piprs. ii. 1.3. 7". SHEEP Receipts. 2. Market strong1. Lambs. $3.77(i 5. -10 muttons. $2ii4.25. "Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas Citv. Feb. 14. WHEAT Active, stea-.lv. "No. 1 hard. 90c: No. 2. STW'ftsy'c: No. 3. S3'u vWc No. 1 11-10.:: centrifugal K test. 4 3-"' refined, firm: crushed. Zc: powdeied. i'c gran ulated. z iC. COr FEE Quiet. No. 7. t;ir. red. W 4c 2'T.'3c: No. 3, v'lUlc: No. 2 sprinp. sT-fic: No. 3. S5c. CORN i. -c higher. active. No. 2 mixed. io2:C. OATS Firm. No. 2 white. 2i-.1iZZc. RYE Steady. No. 2. 43I-.'i41c. HAY Active, rather weak. Choice tim othy. ?.ro.;;t: ch'.dce pr-jirie. T7i.2o. BUTTER Steady. Creamery. 14"517c; dairv. 12''ii5c. EGGS Steady, 13c. The Cotton Market New York. Feb. 14. COTTON Spot cotton ruled quiet with out chne. Middling- uplands, 6lc; mid dling gulf. 6VsC. Galveston. Feh. 14. COTTON Steady. Middling. 3 13-liic Sugar and Coffea New York. Feb. 14. SUGAR Raw, strong; fair refining. 3 Market Gossip. Furnished b the YV. A. .Michael Com. mission Co.. Krokers In Grain. Provision, and Stocks. 110 West Sixtn Ave., Tipexj. Ivan. Liverpool: AVhe:tt d lower. Receipts of ratt!..-: 'h:e.icro. ire" lower: Kansas City. 2.30). strons: Omaha. 5. 4oh. slow. t'hl'-asro receipts: V.'beit 111 cars, cm 1 13 cars: corn MT. cars, r.i je rZ ..rs: o-its G2 cars, prado rd cars. Rtceipis of h' srs: Chi-ero, 34 o'o; Kan sas City, 9.io: Omaha, 2.5 0. Visible supply: Wheat fic-'-eised bushels: crn (!er-as-d iU-'-hriM oats decreased 7"4.jAt busti-!s. Liverpool: ''hf-tt closed .d lwtr. "hicaKo: Estimated r -red:s torn -rrov.-; Wheat. 70 cars: corn. V-j cars: cits. 4 l CH rs. Stocks in Chicago: '.'eat. 725. V hus:--els: corn. 15.4.ac oUheis; oats. 1.211, 4 bushels. To-iay's Sanges oi Prico-3. Furnished by the v.". A. Mioh.iel Com. mission Co., Iirokers in Cr.i.r.. J'rovisEon End Stocks, no We;i S.x:n Ae.. 'i'.;ieii K':nv A- ic'.. Op n High le w Cl.ue rri. Fe'o I'M i o iiv joi ay "'K July CORN Feb L'k Mav 2 Julv ai:, OA l S Feb 2.""s Juiy 2-s-7: priiiK Feb 10 V, I t 5 Mav 75 10 H5 July .10 s; 1'7 -g -"-l Al" -i'u-5s 3W 1 '5 lo 75 1-J ?7 .'i--l, 1,- 1 1 5 10 CO 1" ''5 1 7n l'.l !'7 hi 72 9 1 B ii ilillil MM M N ii U I f (3 i hOOTWEAH S 0 d b CLOSING WEEK OF SALE. GREAT BARGAINS THIS WEEK BEFORE STOCK TAKING. h b We can save you from 25c to $2 a pair, as cost will not be considered on "special h lots" to be closed out this week. See onr Window for Cut Prices. ft3 a ffii nn 628 Kansas Avenue. O b It) h h

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1893. NEW MODEL. No tend to stay there till you appreciate the truth of our claimNevv Model Prices are Topeka's Lowest Prices. HERE'S FOR TWEHTY HOURS' ACTIVE SELLING. Lonsdale Muslin, "Hope" brand Cl Tuesday U2C 36-in. wide unbleached Muslin, Q 1 Tuesday O2C Best quality Table Oil Cloth, Ql Tuesday 1 tt2C Pull bleached Table Damask, Q Tuesday JL XfC Full bleached Cotton Crash, M Tuesday 4C Brush Skirt Bindine.most-DOT- ular dress facing in the mar- 17 ket, Tuesday I C $1 Bed Spreads, hemmed and J C ready lor use, Tuesday jC Dr. Stuart's Celebrated Butter milk Soap, 3 cakes in a box, sells everywhere for 25c a C box, Tuesday 13C "7 The world renowned tjft'i Woodbury Facial 1 w Soap, 25c per cake I C anywhere, Tuesday 1 vfC Woodworth's Imperishable Perfumes, druggist's price A 50c ounce, Tuesday 1 C Fine, heavy satin finished note Paper, ruled or plain, regular price 20c quarter ream,Tues- f day (quarter ream) 1 U C About 20 doz. left of those La dies' 15c fleece-lined fast f f black Hose, Tuesday JLXjC Stamped Art Linens, sizes from 3x3 inches to 24x26 inches, at one-half regular price. Wash Silks, 3 skeins for 10c. J iinrise Sale. We cannot quote prices on all lots. You cannot get the size you want in each lot, as the lots are broken. Come in and look them over, can surely find a bargain. Misses' Grain or Glove Grain School Shoes, sizes 13 to 2 Misses' Satin Calf or Kangaroo Calf School Shoes, $1.25 shoe for Misses' Kangaroo Calf, pat ent tip School Shoe, was 1 1 C 1.48, for P 1 I 3 Misses' 1.85 School Shoe, Hill& Green's Box Calf," jj J Child's Kan garoo Calf Button Shoe, was 89c, for O Jt Child's Grain Sola Tip Button Op Shoe, was 65c, for rOv Child's Glove, Oil or Pebble 7 Cc Grain Shoes, were 98c, for i -Jw $1.48 Calf Boot. $1.48 317 pairs of Men's Calf Boots to be closed out at 1.48 a pair. They are not a 34.00 boot, but we claim they are well worth 2.00 to $2.25. Not a few odds and ends, but all sizes. $1.75 Ladies' Fine Shoes $1.75 At this price you can buy a good serviceable Dress Shoe. We have thrown together a great many odd lots, of from 3 to 12 pairs each, and worth from 2.25 to 2.75. We want to clean them up before spring goods come in. You'll say they're bargains when you see them. mil KEMPER PAXTONS. Tuesday's Guideboard .FOR THE ECONOMICAL.. Ahmif IT101liiirii your trail, and we in A '.-'7 5 1 20-inch wide fancy plaid Silks; 75c values; absolute- Eflpi ly pure silk, yard UU' Silk velvets, black ft Qp and colors, yard rif Silk Soutache Braids, blk and colors, avenue price, 90c per bolt; our price per bolt(24 C yards) I'U' Feather Boas At just one-half price. 36 ft felt window shades, mounted on spring rol lers, hemmed ready for use; g ftp each 1 U"

If You Tuesday Morning will see the beginning of our Clearing Up Want something to wear that is as good as can be had anywhere, and at prices that will surprise and delight you, make your wants known at the New Model's Big Clothing Department. We have a combination of qualities and prices that are the despair of the Avenue folks. Yo u ?I...T.- 69c 98c 200 pairs Hen's Wool Pants, in dark and medium shades, made elegantly, fit perfect, regu- Qi C lar price $2, New Model's special price. $1.U3 200 pairs fine doeskin Jeans Pants, in black or grey, sold every where at $1.25 and $1.50, New CJ tf flodePs special price IplaUU Men's heavy Duck Coats, heavy blanket lined, amble stitched throughout. New Hodel's special JJ QC Price pi. 03 The best 45c Men's Unlaundered White Shirts in the city. The best 45c White Braided Night Shirts in the city. The best 49c Domet Flannel Night Shirts in the city. The best 50c Overalls in the city. The best 3 for 25c fast black Socks in the city. Special cut prices on all Overcoats, Winter Suits, Winter Underwear, Wool Socks, Wool Shirts, etc. MEN'S lufsT We are receiving daily our New Styles in Men's Hats, and can give you values seldom offered in new, fresh goods. Men's black or brown Fedora Hats, silk band, good lea ther sweat fSK band UOC An extra good quality Fedora Hat in brown and black, good finish and splendid wearer, Q QC ourpricei i m&3 Our $1.50 line of fine Fedoras, in fancy colors, can not be beaten in all new shades fancy or plain bands sold everywhere at f 2.00 Our price Best grade Fedoras, in black or brown, the quality they ask you $3 for on the Avenue. (Jin ff New riodel's price I?.UU EI MODEL SUPPLY STORE, SIXTH NEW MODEL. nc hn wrf're fin All "wool Henriettas, 36 inches wice, blacky and colors, yard All wool Serges, 36 inches wide, blk and colors, O yard 25c Novelty Dress Goods, spring styles, 36 inches "I Qr wide, yard 1 7L Tarn O'Shanters FOB SCHOOL USE. They were 35c, but we've marked them down to 15c The colors are blue, red, brown and mixed. They are Here. The newest and latest of Spring Styles for 1898 fashion sheets, patterns, magazines. The old re liable McCall Patterns, perfect fitting, 10 and 15c. None higher. 50 Boys' long-pants Suits, ages 12 to 19 yrs, made up strong, dark and medium colors, New Alod- fit Q A C el's special price kpailj Men's fine all-wool Cassi mere Suits, in plaids and fine checks, made up ele gantly, good trimmings and splendid fit ters. New Model's 0M ft fL special price l!pXu3 rien's heavy Chinchilla Over coats, velvet collar, cassi mere lined, good and ser viceable. New Model's special CJQ ftC price UO.uD L J7 J $1.50 AND QUINCY. 2:AjL the STftR.GROcERY GROCERIES, FRESH HEATS, A few days ago we bought two cars of as fine Greeley Colorado Potatoes as ever came in the city and will close them out this week at 65 cents a busheL 10 cases each Lion, Arbuckle, 4X and Levering Coffee, lO pkgs 95c. One thousand pounds California Hams, 5c lb. One thousand pounds Sugar Cured Hams, 7lc lb. One thousand pounds of Salt Pork, 5c Sb. Five barrels nice white Lard, 5c lb. Five drums Java Blend Coffee, 20c lb. Three hundred sacks of California Granulated Sugar, 19 lbs for $1.00 Five hundred pounds California free stone Peaches, 5c lb. Fifty bushels of hand picked Wiscon. sin Navy Beans, 12 lbs 25c. Ten barrels Wright's pure Wisconsin Buckwheat Flour, 11 lbs 25c. New Lima Beans, 8 lbs 25c. New black California Prunes, 7 lbs 25c. Mixed Bird Seed, 1 lb pkg4c. Fancy bright California evaporated Apricots, 3 lbs 25c. Wbole.nle and TL.e Star Grocer. TELEPHONE 253. Ket hi 1. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Dell Keizer is in St. Louis. The ice in the river has disappeared. M. A. Pryor will open a piano store in Guthrie. W. C. F. Reichenbach left yesterday for Wichita. C. V. Kouns left Saturday for Fort Worth. Tex. The Ninde Chautauqua circle will meet this evening. G. C. Clemens' "Socialist Primer" has just been printed. There are about 18 inches of water in the Shunganunga. The Masonic Temple is the home of eight clubs and societies. F. C. Gay. general freight agent of the Santa Fe, is in Chicago. Samuel T. Howe was once a band leader and played an E Hat cornet. The national creamery men's convention begins one week from today. C. R. Hudson of the Santa Fe freight department has gone to Chicago. R. L. Barrick was called to New York Sunday by the death of his sister. Mrs. George Hubbard and son have re turned from a visit in Springfield, 111. Henry Auerbach of the Palace has re turned from a business trip in the east. Another party of Santa Fe shopmen are contemplating a trip to the Klondike. The Commercial club rooms can now be reached by telephone. The number is 720. Bestor G. Brown has left for Wichita, where he will attend the Masonic grand lodge. Mr. and Mrs. R. L, Cofran of 12C3 Topeka avenue are the parents of a son, born Saturday. Tuesday. February 22, will be observed in the Topeka city schools with appropri ate exercises. The weather was so pleasant Sunday that he fires in the street cars were per mitted to go out. I. O. O. F. lodge No. 79 went to Hoyt Saturday night to assist in the anniver sary of Hoyt lodge. The recent rains have so stirred up the country that the water in the river looks like a current of mud. Friday last, on the same street and in the same block, a man died and child was born within the same hour. Lawrence people spend their time Sun days standing around the depot watching the trains arrive and depart. A. W. Dana discussed the Cuban situ ation at the. meeting of the Saturday Night club Saturday evening. "Weather Observer T. B. Jennings has left on a tour of inspection of the weather observing stations in the state. Councilman C. H. Nettels gave his aeolian concert at the Central Congrega tional church Saturday evening. Colonel J. W. F. Hughes has sworn off smoking cigarettes after having spent 25 years finding solace in the habit. Some men in Topeka who never adver tise in the newspapers want a free no tice every time they put up a new sign. Geo. B. Dugan of Newton was in the city Saturday, and spent the afternon at the trap on the West Side Gun club s grounds. There are two large churns stored in the Santa Fe freight depot that will be exhibited during the creamery convention. A large crowd of wheelmen who have been walking on account of the muddy pavements spent Sunday riding around town. Mrs. Frank Walker of Horton was op erated on at Stormont hospital for ap pendicitis and is reported to be well on the way to recovery. Jerry Black has learned to" "ride a bb evele and will inaugurate a new system of "flyers" when the weather settles and the roads become passable. S. J. Bear spent Sunday with his family, returning to Missouri to resume his busi ness duties today. He is traveling for an electric supply company. Mr. C. W. Kouns, car service superin tendent of the Santa Fe. is in Houston. Tex., attending a meeting of the car serv ice superintendents of the Texas lines. The reform school boys' band was given supper Saturday evening at an uptown restaurant. They played both afternoon and evening at tne uirnivai ui nuiuua. Since the recent hold-ups on the streets and the manv burglaries, the sale of re volvers in Topeka has increased. One Topeka dealer says he sold 15 revolvers last week to citizens. The Topeka Academy of Medicine and Surgery will meet at A. O. U. W. hall. TENURE ASD QIEEXSIYARE. Kaw Valley, 1-Ib Marrowfat Peas, 8 cans 25c. 25 boxes Silk Soap, 10 bars 25c. Klondike Parlor Matches, 1 pkg 12 boxes 6c. Good Sugar Drip table Syrup, lgallon 20c. Large California Raisins, 6 lbs 25c. 50 pails Jelly, 35c pail. Columbia Oats, 5c pkg- California evaporated Pairs, 5c lb. 10 cases galon Peaches, 20c can. When you buy Flonr from ns you always have the satisfac- tion of knowing that you are buying it at a les price than if yon bought from any other grocery in the city. Scotch Oats, 4: pkgs 25c. Proctor Gamble's Lenox Soap, lO bars 25c. Mail orders shipped promptly. o. 113 EAS'f NIX I'll ST. 723 Kansas avenue, tonight. Interesting Fia win ue reaa Dy Dr. YV. a. J-.indsay and Dr. W. A. Wehe. j E. W. Benedict says that he is meeting with success in his efforts to have Thir teenth street paved with a 21 feet brick roadway and has little doubt that it will be paved next summer. Several Topeka doctors have had valu able medical works stolen from their of fices recently. The books have been taken while the physicians were absent from their offices during the day. At Lawrence when a large party is over the guests have to wait their turn for carriages. At a party there Friday night some had to wait fully an hour before the four hacks could haul away the peo ple. In a certain office in Topeka where several good looking lady stenographers are employed, one of the firm members says that each stenographer is presented with a bouquet each morning as she ar rives. Kansas avenue on Sunday is dirtier than any week day. The sidewalks in front of stores and the pavement are not clean ed from Saturday till Monday: and they are never cleaned as well as they ought to be. "The Streets of New York" was pre sented to a large audience by the Law rence Holmes company at the Crawford theater Saturday night. The company will leave this week on a tour to the Pa cific coast. Miss May Evans, the Topeka whistler, who is now appearing on the vaudeville stage in Chicago, was recently compli mented by John Philip Sousa, the famous band leader, for her rendition of his march "El Capitan." Miss Lottie Bowes is now leading lady in Hoyt's "Stranger in New York" eastern company. She was transferred from the western company last week. The leading lady in the eastern company was trans ferred to Miss Bowes' part in the western company. The Mail last Friday printed a large number of Fall Festival pictures which were very pretty and make the issue well worth preserving. The Journal says this in spite of the fact that the Mail didn't credit the Journal's tandem trap to the Journal. City Engineer Barnes says that it would have been much better had Quincy street between First and Fifth and Eighth and Tenth been paved but 40 feet in width, as the extra, width is not needed and the expense is too great for repairs: but peo ple who drive and ride wheels do not think it too wide. A home talent play for the benefit of Excelsior lodge No. til. A. O. U. W.. will be given at the Crawford theater in this city on Friday evening of this week. It is "the melodrama. "Gyp, the Heiress: or the Dead Witness." and some well known amateurs will take part. A vaudeville entertainment was given by members of the Lawrence Holmes company at the Crawford theater last night. The audience was very small, and the veriscope, or magniscope, or cinemeto graph, or vitascope, or whatever is its name, didn't work. It is probably op posed to working on Sunday. J. E. and Sirs. Burton Back From Mexico. Albuquerque, Feb. 14. J. R. Burton and wife, who were down in Mexico on a visit, passed through the city on their return to Abilene, Kan. l&rervbotW' Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the ape, pleas ant and refreshing to the tpsie, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleausing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C- C. to-dnv; 10, 2T, f,o cents, boldani guaranteed to cure by all dnitrgist. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. TSa fas- simila fit SOCIAL AND PERSONAL General Notes of Society and Personal Items. Recent Social Erents in Topeka and Ticinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. fAH communications to this department must give the full name and address of the writer. Anonymous personals and descriptions of social affairs will not b. published.) SOCIAL CALENDAR. MONDAY The "D's" of the First Presbyterian church will give a mus icale and valentine social this even ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. "W. Dana. TUESDAY The young: ladies ot the Modern Literature club will give a dance in the evening at Harmony hall. The Bohemian whist club will meet with Dr. and Mrs. Lowry "on Kansas avenue. WEDNESDAY Mrs. George F. Sharitt will give a reception in the afternoon. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Sweet and Miss Sweet will give a re ception. The O. N. O. club will dance at Wetherell's hall. THURSDAY Mrs. George Crawford and Mrs. Arthur Capper will give the third card-party of their series. Mrs. V. C.Edwards will entertain at thim bles in the afternoon. Mrs. H. M. Hadley and Mrs. Charles Wardin will entertain at a thimble party in the afternoon. Miss Anna Crane will en tertain the members of the Alohoa whist club at dinner In the evening. FRIDAY Mrs. Crawford and Mrs.Cap per will give the fourth card party of their series. Mrs. Hadley and Mrs. Wardin will entertain at another thimble party. The Informal club will dance at Hudson's hall. The Vi ennese club will dance at Harmony hall. The Young Ladies' Shakespeare club will meet in the afternoon with Miss Lida Bergen. SATURDAY Mr. C. F. Jilson will en tertain the Neighborhood high five club in the evening. The H. H. Club. The H. H. club enjoyed a very pleas ant dance Saturday evening at Hud son's hall. Those present were Miss Florence VanTassel, Miss Bernice Ott, Miss An na Walsh, Miss Ruby Roark, Miss Erol Buckmaster, Miss Winifred Preseott, Miss Olivia VanTassel, Miss Agnes Wralsh, Miss Edith Stolpe, Miss Wini fred Peffer, Miss Maud Shearer, Miss Nellie Nevill, Miss Ella Ramsey, Miss Nellie Bowen, Miss Jo Pickens, Miss Alma Menard, Miss Maud Shafer, Miss Dollie Tilford, Miss Kittie R3gland,Miss Jessie McMahon, Miss Edna Preseott, Miss Mabel Foucht, Miss Holler, Miss May Holler, Miss Alice True, Miss Pearl Kent, Miss Jeanette Peppin, Miss Kate Ernich, Miss Helen Butterly, Miss Lena Sheldon, Miss Lottie Steinberg, Miss Anna Cramer, Miss Etta Beck, Miss Anna Bock, Mr. Earl Shook, Mr. Frank Barkley, Mr. Frank Dudley, Mr. Aurel Ridings, Mr. Victor Martin, Mr. Earl Graham, Mr. Charles Stolpe, Mr. Frank Hungate, Mr. Frank Smith, Mr. Joe Ramsey, Mr. Ben Seas, Mr. Charles Markley, Mr. Stanton Moss, Mr. Al Wick, Mr. Joe Johnson, Mr. Charles Nelson, Mr. Lou Wingert, Mr. Fred Brown, Mr. O. C. Hubbard, Mr. Hal Niles, Mr. Will Martin, Mr. C. S. Hood, Mr. Al Bryson, Dr.H. B. Hogeboom, Mr. Fred Stauffenberger, Mr. W. A. Benson, Mr. Harry Laydan, Mr. Frank Beck, Mr. Chesney and Mr. Herbert Curry. Tbe Bethany RecitaL An elocution recital was given at Bethany college Saturday evening. The attendance was very large tnu lh Al lowing excellent programme was given: 1. Piano Babillage Gillet Misses Hutchings and Bennett. 2. Comedietta Fast Friends, Re Henry Laura Latimer.Mabel Ham ilton, Miss Lucretia S. Grosvenor, Miss Nellie Lincoln. 3. Violin Simple Aren Romance Sans Paroles F. Thome. Miss Eleanor McCaskey. 4. "How Sonny was Christened" R. McEnery Stuart. Miss Adele Tut tle. 5. My Rival Rudyard Kipling Miss Lucretia S. Grosvenor. 6. Vocal Serenade Nevin Miss Lou Bennett. 7. Comedietta "A Set of Turquoise" T. B. Aldrich. Count Lara, Miss Jessica Smith; Countess Lara, Miss Nellie Lincoln; Miriam, Maid and Page, Miss Maude Win nie. Notes and Personal Mention. The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church will meet Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. W. I. I Drum at 1014 Tyler street. Mr. W. C. Campbell arrived Sunday from Colorado Springs to visit his fam-ily- The Sigma Sigma society met Satur day with Miss Helen Thompson. Miss Grace Foulks was guest of honor at a large card party Friday evening, given by the Misses Gardner at their home in El Dorado. Mrs. Theodore Hammatt is visiting her parents, Major and Mrs. C. Hood in Emporia. The Fin de Siecle club will be enter tained Thursday afternoon by Mrs, Harry Williams. The Tuesday Browning club will meet with Mrs. C. S. Baker Tuesday after noon at half past two. Miss Marian Jackson of Kansas City is spending a few days with Topeka friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crane entertain ed their high five club Saturday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Trump substi tuted for Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Wear. Miss Augusta Hayes, stenographer to Governor Leedy, was in Kansas City, Kan., vesterday, the guest of her moth er, Mrs. Virginia Hayes of 742 State av enue. Miss Hayes is an intellectual and accomplished woman. She is an In dianian, and came on purpose to attend the Hoosier banquet given at theCoates House in Kansas City, Mo., last Friday night. She will return to Topeka to morrow. Kansas City Star. Miss Bessie Bates entertained a few of her friends very pleasantly Saturday evening at a valentine party. Mr. E. O. Robinson went to Leaven worth today to take a position with the Catlin Knox Shoe company. Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Auter have re turned from a three months' visit in Dayton, Ohio. Mrs.Fred Francis of Salt Lake City, is visiting her brother, Mr. F. E. Vin cent. Mr. Galen Nichols went to Lawrence Friday to deliver a lecture before the law class of the university. Miss Emma McMullen, Miss Helen Bauman and Messrs. James and Ed McMullen are going to Thompsonville, Wednesday, to attend the Montag Quinlin wedding. The combined Epworth Leagues of the city will give a valentine social this evening at the Y. Al. C. A. rooms. The members of the Young People's society of the Unity church, are going to give a valentine social this evening at the home of Miss Wilia Tomlinson In Potwin, 7 nil USln Spot Cash Grocers, 108 East 6tli St. Telephone 425. 1 21 rocen ;owe i i i That is what you are looking for and here is the place you can save money over your purchases at any store in the city. VTq Guar ants o Everything "We Sell. Leave your orders or tel ephone and they will have prompt attention. 19 lb best Granulated Sugar $1.00 20 lb New Orleans Gra. Sugar 1.00 20 lb best C. Sugar 1.03 All package Coffee per lb H Good Rio roast Coffee, per lb IOMj Fine Santos roast Coffee, per lb 121-. 3 Tb extra golden Rio roast Coffee. .50 Chase Sanborn's Old Homestead Java and Mocha Coffee, per tb.. .30 3 Tb Chase Sanborn's best Mocha and Java Coffee 1.00 5 lb Calif, evaporated Peaches 2 7 lb Calif, raisin cured Prunes 25 6 lb nice Raisins 3 lb evaporated Apricots 25 3 lb evaporated Pears 25 3 tb evaporated Nectorines 25 2 tb evaporated Raspberries 35 1 can String Beans 05 1 can Wax Beans 0 1 can Lima Beans .05 4 cans Corn 25 6 cans Baked Beans 25 2 cans -solid 3-tb Tomatoes 15 2 pkgs. Rex Pancake Flour........ .15 3 pkgs. Ralstin Pancake Flour 25 3 pkgs. Aunt Jemima P. C. Flour.. .25 12 pkgs. Rolled Oats 25 12 pkgs. H. P. Wis. Beans 25 Pettijohn's Cal. Breakfast Food per pkg s, 10 W'heatling, per pkg 10 Good Rice, per tb 05 4 pkgs. Mince Meat 25 1 gal. Pickles 25 1 qt. Sauer Kraut 05 8 fb Gloss Starch 25 6 pkgs. 1-tb Gloss Starch 25 6 pkgs. 1-lb Corn Starch 23 6 pkgs. Bird Seed 23 1 gal. Catsup 40 1 gal. Mustard 35 15 bars Laundry Soap 25 10 bars Silk Soap 25 9 bars White Russian Soap 25 6 bars Ivory Soap 25 6 bars Grandpa's Wonder 25 24 bars Cocoanut Oil Soap 35 7 pkgs. Rosine (same as Pearline) an aluminum thimble with ev ery package 23 1 large pail White Fish 43 2 large Herring... 25 3 large fat Mackerel 25 G nice family Mackerel 23 1 keg Holland Herring, White Hoop 93 Large pail Sugar Syrup 43 1 gal. nice New Orleans Molasses.. .30 Country Sorghum, per gal 35 Horse Shoe Tobacco, per lb 31' Star Tobacco, per tb 39 Battle Ax Tobacco, per tb 20 1 tb cloth pkg. Smoking Tobacco.. .15 Oak grained wood Tub 40 Galvanized Tub 40 Guaranteed Sugar Cured Cal. Hams per lb 07'-i Guarantee Sugar Cured Coi. Hams per tb 03 Dried Salt Meat, per Tb 05 Breakfast Bacon, per tb 07 Good Lard, per tb 03 3 tb Country Lard 23 Good sun cured Japan Tea pr lb.. .25 Good Basket Fired Tea, per tb 23 Good Imperial Tea pr tb 25 Good Gun Powder Tea pr tb 23 Fresh Heats of All Kinds. Do not purchase your Flour before you get our prices, for we are always cheapest. Mail Orders Shipped Promptly. G es fit mi 51 Davis Glic

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1898. i ii I f M I'M ij 'I 1. J ft v. FIGHT THE DUST. Every spring Topeka suffers from a terror that is largely due to negligence The high winds of February and March fill the streets, particularly the paved streets, with clouds of dust. Only one street 4n the city is sprinkled, and that is never wet enough to keep down the oust sumciently. But why should there be anv dust? If the street- commissioner's force were reinforced for these two months, at least, and plentifully supplied with brooms, the dust could all be swept up and the streets afterward washed with a hose. The additional expense would gladly be borne and the cost would be paid for 10 times over, in the clothing saved from ruin and the goods in the stores preserved from injury. Aside from this, dust of crowded streets is highly injurious to human health. As a health measure, the streets should be kept absolutely clean, if for no other reason. Fruits and vegetables nowadays are covered with powdered filth and even when washed it is impossible to clean them of all the particles of street refuse that gather on them. This very day Kansas avenue, Quin cy street, Jackson and adjacent streets are a disgrace to the city on account of the dust and chunks of dirt gathered cn them. Quincy street, particularly, seems seems never to be properly swept. A slight breeze raises clouds of dust so that one cannot see across the street. For once in the history of Topeka let us have clean streets this spring if it takes a hundred men to keep them clean. By washing them regularly, however, it ought not to require a hun dred men. Let us have them swept and washed every day. Let us try it as an ex periment. We believe the sentiment of the city will back any reasonable meas ures or cost to keep the principal busi ness streets absolutely clean; and this means the space occupied by the street car tracks, also. There are great re positories of filth and mud. The street car company should be required to sweep and wash them on the business street and to fill up puddles in the stone paving. a Let Street Commissioner Ramsey do some figuring and find out what it will cost to keep the streets CLEAN. Then 1ft the mayor and council make up their minds that they shall be clean and stand by. the street commissioner in his efforts. It will be the greatest victory for a municipal administration ever known in Topeka or any other city. Topeka al ways does everything to perfection when she makes up her mind to do it. N(; let us make up our minds that the streets shall be clean. SANTA FE LOCAL NOTES. Dan Myers of the paint shop has bought a new house near the corner of Fifth and Madison streets. No. 6 went through Sunday in two sections. The second section at 5:40. The California limited Sunday had six sleepers, a buffet and dining car and 90 people. Brakeman Cary Johnson has returned from his Raymond Whitcomb trip to California. "I did not see a place be tween here and California that I would live in, and I like Kansas better than California," said Johnson. A Raymond Whitcomb excursion will go through Topeka on the 25th. J. E. Past, formerly of the store house died yesterday at his home, 219 Branner street, at the age of 77. He had been sick for about a year. J. Cook, car inspector, has bought a pony and will ride to and from work. Ed Powell, fireman on the Atchison run, had his eye injured by a piece of coal. He was breaking a large lump and a piece struck his eye. Postal car 1901 has been fitted with electric lights. L. Heustis has gone to work In the boiler department. The yard scales are already for use after having been repaired. Baggage car 611 has left the shops ready for service. Southern Kansas car 143 has left the shops ready for use. It is one of the oldest cars in the service of the road. C. W. Kouns, superintendent of the car service, has left for Ft. Worth. Fireman Robert Slusser is on the sick list. Engine 187 from Argentine has been rebuilt. Frank Kamer of the paint shop is sick. Fireman Gunn now has engine 857. Engineer Parley Beeler has returned to work after several days lay off. SUCCEEDS IN NEBRASKA. Public Employment Bureau "Works Satisfactorily. Lincoln, Xeb.. Feb. 14.- One year aeo a public bureau of information and employ ment was established in Nebraska and the deputy state labor commissioner placed in charge. Applications for places of all descriptions were to be received from any resider-t of the state and a schedule was to be kept showing the names of individ uals and companies desiring employes. This was the first experiment of the kind in which the work was under the di rection of the state and at public expense, as far as the west is concerned, and the effort has proven very successful thus far. Three thousand and fifty-six people are registered for positions in the bureau and 1.931 have secured positions throuKh this source. There have been 1.945 applications from persons desiring help of various kinds and at present the bureau has a number of positions to be filled when the right person can be found. Farm work seems the most popular, and two thirds of the positions tilled have been on farms in various localities. The farm ers favor the idea- very much, and their interests in it are promoted because thev are largely Populists, and it was a Popu list government which inaugurated the plan. Many positions as school teachers have ben found in this manner, and clerks, railroad employes and even professional men have found desirable positions through the use of the bureau. Surplus labor in different portions of the state is equalized in this way. and the only expense attached to the bureau has been postage and printing. About I'M letters a week are mailed by the bu reau, and the printing is for the classified lists of ail those desiring employment and those desiring some form of help. Rail roads are taking kindly to the idea and securing much help from this source, es pecially common laborers. Mr. Stryker's New Questions. A blank for a supplemental report for additional data from city schools was sent out to city superintendents from the office of Superintendent Stryker to day. The report requires the answer ing of the following questions, each in regard to primary, intermediate, gram mar and high school departments: Xumber of pupils enrolled: average daily attendance: average number of pupils per teacher: average monthly salary per teacher: total salarv paid teachers: minimum age for admission. The data is to be incorporated in the biennial report issued by the superin tendent of instruction. It is informa tion that has never been asked for be fore. Halibut Steamer Missing. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 14. The steam fishing schooner, Edith, is now nearly two weeks over due from the Alasl'a halibut banks and fears are entertained that she has met with disaster of some orU to Pretty MMather Ah Dm Cupid Can COMING DHAMATIC EVENTS. At the Crawford theater tonight Hal Reid and his company will again be seen in "Human Hearts," the piece of which Mr. Reid is author. It will be re membered as the piece in which Mr. Reid impersonated Gov. Leedy when presented here last year. The scene is laid in the hills of Arkansas, and the story centers about the life of Tom Lo gan, a young blacksmith. Miss Esther Cuff, a former Topeka girl, takes a prominent part in the piece. Mr. Joseph Holland, who has become a favorite on the American stage since first appearing as a star in "Wilkinson's Widows," will be seen in Madeline Lu cette Ryley's new piece, "The Myster ious Mr. Bugle," at the Crawford thea ter next Saturday evening. T;he plot of the play rests on the jealousy of a lover and the Inheritance he will jeopardize if his matrimonial intentions become known. To insure his affianced sweet heart against the attentions of other men, he makes her consent during her visit to Lakewood to pretend that she is a married woman. The name she se lects for her husband is that of Bugle, and of course as he does not exist, he is 'A SCENE FROM "THE never seen. The situation in itself makes complications enough. The lov ers are respectively Tom Pollinger and Retty Fondacre. Tom Pollinger happens to tell Betty's cousin, Allan, that he is in love with Tine of Allan's cousins. Allan, being under the impression that Betty is a married woman, naturally con cludes that Tom refers to Betty's sis ter, Julia, and he promptly informs Bet ty to that effect. Of course Betty takes Allan's story as fact and revenges her self on her lover by insisting that she is married and that there really is a Mr. Bugle. The outcome of this avowal may be easily imagined. The Welsh Concert Singers will give an entertainment probably at the high school auditorium next Wednesday ev ening as the seventh number of the high school course. TRUE TO HIS TKUST, Gussman Remained Alone on a De serted Island for Months. San Francisco, Feb. 14. Alone on a coral reef in the Pacific, hundreds of miles from any other land out of the course of vessels, Theodore Gussman is waiting to be rescued. A letter to a friend here, Capt. Chas. A. Baettge, which he sent by a French man-of-war that chanced to cruise In his locality, describes the awful soli tude in which he has been Isolated for months. Gussman might have left his impris onment by the vessel which brought his letter, but to have done so would have been deserting his post of duty. He is one of three men sent down to Clipper ton island last July by the Oceanic Phosphate company to keep possession of the company's property and of the island. His companions deserted him at the time the Mexican man-of-war Demo crata hauled down the American flag and hoisted the Mexican standard. Gussman refused to leave then, al though an effort was made to shanghai him by the Mexican captain. In order to remain at his post of duty, Gussman practically marooned himself, swimming ashore from the warship with evidence of his employer's titles to the land concealed in one of his shoes. TO PItOTECT OLD GLORY. A Number of Patriotic Societies Or ganize the American Flag Association. New York. Feb. 14. A new patriotic society has been organized. It will be known as the American Flag associa tion, and its members will be made up from committees selected from the var ious patriotic societies of the country. Its object will be to protect the nation al flag from desecration. The new association is the outcome of the congress held in the city hall last December of representatives of a num ber of national patriotic societies. At that meeting committees to form a per manent organization and to draft a till for passage by congress were named. Those committees reported today, and the report by the organization commit-.. tee presenting a constitution was ac cepted. The societies represented today were the Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution, the National So ciety of the American Revolution, the Pennsylvania Society, S. A. R., the New Jersey Society, S. A. R., the Illinois So ciety, S. A. R., and the Massachusetts MYSTERIOUS MR. BUGLE.' Society, S. A. R. the Kiskiskich chap ter. Daughters of the American Revolu tion, the Martha Washington Colonial chapter, D. A. R., the Fort Green chap ter, D. A. R., and the Washington Heights chapter, D. A. R. the New York commandery, the Commander-in-Chief commandery, Illinois, Washing ton, Maine, Michigan, District of Col umbia, Vermont, Kansas and Iowa commanderies of the Loyal Legion: the General Court Founders and Patriots of America, the Pennsylvania, New Jer sey and New York Societies. Founders and Patriots; the American Institute of Civics, the National League for the Protection of American Institutes, the Society of War of 1S12. and the Nation al Society of Naval Veterans. After a lengthy speech by Gen. O. O. Howard, a number of names were sug gested for the society, and "The Ameri can Flag association" chosen. These officers were elected: President, Ralph E. Prime; vice pres ident. Gen. O. O. Howard; second vice president. Col. Fred Grant; secretary. Trios. Wilson: treasurer, J. L. Ward. The following executive committee was chosen: Captain Phillip Reed. Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution; John Whitehead. New Jersey Sons of the American Revolution; Capt. S.E. Meigs, Pennsylvania Founders and Patriots of America; Mrs. S. V. White, Fort Green Chapter D. A. R. Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpool. Martha Washington Colonial Chapter D. A. R. Rev. Dr. Jo seph M. King, Society for the Protection of American Institutions. DR. BODY'S DOG STORY. A Re g arkable and Amusing Tale of Love at First Sight. Dr. H. W. Roby and a friend were din ine at an uptown restaurant today and a I reporter who happened to sit at the same table heard this story. The doctor said: "You may think it strange that I have been under arrest for the last 4S hours, but such is the fact, although it was not the sheriff, nor a po liceman, nor a United States marshal that arrested me. It was only a dog- a common, yellow cur. It happened in this way: Saturday morning I was at the court house on business, and while waiting inr an office there a cinnamon col ored dog came up to me and put his paws iDbJUMHES upon my knees and wagged his tail and smiled as welli as he could, making as many demonstrations of friendship as if 1 had been his master all his life and had treated him as well as a dog could hope to be treated. I tried to get rid of him and send him off. But he would not have it so. He just hung on and insisted on recognition, making all manner of dem onstrations of pleasure. When I went out he followed me, leaped and frisked about al laround me. jumping and placing his paws on me in the most enthusiastic manner. I went into three or four places on my way back to the office and the dog followed and would not let up on chasing me around. When I got to my office I went in and shut the door in his face. Then he set up such a pitiful wail that I finally let him in. Instantly he repeated his demonstrations of affection and friend ship, and wherever I went all the after noon he followed and "I could not shake him off. He followed me home at night, keeping up the same pranks. I gave him a good. s.upper and a bed. and in the morning no dog was ever more delighted to see a lost master. When I went to the office Sunday morning he leaped into the buggy and went along, all the time acting as if he had just found his best friend. "When I went out to visit a patient he went along and kept up his antics all the way. At the house he attacked and drove off the dog of the man who lived there, then ran into the Jiouse and leaped on the bed of the sick boy. and had to be dragged. Returning to the office he lay down in a corner and watched me. and when I started home I thought 1 would fool him and get away. So I came to the restaurant and got a good supply of food and laid it out on the walk for him and hurried into a street car. But he was there as soon as I was. No dinner could divert him or make him lose sight of his prisoner. The conductor bounced him from the car. and then they had a race for South Topeka. It was a neck and neck race until we got beyond the pavement, but on the down grade and deep mud the car won out and left the poor fellow out of wind and reckoning. Two hours later I drove over to Highland Park, and when near M. O. Frost's resi dence, there sat Mr. Dog watching for me. How he ever came to find out that I was going there, or which way I would go. T lnnve vou to guess. XI oeais an my skill in dogoiogy. 1 nen we nau a race, and my horse is no poke on the high way as a good many anvers Know. ui when I pulled up at the house Mr. Dog pulled up, too, and leaped into the buggy and said as plainly as he could: "I'll just watch your rig while you go in. When I came out, there he sat on the seat, as large as life and as happy as an accepted lover. "On the way home I met a darky and v,im if Yt wanted a nice dos;. He said: 'Well. boss. Ise got seben dorgs now but dat one'll jes' suit Mandy. an I'll take him.' And with a stout string he managed to restrain my captor while 1 escaped." A SCIENCE CHURCH. Detroit Christian Scientists Dedicate a Fine Building, Unencumbered. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14. The First Christian Science church in Detroit was dedicated vesterday. The building was formerly the Emanuel Episcopal church. It has been purchased, repaired and re decorated without leaving any debt re maining and the treasury of the new organization still contains $1,000. Many Christian Scientists from various cities were present. Among the speakers at the three services held were Mrs. Graves Colles. of London, England; Professor E. G. Ewing, and Mrs. Ruth B. Ewing, and Kate Davidson Kimball of Chicago, and Rev. Mr. E. R. Hardy, of Buffalo. A telegram of congratulation from the founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, of Concord, N. H., was received. The new church has a membership of nearly 200. AN OPERA HOUSE FIRE. The Auditorium at Moline, 111., En tirely Destroyed. Moline, 111., Feb. 14. The Auditorium Opera House, with its contents, was to tally destroyed by fire last evening. Ad joining store buildings also suffered from fire and water. The total loss is estimated at $80,000. The flames cut off egress from the Auditorium and there wTere several thrilling rescues by ropes and ladders. The building contained the large plant of the Porter Printing company, Electric laundry. Commercial Heating plant. Postal Telegraph com pany, etc. Arnold's funmakers' troupe lost their entire outfit. The loss is cov ered by insurance. Half a dozen persons Were in the dormitories of the building and narrow ly escaped burning to death, all the stairways having been burned.Two men slid down a rope from the third floor and two women and two men were res cued by means of ladders. The build ing was a three story brick, and is a total loss. Trichinosis Epidemic- Berlin, Feb. 14. A trichinosis-like ep- idemie has broken out nere. The cause has not been discovered but it certainly is not trichinosol pork. Baldness is either hereditary or caus ed by sickness, mental exhaustion, wearing tight-fitting hats, and by over work and trouble. Hall's Renewer will prevent it. Subscribe for The State Journal. t "J tV mm ii Rents, Situations, o Real Estate, V Auction Sales, AND OTHER Classified Advertisements. SITUATIONS "WANTED FEEE. Are you in need of work? If so, yott are at liberty to use these columns for assistance in that direction. While this notice appears the State Journal will publish free on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas people. all notices of "Situations Wanted," not to exceed five lines, or thirty-five words, in length, provided that all advertisement of that nature are handed in previous to 10 o'clock Saturday morning; also on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all ad vertising of this class handed In by 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. No advertisements of this nature to be started except on Saturdays and Wedncs. days. No obligation is incurred on the part of the advertiser. No worthy and f needy man or woman need hesitate to take advantage of this offer. No one in business or having employment is ex. pected to take advantage of It. but all others are Invited to avail themselves freely. The Topeka State Journal guarantees every day it is printed to give a local circulation by far more than all other Dailies combined. This makes this pa per the cheapest, as well as the best, daily medium In Topeka, the classified ad vertisements below costing but Ft?e Cnts Line, or 20 cents a line for a week;50 cent by the month. WANTED Situation by competent wo man with child going to school. Good cook. 501 East Fourth. WANTED Trimming of grapevines, fruit trees, etc. H. Schroeder, 235 Jefferson. WANTED Work of any kind, by young man. three years experience as sta tionary engineer; also experienced with fast horses. Address 1316 Taylor St. WANTED Position, by experienced sten ographer: references furnished. Address C. D., care Journal. WANTED Work by a stationary engi neer of several years' experience: best of references :wlll work right. Address Box 290, Baldwin, Kan. WANTED Place as housekeeper; can give references. Mrs. T. F. Thompson, 327 Monroe St. WANTED By a talented young lady, a position as public reader and imperson ator or a position on the stage with a re liable company. Good recommendations. Address Box 205, Great Bend, Kan. A REFINED and cultivated ladv is de sirous of obtaining a nice position: would not object to a housekeeper's posi tion, not as a working one. Mrs. Julia Newgrass Finch, Harper, Kan. WANTED By a girl, sewing or light housework of any kind. Address A. H., 711 Quincy st. WANTED By young lady, place to do light housework for small familv or el derly couple, who have a typewriter, or allow part of afternoons for practice: best of references. Address Alethia, Journal. WANTED By a young man. a place to work: would like anything honest: have had some experience in grocery store. Ad dress H. F. M., 225 Buchanan St. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Lady clerk in oftice: must be a good penman, accurate in figures and have experience; wages to commence, $25 per month: wanted to commence work not later than Wednesday. Address P. J., Journal office. WANTED Lady to act as sole agent for Topeka. Good salary made. Mrs. G. B. Francis, Ponca, Dixon county. Neb. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To exchange painting or paper hanging for old house. 139 Hawthorne. WANTED Two-seated family carriage: also good family horse. Report where to be seen to Scott Cd., 615 Kansas ave. WANTED AND FOR SALE Cast off clothing, at 320 E. Fourth st. Mrs. Lowe, WANTED All friends of practical edu cation to know that Pond's Business College is now giving its students the finest course of commercial science of any school in this state: so say bankers, busi ness men and leading educators. Our doors are open to the public. WANTED men to learn barber trade. More needed to fill positions waiting graduates. By beginning now, term fin ishes during busy season. Two months av erage time to complete; can stay longer if necessary. Wages in shops Saturdays. Tools given. Established 1H93: incorporat ed 1S97. Illustrated catalogue mailed free. Moler System Barber College, St. Louis. WANTED Horses to winter, best of sta bling and feed. 616 Kansas ave. FOB. RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT 6 room cottage. 1119 Morris ave., Lowman Hill. Apply to L. S. Wool verton, 703 Kansas ave. FOR RENT House of nine rooms, with all conveniences. Inquire at northwest corner of Fifth and Lincoln. FOB, EENT BOOMS. FOR RENT Two pleasant unfurnished rooms. i!4 Jackson st. FOR RENT Unfurnished rooms, rison st. 201 Har- FOR RENT Furnished rooms, roe st. EOO Mon- FOR RENT Pleasant suite of furnished rooms. Furnace heat. 421 Quincy. FOR RENT Pleasant furnished rooms, two for light housekeeping. 307 E. 8th. FOR RENT Choice store rooms and modern flats. 214 East Fifth street. FURNISHED ROOM3 FOR RENT at 934 Kansas avenue. Gas, heat, hot and cold water, bath and all conveniences, single or en suite. STORAGE. HOUSEHOLD GOODS Packed, hauled, shipped or stored. 123 East Sixth st. Tel. 1S6. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER AND STOR AGE CO. PUBLIC SALES. HEREFORD CATTLE The best offering of registered Hereford cattle ever made in Americai Sunny Slope, Emporia. Lyon county. Kansas, will on March 2 and 3, 1S9S, offer at public auction on the home farm, 150 head of registered Hereford cat tle of the highest quality and most fash ionable breeding. 40 head of these are our recent importation of the best animals from the best herds in England. Auc tioneers, Col. J. W. Judy, Col. F. M Woods, Col. S. A. Sawyer, Col. F. M. Sparks. Address for catalogues. Sunny Slope, Emporia, Lyon Co., Kansas. WANTED AGENTS. AGENTS: Visit every store, sell machine for printing signs on fences, bridges, sidewalks, etc. Arc Co., 26 Arc St.. Ra cine, Wis. $20 A WEEK and expenses paid men to sell cigars on time. Experience unnec essary. The W. L. Kline Co., St. Louis, Mo. FOB BENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT The Boyle farm, northwest quarter 13-10-18, 4 miles southwest of Oskaloosa, in Jefferson county. Rent $H0. W. B. Lowrence, Crawford Bldg., Topeka. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE One good team work horses. 220 .Western ave. FOR SALE $135 organ (almost newl, high top, fancy case, large plate glass mirror, octave couplers, mouse proof; will sell at less than half cost. Call at once. 12011 Van Buren. FOR SALE Good work team, also double set harness and wagon, cheap tor casn. Inquire 434 Lane st. FOR SALE A well equipped shoe and re pair shop at a bargain, in me nest town in Kansas. For particulars address Box 399, Coffeyvilie, Kan. FOR SALE Cheap, one top buggy, one road wagon, one gent s Dicycie. one spring wagon, all nearly new: one lumber wagon, one double set work harness, two sets single harness, one-norse jvionne wa con. one eood horse: also my property. new house, at a great bargain. Call at once. 1231 North Harrison st. FOR SALE Cheap, for $300 cash, a good business, or will trade for team and wagon, cows. etc. Good reasons for sell ing. Address K., Journal. FOR SALE Two Jersey cows. 113 East Seventh et. Inquire FOR fine confectionery, nuts and fruits try Con Chumos, 804 Kansas ave. MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT 130 acres of land just south of reform school; will rent for cash. Call at Fifth Avenue hotel. T. D. Joseph. TO TRADE OR SELL A good parlor or gan. 933 Kansas avenue. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, is open daily except Sunday, Ironi 1 to 2 p m. E. M. Brockett, M. D. FOR VIEWS of residence or parlor, stock, groups, etc.. or photos of any Interior or outside views, see Farrow, 811 Kansas avenue. YiaYi The best known remedy for women. Ladles in attendance. Kansas Viavi Co., 2 Columbian Building, Topeka. THE Ralston Home is now ready for Doaraers ana roomers. 520 iarrison st FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. ney county, Kansas, clear, for fifteen hundred dollars. P. C. Moore, 420 Kan. av. FOR SALE 4 room house on Lime St., east front, $350. Five room house on Jefferson and one lot. ssoo. Two good houses 5 room and two lots, on Jefferson st.. $1,500. 5 room house, one lot, barn, well, cls- ter. S.uO. 4 room house and 1V lots on Chandler. near Fourth, $1,000; $200 cash, balance montniy. 2 lots and 5 room house near Sixth on Western ave., $1,000. A. A. RODGERS. 110 West Sixth. FOR SALE 160 acre improved farm. 7 room house and orchard. 31 miles from Topeka. Price $4,000: worth 3k.0O0. For sale tor two weeks at this figure. Rents for $300 cash rent. A. A. RODGERS, 110 West Sixth. FOR RENT 7 room house and barn, 1023 Jackson, $15. 7 room house, 310 Harrison. $12. 5 roam house, 1252 Lane, $9. A. A. RODGERS. 110 West Sixth. BUY A HOME In our colony near Little Rock. Ark.. choice location, rich soil, pure soft water, climate excellent. Price $5 per acre, on yearly or monthly payments. Call for full particulars and books about Arkansas. Our oftice will be open every Wednesday and Saturday evening. JU1LN U. HOWAKO CO., 527 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 13 acres of choice ground near Shorey. North Topeka. Inquire of Frank C. Giffen, Shorey, Kan. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN (JU. FOR SALE 35 lots near the Santa Fe shops. 35 lots Twenty-first and Madison sts.. 60 lots near Shorey, 8 room house and l'i acres near city limits. 80 acres 6 miles north, all on time payments or cheap for cash. M. Heery, 109 East Third. FOR SALE Choice vacant lots in Low man Hill, convenient to electric cars, also near church and schooi. Price from :M to $75 each. W. M. Forbes, 116 West Sixth avenue. OJTANDOjmD LOST A Shrine pin. Saturday, probably between Sixth and Tenth on Kansas ave. Finder please return to Copeland hotel and receive reward. FOUND Where I can get good hay at IS cents per bale, extra, bright at 20 cents, and everything in feed line. H. Ruth, corner Tenth and Lawrence. FOUND Place to get watches and clocks cleaned for 50c. 80s Kansas ave., upstairs. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN Be it known that my petition is on file in the office of the probate court of Shawnee county. Kansas, asking for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 226 Kansas ave.. in the Second ward in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of the same is set for Tuesday, 9 a. m., March 15th. 1898. CHAS. W. KOHL. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 12th, 1S98. PRODUCE WANTED. NOTICE Anyone wishing to contract crop of 1SS8 can do so at S. If. Downs', 304 Kansas ave. BIRD CANNING CO. MONET. FRANK J. BROWN, 17 Columbian Bl,. has borrowers for money on real estai,. and collateral security. Buyers and sell ers for Topeka bank stocks and real es tate. WANTED We want to make good farm loans in eastern Kansas. Money on hand and every accommodation to bor rower. T. E. BOWMAN CO.. Columbian Building. MONEY LOANED on chattels, valuables, etc. N. B. Campbell, 600 Kansas ave. MONEY TO LOAN on farms or city property at reasonable rates. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th Ave. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles, guns, watches, diamonds and anv per sonal property. L. Biscoe, 523 Kan. Ave. MILO NORTON, at 406 West Sixth Ave., will make farm loans of $1,500 or over at 6 per cent Interest. FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE. Florist, successor to R. J. Groves, 817 Kan. av. 'Phone 602. W. C. GROVES, successor to R. J. Groves greenhouses, 1173-75-77 Clay St., store, 821 Kansas ave. 'Phone 2S3. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems for rent; repairing of all kinds. AMUSEMENTS. TWO XltillTS! Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 14-15 The Beautiful Idyl of the Arkansas Hills, "Human Hearts," BY HAL REID. PRICES 25, 50 and 75 cents. Seats now on sale at Rowley Snow's Drug Store. The Welsh Prize Singers.... At the High School Auditorium, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16. This is the seventh number in the High school course and is substituted for the Mozart Symphony club. Chart open at Rowley Sc Snow's, Mon day, February 14. No charge for reserved seats. Admission 50 cents. PRINTERS. TOPEKA PRINTING CO., 112 East Sev enth st. Mail orders given prompt at tention. Print everything. Prices right. FUEL AND FEED. LEAVE your orders for coal, flour, feed and seeds with Van Slyck, 609 W. 10th. PAVINO. FOR first class paving, sidewalk or building brick. dried by steam and burned in down-draft kilns, the only way good vitrified brick can be made, call on W. Edson. secretary of C. C. V. Brick and Paving Co., 116 V. 6th Ave. J. M. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, pumps and tin rooting. 216 W. 6th. Tel. 359. THEOSOFHICAL SOCIETY. MEETING every Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.,at 307 Van Buren St. Open to all. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks, 50c; mainsprings, 75c; crystals. 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. if hard up, see Uncle Sam, 512 Kan. ave. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AVE.. Topeka. Phone 292. fciena ror catalogue. CHAS. H. TRAPP Maker of stamps, seals, daters, etc. 112 V. 7th. Tel. 65u. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and On- tician. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eves examined and spectacles properly fitted. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS. L. A. RYDER. M. D. OFFICE and residence corner Gordon st. and Central ave., Jorlh Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, lishure. ul ceration, etc. C. F. MENNINGER, M. D., HOMEOPATHIC J'HYSICIAX, Office: 727 Kansas Ave. 1'lione 10. l.esidenee: 1270 Toieka Ave. Phone 81 DR. MARY E. STEWART. 6.-!4 Harrison St. Diseases of women and electricity. S. E. SHELDON. M. D., Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. Ave. IDA C. BARNES, M. D., Office 732 Kan. Ave. Residence 13th and Clav. Oftice hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m.. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 593 resi dence, and 16 oflice. We'll Do Tour Hauling Right! TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. 509 Kansas Ave. j Telephone 320 Office. 395 House. F. I. BACON, Srop. Great Western Steam Dye and Cleaning Works, 117 East Seventh Street. Does the best work In thu city of Dye ing. Cleaning and Repairing on Ladies' and Gentlemen's clothing at reaEonablo prices. Give us a call. SATISFACTION C. F. RODIGEB Prop. success 'ur a pea,ceful V

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