The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 20, 1898

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y i i THIRD EDITION. READYJO FALL Manila Is Only Awaiting an In vitation From the Eight Quarter to Haul Down the Flag. GER3IAN WAR SHIPS Continue to Excite Much Com ment by Their Presence. Dewey Provides For Spaniards Wounded by Insurgents. Vancouver, B. C, July 20. According to advices brought by the Empress of India from Hong Kong, the chief news of the moment is that Manna is ready to surrender. Not that the archbishop and captain general are going to volun tarily capitulate before they are com pelled to do so but that the backbone of resistance is unquestionably broken and upon a real show of force and in tention to bombard the town if the of ficials do not give in, the Spaniards will haul down the Spanish flag. Intima tions to this effect are received from many sources. The correspondent of the Hong Kong press writing under date of June 23, says the chief subject of discussion in Manila, in Cavite and in the American fleet is the meaning of the presence of five German men of war and one transport, or supply vessel in port. "I have just interviewed a leading Englishman here on the subject. He unhesitatingly informed me that all for eigners in Manila, as well as Spaniards regard it as a remarkable demonstra tion. 'I am sure," he continued, "that the Spaniards have received encouragement from such a naval display. A Spaniard today told me that the coming of a large German squadron was construed by him and leading Spanish officials as a direct act of friendly interest and warning towards the Yankees that they could not go too far. Now when a Spaniard of influence, as this man was, will talk like that, I think it is high time to ascertain what the Germans mean by appearing here in such force. '"I am familiar," my informant con tinued, "with all the German interests in Manila and my relations with the Germans are very agreeable and I am positive that one German cruiser would be fully able to protect them to every extent they required." Further details of the great fight of May 1, filter through some high officials of Manila as time passes. It now ap-' pears, according to authentic informa tion in the hands of Consul Williams that out of 491 men on the Reina Chris tina 364 were killed, only 127 left the ship. An officer who was aboard and now in prison, tells me that one could not step a foot In any direction on her decks without coming in contact with pieces of flesh or dead bodies. Such was the power of the American guns and the skill of American gunners. Manila papers continue to publish monstrous stories about the Americans and do not hesitate to employ the most contemptuous epithets, all of which are whetting the appetites of the Americans to get even with them for uncalled for insults. More seizures of arms are reported from Hong Kong. It is suspected that the arms and ammunition were to be shipped to the Philippine insurgents. The seizures consist of half a million rounds of Mauser ammunition, two hundred and eight breech loading Mauser rifles and 112 muzzle loading Enfield rifles. Not So Easy. San Francisco, July 20. A Chronicle special from Cavite dated June 23. says: In case of the expected bombardment of Manila, the area to which the Span ish may retire will be limited to the American and insurgent lines surround ing the city. There may come the strug gle, for the Spaniard has burrowed in trenchments and fortified hills and knolls for the final struggle.lt is known here that every energy is bent within the city to prepare it for the final strug gle. The people are exhorted by the clergy and military authorities and their hopes are buoyed by false reports as to relief from Spa:n and Spanish tri umphs in the West Indies and along the Atlantic coast. August! is credited with an assertion that he can muster 150,000 troops. No one seriously believes that he can mar shal 20.000. The city seems as nearly ready for the conflict as the material in the hands of the Spanish can make It. The German fleet now here not count ing supply vessels includes the Koram, Irene and Princess Wilhelm and their weight of metal exceeds that of any other fleet here. The British fleet in cludes the Immortale, Bonaventure and Rattler but the presence of so many Germans is expected to draw other ships. The French have the Brux and Pascal and the Japanese the Matsuh ima. It is freely predicted that there will not be a bloodless capitulation of Ma nila, as it is feared that there will be a long and bloodv resistance. Owe Thanks lo Dewey. San Francisco. July 20. A Chronicle special from Cavite of June 19 says: One hundred eighty-five wounded Spanish troops were sent into Manila tonight under the Red Cross flag. They were part of the fruits of the campaign that the rebels have conducted against Ma nila for seven weeks past and their re moval was a relief to themselves and their captors. That many of them lived to get back to their beloved Manila is due almost entirely to the skill and sacrifice of the surgeons from the American cruisers Dr. C. H. Brownwell of the Petrel Dr' D. N. Carpenter of the Raleigh. Dr g" Broderick of the Concord and Dr j' b" Greene of the McCulloch, who gave' up much of their time to the Spaniards under orders from Admiral Dewey Other fleet surgeons also assisted. Under Manila's Guns. San Francisco, July 20. A Chronica special from Cavite of June 22 savs the McCulloch had an exciting cha'se up under the guns of Manila this morning on a mission that concerned the safety of,Flag Lieutenant T. M. Brumby, who left Cavite in a small launch to go to the British cruiser Immortale at anchor v-ith the foreign fleet off the mouth of the Pasig river. .When he was well up the bay the WEDNESDAY EVENING. lynx-eyed watch on the Olympia de tected a larger craft steaming out of Manila under a flag that looked like the Spanish colors. The McCulloch was ordered to get under way and five min utes later the dispatch boat went rush ing up the bay at a 15 knot gait. Every officer had his side arms buckled on and the crew stood ready at their guns. They headed direct for Manila in order to get inside the fleet and cut off the retreat of the supposed Spanish boat When she neared the fleet, it was dis covered that the craft under suspicion carried the Austrian flag and the chase ended. The McCulloch held her course, how ever and made a careful examination of the batteries in front of Manila and a close inspection of the foreign fleet. No hostile demonstration was made. INSULT TO SHAFTER. Sylvester Scovel Under Arrest For Slapping His Face. Washington, July 20. General Shaf fer has not notified the war department of the disgraceful conduct of Sylvester Scovel, the New York World corres pondent who slapped his face during the ceremonies incident to the occupa tion of the governor's palace in Santi ago and the raising of the United States flag over the capitulated city, but it is believed here that the dispatch printed in the New York Herald is reliable. As sistant Judge Advocate General Morri son says the offense is a most serious one and that it is punishable by death. According to the reports, Scovel was arrested and Is now in custody. The method of procedure is the appointment Map of a military court by General Shaffer. The court is composed of officers who are supposed to be unprejudiced, but it is hardly possible they could be free from bias when called upon to try a case so outrageous, especially when the commanding officer has been insulted in such a public manner and under such humiliating circumstances. According to information obtainable here, the American officers, accompa nied by a regiment of regulars, enter ed the city of Santiago with the van quished Toral and his staff and took possession of the palace, the seat of municipal government. There was much pomp and display, both fitting the occasion, and at noon Captain McKit trick. Lieutenant Wheeler and Lieuten ant Miley ascended to the cupola to unfurl the American flag. Scovel, in a very officious manner, at tempted to make himself a part of the commission assigned to raise old glory. The guards forced him to retire. This so angered him that he pushed his way through the crowd to General Shafter's side and insultingly slapped his face. The general was ignorant of Cco vel's treatment at the hands of his sol diers, and was at a loss to know the cause of his conduct. He ordered the correspondent arrested, however, and the latter is now said to be in a strong ly protected guardhouse. G R AS P ING AT ST RAWS. A Hope at Madrid That Watson Will Be Stopped at the Straits. Madrid, July 20. The newspapers here say that a coalition is being orga nized between the different parties and against the government, on account of the suspension of the constitution. The peace movement is losing ground and a newspaper ventures the supposi tion that a British squadron would pre vent the American squadron from pas sing the straits, but the suggestion is regarded as improbable. WEIGHJYWORK Being Mapped Out by the Popu lists Today. Big Guns of the Party Are Gathering Here. AMONG THOSE OX II AND Are Congressmen Simpson, Bot kin and Senator Harris. Also Chairman Riddle Others May Come. There Is to be a Populist conference in Topeka this evening. It is held at the instance of the state central com mittee and will be composed of United States Senator Harris and as many of the Populist nominees for congress as come to Topeka and the executive com mittee of the state central committee. The purpose of the conference is be ing carefully guarded by Chairman Riddle and Secretary Tipton, but those who claim to know say that it is for no other purpose than to bring the con gressional nominees into direct touch with the local situation. The plan of campaign is to be discus sed and some valuable ideas for the Populist handbook which Grant Har rington is compiling will be secured. Word was received by Secretary Tip- Showing the Situation of Porto ton today that Congressman W. D. Vincent of the Fifth district may not be present. His mother is very sick at his home in Clay Center and he sent word that he may not be able to come. Congressman J. D. Botkin who has been in Topeka several times recently is here to participate in the conference. II. S. Martin, the fusion nominee in the Fourth district came in early. The fight that the Populists started on Martin seems to have about burned it self out. Congressman Jerry Simpson of the Seventh district is expected to arrive on a late train this afternoon. He has not been in Topeka since congress con vened. He may be able to secure some pointers to help him in his fight with Chester Long at the conference, but Jerry Simpson is not much of a hand to accept advice. Senator Harris came in last night and is stopping at the Throop hotel. He says that he does not know much about the situation in Kansas but hopes to know more before he leaves. Governor Leedy was to have arrived in Topeka today and would have par ticipated in the conference but he has been detained and at the executive of fice today no information about him was obtainable. Grant Harrington is here with num berless pages of manuscript and fig ures. He is ready to place the whole book before the conference tonight and there may be some things eliminated and others added.. PEACE "WHEN" SNOW PLIES. Senator W. A. Harris Says War Will Soon End. Senator W. A. Harris, who is in Topeka to attend a meeting of the Populist con gressmen and state officers for the pur pose of outlining the work of the cam paign, discussing the war and its end, said that peace was not far away. "The snow will be flying when peace comes. There will be no more serious loss of life among our men. When the season is right Havana will be invested and our troops will wait until, compelled by stress of circumstances Blanco will be forced to surrender. In the meantime our government will completely take Porto Rico and the Philippines. Spain must be thrashed pretty well before peace can be brought about without wearisome diplo macy." When the fact was mentioned that the Republicans of Kansas expected to male capital out of the conduct of the war he said: '"That will react. The people of Kansas are too intelligent to be deceived TOPEKA, KANSAS. JULY 20, 1898. in that way. Congressman Grosvenor tried that. too. and he was made to ac knowledge that this is a patriotic and not a partisan war," With reference to the ridicule of the state troops for political effect, he said: "That will react, too. I made special in quiries at the war department about them, and was assured that the Kansas troops were as highly esteemed for their dis cipline and efficiency as any of the state troops. "The fact of the matter is that the Kan sas troops at Camp Alger have not been armed more than ten days, and even then they showed remarkable efficiency. I know that the Twenty-first and Twenty second regiments are a credit to their state and country,' and I see by the As sociated Press dispatch that the Kansas troops are more efficient than any other troops on the Pacific coast." OUR TERMS OF PEACE Are Reported to Be in Hands of the British Ambassador. the New York, July 20. A London dis patch to the Journal says: Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff, British ambassador at Madrid has been fully informed of the terms upon which the United States government is ready to make peace. ARMY APPOINTMENTS And Promotions Made by the Presi dent. Washington, July 20. The president has made the following appointmer.ts and prom.-tions in the army: Quartermaster's department To be lieutenant colonel: Maj. Charles R. Barnett, U. S. A. To be majors: Captain Joseph B. THE EXPEDITION TO PORTO Rico, the Scene of the New Operations by the United States Bellinger, U. S. A.; Lieutenant Leon S. Roudiez. IT. S. A.; John W. Mason of West Virginia. To be captains: John W. McHarg, J. Edward Farnum, Thomas S. Gras seli, James A. Campliell. Nathan M. Flower, Lieut, Edwin R. Butler, Second Arkansas volunteer infantry: Ben T. Haughaut. Harry B. Chamberlain, Wm. Scott, Charles T. Baker. Samuel Beard. Thomas Downs, Walter B. Bar ker. Charles M. Wrisrley. Marion M. McMillen, George L. Goodale. the"cowboyband Is Making Arrangements to Join Torrey's Rongh Riders. Pueblo, Col., July 20. Colonel Torrey of the rough riders, now at Jacksonville, Fla., is trying to secure for his regiment the services of the famous Dodge City Cowboy band, which now has its head quarters here. Negotiations have been going on for some time, and it is expect ed the organization, with thirty men, wiU start for the south in a few days. BLANCODiDy'T KNOW. Madird, July 20. Captain General Blanco has cabled the Spanish govern ment that Santiago was surrendered without his knowledge. Gen. Toral will be tried by court martial. FLIES THE TRACK. Spanish. Commander at Guantanamo Declines to Give TJp. Madrid, July 20. Gen. Perreja, the Spanish commander at Guantanamo, refuses to be included in the "capitu lation" of Santiago de Cuba. Accord ing to Spanish military law, a com mander can surrender the troops which he personally commands, but he can not oblige other commanders at dist ant points, even though under his au thority to follow suit. Consequently it is held here that the "capitulation" only comprises 7,000 troops actually at Santiago. 'LOTTIE Carlists Ready to Break Out at Any Moment. Movement is Strong in Many Parts of Spain. THE FALL OF SANTIAGO Is Expected to Lead to Active Operations As Soon as the News Spreads Through Spain. London, July 20. The English Car lists are most active and are in hourly expectation of momentous news. The leader of the organization here says: "We are quite ready for active opera tions. Moreover there is no doubt the authorities at Madrid are aware Car list rising is imminent and that it will be successful. We are immensely strong in many parts of Spain and so soon as the truth of the cowardly surrender of RICO. Santiago de Cuba percolates, our forces will be greatly increased. "The foreign enlistment act curtails our activity in England and ever since the Madrid government began to get into difficulties, we have been shadow ed day and night by spies and detec tives. However, we have money which is sorely needed in Spain." ED LITTLE IS UP. Keports for Duty at Camp Merritt Other Kansans Improving. San Francisco, July 20. The latest re port from Camp Merritt shows consid erable improvement in the condition of the troops. There have been discharg ed from the field hospital 14 cases and 13 entered from the various regimental hospitals, leaving a total of 187 men on the sick list. There has been a de crease of 25 men a day on the average in the Kansas regiment since the loca tion of the camp has been changed. Lieutenant Colonel Little of this reg iment, who has been seriously ill has reported for duty. The signal corps detachment as now arranged for assignment to the steamer Rio Janeiro scheduled to sail Saturday consists of 445 men under Capt. Edgar Russell, with First Lieutenant F. H. Bailey and Second Lieutenants W. O. Bailey and Thomas Gordon, Lieutenant Lawrence and two men of the original corps will go on the St. Paul. The Ar izona has been added to the transport service and the Olympic may be char tered also. The Red Cross members complain bitterly of the scant courtesy shown them by Col. Kessler, of the Montana volunteers. The first detachment of the New Tork volunteers will probably sail for Hon olulu next Tuesday on the steamer Humboldt. She will carry 350 men be sides Col. Barber and his staff. The remainder of the regiment-must be sent to Hawaii by August 10 according to the terms of the contract made with a transportation company. Q. H. Scott of Los Angeles has been selected by the Red Cross society to act as financial agent in the Philippines. He will es tablish a 100 bed hospital at Manila. Sergeant Harry J. Mowrey, of the first South Dakota has been promoted to the grade of second lieutenant. WEDNESDAY EVENING. START FOR PORTO RICO Will Be Made From Camp Thomas Tomorrow. Chickamauga Park, July 20. The movement of troops from Camp Thomas for Porto Rico will begin tomorrow. To day the various commands included in the first order to move are busy pack ing up and loading their effects. They will have everything finished by night and can get out at an early hour to morrow without delay. Railroads have trains in readiness and have things so arranged that they put the troops through to Newport News in a very short time. The signal corps is under Major Glassford; the reserve hospital corps under Major L. S. Smith and the re serve ambulance corps with 33 am bulances is under Major Frank Boyd. Major General Brooke was at his headquarters early today. He spent the morning in consultation with his officers arranging plans for the departure to Porto Rico. He declined interviews on the movement of troops or any other subject. Although the orders have not yet been issued, it is believed that the third brigade first division first corps and the second division of the first corps will begin moving Thursday or Friday. These commands are composed as fol lows: Third brigade, first division: First Kentucky; Fifth Illinois and Third Kentucky. First brigade, second division; 160th Army. Indiana: Thirty-first Michigan; First West Virginia. Second brigade Sixth Ohio; Fifteenth Indiana; Second Ohio. Third brigade: Fourteenth Minneso ta; First Pennsylvania; First Georgia. General Poland, commander of the second division of the First corps has been ill for the past few days, but hopes to be out in a day or two. He will ac company his division to the front. FLEEING FROM WATSON Spanish Steamers Hastily De part From Cadiz. Gibraltar, July 20. Three Spanish Transatlantic steamers have arrived here from Cadiz, fearing that the squadron of Commodore Watson will attack the place and destroy all the shipping in port. TEiVlERARIO SAILS. Takes a Northward Course From Assumption. Assumption, Paraguay, July 20, (via Galveston, Texas.) The Spanish tor pedo gunboat Temerario, which has been undergoing repairs here for sev eral weeHs past has left this port, going in the direction of Cuyaba, Brazil. Fast Trains Abandoned. Chicago, July 20. Excess fares on the Colorado flyers will be taken off August 14. The interested roads have at length agreed upon a settlement of the question. The present schedule of the fast trains run by the Rock Island Northwestern and Burlington roads is about 28 hours. It is proposed to lengthen out this time an hour and a half on the westbound trip and two hours and a half eastbound. This will practically restore the old schedules. TWO CENTS. PORTO RICAN WAR Spaniards Anticipate the Amer ican Invasion By Attacking and Killing a Number of Natives. OUR SYMPATHIZERS. They Are Accused of Intending to Aid Invaders. Nine Were Killed and a Numher Wounded. New Work, July 20. A special dis patch from St. Thomas, D. W. I., to the Journal reports that a serious riot oc curred at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, on Sunday, resulting in the killing of nine persons and the wounding of many oth ers. Spanish residents of the place at tacked natives, whom they accused of being American sympathizers and in tending to aid the invading army from the United States. Plan of Campaign. New Tork, July 20. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: While the details of Gen. Miles' plan of operations in Porto l?fto are not di vulged, it is known that they are whol ly unlike those necessitated by the pe culiar conditions at Santiago. Instead of having a single city as an objective. Gen. Miles has got to secure control of an entire island and occupy a number of cities, establishing a system of thor ough and effective government in all its districts. The chief city of San Juan, can only be taken by the navy in co operation with a large force ashore, as it is practically impregnable on its land side, except by tedious siege with hea vy artiHery. The island is, in round numbers, a hundred miles long and forty miles wide, and even its unhenlthiest coast ports are seldom visited by yellow fe ver. Most of the Spanish troops in Porto Rico are gathered at San Juan and it is Gen. Miles' intention to land at least thirty-eight miles from that stronghold and occupy other important places, while the heavy double turreted monitors and other armored vessels of the navy destroy San Juan's forts and compel its surrender by bombarding, if necessary. If the navy part is com pleted as speedily as scheduled in the program approved by the war board and other authorities here that city will be ready for Gen. Brooke's occupa tion almost by the time that he can reach there. Gen. Miles advance force consists of three regiments of volunteer infantry of Gen. Garretson's brigade. The Sixth Illinois, the Sixth Massachusetts and light batteries C and M of the Seventh artillery, which started for Tampa sev eral days ago, are to meet him off Mole St. Nicholas. These batteries are the first in the American army to be equip ped exclusively with smokeless powder and were selected by the commanding general on this account. To Live on the Country. Gen. Miles does not expect to be de pendent upon subsistence stores for warded from this country during his campaign, as was the case with the army before Santiago. Porto Rico has not been devastated by the Span iards and it is believed that American gold will buy all the food there that is needed for the troops, a resli meat win probably be found in as great abund ance as it is in most states of the union and altogether no difficulty is anticipa ted in living on the country. ine towns to be captured outside of San Juan are small, with two exceptions Ponce and Mayaguez. The former is the most modern and thoroughly pro gressive of the cities in the West In dies. It has 15,000 inhabitants, and Is said tobe the healthiest place in the is land. It also contains the only Pro testant church in the Spanish Antilles and in addition to its three first class hotels, a chamber of commerce, a thea ter and a bank, possesses a perfectly equipped American fire department. The residence of the military com mander is there and its population is almost altogether occupied in mercan tile pursuits. Its harbor, two miles dis tant, admits vessels of twenty-five feet draught and its climate, though warm, is never oppressive. Yellow fever has never been known there. Mayaguez. the third city In import ance, facts Mona Channel o'l the west ern side of Porto Rico. It has 20.000 population, the majority white, and its exports are chiefly coffee and sugar. Its climate is excellent, the tempera ture never exceeds 90 degrees Fahren heit. The city is connected by railway from Aguadilla, in the northwest of the island, and another railroad runs to Lares, half way toward Arecibo, which is on the north coast, fifty miles west of San Juan, with which it is connected by rail. Arecilio contains 7.000 inhabitants, and its harbor though important, is exceedingly poor. May aguez will probably be the first town occupied by Gen. Miles. CUT OFF FR0!il CUBA. Spain Can Get No More News by Wire. Madrid, July 201 p. m. The minister Tor war, Gen. Correa, categorically de nies that Captain General Blanco has resigned. He adds that there is abso lutely no news from Cuba, "as the Americans control the wires and refuse to transmit official dispatches." "CAUGHT IN A FLOOD. Senator Pritchard Narrowly Escapes Drowning. Asheville, N. C, July 20 U. S. Sena tor J. C. Pritchard of North Carolina left his home Sunday to attend court at Burnsville. It has just been learned that while crossing a swollen mountain stream his buggy was overturned and the senator had a narrow escape from death. He iiad an exhausting strug gle with the flood and his horse and buggy were swept away and the sen ator came to Burnsville bruised and wet and with several ugly cuts, none of which was serious. 3 t It 1- st i- -t. 'ty 01.

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1898. 4 TONSJQF GOLD Come Sown on the Roanoke From the Klondike. Joaquin Miller Was a Passenger on the Ship. HAKES IIIS REPORT. The Mines Are ike Richest Ever Discovered, And the Gold Is the Hardest to Get. Seattle, July 20. The North Ameri can Trading and Transportation com pany's steamer Roanoke has arrived from St. Michael, Alaska, with 240 pas sengers and with about four tons of gold, which reduced to dollars amounts to between a. million and a half and two millions. Of this amount, the Canadian Bank of Commerce had 5,000 ounces and the North American Trad ing and Transporting company 20,000 ounces. Probably 50 per cent of the returning miners have fortunes averaging at least $10,000 each. This is a list of those having the largest individual amounts: "William Sloan $110,000 N. Barrette 50.000 Alexander Boudette 50.0(H) George N. Belden 51,000 H. C. Anderson 40,000 James Ladd 40,000 Edward Monohan 35,000 1. L. Spencer 30,000 A. D. Cray 20,000 Joseph Chronister 20.005 W. F. Cobb 17,000 Asa Mcintosh 15.000 J. A. Miller. 12,000 Ola Olson T 10,000 J. S. Opdell 10,000 Frank Smith 800 H. Lackmann 8.000 Robert Insley 6,000 Edward Simpson 5,000 Charles Welsh 5.0lK Kobert G. Walker 5.000 C. H. Cheatwood 4.000 Jack Shay 4,000 "W. II. Dryden 5,000 Frank Leslie 3,0) J. Merritt 3,000 John White 3,000 E. Singleton 3.000 Charles Allen 3,000 J. C. Stewart 2,500 Thomas Beveridge 2.500 William Marshall 2.500 William Briggs 2,03 W. J. McAlpin 2,000 David Banickon 500 Alexander Little 1,500 James Reed 1.500 The miners were reticent about the amounts they brought. The reason for the observance of such secrecy lies in the desire to evade the payment of the ten per cent royalty tax exacted by the Canadian government. In very few cases have the miners paid royalty on the full amount taken out of their claims and many of them have smug gled out larger sums than they will ad mit. Joaquin Miller, the well known poet, who was among the Roanoke's passen gers briefly expressed the general ten or of the stories told by the Roanoke's passengers as follows: "The Klondike mines are certainly the richest ever found on the face of the earth, but the gold Is ten fold harder to get than in any camp I have ever seen." It Is stated that the shipment of gold on the Roanoke would have been much heavier had those In the interior not felt soine apprehension of an attack at sea by privateers. The North American Trading and Transportation, company will, it is sta ted, Ehip most of their gold on later boats. Some of the wealthiest min ers will come out later in the season. YENEZCELA'S NEUTRALITY Decree Defining Course Toward the Belligerents. Washington, July 20. The state de partment has issued consular reports containing the text of neutrality de crees issued by Venezuela, tne,West In dies, China and the Taotai of Shanghai. The Venezuelan decree is a substitute for the first one issued. Thedecree provides That all the federal and state author ities shall exercise the strictest vigi lance in their respective jurisdictions to prevent the accomplishment of any act contrary to neutrality, such as the en listment of men. the collection of arms, the formation of clubs, the fitting out of expeditions, etc. Article 2. As to the commerce of Venezuela with the belligerents it is limited by the prohibition to carry con traband of war.this including the trans portation of correspondence and per sons engaged in military service; also, by prohibition to violate established blockades when personal warning has been given by the commanders of the ships engaged in making said blockades effectives. Venezuelans are forbidden to take out letters of marque if the belligerents adopt this method of warfare, which neither of two has renounced. Venezuelans who fail to respect these obligations, or who in any way take part in the hostilities, shall be subject to the consequences of their conduct in accordance with national legislation, and with the penalties imposed upon them by the offended belligerent, and cannot appeal to this government for protection. Vessels of war of the belligerents and privateers with prizes shall not be al lowed to enter Venezuelan ports. They may, however, be allowed to enter in case of urgent necessity, after remedy ing which they must leave without de lay. SUNDERLAND IMPROVES. Sedan Man Operated Upon at Christ Hospital. Dean Sunderland of Sedan has been in Christ hospital for several weeks, having undergone a surgical operation on hi3 skull. Some time ago he fell and cut his head on a piece of glass and it has been thought that a piece of the glass remained in his head. But an operation revealed the fact that he had sustained a fracture of the skull, and a broken -piece of bone had grown fast to the under side of the head. This has been removed and he is now improving. Vaccination Before Karri age. In Sweden and Norway a legal mar riage is not allowed to be solemnized till both parties produce certificates at testing that they bear genuine vaccina tion marks. CHEEKING THB BATTLE TORN FLAG. FOUGHT KANSAS BUGS. Tiddler Jim" Rounds Up in Chicago Talented Tramp. Chicago, July 20. Outside a down town saloon half a dozen men were sit ting around chewing tobacco and descanting upon the evils of war. The sun had gone down and the electric lights were glaring and gleaming and then occasionally spluttering as if al ready tired of the night's work: An old man, standing across the street, looked nervously to the east and to the west as if undecided which way to go. Un der his arm he carried an old black box that had been tied and screwed and pegged togeiher. He saw the men sitting idly about and hesitatingly shambled over toward them. When he got directly under the lamppost he halted. On the sidewalk were strange looking bugs and beetles with black wings and red little eyes which circled about in the blinding light. The old man gazed curiously at a particularly big beetle. Finally he spoke: "Oh, go on off and come back right. Tou can't scare me. Why, I'm Fiddler Jim, and I had visits from you and all the other devil's children after a three weeks' spell in Kansas, and now you are trying to do the terrible after re sorting to places where the barkeeper smiles and hands you a napkin if you ask for it. "I've foug-ht devil's children big-gem' you and more firelike; fought 'em in Cuby and Gawger 'n Mobile and Tazoo, 'n they ain't licked me yet. Fought 'em when licker was a dollar, a pint and there wasn't a dollar to my knowledge in a thousand miles of me. Go back down where you belong and let Fiddler Jim alone," and with that he gave the bug a kick and then walked up to the group of men who were still chewing tobacco. He was very ragged. His hair was un kempt, his shoes unshined, his shirt un washed and his face unshaved. But he was polite. He took off his hat and said to the man with the fiat collar and diamond stud: "I am Fiddler Jim, from Iuka n I play music. I ain't nair dago nor Frenchman nor a Spanyard. I'm American, true blue and a hundred yards long," and with that he unwound from the little scarred black box a long Morrow's Discovery. BOW THE GEEAT CHEMIST'S I DEAS HAVE LESSENED HU MAN SUFFERING. Kidney Deases That Once Were the Terror of Physicians. Robbed of Their Horror. When to Act Nature seldom strikes a severe blow at mankind without first giving warn ing. It is neglect of the warning that leads to disaster. The first warning, usually.that is given of impending dan ger of diabetes, Bright's disease or oth er kidney troubles, is a pain in the small of the back just above the kid neys. When the kidneys are not doing their work properly there is distress all over the body; but, generally, a back ache is one of the first and most certain symptoms of kidney disorder. Wise people give a pain of this char acter immediate attention. Since the discovery by John Morrow, the cele brated American chemist, of Morrow's Kidneoids those small, yellow tablets that contain nature's remedy for kid ney disorders this remedy has become a household article, and it is relied upon just as often to avert terrible kid ney complaints, when they are threat ened, as to cure cases of long standing. When any of the symptoms of kidney Irregularities appear, such as backache, nervousness, headache, irritable tem per, pain in urinating, etc., it is best to take Morrow's Kidneoids at once and ward off disease before it becomes firm ly rooted. A recent case of interest In which Morrow's Kidneoids quickly gave relief Is that of W. H. Vlvion, well-known milliner of 20 West Main street, Spring field, Ohio. He gratefully tells the fol lowing story: "I was afflicted with pain in my back ever the kidneys, and my general health was somewhat impaired. When ever I attempted to lift anything the pain would become so excruciating that I would be compelled to stop. I read of the many cures that were being made by Morrow's Kidneoids and de cided to try them. One box quickly re lieved me entirely of the pains, and my health "is much improved generally. Morrow's Kidneoids are certainly a, boon to suffering humanity." Morrow's Kidneoids are now on sale everywhere at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50. iuun-uw's ividneoids are for sale at all dealers. Price 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50. If not to be had at your dealers, they will be sent postpaid upon receipt of price by John Morrow Co., chemist. Bushne Buildine. S I Ohio. string. From the inside he drew forth a fiddle and then a bow. How much of a Stradivarius the fiddle might have been in the days of moat and draw bridge could not be told but the fiddle looked very dusty and very old. He resined his bow, plunked the violin strings a time or so, and then drew the horsehair tremblingly across the taut cat gut. His selection was from one of the master's rhapsodies and fte knew it well. The men stopped chewing to bacco and listened. From the old man's fiddle came harmony. He played mel ody. He played symphony. As his arm moved rapidly to and fro the stars above seemed to tremble in weird de light. The imagination viewed silvery streams, heard the shouts of joy, saw the dance of happiness and listened to the ringing of home-coming cheers. He made the music short. When he stopped curious eyes gave him curious glances. He spoke again: "As I said, gentlemen. I am Fiddler Jim. I will play "La Paloraa" for a drink and a cigar; the "Mocking Bird" costs you two drinks and two cigars; "Cotton-Eyed Joe" six drinks, bed and breakfast, and the intermezzo of the Cavalier Rusticana a week's debauch. Gentlemen, do I play or must I give way to a furrin' dago?' He played on. The crowds gathered, the bugs flew away, and at midnight Jim went inside. The week's debauch had commenced. WOMAN FIGHTS OFFICER. Trixy Taylor Dragged to a Patrol Box Despite Her Resistance. Chicago, July 20. Trlxy Taylor threw so many bricks through the window of the home of Mrs. Kittie Marsh, a friend that a police officer decided to arrest her. He, however, had troubles he had not calculated upon. Miss Taylor re fused to rise from the ground where she threw herself and when the officer approached and when she was seized commenced biting and kicking so vig orously that the policeman had all he could do to hold her. The woman was lifted and dragged over sidewalks and pavements, resist ing violently, through a great crowd of excited people, to a patrol box at Mad ison and Sangamon streets, two blocks away. She was taken to the Desplaines street station charged with malicious mischief. FORM MAN-HATERS' CLUB. Indiana Young Women Renounce the Male Sex. Hartford City, Ind., July 20. Ten young women of this city formed a man-haters' club. Each member of the organization has foresworn the society of the detested sex. The young women included in the membership of the club belong to the most exclusive set in the city, and the society young men are dis consolate. Considering the fact that this is the ice cream and soda water season the young men are unable to understand the meaning of the move ment. PANA COAL MINES RESUME. Deputies and Extra Police Prevent Violence by Strikers. Pana, 111., July 20. The coal operators were measurably success! "0.1 in starting their mines. The Penwell and Sprmgs. dt mines hoisted more or less coal during the day. The main fight will come to morrow morning, as the effort today was only to ascertain the strength of the strik ers. A large number of deputy sheriffs and many extra police will patrol the town early in the morning to see that the non-union men are not molested. Seven of the most obstinate leaders of the strik ers were arrested under the charge of in timidation. OMAHA EXPOSITION. June 1st to October 31st the Grand est Exposition (except World's Fair) ever planned in the United States. Located within cheap and quick access of the entire Missouri and Mississippi Valleys, at your own doors. Through tickets be yond Omaha allow stop-overs. Reduced excursion rates to Omaha. Take the Burlington Route the old and firmly es tablished line to and through Omaha in any direction. L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent. HOWARD ELLIOTT, General Manager. St. Louis. Mo. H. C. TOWNSEKD, G. P. T. A., St. Louis. Mo. F. E. NIPPS, Agent. Topeka, Kan. Colorado and Return $24. Summer tourist tickets to Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver and re turn, on sale daily to and including September 15, 189S, at Santa Fe depot. To Care Conut'.putlon Forever. Take Cascarets Cand. Cathartic 10c or 25o. If C. C. C. tall to cure, drucists refund money. Santa' Fe Route dining cars are equip- l ped with electric fans. A PESTHOLE. Horrible Condition of Santiago as to Sanitation. Six Cases of Yellow Fever Found in the City. LEPERS ROAM ABROAD Turned Out of Hospitals When Bombardment Regan. Town is But a Memory of Its Former Self. Santiago, July 18, via Kingston, Ja maica, July 20. Gen. Shafter. has had a thorough examination made of the sanitary condition of Santiago. The work was done by Dr. Goodfellow, of the general's staff, and by a civilian physician. Dr. Orlando Dwiker. They find that although there are at present but six cases of yellow fever in the city, in addition to two suspects, the town is ripe for an epidemic. Santiago and Rio Janeiro are considered the greatest fever breeding centers in the world. This town lacks every sanitary feature at its best, and now, after two months siege, leaving it dirty and repellant, it is a veritable pest hole. The awful stenches that arise from the streets stagger and choke one. No cordial in Sanitago has the power to wash out this odor from one's throat. The city of Santiago is a typical trop ical place, with narrow crooked streets and low, one storied dwellings and stores. -Many of the houses are stuc coed and painted with startling colors, sky blue and vivid shades of green predominating. These, with the red tiles of the roofs and the quaint ver andas, show evidences of past pictures queness, but everything is now in a state of dilapidation ind decay, and the city is but a shadow of its former self. The majority of the houses are absolute ruins and the once beautiful public squares are now utterly neglected. There is no sewerage system. The city drainage is all from the surface in to the harbor and through the lower part of the city much of the drainage runs, especially from the poor quarter around the bull ring to the northwest of the city, which is the breeding center of malaria, typhoid and other low fe vers. There are four hospitals irt the city, the civil hospital, presided over by the sisters of charity, and the military, Mercedes and Conchas hospitals. In these four hospitals are 1,747 patients, which is a comparatively small number, considering the lack of food and long siege, but it must be remembered that the reconcentrados were never admit ted to the hospitals and when the noti fications of the proposed bombardments by our batteries were received every patient who could stagger out was driv en into the streets. Twenty lepers who were in the civil hospital were turned into the streets and they have been roaming in the streets ever since. The largest number of patients are in the military hospital, where are 37 wounded Spanish officers and 431 wounded soldiers and sailors. In addition there are hundreds of cases of malaria and dysentery and six cases of yellow fever. BANNA'S MEN REBEL. Central Committee Refuses to Obey the Senator's Instructions. Columbus, O., July 20. What was freely predicted as the result of Sena tor Hanna's tyrannical methods in ruling the Republicans of Ohio has come to pass. A number of his influen tial followers have set up the standard of rebellion and organized a faction of their own. Trouble has been brewing for some time and the smoldering fire of resentment finally burst forth into a flame of open defiance at the meeting of the state central committee on Thursday. It appears that a number of the com mittee have been candidates for office under the administration and their ap plications were blue penciled by Hanna. They said nothing until after they se cured places on the committee and then began to devise Ways and means to even up with Hanna. The opportunity came when at the meeting last Thursday a message was read from the senator stating that it was his wish that Colonel John R. Mal loy be made secretary of the committee and that no assistant be placed under him. Without a moment's hesitation, George A. Hay, a recognized leader of administration forces, arose and op posed Hanna's plan in a vigorous speech. He proposed the name of Mar tin Cowan of Ilelmont county. Cowan was unanimously elected- assistant and then Malloy was elected secretary. Malloy was Indignant and vowed he would not accept. Saturday Mr. Malloy went to Cleve land and held a consultation with Sen ator Hanna. The situation was care fully canvassed and Hanna advised Malloy to resign, as he could not afford to accept the secretaryship after such treatment and especially after the com mittee had willfully violated his (Han na's) orders. Mr. Mailoy returned to Columbus to-night and handed his res ignation to Chairman Huling. He gave no reason for his action except that he could not afford to accept the secretary ship under the circumstances. It is understood Hanna will refuse to contribute toward the campaign this fall as a punishment for the commit tee's rebellious action. USED GUN WHEN ARRESTED Kansas City Man Charged with Steal ing $1000 Caught in Chicago. Chicago, 111., July 20 Frank Ren dindi, who is accused of larceny, was ar rested at the union depot. Rendini was recently employed in Kansas City, and a few days ago, it is charged, he left his place of employment with nearly $1,000 belonging to his employer. Detectives Bock and Desouza received a telegram telling them of Rendindi's intention of coming to Chicago. The detectives observed him stepping from a Chicago Alton train, and when the officers informed him that he was their prisoner Rendindi quickly pulled a revolver from his pocket and pointed the weapon at Desouza. The latter called to his partner, who seized the weapon, and after a lively encounter, in which the three men rolled on the pavement, the Italian was overpowered and taken to detective headquarters. Rendindi admits the charge of larceny, and declared he would have shot Des ouza had he been given a chance. The electric fans now operated in Santa Fe Route dining cars are desir able and seasonable accessories to aq already unsurpassed service. WHEN A BIG GUN IS FIRED. ReaultingPhenomena AreComplicated Enough For a Scientist. Philadelphia, July 20. Not one man in 10,000 has a clear idea of just what happens when a big cannon is fired. The physical manifestations are nu merous. Even professors of chemistry and physics are stumped when they want to differentiate all the gases set loose and the peculiar effects they in duce. The puff of whitish smoke, the flash of fire, the dim image of the fly ing projectile, the roar and the recoil are all familiar, but back of these is a complex mass of phenomena most be wildering to the mind of any but an ar tillery expert. First, the cubes, hexagons or irreg ular lumps of powder are chemically transformed into a powerful, expanding gas the instant firing takes place. Then there are innumerable byproducts that even chemists do not understand. j The explosion of gunpowder is di- I vided into three distinct stages, called the ignition, inflammation and combus tion. The ignition is the setting on fire of the first grain, while the inflamma tion is the spreading of the flame over the surface of the powder from the point of ignition. Combustion is the burning up of each grain. The value of gunpowder is due to the fact that when subjected to sufficient heat it becomes a gas which expands with frightful rap idity. The Bo-called explosion that takes place when a match is touched to gunpowder is merely a chemical change during which there is a sudden evolu- tion of gases from the chemical solid. I It has been calculated that ordinary j gunpowder on exploding expands about 9,000 times or fills a space this much j larger as a gas than when in solid I form. When this chemical change j takes place in a closed vessel the ex- pansion may De maae to aa. a worn like that of forcing a projectile along the bore of the greatest gun or test tube in the line of least resistance. The hardest work a gunner is called upon to do is to stand the tremendous shock. The forces exerted by these gases in expanding seem to radiate in all directions from the cannon, as rip ples are caused by dropping a pebble in a pool of still water. As a matter of fact, it has been discovered that these lines of forces are exceedingly compli cated affairs, and play very queer pranks about the cannon. As a result few people know just which is the safest or the most dangerous position dinner to take beside his gun. in me case of the great thirteen-inch guns ofTurSess, Blossom, Drew, Dickinson, El our monitors, a position back of the gun is much easier than one nearer tne muzzle. CASH FOR SOLDIERS. Heroes at Santiago Will Be Paid 7 50,000 For June. Chicago, July 20. A special to the Trib une from Washington says: The auxiliary cruiser Resolute will sail from New York with $750,000 on board to pay the American troops at Santiago. This is the amount due General Shafter' s army I for June. Major Shiffen is to have charge of the payment. All the money taken is to be in coin. The coin ranges in de nomination from $5 in gold to copper pen nies. "The taking of the Santiago army s pay oil in nAm crairl Mninr Fishhafk. one of Shiffen's assistants, "is an idea of Pay- j master General Siemton. The purpose I is to introduce the American money in i Cuba. General Sianton was of the im- pression that it would be an excellent idea to drive out the Spanish depreciated cur- r rency at the s:ime time that the Spanish soldiers are driven out. "With the sranie currency on tne lsiana the plan to establish a stable government would be greatly facilitated. The time to begin, he contended, was at the begin ning. The force of his argument was appreciated by the administration and he was given his way. "The scheme is to put out of circula tion altogether in Santiago province the Spanish money, both coin and paper. By the introduction of American coin into Santiago province. General Stanton be lieves that our money can at once be made the standard of value. "In order to effectively carry out this plan each soldier will be instructed as he is paid to buy from no tradesman in San tiago who cannot give him his change in American money. The difference in the money value of his own country and the monev of Spain will be explained to him and he will be asked to accept nothing but American money. "The pay officers of the government will pursue this plan of General Stanton's wherever te American arms are success ful on this side of the ocean." TO LINK LAKES AND SEA. Commissioners Survey Routes for the Deep Waterway. Detroit, Mich., July 20. Since the ap propriation for continuing the work of experimental surveys of a deep water way between the great lakes and the sea has been made the commissioners in charge are putting several new survey ing parties in the field. Of the old par ties two are at work in the Mohawk valley and one is surveying the route between the Hudson river near Troy and the headwaters of Lake Cham plain at Whitehall. A new party is being formed to sur vey the Hudson river from Troy to deep water thirty-six miles below, to deter mine the character of the work to be done to increase the twelve-foot chan nel that already exists to the depths contemplated for the deep channel; an other will investigate the character of the bottom of Lake Erie at the head of the Niagara river to determine the practicability of building a dam there for regulating the lake levels. The last parties to begin work will be those which will survey the route from the foot of Lake Champlain to Lake St. Francis, in the St. Lawrence river, and the St. Lawrence river itself from Og densburg to Lake St. Francis. The route selected for study from Lake St. Francis to Lake Champlain is about forty-five miles long. FANNY DAVENPORT BETTER Chances Now Favorable to Recovery of Her Health. North Duxbury, Mass., July 20. Fanny Davenport is now fast gaining health and to-day there was a marked Improvement, although she is still far from well. The past week there has been a noticeable advancement daily toward recovery and her family feels much encouraged. Her husband, Mel bourne McDowell, said to-night that she was getting along finely, and if good weather prevailed he thought her chances for a speedy recovery were ex cellent. A physician is in constant at tendance and everything is being done for her comfort. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of CANDY CATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATIONf 0c L'Iilj'Ti 5 "?S il' TuSl ALL 25c 50c 5? Oliver Leaf Vinegar is O adulteration. For Preserving, Pickling and g5 Table use it is Superior to any other. This Vinegar is the foundation of our success. You try g it and you will succeed in your, household. It brings health and strength by sprinkling it on the floor or keeping a saucer full in your rooms. Buy it in bailed g jugs, then you will get it with our label and regis- tered trade mark. Price 35c per gallon. 5c cents jG reiund ior return of empty jugs. Otto Kuehne Co. (First Puplished in the Topeka Journal, July 20, 1898.) State Council Proceedings. Council Chamber, Topeka, Kansas, July 18. 1898. Council met pursuant to adjourn ment. Fresent, Councilmen Benson. lintt, Mergan, Rountree, Skinner and Warner 10. Quorum present. Mayor C. A. Fellows presiding. The minutes of July 6, 1898, were pre sented and partly read, when on motion the further reading was dispensed with and the journal was approved. Petition of D. S. Shook and 2003 oth ers was presented, which reads as fol lows: To the Honorable, the Mayor and Coun cil of the City of Topeka, Kansas: Gentlemen We, the undersigned, res ident tax-payers of the city of Topeka, Kansas, respectfully petition your hon orable body to call a special city election for the purpose of submitting to the elec tors of the city of Topeka a proposition to issue bonds of the city of Topeka to provide waterworks for the purpose of supplying the city of Topeka and its in habtants with water, as provided by law. The petition was read and referred to the committee of ways and means. The following petition for paving Jackson street from Park street to Morse street, which- was read and referred to committee of streets' and walks. Topeka, Kan., July 9. 1898. To the Honorable Mayor and Council men of the City of Topeka, Kansas: Gentlemen: We, the undersigned res ident owners of property on Jackson street from south line of Park street to north line of Morse street in the city of Topeka and liable for the cost of im proving said Jackson street by grading, curbing and paving the same, respect fully petition your honorable body to cause said Jackson street from south line of Park street to north line of Morse street in said city of Topeka to be graded; and curbed with Colorado sand stone at a price not to exceed 70 cents per lineal foot, and paved with vitrified brick at a cost not to exceed $1.25 per square yard, said street to be paved 30 feet wide. Signatures of owners and description oi property: Wm. Green, 369 and 371 N. Jackson street. Pi H. Petro, street. A. M. Kent, Jackson street. 377 and 379 N. Jackson south 37 feet, lot 118 J. F. Buck, Nos. 373 and 375 No. Jack son street. W. S. Burgunthal, north 50 feet, lot No. 124 Jackson street, K. H. M. F. addition. Kric Nystrom, Jackson street, 87V feet. E. P. Baker, lots 357, 359, 361 Jackson street. H. W. Baker, lots 363, 365, 367, 381, 383 Jackson street. The following petition for paving Monroe street from Fifth street to Sixth avenue, was presented and read, and referred to committee on streets and walks: Topeka, Kan., July 11, 1898. To the Honorable Mayor andCityCoun- cil or the City of Topeka. Gentlemen: We. the undersigned res idents of the city of Topeka, and pro perly owners on Monroe street.between Fifth street and Sixth avenue, in said city, would respectfully petition your honorable body to cause to be graded, curbed and paved Monroe street from Fifth street to Sixth avenue, in said city: that it be curbed with Colorado sand stone and paved with vitrified brick to the width of 40 feet; not to ex ceed 70 cents per lineal foot for curbing and not to exceed $1.25 per square yard for paving. The following will indicate the num ber of feet frontage which each of the signers owns on Monroe street within the limits named. Name of property owner and number of feet owned Mrs. Z. T. Hazen, 37 feet. C. K. Holliday, 140 feet front Joseph Groll, 37 feet. Mrs. Julia S. Webb, 35 feet front E. C. Webb. Chas. Jones. 37 feet front. Bids for grading, curbing and pav ing Madison street from Fifth street to Sixth avenue, were submitted to the council and read by the city clerk, as follows: Furman Baker for grading, 21 cents per cubic yard. John Ritchie, for curbing with Colo rado stone, 62 cents per foot. John Ritchie, for paving with vitri fied brick on sand foundation, $1.21 per square yard. John Ritchie, for resetting old curb ing, 21 cents per foot. P. H. Gill, for curbing with Colorado sand stone, 65 cents per foot. The bid of H. K. Winans for paving Madison street, which had been filed three minutes after five o'clock was submitted by the city clerk. On mo tion of Mr. Skinner the bid of Mr. Wi nans was ordered opened, on roll call by the following vote: Aves Benson, Blossom, Drew, Elliott, Mergan, Skin ner and Warner 7. Nays Burgess, Dickinson- and Roundtree 3. The bid bid read as follows: Paving with Tope ka vitrified brick on sand foundation. $1.18 per square yard. Paving with vi DRUGGISTS absolutely free from any trified brick on sand foundation, as per sample herewith marked H. K. Winans, $1.10 per square yard. Mr. Skinner moved that the contract for paving be let to H. K. Winans at his bid of $1.18 per square yard. Mr. Drew moved as substitute that the contracts for grading and curbing be awarded, and that all bids for pav ing be rejected, and that the city clerk be instructed to readvertise for bids for paving, which motion prevailed. Mr. Drew moved that the contract for grading Madison street be awarded to Furman Baker at his bid of 21 cents per cubic yard, which motion on roll call was adopted by the following vote: Ayes Benson, Burgess, Blossom, Drew, Dickinson, Elliott, Mergen, Roundtree, Skinner and Warner 10. Mr. Drew moved that the the contract for curbing be awarded to John Ritchie at his bid for Colorado sand stone of 62 cents per lineal foot, and 21 cents per foot for resetting old curbing, which motion was adopted on roll call by the following vote: Ayes Benson, Burgess, Blossom, Drew, Dickinson, Elliott, Mer gan, Roundtree, Skinner and Warner 10. Mr. Drew moved that the city clerk be instructed to readvertise for bids for paving Madison street from Fifth street to Sixth avenue.which motion was adopted. Bid of Furman Baker for grading Fillmore street between Eighth avenue and Ninth street was submitted, opened and read by the city clerk. Mr. Drew moved that the contract be awarded to Furman Baker at his oid of 19 9-10 cents per cubic yard, which motion on roll call was adopted by the following vote: Ayes Benson, Burgess, Blossom, Drew.Diekinsony Elliott.Mergan.Round tree. Skinner and Warner 10. The committee on streets and walks, to whom was referred tne petition of Louis Miller and others for sidewalks on the east side oi Jefferson street from Crane street to Thornton street, and on north side of Thornton street, from Jefferson street to Adams street, re ported the same back, recommending that the request be granted. On motion the report was adopted. The committee to whom was re ferred the request of George Dupree, to have the case now pending against him "of keeping and maintaining a common nuisance," reported the same back as follows: We, your committee, recom mend that the case be dismissed, he to pay the costs. J. W. MERGAN, Chairman. On roll can, the report was adopted by the following vote: Ayes Benson, Blossom, Dickinson, Elliott, Mergan, Rountree, Skinner and Warner 8. No Burgess and Drew 2. Mr. Roundtree offered the following: Resolved, by the mayor and council. That the street commissioner be and is hereby directed to. build a street cross ing across Monroe street on the nortji line of Twelfth street. On motion of Mr. Burgess it was referred to the street commissioner with power to act. Mr. Burgess introduced the following: Resolved, That the Topeka Daily Capi tal be and the same is hereby desig nated as the omcial city paper for the city of Topeka for the year beginning August 1, 1S98, and ending July 31, 18yy; and be it further Resolved, That the mayor of the city of Topeka is hereby directed to enter into a contract with the proprietor of said The Topeka Daily Capital as the oilU'ial city paper at a price and rate fixed by ordinance for the public print ing of the city of Topeka. On roll call the resolution was adopt ed by the following vote: Ayes Benson, Burgess, Blossom, Drew, Dickinson, Elliott, Mergan, Roundtree and War ner J. No Skinner 1. Mr. Drew, president of the council, was called to preside. Dr. Gill read a paper on the sanitary condition of the city, and on motion it was referred to the committee on health. Mr. Roundtree introduced the follow ing, which on motion was adopted: Resolved, That the city clerk be in structed to advertise for five days in the official city paper for proposals for filling lots 194, 1U6, 198. z00, 202, 204, 206 and 208, West street, in the city of To peka, to abate the nuisance existing theron. The Volunteers of America was grant ed the use of the city park for ten days, commencing July 20, 1898, for camp meeting purposes. A committee of the Auditorium Asso ciation, consisting of Mr. Brigham and Mr. Billard, appeared and presented modified plans for the proposed audi torium. After some discussion and ex planations the whole matter was re ferred to the committe of public: build ings and city engineer. On motion of Mr. Skinner the council adjourned. S. S. McFADDEN, City Clerk. Beamy In ITrocd Beep. Clean biood means a clean skin. N beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your biood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackbeada, and that sickly bilioua complexion by taking Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, otic. Summer Tourist Tickets to Colorado and return for $24.00, on sale daily to September 15, by Santa Fe Route.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, WEDNESDAY EVENLNG, JULY 20, 1898. RAILROAD NEWS. Unprecedented Rush of Fruit Over the Santa Fe. Company Announces That Cars Can Not Leave the System. GROUND TO PIECES. Joseph Modlin of Walnut Meets an Awful Death. Railroad Men Go to Omaha September 17. The summer rush of fruit from the west to the east has opened and the Santa Fe is taxed to the utmost to handle the busi ness. The green fruit shipments from northern California have started eastward and every refrigerator car on the Santa Fe is constantly in demand. The refriger ating station at La. Junta handles hun dreds of tons of ice a day in icing the cars. The fruit trains are being rushed through on passenger time. Yesterday a fruit train of 15 refrigerator cars leit La Junta 2J mLmtei tehind p .ssenger u aia No. 6 and arrived in Dodge City, iOl miles away, just 20 minutes behind the passen ger. The Rockv F"ord melons will be ready for shipment in about 30 days and this will keep the main line of the Santa Fe busy from Rocky Ford to Chicago. One St. Louis dealer who expects to corner the melon trade around St. Louis has already contracted for 400 cars of melons. George Claussen, who has the contract fur icing the cars, has had the largest force of men at work that has ever been employed for the special work. The empty cars will be iced at La Junta and sent from there to Rocky Ford to be loaded, then returned to La Junta for icing again before leaving for the east, and will again be iced at Argentine. As was prophesied last winter, this year will be the best the Santa Fe has ever had in the fruit business from California, and the Rocky Ford output will be greater than evr before. KEEP CARS AT HOME. Santa Fe Announces That Transpor tation Must Not Be Delayed. The Santa Fe yesterday sent broadcast to its connections a notice that hereafter until further notice no car belonging to that corporation will be permitted to leave its tracks. This is done to protect the line when the time for moving this year's crop shall come. In a conversation with a shipper who desired a consignment to move over sev eral lines without change of cars, an of ficial of the Santa Fe said that refusal of the company to permit cars to leave the line was made in the interest of the peo ple living along the line: that this year's crop was going to be an enormous one, that would tax the entire equipment of the line, and it was not proposed that cars should be used by other lines when they would be so badly needed at home. Furthermore, efforts are being made to secure the return of every Santa Fe car that has left the company's tracks. What this western line is doing all others are doing, thereby indicating what transpor tation oflicials think of the crop pros pects for lsys. CELEBRATE AT OMAHA. September 17 Has Been Set Anart for Railroad Day. Saturday September 17, has been desig nated as Railroad day at the Transmissis sippi exposition, and from the thorough manner in which the railroad men are en tering into the plan for the occasion it is assured that the event will be a red letter one. The date for Railroad day was fixed at a conference of Superintendent Babcock of the department of transportation of the exposition and a number of local railroad men. It is believed that a very good season has been selected. The weather then should be delightful, the summer rush of excursion business for the rail roads will be over and the trip will inter fere with no one's summer vacation. The railroaders will spend both Saturday and Sunday there. One of the railroad afficials who has been interested in the movement says: "All the railroad men in Omaha are go ing to turn out on that occasion, and we are going to send to Kansas City. St. Louis and Chicago and endeavor to have the various western lines run special trains for their representatives at these points." BODY CUT TO PIECES. Joseph Modlin of Walnut, Dragged a Mile by a Train. Pittsburg. July 20. Joseph Modlin, aged about 60 years, was killed a few rods north of the M., K. T. depot at Walnut. He had been up town, and when last seeji was going home northeast on the M., K. T. track. A freight train northbound goes through Walnut between 11 and 12 o'clock, and it is thought that Mr. Modlin eat down on the track and went to sleep. A mail carrier who attends the night passenger went down the track at mid night and was horrified to find an arm on the track which had been severed from the body. He gave the alarm and a searching party went northeast along the road, and every few rods would find pieces of a man who had been run over bv the whole train. The body, or part of it, was found one mile from the first arm. On inquiry it was found that Josph Mod lin. whose home is about a quarter of a mile northeast of Walnut, was missing, and the clothes were identified as his. How he came to meet with such a tragic and terrible death will never be known. He was a poor but respectable citizen, and his son John M. Modlin. is one of the Santa Fe car repairers at Girard, having held a job with the Santa Fe railroad for over ten years. WORK SUSPENDED. Atchison Man Bid Too Low on Santa Fe Job. Atchison, July 20. Bill Tietge took a con tract to make a fill for several Santa Fe Condensed Milk S An, Infant Food. InFAHT HEALTH"Sent FREE 5 OH APBUCATinm 4 Kewwt;onoBsiaMiLKC(.tn sidetracks east of the round house and along White Clay creek. The work went ahead far several days last week, but was suspended. It is said that the contract was taken too cheap. It is understood that the work will be continued immedi ately. Since the Rock Island began run ning into Atchison, the Santa Fe side tracks have been inadequate to meet the demands of increased business. TO FORFEIT CHARTER. Texas Authorities After the Pittsburg and Qul Attorney General M. M. Crane of Texas has filed suit in the district court of Bowie county, Texas, praying for the forfeiture of the charter of the Kansas City. Pitts burg Gulf railway. His application is based on the requirement that the com pany locate its general offices in the S It ts alleged that the offices were moved out of Texas last January, and the pen alty asked for is $900,0u0 damages, besides an additional damage of $6,000 per day following the filing of the suit. UNION PACIFIC PROSPERS. The New Company Contracts for 2,- 150 New Cars. The Union Pacific has let an order to the Michigan Peninsular Car company for 1,150 cars, and the Pullman company has taken an order for 1,000 box cars. These cars are 60.0K) pounds capacity. The Union Pacific is also in the market for one or two thousand more cars of the same ca pacity and also some thirty-five ton cars. Frank Hawkins Injured. Frank Hawkins, an employe of the Santa Fe shops at Newton fell down the cellar stairs of his home and ruptured a blood vessel in his left leg. He limped i from his home to the carpenter shop and made for himself a crutch. It will ba some time before he can resume work. Union Pacific Builds Yards. The Union Pacific is to build stock yards east of the depot at Solomon City, to accommodate A. J. Knollin Co., the sheep firm. This firm will feed more sheep than usual the coming winter. FOUR GIRLS DROWNED While Floating on a Plank in Utah Lake. Salt Lake, Utah, July 20. A special to the Tribune from Payson, Utah, says: Four girls were drowned in Utah lake yesterday afternoon, their names were Lucy Keel, Emma Keel, Susie Keel and Steener Bauer, their ages ranging from 15 to 20 years. The girls were floating- on a plank. One fell off and -was drowned and the others lost their lives in trying- to res cue her. The bodies have not yet been recovered. TAXES WE PAY. Well Grounded Complaint Made by Leading Commercial Club Members. T. ,T. Anderson, P. I. Bonebrake, E. H. Crosby and M. C. Holman, repre senting the Topeka Commercial club 1 the members of the board of coun ty commissioners appeared before the state board of equalization today and requested that the inequalities in the assessed valuation of Shawnee county property in comparison with other counties in the state be rectified. The facts as set forth in the paper of Mr. Bonebrake read before the club and printed in the Journal were placed be fore the board. Attention was called to the fact that the assessment of Shawnee county property is much high er than that of Wyandotte county which has superior market facilities. Mr. Bonebrake made the assertion that Charles Wolff Co. of Topeka pay as much taxes as Armour or Swift in Kan sas City who have much larger packing houses. Secretary of State Bush said that was a matter that the board cannot reach. He requested Major Anderson to call the matter to the attention of the Com mercial club to have a bill prepared to give the board of equalization the pow er to change valuations of property where it is known to be ridiculously low. The board has not acted on the ques tion of Shawnee county assessment. COURT MARTIAL FOR TORAL Spanish Government Finds Fault With Terms He Accepted. Madrid, July 20. The Paris papers announce that the cabinet council to day was occupied by the capitulation of Santiago de Cuba. Ministers ex pressed surprise that General Toral had included the whole military divis ion of the province in the surrender. When details have been received the question of a court martial of General Toral will be submitted. Kl Imparcial learns from several members of the cabinet that in their opinion for Spain to sue now for peace would be an avowal that she is van quished. Moreover, they believe that the United States, flattered by the tri umph at Santiago, would only consent to peace on unequal terms, and that therefore it is preferable to continue the war in the hope of reconquering a portion of the lost territory. "As the government makes no sign, it can only be supposed," says El Im parcial, "that the ministers disagree on the question." Some papers believe that a recon struction of the cabinet is imminent, WAY OPEN TO W ATSON. No Likelihood of Any European In tervention. London, July 20. The "Vienna corres pondent of the Times, discussing the advent and probable operations of Commodore Watson says: It is taken for granted that America will punctiliously observe the obliga tions of international law. There will, therefore, be no legal ground for Euro pean protests, and intervention without legal justification is practically exclud ed by the certainty that Great Britain will support the United States, while the powers are not likely to risk has tening the conclusion of an Anglo American alliance by any attempt to hinder or coerce the United States. Disappointment with the policy of the Spanish government is growing here, and it is beginning to be believed that Spain can be convinced of the absolute necessity of suing for peace only by fresh disasters. A great surprise was occasioned here by the news that odds at Santiago were largely on the side of the Spaniards. Smoking Killed Him. Oakland, Cal., July 20. James John son, the millionaire ship owner, died at his Temple residence last night from complications brought on by excessive smoking. Captain Johnson was the owner of many coastwise vessels and was interested in many deep water ships, besides owning considerable ag ricultural land and allied interests. He was 62 years of age. Omaha Exposition Fast train leaving Topeka 4:55 a. m. via Santa Fe Route, arrives in Omaha at noon. C. B. Lyon, D. D. S., 511 Kan. Ave. Modem dental work; reasonable prices. PLAN "WORKED BADLY. States are Slow in Supplying ftuota Under Last Call. Washington, July 20. Fairly good progress has been made with the re cruitment for the volunteer army under the president's second call for 75,000 vol unteers. The plan adopted by the war department was to recruit all the vol unteer organizations in the army up to their maximum enlisted strength be fore entering upon the recruitment of additional troops. The total number of men required to fill out existing regi ments was 37,566, and, according to the latest returns, the total enlistments un der this plan are 27,519 men. Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin have exceeded their quo ta but all the others are behind in the supply of troops. The worst delinquent is North Carolina, which has furnished only 55 soldiers to meet its quota of 783. Other delinquents are Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, Tennessee and Virginia, each of which has supplied less than one-third of the number of men required. Alabama, Massachus etts, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Or egon and Texas have done very little better, and are all very much behind in meeting the requirements. Complaint has been made also that In several of the states an effort has been made to foist poor material on the gov ernment. The total enlisted strength of the regular army to date is about 44, 000 men, being about IS, 000 short of its legal complement. The volunteer army consists of 183,000 men and is only 17,000 short of its haximum authorized strength under the two calls issued by the president. The total strength of the army, regular and volunteer is 227,000 as now organized. Information has reached the war de partment that notwithstanding the medical examination prior to mustering in, men have been enlisted in the vol unteer army who should have been re jected as unfit for military service. The adjutant general has issued an order directing that systematic inquiry be made, with a view to elimination of such from the organizations by the medical officers. A board of medical officers, the order says, should be appointed in each divis ion to carefully examine and make rec ommendation in each of the cases sub mitted by individual or regimental med ical officers. In every case where dis charge from service is recommended it should be seen that the certificates of disability embody a statement to the effect that the cause of the disqualifica tion for the military service existed prior to the enlistment of the man, if such is found to be the fact. Depart ment and corps commanders are auth orized to order discharges on certifi cates of disabilities. SOME LARGE FEES. Lawyers Really the Ones Who Get the Money Out of Insurance Litigation. David Martin and David Overmyer have received their fees for the work done by them in defending Insurance Commissioner Webb McNall from the assaults of the insurance companies. David Overmyer was paid $1,000 for his services in the Mutual Life, Metropoli tan Life and Travelers'; Judge Martin was paid $2,100 for his services in the two New York Life cases, two of the Mutual Life, two of the Metropolitan Life and two Travelers. The fees paid by the insurance com panies to Judge A. H. Horton and oth ers, are currently reported to be much larger. It is even said that Judge Hor ton received as high as $3,000 for three days' work. Whether this Is true or not, it is quite certain that Judge Hor ton was paid a very large sum; and one which no one will doubt he is well entitled to considering his experience and legal information. It is, however, somewhat amusing that the insurance companies make no complaint of paying $1,000 a day to expert lawyers but squeal plaintively when the compara tively Daltry sum of $25 a day is de manded by the insurance commissioner for his examiners. Men who are able to examine an insurance company's as sets are not paid on the scale of day laborers. The outcry by the insurance com panies who object to being examined, is under the circumstances regarded even in insurance circles as a pure case of bluff. If the insurance companies' "experts" are worth $1,000 a day why are not Wrebb McNall's "experts" worth $25 a day, at least? The shrieking ol certain insurance companies who wish to carry on their business in the dark, to say the least, does look rather sus picious. PHILIPPINES MOVEMENT. Troop Ships to Sail Frequently From Now On. San Francisco, July 20. The two sub jects of importance which are occupy ing the attention of the military auth orities are the sailing of the remaining transports of the fourth expedition and the abandonment of Camp Merritt for the Presidio. The next two transports to sail will by the City of Rio de Janeiro and St. Paul. The Rio will depart next Friday. That was the day fixed by General Merriam this morning, and there are no indications that there will be any de lay. Brigadier General Otis will sail on the Rio and the troops under his com mand during the voyage will be the two battalions of South Dakota volunteers. The St. Paul will probably sail next Monday and the Scandia is expected to be ready for service by the first of Aug- Camp Merritt will be abandoned as soon as possible. No general orders have been issued as yet calling for a r "Presidio. The general hhj camp will be moved by detachments, as it would be difficult to get transporta tion for all the regiments to move at once. COLORED TROOPS READY. Government Notified That Two Bat talions are Complete. The United States government has been notified that the two battalions of colored troops have been mustered into the service and are ready to move as soon as orders are received. Nothing is known about the move ment of the troops. It was at first reported that the government would refuse to accept the troops but Adju tant General Allen says that there is no truth in the report and that they will be accepted at once. The soldiers are nearly all uniformed but only two companies have tents. The officers have not yet received their uniforms. The Direct Line to Denver, Salt Lake City. San Francis co and Portland, is via the Union Pacif ic. The service of the Union Pacific to all principal western points is unex celled by any other line and consists of Pullman Palace Sleepers. Pullman Tourist Sleepers, Chair Cars, Dining Cars. (Meals a la carte.) For time table and full information call on F. A. Lewis, City Ticket Agent. J, C. Fulton, Depot Agent. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Brick sidewalks are being laid through out Auburndale. Lightning struck a tree last night near Sixth and Van Buren. Telephone bells were set ringing last night by the lightning. Visitors at the Indian reservation report an abundance of chigres. The street car track at Sixth and Jack son streets is being repaired. Mr. C. S. Gleed has returned after a short stay in Boston and New Tork. No grand stand will be built for the new fourth-mile bicycle track at Garfield park. I An entertainment for the benefit of the i soldiers will soon be given in Auburn- dale. A club tournament will be held Satur day afternoon on the courts of the Topeka Tennis club. Manager Crawford is negotiating for the sale of the present scenery of the Craw ford theater. The street car wires were down In front of the Grand Opera House last night dur ing the storm. The maximum temperature yesterday afternoon in the shade on Kansas avenue was 102 degrees. General Manager Frey and General Su perintendent Mudge of the Santa Fe are in New Mexico. The Swedish Independent club will hold a meeting tomorrow night at the hall, at 314 Kansas avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gragert, who reside live miles north of the city, are the pa rents of a daughter. Departmtnt Commander Eastman of the G. A. R. will meet the local reunion com mittee this afternoon. The Sons of the American Revolution met today at the state house in their reg ular quarterly session. A favorite amusement among some men in Topeka is to speed their horses In the evenings on the race track. People in College Hill have been annoy ed considerably by careless residents al lowing chickens to run at large. As soon as one denomination finishes its camp meeting at the city park another steps in and makes it a contiuual per formance. The colored company from Kansas City, in command of Captain Waller, will be presented with a flag by the citizens of Kansas City. The gardener at the state house cuts a bushel of flowers every day. They are distributed among the women employes at the state house. The police records are now legible. Pa trol Driver Harry E. Kelley is a good penman and the permanent records are now made by him. The electrical storm last night was re sponsible for the burning out of many telephone and electric light wires in dif ferent parts of the city. There was more than financial redress to W. J. Costigan in the sale yesterday of the E. H. Snow printing plant. It was the culmination of a long feud. The patriotic entertainment arranged for last evening on the lawns of Colonel T. W. Harrison and A. H. Bates was postponed on account of the rain. There is a city ordinance which gives a person the right to kill chic-kens which annoy him, and still not half the people who keep chickens keep them penned up. The court house does not present its usually busy appearance for the reason that many of the county officers are now out campaigning for the primaries Sat urday. The electric light at the intersection of Fifth and Lincoln streets burns about half the time. John Marshall seems to be un able to do anything with this troublesome light. It needs a new wire or a new something. Mr. E. L. Copeland and Dr. W. N. West will return Saturday after a trip through the east. They attended the National Whist congress as delegates from the To peka whist club. H. B. Fleharty, deputy state oil in spector, and R. M. Buggies, Topeka corre spondent of the Kansas City World, will leave this weeek for Salt Lake City to spend a ten days' vacation. On August 1 Jackson's Military band will furnish music at Garfield park. There will be music also by the combined colored bands of Topeka, St. Joseph and Kansas City. It will be a fitting Emancipation day celebration. Stanley Evans, a former Topeka boy who attended Washburn college for a number of years, is with Roosevelt's rough riders, having joined the regiment in Texas. Evans' parents still reside here. He was president of the State Oratorical association in 1S95. No settlement has yet been made in the Z. R. B. dry goods store case. The goods attached by Marshall Field Co. are locked in the large vault of the sheriff's office. The stock has been appraised. Claims in excess of the value of the stock have been filed. Dr. J. D. Countermine, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will preach Sunday evening upon the subject: "The f i -k...... i pel." He will devote more time at this sermon to reading the answers made by Topeka newspaper men. The annual meeting of the Shawnee coun ty v. c. 1 U. will be held at the M. E. church, corner Seventh and Lime streets Friday, July 22, from 10:30 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. President J. w. Gleed or the State Temperance union will give the evening address. Members and friends are re quested to bring basket dinners. BEWARE OF N. TOPEKA. Young Men From South Side are Persona Non Grata. It was a war of intended extermina tion which raged in North Topeka Sun day night. The odds were against the south side, but "there came a time." W. J. Warren, a quiet young man, who lives in Topeka, south of the Kaw river, went to North Topeka Sunday evening to call upon a young lady whom he admired. He made his call, but in approaching the house he was discovered by some North Topeka lads, who decided to put a stop to such in trusions. North Topeka young men don't like to see fellows from the south side come over there to see their girls. Wrhether it is from a division rivalry, or that they are afraid the southsiders will "win out," is not known. As Warren left the residence of the young lady he had been visiting he was set upon by "the gang." One fel low in particular seemed to be the in jured one. He beat up Warren severely. Warren escaped from the mob carrying with him several severe bruises. As a result. Robert Rigdon, of North Topeka, has been arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Chesney charging him with assault and battery. W. J. War ren is the complaining witness. The trial promises to be an interesting one. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following transfers were recorded yesterday in the office of the register of deeds: American bank to Caroline Hayes, $25. lot 2307 Fillmore street, Quinton Steele's addition. J. H. Goddard and wife to George I. Thacher. $90. lot 15 East Tenth street, Mul vane Chase's first addition. O. Purdv and wife to Amanda C. Kelley, $150. part block 1, Chandler Veale's ad dition. George H. Cozine and wife to William H. Lambert Jl.fr O.southwest quarter south west quarter section 5, township 13, range 15. Thomas M. Allen and wife to Charles P. Allen. $720. tract in North Topeka. J. H. Seybold et al. to John H. Evans, $i")5. lot 27S Chestnut street, Metsker's third addition. To A. W. Knowles.lots 82 and S3,Twelfth street, Mapleton addition. Weather Indications. Chicago, July 20. For Kansas: Fair tonight and Thursday; cooler in south and extreme east portion tonight; warmer Thursday; variable winds. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and trj It. J. W. PHILLIPS. C12 West Eighth SU TESTjTHE SCREEN LAW. Attorney General Boyle Preparing In junction Suits Against Mine Operators. Attorney General Boyle is preparing a series of injunction suits against the coal mine operators of Kansas. He has just returned from a trip through the coal mining counties where he had a conference with the county attor-, neys to arrange for commencing the series of injunction suits now in course of preparation. The injunction suits are to prevent violations of the new screen law. At- torney General Boyle claims that the mine operators have persistently vio lated the law requiring them to use no screens larger than a certain size. By this means, it is claimed, the miners are defrauded for they are paid for only what coal does not drop through the screen. The screen law has been held to be constitutional by the appellate court, i Another feature of the new mining law which has not yet been decided by the higher courts is the law to prevent mine operators from paying the mine in scrip. A test case of this law is now pending in the appellate court and when that is decided, if the law is up- j held, Attorney General Boyle will com- mence Injunction suits under this law. The coal mine operators are said to be preparing to take the screen case to the federal courts but Mr. Boyle will not wait. A Girard paper, speaking of the visit of Attorney General Boyle says: "Mr. Boyle and County Attorney Widby went to Cherokee county Mon day afternoon and stayed there until the whole matter was discussed and agreed upon. Mr. Boyle had to return to Topeka on the night train, but his first assistant, Mr. Snelling, will return to Crawford county the last of the week and finish making the papers which will then have been made up by Mr. Widby and Mr. Stevens, and a careful move will be made in the mat ter; and yet the move will be positive and decided. Injunctions will be asked for in the district courts of both coun ties and it will be shown that the rights of a large number of people are effected and that they are justified in asking for a special investigation In these cases. This will be an interest ing and important matter and involves many new questions, and like the stock yard and the freight case will be the first time such power has been asked for to compel the observance of the law. It is fair to state that the plan has been decided upon after the most deliberate and thoughtful considera tion, and there can be no doubt that these officers desire the observance of the law above everything else." GREAT FIREWORKS. Finest Ever Seen in Topeka Will Be Those at the Fair grounds. Final arrangements for the produc tion of the Battle of Manila at the fair grounds for the benefit of the Fall fes tival were made at the meeting of the Committee of Fifteen Tuesday evening. It was agreed that the price of ad mission should be 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children under 12 years of age, with an extra charge of 25 cents for the grand stand. Advance sale tickets will be disposed of including admission to the grand stand for 35 cents. The question of tents for the use of the soldiers will prove an important one. It was considered briefly at the meeting. John F. McManus said that he had found that it will cost $1.10 each rental for tents for the week. The com mittee will need 500 tents and if they have to be rented in Kansas City the expense will be quite an item. A resolution was passed providing that the reunion committee shall have entire charge of the grounds during the week and the committee Is also to be allowed all that it can secure from the privileges. Major Anderson Inquired how much of an allowance the Commit tee of Fifteen would make for the use of the soldiers' committee and the question was left for future considera tion. The committee on printing was in structed to secure the necessary sta tionery for the use of the committee and also to get prices on posters. The com mittee also ordered the printing of 10,000 hand bills to advertise the Battle of Manila. H. A. Heath was elected as a mem ber of the Committee in place of L. M. Penwell, who resigned. BLOWN ASHORE. The Western Star, a Yukoner, a Total Loss. San Francisco, July 20. Captain Thorns of the Russian steamer Kodiak, which arrived in port today reports that on July 28 the steamer Western Star was blown ashore in the vicinity of Kalmoi bay and became a total loss. The crew of seventeen men, fortunately was saved by the boats of the steamer South Coast which was in the vicinity. The Western Star was a stern wheel, flat bottom, built to ply in the Yukon river. The craft was one of the large fleet recently secured by the Morgan company of Seattle, bound for St. Michael on June 1. DEWEY'S SWORD. Many Designs are Being Sent to the Navy Department Washington, July 20. The navy de partment continues to receive elaborate designs for the sword to be presented to Admiral Dewey under act of con gress. One of these which came to As sistant Secretary Allen today is a bas relief of an actual sword, with the hilt set with many brilliant stones, repre senting diamonds and rubies. The design itself with the many brilliants is more costly than most swords. WILL SURVEY JAPAN. American Experts Engaged for Work at Yokohama. Yokohama, July 20. The government has notified the powers that the new commercial codes went into operation on July 1, and that the civil code be came operative July 16. It is reported that the United States minister to Corea, Mr. H. N. Allen, has concluded an agreement at Seoul with the Corean minister for the en gagement of American experts to sur vey the country with a view of building roads, bridges and other public works. Circus Misses Topeka. The Sells and Forepaugh show left Lawrence yesteraay over the Santa Fe for the southwest. The show will fol low the Santa Fe during the season and will work back Into Kansas in the fall. The show makes up three trains. FAULTLESS WORKMANSHIP AMD DESIGN. The superiority of Columbia Bevel-Gears over chain machines under all conditions of riding make IN A CLASS ALONE. Go to the Columbia Dealer in your town and examine our line before buying. We offer you the best chain wheels in the world. COLUMBIAS AND HARTFORDS. t GOOD WHEELS AT LOW PRICES. I Vedettes, J acks and dills. A N Catalogue Free. POPE MANUFACTURING CO., Hartford, Conn. t Culver Bailey, Columbia Dealers, Topeka, Kan. II M IMi III III A ummer I Kesort A Coo I Corner Second and Polk. Ill IIIIHn II III I III I III I i in i A LOAST OF $100 COSTS PBR For CO montlis. I 84 months. 82.25 1 81.SO SO months. ei.65 Mortgages released promptly when last payment is made. Fart or all of loan, may be taid ?t any time with a saving of interest to you. The Savings and Loan Ass'n. TeL 60S. N. Cor. 6th Kan. Ave. Our object and aim Is to ena ble you to se cure a home on easy monthly installments. CAMP AT MIAMI. Sanitary Condition is Declared Offi cially to Ba Good. Miami, Fla, July 20. To put to rest all apprehension as to the heaJthful ness and sa.nitary conditions of the military camp here and to effectually offset the unfavorable published re ports, Interviews have been had with several officers of the division upon whose shoulders the care of the health of the men rests. Maj. Gen. Keifer, commander of the division, when asked his opinion as to the sanitary condition of the camp said: "I consider the sanitary cindi tion of the camp as being very excel lent. Of course you understand that certain work had to be done, but it has been accomplished thoroughly and the camp and surroundings here, I consid er, are as good and complete as any camp in the United States. "There has been a question as to wa ter. Use of water from driven wells has been discontinued. The city sup ply has been substituted and we have good water now." Large tanks have been placed in the quarters of each regiment and the wa ter runs through the pipes in the tanks surrounded by ice. OFFICES LAPSE In Volunteer Service by Death, Pro motion, Discharge or Resignation. "Washington, July 20. A decision has been rendered by the secretary of war holding that the acceptance and muster of officers in service with militia orga nizations and not provided for by law in organizations of regular army or of officers with higher rank or pay than is allowed to officers of similar grades in the regular army, applies only to those who held commissions and were actually In service with the militia at the time the members enlisted in the volunteer army and were appointed by governors to similar positions in the volunteer organizations. Hence upon the promotion, discharge, resignation, or death of any such officers appointed in excess of the regular army organiza tion, the offices held by them in the vol unteers lapse and ceese to exist. It has been ordered by the secretary of war that in all cases where troops expend small arms ammunition in tar get practice the empty shells after fir ing will be packed and shipped to the Frankfort arsenal. A Deserter Caught Denver, July 20. George Lare who enlisted in the Seventh U. S. cavalry some two months ago. in this city, de serted recently from Fort Grant. Ariz., was brought to Fort Logan and tried there by court martial. Desertion in time of war is generally punished by death. No decision has been given out. Switzerland Protests. Bern, Switzerland, July 20. The fed eral council has entered a protest against the advantages given to France by the reciprocity treaty with the Unitad States, and has demanded, un der the most favored nation clause that the same advantages be accorded to Swiss goods. Cool and comfortable dining cars on Santa Fe Route are obtained by use of electric fans. Bevel Gear Cliainless Bicycles III i m III Ill Ill mil i S S S For your perishable merchandise is our COLD STORAGE PLANT at reasonable rates. All day long- in your refrigerator if you use our manufactured ice. &0S7T, 11:0 months. $1.36 KANSAS COUNTY FAIRS. Following is a list of fairs to be held in Kansas in 1S98, their dates, locations and secretaries, as reported to the state board of agriculture and compiled by Secretary F. D. Coburn: Allen County Agricultural society C. IT. "VN'heaton. secretary. Iola: September 6-9. Anderson County Fair association C. IT. Rice, secretary, Garnett; August 30-Sep-tember 2. Brown County Fair association John IT. Meyer, secretary, Hiawatha; September 6-9. Clay County Fair association E. E. Hoopes. secretary. Clay Center; Septem ber 14-16. Coffey County Fair association J. E. Woodford, secretary, Burlington; Septem ber 13-16. Kaw Valley Fair association W. R. Stubbs. secretary, Lawrence. Finney County Agricultural society IX A. Minis, secretary, Garden City; Septem ber 13-16. Franklin County Agricultural society Chas. H. RiJp:way, secretary, Ottawa: September 20-25. Greeley County Fair association I. B. Newman, secretary. Tribune; October 12 13. Jackson County Agricultural and Fair association S. U. Mi-Grew, secretary. Hoi. ton: August 29-September 2. Jefferson County Agricultural and Me chanical association Kdwin Snyder, sec retary, Oskaloosa; September 6-9. Johnson County Co-operative Fair as sociation J. M. Warren, secretary, Edger ton; September 13-16. Marion County Agricultural society F. H. Prescott, secretary, Peabody; Septem ber 6-9. Frankfort Fair association C. W. Bran denburg, secretary, E'rankfort; Septembi r 27-30. Miami County Agricultural and Me chanical Fair association W. J. Carpen ter, secretary, Paola; September 27-30. Montgomery County AicrK-ultural soci ety ID. W. Kingslcy. secretary, Independ ence; August 30-September 2. Southeastern Kansas fistrict Fair asso ciation IX W. Ivin.sley, secretary. Inde pendence; August 9-12. (Fair to be held at Parsons.) Morris County Exposition company E. J. Dill, secretary, Council Grove; Septem ber 27-30. Neosho County Fair ass3ciatior, H. Lodge, secretary, Erie; September 6-9. Chanute Agricultural Fair, Park and Driving association Aug. Bareis, secre tary. Chanute; August 16-19. Ness County Fair association N. H. Stidger, secretary, Ness City; September 1-3. Osage County Fair association W. B. Davis, secretary, Buriingame; September 6-9. Riley County Agricultural society Jerome Walbridge, secretary, Riley; Sep tember 6-9. Rooks County Fair association David B. Smyth, secretary, Stockion; September 13-16. Wichita State Fair association H. G. Toler, secretary, Wichita; September 19 24. Fredonia Agricultural association J. T. Cooper, secretary, Fredonia; August 23-26. Notice, A meeting- to formulate plans for the second annual picnic of the Retail Gro cers' and Butchers' association will be held at Weber's hall Wednesday even ing, July 20, 8 o'clock sharp. Associa tion expected to attend and participate. Trades Labor union, Federation of Business men, Commercial club and all others who are not members of the above organization are hereby request ed to attend. The proceeds of the pic nic will be given to the auditorium fund. SlBnTed.)MAg Y. Pres. WM. DRANSFIELD, Sec. We make a specialty of doing up col ored shirts and waists and guarantee ing colors. Peerless Steam Laundry.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1898. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. By FRANK P. MAC LESNAN. VOLUME XXV .No. 172 OFFICIAL, CITY PAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs; or at the same price in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier system. By mail, one year iS By mail, throe months W Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Buildinp. 800 and S02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Building, A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters- Room Bell 'Phone 577 HIGH FINANCE. Under the caption "The Disgust of High Finance," the New York Press thus refers to the popular loan: When gold and bond syndicates talk dismally through their organs about "the govern ment's loss in premiums" on the pop ular loan they mean their own loss in commissions. It is a case of aphasia, as the doctors say, pronouncing one word while intending to pronounce another. Truly the traditions of American finance have been rudely violated. The pillars have been shaken. Where, except in stock gambling, operations, is the broker to come in if thi3 sort of thing keeps on and 3 per cent loans continue to float themselves; and, disgustedly, we must Inquire, where is to be the field, out side of bankrupt railroads, for "high finance"? The government is losing no pre miums. The syndicates would pay a permium now for a 3 per cent bond of course. They have seen the demand, in credible before this Issue, for 3 per cent bonds. But at the time of the adver tisement of the loan they would have paid par and not a copper over. And if the American public had riot stood waiting with its wallets in its hands to take this loan they would have smirked at Uncle Sam and said, "This being a 3 per cent bond payable in coin, which means possibly silver, and is not cer tainly better than a Mexican bond on that account, will cost you a discount of about 2 per cent, say, $8,000,000 on the whole authorization of $400,000,000." In driving this bargain they would have been justified from the commercial view-point. They would have been moderate, in view of the $9,000,000 profit which the gold syndicate made on a $62,000,000 loan. Their course would have been businesslike. But it is not busi nesslike now to stand around and lie about the bargain that the government has made simply because it may in cite other large borrowers to adopt the same methods. There is scarcely enough, of the "loss of premiums' talk to be noticeable; but what there is of it is transparently false enough to be funny. General Garcia and his Cubans are persona non grata at the American camp. A -r r 1 Diederichs will tell Prince Henry what happened at the Philip pines and Prince Henry will tell his brother Wilhelm, and that will probably nd the matter. Gen. Shafter refuses to resign the captured transports to Sampson or the city to Garcia. Shafter seems to be thoroughly acquainted with the matter in hand. Pullman Palace Car company will distribute $25,000,000 of its surplus to stockholders. The traveling public might suggest that a small portion of this be retained for the purpose of tip ping the company's porters, and there by relieving patrons of that duty. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) Dogs should be particularly useful now: the dog tax is due. There are too many people who use their friends as coaling stations, A woman's idea of a glorious death is to leave her money to a. church. We greatly admire a man who has cense enough, not to be a thoroughbred. It will do you no good to complain: the neighbors won't mind their own business. A mule has one advantage: everyone Is afraid of a mule, and no one"Jokes" with him. People put a terrible lot of money and work in a home which they help to make unhappy. Linen pants are always too long or too short; no man ever wore a pair Just right as to length. The police should be given some power to arrest any elocutionist who practices with, the doors open. When a man's wife falls heir to mon ey, all the other married men around town feel mighty funny. Half the men you see sitting on the porch with their families in the even ing, are being reminded that the grass needs cutting. I As people get along in years, the rec ollection of the price paid remains with them longer than the recollection of the food time. When a man refuses to sign a note as security, he says he would like to, but that he has promised his wife never to sign, another security note. We have noticed with regret that there is no demand for a great many things the people have to sell. For example, in the spring there is no de mand for radishes. The fact is unfor tunate, for radishes are easily raised, and people could make money selling them, provided the demand was brisk, and prices fairly remunerative. But there is a brisk demand for at least one article: ham bones. Keepers of restaurants say that they have twenty calls for ham bones where they have one to sell. A ham bone sells for five cents, and colored people are particu larly fond of them. PEOPLE YOTJ HEAR OP. Snapper Garrison, the once famous jockey, has quit the turf and is en gaged in the life insurance business in New York. He failed to save any of the big sums he made as a rider and is said to be in debt. Lord Westmeath, known on this side from having been an attache of the British embassy at Washington, has just been appointed assistant private secretary to Secretary Chamberlain at the colonial department. Miss Lucile Walroud of Muskogee, I. T., was recently graduated from a col lege of Muskogee and has the distinc tion of being the first person to receive the degree of bachelor of arts from any institution in the Indian territory. James J. O'Brien, who, when a hotel porter m YV ashington, D. C, a few years ago eloped with a niece of Ad miral Porter, has just been suspended from the New York police force pend ing trial on charge of brutality to a prisoner. The youngest volunteer in the naval reserves is Cadet Roland S. Gielow, a bugler on the training ship New Hamp shire. He is a friend of Hobson, and is proud of a bugle which was given him by the hero of the Merrimac It is related of General Lawton, one of the Santiago heroes, that on one oc casion while he and his men were chas ing the Indian chief Geronimo in the Sierra Madre mountains they had to crawl on their hands and knees for miles and were for twenty-four hours without water in an intense heat. Colonel Cortejo, who was sent as a prisoner to McPherson barracks and afterward returned to Havana, has poor command of English, which may explain why he thought some citizens of Macon, Ga., exclaimed on seeing him: "Hail to Spain." He doubtless heard a somewhat profane remark which is more or, less popular just now. In some "Notes on Journalism" which George W. Smalley has just printed he gives this advice to novices: "1. As a journalist or for purposes of newsgathering never go to see anybody. 2. Never ask a question." It has been hinted that this accounts for some of the extraordinary misinformation which Mr. Smalley has been sending from this country to the London Times. W. L. Foster has piloted over 200 boats through the White Horse rapids in Alaska during the last two months. For this work he received nearly $12,000 and he thinks that he succeeded in earnings as much money in the same length of time as any man in Alaska. Foster ran a street car at Astoria be fore he went to Alaska, and he is now thinking of buying a few shares of stock in the company of which he was once a humble employe. It is worthy of note that there have been no Bull Runs in this war. The Cuban Idea of liberty seems to be freedom to loot cities captured by other arms. As a further evidence of Gen. Toral's bravery he desires to be returned to Spain. It has developed since the Santiago campaign opened that the Cuban will not work, neither will he fight. He will only eat. During the lull In war operations the Rome special correspondent has an op portunity to say something about the pope's health. If the Cubans want to loot any Span ish towns in the island they will be compelled to go out and capture them for themselves. Philadelphia Times: Admitting those surrendered at Santiago are compara tively happy now, they may be in trans ports when sent home. Commodore Schley has escaped Span ish shells thus far but a man's good luck rarely remains with him always. He can hardly hope to escape the col lege degrees. The value of the cruiser Brooklyn in the battle that resulted in the destruc tion of Cervera's fleet is well told in this paragraph from the Buffalo Ex press: Spanish officers seem to agree that the Brooklyn, the Oregon and the Texas, especially the first two, were the ships which beat them. But for the fast Brooklyn some of them would have got away. This should be a sufficient demonstration of the greater need for more armored cruisers of the Brooklyn type in our navy than for more battle ships, even if we could be assured that all our battleships would be as good as the magnificent Oregon. The prospect for American output of steel manufactures is of increasing in ternational and economic interest. The largest manufacturer of steel in this country says that now and in the future American labor, although higher paid, will compete with increasing success with the less costly English production of steel. The placing in India awhile ago of a Vast quantity of steel rails is an illustrative case in point. A large fraction of the world will be railroaded by the United States during the next decade or two, according to shrewd, far-seeing students of production and market. AT SCR ANTON TODAY. Topeka Opens With. Atchison Here Tomorrow. The Topeka base ball team plays at Scranton this afternoon, returning to open tomorrow afternoon a series of three games with Atchison here. There js consolation among the fans over the fact that Al Mauck will umpire two of the games with Atchison. He will pitch one game. He gives excellent sat isfaction as an umpire and is especially accurate on balls and strikes. w The talk of organizing a state league has been revived, but no definite action has been taken. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburg, 6; Boston, 3. Brooklyn, 7; St. I3Uis, 1. Cleveland. S: Washington. 2. New York. 2; Louisville. 1. Chicago and Baltimore and Philadelphia and Cincinnati grimes stopped bv ra n. The latter ended with the first inning, the score being 1 to 0 in favor of Philadelph.a, WESTERN LEAGUE. St. Joseph, 6: Detroit. 5. Minneapolis, 14: Indianapolis, 11. Kansas City-Milwaukee game postponed on account of rain. Electric fans to keep you cool are new and timely features of Santa Fa Route dining cars. KANSASNEWS. Murderous Assault by Two No torious Galena Toughs Uponllenry DeLosier, IVho Now Lies at Death's Door. FRONTEXAC'S BOOM. Labette County Populists Com mend Dewey And Deny Republicans Monopoly of Patriotism. Galena, July 20. Henry DeLosier, about 30 years of age, lies at death's door in his humble cottage in the tim ber a short distance east of Empire, as a result of a murderous attack made upon him by two young toughs, Earl Dent and Wib Baldridge.with base ball bats. DeLosier went a short distance north east of his home to get his little boy, who had gone to see a game of ball. A wire enclosed the ball ground and spectators were required to pay 25 cents admission, this DeLosier objected to and crawled under the wire.at the same time telling those in charge that he merely wanted to get the boy and take him home and did not care to see the game. Dent and Baldridge insisted that he pay or go no further, but he started to go and Dent struck him over the head with a bat. The blow felled him and as he attempted to rise Bald ridge also struck him with a bat along the left side of the head, and it is thought caused a slight fracture of the parietal bone, but there is no displace ment. However, inflammation may sec in causing a depression which would cause death unless trephining was re sorted to. Until officers arrived and arrested the cowardly assailants. Dent kept the crowd back, threatening death to any who might attempt to hold him, and exhibited his cowardly and murderous disposition by making taunting re marks about poor DeLosier as he lay upon the ground in an unconscious con dition. In a little while the officers ar rived and placed the guilty wretches under arrest. Baldridge was placed in jail but Dent made his escape before reaching the jail and has not been cap tured. FEONIENAC'S BOOM. Two Hundred Families "Will Locate There Soon. Frontenac, July 20. The opening of the new coal shafts by C. J. Devlin will bring 200 new families to this city, that number of men being necessary to work the shafts. POPULISTS PATRIOTIC. Labette County Convention Remem bers America's Fighters in Resolutions. Parsons, July 20. The Labette county Populist convention in the resolutions declared as follows: "We believe in the education of the masses on the lines of integral co-operation, with a view that the people, as municipalities, as states and as a na tion may gradually assume and operate all public franchises that are in their nature monopolies, that the greatest good to the greatest number shall ac crue to the people. "We point with pride to the splendid victory of Commodore Dewey, Commo dore Schley and General Shafter, as an evidence of what American manhood can do when aroused by a great emer gency, and we call the attention of the people to the fact that of the 3,000 vol unteers recently enrolled in Kansas 2, 273 voted for Bryan and free silver, and we point to this instance as a proof that the Republican party has no mon opoly on patriotism or valor in the de fense of the old flag." CHINCH BUG TRAP. Oawego Farmer Encloses His Farm With, a New Device. Oswego Independent: E. W. Hopkins, whose farm lies eleven miles southwest of Oswego, has worked out a novel plan for chinch bug destruction. Mr. Hop kins has a wheat field bordering on his corn field from the north, and the bugs are marching in millions upon millions from his wheat into the corn. To pre vent them from entering the corn field, he has a narrow board three inches high sunk one-half inch into the ground running the entire length of the corn plot between the corn and wheat fields. This board is grooved on top and the grooves are filled with fresh tar. The tar is poured into the groove from a tin perforated in the bottom to admit the tar into the groove at right speed. This can is placed in a box and the box on a two-wheeled structure, one wheel following the other. Each wheel is grooved to hold it on said board. The machine has a handle and is run like a wheelbarrow. The whole run way across the field can be made as fast as a man can walk. At regular in tervals beside this board, holes are bored about two feet deep. Tar tracks are made perpendicularly along this board and leading towards these holes. As the bugs travel along the board, some east and some west, keeping clear Rheumatism Gone Complication of Diseases After Having the Grip Better In Every Way Since Taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. The grip and other forms of serious illness often leave the system in a thoroughly deranged condition. In 6uch cases Hood's Sarsaparilla is just what is needed. Read this The grip left me with a complication of diseases. I was constipated, grew very thin and became discouraged. My wife procured a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and I began taking it. After taking sev eral bottles I gained in weight and felt 60 per cent better. The rheumatism with which I had been troubled left me and Hood's Sarsaparilla gave me strength. I have great faith in its curative power." William Calbeck, Pea body, Kansas. IHiood's Sarsa parilla Is the best In fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by all druggists. $1 six for $5. W 1 O 1 1 c- acteasily, promptly and nO Oil S effectively. 25 cents. of the tarry groove, they meet on this upright tar. Confusion follows, and they tumble eight or ten per second into the "horrible pit." As this pit is tarred on the sides, the wingless chinch bugs are doomed. When the writer saw this death trap last Saturday, it was more than half full of unhappy chinch bugs. Still they formed an endless and mov ing chain, coiling themselves into the bosom of death. Some were holding in dignation meetings, but death ended all objections. EDITORS WILL -MEET. Association at Concordia Excursion to Omaha Exposition. Concordia, July 20. The North Cen tral Kansas Editors association hold their annual meeting in Concordia July 2S and 29. The following is the pro gramme: THURSDAY, JULY 28. "The Ideal Country Newspaper The Features that Make It Popular with the People," D. A. Valentine, Clay Center Times. "The Newspaper as an Educator" H. C. Wilson, Waterville Telegraph. "The Importance of Typographical Ex cellence" H. N. Gaines, Salina Un ion. "Newspaper Courtesy" W. C. Palmer, Jewell Republican. FRIDAY, JULY 29. "What I Know About Job Printing" Seward A. Jones, Beloit Call. "The Moral Tone of a Newspaper" T. A. Sawhill, Concordia Empire. "How to Secure and Retain Advertis ers" Ben T. Baker, Smith Center Journal. "Local News What to Say and How to Say it" Miss Florence Headley, Gay lord Herald. "Justice vs. Popularity" J. S. Carpen ter, Council Grove Republican. "The Value of Country Correspond ence" E. E. Brainerd, Fhillipsburg Herald. "When Should an Editor Stand by His Party?" A. P. Riddle Minneapolis Messenger. "Editorials" C. M. Harger, Abilene Reflector. "Progressive Journalism" Gomer T. Davies, Concordia Kansan. On Saturday morning the editors and their wives will leave Concordia via the Missouri Pacific railroad for Oma ha, arriving there at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. They will leave Omaha on their homeward trip Wednesday, Au gust 3d. BURNED AND CRUSHED. I C. Howell Caught Between Engine and Threshing Machine. Newton, July 20. L. C. Howell of Putnam was terribly crushed and burned by being caught between a threshing machine engine and a sepa rator. Howell was backing up the engine to couple it on the separator, but the en gine refused to stop, and he was caught between the boiler of the engine and the self-feeding attachment of the sep arator. Two ribs on the left side were broken and his right side was burned to a crisp before he could be released from his terrible position. He was taken at once to Sedgwick, where he was given medical attend ance. It is not thought that he can re cover, as he has suffered internal in juries besides his other wounds. BACK FROM KLONDIKE. Lamed Man Says the Country is Overrated. Lamed, July 20. George W. Craw ford, who left here last spring for the Copper River mining district in Alaska, returned home Sunday night. Owing to the high water and steep mountains Mr. Crawford was unabe to get within one hundred and fifty miles of his des tination and he concluded the best thing to do was to return home. He says that country is overesti mated and very few prospectors ever get any gold. He reports the people returning as rapidly as possible and says he will take his chances in Paw nee county in the future. FRANK ACOCKS AGAIN. Gridley Tourist Wants to Be a Great General. Gridley, July 20. Frank Acocks start ed from Gridley about a year ago with the ostensible object of making a tour around the world. The ladies present ed him with a flag which he said he would carry everywhere he went. Peo ple of Gridley made a great fuss over him and for a short while he received what he wanted newspaper notoriety. Then he dropped out of sight. Now he turns up at Camp Alger and wants a commission as major, or captain, or corporal, or any old thing, he don't care which, so he gets his name once more in the papers. MEMORIAL TO A DEAD HERO Services at Chanute in Honor of Lieu tenant Sater. Chanute, July 20. Services were held in the Methodist Episcopal church in memory of Lieutenant W. A. Sater, who was among the first killed in the battle before Santiago. Rev. H. M. Carr, D. D., rector of Grace Episcopal church, delivered the sermon, and the pastors of other churches participated in the services. The church was packed to overflowing. Lieutenant Sater was reared in Chanute. He was a graduate of the high school here and was ap pointed to West Point in lis90, Missionaries Return From Africa. Axtell, July 20. Dr. Silas F. Johnson, son of Ithiel Johnson, and who for the past four years has been a medical missionary among the Bolo tribe in West Africa, arrived here accompanied by his wife and baby. They left Africa about the middle of May and have been on the road ever since. Dr. Johnson knew nothing of the war between Spain and the United States until he was well on his way home. They will remain about two weeks in Axtell when they will go to Los An geles and visit with Mrs. Johnson's people. More Diseased Horses. Salina, July 20. Dr. Williams, a vet erinary surgeon at .Salina reports a number of cases of cerebro-spinal men ingitis among the farm horses of this county. Three cases treated so far have proven fatal. It seems to be a result of overheating during this hot and dry weather. Mr. Williams states that if the case is taken in time it can be cured. Editor for Representative. Newton, July 20. At a meeting of the Populist central committee it was de cided that J. B. Fugate, editor of the Semi-Weekly Journal, should be the nominee of the Populist and Democrat ic parties of this county for representa tive. Abrams for Representative. Arkansas City. July 20. The Repub licans of the Fifty-second district have nominated Albert H. Abrams of Cress well as a candidate for representative. Collars and cuffs laundred to look Ilka Dew, by Peerless Steam Laundry. KEWS FROM CAMP ALGER. CoL Lindsey Captures Moonshiners and Illicit StilL Camp Alger, Va., July 17. At the present time there is some outlook for the departure of the Twenty-second.The report circulated today is that two regi ments of the first brigade, Second Di vision and Second Army corps will be taken to fill up a brigade in Major Gen eral Butler's Division, which is to move soon from Newport News for Porto Rico. The selection will be made from the Third New York, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Indiana and Twenty-second Kansas. At present the Twenty-second is In fine condition in every respect and the regiment is holding its own with any in the camp both in advancement in military tactics and health, there being but seven cases now in the hospital with measles, all of which are on the road to recovery. The Twenty-second is teh only regi ment from Kansas which has not lost a man by death. Dr. F. H. Martin of the hospital corps has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant of the corps. Tomorrow we will have brigade in spection. For the past week Col. H. C. Lindsey has had a provost guard out night and day scouring the camp and country for miles around arresting moonshiners and bootleggers; they have been very successful in their work, having captured some ten or fifteen men and about fifty gallons of whisky. It is like a circus here after pay day. The stands on the grounds are rushed to their full capacity, and the streets of the camp are paraded by venders with all kinds of things to sell. This continues until the money is spent or has been sent home. On behalf of the regimental and line officers of the Twenty-second Kansas volunteers I wish to refer to an article published some days ago in the Journal, written by J. W. F. Hughes, regarding the military progress of the Kansas regiments under the officers who were appointed by Gov. Leedy and stating tha thad such appointments been made from the ranks of the state militia the Kansas regiments would today be far ther advanced, better equipped and held in higher esteem. In speaking of the Twenty-second Kansas I voice the sentiments of every regimental and line officer as well as all privates, the latter of which over a third have at various times belonged to the state militia, that the statements are untrue and not borne out by the facts. W. G. K. FAMISHED CITIZENS. Raid the Red Cross Steamer State of Tex:as, to Get Food. (Copyright, 1898. by the Associated Press.) Santiago de Cuba. July 18, via Kingston, Jamaica, July 20. The Red Cross society's steamer State of Texas arrived yesterday at 6 o'clock in the afternoon and this morning at daybreak Dr. Elwell, who was in charge of the work of unloading, se cured eight stores in the heart of the city and one large shed on the dock, en gaged SO stevedores and began to unload the steamer about 6 o'clock She had 1,40J tons of provisions on board. The distribution began at 3 o'clock, al lowing a pound and a half of rations to each citizen. When the unloading began crowds of half starved citizens rushed to the dock, fighting, trampling one another under foot, breaking open the cases and stealing the supplies. Finally a picket of troops was placed on the wharf, re fusing admittance to anyone. The en tire cargo had been landed before the distribution began. ach applicant was furnished with a ration ticket supplied by the local commis sioners with General Mc-KJbben's indorse ment. The water supply of the city, which was cut off on July 3 above El Caney by General Garcia's troops, leaving the town without water, will be turned on again tonight. Th- ice factory resum ed work today, lining the rainwater supply in the cisterns. All the liijuor stores, wholesale and re tail, are closed under General Shafter's orders, but the Spanish soldiers have a large stock of rum on hand, which they are exchanging for our hard tack and corned beef. Last nieht the city was verv quiet and there were no disturbances, the distribu tion of the supplies from the State of Texas being anxiously awaited, as there was literally nothing in the city to eat. Before the refugees left for El Canev flour was selling at SIHO per barrel, bean's at $90 per 300 pounds, condensed milk at $o a tin and hard tack at SI. per rrecp. At El Caney the prices were still higher $2o for a tin of condensed milk and $5 for a piece of hard tack. The ruin and want in the city are almost .inconceivable. Twenty-five Cubans, political prisoners, are still in the local jail, but a report has been submitted on the subject by Cuban residents to General McKibben. the tem porary military governor, and their release is expected. Admiral Sampson, accompanied by Com modore Schley and the marine staff, land ed at 9 o'clock this morning from the Vixen and met the municipal officers of Santiago. IRON TRADE WILL RESUME Baltimore Capitalists Prepare to Boom Santiago. New York, July 26". Santiago de Cuba under the American flag means the immediate resumption and a larere in- J crease in the future of the iron and steel trade with that section of the island, says the Baltimore correspondent of the Tribune. The stock of hte Juragua and the Poncepo Mining companies is largely held in Baltimore. Most of the Bessemer ore which is mined at San- tiago has been coming to this city. Un til the supply was shut off the works of the Maryland Steel company were run exclusively on this ore, and the com mercial success of a tide water steel plant like the one of the Maryland Steel company requires the Cuban ores, be cause of their value in making steel and of their cheapness. While the mines were in operation from three to four cargoes of ore came to Baltimore each week, and the month ly importations ran from 30,000 to 40,0u0 tons. While most of this was consumed at the works of the Maryland Steel company, some of it was sent to Pitts burg and used at the Carnegie Steel works. As a return cargo the vessels bringing the ore carried out bacon, lard, flour and coal, and on account of the frequent shipments formerly made the business has missed since the war stopped all commercial rela tions with Santiago. When the Spanish officers stopped the work in the mines they cut off the opportunities of thousands to earn a livelihood and heightened the distress resulting from the war. Iron men and shippers here say that if the people are now permitted by the American government to return to their work such ,a policy will do more toward re lievirfg the suffering Cubans than any other step on the part of this country. A general resumption of work on the plantations, the railroads and in the mines would simplify the problem of taking care of the territory which is now under the American flag. The superintendents of several of the iron companies are now on their way to Santiago to resume operations. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awaj. To quit tobacco easily and forever, ue mag netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take N0T0 Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, SOc or St. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 189S. SOCIAL AFiD PERSONAL General Notes of Society and Personal Items. Eeeent Social Events in Topeka and Yicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors in Town. CAB communications to this department jnust give the fuli name and address of ina writer. Anonymous personals and oescriptiona ox eociai affairs will not bo published. Mrs. L. W. Turner of Qulncy, 111., who is visiting her son. Avery- Turner, was one of the first irtembers of the Friends In Council of Illinois, which is the oldest woman's club in the United States. In the early sixties a few ladies of Quincy met informally once a week and studied the old masters. They called themselves the -Once a Week club," though they were not regularly organized. In liOti two ladies from the east. Misses Mary and Caroline Chapin, went to Law rence. Kan., and endeavored to found a college for women, but were unsuccess ful, so they went to Quincy, 111., where they succeeded in founding a university. This university was controlled by a stock company composed of several railroad of ficials, who afterwards lost their money, which made it necessary to disband thtj school. It was in 1K6 that the Misses Chapin became interested in the Once a Week club and with their aid a formal consti tution and by-laws were adopted and the club became known as the Friends in Council. Mrs. Oeorge "Wood, who was a member of the original '"Friends in Council," aft erwards moved to Topeka and it was she who organized the club of that name here. This was a nourishing organization a few years ago, but lately they have done lit tle, active work. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. F. M. Kimball of Chicago is visit ing Topeka fjvnds. This week she is With Mrs. V. T. Crosby. Mrs. Avery Turner will entertain the ladies of the Wt stern Sorosis Friday aft ernoon at 3 o'clock, complimentary to Mrs. Ij. W. Turner of Quincy. 111. Mrs. M. Snattir.ger is going to Atchi son Saturday fur a several weeks' v:sit. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. K. Lemon, daugh ter Grace and son Bert, are going north in a week or two to spend the remainder of the summer. Mrs. W. K. Archibald of Boston is the guest of Mrs. Thomas Page. Mrs. J. C. Fulton and sister. Mrs. Stake, are going to spend next week in Chicago with Mrs. H. C. Speer. Miss Marie Norton has issued Invita tions for an ".At Home" Thursday even ing. July complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. Jnhn 11. Xorton. Mrs. Willard Hall and children will leave Thurd:; y. ior the northern lakes to spend tiie summer. Miss W'illa Tomlinson will leave Friday for Iwight and llerington to spend a couple of weks. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cowan of Galesburg, II!..- are spending a few davs with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Horton. Mrs. W. L. Gordon and son are going to Colorado in a few days to spend the re mainder of the summer. Mrs. J. J. Frey. Mrs. P.eJle Hail Small, Mrs. W. J. Black and Miss Lottie Atchi son are in Las Vemis for a few davs. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Xohle will "enter tain at a lawn parly Friday evening. Mrs. John Martin of Kmporia is visit ing Miss Carrie Martin. Miss Louie Smith has returned from a two weeks' visit with friends in Salina. Mr. Will ('line of Kansns I'irv soeat a day last week with Topeka friends. Miss Myrtle Kirkiand of Leavenworth, who has been spending a couple of davs with Miss Lulu Thompson, left Tuesoav for Denver and Colorado Springs, where fhe will spend the remainder of the sum mer. Miss Ollie Markley has returned from a six weeks' visit in Benion Harbor.Mich., and Fort Wavne. Ind. Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Hoovr of St. Marys art spending the day in Topeka. The entertainment which was to have been given by tile D. A. R. for the bene fit of the hospital fund, at the home Mrs. T. W. Harrison. Tuesday evening, will be given this evening instead. A platform rets been erected on the lawn for dancing, refreshments will be served by a number of the society girls and in the house there will be an art loan exhibition of antiqui ties. Mr. Kd Guthrie, who has been v:sit:ng relatives in Tmieka for several weeks, left today for his home in Illinois. Mrs. J. C. Clay and daughter Bell and son Arthur of Westminster. Cal., are guests of Rev. and Mrs. Holland at 1'40 Morris avenue. Mrs. Cl.iv and familv are former residents of Topeka. Mr. J. S. Sproat and little son went to Clay Center today, where thev will meet Mrs. Sproat. whet has been in Colorado. They expect to return Thursday. Miss Anna Williams has returned from a three weeks' visit in Paola. She was ac companied home by Miss Leiia Condor, who will be her guest for some time. Miss Rose Jones came up from Osage City Tuesday to visit Miss Octavia Green wood. Miss Alice Scott will leave Thursday for her home in Greensburg, Ind., after a months visit with her parents. Mr. and Jlrs- T. Marsh, and sister, Mrs. Righter. WOULDN'T STAND IT. People cf Franklin County Sent Back a Convict Improperly Pardoned. A citizenship pardon Issued from the governor's office on July 14 was can celled today. The pardon released from the Kansas penitentiary L. G. LeRoy of Franklin county who was sentenced for five years for grand larceny. LeRoy pleaded guilty to two counts in 1896 and was sentenced to three years on the first count and two years on the second. When Clerk Leonard who was employ ed under Warden Lynch entered the sentence on the prison book he ne glected to enter the second sentence of two years and LeRoy was released at the expiratiun of the iirst sentence of three years. When the man went home there was surprise and the county attorney start ed an Investigation. He found that LeRoy had not been pardoned but had been released through the mistake of a former clerk. He was immediately re arrested and his citizenship pardon was sent to Topeka to be cancelled which was done today. The release of LeRoy by mistake has caused the promulgation of a new rule at the penitentiary. It is that hereafter before requests for citizenship pardons are made to the governor they must be sent back to the county from which the convict came to be approved Wales is Recovering. London' July 20. A bulletin posted at Marlborough House this morning, an nounced that the Prince of Wales pass ed a good night and is making satisfac tory progress toward recovery. To Cure Const'patlon Forerer. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c orE5c "CC.C Jail to cure, druggists refund money. TopekaSteam Laundry For Good Work Quick. Family Washinz Reasonable. Phone 153. 625 Jackson St. AT A PREMIUM. The New Bonds are Already Quoted at 102 3-4. New York, July 20. The Times says: "While the government bond market was generally dull yesterday (Tuesday) there was lively inquiry for the new war issues threes "when issued" and a disposition was evident to change old issues for the new bonds. The quota tions that ruled were about 102 bid, 103 asked. These, however, were re garded as tentative and to induce hold ers of the popular denominations of $500 and under to surrender their allotments, the impression being that when the new bonds are in exist ence the prices will range between 104 and 106. Timmerman and Forsney, the bank ers and bullion dealers, offer to buy at the bid price and to sell at the asked. In some quarters the quotations were the basis of speculative transactions as is always the case, pending issue of stocks and bonds. Some of the inquir ry for the new bonds was tracked to in terests associated with the banks anx ious to secure them for circulation pur poses. DEAD UNDER A TREE. Nine Men Struck by Lightning and Four Killed. New York, July 20. New Jersey and part of New York were swept last night by a storm which caused great destruc tion to life and property. Four men were struck by lightning and instantly killed and five others were badly in jured while seeking shelter from the storm under a tree near Boonton, N. J. The dead: JAMES QUICK, 27 years old, of Boon ton. JOHN RISSCHYNSKI, 20 years old, of Hoboken. CLARENCE TODD, 14 years old, of Boonton. JOHN VALENTINE, 30 years old, of Boonton. Injured John Bott, Boonton, hurt internally, not expected to live. Louis Todd, Boonton, burned and par alyzed. John Quick, Boonton, paralyzed. John Sweeney, Boonton, paralyzed. The men had been fishing from the bank of Beaver pond, three miles from Boonton. When the storm broke at 3 o'clock, the men sought shelter under a large tree near the pond. The storm raged with frightful fury. The flashes of lightning were terrifying. When the storm was over, passersby discovered the forms of nine men lying on the ground. Five of them were uncon scious. The others were dead. Assist ance was summoned and the injured cared for. CHEERS FOR HOB SOX At the Reunion of the Confederate Veterans at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., July 20. The morning trains brought thousands of people in to Atlanta to attend the opening exer cises of the reunion of confederate vet erans. Twenty-three thousand people -veterans and their friends reached the city up to midnight and the congested condition of the down town streets this morning gave indication that today's crowd would double that of yesterday. The interest of the day centered in the convention at Piedmont park. The Kentucky delegation was early at work among the delegates in their efforts to secure the next encampment for Louisville. Among those who arrived early and took seats on the stand, were General Charles E. Hooker of Mississippi, the orator of the day; Governor Atkinson of Georgia; General Diekerson, com mander of the Florida division and General Stephen D. Lee. looked upon by some as a candidate for commander in chief. Before the gathering was called to or der, three cheers were given for "The gallant son of Alabama," Lieut. Hobson, followed a moment later by three more for the famous cavalry officer now at the front. Gen. Joe Wheeler. Gen. John B. Gordon, the commander in chief, arrived at 11:20 and was given a tremendous ovation. Cheer after cheer swept through the hall and the audience could not be stilled for five minutes. Gen. Clemont A. Evans, the commander of the Georgia division, call ed the convention to order at 11:30 and prayer was offered by Rev. J. Wm. Jones of Virginia, the chaplain gener al of the United Confederate volun teers. ARMY CANTEENS. The Subject of a Symposium by Meth odist Bishops. Chicago, July 20. The Northwestern Christian Advocate published today opinions of the Methodist bishops re garding the army canteen. Bishop Mer riam said: "Any attempt to regulate the sale of intoxicants in the army or elsewhere is wrong and can only lead to wrong. The j army wants protection from intoxicants as from intoxication. Better the pesti lence in the regiment than the saloon." Bishop Hurst concurs in the above. Bishop Andrews says: "Through it many young soldiers have been made drunkards and some have been led to crime. It is damaging to the army and disgraceful to the country. Bishop Ninde says: "It seems a cruel thing to place temp tations in the way of our noble soldier boys who are away from the kindly and restraining influences of the home and the home church." Bishop Vincent: "Every military camp should be a school of total abstinence." Bishop Mallalieu: "A Christian nation ought not to tolerate the demoralization and destruc tion of body and soul involved in the army canteen." Bishop McCabe: "The establishment of the army can teen or military saloon is a. backward step in Christian civilization. It will be a source of great trouble to us if not abolished." Bishop Newman: "As a Christian minister, I beg in the name of the health and morals of our army that the canteen order be revoked without delay." Bishop Hartzell says: "Whatever excuse there may have been, based upon a notion that the comfort or health of the soldiers in the use of beer and the lighter stimulants would be pro moted by the establishment of these places, has in recent years been swept away by pood testimony based on experi ence" of army commanders and surgeons." We will do your IaunOry work on short order withoutout extra charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. The electric fans now operated in Santa Fe Route dining cars are desir able and seasonable accessories to an already unsurpassed service. ENGLAND OUTSPOKEN. In Favor of the United States Keeping the Philippines. New York, July 20. The London cor respondent of the Tribune, writing un der date of July 6, says: There is no reason to doubt that nearly all of the influential leaders in English public life are hoping that the Americans will retain control of the Philippines after the close af the war with Spain. They don't profess to be disinterested in their advice, nor to look at the question from an American view. They frankly admit that the oc cupation of the Philippines by either France, Germany or Great Britain will subject the relations of European powers to a dangerous strain and they favor permanent American control of the group in the interest of peace. They are also sensible of the great advan tage which England would derive from the moral and diplomatic support of the United States in all questions relat ing to China and the far east if the American Hag was raised at Manila for all time. As Englishmen with practical instincts and iniluenced by considera tions of enlightened self-interest, they are outspoken and emphatic in expres sing their hope that America will en large her sphere of activity in the world's diplomacy and work. Lord Kimberly has been at the head of the foreign office, and is one of the most cautious and sagacious leaders of the Liberal party. The speech which he made at the American dinner this week was of great significance and has been widely discussed here. He said in part: "Common language, although a very strong bond between peoples, is not the strongest bond. A far stronger one is a community of interest. The interests of the two peoples largely run on the same line (cheers) and they could look forward to a friendship which may be enduring and for the best benefit to both countries. The United States is at the parting of the ways and the time has come when the American people will take a larger interest in what goes on in other parts of the world." It was not for him to offer any re marks or advice on this point, but as an Englishman, he believed that if they should so extend their interests in oth er parts of the world it would be of a signal advantage to the English peo ple (cheers), because, although .that people thought they were strong and could stand alone, yet it could not be a matter of indifference to them that a sister nation was coming to stand by their side (loud cheers). Looking to what was taking place and considering what he might call the growing smallness of the world, for all practical purposes he felt that the United States would probably be bound to take a large part in foreign politics. England and America might be proud of this that they alone among the nations had understood the true principles of free government, based on democratic lines (cheers), and that they understood that they were not to be interfered with day by day by their governments, which were their servants rather than their rulers. Once the two peoples had parted in anger; they had now re turned to friendship. May that friend ship be long and enduring. Not a word was said about tbe Phil ippines, but the context involves the application. When Englishmen speak of the extension of American interests, "to other parts of the world," they do not refer to the Spanish West Indies, which are geographically close to the United States. Their thoughts are cen tered upon the Philippines and China, where they ardently desire to see "a sister nation stand by their side." Lord Kimberly, with less reserve than one would have expected from a former foreign secretary, frankly confessed that American co-operation in that quarter would be a signal advantage to the English people. This is also -the view of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Arnold Morley, Sir Charles LMlke and other leaders on the Liberal side. They do not attempt to forecast the trend of public opinion in the United States nor to consider the expediency of an enlargement of foreign policies from an American point of view.. They speak as Englishmen. They perceive the great advantage which England would derive from cor dial co-operation with the United States in the diplomacy of the far east. There are two Liberal leaders who are suf ficiently broad minded to reflect ser iously and deliberately upon the conse quences of a new colonial and imperial policy so far as Americans tnemseivea are concerned. One of these is Mr. John Morley, who is one of the most sincere and disinterested friends of American institutions to be found in England. He will probably regret the entrance of 'the United States upon a career of foreign expansion as a. dan gerous experiment which may interfere with the real interests of American civilization. Another hearty friend of everything American is Mr. James Brice, who has not hesitated to express his distrust and apprehension of the tendencies toward colonization and enlargement of em pire and to forecast grave changes in the constitution as inevitable if these new policies are adopted. On the unionist side there is no more outspoken advocate than Mr. Cham berlain of an American policy of action in the Philippines. He is apparently convinced that the permanent occupa tion of the island will be as useful to America as to England ana arucui.j desires the active co-operation of the two governments in the diplomacy of the far east. He forecasts neither dan gers nor difficulties for the United states in the Philippines and looks upon the group as a vaiuaoie possession which can be easily governed and con verted into a colony of rich resources with great commercial possibilities. Mr. Chamberlain is the foremost imperialist of the day who is not ashamed of dreaming about federation and the establishment of an economic empire, united for business interests and self defense against the world; but he is equally aggressive and ambitious in his ideas of American policy. GOING TO HAWAII. T. S. Kirkpatrick the Iirst Kansan to Start After umce nere. Mankato, July 20. T. S. Kirkpatrick one of our leading attorneys, has caught the Hawaiian fever, and will start tor Honolulu about the first of August He has been one of the leading Republican politicians of the Sixth congressional district for a number of years, and since the annexation of Hawaii it will open up a new field, such as district judges and attorneys, to be appointed bv President McKinley. "Mr Kirkpatrick hopes to strike a good thing in this direction. Chautauqua Tent Blown Down. Clarir.da. Ia.. July 20 The Chautauqua tent, seating s.uw pei.. vesterdav afternoon during a heavy wind kn'd dust storm. Everybody was rescued uninjured. Colorado and Return $24. Rummer tourist tickets to Pueblo. Colorado Springs, and Denver and re turn, on sale aany to ana inciuain September 15, 1S98, at Santa Fe depot. A DIFFERENT TIEW Taken by Santa Fe Company and State Live Stock Board. There is a clash between the live stock sanitary board and the Santa Fe railroad. The question over which the trouble arose is whether the board has the right to inspect cattle loaded outside of Kan sas destined for the Kansas City mar kets or to be unloaded at the Kansas City stock yards. A few days ago four car loads of cat tle were loaded on Santa Fe cars at Woodward, Oklahoma, billed to some point in Iowa with the privilege of un loading in Kansas City. Inspector A. L. Mason demanded the right to in spect the cattle. The owner refused to aliow him to inspect the animals. He demanded that the Santa Fe railroad company move the cars without inspec tion. After some delay this was done and now the live stock board is after the railroad company. Chairman Taylor Riddle of the board says that the state of Kansas has a right to inspect cattle that are des tined for Kansas City whether to be gold there or simply uriloaded for feed ing purposes. He says that Texas fever may be communicated to Kansas cattle in the yards. The question has been submitted to Attorney General Boyle and if he finds that the railroad company violated the law suit will be commenced. SALUTE TO BRYAN. Cannon Fired in His Honor at Bloomington. Bloomington, 111., July 20. The train bearing Colonel Bryan's regiment of Ne braska volunteers, en route for Florida, passed through Bloomington in four sec tions. Colonel Bryan was in the last sec tion, which stopped here nearly an hour. The train was met by a large crowd of people, including many women, and was saluted by the firing of cannon. Bryan was called for and made a brief speech, thanking the people for the honor paid his command. At Mendota and Pana large crowds cheered the Nebraskans. Centralia, 111.. July 20. The Bryan regi ment reached Centralia, in the home coun ty of Colonel Bryan, three hours behind time. A crowd of five thousand waited for the train and gave the soldiers a rous ing welcome. The near relatives of Colo nel Bryan gathered here and gave him an affectionate greeting. A magnificent floral emblem, a wreath surrounding a picture of Bryan, with a horseshoe suspended underneath the picture was presented by the citizens of Marion county. The pre sentation speech was made by Rev. J. L. Waller and a brief response was made by Colonel Bryan. LEITER PAIS 4 PER CENT On $3,000,000 Borrowed to Pay Joe's Losses. Milwaukee, "Wis., July 20. The Daily News today says: Milwaukee capital will clean up young Joe Letter's wheat deal losses and Levi Z. Leiter has now practically closed the contract which he has been negotiating with the North western Mutual Life Insurance com pany for the loan of $3,000,000 on his real estate. Mr. Leiter has been arranging this matter with the company for some time, in fact, almost ever since the end of his son's unsuccessful wheat venture. Up to now no definite statement as to the amount of his proposed loan could "be made, but as it is expected that one of the mortgages can be filed this week, such of the details as are talked over among real estate men can be given. Of the $3,000,000 which Mr. Leiter will borrow from the company $2,000,000, it is believed, will pass over to him this week and the remaining $1,000,000 next week. The rate of interest Mr. Leiter will have to pay was one of the most difficult points of the transaction to ar range, but it was finally settled at 4 per cent. AS TO BANKS' RIGHTS. Have They Authority to Rair.e Kates of Exchange to Cover the New Tax? DeDutv United States Attorney Har ry Bone is of the opinion that the banks are as liable for the revenue tax on drafts as the express companies are for the tax on receipts ot shipments, rie believes that the action of the banks in raising their rates of exchange to cover the tax is illegal, and if a proper com plaint was filed would test the law in this particular. The Topeka bankers say that tne United States government set the bank3 an example by raising the rate on pos tal money orders. As there is considerable question concerning the right of telegraph com panies to make the sender of a tele gram pay for the stamp, the filing of complaints against the telegraph com panies and the consequent test of the law in this particular is lookea upon as likely by the federal authorities TO PLT IN FOUNDATION. C. J. Devlin Will Begin Work on His New Office Building. It is the intention of Mr. C. J. Devlin to at least put in the foundation of hi3 handsome new office building at the corner of Eighth and Jackson streets this summer. If he decides to construct only the foundation this year the build ing will be finished early in the spring. He may, however, conclude to build the entire building before winter. An addi tion will be built to the small brick building on the property recently pur chased by Mr. Devlin at Ninth street and Kansas avenue for present office quarters of the Mt. Carmel Coal com pany. Eventually Mr. Devlin will build a fine office building on that corner. Karnival Knights! All Karnival Knights in the city will meet Thursday evening, July 21, at Commercial club rooms for the purpose of reorganizing, and of starting the ball rolling for a "Hot Time in the Old Town" Karnival Knight. Come early and avoid the rush John Waters will make a speech. C. K. HOLLIDAT. JR., Pres. JNO. F. McMANUS "Duke de Paris," Secretary. Tours in the Rocky Mountains. The "Scenic Line of the World," the Denver Rio Grande Railroad, offers to tourists in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico the choicest resorts, and to the trans-continental traveler the grandest scenery. Two separate and distinct routes through the Rocky Mountains, all through tickets available via either. The direct line to Cripple Creek, the greatest gold camp on earth. Double daily train service with through Pull man sleepers and tourists' cars between Denver and San Francisco. The best line to Utah. Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington via the "Ogden Gate way." Write S. K. Hooper. G. P. T. A., Denver, Colorado, for illustrated descriptive pamphlets. RICHEST IN THE WORLD. The Klondike Still Claims That Dis tinction Among Mining Districts. Dawson City, June 25, via Seattle, July 20. The output of the mines of the Tukon division this year, while it has reached between $10,000,000 and $15, 000,000, has disappointed even the more conservative estimates made last fall and based on the prospects then existing. Three things have contribu ted to shorten this spring's clean up the Canadian royalty, lack of men and lack of strengthening food. One of the most prominent civil engineers on the F'acific coast, who has spent this win ter in the mines, has said: "Considering the fact that less than 2.000 poorly fed men have gotten out this winter almost $15,000,000, the Klon dike has made a showing that entitles it to consideration as the greatest grav el deposit in existence and the richest in the world. The placer mines of Cal ifronia in early days are its only riv al." The great riches of the Bench claims on French, Chier. Little and Big Skoo kum gulohes, continue to be the wonder of mining men in the interior of Alas-, ka. A claim owner on French gulch offers a standing het of $20,000 that he can rock out of his claim, single-handed, $5,000 on any given day. These benches are old river beds which have been broken up by an eruption of the earth. A continuation of the old river bed has been found near Hunker creek and while but little prospecting has been done, it is thought that it will turn out very well. El Dorado and Bo nanza creeks have proven all that was expected of them. Of the less known streams, Dominion creek is givin evidence of mineral de posits which may make it known as the richest strike yet made. Hunker creek is rich in placers. Gold Bottom is not turning out as well as expected. So many are the disadvantages in mining in the northwest territory that atten tion is being once more directed to mines on the American side. Forty Mile creek has been relocated and many new claims are recorded. Chicken creek, which has been known for the last two years, but not work ed, will be developed thi3 year. Can yon, Nugget gulch and Franklin creeks and the Barson Forty Mile will be worked by the hydraulic process and there will be a good camp at the mouth of the river within two years. American creek, 40 miles down from Forty Mile, is known to be good. The Mission creek district has three forma tions, placer, quartz and coal. At its mouth is Eagle city, in which will be established the United States barracks and the custom house. Twenty miles below Eagle city is Star city, guarding the mouth of Seventy Mile river. Tributaries of this river have been worked for many years. On Barney creek, from three to six ounces per day to the shovel has been taken for the last three years. The other trib utaries are as good as Barney, but it is only now when people are spreading out that much work will be done. A number of men are now at Star City getting their outfits up to the mines. From Seventy Mile to Circle City is being prospected, and creeks are found here and there, which give good indi cations. Coal and Sheep creeks prom ise equally well and also the Charley river. Circle City has been practically deserted since the rush to Dawson, but the riches of Mastadona, Independence, Eagle, Goodwood and a dozen lesser gulches in tne Birch creek district, will revive the town. Across from Circle City is Jefferson creek, which is now being prospected for its whole length. It will be cheap ly w'orked because of being so, readily accessible, from the Yukon river. Further down is the Minook creek dis trict, which has been so thoroughly ad vertised this year. It has developed some mines which have paid $27,000, $25,000 and $15,000 the first winter's work. The country is, to a great ex tent, an unknown quantity. A great country will be opened in the Koyukuk. All things considered, the American side would seem to be the place for the future. LOCAL MENTION. The Army Relief society will meet in the Senate chamber Thursday after noon at 2:30. No work will be given out. The lawn fete for the benefit of the soldiers which was postponed on ac count of the rain will be given tonight at Mr. Harrison's. Bob Moore was arrested yesterday by Patrolman Pavey on tne charge of leaving his team not hitched on Kan sas avenue. He deposited money for his appearance in court. Probate Judge' Dolman yesterday is sued marriage licenses to E. J. Frank lin, aged 40 years, of Maple Hill, and Mrs. M. C. Hubbard, aged 43 years, of Topeka, and to Pliny J. Laverty, aged 27 years, of Shorey, and Dora M. Van nice, aged 24 years, of Topeka. The Imperial Art club, composed of Topeka colored women, of which Mrs. W. I. Jamison is president, yesterday took to Camp Leedy 100 dozen home made doughnuts and plenty of cream. They gave them to the colored soldiers in camp and they were received thank fully. The Topeka Equal Suftrage associa tion will meet at the office of Dr. Agnes McKee Wallace, No. 726 Kansas avenue, on Thursday at 3 p. m. Municipal ownership of waterworks will be pre sented by S. B. Isenhart. All interested in Topeka owning her own waterworks are cordially invited to be present. Engineer Dan Finn of the Santa Fe is taking a month's vacation and spend ing his time fishing in Colorado while Evan Thomas runs the Kansas City and Topeka express. Conductor John Hurdy will take a month's vacation visiting northern points around Buffalo and on the Lake Shore route. Sheriff Porter S. Cook has had the drug stock of John E. Schnebley ap praised, and he still holds possession of it subject to the order of the district court. The stock was attached by the C. D. Drug company of Kansas City on a claim of $1,725 for goods furnished the store. Schnebley confessed judgment. It is probable that the entire stock will be sold by order of the court. Ask a Tax Reduction. The board of county commissioners of Shawnee county yesterday went before the state board of equalization and ask ed that the state tax assessed against Shawnee county be reduced. They showed that Shawnee county's tax as sessment this year was a million dol lars less than last year, and asked for the reduction. In addition it was shown that Wyandotte county was not paying her proportionate tax for the property interests there. The state board took the matter under advisement, and the county commissioners think Shawnee county's state tax assessment will be reduced. Admiral Massie Dead. London, July 20. Admiral Thomas Leake Massie, known as the father of the British navy is dead. He was born in 1802, entered the navy in 1S18 and served at Navarino, Beyrout, Sidon and St. Jean d'Acre, and dn China and the Black sea. Santa Fe Route dining cars are equip ped with electric fans. T- I The Wholesale and Retail Groceries, Fresh Meats, Tinware and Queensware. X 5 1 HE more goods we sell the lower we make the prices. You cannot afford to miss taking advantage 21 lbs C Sugar 18 lbs Finest California Granulated Lion Coffee, per package 1 1 bars Peets Bros Silk Soap. 9 packages Pyles' Pearline Levering's Coffee, per package 5 lbs good Rice 25 3 lbs Head Rice 25 2 Market Baskets 05 Best Soda Crackers, per lb by box .05 2 lbs Cream Cheese 25 10-Ib pail White Fish .45 10Ib pail Fancy Mackerel $1.05 Nice Table Syrup, per gallon .25 Large wood pail Table Syrup .45 3 cans 3-Ib Table Syrup 25 6 bot. Lemon or Vanilla Extract. .25 Pint bottle Lemon Extract 25 Pint bottle Vanilla Extract 25 25-oz can K. C. Baking Powder. .20 oz. can Calumet Baking Powder .10 I-lb can Calnmet Baking Powder .15 10 lbs handpicked Navy Beans.. .25 6 lbs new Lima Beans .25 4 pkgs Scotch Oats 25 6 pkgs Rolled Oats 25 Breakfast Food, per pkg .10 3 pkgs Macaroni 25 Tapioca, per lb 05 3 pkgs Minute Tapioca 25 3 pkgs Icing Compound .25 3 sacks Salt 05 12 boxes Parlor Matches 05 Nos. 1 and 2 Lamp Chimneys. .05 1 gallon jug Catsup 45 1 gallon jug French Mustard 50 Knox Gelatine, per pkg 10 Hires Root Beer, per pkg 15 2 braided Clothes Lines 25 Premium Chocolate, per lb .30 Sweet Chocolate, per lb 20 2 lbs bulk Cocoanut 25 1 doz. Mason Pint Fruit Jars. .50 I doz. Mason Quart Fruit Jars .60 1 doz Mason Half-gallon Jars .80 2 lbs pure Pepper 25 5 lbs nice Prunes 25 5 lbs nice Raisins 25 5 lbs quartered Apples 25 3 lbs Apricots 25 1 lb Raspberries 15 3 lbs Currants 25 3 pkgs Seeded Raisins 25 10 bars Clairette Soap 25 10 bars Lenox Soap 25 10 bars White Russian Soap 25 MAIL ORDERS FILLED AJfD SHIPPED PP.OMPLY. Tf2epEasntesth st J. 5. SPROAT, The Star Grocer. TEST SUIT FILED. To Prove the Legality of the Council's Premium Stamp Ordinance. Suit was filed in the L'nited States circuit court today to test the ordi nance recently passed by the city coun cil levying a tax of $3,000 per year on all "premium stamp" concerns. It is brought by John C. Humes of Kansas City, who la at the head of the concern that has been doing business with the Topeka merchants and has maintained a store for the past year between Eighth and Ninth streets on Kansas avenue. A temporary restraining or der is asked in connection with the suit to prevent the city from enforcing the ordinance, and the attorneys left today for Denver where the application will be heard by Judge Caldwell. In his petition, Humes states that the stock of merchandise in this city amounts to $2'500, and his profits from the enterprise are over $2,000 but less than $3,000 a year. The tax imposed by the new ordinance, Humes claims, is absolutely prohibitive in regard to his business and therefore illegal. The suit is for a permanent injunction. City Attorney Bird stated today that a decision that the tax was too heavy would in no way prevent the council from amending the ordinance and re ducing the tax. An effort will be made to have the suit tried some time next month. LITIGATION CONTIXLED. Mrs. Flora E. Fleming Brings Suit on a Note to Emmett Rowley. Flora E. Fleming, executrix of the es tate of R. E. Rowley, has filed a peti tion in the district court against J. P. Rowley and F. A. Snow for $600 with interest from March 1G, 1897. In her petition she claims that on March 16, 1897, J. P. Rowley and F. A. Snow gave R. E. Rowley their note for $1,200 to be payable at stated times in installments. She states that four pay ments of $150 each with interest were paid which amounted in all to $624.57 and that the payment due July 1st was not paid, rendering the remainder of the note due at once. She therefore asks that the defendants be made to pay the remainder of the note, amounting to $600 with interest. This note was given by J. P. Rowley and F. A. Snow upon R. Emmett Row ley retiring from the firm of Rowley Bros., druggists. Emmett Rowley died in May of the present year. LACK OF INFORMATION Makes Trouble in the Office of State Supt, of Instruction. The office of the state superintendent of public instruction is being deluged with inquiries from school officers about the operation of the revenue law. One school director wants to know whether there must be stamps on the contracts made with teachers, another wants to know whether the warrants must be stamped and there are inquiries about every paper used in the district. The inquiries should be sent to the local county superintendents but the school officers do not know this. Assistant Superintendent Amis still patiently writes replies telling the peo ple that the law does not require school districts or any municipality which has the taxing power to affix stamps to its documents. His work would be facili tated if he would have a printed form with which to answer the letters. Scott's Ice Cream. Parties a specialty. "Phone 622. Mail orders promptly attended to. X- X- of these low prices. $1.00 Sugar l.OO .09 25 25 09 x-x- J

n oars pnoenix soap Z5 x- II bars White Spanish Soap 25 15 bars Palin Soap 25 1 box Cocoa Oil Soap, 12 cakes. .18 6 cakes Grandpa's Tar Soap 25 6 bars Ivory Soap .25 6 cakes Mechanics' Soap ,25 8 lbs Lump Starch 25 20 lbs Sal Soda 25 1 quart bottle Blueing 10 3 bottles Household Ammonia. .25 2 cakes Morgan's Sapolto .15 X- X-X-X-x-X-X-X----X-

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X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- 4-lb pkg Gold Dust 17 4 cans Greenwich Lye .25 .25 3 cans Lewis Lye 3 cans Red Salmon .25 2 cans Warren's A 1 Salmon... .25 Mustard Sardines, per can. .05 7 cans Oil Sardines 25 4 cans Oysters .25 3 cans 3-lb Tomatoes .25 3 cans 3-lb Pork and Beans... .25 3-lb can Grated Pineapple. .10 3-lb can CaL Table Fruits lO Potted Ham or Tongue 05 Eagle Milk, per can 15 3 cans Early June Peas .25 3 cans Sweet Corn 25 Genuine Imported French Peas .10 Genuine Imported Mushrooms .15 2 cans Apples 15 Blackberries, per can 05 lean Corn Beef .15 1 can Roast Beef 15 1 can Chipped Beef 15 Monarch, Lobsters, per can .15 2 cans 3-lb Pumpkin 15 Arbuckle Coffee, per pkg 10 Ankora Coffee, per pkg 10 4 X Coffee, per pkg lO 1 lb Fresh Santos Coffee lO Java and Mocha Coffee, per lb. .25 Ankola Coffee, 1-lb can 30 1 lb good Gunpowder Tea 30 1 lb good Sun cured Japan Tea .30 1 lb good Oolong Tea 30 1 lb good Basket Fired Jap.Tea .30 1 lb good Young Hyson Tea. .30 1 lb good White Lard 05 3-lb can Wolff's O. K. Lard .25 5-lb can Wolff's O. K. Lard .40 10-lb can Wolff's O. K. Lard .75 Sugar Cured CaL Hams, lb 06 Wolff's No. 1 Sugar Cured Hams, per lb 09 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per lb &l4 Dry Salt Meats, per lb J .05 X-X-X- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- X-X-X-X-X- x- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- X- JHr-------J X- NORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left at the Kimball Ptg. Co., before 11 o'clock in the morning. Bread. 2 lbs. 5c. Gem Bakery. R. W. Jenkins went to Manhattan last evening. Emil Apel went to Parsons yesterday to look after business interests. The M. W. of A. camp No. 1243 have postponed their social for one week. John House and Mr. Cleveland of Sil ver Lake were North side visitors to day. Mrs. Brownell and daughter Grace of St. Marys are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Woodford of Quincy street. Miss Mattie Keener and Miss Mary Sherman left Sunday for Missouri where they will visit relatives for a few weeks. The rain last evening was not very general in the west, at Menoken and Silver Lake it rained scarcely enough to lay the dust:. Mrs. Perkins Is expected home the last of this week from Decatur where she has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. William Gushard. Orris McNary came up from the In dian Territory Sunday and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J'R. Mc Nary of Monroe street. Mrs. Bert Lanta'of SheJbyville, 111., arrived last evening and-is th guest of her cousin, Miss Myrtle Seymour o 309 West Gordon street. Mrs. E. P. Baker of 1113 Jackson street left today for Canon City, Col., where she will be entertained by ber daughter, Mrs. C. C. Conkle. J. M. Cannon of Park county, Ind., ia visiting his sister, Mrs. Davis of 503 Park street, and his brother, W. H. Cannon and family of 20 Harrison street. Mr. and Mrs. William Ryan of Kan sas City are the parents of a son. born Saturday, July 9. Mrs. Ryan who is a sister of Mrs. Jonas Lukens, was form erly Miss Martha Aikens of this city. There will be a sewer meeting thl3 evening at Lukens' Opera House, and a special invitation is given to all those opposed to the sewer to be present. The ladies are also cordially invited to at tend. Mrs. J. C. Clay and daughter, Miss Belle Clay and son Arthur of West minster, Cal., are visiting friends in Topeka. Mrs. Clay and family former ly lived in North Topeka on Monroa street. Probate Judge Dolman went to Leav enworth yesterday and returned last evening accompanied by his father-in-law, A. J. Kane, who has been at tha Soldiers' Home hospital for the past week taking treatment. Mr. Kane seems greatly improved and is looking much better. Miss May Albright gave a picnic this afternoon at Garfield park for her Sun day school class of the Baptist cnurcn. The invited guests were Misses Fern Stewart, Lida Knox, Jodie Piatt, Lod.T. Paramore, Mamie Shaeffer, Messrs. Will McNoun, Harry Knox, Bert Pur dum, Claud Shields, Fred Short, How ard Green, Harry Lukens, Will Bacon and Lindsey Bechtol. Monthly Charities Report The state board of charities today made its monthly report of money col lected at the state institutions. Fol lowing are the amounts received: C. A. Magill. check forfeited 36.23 Deaf and dumb institution Topeka insane asylum 4u6. Osawatomie asylum Soldiers' orphans' home Total 583.8S

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1898. V1UST HOLD CUBA It is Jy'ow Apparent Tliat All Thought Of Turning It Orer To Insur gents at an Early Date 3IUST BE ABANDONED. Wisdom of Congress in Jot Recognizing Independence is Acknowleddge on All Sides. New York, July 20. A Times special from Washington says: The administration is now very well satisfied that the congress in passing the declaration of war refused to recog nize the government of the republic of Cuba. "When the resolution was under consideration the friends of the republic made support of recognition a very ur gent condition, some of them insisting that to declare independence without recognition of the government of the republic would be but an empty friend ship to extend to the insurgents. Even the men who then advocated recognition are believed to have become convinced that it would have been a serious mistake to have undertaken that as soon as Cuban territory was captured it was to be turned over to the care of the Cubans. Cuban help of the TTnited States troops has been acknowledged repeated ly but the recent reports from the camp at Santiago and neighborhood have in some measure impaired confidence in the Cubans and their fitness to assume the responsibilities of government, even in Santiago. The administration does not accept without question the frag mentary reports concerning the Cubans that have come to the war and navy departments, but there is so much test imony that is disquieting that the pres ident is disposed to be specially thank ful that the congress did not impose upon him the duty of turning over Cu ba as fast as subdued by the United States to the unhampered control of the Cuban soldiers and citizens. The Cubans at Santiago seem to have anticipated the president's proclama tion when they selected Gen. Demetrius Castillo to be governor of Santiago as soon as the city should be captured. There was no consultation with the commanding general of the United States forces before this was done. There was no consideration of the peo ple of Santiago when Castilla was cho sen to rule over it after Spain had yielded control. There was no announce ment by Castillo as to what his pur poses would be when he was allowed to assume the responsibility and privi leges of governor. To Treat All Alike. The Cubans might as well make up their minds to show that they are fit to govern before they can expect to be trusted to. govern. The proclamation of the president does not make any difference between the natives of Cuba and of the peninsula. The Spaniards will not be permitted to butcher or to persecute the Cubans. The Cubans will be prevented from wreaking their vengeance upon their former persecutors. This may disap point the men who expected to drive every Spaniard from Cuba. The war by the United States, said a member of the administration, is against the government of Spain and to free Cuba from its misrule. It is not against the people of Cuba, whether Spanish or Cuban, or to set up Cuban misrule and the Cubans may as well make up their minds that this is so and that the administration will adhere to the policy of fair treatment of all classes of the population that surrender to the forces of the United States. There is great probability that when the friends of Cuba in the United States have opportunity to commusicate with the insurgent leaders in Cuba, they will admonish them that wisdom and a good hope in the future of the island will demand that the suggestions carried in the proclamation be heeded. The presi dent will not stand beside men who seek an opportunity to revenge them selves at the expense of the Spaniards for the cruelties suffered by Cuba for many years. The people of the cities and the towns presumably the people who are interest ed in property, will if they are in suf ficient numbers to hold the municipal control and if they exercise it properly, be permitted to do so. There will be no forcible wresting of power from those who by numbers are entitled to hold it and in moderation, use it, and there will be no forcing upon the majority the administration of the courts and the civil powers by men whose only title to it, is that they fought with. Gomez or with Garcia. Mckinley is Determined. There has been no disposition on the part of the United States civil or mili tary authorities at any time to disre gard the Cubans or to belittle their as sistance. To the best of their little ability, it is admitted they have ren dered service at times very useful. At no time, however, has the administra tion been disposed to assent to the pro position that insurgents in Cuba have proved ability to assume ail the func tions of government, that the Spanish are expected to yield. Should the Cubans, by the mistaken advice of their leaders assume so hos tile an attitude toward the United States as to make it necessary to treat them as enemies, the condition will be regretted, but it will not make any dif ference in the determination that Spain shall no longer govern the island. Members of the administration re gret very deeply the information from Santiago indicating that the Cubans are more intent upon vengeance than they are upon securing tranquillity un der a government that will deal fairly with all people, whether native or for eign born. They will consider it most unfortunate if the leaders of the Cuban party do not see that the prosperity and peace of the island depend upon acceptance of the plan of the president. Ill Feeling Developed. The reports setting forth that some ill feeling has developed among the Cu bans towards the United States and that this may yet result in resistance to the United States forces by Cubans exactly support the expectation of a member of the cabinet, who recently spoke of the prospect in Cuba, A state department officer has also expressed the fear that before long the United States will be occupying about the same attitude toward the Cubans that Spain has maintained for ah least t to years. XU Cubans are rather expected to develop strong opposition to the senti ments expressed in President McKin ley's proclamation setting forth what is expected to be done by the United States in the captured provinces in Cuba. Something savage in the Cuban mind, made evident by the looting of El Caney and Siboney, as soon as the opportunity occurred desired to find ex pression in the looting of Santiago, al ready looted by the soldiers of Spain. The president does not propose that any Cuban city shall be looted by the troops of the United States or by their allies. The first effort is to be to restore as fully as possible the opportunities of all residents to resume their customary vocations. Be they Cubans or Spanish, they are to have a chance to take up the vocations dropped when war com pelled the suspension of business. Then the city is to be kept clean. Neither Cuban nor Spaniard can be depended upon to do this. HAY FOR THE ARMY. St Louis Firm Gets Largest Contract Ever Awarded. St. Louis, Mo., July 20. A St. Louis firm has secured the largest contract for hay ever let by the United States. The contract calls for 9,000,000 pounds of hay for the army to be delivered at Chickamauga. Between 450 and 500 cars will be required to transport it. The contract for furnishing oats for the army was awarded to a Cincinnati firm; straw to an Evansviile, Ind., firm and bran to a Chattanooga firm. MILES STILL THERE. Another Delay in Starting the Porto Eican Expedition. Washington, July 20. General Miles has been again delayed in sailing from Siboney for Porto Rico. The delay in this case is charged to the failure of the navy to pro vide the required convoy. The war de partment was in cable communication with the general today and again he ex pects that the Yale will sail before night. Meanwhile, the reports of the department from Tampa show that so much of the expedition to Porto Rico as was to be drawn from the camp there has already started, though it may be a day or two before the ships leave Key "West. The war department today was doing its best to hurry forward the immune regiments General Shatter has urgently requested, and it is hoped that they will be gotten off within 24 hours. GARCIA DEAD. New Tork, July 20. A Kingston, Jamaica, cable to the Evening Post says that Cubans arriving from Siboney report Gen. Garcia dead. ROWS IN CAMP. A Number of New York Commission ed Officer 3 Resign. Chickamauga Park, July 20. The tel ephone system at the park has been abandoned and the army officers are depending entirely upon the telegraph, the signal corps having perfected an excellent system with an office at each of the division headquarters. The sys tem gives Gen. Brooke's headquarters direct connection with the government at Washington. Testerday the work of tearing down the telephone wires was begun. Major Lorigan, whose resignation as major of the second battalion, Ninth New York, has been accepted, left for New York city. Major Lorigan's resig nation grew out of his opposition to Col. Greene for the colonelcy of the regiment. Both men had been prom inent in New York state military affairs for years. Because of existing friction and the unpleasant results attendant. Major Lorigan decided to withdraw from the command. Later after having filed his resignation, he reconsidered the matter and wished to wUndraw it, but was informed by Col. Greene that this could not be done. The matter began to assume more general proportions by this time, Major Lorigan's resignation being accompanied by that of Captain D. Walton, Company D. Since that time the resignation of Captain Byrd, Company F, Captain Thompkins, Com pany B, First Lieutenant Leon Bardy, Company B, First Lieutenant Winter, Company V, have been filed through sympathy. Col. Greene refused to discuss the matter or to speak of the probable suc cessors of the commissioned officers who have resigned. A spirited row is now on between the line of the Fourth Ohio and the medical staff. Lieutenant Huidokoper has or dered Captain Surgeon Wright over to the division hospital. Col. Coit claimed the order should come through him and appealed to Brigadier General Haines. Haines sustained Coit and Wright will stay until the matter can be carried up. FL0WERSF0R BRYAN. He is Enthusiastically Received at Nashville. Nashville, Tenn., July 20. Several hundred members of the Third Nebras ka regiment, commanded by Col. Wm. J. Bryan, arrived here today and were met at the depot by a large crowd.They were given a lunch and soon after ward proceeded on their way to At lanta, Ga. Col. Bryan, with the re mainder of the regiment arrived this afternoon and was given a very en thusiastic reception. All of the soldiers were provided with box lunches and presented with flowers. TEXAS CATTLE SHIPMENTS Rush to Market Will Soon Begin 25,000 Feeding in Transit. A heavy run of stock from Texas to the Kansas City markets is expected over the Santa Fe within the next ten days. The summer movement of stock will be quite large and will probably for a couple of weeks tax the stock car equip ment. Along the M. A. B. 25,000 head of cattle are feeding in transit. They came from the southwest last spring and will be moved to Kansas City in the fall. Wheat has commenced to move east ward and the transfer of grain from the west to eastern mills and markets promises to be steady. The Topeka mills have been receiving the first wheat-they have handled in several months and Topeka is now us ing about 50 cars of wheat a day. Engineer Harris Hurt H. J. Harris, engineer at the Edison Electric Illuminating and Power plant on Van Buren street, was on a step ladder oiling shaft journals at the works today when he slipped and fell, striking with his shoulder on a rapidly revolving pulley. This broke the force of his fall and he escaped with a lacera tion of the muscles of the arm above the elbow. He was given surgical at tention and taken to his home in Park dale. BIDS OPENED For Transportation of the Spaniards to Their Home. New York, July 20. Bids for the transportation of the Spanish troops which surrendered at Santiago, were opened in the quartermaster's depart ment of the army today. The bids call for the transportation of 1,000 officers and 24,000 enlisted men to be transport ed from Santiago de Cuba, to Cadiz, Spain, or any other port, as may here after be decided upon. Cabin accom modations are to be furnished for the officers and third-class passage or steer age for the enlisted men. The men are to be provided with suitable accommo dations and the United States require ments as to space per man and ventila tion are to be strictly conformed to. The bids are as follows: The New England Chemical Supply of Boston, $890,000 for all officers and men. L. A. Thiem Co., of Philadelphia, $385,000 for all 25,000 Spaniards. James N. Elwell Co., offered to take on steamer Neutria 1,000 enlisted men at $35 each and all the officers at $75 each. W. H. Thompson offers a steamer to take 150 officers at $90 each and 1,400 en listed men at $45 each. George A. Lord, $37.50 per man for the enlisted men and $72.50 per officer for the officers. Joseph L. St. John, $37.37 per officer and $24.87 per enlisted man. Joint bid: Anchor Line, Cunard Line, the Hamburg-American Packet line, Robert H. Sloman Co., the North German Lloyd line, the Royal Mail Steamship Packet company, Thomas Wilsons Sons Co., Frederick Leyland Co., the Wilson Furness-Leyland line, officers at $110 each and enlisted men $55 each. G. B. Richards Co., offered the Spartan Prince, capacity 40 officers and 800 men and the Tartar Prince, capac ity 50 officers and 1,000 men at $55 per officer and $25 per enlisted man. Tweedie Trading company offered three ships to take 3,000 enlisted men at $29 each and the officers at $50 each. The Spanish Trans-Atlantic company through R. A. C. Smith, offered to take all the officers at $60 each and all the ment at $70 each, agreeing to carry them under the Spanish flag, the Uni ted States government to furnish safe transportation. The bids were for warded to Washington. THE "BLACK MAN." Powers Talk Over What They Will Do When lie Conies. London, July 20. A special -dispatch from Madrid says the powers, including Great Britain, are exchanging notes concerning their attitude in case Commodore Wat son comes, and the progress made thus far is satisfactory to Spain. ELECTRICITY DOES HARM. Last Night During the Storm It Caus ed Damage to Wires. The electrical storm which accompanied the rain last evening was terrific, and con siderable damage was done in and around Topeka to telephone, telegraph and elec tric light wires. Manager George Bayless of the Topeka Telephone company says that lightning ran in on his wires, doing some damage. In the southwestern part of the city the telephone wires became crossed with J he Edison alternating current wires, and 'phones in this district buzzed loud and long. Wires were damaged by this and some of the instruments burned. Man ager Bayless discovered a "cross' between electric alternating current wires and his own wires on West street south of Hun toon street about 6:30 o'clock and he se cured a ladder and pulled the wires apart, having to use great precaution to prevent being shocked by the induced current. Three toll line wires were blown down by the wind storm, and telegraph wires suf fered. Linemen have been at work today repairing the damage. CORMORANT BACK. Hong Kong, July 20. The German third class cruiser Cormorant lias re turned to Manila and the British first class gunboat Plover goes there to morrow. There is no communication to Manila except by warships. BRIDE RAN AWAY. Yates Center Girl Desires to Select Her Husband. Yates Center, Kan., July 20. Miss Alice McDonald, a prominent society young woman, daughter of J. F. Mc Donald, left home Sunday. Friends in vited her mother to take a ride, and during Mrs. McDonald's absence the young woman left, taking her trunk and boarding a train for Kansas City. The trouble grew out of a family dis agreement whereby the young lady was to marry a young lawyer named Ben nett of Fort Scott. Bennett is expected here in a few days. The girl rebelled and took this means to escape. The young woman is supposed to be in Kansas City. Fort Scott, July 20. Ernest Bennett is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bennett of this city. Since his admission to the bar he has been associated with J. F. McDonald. Some months ago they started a colonization scheme in Wood son county and persuaded a number of people to settle upon railroad lands only to be driven off after making im provements, by the railroad company. A few weeks ago it was reported that both McDonald and Bennett had left for parts unknown, and Judge Hill of this city offers a $25 reward for in formation as to McDonald's where abouts. J. G. Slonecker Appointed. J. G. Slonecker has been appointed special master in the Investment Trust company and the City Real Estate Trust company cases. His appoint ment was made by Judge Foster on ap plication of the receivers, C. O. Knowles and Bennett R. Wheeler. He will pass oh the priority and amounts of claims against the trust estates now in the hands of the receivers. Capital lodge No. 7 Degree of Honor will give a social dance at their hall, 420 Kansas avenue, this evening. Ice cream will be served. Friends of the order are invited. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen Co.. Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective In the cure of constipation and sick headache. For malaria and liver troubles they have proved Invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to the stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 50c per box. Sold by Swift Hoiliday. druggists. We make a specialty of doing up col ored shirts and waists and guarantee Ins colors. Peerless Steam Laundry. SAVED BY THE QUEEN. Vletorla.'a Great GrandchildreB Will Be "Royal HlckBUMt tT. Iter Decree. An interesting writer has lately pointed out that the children oi Prince Arthur, the only son of the duke, of Connaught, who is himself third son of the queen, will no longer be "royal highnesses," but merely nobles, and should these children have children, they will be obliged to con tent themselves with the common place prefix "Mr." It is this fact, says the Boston Herald, that has induced the queen to issue letters patent, un der the seal, declaring that the chil dren of the eldest son of the prince of Wales shall have and at all times hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of "royal highness." Hitherto these" children of the duke of York had no right to be so termed. They were just plain princes, and their children would fare no better than their cous ins of Connaught. This state of af fairs results from the queen of Eng land living to see three generations of her direct heirs, and it doubtless set her to thinking how Grandpapa Wales would like having an untitled great grandson with no place in the royal procession. Until the issue of these letters patent, little Eddie, David and Baby Victoria were nothing but com moners in the eyes of the law. It teems odd to Americans that this de cree of the queen's should have lifted quite a weight from the Waleses' and Yorks' hearts; but what say the Con naughts of being left out in the cold with their plain "your grace" and "Mr.?" They haven't been benefited, and what is to become of them 100 years hence? LONG DISTANCE STEAMING. Our Modern Warships Have Demon. trated Tbat They Are Good Ocean Traveler!, The recent performances of the United States battleship Oregon and the gunboat Marietta in steaming from high up along the North Ameri can coast around Cape Horn to the West Indies have very properly chal lenged the admiration of the whole world, says Cassier's Magazine. Until quite recently much more had been heard of the failings of warships than of their good points, and one was al most tempted to believe that the av erage modern naval vessel was so deli cately constructed and so complex a piece of machinery as to be scarcely fitted to withstand in due measure the rough usages of war or the knock ing about of a protracted sea voyage tinder the pressure of high speed and with all kinds of weather. When sev eral years ago the United States cruis er Columbia crossed over from South ampton to Sandy Hook, at the en trance to New York harbor, in a little less than seven days, racing success fully against one of the crack ocean liners, her performance stood unpar alleled in naval history. It bordered, in fact, on what had long been con sidered impossible. What the Oregon and the Marietta have done, however, is a worthy coun terpart of that earlier magnificent performance, and admir ably demonstrates what may be ac complished by good engineering, even when subject to the exacting condi tions of naval restrictions. MAPS OF VALLEY FORGE. A Remarkable Faot Concerning Their Recent Discovery Traditions of the Camp, It is somewhat remarkable, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, that the only known maps of the Valley Forge en campment during the winter of 1777 78 were made known to an American as late as last summer, when Judge Pennypacker discovered them in Am sterdam, and that, presented before the Sons of the Revolution on their re cent visit to Valley Forge, they will only become known to the American public when published in the society's year book. The series of maps now in Judge Pennypacker's possession and made originally by a French engineer with the American army, include not only careful drawings of the Valley Forge encampment, but plans also of the battlefields of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It is understood that the plat of the Valley Forge encampment modifies materially the traditions concerning the camp, showing the location of troops where heretofore no troops have been supposed to have had their encampment. The careful Hollander who contributed so heartily to the American cause appears to have con tributed the last chapter to the his tory of the cause by preserving these maps until they fell into the right hands. All Visited the Pawnbroker's. A Paris paper tells this characteris tic incident that happened in Paris in the "60s: Said Pasha, who was on a visit to the capital, wanted a dozen and a half of snuff boxes to distribute among as many people whom he de lighted to honor. He applied to the members of a celebrated firm, who un dertook to provide him' with the re quired number at the rate of 4,000 francs each. "We have only a half doz en ready, your highness, but the mo ment you have disposed of these we shall deliver another half dozen." And they did. They failed, however, to complete the third half dozen. They could only furnish five. And the rea son? Because one of the recipients among the second half dozen had gone out of town before the jewelers could get at him. Birds at a Great Helarht. A writer in a German periodical states that birds have been seen at a height of 15,000 yards. Their distance was estimated by the time it took them, to cross the moon's disk- A MAIN 7CHANCE OF LIFE. Some Interesting Results of a Calca Jatlon Upon the Percentage at Various A&res. In the English Illustrated Magazine, Mr. J. Holt Schooling works out some interesting results as regards the chances of males at ages 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90, living for ten years more, 20 years more, 30 years more, etc. For example, as regards 1,000 men aged 20, 939 of them "live ten years more," i. e., to age 30; that is 94 per cent, live to age 30 and six per cent, do not, so the chance at age 20 to live to age 30 is not quite sixteen to one in favor of living. Similarly, 559 out of 1,000 "live 40 years more," i. e., to age 60, so that the odds in favor of a man aged 20 living to age 60 are 65 to 44, say five to four, in sporting phrase. Again, as only ten out of the 1,000 live 70 years more, i. e., to age 90, the chance of a man aged 20 attaining age 90 is only one in one hundred, or odds of ninety-nine to one against him. As to the chances for men aged 50, 770 per 1,000 live ten years more, i. e., to age 60; therefore, we may say the chance of a man aged 50 living to 60 is represented by odds of 77 to 23, or about seven to two in favor of the man aged 50 living ten years more. This chance, favorable as it is, is of course not nearly so great as the sixteen to one chance in favor of a man aged 20 living to age 30. Glancing at men aged 70 we see that only 335 per 1,000 live ten years more, i. e., to age 80; this means that 34 per 100 live the ten years and 66 per 100 do not, so the chance at age 70 of a man living to age 80 is repre sented by the odds of two to one against him. As for men aged 90, of 1,000 men alive at age 90, only four live to age 100. Thus at age 90, the chance of living ten years is very small, it being represented by the long odds of two hundred and forty-ndne to one against the man quite an outside chance. A BEAUTIFUL CITY. Such Is Manila, the Central Point of Interest In the Philippine Islands. Manila Is a beautiful city, about the size of San Francisco. It is built on both sides of the River Passig, which is navigable to its source, sa3Ts the San Francisco Chronicle. Old Manila lays on the left bank. Parts of the masonic stone wall, which was built around it 200 years ago, are still visible, and some of the gates survive, through which a stream of solemn friars, grinning Chinese, resplendent Spanish officials, beggars in rags, pious nuns, 'handsome senoras, gay native girls, mestizos in uniform, natives in breech-clouts, four-horse carriages, two-wheel pony wagons and creaking buffalo carts pour from morning till night. The cathedral, monasteries and government offices are in old Manila; the business quarter, the for eign shipping houses, the banks, stores and custom house are in Binondo, on the other side of the river. Between; the walls and the shore are the Lu neta, the fashionable promenade, where the band playe and society en joys the evening breeze, flirts under hundreds of electric lights and drives around the circle in carriages, which follow' each other in slow, dignified procession. The best houses in Manila are built of stone, and are handsome residences, though there is no win dow glass used in their construction. Instead of glass the windows are glazed with translucent oyster shells. This is cut into squares so small that a window eight feet by four will contain 250 of them. It is found that they tem per the fierce glare of the sun and soft en the light. METHODS OF DUSTING. Mr. Glimmf rton Expresses the Hope That Some Day Men Will I'se Clothes am Women Do. "Man's dusting implement is a feather duster," said Mr. Glimmerton, according to the New York Sun, "wom an's is a dust cloth. There can be no doubt which is the better, but each clings to his own. But I think I see signs of a change. I saw a boy walk out of a store uptown the other morn ing and walk across the sidewalk to the curb and stand there and shake a dust cloth, just as a woman would shake one out of the window. I don't know where the boy got this notion, whether he made the discovery him self that, except under favorable con ditions, with doors and windows open at both ends and wind blowing through, stirring up dust with a duster only servea to redistribute it, or whether there is a woman in this store who insists on dust cloths and has taught the boy the use of them. "Maybe as the boy grows up and be comes confirmed in this way he will teach the use of the dust cloth to others, and to his children, and they will teach it to their children, and so it may finally come about in this sim ple manner that all men will come to use it, and that the leather duster will go." American Gonaprj. "Old Ironsides" may be called our luckiest as well as most famous battle ship. In her hardest fight, that with the new British frigate Java, in 1812, she lost but nine killed and 25 wound ed, though the total loss on her ad versary was 161. In destroying the Guerriere, Cyrene and Levant the Con stitution's casualty list was eight killed, 17 wounded, while that of the defeated vessels was 50 killed, 105 wounded. The London Times said in 1S13: "The fact seems but too clearly established that the Americans have some superior mode of firing." War News in Germany. A paper of Bremen, GeTmany, re cently told its readers that the Span ish, fleet had bombarjied .Chicago. SUSPECTS ON BOlKD. The Seneca Arrives With Sick and Wounded. New Tork, July 20. The U. S. trans port Seneca, Capt. Decker, arrived at quarantine today and was detained by the health officer for disinfection. Six of the soldiers will be removed to Swin burne island for treatment. Dr. Doty says that while these cases are not well marked and are not by any means yellow fever he will not take any chan ces and therefore decided to remove them to Swinburne Island immediately. I The steamer will be thoroughly disin- fected. The most severely wounded soldiers will be sent to Bellevue hos- pital for treatment and the others to j Hoffman island for observation. The Seneca, now known as transport No. 5, left Siboney, Cuba, July 14, with 99 sick and wounded soldiers and 48 passengers. The passengers were al ready on board when the sick and wounded were received. The ship be ing intended for transporting troops was not in any way fitted for a hos- i pital ship. The passengers were Col. Yermsleff, Russian army officer; Gen. Euver Pa cha, Turkish army; Lieut. Akyma, Japanese navy; Count Von Rebeure, German army; Commander Anderson, j Swedish navy; Lieut. Abilgaard, Nor- i wegian navy; Mrs. Sylvester Scovel, Mrs. Jeanette Jennings of the Red Cross society ana a number of newspa per correspondents. The arrival of the sick and wounded on board the Seneca off Siboney caused considerable alarm as there were no medicines, no antisep tic dressing, no thermometers, no sur gical instruments, doctors or nurses. Doctors Hicks and Bird, assistant sur geons and nurses came to help out. Miss Jennings did great service and merited the praise bestowed upon her by all on board. The foreign officers of the Russian, Swedish and German del egations and their assistants gave up their state rooms and quarters to the sick and took pot luck with the con valescents. The steamer between decks was filthy and not fit for human beings to occupy. The bunks were built of rough boards and looked like cattle pens. The ice gave out first, and then the fresh water became vile and unfit for use. A little was obtained by con densation. The washing of wounds was done in many cases with salt water. The food was scarce. On arrival at quarantine. Dr. Doty removed to Swinburne island, John En nis, company K, Sixth Massachusetts; T. F. Burgher, captain and assistant adjutant general United States volun teers; William Paley, photographer; James Novae, private, company G, Eighth infantry; Morgan Washburn, civilian, and Henry Weiber.company D, Twenty-second infantry. The Spanish say that if yellow fever had appeared on the voyage home, the mortality would have been fearful. Nothing could be done on board to pre- i vent the accumulation of filth. The ves- j sel's capacity was crowded to the ut- most, bunks and cots being erected in every direction. j The Seneca brought the bow chaser. or bow gun of the Vizcaya, which was i put on board before sailing. RI0"miANDE OUT. Rises Suddenly in the 'Night at El Faso. El Paso, Texas, July 20. The Rio Grande rose suddenly last night, and this morning was out of its banks. On the Juarez side the International street car line was flooded near the bridge, but the water was soon checked by embankments on the El Paso side of the river. A large force of men have been at work all day strengthening the levee at points where the water threat ened to break through and flood the lower part of the city. The river is as high as it was during the disastrous j flood last year, and it is still rising. Heavy rains in the mountains of New are watching the levees. OMAHA EXPOSITION. June 1st to October 31st the Grand est Exposition (except World's Fair) ever planned In the United States. Located within cheap and quick access of the entire Missouri and Mississippi Valleys, at your own doors. Through tickets be- yond Omaha allow stop-overs. Reduced excursion rates to Omaha. Take the Burlington Route the old and firmly es tablished line to and through Omaha In any direction. L. W. WAKELEY. General Passenger Agent. HOWARD ELLIOTT, General Manager. St. Louis. Mo. H. C. TOWNSEND. G. P. T. A., St. Louis. Mo. F. E. NIPPS, Agent. Topeka, Kan. Mr. John Bevins, editor of the Press. Anthon, Iowa, says: "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy in my family for fifteen years, have recommended it to hun dreds of others, and have never known it to fail in a single instance. For sale by all druggists. To Cure Headache in 15 Minutes. Take Dr. Davis' Anti-headache. Druggists. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, July 20. WHEAT Favorable weather in the northwest, disappointing cables and a break in the corn market started wheat lower today. An urgent demand for the cash article, together with light receipts, brought out a long line of buying orders, which steadied prices somewhat. Of the 85 cars of weat on the inspection sheet today all were new. Northwestern receipts were 60 cars, compared with 298 cars last year. September opened c lower at 67 Si68c, advanced to 68c, down to 6ic,then up to 67c. December started 'fic down at 67&68c, sold off to 67c, then rose to 68c. CORN Heavy rains last night took the edge- off corn. The market was not as big or as snappy as it had been recently. The trade generally was holding off on the supposition that the rains were insul ficient as yet to settle the fate of the crop, and that immediate anxiety had oniy been relieved. September opened 'ac lower at SZi33c and rose to 33c. OATS A good cash demand, together with some country buying, held oats steady. September began fic down at ('(.c and sold up to l'uc. PROVISIONS Lower pr.ces at the yards depressed provisions early. The market became firm on heavy buying of lard and a denial of the yellow fever rumors in Florida. September pork opened 2J''?75c lower at ?9.82y,Ti&.85, advanced to ?9.90, then fell off to $9.83. September lard be gan 2'ic down at $3.60 and weakened to $5.o7fe3.60. September ribs started 2c down at $5.62 and rose to $5.65. BARLEY Cash, No. 3. 301 35c. RYE July, 48c; August, 4512c; Septem ber. 43c. FLAX Cash northwestern, $1.02; Octo ber. 98U,c. TIMOTHY-July, $2.55. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, July 20. HOGS Estimated receipts today. 32.000. Left over. 4.619. Market fairly active, 5c lower. Lieht. 3.75t4.02V'. mixed. $3. SOW 4.07: heavy, $3.8.30 4.12: rough, $3.803.83. CATTLE Receipts. 17.000. Best cattle I steady, others shade lower. Beeves. $4.20 (?t5.40; cows and heifers. $2.50'?t4.75;; Texas i steers, $3.60-&4.5; stockers and feeders, $3.10 (&4.65. SHEEP Receipts, 13.0C0. Market strong. Natives, $3.255; westerns, $4.101.8o, lambs. $4S6.75. Yesterday's official: HOGS-Receipts, 20.201; shipments, 4,4S. CATTLE Receipts, 4,169; shipments, 1,- HEEP-Receipts, 10,580; shipments, 1, 1ST Estimated receipts of hogs for tomor row,, 33,000. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, July 20. CATTLE Receipts 9,000. Market steady to weaker. Native steers, $3.605.:0; Tex as steers, $3.25S4.75; Texas cows. $2 io 3.75; native cows and heifers. 2.2dJi4.9o. stockers and feders, $g5; bulls, $2.5CKj4.6.t, HOGS Receipts. 19.000. Market lc lower. Bulk of sales. $3.75&3.S5; hsa' i.s, fi.irftS SO; packers. $3.653.5; mixed. J3.6oa3.iO; lights, $3.60 3.75; yorkers, $3. 70 3.75; pigs, Sd.luid 3 65 "SHEEP Receipts. 3.000. Market firm. Lambs. $3.75fi6.10: muttons. $3ti4.75. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 18 native steers 1623 Sj-20 28 Texas steers I" 20 Texas cows 1093 22 native cows and heifers 81 4.a 36 stockers and feeders 416 5.00 11 bulls 7ao 4-6i Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. July 20. "WHEAT About active, steady. No. 1 hard, 68S69c; No. 2. 67C9c: No. 3 63 n 06c; No. 1 red. 74c: No. 2. 74c; No. 3, 65j(63c; Jso. 2 spring, 65ji67e; No. 3, 6264c. CORN Mixed about steady, whits lower. No. 2 mixed, 32U32c; No. 2 white, 33c. OATS Firm. No. 2 white, 23c. RYE Steady. No. 2, 40:?. HAY Active. Choice timothy, old. $S; new. $6.50: choice prairie, $5.25: No. 1, $a. EGGS Firm. Fresh, 8c. Range of Prices. Furnished by the Wickham Commission Co.. 112 East Filth street. Topeka. Kan. Chicago, July 23. Article. Open High Low Close Yes. July"Y.77r 77 7S 77 75 Sept 67 6 67 6b 6,- Dec 67 68 CV 6 68 CORN July 32 23 32- 33 31 Sept 3234- 33 32 33" 23 Dec 3:! 31 3 3:i-34 34 May -3; 30- 35 36- 36 OATS July 23 23 23 23 2? Sept 19- 19 19- 19 19 May 22- 22 22- 22- 22 FORK July 9 80 9 80 9 SO 9 SO 9 72 Sept 9 85 9 97 9 82 9 95 9 87 LARD July 5 F5 5 55 5 55 5 55 5 50 Sept ...5 60 5 65 5 57 5 65 5 60 RI BS July 5 65 5 63 5 65 5 65 5 60 Sept 5 62 5 70 5 62 5 70 5 65 New York Money Market. New York. July id. MONEY Money on call, nominally 1'S 1 per cent: prime mercantile papei73U((i4 per cent: sterling exchange easy.with act ual business in bankers' bills at $4.S4fa for demand and $4.84 for sixty days: posted rates, $4.S5'a4.S5 and $4.86Ei4.87; commercial bills, $4.83'?i4.831c. SILVER Silver certificates, "9'S5Sc; bar silver. 59c: Mexican dollars, 45c. BONDS Government bonds strong. New 4s registered, 124: coupon, 125: 4s. 109; coupon. 110:: 2nds. 95: 5s, registered, 111; coupon, 112; Pacific 6s of '99, 101. Uanges of Prices on Stocks Furnished by the Wickham Commission Co.. 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan. New York, July 20. Stocks. fOr'n jHigh! Low jCl'se j 1c es. Sugar 1S2 133! 132 132 132 8S 97 li9UlllS 12 i 58' 3 People's Gas 97 9-l 97 Am. Tobacco Am. Spirits E. G. E C, B. Q Rock Is'and C, M. St. P. A..T. &8.F.Pfd Manhattan Western L7nion Mo. Pacific U. P. Pfd Union Pacific. N. Y. Central.. Reading No. Pac. Pfd.. L. N C. G. W l'8i 321 li:! 118 12 I 12 3MI 3s 3s H6j 1U5 105 105!1M 95Vi S6 (5i 95 98 33 104 92 35 59 23 117 36 69 52 14 98 343j, 105 92 35; 60 23 I 117j 16 I 70 ftf 14 98 33 104 92 34 i E9 23! ii7; i6: 69: 52 14 98i 97 34 j 3i. 106 106 92 I 85 34 6: 53 23: 23 117 117 16: K 70 69 f2l 51 14 14 Market Gossip. Furnished bv the Wirkham Commission Co.. 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan. Northwestern receipts: This year. Min neapolis 32 cars, Duluth 28 cars, total 60 cars: last vear. Minneapolis 171 cars, Du luth 222 cars, total 393 cars. Chicago receipts today: Wheat, 87 cars; corn. 256 cars; oats. 134 cars. Privileges, good next week: September wheat puts. 64c: September wheat calls. 72c; September corn puts, 31c; September corn calls. 30H'C Forecast: For Kansas City and vicinitv, tonight fair and cooler, Thursday fair. For Kansas, fair tonight and Thursday; cooler in southern and extreme eastern portions tonight. Warmer Thursday. Receipts of hogs: Chicago, 30 0 0. lower; Kansas City, 18,000, lower; Omaha, 10.000, lower. Liverpool Wheat, d higher; corn, d lower. Receipts of cattle: Chic-igo, 17.000, Idwit; Kansas City, 9,000, lower; Omaha, 2,3-30, steady. New York The stock market is in r-iiher bad way. Traders are looking on at the small business and narrow riuc ttiations with their hands folded and wondering when the dullness is going to end. On-? fact which stood out rather plainly w.is that the market gathered activity as it de clined more readily than It did when it advanced. This may not be signiiicant, but it went to offset much of the gosMp heard on the street as to a largo short in terest In sugar and other stocks and the intentions of certain operators who havo been among the market's leaders of late. The St. Paul decrease in earnings for the second week of July was discussed more than any other matter, but It should be well known to all operators by this time that what the greater roads are doing is no criterion at all of the bulls for the full fiscal year upon which they have just entered. As bearing upon the future earn ings of the roads in the grain country it will be of much interest to note in "the next few months the success of the lines in the operation of their new associa tion for the purpose of mutual protection. One of the most important influences In the market, and which will continue for some months to come, is the working of the various syndicates which are carry ing out extensive schemes for our rail roads and in which it Is expected that much profit will accrue. The general mar ket was influenced adversely by a report that there was much B. O. stock for sale. The price worked off a little to the lowest yet touched since the plan ap peared, but there' was no sign of a flood of stock. New York: Sales to noon, 77.465 shares of stock. Privileges: September wheat puts. 67 S76Sc: September wheat calls, 69&69"ic: September corn puts. 33c; September corn calls. 33c; September pork puts, $10.15; September pork calls, $9.75. DONOVAN COM. CO. Room 5 Columbian Bidg.Topeka, Ks. GRAIN AND STOCKS Bought and sold for cash or on tnarein. Private wires to New York. Chicago, St. Louis and Kan sas City. Full market quotations daily. Phone 18T. T. V. King, Broker. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FOR RENT 8 room house, northwest cor ner Third and Tyler: electric light and all modern conveniences. A. Zane, 1700 Clay st. LOST New floor rug, on Fourteenth be tween Kansas ave. and Van Buren; re ward for return to 1401 Kansas ave. WANTED A boy 16 or 17 years old to work in a fruit and confectionery store; reference required. 404 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Several good horses. Twelfth street livery barn. FOR SALE A small horse, cheap, if taken at once: a gentle driver. Call after 6 p. m., 521 Fillmore. A' 3

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Mr, Knapp claims that he can build a roller boat 200 feet high in three months, which would be an ideal troopship. He would have it capable of carrying 30, 000 men, and asserts that it would be much faster than the ships that now travel the ocean, says the Washington Post. Mr. Knapp said of his proposed boat: "Drawing little water, such a boat could get close in shore, and would not need to enter any particular port, but could land troops at any point on the shores of Cuba. The boat, too, would carry 60,000 tons of freight, and could be used as a coal boat. With 60, 000 tons of coal on board the roller boat would be a moving coal station for the fleet. Both ends of the boat could be armed with guns so that an enemy could not capture it." Mr. Knapp is a trim-looking, neatly dressed gentleman, who admits that his proposition sounds peculiar to the average man. He says all he asks in vindication of his statements is the wonderful record of his boat, already in operation at Toronto. GIRLS IN OVERALLS. Maine Laa.lea Wear Them to Wade the 'Front Stream, for tme Speckled Beauties. The women in upper York county go fishing, and it is said that they are not slow with the rod and line. There is one young1 woman who dons her broth er's overalls when she goes after the speckled beauties. She gives as a rea son that she does not want to be both ered with skirts, as they are right in the way when you climb fences. She can hook as many trout as any man in the neighborhood, and this season has brought in a number of handsome 6trings of fish, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A year ago a young and handsome schoolmarm from a city situated with in a few miles of Boston was visiting this female angler. One day some one proposed going fishing and she was wild to go, but said that she had no old dress that she could wear. "Wear overalls, the way I do," said the hostess. Her big brother, who was present, volunteered to loan her a pair just out of the store, that he had never worn, if she would accept them. The pretty schoolmistress finally consented to wear the blue drilling overalls, went fishing, caught a number of trout, fell in the brook and got a wetting, and when she returned at night thorough ly tired out, declared that she had never enjoyed herself so much before since she w'aa a lass and wore short dresses. BOOTBLACK SUPPLIES. A Comparatively New Butntis That Baa of Late Grown Cp to FiU Modern Wants. A business that has sprung up in New York in recent years is that of bootblack supplies. It owes its origin to the growth of the city, the multipli cation of bootblack t,tands, and the in troduction and extensive use of colored shoes. There are now a number of con cerns, small but complete establish ments, devoted to this business, that supply everything a bootblack requires, and his requirements are greater than they formerly were, says the Kew York Sun. At one place thers are kept on hand 65 varieties of shoe blacking or polish for shoes of all kinds and colors, includ ing blackings and polishes in boxes and bottles, and imported blackings as well as domestic, and waterproof blacking and oil. There are sold here cans for oil and for water; blacking pans, the small round pans made to hold a larger quantity of blacking than would be contained in a blacking box; brushes of all kindB, including daubers, dust brushes, and blacking brushes, whisk brooms and shoestrings of various kinds and colors. Some of these establishments send cut supply wagons, which regularly make the rounds of their customers at bootblacking stands all over the city and supply their wants, whatever they may be, on the spot. Bound to Have Clararettea, Men who have used tobacco and have been deprived of it can readily under stand what the soldiers suffer when de nied the oonsolation of a pipe. Several months ago the New York Sun. printed the story of a Cuban officer whose cigarettes had been, exhausted, and who walked into a town held by a com pany of Spaniards to replenish his stock. He bought his cigarettes and the Spaniards chased him out of town, firing at him as they ran. Fortunately he was not hit, but he did not think the danger he ran was too great for the advantage gained. There is to bacco enough in Cuba, according to all reports, but it is all within the fortified cities, and the men who are guarding outposts are not likely to get a large share of it when it is captured. A Poet'. Galtar. Shelley's guitar, presented to Mrs. Williams with his poem, "To a Lady, with a Guitar," has been given to the Bodleian library at Oxford by an Amer ican admirer of Shelley, who brought it from the Williams family for the purpose. THIS COURT HITS HARD. Amy Mam Who Undertakes to Irnanll It 1. Liable to Be Taken A Tray In an Ambulance. William Jennings, a litigant before Justice Robert M. Bowling, of Kansaa City, Kan., was beautifully whipped one afternoon recently for contempt of court and by the trial judge, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. He appeared before the court and offered to file an. affidavit in an attachment suit setting forth that he did not own the wood in question. "How is this?" inquired Judge Bowi ing. "Did you not testify when this case was up before that you did own the wood?" "No, I never said anything of the kind, and any man who says I did is a liar," retorted Jennings, excitedly. "So you mean to say, then, that I am a liar?" said Justice Bowling, indig nantly, rising to his feet. "This court will take a recesa for 15 minutes, and we will go outside and settle this mat ter." "Do I have to fight exclaimed Jen nings, in some confusion. "Yes, 6ir; you do," thundered the judge. "It is a rule of this court, sir." Saying this the judge pulled off his al paca coat, and in less time than it takes to tell it the two men were out in the street and were at it hammer and tongs. In ten minutes Jennings' eyes were closed, and he was so badly battered that he looked like he had been run through a stone crusher, while the judge, sans hat, sans coat, saus shirt, stood panting for breath, but with the dignity of his court up held. Judge Bowling did his man, up in style. He called a carriage to re move him. As the carriage pulled up to take Jennings away Judge Bowling was heard to say: "Any man who insults this court will have to fight." HOW IT HAPPENED. The Slns-nlar Manner In Which av louag Spanish Soldier Gained Promotion. "There's never any telling what mo ment a man's fortunes are going to turn," remarked the man who likes to tell stories, relates the Washington Star. "Of course opportunities are snre to present themselves," commented tha off-hand philosopher. "The only ques tion is whether the individual is a man of courage and resource, capable of recognizing and seizing them." "That consideration doesn't always count. I was in Cuba some time ago when a young fellow was promoted in the Spanish army and proclaimed a hero through his native country. Wherever he went there was an ova tion. He was sung about in the the aters and his photograph was in de mand everywhere. He had been sent out to meet an attacking party of Cu bans. He didn't want to go at all. Ha fairly trembled when he confessed to me that it was the first call he had ever had for dangerous duty and that he'd give anything he possessed to be out of the affair. In less than 24 hours the town was ringing with stories of tha way he held his ground when all the men he started with had beat a re treat. It was a marvel that he was not captured, but he stayed for sev eral minutes single-handed to face and fire on the advancing foe. The wonder was that he got away at all." "It was merely one of these familial cases of a man's suddenly finding his courage in the presence of real dan ger." "No. He was riding a mule, and just at the critical moment the animal balked." EXORCISING A DEMON. Sensational Ceremony L.at Year In Bavaria Which Recalls the Dark A are.. Perhaps the most recent instance of this survival of medievalism in one of the chief centers of modern civiliza tion and scientific culture occurred on March 15, 1897, at Munich, Bavaria, where a Catholic priest of St. Bene dict's church solemnly went through the ceremony of exorcising a demon that haunted a house at 24 Park street, in that city. It seems, says Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, that the evil spirit had disturbed the pious inmates of the dwelling by groaning, sighing and making such a racket generally that it waa impossible for them to sleep ,and was seen one night by a child passing' through the room in the disguise of an old woman dressed in black, evidently a srarvival of the race of ugly and ill-tarred hags who have played such a melancholy part in the tragic annals of witchcraft. On re ceiving this information the parish priest and his acolytes went at once to the house with aspergills and cen sers to expel th infernal intruder by the supernal power inherent in holy water and consecrated incense. The event caused considerable sensation in the Bavarian capital. A Queer Complaint. A Shan princess has written the fol lowing letter to the medical officer in charge of one of the cantonments in the Shan States: "KindJy supply me the under-mentioned medicines by bearer, as I am unwell, being fell down from elephant, and oblige. One does of smelling-salt, one dose for curing headache, one dose for curing the pain in neck." Amber In British Columbia. Valuable discoveries of amber have recently been made In British Colum bia, which it is claimed will be able to supply the pipemakers of the world with amber for another hundred years. Salt as Money. In Abyssinia not so very long ago salt was the principal medium of ex change, being practically .'nsed as money. RAGS AS THANK-OFFERINGS. A Carious Superstitious Custom of Oden Times That Is Not Whol ly Discontinued. The singular custom of leaving rags and other worthless objects at wells has not entirely fallen into disuse, says the London Mail. The superstition in a modified form, exists in other por tions of the world. A traveler in Per sia found a tree with rags tied to its branches. They had been left there by the inhabitants of a province in fected with ague. A tree hung with rags was found by another traveler in Africa. Crooked pins, old clothes, peb bles, shells, rusty nails, small coins and even bundles of heath were considered appropriate thank offerings at shrines in earlier days, for it was believed that the saints and apostles did not care for articles of value. Such was the superstitious adora tion of fountains that it was forbidden by the sixteenth of the canons issued in 960, in the reign of King Edgar, and it was condemned by the canons of St. Anselm. It was also interdicted by the laws passed in the reign of King Canute. Since the reformation the practice has not been prevalent except in Ireland, where many old wells consecrated to saints and martyrs are yet made the objects of pilgrimage. There is scarce ly a parish throughout the land that has not its own holy well, where, de spite practical admonition, the faith ful and the faithless come to pray for physical or mental relief and leave be hind them a scrap of rag as an offer ing. BLACK RAIN IN IRELAND. The Emerald Isle Was Lately the Soene of an Vm usual Flw. nomenon. At the end of March a curious in stance of a fall of black rain is re corded in Ireland, extending over an area of 30 miles in length and 16 in width. While the rain was falling, says the Meteorological Magazine, it was so dark that lamps had to be lighted, dense black clouds traveling slowly in a northeasterly direction. The color ing matter was found to be soot, which, considering the great distance from a manufacturing center, is cer tainly extraordinary. The soot was perfectly mixed with the moisture in these clouds and did not fall as smuts do in London, but thoroughly mixed with the rain. While the black rain was falling birds went to roost and many people were greatly alarmed by the darkness. The phenomenon is attributed to the strong winds which had blown for weeks previously, while the weather was dry, from the north east, and which had collected the soot from manufacturing towns of the south of Scotland, and the north of England, and carried it at a very high altitude in a southwesterly direction, until they met. the moisture-laden winds from the southwest, which be gan to blow on the day previous to the rain. Very fine sunsets were observed some days previous to the rain, similar to thos which followed the eruption of Krakotoa while the volcanic dust remained suspended in lofty clouds. THE SENSE OF HUMOR. Xabouchere Considers It the Most Precious of Gifts Bestowed I'pon Mankind. I regard the sense of humor as one of the most precious gifts that can be vouchsafed to a human being, writes Labouchere, in London Truth. He is not necessarily a better man for having it, but he is a hapiper one. It renders him indifferent to good or bad) fortune. It enables him to en joy his own discom fiture. Blessed with this sense, he is never unduly elated cr cast down. No one can ruffle his temper. No abuse disturbs Ms equanimity. Bores do not bore him. Humbugs do not humbug him. Solemn airs do not impose on him. Sentimental gush does not influence him. The follies of the moment have no hold on him. Titles and decorations are but childish baubles in his eyes. Prejudice does not warp his judgment. He is never in conceit or out of conceit with himself. He abhors all dogma tism. The world Is a stage on which actors strut and fret for his edification and amusement, and he pursues the even current of his way, invulnerable, doing what is right and proper accord ing to his lights, but utterly indiffer ent whether what he does finds approv al or disapproval from others. If Ham let had had any sense of humor he would not have been a nuisance to him self and to all surrounding him. GRANITE CARVED BY NATURE. Peculiar Effects Recently Observed In the Geoloa-lcal Structure of Kewfoundlaad. Extraordinary activity has been dis played recently in opening up depos its of coal, iron and copper of New foundland, and it is reported that the export of copper from the island dur ing the past 12 months was one-sixth of the total output from all other parts of the world, while the prospects are that in the next 12 months a still greater tonnage will be reeord'ed. There are, says the Philadelphia Rec ord, some very peculiar local effects ob served in the geological structure of the island of Newfoundland. There is a large granite quarry about 50 miles from St. Johns, the capital, where gran ite has been hewn by some convulsion of nature into rectangular blocks of different sizes, so conveniently assorted that schooner loads of selected stones have been brought 1o St. Johns and used in some of the public buildings and warehouses with little or no hand dressing by masons. The new post office and custom house built after the great fire which prac tically wiped out all the business part of the town, are partly constructed of these granite stones hewn by nature. THOUGHT HE WAS A HERO. How a Railway Ena-ineer Gained m Reputation for Bravery In an Easy Way. As a rule railroad engineers are a class of people who realize the respon sibility attached to their position, and are known as good fellows the world over, says the Denver Times. It would be unfair to say they are vain as a class, and yet it would not be unfair to say that occasionally one is found who would not care if he could be come the hero of one of those stories you read in the papers. The other day a Santa Fe fireman became reminis cent and was telling the curious sto ries of the ways of these heroes of the throttle. "I am just going to tell you of one," ke said, "and show you how they some times work up reputations for bravery. The one I speak of was particularly vain, and had charge of a fast train on the Burlington when I first knew him. Through eastern Colorado there are many small towns where no stop is made, and just before we would reach them he would jerk the old throttle wide open and go through the little burg at the rate of 65 or 70 miles an hour. "But this was not all, for old Dick was a smooth one. Before he reached the point to open 'er up and let 'er sail he would pick up a nickel cigar stump, light it and lean out of the window, smoking as coolly as you please, while the inhabitants of the little town were actually awe-stricken." "Did he get a reputation out of it?" was asked. "Well, I should say he did. When it was known that on some certain day the train was to stop the inhabitants of the j lace would always turn out to look for their flying hero." SUBTERRANEAN FIRES SEEN. Strana-e Phenomena That Have Been Discovered Near Santa Bar bara, Cal. At the mouth of Arroyo Burro creek, which empties into the ocean through the rocky cliffs of Santa Ynez moun tains, five miles west of Santa Bar bara, Cal., it has recently been discov ered that some internal fire is working in the hills. Sometimes it almost dies away, and one can only see the red dened and blackened fissures where it has changed the character of the rocks. At other times great masses of rock along the cliff are hot as a fiery furnace, and flame and smoke issue from them. They are at sufficient distance from the town to make it little wonder that so singular a phenomenon has not been more generally observed. Only at low tide can the projecting cliffs at half a dozen points be passed, and those who make the trip are for the most part gay horseback riders who would not be likely to observe discol ored rocks and gaseous emanations. The oldest native inhabitants often tell of volcanic eruptions in the days of their forefathers, but little atten tion has been paid to them until re cently, when the smoking mountain overlooking the ocean attracted the attention of a number of scientists, who say the claims of the mountain to be considered volcanic are at least worthy of consideration. CREATED A SENSATION. Tet It Was Only a Woman With, a Watermelon That Attracted the Colored Population. It was the first melon of the season and it was evidently brought from Florida. The negro woman who got off the Georgia Southern train with the melon pretended that She did not notice the sensation she created, but no conquering hero ever walked with a prouder step, says the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. At least two dozen pairs of eyes watched the woman as she passed out of the gate. As she ascended the steps the coon who could no longer control his feeling was heard to say: "I'd like ter see dat milyun drop on de flo" "I'd like ter see dat 'oman drap dead ef she'd jes' drap de milyun an? let it brek," said another. Meanwhile the woman stopped and put the melon on the steps to take a rest. Then the crowd gathered around, most of them making com ments loud enough for the woman to hear them, but she pretended not to hear a word, and after a short breath ing 6pell she took up the melon and marched on up the street, followed by a number of hotel porters, small boys, etc. Had the melon been a genuine gias cutis it could not have created a great er sensation among the colored popu lation. Awoke the Wrong Man. A fool, a barber and a baldheaded man were traveling together, says Tit Bits. Losing their way, they were obliged to sleep in the open air, and, to avert danger, it was agreed to watch by turns. The first lot fell on the barber, who for amusement shaved the poor fool's head while he was sleep ing. He then woke him, and the fool, raising his hand to scratch his head, exclaimed: "Here's a pretty mistake; you have awakened tha baldheaded man instead of me." Wlae (or Da thine. Malmsey, a butt of which wine was selected by George of Clarence for his final immersion, is now again used in France for bathing purposes. It takes a hundred quarts of wine for a bath, the French character of which is shown by the fact that the wine is poured back into the barrel after use, and is employed over again for the next bath. After a hundred baths, ac cording to the London Daily Tele grsph. the malmsey is distilled, "and the result is a delicious brand;." mfv ri era Rents, Situations, Real Estate, Auction Sdss, AND OTHER Classified Advertisements. ANNOUNCEMENTS. I am a candidate for the office of clerk of the district court, subject to the Re publican primaries July 23, 1898. 1. S. CURTIS. I am a candidate for the office of coun ty attorney of Shawnee county, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention. Primaries July 23d, 1893. II. 3. LARIMER. WANTED HELP. WANTED Work, by a widow, such as general nyuseworK in a sma.ii laiimy ui housekeeping in town or country. Call at oaj iutxa. x' u u i ill. WANTED Place as housekeeper for widower witn small ramiiy, Dy eiaeriy lady. Address "Widow," care Journal. WANTED A place to work In private family or boarding house; wages not im portant; a home desired. Address L., care Journal. WANTED By competent middle-aged widow, a place to work In tailor shop. Address S., care Journal. WANTED Situation as domestic In small family of adulls; no washing; middle aged lady. 9rtl West Sixth St., Topeka, Kan. C. R. H. WANTED Blacksmith An experienced blacksmith that understands general job work and horseshoeing; steady work and liberal wages will be paid. Apply R. Cas sidy, Beloit, Kan. AT LIBERTY Strong, fluent solicitor. I can pirsh your business. Work salary or commission. Address Nixon, Lock Box S3, Topeka. WANTED White girl at 1243 Topeka ave; good wages. WANTED SALESMEN. $15 TO $35 a week and expenses paid men to sell cigars on time; experience unnec essary. W. L. Kline Co., St. Louis, Mo. WANTED AGENTS. AGENTS Quick men to visit stores and sell machine for printing signs on fences, bridges, rocks, etc. Steady work all sum mer. Arc Co.. 26 Arc St., Racine, Wis. WANTED 3 men in Topeka and one man in each unoccupied town in Kansas and adjoining states to take orders for men's made to order suits at $4.50 to $15, mostly $4.50 to $10, pants $1.50 to $o; $60 per month made by beginners without experience. We furnish full line of samples and all necessary outfit. For application and ref erence blank and full particulars, ad dress American Woolen Mills Co., Tailors for the Trade, Chicago, 111. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED Two boarders at 526 Madison. Terms reasonable. Please call at once. Will endeavor to please. WANTED Use of horse for several months for Its feed. Address R., care Journal. WANTED Boarders, pleasant furnished rooms. 915 North Van Buren st. WANTED Everyone to know that in re plying to an advertisement which reads to address "Care Journal" the reply must be made in writing and sent through the mail postpaid, or left at this office. It will then be placed in one of the boxes set aside for replies to classified advertise ments. WANTED Gasoline stoves to clean, $1; guaranteed for season; old burners re placed by improved gas or gasoline burn ers. ruu line summer stuvea auu uvtns. Phone 213. Hull StoveicRepair Co..lli E.Sth. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Single harness, good as new. Southeast corner Seventh and Van Buren. FOR SALE Large team, wagon and har ness. Address A. B. C, care Journal. FOR SALE Good driving or work horse. Inquire St. Nicholas hotel. FOR SALE Good paying picture frame and moulding business. Call or address 1207 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. FOR SALE Or exchange for dry cows or horses, 8 fresh cows. 334 Harrison. FOR SALE Cow. half Jersey, fresh, with second calf. 138 Emmet St. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN CO. FOR SALE Ten R.I. P.A.N. 'S for cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOB. EE NT ROOMS. FOR RENT After July 25th. one large front room, furnished, also three unfur nished rooms appropriate for liht house keeping; large closets, electric lights. south and east exposure, shady lawn, etc., in a beautiful residence part of the city, close in; married couple without children preferred. Call on or after the above date at 410 West Fourth st. References ex changed. FOR RENT Flats and store rooms. 214 East Fifth St. FOR RENT Unfurnished rooms, with the use of bath, at 426 Jefferson St.

FOR RENT Newly repaired pleasant fur nished rooms. 421 Quincy St. FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT. Six room house, 612 Jackson street. Inquire at 616 Jackson street. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT at 934 Kansas ave. Gas, heat, hot and cold water, bath and all conveniences, single or en suite. MISCELLANEOUS. 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 201 West Sixth street, in the Fourth ward in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of the some is set for Friday, 9 a .m., August 19, 1898. W. H. GUNTHER. Topeka, Kan., July 19th, 1898. MISS MABEL MARTIN, teacher of piano and harmony. 411 Woodlawn ave., Potwin. STALL IN GOOD BARN for rent cheap. 421 Qulncy st. Yiavi The best known remedy for women. Ladies in attendance. Kansas Viavl Co., 2 Columbian Building, Topeka. TO o CARBONATED Boon Mineral Water la healthiest and most economical; get prices. Boon Mineral Well, 618 Fillmore, Topeka. DODTHITT PLACE Has been onened. Your choice of lots $150 to $4i0. Eugene Wolfe, 517 Kansas ave. WEIBLE HORNER, 113 East Seventh St., make all sizes of door and window screens, mouldings, brackets, sash and doors, wood carving and turning. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, la open daily except Sunday, from 1 to 2 p. m. E. M. Brockett, M. D. STORAGE. STORAGE The Topeka Stornga and Warehouse Co. (formerly Topeka Stor age Co., 305 Kas. ave.) store stoves, house hold goods etc. On June 1 removed to new fireproof stone building, 212 and 214 Kas. ave. C. D. Skinner, Prop. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE Lots 1G3. 165, 167 Buchanan St., east front, within 150 feet of Sixth ave. car line; $500 each. C. K. Holliday, Jr., 435 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 35 lots near the Santa Fe shops, 35 lots Twenty-first and Madison sts., 60 lots near Shorey. 8 room house and JVz acres near city limits. 80 acres 6 miles north, all on time payments or cheap for cash. M. Heery, 109 East Third: LOST AND FOUND. FOUND The umbrella repairer and Jew eler, W. S. McCormick, at 813 Kan. ave. MONEY. MILLIONS eastern money for Investment. Send for circular. Investors Directory, New York. MONEY TO LOAN on farms or city prop erty at reasonable rates. W. M. FORBES. 116 W. 6th ave. MONEY to loan on farms. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles, guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe, 523 Kansas ave. WANTED We want to make good farm loans in easterh Kansas. Money oa hand and every accommodation to bor rower. T. E. BOWMAN CO., Columbian Building. MILO NORTON, at 406 West Sixth ave., will make farm loans of $1,500 or over) at 6 per cent interest. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. THEx"c!'DARLlS! High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work, low price. Catalogue free. 'Phone 292. 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. EUJELANTJFEED LEAVE your orders for coal, flour, feed and seeds with Van Slyck, 509 W. 10th. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS. L. A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence corner Gordon St. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phons 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system, of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, flshure, ul ceration, etc. S. E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospiial. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. m. to 5. p. m. Telephone BUS residence and 16 office. TIN SHOPS J. M. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, pumps and tin roofing. 216 W. 6th. Tel. 359. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and Sundries; bicycles and tandems for rent; repairing of all kinds. PRINTERS. TOPEKA PRINTING CO., 112 East Sev enth st. Mail orders given prompt at tentlon. Print everything. Prices right. FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor ta R. J. Groves, 817 Kansas ave.. Phone 602. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Op tician. Complete slock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. NATIONAL STABLES. GILCHRIST BROS., Prop. i Good turnouts delivered to any part 5 of the city. BUAK.Di.MU A SPECIALTY. Phone 46. 106 Jackson S Western Steam Dye (Cleaning Works 117 East Seventh Street. Bet. Kansas Ave. and Qtiiucy. south side. Does the best work In the citv of Dye ing, Cleaning and Repairing on Ladien and Gentlemen's clothing at reasonablo prices. Give us a cail. SATISFACTIOM GUARANTEED. C.F.RODIGER, Prop. RIPAHS TABULES EeguUte th Btsm&ch. Liver anl Bowels. KIdsds Tabu.es re ths best Medicine known fer Indigesllen, Bllomness, Head ache. Constipation, lysppsia. 1 nronic i.iv er Trouble. D'xziBr.sg. Offensive Breath, and all CtUordersof the Stomach. Liver and Kuweis. Eipaon labulei oentain nothing injurious to the most aelieace ocastltutioH. Ail pleas ant to take, safe, effectual, and give Imme diate relief. May be ordered through nearest druggist or by matU THE RIPiH CHE5IICAI CO., ia anuci btbkst. nkw yors ran. We'll Do Your Hauling Eight I TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephone 509 Kansas Are. omcj. F. P. BACON, Prop. gr-See ma about storaga.

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAX, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1898. liri 2CS3. Karachi iq 2 minutes, mods mit'int? n the invaluable in female troubles, t or outward V wiivo ivi-a-jon ixvjiij nuuuua. v-"" JV- rJW, Its Healing Power is Almost Miraoulous. The Best Family Medicine in Existence. 6Q Cent Bottle contains 100 Doses, o? Two Weeis Treatment for Catena, St.OO BOTTLE EQUALS THREE GOo. BOTTLES. HOME TESTIMONIALS: Brazilian Balm cured me of inveterate catarrh which I had for OTer 20 years. It is the most wonderful triumph of medical science." Gen. J. Parke Pasties. "In croup, cold and the worst form of grtpp we have found Brazilian Balm invaluable." Jno. IV. S. Boothe, D. D., Pastor Del. Ave. Bap. Ck. "Mrs. Lore has used the Brazilian Balm and thinks it did her much good." Hon. Chas. B. Lore, Chief Jus. of Del. "One bottle of Brazilian Balm cured a friend of mine of hay fever." Thos. M. Culbert. "I was very deaf for 10 years from catarrh. Brazilian Balm applied warm in my ears every day soon restored my hearing." Mrs. John Scotten, Chester, 'Pa. "It is the best thing for dyspepsia I ever saw tried." Judge Edward Wootten. "I was worn almost to the grave with a racking cough that all the remedies and the doctors failed to relieve. It was cured with one bottle of Brazilian Balm. It shall be my doctor through life." Mrs. J. Galloway, Pottstown, Pa. "I was fearfully crippled up with rheumatism, could not get my hand to my head. I took ten 50 cent bottles of Brazilian Balm in six months. Am now entirely cured and iis nim ble as I was at forty." Anson Burrell, aged S4. A lady in Cincinnati Was so afflicted with asthma that during the winter for seventeen years she was unable to sleep lying down, was entirely and permanently cured with. Brazilian Balm. sAnAalUK?'STS l B. F. JACKSON CO., Indianapolis. Infl. MANY LAKE YESSELS IDLE. Small Sailingl Craft Cannot Compete With the Big Liners. Chicago, July 20. The small vessel owners on the lakes are having the "worst season in their whole experience. The reason is said to be chiefly that the rates on grain are so low. Owners of Bailing vessels say no vessel carrying less than 100,000 bushels will pay the owner to make a trip with a grain rate of one cent a bushel. In consequence many of the smaller craft are lying idle. A few have made one or two trips this season and some liave not been out of the harbor. The number of sailing vessels now tied up in the river is estimated at seventy to seventy-five. The only business of the sailing vessel now is the lumber trade, tiut that is not profitable because it is ail one way, with no cargo on the re turn trip. As a consequence of the dull times in the lake marine many of the best fresh water sailors are enlisting in the navy. The sailors of the unsalted seas are said to be superior to those on the ocean, and at any rate their offers to enter the navy are gladly accepted at the recruiting stations. CONSUL A MALICE TICTIM. Carriage Team Maimed by Spaniards in Paris. Anderson, Ind., July 20. Letters re ceived from "Uncle Jack" Gowdy of Hushville, consul at Paris, indicate that he is having some little unpleasant ness on account of the war. Most of the French people are Spanish sympa thizers and they lose no opportunity to show their preference. He has, .therefore, concluded to take a. vacation and is making a visiting tour of other countries in Europe, accompanied by his wife, daughter and Finley McGuire. They were in Vienna when heard from. Among other demonstrations on the part of Spanish sympathizers one was notable, inasmuch as his two Kentucky thoroughbred horses, which he had shipped to him, were maimed, and their long tails and manes, in which he took great pride, were shaved. The work had been done one night, when his Hushville hostler was seeing the sights. Gowdy and family are in the best of health. FATALLY STUNG BY BEES. Two-Year-Old Child Rendered Uncon scious by the Insect3. Racine, Wis., July 20. The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Morgan started away from his home and went to a beehive. The bees swarmed upon him and stung him so frightfully that he lost consciousness and fell. In the attempt to rescue her son Mrs. Morgan was also fiercely attacked by the bees. It is doubted by attending physicians If the child will recover. He has not yet recovered consciousness. Santa Fe Track Improvements. The eastern division on the Santa Fe has been improved materially since last fall. At present four work trains are out. At Tecumseh one train is straight ening the curves. At Lecompton a stone crusher is kept running and a train carries ballast out to the main line. At Melvern, on the cut off, an other crusher is at work and the cut off is being equipped with the standard ballast. On the L. T. S. a gang is at work ditching the right of way and making other improvements. Give the Children a Drink Called Grain-O. It is a delicious appe tizing.nourishing food 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 ts 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 TIIE ROCK ISLAND FLIER Is the Best Train for Kansas City. Leaves Topeka 7:30, arrive at Kansas City 9:15 a. m., returning, leaves Kan sas City 7:10, arriving at Topeka 8:E0 S. m. Ladies' Shirt Waists laundred so that the colors will not fade, by Fearless Steam Laundry. Brazilian Balm THE GREAT SOUTH AIEPJCAH EILSAI I CUKB3 iSOiSoECiOiigiMpp T-iTTCF. MAOIO. RADICALLY CURES A vp A ra !S !U! 0 !It clears tlie head of foul mucous heals the sores and ulcers of the head and throat; I sweetens the breath, and perfectly restores the senses of the taste, smell and hearing1. jStops headache and dropping into the HAY FEVER. making a perfect cure iu a few days. Never fails 1 No fatal case of La Grippe ever known where Brazilian Balm was faithfully used. It destroys the grippe germ and quickly removes all the after bad effect INFALLIBLEin Asthma, Croup, Bron chitis, Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Typhoid and Scarlet Fever, Measles, and any disease where there is Inflammation, Fever or Congestion. Greatest relief in Consumption ever dis covered. Cures a Fresh Cold In onft daw. SfnT head and relieves deafness. As an injection use neals ruts, bores and Burns like magic. Pre 3R CONSTIPATION AND PILES. use heals Cuts, Sores and Burns like magic WUHD If A 1 iUIl AIMS FIUCO. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES Filed Against China by the American Consul. Victoria, 33. C, July 20. The Empress of India brings the following advices: Great damage was done by the floods In Japan June 25. Several towns and villages were flooded. No loss of life is reported. The Hillyer Co.'s tea gardens at Kobe were damaged by fire recently to the extent of $50,000. It is reported from Shanghai that Belgians have made an offer to take a large unmber of coolies to work under contract in the Congo, supplying in ex change an equal number of negroes to be trained into armed force. The black flag rebellion in the Quong provinces of China is increasing. The standard of revolt has been raised at four points and danger is feared at the various missionary stations. The United States consul at Canton has formulated a heavy claim of in demnity damages for the wanton des truction of the American missions school at Hoiping. He demands that the school be rebuilt and damages of ten thousand dollars iri Mexican money. The German minister at Seoul re quested the orean minister of foreign affairs to wait upon him at the lega tion. Upon the latter's arrival, the Ger man minister administered to him a severe thrashing on account of his re fusal to grant certain mining privileges to German subjects in the district of Kiojgu. The Korean government is greatly incensed. The Japanese papers are still discuss ing the desirability of forming an Anglo-Japanese alliance in view of the fears entertained of Russian aggression in China. The tone of the Chinese and Japanese papers is indicative of grow ing belief in the possibility of an ulti mate outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Russia. At Pekin the Russians are making strenuous efforts to prevent any con tracts or concessions being granted to Great Britain. The treaty of the con struction of the Lu Han railway, Pekin to Han Kau, was signed at Pekin July 1, the contract being awarded to a Bel gian syndicate. This is taken as a di rect blow at British interests brought about by the machinations of the Rus sians and French. The Germans are desirous of obtaining a contract for the construction of a railway from Tien Tsin and Chin King. Every effort is being made in this direction with a view of keeping British interests out. Chinese pirates attempted o gain possession of the Indo-China steamer Yung Who when leaving Hau Kao. A number of Chinese came aboard with heavy bags. Passengers who were sus picious insisted upon a search being made with the result that arms were found concealed. AGUIN ALDO FIGHTS A DUEL Severely Wounds His Antagonist, a Spanish Captain. Victoria, B. C, July 20. According to advices brought from Hong Kong by the steamer Empress of India, it is re ported there that a Spanish regiment near Manila met a force led by Agui naldo and the Spanish captain chal lenged Aguinaldo to mortal combat be fore the battle began. The offer was accepted and the duel resulted in the fatal wounding of the Spanish officer. The Spanish governor at Tulu Straits settlement fears an American invasion. He sleeps on a small gunboat and is ready for a hurried flight.' The colony is making preparations to resist attack by organizing volunteer forces. The governor's difficulties are increased by a threatened rebellion. GERMAN BLUSTER. Admiral Diedrichs Promises to Pre vent Bombardment of Ports. Victoria, B. C, July 20. The steamer Empress of India, which has arrived from Hong Kong had among her pas sengers Captain D. E. Hodgeson, who commanded the revenue cutter Mc Culloch during the battle of Manila. Captain Hodgeson is on his way to San Francisco. According to the Hong Kong papers Admiral Diedriehs. commander of the German fleet at Manila, is credited with the statement that he will prevent Ad miral .Dewey from bombarding Manila or any port. OLDEN CHURCH TROUBLE. Measures Taken to Prevent Colored Men Prom Molesting the Property. The Second Baptist church trouble has been taken to the courts. A peti tion has been filed in the district court asking Judge Hazen for a restraining order requiring Rufus Frazer, Jefferson Davis, John Bradshaw, Clem Holland. John Thomas, and Nathan Williams to cease molesting the church property and to cease damaging the property. The petition asks that a temporary re straining order be issued and that when the case comes to hearing that a per manent restraining order be issued against them. The affidavit attached to the petition is sworn to by W. E. Stewart, a trustee of the church. This is the Rev. G. D. Olden's church, composed of colored people, who have begun the erection of a large church building at the southeast corner of Third and Quincy streets. The founda. tion of the edifice has been built, and recently an extension was begun on it. The defendants, it is claimed, have in every way attempted to prevent this being done. The shooting scrape in which Rev. G. D. Olden wounded Rufus Frazer, was a result of the defendants named having moved a smali building onto the church property and occupying it in order to maintain possession of it. The Second Baptist church has re tained as legal counsel Isenhart Alex ander, and Overmyer Mulvane. ZOLA UUSS AWAY. Ho Goes to Switzerland to Avoid Ar rest. Paris, July 20. M. Emile Zola who with M. Perreux, managing editor of the Aurore, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 francs on the charge of libel brought against him by the officers of the Ester iiazy court martial, has gone to Lu cerne, Switzerland, to avoid arrest. MORRILL GETS BIT. Everybody Who Helped Bolster Up the Old Party Organ Now Being Sued. Another suit has been filed by the Remington Paper company against a stockholder in the Topeka Capital com pany, and this time it is ex-Governor E-. N. Morrill. Quinton Quinton, as attorneys for the Remington Paper company, of Wa tertown, N. Y., yesterday filed a peti tion in the district court asking that E. N. Morrill be required to pay to the plaintiff on a judgment rendered against the corporation, the sum of $2,500. The petition states that E. N. Morrill subscribed for two shares of stock in the Topeka Capital company, at $500 a share. A few years ago the Remington Paper company secured a judgment against the Toneka Capital company fn the sum of $S,630. The petition asks that ex-Governor E. N. Morrill be re quired to pay $2,000 as his share on the double liability clause for his stock, and that he be made to pay $500 which he owes on the stock subscribed for and as yet unpaid. The Remington Paper company has filed similar suits against R. L. Thom as, J. K. Hudson and Arthur Capper, and against the Topeka Capital compa ny as a corporation. LONG FIGHT ENDS With the Distribution of Offices in Louisiana. Washington, July 20. The president toda made the following appoint ments: Treasury To be collectors of cus toms: District of St. Augustine. Fla., Thomas B. George; district of Fernan dina, Fla., John W. Howell: district of St. Marks, Fla., Samuel P. Anthony; district of New Orleans, Augustus T. Wimberlv; district of Pearl River, Miss., John P. Walworth. Louis J. Souer to be collector of in ternal revenue for the district of Louis iana. Charles W. Bothny to be superintend ent of the mint at New Orleans. Charles Fontainliu to be marshal of the eastern district of Louisiana. The Louisiana appointments dispose of a long factional contest that has been waged for the federal patronage in that state. ALMIGHTY'S TINY APPLES. Can't Give Kansas All the Good Things Year In and Year Out. Judge F. Wellhouse of the Kansas state horticultural society who owns 1, 600 acres of apple orchards in Kansas takes a gloomy view of the prospect for an apple crop. He said today: "The prospects for a crop are very poor. My old trees have no apples and all the fruit is on my young trees. The apple crop in Kansas will not be more than a fourth of a crop and the nation over the crop will not be more than half what it should be. "The week or more of cold wet weath er while the apple trees were in bloom is responsible for this condition. It pre vented fertilization." M'NALL IS SARCASTIC. Says That Judge Horton Must Have Hired "Mort" Albaugh to Help Him. The'next move of the insurance compa nies as announced by Judge Horton is" to require Webb MoNali to make an account ing of the fees collected for examinations of insurance companies. The attorneys will also secure affidavits from the officers of the companies concerning the amounts paid for examination to agents of the Kansas department. When asked what he thought of the new move Mr. McXall said: "Yes. I have read the interview of Bro ther Horton as outlined in the papers as to the way and manner in which he will propepute the case of the Connecticut Fire Insurance company against this depart ment in his injunction proceeding's. "What do I think of it? I think the prosecution, as outlined by him. shows great judicial learning, a well balanced judicial mind, and he must contemplate that he will have as brilliant an outcome as he did in the case of the Travelers' Insurance company against this depart ment. It really looks as if he had em ployed that eminent barrister, the Hon. Morton Albaugh. to assist him in the pros ecution of the case." Money for Manhattan College. The state treasurer today received a check for $24,000 from the treasurer of the United States. The money is the share of Kansas in the appropriation for the benefit of agricultural colleges, made by congress. The check received this year is for the largest amount Kansas has ever received. The money will be placed in the agricultural college fund. Summer Tourist Tickets to Colorado and return for $24.00, on sale daily to September 15, by Santa Fe Route. Ko-To-Bm for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 60c, Si. All druegUta. NOT A CHARITY HOSPITAL. Good Work of the Salvation Army Said to Be Waning. The Salvation Army hospital is no more a distinctively charitv hospital. There are now but four charitv cots in the hospital and the other eight or ten are used for patients who can pay for hospital attention. The Salvation Army hospital was started by Captain Jos. Hawk of the Salvation Army and did an immense amount of good. Charitable people in Topeka gladly subscribed for its sup port and the expenses were kept up and bills paid. This time last year there were 16 patients being cared for, and all free. But lately a new move has been made, and but four cots are available for charity patients. The Salvation Army, however, still continues to solicit sub scriptions for the work of maintaining the institution. An official who has had much to do with the hospital in the way of helping with its maintenance and of sending patients to it, said today: "It is hard to get patients in the hospital now. They have but four charity cots, while last year there were 16. They solicit just the same. The hospital as it is now maintained is not doing the good it was." SOLDIER'S FAMILY NEEDY. Death at Santiago Brings Misfortune and Sadness to Leavenworth. Leavenworth, July 20. The wife of Ser geant Dumke, troop B, Seventh cavalry, received at letter yesterday from her hus band, who is at Santiago, telling of the death of Private Langley of his troop. The family is in a destitute condition, day's fighting and was struck by a Mauser bullet. A rumor of the death of Private Lang ley had been received by his mother, Mrs. Taylor, and his 17-year-old wife, but they did not believe it. Yesterday when Ser geant Dumke's letter came and the re portwas confirmed, Mrs. Dumke, who re sides at the fort, conveyed the news to the family, when a most distressing scene oc curred. The mother of the dead soldier. Mrs. Taylor, fell to the floor in a faint and re mained in a semi-conscious condition all night. Mrs. Langley, who has a babe two months old, born since its father left for the front, was so dazed that at first she could not speak, but afterward, dur ing the entire evening, she did little else than wring her hands and moan softly, "My darling, my darling. I cannot go to him." The family is in a destitute condition, and being unable to pay" Vent had been notified to move today. They were mak ing preparations to move when the shock ing news arrived. Major Laing. O. B. Taylor.Dennts Ryan, Robert Beller and others made up a purse for the relief of the family until the relief committee could get in working order. Mrs. Taylor is quite ill today. NOT ENOUGH BRICK WALKS Now It is Mrs. Minnie Lewis Who Pell and Sues the City. Mrs. Minnie Lewis, of North Topeka, has sued the city of Topeka for injur ies which she claims befell her by fall ing on a defective sidewalk in North Topeka. In her petition filed in the district court she claims that in April, 1897, she fell on a broken sidewalk on the north side of Norris street near Harrison and in so doing, was cut, bruised and strain ed, her limb being torn and being ren dered sick, sore and lame. She says that she was confined to her bed for two months, had a heavy doctor bill to pay and she asks the court to grant her damages in the amount of $1,080. KANSANS AT SANTIAGO. One is a Rough Rider and Went Into Active Service. Larned, Kan., July 20. Lamed has two representatives at the battles of Santiago, one in the army and the oth er in the navy. Nelson Bartoo, son of J. K. Bartoo of this city, is o.ie of Roosevelt's rough riders. He is a pri vate in company A, and took part in the first land battle at Juragua and also in the capture of Caney. He writes to his father that the Spaniards "never touched him." William H. Smith, son of W. B. Smith also of this city, and a graduate from the city high school, is one of the elec tricians on board the auxiliary gunboat Resolute, and although his boat took no part in the engagement, he witness ed the destruction of Cervera's fleet, which he graphically describes. EXPECT S00NT0 LEAVE. Lieut. Jillson, Back From Falls Church, Says Kansana Will Go to Porto Rica Lieut. C. A. Jillson of company E, Twenty-second Kansas volunteers now stationed at Falls Church, Va., passed through Topeka yesterday on his way to Emporia to spend a 20 days' leave of absence. "We hope to get away on the Porto Rico expedition and I may have to re turn before my leave is up," said Lieut. Jillson. "The regiment is in the best of shape and Gen. Mace, a regular offi cer from South Dakota, says that the Twenty-second Kansas is the best reg iment in camp." Lieut. Jillson was dressed in the buff canvas uniform that has lately been adopted. The sleeves are faced with light blue and the shoulder knots are plain light blue flaps buttoned down. IMPROPER TREATMENT. Private Powell Says Volunteers Die "Because of Negligence of Surgeons. Salina, July 20. The following letter was received from Geo. Powell's brother from San Francisco: San Francisco, July 14. I am nearly dea4 with a hard cold on the lungs and can not get any medicine for it. We had a corporal die of lung fever and he could not get treatment. I tell you it is something awful. I went on the sick list this morning and it would astonish you to see what they gave the boys and myself. Four pieces of chalk, for colds settled on the lungs. I tell you the government does not care for its soldiers. A soldier in Company F died yesterday from spinal meningitis caused by not having proper care. I wish" you would put this in the paper so that you can tell what we soldiers are getting. We are going to be moved a mile or two to the north to the bar racks of San Francisco, Cal. Yours, PRIVATE P. A. POWELL, Company M, 20th Kansas. No Pever at Tampa. Jacksonville, Fla,, July 19. The re port of yellow fever in Tampa was cir culated in and about Jacksonville today and a message was dispatched to W. B. Henderson, president of the state board of health, resident in Tampa, which elicited the following reply: "No foun dation for report, nfft even a suspicious case of fever either in city or camps." Not how cheat) but how good Is th way we try to do our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th ABOLISH CONVENTIONS. Missouri Middle-of-the-Road Popu lists Have a New Scheme. St. Louis, July 20. The middle-of-the-road Populists now have a scheme whereby divisions in conventions can be entirely obviated in the near future, and repetitions of the stirring scenes of several weeks ago will be prevented. In other words, they are about to de cide that conventions are a useless ad junct to the government of political parties and can be omitted from the programme altogether. In the future, if a plan submitted by a committee appointed for that purpose is adopted, candidates for political pre ferment will be nominated and plat forms for the guidance of their party will be adopted by means of the initia tive and referendum. At the last meet ing of the middle-of-the-roaders State Committeeman Sheridan Webster was appointed chairman of this committee and given power to select his confreres. The duty of the committee, as outlined, was to form a plan for the future gov ernment of the Populist party in Mis souri. Webster has now finished writing his report, and submitted it to C. J. An derson, an official of the state commit tee. As is usual with Webster, he makes some radical suggestions and wants the initiative, referendum and imperative mandate universally adopt ed. His idea is to form People's party clubs in every congressional district, county and township in the state. In signing his application, every member must agree to be governed by the rules adopted for the future government of the party. Suggestions for the good of the party can be made by any member in good standing on the first day of each month and they will be voted on 30 days later, a majority vote to determine the re sult, a return of which shall be made to the state committee. A proposed change in rules requires an application to the state committee of 10 per cent of the club members, when it will then be sent to the congressional district com mittee. Ten per cent of the members of the club can also make an application to remove a committeeman or a candidate from the state ticket. Webster's idea is to first form a state club. If ten members of this club reside in one con gressional district, it shall be their du ty to withdraw and form a district club. The same numerical rule ap plies to counties within the district and then to townships within the county. In townships, however, only five mem bers are needed to form the nucleus of a club. Thus it can be seen that the idea is to govern the party by means of township clubs. Each club can devise its own ways and means for raising funds, but the members thereof must pay a per capita tax to the county, congressional, state and national committees. One cent a month is the tax for county, congres- j sional and national committees, while 2 cents must be paid to the state com mittee. In all cases where the aid of a referendum vote is invoked, only those who have paid their per capita tax will be permitted to exercise their franchise. The idea of the plan, as explained by Mr. Anderson, is to do away wit hall wire pulling in state conventions, where unscrupulous politicians can de fy the will of the people who have elected them as delegates to the con vention with an implicit confidence in their integrity. ALIENS AT PULLMAN. Fifteen French Canadian Me chanics Imported by Palace Car Company. Chicago, July 20. Fifteen French-Canadian mechanics, who were smuggled over the United States border at Port Huron, Mich., by labor contractors will be given employment in the works of Pullman's Palace Car company at Pullman, The alien workmen were quartered in the model town and as signed to houses that have remained vacant since the big strike in the sum mer of 1S94. The arrival of the imported artisans perturbed the employes of the car works. The cause of the company's procuring workmen from abroad was a mystery which was discussed wide ly and with apprehension. Every morn ing unemployed skilled workmen and laborers apply at the gates of the works for employment and the supply of home labor has far exceeded the de mand. The fact that considerable se crecy was maintained in bringing the j outside men did not lessen tne uneasi ness displayed over their advent. Sarnia, Ontario, was the rendezvous of the Canadian mechanics. They gathered there during the night from various points and were taken aboard the early morning Grand Trunk train. The contractors gave each man two tickets, one to Port Huron, across the St. Clair river, and the other ticket reading from Port Huron to Chicago. The men knew their destination was the Pullman works and freely discus sed their prospects for steady employ ment there. The men were not brought to Chica go. The conductor of the train re ceived orders to stop at Harvey, a sta tion that the express never before in cluded in its stopping schedule, and the men were there disembarked. They were driven to the vicinity of Pullman and were then conducted in couples in to the town on foot. The two contractors in charge of the party refused to talk of their mission. One of the mechanics, however, said he and his companions had been engaged in Canada to, work for the company. "We are skilled mechanics." he said, "and most of us were working in Ca nadian factories. We were told that there was no trouble at Pullman." Officials of the Pullman company de clined to discuss the matter and de nied that any workmen had been im ported. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Fluid Strikes an Uplifted Ax and Kills Two Boys. Birmingham, Ala., July 20. Just be fore a terrific rainstorm commenced at Prattville a very peculiar accident oc curred. Mallard Goodson, a colored youth, was in the act of splitting a piece of wood when an upraised ax in the youth's hands was tsruck by light ning and melted, as was also a saw at the boy's feet. The boy himself and Tommit Rawlinson, a white boy, stand ing near, were killed. O A.STO XX X A.. Bean the I 1158 ina 'ou Have Always BOUgi? Signature of OASTOH.IA. gears the j Ih Kind You Have Alwavs Bought C3 y. 5 3? O X?. Bear the ne M lOU HaveAlwavS BOUjrfit Signature of DARING AT SANTIAGO. Officers Seized Perilous Opportunities For Heroism. New York, July 20. Richard Harding Davis, writing from Santiago to the Her ald, says: Official returns today of the killed and wounded in the battles of July 1 and 2 make the total about 800. Since those days all men have agreed in praising cer tain officers for exceptionally brilliant work during the battle. No man can say that one man behaved much better than any other, but some were placed, or placed themselves, in positions of greater danger and held greater responsi bility. Among these, you hear most of Gener als Chaffee and Hawkins, of Colonel Roosevelt and his charge.of Colonel Miley, a young engineer of General Shaffer's staff, who, while ostensibly representing his chief, gave orders of his own which commanders, of brigades obeyed. They and everyone else are now praising him highly. Eight hours under fire, he was cool, collected and intelligent. Another officer who cannot be suffi ciently praised is Lieutenant Parker, who commanded the Gatling guns. He has been recommended for the medal of honor. When his two gunners were killed, he took hold of the gun and worked it as calmly as though he were squirting a gar den hose. Then there is Lieutenant Harmon of General Sumner's staff, who continued to act as aid although he was wounded, and brought in the Hotehkiss guns after the officer in charge was overcome by the heat. The only foreign military attache who advanced with the firing line was Captain Arthur Lee, R. A. He was with General Chaffee at EI Caney. and went with the Twelfth up the hill when they charged the fort. While maintaining his position as a non-combatant he rendered timely aid to the wounded under an incessant fire. He is at present the only attache living in the rifle pits, because they occupy the only ground from which the two armies may be seen. The French attache never got within seven miles of the front. The others are at General Shafter's headquar ters in the rear, three miles from the rifle pits. General Shafter's order congratulating the army on the victory of July 1 says that General Joseph Wheeler was in com mand of the cavalry division, and de scribes his leading the advance. This is an error of statement which is not of im portance where the situation is under stood, but as it will probably be incorpor ated in General Shafter's official report it should be corrected. General Wheeler was relieved of his command the day before the battle on account of his illness. He assumed command on the day after the battlo. General Sumner was in charge of General Wheeler's division and Colonel Wood of the "rough riders" was in com mand of General Young's brigade. All or ders to advance and attack were issued by Generals Sumner and Kent. The attack itself was led bv Generals Hawkins and Sumner. Colonel Roosevelt and General Sumner met at the top of the hill and shook hands there. General Wheeler came while the tight was on, but did not lead his division to the front. I saw him just after the Sixth had placed its flag on the hill which it had taken, and informed him of the fact. He was then seated with his staff and surrounded by the wounded un der a large tree at the ford. An officer came up and said: "General Wheeler, we have taken the hills and it is now possible for you to come up to the front." I went on and climbed the hill, accom panying the artillery. It was not until the artillery had fired its few shots and retreated that General Wheeler rode up. This, of course, does not reflect in any way on General Wheeler, who, had he been in good health, would have been as far in advance as anyone. But General Shafter is doing an injustice in giving all the credit to a gallant officer who does not need any new laurels. FALSE TEETH IN STOMACH. Death Results From a Peculiar Acci dent to Abraliam Glazier. Chicagro. July 20. Hemorrhages of a mys terious origrin which have been afflicting Abraham Glazier for the past two weeks resulted last evening in his death at his home. Physicians who attended the patient were of the opinion that he swallowed two false teeth and that this brought on the ailment. Two weeks ago Glazier ac companied his wife to the Hungarian syn agogue at Johnson and Maxwell streets. During the services Glazier suddenly fell from his pew and rolled into the aisle, unconscious. Cold water revived him, and he was taken to his home. There it was discovered that two of his false teeth were missing. Nothing was thought of the circumstance, however, and Glazier went about his work as usual. Several days after his illness in the syn agogue Glazier began complaining of pains in his stomach. Medical aid was summoned, and for some time the doc tors were unable to diagnosticate the ail ment. Meanwhile Glazier became worse and finally hemorrhages began. He died while on his way to the couniy hospital. TRICKS BEER DRINKER. Newly Invented Glass Looks Big, but Saves Much Liquid. Anderson, Ind., July 20. Glass manufac turers who foresaw the effect of the war tax on the saloon business turned their at tention to the manufacture of "optical delusion" beer glasses and Chicago bowls, to rob the drinker pt about one-fourth of the usual portion of beer and still satisfy his eye that he is getting as big a glass of beer as usual, are doing a land office business. Orders are coming in from all sections and the glasses are going out by the car load. Big shipments are being made to Chicago and other large cities. The glass is made so it is as thin as the thinnest beer glass at the brim, but by the application of a most deceptive art the glass is so arranged in the botom and farther down the sides that it cuts off about a fourth of the capacity and at the same time adds no perceptible weight. EdocEte low Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forevei 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. GEN. SHAFTER ON The above cut it from a photograph taken at the front and sent to Presi dent MrKinlry. Wild With Eczema Hands and Limbs Covered with Blisters and Great Red Blotches. Scratched Until Almost Wild. Burned Like Fire. Sleep Impossible. Cuticura Brings Speedy Relief, and a Permanent Cure at a Cost of $2. I was a sufferer for eight years from that most distressing of all diseases, Eczema. 1 tried some of the best physicians in the country, but they did roe little good. The palms of my hands -were covered, and would become inilamed; little white blisters at first would appear, then they would pel olT, leav-ino-ared, smooth surface which would bum like fire and itch well, there is no name for 1 1. On the hisideof the upper partof both my limbs, great red blotches, not unlike hives, would appear, and as soon as I became warm, the burning and itching would begin. Night after nipht I would lie awake all night and scratch and almost go wild. I heard of Ccti CUBA REMEDIES, got .1 bOX Of CCTICCKA (oilkt- ment), a bottle of Ccticcba. Resolvent and gave them a thorough trial, and after a few applications I noticed the roilnesss and inflam mation disappear; before I had used one box there was not a sign of Eczema left. 1 can truthfully assert thai $2 00 worth of CcTiouu Remedies cured me. J. I. l'ORTE, 1115 Carson St., Pittsburg, Fa. Itchin? humori, torturing, disfisuricfc- eeaenioi, nd very ipeciea of itching, buraiug. tcaly, crusted, and pimply .kin and acalp dieea'es, -with dry, thin, and fail ing hair, instantly relieved by m ainglfl application, and speedily and economically cured by Cuticlba Ksh dies, when all el.e faila. IWSTANT Rltl.lKF AVD SPKKI'Y CrR TRKATMMXT FOB Kvkry Hl-mok. Warm bath, with CiiTH.TkA Soap, pcntlr anointing, with Cn ii'i ka (ointment), purest of e-nollit nt elcin cures, and mild dose, of Cuilci'KA Ka sjlvs.it, greatest of blond purifiers and humor cures. Sold throuirhout the world. PoTTiaDuoo axuChim. CoHr- Sole liois., Unston. CJT All About the Blood, Skin, and Scalp," mailed rratv MRS. GOELET TO WED ASTOIl Handsome Widow to Become the Wife of the English Editor. New Tork, July 20. What has been for some time verbally rumored in New Tork and Newport society has at last got into print and that is that the handsome widow of Ogden Goelet is to become the wife of William Waldorf Astor, who was once an American, but who now lives in England. It is a little less than a year since Ogden Goelet died on board the yacht White Ladye, at that time in Eng lish waters. Mrs. Goelet has since been almost constantly in England. Lately she has occupied the fine Warwick man sion in Green Park. And now comes the assertion that she is to cast aside the widow's weeds entirely to emerge as the brilliant mistress of Cliveden and the wife of Mr. Astor. By the terms of Mr. Goelet's will Mrs. Goelet received an income of $150.0u0 a year, the use of the New York and New port houses and their contents, the Goelet opera box and horses and carriages for life, with the sum of J3O0,0tX) if she chose to give up the town house. Mr. Goelet left the bulk of his fortune to his children di rect. Miss May Goelet has an independ ent private fortune of $j.000.0O0. She is reputed to be the richest young woman in the world, and is withal very beautiful and accomplished. She is 19 years old. The fortune of William Waldorf Astor is roughly estimated at $100,000,000. and his net income is something like $3,000,000 a year. He pays taxes in this city on $2. O00.OUO. He is a widower of a few years' longer date than Mrs. Goelet's widowhood, his wife having died shortly after his pur chase of the line estate of Cliveden. Mrs. Goelet is a sister of Mrs. Michael Henry Herbert of England: of Mrs. Cor nelius Vanderbilt. Jr., and of Mr. Orme Wilson, whose wife is the youngest daugh ter of the late William Astor. Airs. Goelet is the eldest daughter of Kichard F. Wil son. The Goelet home was at the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-ninth street, and was one of the handsomest in the city. The bronzes within its walls were said to be the finest in the country and were worth a prince's ransom. Mr. and Mrs. Goelet began to spend much of their time abroad some years ago. Their last visit to this country was on the oc casion of the marriage of Consuelo Van derbilt to the Duke of Marlborough. Their house was made ready for the season, but Mr. Goelet's health was so bad that they went abroad again, taking their daughter, who was then to have been introduced to New York society, with them. Miss Goelet was presented at one of the queen's draw ing rooms a year ago last spring. WILL GO TO MEXICO. Indians Object to Curtis Bill Seek a New Home. Perry, O. T., July 20. Responsible per sons from the Creek and Cherokee Indian nations bring news that both of these tribes are making hasty preparations to leave for Mexico, where they expect to make their future homes. It is said that most of the Indians of the five civilized tribes will follow their red brethren. They intend to abandon all their United States possessions. They do this because of their objection to tha Curtis Indian bill passed by congress, which they say takes from the Indians their ancient customs, prohibits them from enforcing their own laws and breaks up their tribal relations. When the terms of the new law were made known to the old "full bloods" many of them wept and would not be comforted. HIS MULE IN CUBA.