The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
November 15, 1898

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I t 1. -V1 ,f 1 THIED EDIT201T. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS. NOVE31BEE 15, 1898. TUESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. rf NO SESSION. Little Probability That Gov. Leedy Will Call A Special Session of the Legis lature. A MAJORITY SPEAKS Against a Special Session at the Conference In the Governor's Koom at the State House. There will b no special session of the legislature. Governor Leedy refuses to make any definite statement to that effect, but he has intimated as much. "I am still thinking the matter over," he said today in reply to a question from a reporter as to what he intended to do. "Can't you tell something about your decision, governor?" "Well," he said, "I suppose you know I had a little party of those interested last night to talk this thing over. Some of them were pro and some con, but they were mostly con. Now you will have to' guess from that what I will do. "This special session proposition," the governor continued, "was not anything that I originated. I understood that some of my friends wanted a special session called, and as they wanted to talk .with me about it I set last night for the talk. They came and they talk ed. And there it ended." It Is stated by those close to the gov ernor that he would not hesitate to call a special session if he was sure what the legislature would do when they got here. If he thought they would pass a railroad law, and one or two other good measures and then go home he would call the legislature together at once. But he is afraid they won't do that. "The legislature has not been broken to ride," said one of the gover nor's intimate friends today, "and he is afraid he cannot control it." When Governor Leedy called his cau cus to order there were present United States Senator W. A. Harris, Chief Jus tice Doster, Congressman V. D. Vin cent. Associate Justice S. H. Allen, George M. Munger, member of the board of regents of the state Agricultural col lege; John W. Breidenthal, state bank commissioner; Taylor Riddle, chairman, and W. T. Tipton, secretary of the stata central committee; II. S. Landis, war den of the penitentiary; E. V. Wharton, state oil inspector; H. S. Martin, late candidate for congress in the Fourth district; James Butler, assistant su perintendent of the reform school; H. 1-s. Fleharty, deputy oil inspector; J. G. McCoy, live stock inspector; judge C. E. Foote, insurance examiner; Ed Pfost, city judge of Kansas City; W. L. Brown, ex-chairman of the state board of charities; II. G. Jumper, chair man, W. I. Street, Frank Shane and P. H. Dolan, members of the state board of charities; Joseph Riggs, state ac countant; John Bryden and J. D. Beal, member of the live stock sanitary com mission; H. N. Boyd, assistant adjutant general; J. M. Senter, secretary, and Richard Coyle, clerk of the board of railroad commissioners; J. M. Tanner, steward of the Topeka asylum: George T. McGrath, state mine inspector; G. C. Clemens, supreme court reporter; R. H. Semple deputy bank commissioner; John Martin, clerk of the supreme court: Private Secretary J. M. Lewis, J. W. Morphy and George Harrison, of the Topeka Advocate. Among the conspicuous absentees were Attorney General Boyle, State Au ditor Morris, Secretary of State Bush, Superintendent Stryker, Treasurer Hef lebower. Major Harvey, Webb McNall, superintendent of insurance, and W. P. Dillard, chairman of the board of rail road commissioners. Webb McNall and Treasurer Heflebower were both absent from the city. Auditor Morris said that his health would not permit him to venture out after night. Mr. Boyle and Judge Dillard called on the governor before supper and expressed themselves as opposed to the proposed special session. Secretary Bush was around the state house until after 10 o'clock, but he refused to go into the caucus or have anything to do with it. When asked as to his reasons he simply said that he was a newspaper man and he understood newspaper men were ex cluded. Mr. Bush has expressed him self in favor of the extra session. G. C. Clemens said that there is more hope of the present legislature accom plishing something than of any other legislature, because they have no rea son to be afraid now that they are po litically dead for the present. W. L. Brown, of Kingman, opposed the proposition. He said that the ma jority of 14 which the Populists had in the session of two years ago had prac tically dwindled to, .a minority. He cited eight representatives in the Seventh dis trict alone ho, he said, he knew per sonally would vote to go home on the first day the session convened. Brown of Pratt and Clem Fairchild. of Kinfe man, he said, were both fighting the administration, another member had moved to Oklahoma, and others were sulking. "We have no hope of accom plishing anything if we do have a spec ial session," concluded Mr. Brown. The people ought to rule and they have spoken. The spoils should go to the victors. If you want to wind up our chances and give the Republicans a perpetual lease in office, there is no bet ter way than to call a special session of the legislature." The conference was purely an inform al one, and the object, as stated by Governor Leedy, was to consider the advisibility of convening the legislature in special session and to consider any other matter for the good of the party which might come up. Every little while some one would allude to the cause of the defeat of the Populist party. Some attributed it to the lack of railroad leg islation, others to the stay at home vote, and others to the fact that some of the Populist speakers had approved of McKinley's war policy, which had led some voters to believe that they ought to stand by the president. John W. Breidenthal advocated the cause of the special session. He wanted the legislature to enact railroad legisla tion and he recommended a bill to elect the railroad commissioners by the direct vote of the people in "off years," and giving the board sufficient power to regulate rates. George M. Munger also opposed the measure. Mr. Munger has said that if he was confirmed as a regent of the State Agricultural college by a special session he would resign at once, as he did not believe in that way of doing. He also read part of a personal letter from Edwin Taylor, representative from Wyandotte county, in which Mr. Tay lor says: "The future is already dark; if an ex tra session is called it will be black. Let us accept the result without com plaining. This is best in politics as in private life." Senator Harris opposed the measure as poor party policy, after which Gover nor Leedy asked for some expression from the members of the house and sen ate who were present as to the proba bility of accomplishing anything in case a special session was called. Speaker Street, who is also a member of the board of charities, and who was supposed to side with the advocates of the special session. discouraged the idea. "I consider the passage of a railroad bill by the present legislature as abso lutely hopeless," he said. "That is my honest judgment, but in case a special session is called I pledge myself to do all in my power to make it a success." Senator H. G. Jumper, who is chairs man of the board of charities, made the longest speech of the evening. "I don't know that this caucus is fairly repre sentative of the Populist party," he be gan, "but I notice a pretty fair repre sentation of office-holders and ex-office holders. While there have been some able arguments presented in opposition to a special session I still think there ought to be one. If it was the duty of the legislature to pass a railroad law two years ego it is just as much their duty now. But they can't do it unless they are called together, and I hold that it is the governor's duty to call them together and give them a chance to do something. I do not believe it will hurt the party as some of you think. The people admire bold moves. The Repub licans stole the election from us in 1890. Thev stole the house of 1893 from us and battered down the doors of Representa tive hall. We thought the people would condemn them for it, but they didn't because they admired their boldness. If the governor convenes the legislature at this time it will meet with the appro bation of the people and it is the thing to do. What defeated us in the last election waa the lack of railroad legis lation, and we should set ourselves right now." Chairman Riddle opposed the. special session and gave his theory as to the cause of the party defeat. "The people stayed away from the polls," he said, "not so much to elect the Republicans as to show their displeasure at our fail ure to give them railroad legislation. We have stated our ease and had our day in court. We have shown beyond dispute that the Leedy administration was the best administration the state ever .had, and on this showing we lost. Our day of grace is passed, and we should abide by the expressed will of the people and desist, subside, get out." Mr. Riddle also took occasion to cen sure those of the Populist speakers who had commended the McKinley adminis tration for its conduct of the war. He called no one by name, but it was known that Attorney General Boyle. Senator Harris ,and a few others were the ones referred to. Judge Doster, Judge Allen, John Bry den and a few others were opposed to the proposition. Congressman Vincent, James Butler, Geo. T. McGrath and H. B. Fleharty were inclined to favor it, although the latter has heretofore been opposing it. When it became evident that there was so much sentiment opposed to the special session several of its advocates kept silent. The caucus lasted until after 11 o'clock. WILKERSON FOB, WARDEN. Topeka Man "Who "Wants to Bo in Charge of the Penitentiary. Topeka has a candidate for warden of the penitentiary. He is none other than John M. Wilkerson, ex-sheriff and chief of police, and it would be well for the other candidates to keep an eye upon him. Ex-Sheriff Wilkerson says that he has an ambition to preside over the affairs of the state penitentiary. He thinks that he could make a record if he was in charge of that institution and the wires are being worked from various sources in his interest. Mr. Wilkerson has many warm friends all over Kan sas and as he has never wavered in his adherence to the Republicans he ought to make a strong fight for the position. The only other candidate who has appeared in the field is ex-Warden George Case of Mankato. AN ELECTION ERROR. A Precinct Thrown Out in Franklin County on Account of Carelessness. In Ottawa township, Franklin county, the judges and clerks of the election went ore from the polling place after the votes had been counted and left the poll books, ballots and abstract of the votes lying on the table. When the canvassing board of Frank lin county went to make the official count on Friday, they discovered that the returns from Ottawa township were missing. Two of the members of the board rode out and called on the judges and clerks on Saturday, but each one disclaimed any knowledge of the miss ing poll books. At length they went to the voting place and there found the missing books. It is claimed that this will throw that precinct out and may change the result of the election on some of the county officers. It is also claimed that there was a mistake of 22 votes made in counting the ballots in one of the wards in the city of Ottawa, which would result in the election of the Populist probate judge by 17 majority. MR. STANLEY TO GO SHOOTING After He Attends the Ratification at Topeka Next Thursday. W. E Stanley will attend the Topeka ratification and go to Oskaloosa to join some of his friends in a day's shooting. Mr. Stanley is an ardent devotee of the rod and gun. He will be accompanied by John McCully of Atchison, who is said to be a candidate- for superintend ent of the soldiers' orphans' home at Atchison. Some of the Republican managers will advise Mr. Stanley and the state board f charities which he will appoint to have C. E. Faulkner return from the north to take charge of the orphans' home if he can be secured at the salary provided for the head of the Kansas in stitution. Mr. Faulkner was superin tendent of the home for many years but was ousted by the Populists two years ago. VOTED REPUBLICAN TICKET. Populist Hopes on the Negro Vote Not Very Well Founded. Chairman Morton Albaugh of the Re publican state committee returned from a visit to his home in Kingman last night and found at headquarters a Pos tal company cablegram from Santiago de Cuba, via Haytl, announcing that the First battalion of colored troops in the Twenty-third regiment had cast an overwhelming vote for Stanley and the remainder of the Republican candi dates in Kansas. The cablegram fol lows: "Stanley, 185; Leedy, 89; rest of ticket 230 Republican to 55 fusion. No votes against Republican congressmen." The cablegram was unsigned but the Postal company over whose wires the message came vouches for the accuracy and authenticity of the message. The fact that it would cost 83 cents a word to send a signature probably deterred the author of the message from adding further charges as the cablegram al ready cost him $1S.63. ASSISTANT ATT'Y GENERAL C. E. Elliott of Wellington Wants to Sold the Position. C. E. Elliott of Wellington wants to be assistant attorney general under A. A. Godard. He is now chairman of the Republican central committee in Sumner county which returned a ma jority for Stanley this year, Leedy car rying the county two years ago by some 300 votes. Sumner county has another candidate for a state position in the person of Syi Dixon of Argonia who claims that he was promised the position of collector of internal revenue which Went to Mike Sutton of Dodge City. Dixon wants to be state grain inspector. He is the man who took a train of Kansas corn to the national Republican convention at St. Louis and says he lost $7,000 on the deal. MR. BOYLE'S VIEWS. Makes a Scientific Study of the Elec tion Results in Kansas. Attorney General Boyle has returned from a visit to his former home in Fort Scott where he has been on legal busi ness since the election. Mr. Boyle thus explains his ideas of the causes of the defeat of the Populist state ticket. "Certain incidental and minor influ ences in a measure contributed to this result," he said. "The principal influ ence in this category was the superior organization the Republicans had throughout the state. The men in charge of the Republican campaign had a peculiar genius for organization, and the results of the election exemplify their talent. I have in mind one coun try precinct in Bourbon county in which it is positively known that every Re publican went to the polls, whereas over 35 fusion voters stayed at home. The Republican voters were under better party discipline by reason of superior organization. This one precinct is il lustrative of the entire state vote. "I do not wish to be understood as casting any reflection upon the work done by the fusion state committees. I believe the men in charge of our cam paign were loyal, earnest and zealous, and did everything possible with the means at their disposal. It must be conceded, however, that the Republican campaign managers not only had a per fect system throughout the entire state to get their voters to the polls, but they also had the money and the workers back of them to carry out the most careful details. "Independent, however, of organiza tion, I believe there were far deeper and more fundamental causes respon sible for the results. It will be noticed that the fusionists made gains in the cities, and lost in the country districts. I attribute this result to the fact that the business men in the larger towns and cities were in closer touch with the business propositions involved in our state campaign, whereas the coun try voters were only vaguely and in directly in touch with these questions. "As a general proposition, farmers are more affected with national impressions than they are with state issues. Our Re publican opponents kept constantly before the farmer's attention the fact that he was getting good prices for his farm pro ducts, and was, in general, prosperous, and that this prosperity existed under a national administration. "The Republican pamphleteers and speakers did not undertake to demonstrate just what influence Republican national legislation had exerted to bring about tht-se results, nor did the farmer go to the trouble to analyze the claims made by the Republicans. He simply realized that he was better off than he had been for many years. He reached the conclusion that possibly there was something in the claim of the Republicans, and if he went to the polls at alt he voted the Republi can ticket. Thousands of farmers, how ever, staved away from the polls, being influenced by the considerations abovesug gested. "Another very potent factor in this cam paign was the war sentiment. The Ameri can is nothing if not patriotic, and with consummate skill and untiring energy the Republican campaign mfciagers. by means of their newspapers ana speakers, have urged the proposition that the country should stand back of Mr. McKinley on his war policy, and. although this proposi tion had no logical connection on earth with the issues joined in this campaign, yet it nevertheless influenced thousands of votes. "The campaign is over. Time for villi fication and political tomfoolery is past and I believe that the ultimate judgment of the people of Kansas will be that this administration lias given the state good service." MR. VINCENS'S OPINION. Says It Was Without Doubt the Stay-at-Home Vote. Congressman W. D. Vincent, of the Fifth district, in speaking of the result in his district today said: "I do not think there was any change of sentiment to speak of in my district. The result was brought about by the stay-at-home vote. I have been able to discover hardly anyone who voted for me two years ago who did not vote for me again this year, if they voted at all. Here and there some one has gone back to the Republicans, but we have gained just as many from them. "The defeat should result in our peo ple doing some hard work in two years from now, and we should win back all that we have lost. I do not know whether I shall be a candidate in two years or not. That is too far ahead." Col. Little's Battalion Voting. The San Francisco Chronicle on last Wednesday contained a picture of Lieu tenant Colonel Little's battalion voting on board ship just before they started for Manila. The voting place was in the mess room. On the wall were pla cards, one one of which was: "Vote for Governor Leedy." The judges of the election were Lieutenants Frederick Al ford, W. A. Green and W. A. Callahan. The clerks were Sergeant Chase and Corporal Kerfoot, of Company B. The election was not completed until after the ship had set sail, although the elec tion officials had hoped to finish in time to send the ballots back from San Francisco, but they could not do it on account of the excitement incident to getting away from San Francisco. Isom Wright Elected. Isom Wright of Barton county was re-elected to the legislature by a small majority. The reports received prior to this time have indicated that G. N. Moses, Republican, had been successful, but the vote in the city of Great Bend was not what was expected and Moses was freely scratched by the Republi cans. The Prohibitionists were especial ly bitter against him on account of his attitude with reference to the joints which are permitted to run in Great Bend. Stanley ran ahead of the ticket in that city but the large Republican gains credited to the county came from the country precincts. Funny Result of a Gerrymander. At the last session of the legislature Marshall county, which is counted as a sure Republican county, was divided into two legislative districts. The county was gerrymandered in such a manner that the Populists thought they could elect one representative by 150 majority, while the other district was Republican by 300 majority. The division threw the present representa tive, B B. Moore, into the Populist dis trict. When the vote3 were counted it was found that Moore, a Republican, had been re-elected in the Populist dis trict, while M. M. Haskins, a Populist, was elected in the Republican district. Lobdell For Chief Clerk. Charles E. Lobdell is meeting with much encouragement in his campaign for the position of chief clerk of the house of representatives. He was speak er of the house of 18S5 and was one of the leaders on the Republican side dur ing the session two years ago. CHOKER IS SICK. Goes to a Chicago Sanitarium For Treatment. New York, Nov. 15. Friends of Rich ard Croker, who are aware of the care he has taken of his health so far as eating and drinking is concerned, in re cent years, will be surprised to learn that the main object of his present trip west is to seek the seclusion of a sani tarium, said to be in the vicinity of Chicago, where he may be treated for acute dyspepsia. This is the trouble that hurried Mr. Croker to Carlsbad six years ago. Since that time he has taken the best care possible of his health. Croker's present illness, it is said, is attributed to his work and worry over the campaign. On election night he did not lie down until 3 o'clock in the morn ing, and then he did not remove his clothes. Before he had time to get any thing like adequate rest, political friends were storming the club rooms to see him. It was impossible for him to get alone long enough to sleep. On the day after election Mr, Croker found it nec essary to consult Dr. Clarence C. Rice, who performed an operation on his nose, removing a polypus. The opera tion was said to have been entirely suc cessful. When Mr. Croker left on Saturday he was very nervous and his voice trem bled as he talked. His eyes were red and sunken. It was the original inten tion of Mr. Croker and his friends if they won to go to California. Since 1S92 Mr. Croker hfis been forced, be sides his visit to Carlsbad,' to visit the Hot Springs of Virginia, Lakewood, and other health resorts. His illness to gether with disastrous results of the election, Tammany men fear, may prove very serious with their chief. OS L ir ONE IS BETTER. Value of the Kansas State Historical Society Library Exceeded Only by Wisconsin. The board of directors of the state his torical society is in session this after noon in the rooms of the society at the state house to consider the biennial re port which will be made to the society at its annual meeting in January. The report is always prepared by Secretary Adams, but as it is nominally the re port of the directors a meeting of the board is held to consider it. The report, as prepared by Secretary Adams, shows that there have been ad ded to the library and archives of the society during the two years ending No vember 1. 1898, 2.869 books, 5,486 un bound volumes and pamphlets, 2.615 volumes of newspapers and periodicals, 697 single newspapers containing mat ter of historical interest, 110 maps, at lases and charts. 255 manuscripts. 3S2 pictures and other works of art, 31 pieces of scrip, currency and coin, 391 relies and miscellaneous articles, and 7 war relics. The total library now consists of 21. 027 books, 20,838 volumes of newspapers and magazines, and 60.417 pamphlets and unbound volumes. With the excep tion of the Wisconsin state historical library, it is the best and most valuable historical library in America. The most highly prized additions to the library of the society during the past two years have been the books and relics of the late Major James B. Ab bot, who was closely connected with the early history of the state. Other valuable additions have been made by the widow of Dr. Joseph Tingley. late of Campbell university of Holton.Prof. W. D.Alexander of Honolulu, and others. The report speaks of the great need of the society for more room in order to properly arrange the library so that it may be of easy access to the general public, but Secretary Adams expresses the oft -repeated hope that the next leg islature will do something to give the society more room. Since the last report was issued the society has lost a president by death Harrison Kelley, who died July 24, of last year. FARMERS WILL FIGHT The Tobacco Trust With the Boycott and Other Weapons. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 15. Kentucky farmers and merchants are combining to fight the plug tobacco combination, the Continental Tobacco company. An other meeting of planters has been held at Frankfort which was largely attend ed and at which it was announced that assurances had been received from the independent manufacturers and from the tobacco warehousemen of Louisville and Cincinnati that would help in the fight. The plan is to induce farmers to refuse to sell leaf tobacco to the trust and for merchants to cease buying. Later the otrust will be attacked through the courts in any way author ized, by law and when the legislature meets drastic legislation will be prepar ed. Another meeting will be held in Louisville, November 26 and a third in Frankfort, December 5. to organize the farmers and merchants of the state. At Mount Olive, a large town in the Burley district, an agreement has been made by all the merchants to boycott the product of any of the factories in the Continental combination. Drummers for these factories who formerly took large orders there have in the last few days had to leave town without selling a plug and it is predicted that this movement will spread to Louisville, Cin cinnati and all other cities in the to bacco states. REAGHESCOAL. Purchase of Land in San Fran cisco hy the Santa Fe Secures Terminal Facilities Ad jacent to Spear "Wharf. HAS AN ENTIRE BLOCK Besides a Large Number of Ad joining Lots. First Installment Price Paid to Bind the Bargain. San Francisco, Nov. 15. It Is stated on good authority that the Santa Fe has secured terminal facilities in this city. The property chosen by the company is situated adjacent to the Spear wharf. Part of the land is at present occupied by the Hathway warehouse. The Santa Fe will have the entire block bounded by Spear, Main, Harrison and Bryant streets, in addition to a number of wa ter lots adjoining. Negotiations looking to the purchase of the property have been In progress since President Ripley of the Santa Fe left here a few weeks ago and the fact is now made public that a bond has been secured on the property within the past few days and the first installment of the purchase price paid over to the owners. While the purchase of the property has not been finally consummated nego tiations have reached the point where the deal is almost an accomplished fact, AWFUL MORTALITY. 26 Cases of Diphtheria at Wichita, 14 Deaths Schools Emptied. Wichita, Nov. 15. An epidemic of diphtheria has broken out here. Only about 1,500 of the 4,000 school children of the city are attending classes. Halt of the remainder will probably drop out tomorrow, the result of an organized ef fort to force the school board to closa the schools. Up to noon today twenty-six cases have been reported to the board ot health. Fourteen children have died with the disease in the last week. PURE BEER Will Have to Be Furnished by Brew ers Because They Opposed "Teddy's" Election. New York, Nov. 15. "We are going to have pure beer now," said Senator Thos. C. Piatt, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, today. "It may cost a trifle more, but it will be pure." With almost no exception the brewers and saloon keepers of the state were in favor ot Judge Augustus Van Wyck and the Democratic ticket, and did everything in their power to bring about their election. As a consequence the Republicans, it would seem, intend to take steps which the brewers in par ticular view with alarm. The retribution to which they are like ly to be subjected will be in the form of a bill at Albany during the coming win ter, which will not only place a heavy revenue tax on the brewers, amounting to perhaps $3,000 or $4,000 each, but will also provide for a standard of purity for beer, and making those brewers whose product falls below the mark subject to heavy fines. There is little doubt that the proposed measure will pass the next legislature, and it will doubtless be among the first to be intro duced after the legislature convenes. REVOLUTIONllO I Has Broken Out in the New Central American Republic. New York, Nov. 15. A cable dispatch received in this city from Libertad, Nicaragua, states that a revolution has broken out in Salvador. It is only a fortnight since Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua joined their destinies and formed the United States of Central America. Merchants and commercial men in this city who are familiar with affairs in Central Amer ica, however, were not surprised when informed that a revolution in Salvador was reported to have broken out. While the federation of the three countries was approved and carried out by the presidents and commissioners appointed from each country to draw up a consti tution, the people of Salvador have not been enthusiastic over the new scheme, particularly as it appears that the fin ancial burdens of maintaining the new state will fall most heavily upon them, owing to their having a denser popula tion than either of the other parties to the consolidation. Mr. Charles W. Wells of Brown and Well3, who, besides conducting the fin ancial affairs of San Domingo, are in terested in a Honduras syndicate, which is engaged under a concession from Honduras in building a railroad from the Gulf to the Pacific, says that while the new federation would be of decid ed advantage to Nicaragua and Hon duras, there is a question as to its val ue to Salvador. "The reported uprising at Libertad." he said, "is probably for the purpose of upsetting the consolidation before it is really in working order. Our agent in Honduras, who was here recently, in formed us that a revolution in Salvador was expected as a result of the con sojidation. We have, however, had no advices that trouble had actually been begun." N. Bolet Peraza, consul general in this city for the Greater Republic of Central America, which was formed some time ago by Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, for consular and diplo matic purposes, says that he had re ceived no report of a revolution in Sal vador. "I do not think that there can be any serious uprising or I should have been notified," the consul general added. "The officers of the new government have not yet been elected, and I do not see why the people of Salvador should start a revolution before the new plan is given a trial. I believe it will prove to be a local disturbance and eas ily put down." TO MEASURE THE EARTH. Arrangements Made to Survey at the Equator and Near the Pole. Washington, Nov. 15. The work of the International Geodetic association at its Stuttgart conference last month, which is expected to bear fruit of far reaching importance to the scientific world, is announced by Mr. E. D. Pres ton, of the United States coast and the geodetic survey, who represented this government there and who has just re turned to Washington. Little publicity was given the proceedings of the con ference but an interesting report now is about to be made by Mr. Preston. The prime object of the conference, which was in session October 3-12 was the measurement of the earth and ac tion was taken for the measurement of an arc at the equator. This taken in conjunction with the measurement of an arc near the pole now under way by the Swedes and Russians, will throw new light on the flattening of the earth. The comparison of the two measures will make it possible to determine how much shorter the polar diameter is than the equatorial, a knowledge of which is important both in the making of maps of great extent and in the solution of many astronomical problems. Ever since it was discovered some ten years ago that the latitudes of all places on the earth are subject to a small peri odic change, the scientific world has given more or less attention to the sub ject. Now the International association has determined to go to the bottom of the matter and has planned to take tip the work of continuous latitude ob servations at six stations encircling the globe near the 39th degree of north latitude. This parallel passes a little north of Washington and San Francisco, through Cincinnati and crosses Turkestan and Italy. In each of the countries named an observatory will be erected. The three stations in the United States will be at Galthersburg, Md Ukahi, Cal., and of course at Cincinnati, the exact parallel chosen by a happy coincidence passing through the regular astronomi cal observatory which has been estab lished there for many years. The work will begin in the summer of 1899, and is now provided for during a period of five years. It is altogether probable however, that in order to completely determine the secular motion of the pole much time will be required and a continuation of the observation for at least 20 or 30 years may be counted on. The total annual cost of the work 'will be about $10,000, so that if necessity arises for prolonged investigation the association will have ample outlet for its surplus funds. Discussing the work of the conference, Mr. Preston said to day: "An Important discussion was on the difference of logitude between Paris and Greenwich. It is a curious fact, as well as a matter of congraulation for Amer icans, that the best direct determina tions of the difference of time between these two fundamental points on the earth's surface was that made inci dentally in 1892 by the United States coast survey. It was executed as a check on two determinations of our longitude for Paris and Greenwich re spectively. The work has been direct ly done four times by the French and English and has been repeatedly ac complished In an indirect way by other European surveys showing the import ance of the problem. Thanks to the ef forts of the international association we hope to see the present discrepencies re moved." An account of a new alloy of nickel and steel was laid before the confer ence. The international bureau of weights and measures at Paris has found that when a bar consists of 36 ner cent nickel and 64 per cent steel the "expansion from heat is only 1-50 of what we should expect from the indi vidual components. This discovery has great importance in the construction of astronomical clocks, and in fact of any clock, since the effect will be to prac tically eliminate the temperature ques tion which has thus far been the great difficulty in obtaining a uniform rate in timepieces. Nineteen countries belong to the association of which 15 were rep resented at the Stuttgart meeting. The proceedings are published only in French and German but any report sub mitted in the language of the country from which it comes may be printed in that tongue. An effort was made re cently to introduce English as one of the official means of communication but owing to the comparatively small num ber of delegates who spoke it, this was considered impracticable at present. Be sides if English is so admitted there seems to be no good reason for exclud ing Spanish, which is more widely spo ken than French or German and which is growing in usefulness more rapidly than either. Seventy years ago some learned men in Germany formed an association to give impulse to the awakening interest in the size and shape of the earth. From this beginning the society has steadily grown in importance. After having be come national in the land of its birth in 1886 it was merged into an interna tional convention in which the principal nations of the globe were represented and now stands as the world's authori ty on the ways and means of determin ing the earth's figure. The next meet ing will be in Paris in 1900. COAL COMPANIES FAIL As a Result of the Miners' Strike Last Summer. Cincinnati, Nov. 15. The Turney Jones Coal company of Columbus, O., and the Pennsylvania Ohio Fuel com pany of St. Paul, both owned by the same parties with offices in Chicago have been put into the hands of the Security Title company of Chicago, as re ceivers, by the United States court. Liabilities SI, 200.000. These companies are among the largest that operate in the Ohio coal fields and furnish about one-half of the coal tonnage of the Columbus, Sandusky Hocking railway. The railway com pany holds claims against the two min ing companies aggregating $95,000 ani Samuel M. Feltman, receiver for the railway company, was among the peti tioners for the receivership. The coal companies' troubles began with the great coal miners strike last summer, which caused them to lose over $200,000 and their affairs came to a crisis when New York parties declared due the whole of an issue of $280,000 of. obliga tions after failure to pay one of the in stallments. It is claimed that by care ful management the two companies will pay all liabilities. DREYFUS HEARD FROM He is in Good Health and Will Pre pare His Defense. Paris, Nov. 15. The ministry of the colonies has received a cable dispatch saying Dreyfus is in good health. The decision of the court of cassation to Inform the prisoner that the revision proceedings have commenced and noti fying him to prepare his defense is very significant. Ithashitherto been genera ly admitted that no innovation should be introduced in the Dreyfus proceedings. Questions will now be drafted and posted to Dreyfus who will formulate his replies. CRASH ON CRANDJRUNK. Montreal and Toronto Express Runs Into a Freight. Five Persons Killed and Three Fatally Injured. 20 PASSENGERS HURT. Freight Train Wras Standing on a Siding When the Express Train Dash ed Into an Open Switch. Kinston, Ont., Nov. 15. The Grand Trunk railway express from Montreal for Toronto collided with a freight train near Murray Hill at 3:30 this morning. Eight persons were killed or fatally Injured. The dead are: BRADY, of Belleville, engineer of express. MAC DONALD, Belleville.fireman of express. FIREMAN OF FREIGHT TRAIN, name not known. JOHN CASEY, engineer of Brockville. GEORGE PAULIN, cattle dealer, of Toronto. A. NEARY, of Coburg. ALBERT TRACY, of Prescott. A WOMAN AND CHILD en route from Holland to the western states. Among the injured are: John Mc Namara, of Brockville; L. Labanc, of Montreal; W. Kenner, of Prescott; A. P. Walker, of Belleville; Fred Caine, of Wickland; James Newman, Toronto. Twenty passengers, most of them be ing, in the Pullman cars were more or less seriously hurt. Nine or ten of the wounded are In the Belleville hospital under treatment The accident occurred at a place call ed the Diamond crossing, about two miles from Trenton. The express, which) was due at Trenton at 3:3a a. m., ran into an open switch and dashed into the freight train. WRECK ON THE FT. WAYNE. A If amber of Passengers Injured but None Killed. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 15. A special to the Inquirer from Ottawa, O., says: Two coaches and one baggage car on No. 2 eastbound passenger train on the Findlay, Fort Wayne Western rail road were derailed and piled into a wreck about one mile west of Grover Hill at 9 o'clock this morning. There were only a few passengers on the train which was a mixed passenger and freight. No deaths have been reported but several narrowly escaped. Among the injured are C. F. Kendall, Lima, and a young daughter; Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Prentis, Payno, Ohio, and the county surveyor of Paulding county. The ac cident was caused by a broken truck under a freight car. THREE STARS UNITE. Odette Tyler, R. D. McLean and C. B. Hanford to Appear Together in the Legitimate. Washington, Nov. 15. A new three star dramatic combination has been formed here as the result of negotia tions extending over several weeks. The event also marks the return today af ter an absence of three years of one of the best of New York's favorite com edy actresses, but in a new line of worlt to that in which the public has known her. The combination will produce the legitimate Shakespearean drama and as this has not many exponents, hopes that the Joining of three lesxiing artists with fine scenery and accessor ies will meet with success srflcient to warrant the assemblage of their tal ents in the company. The stars who will be billed alike are Mr. R. D. McLean, Miss Odette Tyler and Mr. Charles B. Hanford. Mr. Hanford is at present in this city pro ducing Shakespearean and other strict ly legitimate plays at the Columbia, theater, and Mr. and Mrs. McLean have come to town from their mountain home near Shepherdstown, W. V., and are rehearsing daily prior to joining forces with Mr. Hanford, December 8. Miss Odette Tyler was very much in the public eye up to three years ago. She was leading lady in Frohman's stock company and made a hit in London in "Secret Service," one of the Gilbert plays which had a great run there. She is a daughter of General Kirkland anil is of an excellent Savannah, Ga., fam ily. Her name was quite prominent before the New York public before sh married Mr. McLean, and they retired from the stage to live a quiet life on a large farm near Shepherdstown, belong ing to Mr. McLean. He was leading man to Miss Marie Prescott for soma years prior to his retirement and tha couple after several refusals to resume stage life, finally yielded to Mr. Han ford's representations. Miss Tyler wiil take the part of Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." Portia, in the "Merchant of Venice" and Desdemona in "Othello." Mr. Hanford, who was starred with Thomas W. Keene until that actor'a death, will manage the combination and continue to play leading roles. Tha tour wil! begin in the south and end with a run of some weeks in New York. SHAWNEE'S VOTE. Stanley and Nelson Lead the State Ticket Through a comparison of majorities instead of votes received an article in Monday's paper made it appear that Stanley ran 600 vote3 behind his ticket in Shawnee county. As a matter of fact he did not run behind his ticket at all, but with the exception of Nelson, who received li votes more, Stanley led all the rest. The Shawnee county votes cast for the Republican candidates were as follows: Smith. 5,840; Stanley, 5.937; Richter, 5, 861; Clark, 5,917; Cole, 5,913; Grimes, 5. 872; Godard, 5.645; Nelson. 5.900. On the Populist ticket, Boyle led with 3.861 "votes, Leedy second with 3,807. Next came Harvey with 3,601. For Murdering an Indian Woman. Port Townsend, Wash., Nov. 15. An drew Peterson who murdered an Indian woman about two months ago, was sen tenced yesterday to two years in ira prisonment in the state penitentiary.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER" 15," 1898. i i I J&fcccLiblePreparationfor As similating rJieroodandReStila-' ling thtStomadisaiMlDmseia of Promote s DfesGon,CijefuI tiess and Rcst.Contflms neither OpnimMorphinS nor fmp.rM. Mot Naiicoxic. k JbmJam SmJ-" 4lx.SennM ftarm Scri ilriMfrJ Vi I 111 A perfect Remedy forCofisGpa fion. Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea. Worms .Convulsions Jeverishr ness and LOSS OF SLH lac Simile Signature of TTEW YOBK. EXACT COPy CFUraAEEEa NEED A MILLION MORE. Receivers of Wisconsin Central Want to Make Another Loan. Milwaukee. Nov. 14. The receivers of the Wisconsin Central lines today made appli cation to Judre Jenkins for permission to Issue a second series of receivers' certifi cates to the amount of $1,(HjO,000 at 6 per cent, payable In five years from March 1, 1S99. The court ha3 taken the matter under advisement. The receivers are de sirous of securing new equipment for the road. The $2,(H.000 1?sue of certificates out standing falls due tomorrow, but the court granted an order extending- the payment for two years upon payment of a bonus of 1 per cent. Up to this time the certiti cates have been drawing 5 per cent, but from tomorrow they will bear 6 per cent. No opposition was raised, to the exten sion of the old certificates. Mark T. Cox of the Central Car company objected strongly to the new issue. WANT NEGKOES BACK. Authorities at Wilmington Invite Refugees to Return. Wilmington, N. C, Nov. 14. Affairs are settling down to the normal condi tion in Wilmington. Chief of Police E"3gar G. Parmelee and several representatives of the new city government drove out ten miles on the various roads leading- from the city, to induce the refugee negroes to come back to town. They were assured that they would be fully protected. The city officials also attended the colored churches yesterday and urged the colored pastors and their people to go Into the woods and induce the fright ened negroes to come back to the city and resume their work. The pastors were also asked to urge upon the negroes not to gather In the streets and to be careful what they say, and con duct themselves in a manner that will avoid any further trouble. Soma of the refugees are returning. The colored pastors in their sermons folllowed the line suggested to them. KID M'COY BUYS A HOME. Invests Accumulated Surplus Cash In Asbury Park Real Estate, New Tork, Nov. 14. "Kid" McCoy, who has been down to Asbury Park dabbling in real estate ever since elec tion day, returned to town today. He pays that he has added several valua ble pieces of property to his estate, but bought them on speculation and would dispose of them in the near future. In addition the "Kid" has bought outright IX A FEW WORDS Sufferers from Files May Learn of a Harmless, Lasting Cure There are plenty of pile cures which give relief and sometimes cure a mild case of piles, but there is only one which can be depended upon with certainty to eure obstinate, long standing casea and that is the Pyramid Pile Cure. Endorsements and testimonials are received daily from men and women whose integrity and reliability areabove question and in this connection a letter received from the Rev. Jas. II. West brook of Bowne. Mich., may be of in terest to pile sufferers who have sought In vain for a cure. He says: I have used the Pyramid Pile Cure and I know that it is all that is claimed for It. I had been troubled with piles more or less for about eighteen years and I had tried other remedies, but the piles grew worse until about ten months ago I used the Pyramid Pile Cure. It gave almost instant relief and I have been free from piles ever since. Rev. Jas. H. Westbrook. Mr. Frank Smith, the well known and popular druggist of Ypsilanti, Mich., in speaking of the Pyramid Pile Cure says: "A year ago I sold C. C. Potter, 119 Hamilton St.. Tpsilantl. Mich., a box of the Pyramid Pile Cure. He made the following statement to me today: "I have been troubled for twenty years with itching piles. Have tried nearly everything that promised relief, but got very little help until one year ago I called on my druggist, Frank Smith and got a box of the Pyramid Pile Cure. The one box used according todirections was. in my case, a perfect cure as a year spent without any symptoms of the trouble has convinced me." Although a comparatively new rem edy, its popularity is such, that all druggists now sell It: if your druggist hasn't any in stock, he will get it for you if you ask him, at 50 cents and 11.00 per package. A pamphlet describing the cause and cur of piles sent free by addressing the Pyramid Drug Co., Marshall, Mirh. r f fry lidl For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! j sears me jr i of Kind You Have Always Bought. nuy TM r CCWTAUB CO MP NY. ft IW TO R K OITV. a beautiful little house one block from the ocean which he Intends to make his home when he quits the nghtinff busi ness. CALLED "WHITE NIGGERS" Complaints of Those Driven Oat of North Carolina. Washington, Nov. 14. Three of the Wilmington, N. C, refugees have ar rived in Washington and today called; at the department of justice and an ap pointment for a conference with officials was made for this afternoon. They ara R. H. Bunnin, U. S. commissioner and justice of the peace; John R. Helton, chief of police and C. H. Gilbert, super intendent of city carts. According to their story all were seized without warrant and escorted to the railroad station by an armed and leering mob who shouted all sorts of in. suits after them as they marched along. "White niggers," appeared to be the least of the insulting names with which the crowds greeted them at every step. Once on the train they were told In for cible language that if ever they again set foot in Wilmington, they would be shot on sight. When their train ar rived at Newberne it was boarded, they say, by former Mayor E1113 and a lawyer named Guyon and they were in formed that it would not be safe for them to remain there any length of time and so they took the first boat to Nor. folk. Brown, a negro from Wilmington, who did not leave at the same time with them they had since heard, was set upon by a crowd and terribly beaten In the city postoffice. At other points they were warned not to stop. The three men are at present staying at a small hotel on Pennsyl vania avenue, but what they will do, or where they will go from here is a serious question with them. They say they will not return to their homes in Wilmington, as they feel certain the threats of the mob would be carried out and they would be shot. They plead not guilty to every charge made against them and insist that they were run out of the state for the single reason that they were Republicans and refused at the bidding of an irresponsible mob to surrender their right of franchise. CLEVELAND'S LOST DOGS. Valuable Hounds Disappear During a Hunting Trip in New Jersey. Princeton, N. J., Nov. 15. Forme President Cleveland lost two valuable hounds while gunning in Cranbury re cently. The citizens of Cranbury are searching the country for the missing hounds. Much to the surprise of the residents of Cranbury, Mr. Cleveland accepted an invitation from Farmer Robbtns last year to shoot rabbits on his farm. Rob bins told his neighbors that he had asked the former president over to his place, and they laughed at him. When Mr. Cleveland drove over one day be hind his spack and span team ho ere. ated a sensation among the rustics, who were all envious of the honor conferred; upon Farmer Robbing. Farmer Robbins invited Mr. Cleveland to come over again this year on the opening day of the season. He asked several prominent citizens of the village to enjoy a day's sport with Mr. Cleve land It stormed so severely that the guest of honor was not expected, but he came, nevertheless. The citizens, how ever, were not on hand. Farmer Rob bins and his son started out with their distinguished sruest, and were enjoyina themselves slaughtering rabbits when Mr. Cleveland's prize hounds disap peared. That ended the day's sport. CEN. KANSAS TEACHERS. Will Hold Their Annual Session on November 24 and 25 at Lyons. Hutchinson, Nov. 14. The thirteenth annual session of the Central Kansas Teachers' association will be held at Lyons Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25. A number of the teachers of Reno county will attend the meeting. The railroads will make a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip. An Interesting programme has been ar ranged. Four meetings will be held, one Thursday and three Friday. Twelve counties are to be represented. Reno, Chase, Stafford, Saline, Rice.Mc Pherson. Harvey, Pratt, Barton, Ells worth, Pawnee and Marion. Spanish Transport Ashore. Havana, Nov. 14. The Spanish trans port Le Gaspl went ashore at 1 o'clock this morning at Punta Boca Gavilanes, near Cienfuegos province of Santa Clara and was totally wrecked. AU bee crew Ker saved. f ilv The IF WHITES ARE RESPONSIBLE. Senator Tillman Says White Republicans Brought About the Recent Race Riots IN A SELFISH EFFORT To Use the Negro For Their Own Adrancement Declares the Caucasian Will Dominate in the South. Trenton, S. C, Nov. IS. Since Senator Benjamin Tillman Inspired and led the fi&nt In South Carolina for a constitutional convention, boldly avowinsr that his pur pose was to disfranchise all the negroes he could under the fourteenth and fif teenth amendments, he has been the lead ing exponent of that idea In southern pol itics. He went to North Carolina as a public speaker in the North Carolina can vass, where the race Issue was the only Question discussed, and talked freely on the Riots at Phoenix and Wilmington, when called upon at his home In Trenton. "The Phoenix riot," said the senator, "was an outbreak such as is liable to oc cur in any community thickly populated by negroes in any southern state. Race antagonism, which has existed since the dawn of history and will continue to exist while the world lasts, is at the bottom of it. This sentiment of prejudice, or what ever you may term it, is stronger than either law or religion, and is ineradica ble. "In this particular case It grew out of a greed for ofrice on the part of a white Republican, one of a larpre family in Greenville county, who merely wished to get the money which is provided by law in cases of congressional contest, with the barest possibility of getting the seat in congt'ss itself. "Whether the Tolberts were acting un der instructions from the Republican na tional committee, or whether they were active politically because of the desire to maintain their influence with the negroes, is, of course, mere conjecture. In either case there was no possible hope of Tol bert being elected under the new con stitution in this state, which is in every respect similar to that of Mississippi, with minor differences which are improvements and which have been sustained by the United States Supreme court. "The white registered vote, compared with that of the blacks, in that congres sional district. Is at It-ast 10 to 1. Of course all others are unlawful, and I do not be lieve Tolbert would have been interfered with and his farcical proceeding of hav ing a box in which to put the certificates of the unregistered negro voters whom he had told to go to the polls, knowing they wre not legal voters, would have cre ated derision under ordinary circum stances. "The fact that the race Isue in North Carolina had become so prominent of late that there was widespread interest and sympathy for the condition of the white men in the commonwealth, and the white men at Phoenix, remembering our own trouble in is. 6. were angered ly an out rageous travesty on legal voting and thus the conflict between the races was brought about. 'The murder of Etheridge was like a match to a magazine and subsequent to the shooting of the white men from aan bush provoked a degree of rage and un reasoning anger that alone explains the subsequent proceedings. The Tolberts are solely to blame for all the blood that has been shed, because nowhere in the state was there the slightest conflict between the races and the race issue, so far as politics is concerned, is absolutely dor mant. "Of course, the recent lynching of the three negroes in this county for the as sassination of an intelligent and refined white woman, returning to her home un der the protection of her husband, has no connection whatever with the Phoenix riot and was merely retributive Justice acting outside the law. "The thoughtful student of government in the southern states since the experi ment of negro suffrage was forced on us in 16S, has long since realized that one of two results must follow active partici pation there by the negroes. There must be absolute control of the negroes by the whites in matters political or there will be demoralization and rottenness by the use of the debased and purchased colored vote. "My observation and experience showed me long ago that where there is white leadership and no chance for the negroes to control at the ballot box the colored vote is not purchasable. It is only when contending white factions use the negroes as an instrument against each other that this corrupting element enters, and then the race issue is dominant, as it Is a case of white rascal against white rascal seek ing to control the offices. "In one case the politics of a given com munity or state will become more and more corrupt, and in the other the irre pressible conflict between the races pro duces bloodshed and the suppression of the negro race. The Anglo-Saxon race has never been dominated by the colored race anywhere In all its history. "Kngland has more to do with colored races than any other nationality than all the other nations combined and the Eng lishman goes about the conquest and gov erning of Chinese, Hindoos, Malays and Africans on the sole principle of inherent superiority and right to rule. It is his birthright to govern, and he governs by law where law will do, and by force where force is necessary. The most striking il lustration of this is in India, where half a million or so of Anglo-Saxons, including the men in the regular army, dominate absolutely and control 200.Oa,u00 Hindoos. "If there were a change of policy on the part of the national government to ward the colored race in the southern states and the negro were allowed to drop absolutely out of politics, a great cause for irritation would be removed. It is a notorious fact that for 20 years or more the negroes in the south, who constitute the bulk of the Republican vote, onlv enter into politics as a factor in the Republican national conventions and as a means of holding .together the old abolition senti ment which so long gave impulse and di rection to Republican politics. It is alone responsible for the 'solid south. "There has been a great revolution In sentiment at the north on this subject, as is shown by the annexation of Hawaii without any pretense of consulting the wishes or protecting the interests of the colored races there-, as well as bv the atti tude of Governor Tanner of Illinois in re fusing to protect the colored negro miners at irden and Pana. 'Blood is thicker than water in Illinois, and, I be lieve, in nearly every northern state, at this time, and were it not for necessity, or imagined necessity, of controlling the vote from the south in the national Re publican conventions, so as to insure the nomination of this man or tha t, there would be soon no political aspect to the race question. "One thing is as certain as anything earthly can be certain the white men in the south will not submit to negro con trol of their politics, local, state or na tional. The crime of assault or brutal murder, such as that of Mrs. Atkinson, will meet punishment, sure and swif. "The negro must take a subordinate place and he will be treated with consider ation and kindness in proportion as he is peaceable and well-behaved and makes friends of his white neighbors.' "The disfranchisement of the ignorant in South Carolina by constitutional and law ful methods has worked no injury, but Is a benefit in many respects, insuring peace and good order, and, as far as possi ble, a cessation of angry race feeling. The outbreak at Phoenix would not and could not have occurred but for the leadership and inspiration of designing and selfish white men. Ieft to himself, the negro cares nothing about politics, for his ex- Ferience in this state has shown him that t is a hot iron, and always buxud him whenever h tauchea it,' SHE DIDN'T SHOUT 'BAH. Susan B. Anthony Sees a Football Game But Isn't Startled. Chicago, Nov. 15. Susan B. Anthonv at tended her first foot ball game Saturday. Among1 the excited crowd who thronged around the Bide lines n Wanderers' field and watched the contest between the Chi cago Athletic association and the All-Star eleven sat the woman suffragist, oblivi ous of the tyranny of man and. the wrongs of her sex, Intent only upon punts and passes and the chrysanthemum headed gladiators who fought for the possession of the pigskin. The leader of the -women's rights cause made her first islt to the gridiron in company with Mrs. S. E. Gross, at whose home she is visiting:. The phaeton in which the two women were seated gained a point of vantage neax the middle of field and when the play began Miss Anthony gazed fixedly at the unwonted spectacle. Mrs. Gross, who is enthusiastically fond of the game, was kept busy explaining- the niceties of the play to her guest, who wanted to know all about it. "Why don't they kick the ball?" asked Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gross had to ei- filain the paradox by which a game which s supposed to be played with the feet is played mainly with the hands, arms and shoulders. Miss Anthony remained throughout the game, and then went home declaring she had spent a most pleasurable and profit able afternoon. She was full of her aft ernoon's experiences when visited in the evening at the home of Mrs. Gross,48 Lake Shore Drive. "I never thought I should ever see a foot ball game," said Miss Anthony, "and if Mrs. Gross hadn't taken me I don't sup pose I ever should have had the pleasure. What do I think of the game? There is no game to It. At least I can't see any. They just take the ball and then fall down In heaps. It's ridiculous. "The boys who play the game don't look like human beings at all. At first I thought they resembled apes, but after they got to plowing around in the mud they reminded me more of the seals I saw in California. Thev dove just as the seals did. Is it brutal? I don't think so. I failed to see anyone hurt, and don't see why mothers should be afraid of the game. It's silly, but not brutal." Miss Anthony arrived in Chicago Satur day morning for a brief visit before going to Springfield, 111., to attend the annual convention of the Illinois branch of the Women's Rights association. The con vention will open todav and last two days, after which she will again visit Mrs. Gross for an indefinite time. "Never were the prospects for woman's suffrage more promising than now," said Miss Anthony. "The latest reports 'I re ceived today indicate that South Dakota has voted in favor of woman's suffrage, and Washington is also likely to be on our side when the final returns come in. We now have five states Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and South Dakota where a woman is allowed the right of suffrage. Add to these 23 states where she is allow ed the right of suffrage in school matters. All this shows that enormous strides have been made in the last few years. "Our gains are slow but sure. In all the states where woman is allowed to vote the system has worked admirably. I look forward to a time when all the west ern states will allow women to vote. Then the more conservative eastern states will gradually be forced to follow suit. "The good effect of our system is plain ly apparent in the. states where we are al lowed to vote. Realizing that a new bal ance of power has arisen, "the men now strive to put up the best rather than the worst men as candidates. They realize that no woman would vote for an ignoble man. In the same way, if women were running for office no man would vote for an impure woman. Man has a high ideal of woman and woman has an equally nigh standard by which she judges man. "The reason a woman's opinion is not valued is not because she is intellectually inferior, but because her opinion counts for nothing if she cannot vote. The boy soon sees that his mother's opinion counts for nothing, while his father's oaj-ries great weight, and accordingly looks down upon his mother and sisters. Woman suf frage will do away with all this. It will also make marriage less of a failure. Men will not have to go to the club to talk politics when they can get an intelligent opinion under their own roofs. "With regard to Illinois, I shall advise the delegates at the convention to wait for a constitutional convention before taking further action. Illinois should be satisfied with no half-way concessions. A consti tutional convention will be held here sooner or later. Then let the women of the state rise and demand that the word 'male' In the constitution be stricken out." FLYING MACHINE FATORED Keport of Government Experts "Not Adverse to iLangley's Invention. Washington, Nov. 15. Tt waa the break ing out of the Spanish war which prevent ed the exploitation and development of Prof. Ianpley's flying- machine. Just before war was declared the secre tary of the navy and the secretary of war to the feasibility of the machine. The war department appointed Major "William Cro zier, an exper t in military aerostatics. The navy appointed another expert, and meetings were held at which the whole subject was discussed. A report was made. "This report," said Major Crozier today, "has green erroneously described as ad verse to the feasibility of the flying- ma chine. While I am not at liberty to say what the terms of the reports were, I can say that they were not adverse to Prof. Langley." CHINESE HEIRESSES COME. Three Daughters of Ah Fong Keach San Francisco on the "Way to New York. New York, Not. 15. A dispatch from San Francisco announces the arrival In that city of three of the daughters of Ah Yang, a multimillionaire Chinese planter of the Hawaiian islands. They are Misses Bessie, Carrie and Marie and they are un der the chaperonage of Mrs. H. Hum phreys and are accompanied by W. G. Vilder, a. wealthy Hawaiian planter and banker. They are coming to this city armed with letters of introduction to very well known people here, and, as several of their sisters nave married Americans and a dowry of jl.000.ooo goes with each of Ah Fong's daughters, it la likely that they will be well received. The father of the young women landed in the Sandwich islands without a dollar but within ten years ho and his Kanaka wife had amassed a large fortune at opium planting. CHICAGO'S BIG TAXES. Committee at Springfield Adds $78,- 000,000 to the Assessed Valuation. Sprintrfleld. 111., Nov. IS. The committee on lands, lots and personal property of the state board of equalization have agreed upon tie amounts to be added to the as sessment of Cook county, and It increases bv more than 60 per cent the assessed valuation returned by the town assessors. The percentages of addition are 62 on lands, 40 on lots and 60 on personal prop ertv. representing a total increase of over JTX.'OOO.OuO. The local assessments and additions by the board expressed In figures ara as fol lows Personal property Assessed, $10,946,509; addition, $6.TS6.SJ: total. J17.733.345. Lots Assessed. 1148.672,036; addition. $58, 668.S14: total. $J05.i40,349. Total assessment as increased. $257,504, 8?7 The total will be largely reduced when the surplus Is spread back In tha nnul equalization. LABOR LAW TIOLATED. Father of an Oahkosh Girl Files Com plaint Against Employers. Oskosh, Wis., Nov. 15. Warrants -were Issued for the arrest of Charles Kadford, Stephen Radford and William Radford of the Radford company on complaint of Hermann Stiller, yesterday afternoon. The charge is violation of the child labor stat ute, the Radfords. as alleged, being the employers and Stiller being the father of the child. The complaint alleges that the child Is a girl of 13 and is sworn to by Factory In spector Long. The penalty for violation of the statute under which the action is brought is a fine of from $10 to $S0 for each day of such illegal employment of the child. This is the first Drosecution at tha kind In this section. Wf o) "TThen our precious baby boy was eighteen months old, he was attacked with violent spasms of a periodical nature. Sometimes he would have as many as four or five in a day and then there would be days of perfect freedom from them, but the attacks always returned with increasing severity. We tried two physi cians with no apparent benefit and it began to look as if our precious baby was beyond hope of recovery. Ko one who has not experienced such a trial can imagine with what heavy hearts we sought further for some remedy that would help him. Our druggist advised us to try Dr. Miles' Restorative Kervine, and we began giving it at once. vTe thought we could see a benefit from the first few doses, and so we kept on until 1 .N.v IT torative IT ervine. V1 Jf Vitus dance. he lost all control twitch and jerk in a frightful manner, and it was impossible for her to rest night or day. She could not walk or even stand alone, and what made it seem so much worse, she lost all power of speech and could scarcely give a sign of what she wanted. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine was recommended and after she CAUSES OF INSANITY. Two Noted Physicians Give Opinions on the Subject. New Tork, Nov. 15. "Religious in struction which Inspires feaj: in the mind of children Is largely responsible for insanity," declares Dr. Sheldon H. Talcott, medical superintendent ,of the Middletown State Homeopathic hospital for the insane, speaking for the physi cians. "Eating too much meat is the cause of religious monomania," declares thp Rev. Benjamin F. DeCosta, speaking for theologians. It is not at all unlikely that the twenty-seventh annual report of the Middle, town institution, which report has just been published by Dr. Talcott, will stir the men of the cloth considerably. Dr. Talcott, in his many years' experience as an insane expert, has looked for the cause leading to that form of insanlty which Is denoted as religious monoma nia, and in his report he issues a warn, ing to those who think themselves truly religious. The road to an insane asy lum, declares the physician, sometimes leads through a church. Children, es pecially, he says, should not be fright ened into religion, nor a religious edu cation, so-called, be driven into chil. dren. "It may seem almost a sacrilege to some misguided enthusiasts to claim this," says the specialist, "but the ap plication or religious truth should be made in a simple, direct, clear and be nign manner; otherwise the injury of profound shock, induced by fears of the future, may cause the budding powers of the young to wither before the fulV influence of misguided and bigoted re ligious zeal." "Religion," continues Dr. Talcott in his report, "never should be presented in such a way as to shock young sensi bilities and apprehensions, nor to incite doubt, pain or worriment in the hearts and minds of youth. "The fault of religious instruction Is that it is often given in such form that the shock of fear blights the force of growing youth, and an agony of remorse for sin is allowed to produce worry by day and an insomnia by night, until physical and mental development is ef fectually arrested." Then the doctor of medicine tells tha doctors of divinity how religious in struction should be imparted. "Of religion," he says, "teach the children chiefly its inspiring consolation tor the future. Present religion to the young in the form of a new command ment, a glorious inspiration to do good and be good." These extracts from Dr. Talcott's re port were shown to the Rev. Benjamin F. DeCosta last evening, and he was re quested to give his opinion regarding them. "I do not see anything (n the state ments to excite any comment," replied Mr. DeCosta. "Dr. Talcott is undoubt edly right so far as his general state ments are concerned, but as to the facts, that is another matter. Of course, there is a right and a wrong way to teach religion. All will agree to that. But as to religious instruction being the cause, I do not think it is. If you will probe the matter I think you will find that the root of religious monoman ia is too much meat." "Then it is your belief," I queried, "that there is an affinity between ani mal food and religious monomania?" "Most certainly I do. People eat too much meat, and I think it has come to be generally accepted that overindulg ence in animal food produces Insanity. Disease always goes to the weak part of the system, and too much animal food, it is well known, produces disease. Just as much as starvation does. The mania an Insane person may develop depends upon the bent of his bend. If interested in religion, It produces ma nia on that subject. If he is interested in politics, he wants to kill presidents, and there you have it." NEW MONEY DESIGNS. Change in the Face of Dollar Silver Certificates. Washington, Nov. 15. New designs for the one dollar silver certificates have been completed at the bureau of engraving and printing, and the notes bearing them will be issued soon. Clearness, simplicity and protection against counterfeiting have been the re sults chiefly aimed at. The new design is somewhat less ar tistic than some of the present silver certificates, but probably will be more popular among those who handle mon ey. The central device on the face of the note is an American eagle with wings partly spread, clutching the flag, and with the dome of the capitol in the background. Below the platform upon which the eagle stands are small portraits of Lincoln and Grant, set in medallion. Large and clear figures are in each corner of the note and on the sides. The space between the central device and the lathe work at the ends is clear white paper, except for the im print ot the seal in one space and the Saves! from a Dreadful FatCm we had given him- three bottles. Long before they were gone the spasms had ceased. His health improved rapidly and he has grown to be a stout, hearty, rugged boy. He is now eight years old and has never had a sign of the old trouble, which I am sure would have taken him away from us but for the timely use of Dr. Miles' Res S. C IIhacox, Hastings, Neb. "About five years ago my little daughter had a very sudden and very severe attack of St of her muscles: her limbs would 4 E. O. DE MOSS. Odd Fellows' Building, 523 Quinc? Street. J Undertakers Finest ambulance in the wesfc FREE to the public Day and Night. tix prices iBE mmmLtr- S DE MOSS PENWELL,? Phone 192. 'Phene 31. Catalogue Free. Dr u A LOAN OF $100 COSTS PBS. Por 60 months. 12.25 84 months, 81. SO 96 months. 81.65 CT Jir-MMU arBuUKSXL OSnULHa. JAXjA3JAP d L. Mortgages released prompt!; when last payment Is made. Fart or all ot loan may be Da Id t any tim with a sarin of interest to you. The Savings and Loan Ass'n. Tel. 60S. H. Cor. 6th Kan. Ay. Our object and atui is to ena ble you to se cure a borne on eajy monthly UutaUmenta. "A HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO SHAVE WITH.'' IS THE PROPER THING denomination of the note in another. The seal upon the silver certificates will be in blue, and the figure in the open space will be in the same ink. IS A DOUBLE MAN. New Jersey Man With. Two Hearts and Two Breast Bones. New Tork. Nov. 15. Medical men of Plainfleld. N. J., are deeply interested in the discovery of a man with two dis tinct and separate hearts and two breast bones, all of which he can move about at will. The man who is thus generously en dowed by nature is William King, col ored, who claims to be 100 years old. His home is in New Bedford, Mass., and he has been visiting his cousin, Thomas Martin, the Jail warden in Plainfleld, for several days. Long, chief of the Muhlenburg hospital Stan:, says is ununuiiuic. ju. w gether with several other prominent phvsicians, examined King and found to their astonishment that the man's statements were true. They found that King not only had two hearts, but that they were capable of displacement. Just to show that he had his hearts com pletely under control King moved them about. Although the two hearts were thrown far apart on either side, they still beat in unison. Usually King keeps his hearts, one on the right and the other on the left side of his body. By a muscular movement he can suddenly move one heart to the lower part of his abdomen, while the other remains sta tionary. "When he had finished doing things with his two hearts King called atten tion to his breast bone. With a violent muscular movement he forced one breast bone lower and lower, until he had a complete wall of bone from his thro down. CARNEGIE 0N"TH MASSES" Says They Don't Know How to Vote and That Chambers of Commerce Must Teach Them. Pittsburg, Nov. 15. Andrew Carne gie was the guest of honor last night at the annual banquet of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Carnegie quoted Emerson and said that there were two kinds of valuable knowledge that which we possess and the ability to find that which we do not possess. "It will not be claimed by the most extreme opponents of democracies," said Mr. Carnegie, "that the masses of the people can or do form sound judg ments themselves upon intricate public questions, but what we do hold who be lieve that government of the people, by the people, is best, is that the masses of our republic are so intcllient as to be had taken a half bottle we saw such a decided improvement that we continued its use. Before the second bottle was gone the disease had entirely disappeared. She could run and play all day and at night her sleep was sound and refreshing. Her appetite improved wonderfully and from that time on she grew stronger and more healthy than she ever was before. M. "W. Coffet, Columbia, Ma "When baby becomes restless and nervous, and cannot sleep, and has no appetite, his nervous system is deranged. Remember there is nothing so good to soothe his excited nerves and assist him to get refreshing, restful sleep as Dr. Miles' Nervine. It is the greatest of all medicines for epilepsy, St. Vitus dance, hys teria, headache, neuralgia, sleeplessness, dizzi ness, irritability and nervous prostration. It contains no opium, morphine, cocaine or other dangerous drug, and may be taken in proper doses by the most delicate without fear of after effects. It restores health when all other means have been exhausted. All druggists are authorized to sell Dr. Miles' Nervine on a guarantee that first bottle will benefit or money will be refunded. Be sure and get Dr. Miles' Nervine. Take noth ing else. Write us about your troubles and ailments and we will give you the honest advice of a trained specialist absolutely free of charge. Booklet on heart and nerves sent free. Address De. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. L. M. PENWELL W 523 QTiinoy St. 0 Mlzht Sessleaa. f ai 533 Qulncy St. MONTH. 1W) months. 81.36 FOR HOUSE-CLEANING. able to weigh what men of special knowledge lay before them and that education has made them teachable. "Chambers of Commerce, therefore, have before them the duty of proclaim ing boldly the true course upon any subject pertaining to matters especially under their purview. This differs some what, as you no doubt have concluded, from the view taken by the average politician, who is naturally tempted to give to the people not what he knows is really best, but what is at the mo ment most palatable. He thinks of what they favor now In their unln structed state, not what It behooves them to think because conducive to their permanent good. The Chambers of Commerce throughout the country, on the contrary, have to consider not what doctrines will make votes, but what the masses for their own good should be Induced to vote. "Performing this high function, your organizations have no mean places In the service of our country. The presi dent or governor who fails In a crisis to give the people his real opinion as to what is best is contemptible." We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. Annual Sales over 6,000,001, Boxes FOB BILIOUS AND BEBV0U3 BIS0BDEE3 such as Wind and Pain In the Stomach. Giddiness. Fulness after meal. Head ache. Dizziness. Drowsiness. Flushines of Heat. Loss of Appetite. Costlveness, Blotches on the Skin. Cold Chills. Dis turbed Sleep. Frightful Dreams and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations. THE FIEST DOSE WILL GIVE BELIEF IN TWEHTT KIKTJTES. Every sufferer Will acknowledge them to be A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. BEECHAM'S P1I.I-8. taken as direct ed. will quickly restore Females to com plete health. They promptly remov 'obstructions or irregularities of the sys tem mna cure icU Heaaacke. For a Weak Stomach Impaired Digestion Disordered Liver IN MEN, WOMEN OR CHILDREN Beecham's Pills are Without a Rival And tam the LARGEST SALE JUmny Patent Medicine la tha ITerli) 35o. at all Drag Stores,

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TOPEKA STATE JOU&NAIj, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1898. 3 JHMMHMMMMr irt? (Dm 619 Kansas Averuie. "When you are privileged to select anything that you may require from a stock of goods such as is" carried by this establishmnet at absolute wholesale cost And -when your purchases may be made on the above basis on any day of the week or any hour of the day Or when any purchase made at this establish ment should, for any reason, fail to prove entirely satisfactory to you, the same may be returned and the full purchase price refunded. It would seem to us that it will not require any remarkable degree of wisdom to determine as to where you should go for your Fall and Winter s upplies. The thousands that have traded here since our great Dissolution Sale was inaugurated, will testify to the truthfulness of every statement set forth. Our establishment has been crowded from early morning until late in the evening we have drawn trade from far and near, and we assure you that we are eminently pleased. "We ask again why should you run elsewhere after a special offering when all such offerings are more than duplicated at our establishment on any day of the week or any hour of the day? "Would it not be wiser for you to make out a list of your requirements, bring it to the store, have us fill it calmly, knowing that you buy them as low as S. Barnum Co. were able to buy them and get your money back for the asking, if not entirely satisfac tory? Remember we have a stock of merchandise worth at wholesale value over sixty-five thousand dollars and any one acquainted with the stocks of goods carried in this city knows also that this stock is second to none in point of assortment, freshness, style and stapleness. Quoting of prices is unnec essary, since every article in the store as far as practicable is now marked in plain figures, repre senting cost and less. X-

-tt J- EKCAM IS CAUGHT. He Drank and Talked TJng-uardedly to a Woman and His Capture Followed. ft. B. Kkoara, the man who abscond ed a year ag- with $4,,.i,00 belonging to Kii XaJ-au. the Indian trai-r of the Pottawatomie reservation, has been captured in Albuquerque. New Mexico, and is now heli there until proceed. ngs can be taken for his return to this city. A telegram received at the office of the United States marshal in this city yesterday aft-moon from Marshal Mc Millan of Ait uquerqu- announced that Kkcam had been located and asked if fcis arrest was desired. It was turned over to Deputy L'nitei States Attorney Harry B. r.e who in turn not. tie J Kusene Hasan. Nadeau's attorney, and Mar shal McMiilan was wired to spare no ef forts to arrest Ekcam. A lew hours an-rwarl a second telegram was re-ceiv-J from IK-liilian stating that Ek- am had been arrested at Jallup. Xi w Mex'.eo. -n his way t California. What information has ben received In this lty ?ors to show that the capture or Kkcam is du- to Mis Lizz.e Me Grath. cashier of one of th- Albu querque hotels, who formerly l:v.-.i in Topeka. Kkam was in th- hot-I Intox icate 1 and talked fre-ly with Miss M- -Grath. in the course of the c op.v-: sat ion statins: that his name was Kkcam ai:-l exhibiting a watch bearing the name of J. B. Hayden. Miss Moij.ath knew of the Na i-au cae. and at onoe notified Marshal McMillan. Before the arrest could be made the absconder left Al buquerque, but was caught on a tele gram Sent ahead by McMillan at Gal lup. Kkcam is probab'y one of the shrewd est thieves in the United States. He ante to Kansas from Ohio ?ev-rai years ago after swindling an insurance vrnrary. and entered the Catholic col lege at St. Marys. While e..:rir to ci lege he became acquainted with Ki and John N'aieau. father ar.d son. hair breed Indians, who orerateil a large mercantile business on the Pottawato mie reservation. He secured a position with theni. and was so, n made a mem ber of the firm of Nadeau Co. It was not long until he was entrusted with all the business affairs of the company. About a year asa just refore the reg ular Indian tayment. a time when the firm transacted a big business. Ekcam borrowed o from the National bank of St. Marys, presumably for use in cashing government checks. He bor rowed a like amount from the National bank of HoJton, Lindsctt Co.. bank ers of Holton. and Memll James, bankers of Hiawatha, giving the same reason in each case. Kkcam attended the government pay. meets at the Pottawatomie. Kit-kepvio, Sac and Fox and Iowa reservations, and took in He then returned to the company store at Nadeau and t"vk ail the money in the store and postofRce, amounting to 14,000. That was the last work he did for the firm and the next day he was not to be found. He was indicted in the federal court for robbing the postofRce and in the state c urts several actions were filed ae-amst him. A reward of Sii.i'OO was offered f,-,r his capture, but for a year he successfully evaded arrest. On the fourth of last March he was bold enough to come into this city and reg ister at the Union Pacific hotel as "H. J. R. Austin. Mexico."' The officer did pot discover this until some time la ter. Ekcam has a wife and two children mho sue at present living in Ohio, His -It

real name is Macke. but when he came west he changed it by reversing the j spelling. i CRASHES INTO THE BUGGY. Hos9 Wagon Collides With Mrs. Wal ter Jones" Vehicle and She is Hurt. Mrs. Walter Jones, who lives three miles west of Wanamaker on the Tenth street road, was run into by the hose wag n from station No. 4 last night and seriously injured. At 6:41 an alarm of fre called the department to box 35 at Tenth and To peka avenues. The hose wagon from station No. 4 on Clay street between Kitrhth and Ninth streets responded with 17'river Joseph Waidlich and Cap tain Ezra Robinson on the box. The wnson made the run down Clay to Tenth and then turned east. Just after passing the street light at Tenth and Fillmore Driver Waidlich and Captain Ezra Robinson saw a horse and buggy standing squarely across The street, the horse facing south. Driver Waidlich turned his team toward the north si ie of the road and did his best to stop but going as fast as they wei-e it was imp- ssible to stop theheavy wawr. Captain Robinson raise the gong but the bumry remained rieht in the rath of the fire waon and the heavy b-ntrne .,t the hos- wairon crashei throuch the rear wheels of the buasiy and the horses of the hose wagon were thrown in a heap. The occupant of the buggy. Mrs. 'Walter Jones, was stunn-d from the collision and was carried into a house near by. The fire department horses were severely cut and bruised about the breast and legs. In speaking of the accident this morn ing Chief Wilmarth of the fire depart ment said: "After hearing the story from the driver of the hose wagon I investigated the matter myself and found the tracks left by the wheels of the hose wagon. The driver had turned as far north as was possible and two inches more would have run the wae-on into the telephone posts. The driver was in no way to blame as the bugy stood outside the rays .-f the street light and it as impossible for the driver on the hose wagon to see until almost upon it but the occupant of the buggy could certainly have heard the ringing of the gor.g an 1 seen the hose wagon when it passed urd-r the electric light to say nothing nf the two side lights the wagon carried. The woman rtfust have lost her presence of mind for the buggy stood squarely across the street and she seem ed to make no attempt to get out of the road. "I greatly deplore such accidents and this is the first one we have had in years. Persons must remember that the fire department has the right of way over everything when responding to an alarm of fire. It is a "wonder that we do not have more accidents on ac count of reckless and careless driving. The heavy fire apparatus can not be turned or stopped in a very short space. In going to fires instead of having the right of way the drivers repeatedly have to zig zag across the street to avoid vehicles that pay r.o attention to the ringing of the gor.g and do not get out of the way. The people who drive should have "it impressed upon their minds that the law gives the fire de partment the right of way and as life and property are in danger they have to make the best time p-ssible. Many ac cidents are averted through the pres er,c of mind of the drivers and their skiilfulness." This morning Mrs. Jones was some what recovered from the nervous shock. No bones were broken and besides be ing severely bruised she sustained na other injuries. I WORD I'ROJi MISS ROSE. Mr. Dan Case Writes of Her Arriva at Honolulu, The first letter giving information of the arrival of Miss Anna Rose at Hono lulu was received today by President Charles K. Holliday of the Karnival Knights. It is as follows: Honolulu, H. I., November 1, li'jS. To the Karnival Knights, Citizens of Topeka and Kansas. "Well, it may turn out all right, but I feel this is the last we shall ever see of Hiss Rose:" "It will completely turn her head;" '"She will never be willing to return to Hawaii and contentedly re sume her quiet island life:" "I fear it will ruin one useful life," etc. Such were the expressions of fear and doubt passed by many good but unin formed persons when it was known that Hiss Anna Rose had been chosen to accept the generous offer made by the Karnival Knights of Kansas. It was but fitting that Hawaii's fa vorite boat, the old '"Australia" should bring back to us the Queen of the Kar nival Knights no. but Anna Rose, the same good-natured, unassuming Ha waiian girl who left us six weeks since. In behalf of Miss Rose and her many friends I desire to tender to the Karni val Knights and the people of Kansas our sincere gratitude for the royal re ception given to and honors shown Miss Rose, and. indirectly, her native land. We have not faiied to see that your every thought and act has been to car ry out every request made and prom ise given, and an earnest desire to re turn to us the same girl so generously welcomed to the shores of America by your committee. It is this very thousrht fulness on the part of your committee that has won the respect and admira tion of even those who. honestly I be lieve could not give their sanction to the idea of any Hawaiian girl going for ward. It was nut natural I should be en thusiastic on the proposition knowing, as I did. the gentlemen back of this en terprise: and now that it is over, anl the confidence of myself and friends in the Karnival Knights, the people of Kansas, and the girl we selected, has been so gloriously demonstrated and re warded, it is not at all strange that I should feel prouder than ever of old Kansas, and tell my friends here, as I have been doing, that it was simply one of those things that Kansas is doing every day or so. By the pretty compli mer.t paid to Hawaii's daughter. Kan sas has done more in the few short days of the Festival to spread the Gospel of Americanism among the Hawaiian peo ple than all of the literature they have evr read. I also wish to express to you my ap preciation for the beautiful picture of Miss Rr.se in hr royal robes, and more than all for the hearty testimonial signed by your governor, mayor and president of the K. K. I have had it framed, and. together with pictures of Miss Rose and various views of the pa rade, and likenesses of your governor and the orignator of the Hawaiian Queen idea, have placed them all in a large window of one of our most prom inent business houses. During her short stay in Honolulu Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Atherton have gen erously extended to Miss Rose the hos pitality of their beautiful home. By the Kir.au. one week from today, she will lave us for her own pretty home in the citv of rainbows, where, as she says, it will take months to tell her island friends of the many wonderful things she has seen, and experiences had. From your fellow citizen. DAN H. CASE. DATE LEAY'S METEOR. Dave Finds 'Em If No One Else Can. Wichita. Kan., Nov. 1". A report was received in Wichita this afternoon that two children in a family named Hen derson were crushed and burned to death by falling meteors near Perry, Ok., last night. Six big lumps of blazing iron went whizzing through the air towards the surface of the earth, and the heavens were as light as day. When the m-teors struck the earth the jar was sufficient to break window lights in many homes. The two children killed were sleeping In the same bed. A mass of iron four feet in circumference fell through the roof and crushed them into the ground. Their bodies were buried and burned so as to be almost unrecognizable. The whole roof of the house fell in on the family and buried them ail for a short time. Another boy had his legs and arms broken by falling timber. The father and mother could not get out of the debris for an hour. Neighbors rushed to the aid of the family and got there in time to save the house from flames. The six meteors were discovered on the prairie within a radius of one mile. They were all composed of substance resembling iron, and some crumbled easily while others did not. LOCAL MENTION. The international week of prayer 4a being observed this week by the R. R. Y. M. C. A. in Topeka. The services for the remainder of the week will be con ducted as follows: Wednesday. 12:15 p. m.. coach shop. Rev. L. Rlakesley: Thursdav. 12:15 p. m.. coach shop. Rev. E. L. Thorp: Fri lay. 12:15 p. m.. coach shop, Kev. F. E. Mailory: Saturday, 12:15 p. m.. coach shop. Rev. M. C. Lone: Sunday. 4 p. m., R. R. T. M. C. A. room. Rev. J. T. Countermine. The war views shown by the Wilbur Entertainment company at the Craw ford theater yesterday afternoon and last night were seen by a large number of Tnp-ka people. The first part of the entertainment was devoted to stereop tion views and the latter to vitascope pictures. The opportunity of introduc ing "Just Break the News to Mother" was taken advantage of with accom panying illustrations on the canvas. Notice. The Doll show will open Wednesday, 2 p. m. instead of Thursday. It Is true that others imitate the methods employed in advertising Beggs German Palv", others claim to heal and to cure disease because Beggs' German Salve, the one true ointment, has been so wonderfully successful. But in thou sands and thousands of cases, as shown bv grateful testimonials Beggs' German Salve actually and permanently cures when other medicines fail to do any good whatever. For sale by all drug gists. Davies Nicholson are never out of Coal. Help Wanted When your hair is falling out or turn ing gray. Beggs' Hair Renewer has for 32 years been famed as a preventative for falling hair. Take no substitute. Ask for "Beggs." Sold by all drug gists. Just Slaunchways Across from the transfer station, be ing No. II'1 West Eighth street, is th-3 I, lace to get Coal Just Right. It Is the uptown office of the Green Feed and Fuel Co. 'Phone 405. The yard is the corner of First and Quincy street. F. H- Web3ter, Just Agent. Thompson Bros., 626 Kansas Ave. Wasted Onehalf of our Life is spent in bed. The bed room should be cozy, cheer ful, and full of comfort. For 25 we sell a Chamber set which is a perfect beauty. The wood is figured oak, nicely finished three front drawers are rounded, swell fronts, with patent drawer guides; perfectly made strong and firm well worth anybody's $50.00. We also have a Mahogany suit exactly similar to the Oak, which for a short time we will sell at the very spe cial price of 30. You may have an offer like this again, but we doubt it. How would you like to have your old furniture look like new We have a fin ish 25 cents a bottle that will transform your old fur niture. MEAN AND PETTY INTRIGUE Resorted to by CoL Funaton and Oth ers to Get Rid of the Topeka Capta.n. The following telegram was received by Governor Eeedy this morning from the war department at Washington: "Captain J .E. Towers of the Twen tieth Kansas regiment volunteers has been discharged under this date by or der of the military board." This is the close of a long drawn out fight among the officers of theTwentieth Kansas, now on its way to Manila, to have a favorite officer in the proper place for promotion. Captain J. E. Towers was in com mand of Company A. of Topeka, and was the ranking captain in the regi ment. When it was noised around that Colonel Funston might be appointed a general and that Lieutenant Colonel Little would succeed him as colonel in command of the regiment, the regular line of promotion would be Major Whit man to be lieutenant colonel and Major Metcalf to be ranking major, leaving the vacancy of junior major to be filled by the ranking captain. Towers was the ranking captain but the choice of Colonel Funston was for Captain W. E. Buchan of Company B. from Kan sas City, who ranked next to Towers. In order that Buchan might have the appointment of major. Towers had to be gotten out of the way which would leave Buchan next in rank. Colonel Funston requested Towers to resign and avoid an investigation as to his fitness. Towers refused to do so. Three times in all Funston requested the resignation and was seconded by Major Whitman. When at last it was found that the regiment was likely to go to Manila and that Towers would not resign a board was called to examine into his fitness and the decision was that he should be discharged. The board at Washington has sustained the rec commendation and now Buchan is the ranking captain. While it is true that Towers was" r.ot the best tactician in the regi ment he had the good will of his men and no captain took the care of the men under him that Towers did. Many others in the regiment who are com missioned officers are not as capable as Towers. The members of Company A were greatly attached to Captain Towers and had no fault to find with him. but the pets of the staff officers had to be look ed after and for that reason and no other Captain Towers has been forced out. BOIS ON A LARK. Young Son of Secretary of State Bush. and a Companion Have Adventure Archie Bi:?h. 13 year? old. the Fon of P-creta ry of State Bush, and Clarenre r,twofrh. another hoy about the same rit--. starts! out to see the worlJ. or a p'-rtir.n of it. list Sundiy. They V.d not tII their parents of their intentions, hut hired a b;at and started down the Kaw. Just wh.--t port they were paihng' for th--y tiid not know in faft, they ha.d rarh-r vatrup ideas in regard to their destination themselves, but they wanted to take a trip and concluded that the best way to pt their money's worth was to go by wa ter. They had a fine trip goine- down stream There was very littie work about it and made rap: d p r L"r e-s s so that b-f o r e nirht they cast anchor at Tecumseh. Wb-n nierht came on they were confronted with the problem of securing: a sleeping place. Their boat was not fitted up with sleeping facilities, and it was rather cold out of doors, anyway. They w. re not very wWi supplied with ready money, and they did not like to srend what little they had for lodging, as they knew it would come in handy when they grot hungry. At last they crawled into a barn and went to sleep. Meanwhile their parents in Topeka be pan to grow alarmed when the boy a did not come home at night. No trace couid secured of them. and while Secretary Bush thought his boy could take care of him self he would have felt more comfortable if he had known where his boy was. When the boys awoke in the barn in Te cumseh yesterday morning' they concluild that they had sren about all of the world that thev cared to for the present. After thev had secured a lunch they turned their boat homeward. But it was r.o easy task to come back agrair.st the current, an1 it took them all day. rowing- hard, to reach Topeka arain. They reached their homes about o clock last night and were glad to get back. Both bovs deny that they had any inten tion of funmne away. They say th-y s.mplv wanted an adventure, and they got enough to last them for awhile. The Gypsy Queen. Bakingr Powder, guaranteed absolutely pure. Manufactured by Otto Kueime i Co. OAS UNBOUNDED FAITH. Came From Kansas Gty to See Prof. Johnstone. Ee resides in Kansas City and regis tered at the Throop. He is a great ad mirer of Paul Alexander Johnstone and if the faith of admirers have anything to do with ones success in life the cele brated palmist and diagnostician should wear the fadeless laurel. He wore a business suit and bore a business air and was evidently accustomed to doing business in a business-like manner. He addressed a note to "Prof. Paul Alex ander Johnstone, 519 Harrison St." The envelope likewise contained the word "Confidential." It was nearly two hours after Prof. Johnstone had received the note that the celebrated thought reader entered the lobby of the hotel and was directed to the Kansas Cityan's room. "You see, I can scarcely get about. Be seated. I have come ali the way from Kansas City to see you and I want to get down to business. I took the lib erty of sending that note because I can walk only with great difficulty. I have a number of friends in Kansas City who have consulted you on different affairs and it is because of their strong endorsements as regards your powers that I am here. First of all I wish you would read my hand. Do you smoke?" Prof. Johnstone modestly declined the proffered cigar, and seating himself in an easy chair, began on one of those private readings for which he is so cel ebrated. When he had finished he leaned back, crossed his legs, and calm ly met the asstccished gaze of the Kan sas Cityan. "Well, I presmue it is useless for me to query how you can tell these things. All you have said as regards myself is most true and I must say that so far as I can now see my future business moves your advice is very sound and compre hensive. But I want you to cure me of my nerve trouble. I know of several instances in Kansas City where you have cured people who have been af rlicted more than I. I know that they like myself, have treated yith physi cians and specialists and institutions and have received no permanent bene fit. I am practically unfit for business and I realize that I am growing worse every month and what I want is a cure. Can you give it to me?" Prof. Johnstone replied that he could effect a permanent cure but inasmuch that his case was of long standing it would require about three months time in order to accomplish the feat. The question of price was settled and last nis-ht the patient returned to Kansas City, carrying with him a month's sup ply of remedies. "That man Prof. Johnstone is one of the most remarkable men of the cen tury," said the gentleman, after he had installed himself in the sleeper. "I have taken two doses of his remedy and I al ready feel the thrill of returning health. He told me that he could cure n e and I know he is a man who will do exactly what he. says he will do whether he reads your palm, or your mind, or un dertakes to drive blindfolded through the crowded streets." THEY ALL UET AWAY. Confidence Men are Never Sent to the Penitentiary From Topeka. Topeka officers bag many confidence men and crooks but no well known con fidence men have been sent to the pen itentiary from Shan-nee county fot years. They manage to scrape up some money and the next thing the peo ple know the prosecuting witnesses can not be found and the case must be dis missed. "Gold Brick" Gordon came nearer to the penitentiary than any of them but even he escaped when he stood right on the threshold. The latest episode of this kind is the disappearance of the man Irwin who claimed he was flim flammed out of $73 on the Santa Fe train by Larry King who is now In the county jaii. King's case was called a few days ago but Ir win could not be found. It was con tinued and when it is called up again will be dismissed for. want of prosecu- J The secret of this easy way of doing things rests in the fact that all thesa crooks have influential friends who fur. nish money to pay lawyers and do any thing else that is necessary to prevent a trial of the case on its merits. A trial what thev do not want. LOCAL MENTION. There will be a choir rehearsal at i Grace Cathedral tonight at 7 o'clock. Chief Strauss is m fct. Marys looking up the H. B. Eckam case and will leave with eztradition papers for Albuquerque to get Eckam tomorrow. Cheeps Council Xo. 2, Order of the Pyramids, will hold a dance and supper tomorrow nisht at 704 Kansas avenue. The fire department was called by a telephone alarm at 12:30 to 300 Law rence street where a pile of sugar cane was on fire. The damage was trifling. A vote in the Anna Rose. Jr.. doll con test was received today from San Fran cisco. It was sent by little Elizabeth Holliday and was enclosed in a letter to her father. In the letter she begged Mr. Holliday to cast one vote for her for "Johnnie Waters" and it was ac cordingly cast. Samuel McLaughlin and R. L. Brown, of the fire department, started this morning in a buggy to hunt east of Oak land. The horse was a young and frac tious animal ar.d three miles east of Oakland took fright and ran away i throwing both men and dragging Mc Laughlin quite a distance. McLaugh 1 Iin as cut about the head and his riaht leg badly bruised. He is able to walk, around but the wounds on the head are quite serious. Chronic Diarhoea Cured. This is to certify that I have had chronic diarrhoea ever since the war. I got so weak I could hardly walk or do anything. One bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured me sound a:d well. J. R. GIBBS. Fincastle. Va. I had chronic diarrhoea for twelve years. Three bottles of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured me. S. L. SHAVER. Fincastle, Va. Both Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Shaver are prominent farmers and reside near Fin castle. Va. They procured" the remedy from Mr. W. E." Casper, a druggist of that place, who is well acquainted with them and will vouch for the truth of their statements. For sale by all drug gists. N EW CBAFORD THEATER. Friday Eve., November IS. Davis i Keogh's Famous Fabric of Fan, HAVE YOU SEEN SMITH tVhat the Press says of it: JCew York Journal "A facetious feast of fun, froiic and frivolity." Pittsburg Press: "The lau;hing hit of the seaaoo." Prices 25, 33, 50 and 75c. A Stove You Must Have. While buying get the best a Jewel will soon pay for itself in the "amount of fnel saved over any J other stove. Chanev 117 East FOR LITTLE GIRLS ONLY. The Journal Wishes to Announce That the Dolls Have Come. The international collection of dolls owned by Mrs. E. R. Horton of Boston arrived in this city from Kansas City to day and is beine- arranged for exhibition in the Curry building. Every kind and description of doils imaginable are found in the collection, and rhe doll show will be a great treat to the children of Topeka. while even the grown up people will lind the exhibit interesting. The doil show will open Thursday after noon. A chrysanthemum show will he held in conjunction with it. and besides Mrs. Honun's collection of dolls there will be plenty of dolls for sale. The show will probably continue into next week. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the Stute Journal. Chicago. Xov. 15. "WHEAT Today all the strength that characterized yesterday's market had ap parently disappeared. Li-erpool was sur prisingly indifferent coming Hd higher to sd lower, and this fact took the enthusi asm out of buyers and started liquidation on a large scale. Opening sales of May were made at om.-S-.e. a decline of .s'Tic. The selling pressure was urgent. both from local and outside traders and the price was slowlv forced down to 6Se. De cember was even weaker and quite as act ive as vesterdav. It started He lower at S'lic and by the time May had declined to j6c December had sold off to "Vpc. Be sides the Liverpool decline. Parrs was 10 centimes lower. Northwest receipts were exceptionally heavy. 2.0W cars, and the weather west was favorable for a continued large movement. Chicago re ceipts were cars, of which 31 cars were contract grade. Total world's shipments were put at T.S42.c bushels. compared with. 1O.ST4.000 last week and 9,262, a year ago. CORN Corn was very weak. Lower ca bles and the break in wheat discouraged holders and liquidation from all sources w-as heavv. The market sold considerably under puts. Receipts were 417 cars. May opened sc lower at ZV--.sC and declined to 33c. Later it reacted to SSH'e. OATS Oats were slow and easy, fol lowing wheat and corn, but not showing so much weakness. Receipts were 2.6 cars. May opened unchanged at 24?c and de clined to 24H-- PROVISIONS Provisions. In common with grain markets, were weak and lower. Large" receipts of hogs and a slow cash demand helped depress the market. Janu ary pork opened ie lower at $.S.s2"-2. sold at fc.o and declined to S.. January lard opened 21 c lower jt $4.v and sold at $4 Januarv ribs opened 2Uc lower at $4.r and declined to $4.4TU. FLAX '"ash northwestern, Jl.Cc; De cember. 91: May. BARLEY-Cash, 3iiKi. ETE November, oll2c; December, oC'-ac; 'lilOTHT November. March, $2.4). Chicago Livestock Market Chicago. Nov. T5. HOG3 Kstimated receipts of hogs to day. )oj: left over. 1j9. Market fairly active, weak. 5-&10C lower. Light. $:i.ie-i 3 45- mixed. $.l.l''-i 3..V: heavy. $3. Iit3.au; rough. S3.!;a3:i: yorkers. C-VTTLK P.. ceipts. 4.c0. Market steady Beeves. Jiio.SO: cows and heifers, il.'iijl :ii4..v: stockers and feeders. i 'nj. !u4 r- stockers and feders. ira4..a SH EEP Receipts. 15.0X. Steady to s'rorg. Native sheep. $2.,"i4.60; westerns, U;i4.50: lambs. .7a'(i5.so. Yesterday's ofheial: HOGS pleceipts. 36.12T.: shipments. 3.221. CATTLE Receipts, 14.015; shipments, 3,- IhEEP Receipts. 14.P3S: shipments. n. Kstimated receipts of hogs for tomor row. 4e.. Official Saturday: HXJr Receipts. 1S."27: shipments. S1. CATTLE) Receipts. shipments. 213. SHFZEP Receipts. l.s"3: shipments. 3c. Estimated receipts of hogs for tomor rom, 34. uw. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas Citv. Nov. 13. CATTLE Receipts. 12.'". Market steady. Native steers. r!.r3.i'i: Texas steers, 3.2o fi45- Texas cows. fc.l"o!3: native cows and heifers. n.S-?'o4.23: stockers ar.d feed ers $3.2." 4.75: bulls. $'J.2."''i3.2-. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. NO. 1S native steers l-; 3-; Texas steers I1-" -Vl 24 Texas cows 3.c" 22 native cows and heifers S-o 4.lo 33 stockers and feeders 4,6 4.. buiis 1090 3.20 HOGS Receipts. 20.cjO. Market Sfiloe lower. Bulk of sales. $3.25's3.35: heavies. $3.33.45: packers. S2.ym3.4fK mixed. S3.20 light.-. S3.bKi3.3o; yorkers, iZ.'4 3.30: pigs. S2.1i3.l0. SHEEP Receipts. 4.0C. Market steady. Lambs, H.&jai muttons. $33 4.20. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City. Nov. 13. "WHEAT About steady. No. 1 hard. 62 j62''e: No. 2. 6f12'&62:"C: No. 3. a.H''"'1: No. 2 red. c: No. 3. SI '563c; No. 2 spring, 5a3tlic: No. 3. M'&n&c. CORN Weak. No. 2 mixed. 2S'&2S1c; No. 2 white. 2Sa2S-c; No. 3. 2Se. OATS Steady. No. 2 white, M'SaS'c. RYE Steady. No. 2, 4c. HAY Steady. Choice timothy and prai rie $7. BT'TTER ic higher. Separator, 20Hc; dairv. 16c. EGGS Firm. Fresh. ISc. Receipts of wheat, 167 cars. New York Money Market New York. Nov. 13. MONET Money on call, nominally 2-'&214 per cent; prime mercantile paper, iil per I I .7" .v y f- a ,y t C x i We Have Anything you want in Oak Heaters, Soft Coal Base Burners, Hard Coal Base Burners, Wood Heaters Steel Ranges and Cook Stoves. j ft orton St. 3 Sixth cent; sterling exchange steady, with act ual business in bankers' bills at $4. voM.Ve for demand and at ii.:-i.-'--t, lor days; posted rates. S4.b3 and $4.:3; commercial bills. $4l1ifj3. SILVER Sliver certificates, eo-c; Mexi can dollars. 470. BONDS Government bonds weak. T". S. new 3s, Sbe-rg: new 4s. registered. 126; new 4s. coupon. 127'-: 4s. lll-'-s: 4s. coupon, llll'-g: 2s. i" f-s, registered, lil-; 5s, cou pon, 112; Pacific 6s of 'I. lMi's. Market Gossip. Furnished by the Wickharn Commission Co., U2 East Piftn St.. Tuieka, Kan. Chicago: There is no weakness to wheat market. Buy it on every weak spot. North wester. receipts: This year, Min neapolis 522 cars. Duluth 1.517 cars, total 2.Xly cars: last year. Minneapolis 4J7 cars, Duluth l.ci6 cars, total 1.473 cars. Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 4. steady: Kansas City, 14,c., steady; Omaha, 3. steady. Receipts of hogs; Chicago, SS.ooo. lower; Kansas City, 20. lower; Omaha, d.'j, lower. Liverpool: Wheat sd higher, corn lower. B'orecast: For Kansas, fair tonight and Wednesday, warmer tonight. Chicago: Armour brokers are buying Dec ember and selling May wheat. Chicago; There is an uneasy feeling among December shorts. Possibility of some kind of a squeeze in that option may cause a stampede of bears. Bradstreet's: Wheat, increase, 6,723.000 bushels. New York: The continent is a heavy buyer of options in this market. This Bradstreet's report does not look Well to bulls, who were expecting an in crease of 1, bushels but get 6.732.VA) bushels. Export? four ports: Wheat and flour equal to 576.vc" bushels; corn, 25c.,.mj bush els. New York: Sales to noon. 2i;9,330 share of stock. Primary receipts of wheat. 1 .'v bush els: shipments. 1. bushels: corn. 631, uOo bushels: shipments. 440.417 busheis. Chicago: Com longs have bc-en letting go. discouraged at the way the market has been acting of late. New corn at low price because of dampness has been tilling much of the demand. Liverpool: Second cable, wheat sd lower. Range of Prices. Furnished bv the Wickharn Commission Co., 112 East Fifth street. Topeka. Kan. Chicago. Nov. l.'i. Art 'el. Open High Low Close Yes. WHEAT Nov 66 f,'i Dec G6r- 6 66 6e'-s f;-7'9 May Ui'rs-1 66'- 60 tyj-1 66 -a CK N Nov S! Dec 31it :pxt SlH-'-i 3Hj-H 31J,-32 May 332 33:a 33 33s 33 -s-: OATS Nov 24 Dec J"-, 24 23- 2i-'i 24 Mav 24-4 24,- 24 2i:'-i 24-H PORK Nov 7 7" 7.i Dh: 7 75 7 75 7 70 7 75 7 77 Jan S S2 S 5t LARD Nov 4 0 4 77 Dec 4 77 4 1 4 73 4 -"I 4 J-.n 4 t5 4 55 4 eo 4 53 4 s7 RIBS Nov 4 42 4 7.2 Dec 4 42 4.2 Jan 4 SO 450 4 45 4 47 4ii! Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished bv the Wickharn Commission Co. 112 West Fifth street. T..pek-.. Kan. New Y'ork, Nov. 15. Hstocka. iOpen K.ghj Low :Ci'se lYes. Sugar People's Gas Am. Tobacco .o Am. Spirits E. G. E Leather i Irfad I". S. Rubber.. C. B. v Q. Rock Island C, M. A.- St. P. A., T. X S. F. A. .T. &S.F.Pfd Manhattan Western Cnion Mo. Pacific r. p. Pf i X'r.ion Pacific.. C. N. W N. Y. Central.. Omaha c. c. c B. R. T Reading T. C. I No. Pac. Pfd.. No. Pac L. N M..K. T. Pfd C. G. W 122'-. 124 121'- 121 12-- h'r-s l 1-lvS 142 ,l -4 14.0-! i2-. 12-.- 12-, 1-5, i:;V v.'-, S2'-4; --T. 2 6o4: 6 3.1-i S6-s 35 i 4:? 4.1 o 41 I 41 li:- l!"- 11T;' i:-T- H!-i I'M-.' 1 l'-o 1". li:,V 11!'-. 112S 112-. m' 16 i 16"-, 15V in:.. 16 42U' 4;;:' 42-4. 42S 42V Ki. icis &4V i-., I'T'a K:"4 ?.7"s "H. S-" 6-s -4 6. -4 b-S 6- -4. 35 -eS 34 V rA 1 1 4 1 4-4 117 117 117 j 117 117' jut, st M1 St 414 42 41 V 1 f.-i 6-'- B7 67 6-, 16" 16V 16 s 16-. 16 a 31 31 1 3"V 7-0-2: 7SV 7.V- 76 42 i 42 41-, 4'H Hit, 61 Si' .'V 2-5 35 S4--s 34:, 15V licsj 15 1 lo'-a TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. W NTED Experience girl at once: no washing. Mrs. Frank Cope. )1 x yier st. WANTED White girl who can cock an 1 do housework: permanent place ar.i good wages, in small family. Address E. E. E., care Journal. WANTED Clerking or work by man 23 years with best city references. Address J. S. Care Journal. WILL DO house painting for bicycle. Call 614 Jackson St., upstairs. WANTED Salesmen. S to J100 per month. in the business, honorable and perma rent business. Call at once and see W. Stucker. now at FiftlJ Avenue botel, few days only.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1898, TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAO LENNAN. STOLUME XXV No. 273 TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents 9. week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier i vstem. By mall, one year 3,2 Py mail, three months... -gj Weekly edition, one year PKRMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal BuUdinsf, SOO ana S3 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighta. UKW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court mag.. A. Frank Richardson, mgr. CHICAGO OFFTCT5. Btoek EjrhanB BuUdlnK. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LPNDON OFFICE!. U Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Rus'neps Office BMJ ;fJonf 2 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 677 The track Is now clear for Wharton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly. Pingree's majority Is still growing. The latest report places it at 75,000. "Woman suffrage and prohibition went Bown to defeat tog-ether in Washington. Philadelphia papers are already dis cussing the merits of candidates tor mayor. When Mr. Peffer left the Populisms he seems to have taken the wrong road to escape defeat. Some newspapers are still fighting territorial expansion regardless of the vote cast on the Stri inst. Gentlemen who attend the czar's peace conference should be compelled to leave their weapons in the cloak room. The result in Pennsylvania Indicates that Mr. Wanamaker's Sunday school work should be extended into more of the benighted Quay districts. The value of $200,000,000 placed upon the Philippines by Germany is anoth er strong argument in favor of keeping them. Cuban women are becoming 'Ameri canized rapidly. A lot of them swarmed on old General Garcia and kis sed him when he reached Havana the other day. The old cry of fraud has been raised by the defeated candidates In Philadel phia. Why doesn't Pennsylvania wake up and reform her ballot laws so there can. be no fraud? Is the shipment of a train load of al cohol to Japan to be made into smoke less powder, to be taken as an indica tion that it does not kill fast enough in the liquid form? The decision of Austria to raise her American legation to the rank of an em bassy Is probably largely due to our in creased importance in the eyes of the world as a result of the war. Publ'c opinion seems united oa the proposition that If there is any man who could hold the office of governor and United States senator at the same time, that man is Hazen S. Pingree. If the president should once begin the business of protecting negroes from mobs he might have his hands full. North Carolina is not alone in the matter of permitting her white citi zens to murder colored people. There is Illinois, where a similar proceeding bad the sanction of the governor. In the senate the free silver conspi racy, which has proved so ruinous to the Democratic party, was planted and watered. Through the senate it grew and flourished "like a green bay tree." Now In the senate it has been torn up by the roots. X. Y. World. But not until It had secured a law for the coinage of all the silver bullion in the treasury. TELLS WHAT AILED THESE. Wm. R. Hearst in a signed article in his paper, the New York Journal, tells the members of his party how it hap pened in the following plain language: It is both right and reasonable that the administration which, despite its mistakes, carried this glorious war to a successful conclusion, should receive a vote of confidence. It is both right and reasonable that the policy of ex pansion, ever the policy of the Ameri can people since Jefferson annexed the Louisianas, should receive the approval f the American voters. Republican and Democratic. The Democratic national leaders have been narrow and stupid beyond belief, and the Journal and Examiner have warned them time and again of the in evitable results of their stupidity. The Democratic press and the Democrats in congress urged and brought on the war, but the Democratic leaders, under the control of Bailey, influenced by petty Jealousy, forced the Democratic party Into an attitude of opposition to the very war they had brought on; forced it further into an attitude of opposition to the Democratic policy of expansion, to the very principles of Jefferson, the father of the American Democracy. The suicidal attitude of the Demo cratic leaders began with opposition to the annexation of Hawaii. These lead ers purposed' driving a Democratic con gress into caucus to oppose annexa tion. The Journal sent its representa tive editors to Washington, fought this caucus, broke it up, and prevented the Democracy from making a formal and conspicuous ass of itself on that occa sion. But the narrowness of the lead ers continued, and developed a tendency to oppose every Republican act, even though it embodied a Democratic prin ciple. GLOBE BIGHTS IFrom the Atchison Globe. When people become good to you, look eut. A woman seldom discovers the good points of her husband until after he i3 dead. What the chrysanthemum need3 to make it a handsome? flower, is a box f hair pins. The women say there never was a husband and father who was not mean about money. S tax saeiog koitwb I eoa i lects a dress with an eye to Its fitness for being made over two weeks later. Let a man get out a gun and clean it and every man and boy who comes along will take an interest in the per formance. Somehow It Is easier to sympathize with a girl who gets a burn in cooking than with one who is burned, in curling her hair. f There is one good thing about the afternoon receptions and card parties: they keep a woman so busy she hasn't time to be an equal suffragist. An Atchison man says he gets along all right with his wife, but can't get along with his daughter: he asks if there is such a thing as getting a di vorce from his daughter. "There was the biggest fool I ever met," the clerk said, after the man had gone out. "Well," the oldest clerk in the house remarked, "he would have to be a mighty big one, to be the biggest fool I ever met." CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS. Towns are seldom as red as they are painted. A locomotive engineer has to whistle for his pay. Nature works wonders, and men en deavor to get them patented. Riches may fly away, but a man's bald head always sees him through. Satan Invariably smiles when a wo man fall3 in love with the wrong man. The choice of a birthplace Is of less Importance than the choice of parents. Some men are cynics because they are unable to make a living at any thing else. No man is so ignorant that he doesn't know what he would do 1 ha were in your place. In the midst of life we are In death but it is often possible to postpone the interment. It is not until he reaches SO that a man begins to wrap the small bills on the outside of the roll. Every man is supposed to know his convince his friends that he does. A man who is married to a handsome woman with a disagreeable temper says she is a thing of beauty and a jaw for ever. A student of human nature says that some men become loafers because they are too light for heavy work and too heavy for light work. PEOPLE YOTJ HEAR OF. The present emperor of China's pe culiar fad is ceramics, of which he has a large collection and he is the author of a treatise on color. The best portrait of Admiral Dewey is said by his son to be that just finished by John Mason, the artist, who has long been a friend o the admiral. Paderewskl has bought the villa of Merges, near Lausanne, Switzerland, and with it a cellar of 10,000 bottles of wine, and a store of Kirsch twenty years old. The estate has its own vine yards and the great pianist will own bIx cows. The houses of Byronand Bulwer will be united by the wedding in London of Neville Lytton, the younger of the late earl's two sons, and Miss Judith Blunt, granddaughter of Byron's "Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart." Both are very young and the bridegroom will not be 20 at the time of the wedding. Admiral Dewey is to be honored In Vermont by the erection of a "Dewey hall" at the state's military institution, Norwich university, at Rutland. This institution has long been a military school and many of the officers who served in the civil war were among Its graduates. It is likely that the legis lature will appropriate a sum toward the addition of this hall ot the universi ty and it is proposed also to raise money by popular subscription for the same purpose. Every day when the weather Is favor able John Ruskin is out of doors and takes comparatively long walks for a man of his years. He occupies a part of each day in playing chess. His eye sight remains almost entirely unim paired. Leschetizky, the greatest piano teach er on the European continent, charges $5 per lesson and governs his pupils with iron-clad rules. One of these is that the fee named must be put in an envelope and laid on the piano by the pupil immediately on entering the room. Lord Elgin will leave Calcutta on Jan uary 5, the very day on which his suc cessor. Lord Kedleston, will arrive. It is the custom that the incoming and re tiring viceroys do not meet, the idea being that a new viceroy comes directly from the sovereign and is not fettered by the policy of his predecessor. The same custom prevails in the case of the Irish lord lieutenants. ELECTION SETTLED IT. That is the English View of the Phil ippines Problem London, Nov. 15. The morning pa pers comment editorially upon the peace commission crisis and the naval pre parations, reiterating their conviction of the hopelessness of Spanish opposi tion and recognizing that the United States have particularly no alternatives especially after the elections, but com-, plete annexation and if Spain continues obstinate the United States must send a fleet to Europe, an action which no power but Great Britain would welcome though none would be likely to interfere) in Spain's behalf. v The Daily Telegraph says: "We cannot believe that President McKinley favors a compromise that would leave Spain a portion of her far eastern possessions. Such a policy would combine the evils of both alterna tives confronting America since Spain would speedily sell the remnant," Havana Floating Dock. London, Nov. 13. A special dispatch to the Times from Havana says that the American evacuation commissioners have decided that the ownership of the floating dock in Havana harbor remains with Spain and she has the right to re move it. The dispatch adds that the distress in the Cuban army and throughout the island is daily increas ing. n n snouia ce m every xiuuiiy pa iiicuii iua vurwe nu ctw j traveller's rt-P Tby are lnT)ubl when th atemmch. la out of erdwt ear hwkdaofa, feillouftneM, and STANLEY'S REiGf The Goyernor-Elect of Kansas Outlines His Policy. Desires Business Mn in Chari table Institutions. 1IEF0RMS PROMISED. Farors the Abolishment of the Board of Pardons. Farors Local Option Would IfoffTeto Resubmission. Wichita, Nov. 15. Fred Vandegrif t, a well known Kansas newspaper write has interviewed W. E. Stanley, governor-elect of Kansas. Ha writes In part: William Eugene Stanley, governor elect of Kansas, comes from Puritan stock. The Rev. Dr. Israel P. Warren of Portland, Me., genealogist of the Stanley families of America, tries to connect them with the Derby line of the Stanleys of England, but admits if there is any relation the emigrant ancestors left no record of their English homes or connections. When the emigrants em. barked for New England the separation to which they doomed themselves from their preceding lives was as if it had been made by death William Eugene Stanley, the subject of this sketch, was born December 28, 1S44, in Knox county, Ohio. He cama to Kansas in 1870, settled in Oskaloosa, Jefferson county. At first he taught school, but soon took up the profession of his choice, and in 1872 he was elected county attorney. He lived in Jefferson county four years, making many friends lip VAA tatfKwMfiea THE STANLEY HOME IN WICHITA. and forming an acquaintance which fre quently has been valuable to him, es pecially in his canvass for the governor ship before the nomination. In 1874 he cast about or a wider field, and came to Wichita. It was a small town then and the country round about was sparcely inhabited, but now popu lation was pouring in and the young lawyer foresaw opportunities which af terward came. Today he is one of the most successful and best known law yers of Kansas, and In his section of the state he generally is on one side or the other of all the big cases. His clients have confidence in him, as parents have. MRS. W. E. STANLEY. faith in their family physician. He is the head of the firm of Stanley, Vermil lion Evans, and his share of th practice is said to be worth $7,000 or $8,000 a year. His professional prids is his law library, which numbers 2,000 volumes and is one of the largest in Kansas. Lawyers come from all over this part of Kansas to read in it- In 1S76 Mr. Stanley married Emma L. Hills, a daughter of a merchant of Wichita. They have had four children, three of whom survive Harry W., aged 18; Harriet Eugenia, 14, and William Eugene, jr., aged 7. They live in a comfortable home in Riverside, beyond Little river, where they enjoy the so ciety of good neighbors and a touch of country air. Mr. Stanley loves the soil and all that pertains to it. He keeps a cow, horse, a carriage and a wagon and has the "finest strawberry patch" in Wichita. The latter is the envy of the town, especially of Victor Murdock, whose fad runs in Mr. Stanley's line, but he has been unable to get a straw berry patch started. Mrs. Stanley i a woman of keen intelligence and judg ment, and endowed with all the woman ly graces and instincts. Her refining influence is manifested in the training of her children and in her home sur roundings. Her husband is all energy, all steam and sometimes a little too frank, while she is conservative, tactful, the family safety valve, and it is prob. able that she often "manages" William Eugene, sr.. without his knowing it. They are members of the Methodist church and they have reared their chil dren in that faith. Since 1X74, baring an interregnum of a year or two. Mr. Stanley has been su perintendent of the Methodist Sunday school. In the beginning of Wrichita, the-Methodists and Presbyterians had a union Sunday school. About the time Mr. Stanley came here, the school di vided, and he was made superintendent of the Methodist wing of it. Originally he taught the Bible class, and many children of Wichita, now grown into manhood and womanhood, received their first Scriptural instruction from faim. It is this Sunday school that Mr. Stan ley once directed by telephone while he lay on a couch at home with a broken leg. People elsewhere in the state laughed, but not in Wichita. "That's Stanley all over," they said, and Indeed it was Stanley, nothing more. lie was interested in the school. and without caring for or thinking of possible ridicule, or criticism, he chose one day to superintend by telephone. During his canvass for governor, both before and since the Hutchinson con vention, Mr. Stanley missed his Sunday school only five times. Mr. Stanley is a freehanded man. Money-getting is little pleasure to him, but out of the much he has made in a quarter of a century's law practice, he has saved a home) a little town pro perty, a farm and a bit of bank stock; enough to keep himself and his family IIATTIE EUGENIA STANLEY, AG-ED IS. comfortably if misfortune should over take him. Besides he loves to be at home surrounded by his family and his friends, and why he has chosen to leave all this comfort, this happiness, to take the chances of politics nobody can explain, not even he himself. "I don't know what possessed me to do it," he said, "unless it was that I wanted to lead a winning fight. Now that I have succeeded, I would just as lief some other fellow had the duties of the office to perform. But I am in for it, and I will go ahead and make the best of it. I will take the wife and children along with me to Topeka and try to make a home there as long as we stay." W. E. Stanley has been elected gov ernor of Kansas without making a pledge or a promise to a human being save one, he has promised an old man at Wichita a janitorship or some other light work in the state house. This man failed to get a place in the federal building at Wichita, and one day Mr. Stanley consoled him, saying, "Oh, well, never mind. I will be elected governor and will get you a place in the state house." Having made no promises, Mr. Stan ley will try to make his own appoint ments. He says he will seek the advice of the party leaders, but at the same time he declares that all appointees must be satisfactory to him, must meas ure up to his requirements of fitness. This amounts to a declaration that he will get along without the politicians. "They say that is a broncho I can't ride," he said, "but I shall require only fair business qualifications and good in tegrity. No man shall have a place by my appointment unless he be fitted for it. Fitness first, party loyalty second. "Another thing," he continued, "I be lieve all localities where the party Is strong or growing in strength, should be recognized. Here in Sedgwick, in Cher okee, in Crawford, in old Labette, down here in Sumner, in Cloud, in Jewell, all over the state, where the Republican workers have broken down the barriers of the enemy, or reduced the opposition vote, a fair share of the offices should be given to competent men." "Have you no personal friends you want to take care of?" "Yes, one. Mort Albaugh, chairman of the state committee, may have any thing he asks for. I don't know that he wants anything, but whatever he may ask for I will give. He was my friend at a time when I was only a possibility for the governorship, and to be for me he had to cut loose from old friends whose interests were in other candidates. Therefore to be my friend he made sacrifices, and now I am his friend. But he is the only man who has that claim upon me. Other friends were no less valuable to me than Mort Al baugh, but none made the sacrifice or took the chance that he did." "What will you do with the state In stitutions?" "I win trv to find business men, men who have been successful in their own HARRY W. STANLEY, AGED 13. affairs, to manage the state charitable institutions. I have laid down the rule that the men who fill those places, the men who fill all the higher places, the men who by their conduct naturally will be examples to the unfortunates under their control, shall be men who are not addicted to the use of liquor, to the use of obscene or profane language or to any of the vices common in many men. I shall require no certificate of good character from church or lodge, but I have a right to require at least decency M j Iff and good morals In the more responsi ble places. "Having appointed my boards I shall shift the responsibility upon them. I w'ill let them know the character and kind of men I want in the offices, and that will end my responsibility. It is not my purpose or desire to be the 'whole thing.' I will have enough to do without quibbling over every little ap pointment. My endeavor will be to give the state a good administration; I will try to be a good governor two years, without looking ahead to another term. I think by the end of one term I will have had enough of it. Public life is not to my taste. "Of course, as I have learned In the campaign, many reforms have come to my mind. I believe the state board of pardons is an evil. It should be abolish ed. It has come to be a court of review, instead of a court of mercy. It sets aside the painstaking work of courts and juries, and turns loose convicts without regard to the question of mer cy. Pardon means forgiveness, but this board interprets it to mean justice. I think the governor aided by a clerk could, take the place of the board of pardons. Then there ,is the executive clerk. He is a useless ornament. The state could get along without him.These are some of the places I would get rid of, and there are many others. "There is also a chance for reform In the penitentiary. The removal of the stripes from the better class of convicts is a step in the right direction, but I would go further. I would establish a graduated merit system, the final re ward to be a parole. The way to re form men is to give them Christian, hu man treatment, and a proper beginning is to place moderate confidence in them. It inspires a man, no matter how low he may have fallen, to feel that he is not wholly unworthy of confidence." The new governor will recommend to the legislature that the output of the penitentiary coal mine be limited to the uses of the state institutions; that none can be mined for commercial purposes. This would take the mine out of compe tition with free labor and would re move a growing cause of complaint and often of scandal. "I don't believe the prison coal should come in competition with free labor," the governor-elect said: "The state might better afford to pay a deficiency for the support of the institution; the convicts might be employed on the pub lic highways, the better class of con victs I mean, prisoners who could be trusted with guards. They might do work on parks and roads that are now neglected and so their labor would not deprive any honest man of his bread. A method could be devised by which the counties and cities might take pris oners off the hands of the state and house and feed them for their labor. In this way the convicts would be employ ed to useful purpose and the interest of no class of society injured thereby." "How will you treat the new laws the Populists have put on the statute books the stock yards law, and other meas ures?" "They are good laws. I said that in my speeches. I shall do all in my power to enforce them. Possibly they may need improvement, but it should be done fairly, done really to improve them, to strengthen weak places, not to cripple them. All the goodness is not in the Republican party. I am willing to learn from our fusion friends. If they have done good things, it is not for us to des troy their work." "How about the metropolitan police system?" "That is gone. I will not re-establish it. I mean by that that I will not of my own motion re-establish it. But it is a remote possibility that the people of a town may in self detense demand its re- establishment, and in that event I would reluctantly restore it. Please do not understand that I would seek a chance, under the cover of a local de WILLIAM EUGENE STANLEY, JR., AGED 7. mand, to re-establish it. I would re store it only when I should become satisfied that the great body of the people wanted it. However, I look for nothing of that kind. Let it rest with the declaration that I will not re-establish the metropolitan police." "Would you sign an act repealing the metropolitan police law?" "Yes. I will exercise the veto pre rogative only in extreme cases. The legislature is nearer to the people than the governor, for the reason that it comes from a small constituencies and I would hesitate a long time before over riding its enactments with a veto." "Would you put anything in the way of a resubmission resolution?" "Nothing. I would have no veto In a case of that kind even if I wanted to exercise it.' "Do you believe practical temperance can be accomplished by prohibition? Can prohibition be made to prohibit?" "Well, now, I will answer that ques tion frankly. Much as I dislike to admit it, truth compels me to say that I ac cepted the office of police commissioner of Wichita, believing that I could close the joints, but I was unable to do so, although I and my associate, Mr. Lewis, made a conscientious attempt. We had all the machinery of the law back of us, but the joints were not closed. Still I do not like the idea of the legalized sa loon. The legalized saloon is a monster, a conscienceless monster. Give it the license of law, and it dominates politics, and rides rough shod over good morals, over the votes of decent people." "Wouldn't it be better, after all, to give the people home rule and hold the prohibitory law over the joints as a menace? Then if they get too gay ap ply the law. And, by the way, they got just a little bit 'gay' in this cam paign. Indeed they got so 'gay that they drove temperance people to my support. Look at Peffer's vote. In stead of 25,000, he received less than 4,000. That was because the bums got too 'gay.' Increase in German Army. -Berlin, Nov. 15. The semi-official pa pers announce that the German army will be gradualy increased by about 15.000 men. KANSASJEWS. Albert Griffin Has a Plan to Freeze Out Saloons. It is Along the Line of Moral Suasion to Men. STARTS A REVIVAL At Wellington For Sumner County Will Extend To Make an Old Fashioned Temperance Campaign. Wellington, Nov. .15. Albert Griffin delivered a temperance lecture to tem perance workers in the M. E. church of this city. In which he unfolded a plan for a new temperance movement a great temperance revival throughout Kansas and adjoining states. It is along the line of moral suasion. Mr. Griffin mentions that, when Kansas adopted prohibition and turned the enforcement of the law over to officials elected for that purpose her people ceased to ap peal to the individual for total abstin ence and that evidence is everywhere apparent to show that tippling has in creased very rapidly. He estimates that 80 per cent of the men are tipplers and that 50 per cent of the women drink more or less, and in consequence he sounds a note of warning and calls a halt. He shows that law enforcement at the hands of any political party has become a farce, and claims that the times are ripe for an old time temperance revival in which the individual will be appealed to regulate his personal conduct. Noth ing whatever in the new movement will be said about the enforcement of law. It will be strictly a campaign. of moral suasion. Old fashioned temperance lec turers will come to the front and in dividuals will be asked to make a per sonal covenant" with themselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquor, of all kinds as a beverage, for five years, from January 1, 1899, or for life, at his option. A meeting of temperance workers was held again in the afternoon and the in itiatory steps were taken for organizing Sumner county. The agitation will be pushed. Mr. Griffin will visit other counties as fast as is desired, and he can reach them. AFTER FIVE YEARS. An Escaped Wichita Boy Returns and Confesses to Stealing Horses. Wichita, Nov. 15. Fuller Rhodes, who stole some horses here five years ago and escaped, has returned to the city, confessed his crime and is now in jail. When seen by a reporter he said: "Yes, sir, I took some horses. I took a horse belonging to Mr. Bolton, who lives near Clearwater. I did other things which I have confessed to the officers. After I stole the horse from Mr. Bolton I left here and went to Dakota. That was in 1893. Two years afterward I got tired of being hounded by the officers and an offended conscience. I joined the Salvation Army and wrote the sher iff of Sedgwick county from Jamestown, South Dakota, and told him all I had done. I told him I was tired of being a criminal, a fugitive from the law, and that if they wanted me I was at James town, and would be there for some time. I was in Dakota and Montana for a year or two and then came back here. "I told Mr. Bolton where he could find his horse. I told the officers all about what I have been guilty of. I have paid for it all over and over agdin." "Why did your steal the horses?" "Well, I was in that kind of com pany." BOOM FOR WICHITA. To Have a Wholesale Hardware Con cern With $125,000 Capital. Wichita, Nov. 15. Wichita is to have a wholesale hardware house with a $125,000 capital. A building on East First street for the company was leased yesterday from L. W. Clapp. It will be in the south side of the block in which the Aylesbury wholesale house is located, and will open up for business on February 1. The style of the new firm will be the Hockaday Hardware company, and Mr. I. N. Hockaday of Enid will be the Wichita manager. Nothing but a strict ly wholesale business will be done. The building contracted for yesterday is 50x140 feet, three stories and base ment, and it will be occupied from the start in every available foot space. BURLING AME 23, Eskridge O. The High. School of the Former Town Defeats the Latter at Football. Burlingame, Nov. 15. There is little soreness among the local high school team here and all are back at work, jubilant over their victory here Saur day over the Eskridge team by the score of 23 to 0 in 25 minute halfs. For the home team, Stokely and Wells tore great holes in the opponents line for good gains. Palmer and Delameter played their positions to the delight qf all football enthusiasts. Capt. Mehl ex ercised good judgment in directing the plays and showed his usual form in bucking the line and in skirting the ends. Eskridge was weak in interference, the runners repeatedly being downed for losses, but played a plucky game to the end. The work of Hay and James When the children are hungry, what do you give them Food. When thirsty f Water. Now use the same good common sense, and what would you give them when they are too thin? The best fat-forming food, of course. Somehow you think of Scott's Emulsion at once. For a quarter of a century it has been making thin children, plump; weak child ren, strong; sick children, healthy. Soc and Sx.oo, all druggists. SCOTT BOWNE, Chemists, Mew York. power. There is f knowledge that and prestige in hands of a woman. knowledge of nature, her own make-up ana home treatment f diseases -pecu liar to her sex. There is a great home medical book that teaches all this. It is Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. Over 1, 200,000 American homes contain cop:es of this work. It used to cost $1.50; now it is free. For a paper covered copy send 21 one-cent stamps, to cover mailing only, to the World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, N. Y. French cloth binding, 31 stamps. This great book tells all about a medicine that is an unfailing cure for all weakness and disease of the delicate organs distinctly feminine. That medicine is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Daring the past thirty years many thousands of women have used it with -marvelous results. It imparts health, vigor, virility, strength and elasticity to the organs that bear the bur dens of maternity. It fits for wifehood and motherhood. Taken during the period of gestation, it makes the coming of baby easy and almost painless. It completely ban ishes the pain and misery that are the re sult of a woman's neglecting her womanly health. An honest medicine dealer will give you what you ask for, and not try to persuade you to take some inferior substi tute for the little added profit he may make thereon. Mrs. Jas. Schaffner, of Freeraansburg, North ampton Co., Pa., writes: "It is with pleasure that I write to let you know the Rreat good I have received from your medicines and the local self-treatment at home. I was troubled with female weakness, had pains in my back all the time, sometimes so severe that I could not lie in bed at night. I tried different doctors but they could not help me. Then my husband got Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, and induced me to try Dr. Pierce's medicines. After takiusr six bottles of the Favorite Prescription' I feel like a new woman." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti pation. Constipation is the cause of many diseases. Cure the cause and you cure the disease. One "Pellet" is a gentle laxa tive, and two a mild cathartic. Druggists, sell them, and nothing is "just as good." Busenbark with that of the Hinshaw brothers, reserves special mention. FAVORS EXTRA SESSION. Senator H. W. Young Thinks Needed Legislation Could Be Passed. To the Editor of the State Journal. Independence. Nov. 15. I see that I am mentioned in your Saturday's issue as a senator who would be apt to try to secure an immediate adjournment of the legislature when called together In special session. On the contrary I am heartily in fa vor of such a session, and I believe that, chastened be defeat, we would all get together and do more for the state and the people now in the way of mak ing needed legislation than it was pos sible to do at the regular session. H. W. YOUNG. WOLF SCALP BOUNTY. Montgomery County Will Fay $1.50 For Old and 50 Cents For Puppy Scalps. Independence, Nov. 15. The county commissioners have concluded to wage war on the wolves of the county that have been doing a good deal of mis chief. The commissioners have made an order, good for six months, to pay $1.50 for the scalp of every grown wolf killed in the county and 50 cents for the scalps of wolf pups. SALINA WATERWORKS. Have Purchased New Piping and are Sinking New Wells. Salina, Nov. 15. The waterworks com pany have received 60 tons of iron pip ing, averaging from 4 to 12 inches in di ameter, to be used in their extensive improvements. They have already com pleted seven wells of the eleven new ones projected. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Nov. 15. Pensions have been granted as follows: Original Russell Lee, Parker, $6; Bar ton H. Ross, National Military home. Leaver.warth, $6; Clark McAllister, Atchison, $6; Robert Hinton, Fort Scott, $6. Additional Minor B. Hupp, dead, Howard, $S to $12; William J. Bartell. Salina, $5 to $8. Restoration and reissue Henry Hil gardner, dead, Kansas City, $8. Increase Nelson F. Shearer, Eure ka, $8 to $12; William H. Hoffley, St. Paul, $6 to $8; Joseph Peavey, Kansas City, $8 to $12; Morris Sharp, Delphos, $6 to $8. Reissue and increase Eli York, Lost Springs, $6 to $8. Original widows etc. Minors of Minor B. Hupp, Howard, $12; Martha L. Sil ger, Moline, $8; Mary H. Ward, Kendall, $8. Reissue Elizabeth Hilgardner, Kansas City, $12. CAN'T STA3N D THE CLIMATE Kansas Regiment In Cuba Suffering Severely From Fever. The Kansas colored soldiers who ars at San Luis de Cuba are not finding life in Cuba one continual round of pleas ure, according to a letter which has just been received at the adjutant general's office from Nelson W. Marshall, ser geant major of the Twenty-third Kan sas regiment. In the letter Sergeant Major Marshall among other things says "There is a great deal of sickness among the soldiers here. Some com panies have as many as forty on the sick list. They all seem to lose their strength. Men who were strong and hearty on arriving here are now shad ows. They are not able to do a third of the work they were when they left Topeka. Our food Is very bad and not much of it at that. "I do not think that the men ought to be kept here more than 60 days longer, for they will go pretty fast m the next 30 days. The Ninth Louisiana tm munes, which came here three weeks before we did, lose from one to three men a day and have so far lost about 200 men. Company B, of the Ninth, has only 40 men left." They Want the Money. Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 15 The San tiago chamber of commerce has re quested General Wood, governor of the military department to turn over to its treasurer all moneys received as taxes on shipping for harbor imports, pro posing to undertake the future collec tions and to take charge of the harbor work without government supervision. It is not probable that General Wood will accede to their request. He is for Reed. Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 15. In an inter view today Congressman D. B. Hender son said: "I see my name is being mentioned in connection with the speak ership of the next house. This is whol ly without my authority. I am not a candidate for that office. If Mr. Reed desires a re-election, and I presume he does, I am for his re-election." Knowledge ii one kind V 7 is pov i?y,?JfcA the bVC trLtofc. physical

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TOPEKA STATE JOUHNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1893, 5 SLOT MACHINES. The Men's League of the First Presbyterian Church Sends a Request to the City Council That They Be Suppressed by an Ordinance. ACTIOS IS DEFERRED Until the Judiciary Committee Can Decide On Course cT Procedure to Be Taken in the Matter. The city council met last night to consider the bids for a new engine for the electric light plant but before the meeting was over the members found themselves wrestling with the slot ma chine question and a dozen other un foreseen things. The slot machine question was brought up by the following communi cation from the secretary of the Minis terial Union: "To the Honorable Council of Topeka. "Gentlemen By direction of the Min isterial union of this city, I respectfully present their action in which they re quest that you suppress the slot ma chines now in operation in this city. This action was token by request of the Men's League of the First Presby terian church. The ministers represent ing the various churches, are satisfied that the said slot machines are gam bling devices, robbing the people of their money and ought to be driven out. Re spectfully submitted." After the reading of the communica tion Councilman Skinner moved its ref erence to the committee on judiciary. Councilman Klliott I do not see "that there is any use in doing that. We can act now. Councilman Mergan Tes. we can act at once. There is no use In referring this to a committee. We all know that slot machines are games of chance and the law calls that gambling. We all know about the slot machines and we might as well act now. Councilman Burgess I think the com mittee on judiciary is the wrong com mittee. It should be referred to the city attorney. I never monkeyed with one of these machines in my life but we had better investigate this before we act. It is not right to pass this matter without an investigation. Councilman lioundtree The law Is on the statute books and I do not see that we have anything to do but instruct the city attorney to enforce it. I under stand that one judge in this state has decided that slot machines are gambling devices. Councilman Burgess Let us hear from the city attorney. City Attorney Bird I can give yon my opinion in a second. Every court that has evjr passed on this question has decided that slot machines are gambling devices. Judge Thompson has gone farther and held that they come under the provisions of the Cubbl son law and it is a felony to use one. I understand that two years ago two men In Topeka were indicted bv the grand Jury for having slot machines In their places. They were not tried but I never knew why. Councilman Skinner I see no reason to rush this through. There is no rea son why it should not take its regular course and go to a committee. The motion to refer was carried, Councilmen Mergan, Klliott and Round tree voting In the negative. Councilman Mergan, chairman of the committee on judiciary then wrote a report declaring slot machines to be gambling devices but it was not acted upon. "GRIMSETS" CLAIM. A Brother of State Treasurer Frank Grimes Has a Big Claim. State Treasurer-elect Frank Grimes brother, D. K. Grimes or "Grimsey" as he is more familiarly known, was be fore the city council last night with a claim for tl.200. He says that last January he fell on the sidewalk on East Eighth street and fractured his leg. He Fays the walk was covered with Ice and therefore he would hold the city liable. Grimes, the claimant Is one of the men arrested in the Labor day raid at Garfield park a year ago. He was tried for selling liquor and convicted but his cae was appealed. The committee on streets and walks recommended that his claim be reject ed and the report of the committee was adopted. Grimes says that lie will sue the city. NEW MILK ORDINANCE. City Council Provides for a Milkman's License and Clean Dairies. Topeka has a new milk ordinance. Every one who sells milk hereaf termust take out a city license, but no fee is charged. The ordinance recommended for passage by the state board of health was adopted last evening. The provisions of the new ordinance are as follows: 1 No person shall be allowed to sell milk until he has registered his name and place of business with the city clerk. 2 The food Inspector must Inspect the dairy at the time the license Is issued. a Unwholesome or adulterated milk hall not be sold and the food Inspector Is authorized to make tests. 4 Cows shall not be fed on slops or manure. 5 Cans containing skimmed milk shall be properly labeled "Skim Milk" In letters two inches long and one inch wide. 6 No person with consumption or any contagious disease shall handle milk. 7 Dairies must be inspected regularly by the food inspector. 8 The penalty for violating the or dinance is a fine of from $5 to $30 in the discretion of the police judge. The ordinance was passed without op position. NOT THAT KIND. City Council Decides to Buy a Simple Engine. The council has rejected all bids for an engine for the city electric light plant and the clerk has been Instructed to advertise for bids for a simple en gine. The council at first decided to buy a compound engine but It was found to be too expensive. CLASH WITH TREASURER. City Council Must Correct the City Tax Rolls. City Clerk McFadden was Instructed to employ some one to correct the side walk tax rolls. County Treasurer Phil lips said he had no time to do the work. City Attorney Bird said it was not a part of the treasurer's duty to correct the tax rolls but it had always been done heretofore. Councilman Skinner wanted to know why a departure should be made but a motion to leave the mat ter to the city clerk was adopted. PAVE NORTH JACKSON. The city council has ordered the pav ing 'of Jackson street from Park to Morse streets in North Topeka. GRADING BOND. The bond of Baker Bradbury for the grading of Monroe street between Fifth and Sixth has been approved. It is for 450 and the sureties are JL T. Lockard and D. M. Duggan. ELECTION EXPENSES. The water works election cost $410. The bills were allowed last night in cluding $103.50 left over from the gen eral election. SNAP S1I0TS AT HOME NEWS George T. McG rath, state mine inspector, is In the city. Congressman Vincent of the Fifth dis trict is in the city. Robert Downing, the actor, talks like Rev. K. L. Thorpe. The arrangements for the Thanksgiving shoot are about completed. Miss Virgillne Mulvane acts as director of the Topeka Dramatic club. A Topeka man talked with Columbus, O., over the telephone yesterday. Al G. Field's minstrels will be at the Grand Opera House on December 6. Mrs. Larry Sheehan is dangerously ill at her home on East Fourth street. Forty candidates will be installed In the Topeka lodpe of Elks tomorrow night. J. J. Swink is building a seven room house at 12K8 Buchanan street, to cost. $1,500. A Topeka doctor has drawn $1,000 in ac cident Insurance during the last two years Ralph Van Houten has been employed as ticket agent at the Grand Opera House. The tickets for the Karnival Knights ball are on sale at Stansfleld s drug store. Harry Butteriy has taken a position in the telegraph department of the Rock Isl and. John Richmond, the Topeka horseman, will make a trip to Porto Rico this win ter. Robert E. Towne has gone to Washing ton to resume his work for the Times Herald. M. A. L. Johnston of Topeka has pur chased a quarter section of land near Dal las, Tex. About 40 Topeka Shriners will attend the semi-annual installation at Leavenworth on Friday. Dr. Frances Storrs left Saturday for Scotland, where she will remain during the winter. Empty beer bottles are not worth a great deal at the drug stores. The mar ket is overrun. The Commonwealth club Is meeting in the office of Mrs. Diggs at the state house this afternoon. A marriage license has been issued to James E. Inman. aged 30, and Mrs. Rosa M. Welch, aged 36. "A Parlor Match" will come to the Grand Opera House on Monday or Tues day of next week. Every train which comes to Topeka brings its complement of officeseekers to add to the throng. Max Maier. Dr. H. B. Hogeboom and Al Eryson have returned after a hunting trip at Inman, Kan. Mrs. Caroline Ten Eyck is building a six room modern cottage at 1266 Buchanan street, to cost $l,2u0. The meeting of the Commercial club scheduled for tomorrow evening has been postponed one week. Rev. J. M. Harrington, the state house guide, is dangerously ill and his physician says ho cannot recover. Quiney street, between Sixth avenue and Tenth is a favorite place for would-be bi cyclists to learn to ride. John Speer. president of the State His torical society, is in Wichita, called there by the illness of his daughter. John Hayes. janitor at the Santa Fe gen eral offices, won a horse and buggy in a raffle last week for 43 cents. Twenty-five members of the Topeka lodge of Elks will go to Hutchinson Satur day to install a new lodge there. The fire department was called to the Dutton house yesterday. The fire was easily extinguished, with little damage. Judge Allen and his son, Otis Allen, have decided to form a law partnership and open law offices in Topeka in the spring. The demand for residences is evidenced by the large number of houses in course of erection in different parts of the city. The Volunteers of America are soliciting for the free Thanksgiving dinner to be given to the poor at lid West Fifth street. Van Prather, ex-state auditor.is up from Kansas City. Kan., looking after his chances for the secretaryship of the sen ate. The pupils of Clay school will give an industrial exhibit next week to raise money to buy pictures for the school rooms. Mrs. Manning's kindergarten has been moved to her residence at Fifth and Tay lor to make room for the pupils of Sumner school. It is expected that most of the state officers-elect will be in Topeka to attend the Republican ratification Thursday night. Fred Gordon, who was chief hospital steward of the Twenty-second Kansas regiment, has entered the Kansas Medical college. The Modoc club celebrated the 22nd anni versary of the organization of the club last night by a banquet and musical pro gramme. Robert Downing and his company occu pied a box at the performance of the Red mond company at the Grand Opera House last night. Mr. Richard Shakeshaft, chief rate clerk in the passenger department of the Santa Fe, has returned after spending a vacation in Colorado. The Republican ratification has been postponed again and will be held on Thursday evening. No hail could be se cured earlier. Mr. H. X. Devendorf, who has been vis iting in this city for the past ten days, will leave this week for his home in the City of Mexico. Did you ever notice It Is always the "perfectly gentle horse" that runs away when it is left standing on the street with out being tied? One of the ludicrous sights yesterday was to see the hook and ladder wagon go dashing down the street to help put out a burning fence. Cuthbert Sargent tiavs secured the contract for repairing the government building in this city. The improvements will amount to about $5,000. E. B. Merriam has returned from Win field. where he made arrangements to build a five room cottage. The work will be done by Fellows Vansant. Ora Davis has resigned his position as stenographer in the Rock Island freight department in this citv and will enter a school of theology in Chicago. Did you ever notice the air of mystery that completely envelopes the avearge pol itician whenever there Is a caucus in prog ress in which he is interested? The Railroad Y. M. C. A. educational classes will open tomorrow night. Elec tricity, mechanical drawing, arithmetic and penmanship will be taught. G. C. Clemens does not believe in the stoic doctrine that whatever is right .is expedient. "I have tried it." he says, "and it doesn't work that way." Dr. J. E. Minney fell from a haystack nn his farm east of town last week and dislocated the thumb of one hand besides sustaining several severe bruises. One of the stenographers at the state house announces that she doesn't look up on the result of the election as disapprov ing her work as a stenographer. Will Graham, a Rock Island porter, had two lingers of his left hand mashed so badly that amputation was necessary while making a coupling recently. Dr. Daniel Whitmer, who had his leg fractured about a year ago. is still con fined to Christ hospital, and the physicians are now talking of amputating the limb. The young ladies who will usher at the Crawford theater tomorrow night will wear a uniform attire of black skirt, white shirt waist with standing color and black bow tie. Thad Payne has taken at position as stenographer in the freight department of the Rock Island and has been succeeded in the car service department by John Gutch. Andy Jordan, the colored politician, has 1 worked in the building at BOi Kansas ave nue for the past 19 years without missing a day. Yesterday was the anniversary ox nis employment. A Topeka man who has returned from a hunting trip claims that he killed a bear, but as he brought neither a photograph of the animal nor its hide his friends refuse to credit his story. Sergeant T. B. Jennings recently rode 60 miles, on his bicycle, in a little over three hours. It was one of those days when the wind blew at the rate of 28 miles an hour and he rode with it. The clubwomen of Topeka are taking up the subject of an auditorium for Topeka. Good luck to them. It requires a gal vanic battery of one million horse-power to keep Topeka enthused. It is rather cool for star-gazing, but several people have announced their in tention of watching for the meteoric ehower which is expected sometime be tween now and November 27. A Topeka man wants to know why peo ple always speak of a wedding as a happy event, when the bride's mother and her girl friends generally cry about it and the bride feels like crying herself. Mrs. R. R. Bailev was divorced from S. G. Bailey by Judge Hazen in the dis trict court yesterday afternoon. Mr. Bailey was formerly in the insurance business in this city, but left here some time ago. The board of directors of the State His torical society is in session this afternoon. One of the hew Kansas dailies which has recently made its appearance at the rooms of the State Historical society is the Daily Gaslight, from Coffeyvilie. A. J. Gatehell. who appealed from a con viction in the justice court of disturbing the peace of Christiana Begginger. was found guilty by a jury In the district court yesterday afternoon. He will pay $1 and the costs of the suit. "Uncle Dave" Heflebower has no time to think about a special session now. One of his daughters will be married tomorrow at the family home at Bucyrus, and 'Uncle Dave" is down there doing what he can to make the event a pleasant one. Dave Leahy suggests that it will be an interesting sight to watch Myron Water man tro into the state treasury the first time he goes to cash his voucher after the new administration comes in. in view or the fact that Mr. Waterman made the cartoon of Frank Grimes. A verdict for J1.2S9.64 has been returned bv the jurv in the district court against ex-Sheriff R. B. Kepley in favor of the Schloss Clothing company. The plaintiff in the suit claimed that while acting as sheriff Kepley levied on goods he had no authority to interfere with. The sale of seats for the engagement of the Andrews Opera company next week will open to holders of books only at Row ley Snow's drug store at 8 o'clock Fri day morning Instead of Saturday morn ing. The sale will open to persons not holding books Saturday morning. Dr. S. G. Stewart was elected president of the Topeka Academy of Medicine and Surgery last night; Dr. T. W. Peers, vice resident: Dr. R. S. Magee, secretary, and )r. J. P. Lewis, treasurer. After the meeting a supper was served at the ex pense of Dr. Stewart at the Cremerie. There is a man visiting in Topeka whose home is now in New York, but who was born and raised in Kansas, who says he would not live here for any considera tion, and there are many others in To- ?eka who were born and raised in New ork who would not return there for any any consideration. The voting contest to secure to some To peka young man the doll dressed by Miss Anna Rose has opened. Hal Hazlett, John Waters. Tom King. Dean Low, Archie Williams, Bennett Wheeler. Walter Bur- gess. Tom Frost, Kurtz Kellam. W. J. lack, Eugene Hagan. Charles Lagerstrora and Harry Howe are already in the race. Jim Morphy selected several newspaper men today to act as a central committee for him in his campaign for secretary of the senate, but when the committee an nounced that it would be impossible to run a campaign without funds and proceeded to levy an assessment on the candidate, Morphy fired the whole committee. In the Xevember issue of the National Printer-Journalist are several groups taken during the tour of the Xational Ed itorial association through Colorado. In one of the groups is State Printer J. S. Parks, and by his side stands Charles Landis of Osborne, his possible successor. The other members of the group are Mr. Parks' wife and parents and Mrs. Landis. STEWART IS SATED. And Sadler is Probably Elected In Nev., Nov. 15. Reynold Sad leT will probably be the next governor of Nevada. The vote between the Re publican nominee, William McMillan and the choice of the silver party has been very close with McMillan In the lead, but returns from outlying districts have placed Sadler ahead by 17 votes. There are some 60 votes to hear from, but the result cannot be changed. Ballots were forwarded to the First Nevada cavalry now aboard a trans port on the way to Manila and if this vote is declared valid it may determine the election of the governor. The vote for controller and attorney general has been close but Sam Davis and W. F. Jones, silver nominees for the respective offices are now in the lead and cannot be overtaken. Senator Stewart has more than enough votes in the legisla ture to re-elect him. A NEW LINE OF TRADE To Be Opened Up by the Italian Com mercial Steamship Company. San Francisco, Nov. 13. A. Raggis, agent and one of the principal owners of the Italian Commercial Steamship company of Genoa, is in the city. "My object in coming here," he said, "is to arrange for business between South America and this port. My idea is to take wine from here to South American ports, Buenos Ayres, or Val paraiso; load nitre there for Europe and return with a general cargo to this port. My first attempt of the kind will be made with vessels chartered here and I expect to arrange for one inside of a week." J E FFERSON'S ILLNESS Has Developed Into an Attack of Pneumonia. New Tork, Nov. 15. Joseph Jefferson's illness has developed into a. mild attack of pneumonia. Donation of Ingalls' Library. Atchison, Nov. 15. John J. Ingalls will donate the theological library of his brother, the late Dr. F. T. Ingalls, to the Western Theological seminary as a memorial to him. Rev. F. T. Ingalls and Dr. Altman were at one time very close friends. Dreyfus to Be Informed. Paris, Nov. 15. The court of cassa tion has informed the minister of the colonies, M. Guillain, that it has decided that Dreyfus be informed by telegraph, that the revision proceedings bave com menced and that be prepare bis de fense. Good ealth proceeds from a good stomach. If the digestive organs are in fine working order, sickness S'L2 l V- K ont of the 7- U question. Good i I health can be health can be rj regained and Jr retained by tak- Anst Unntottor a Stomach Bit ters. It cures in digestion, con stipation and biliousness. h STOMACH js SITTERS M'KIIILEY'S PLANS For Government of Porto Eieo and Filipinos Ontlined. Chicago, Nov. 15. A' special to the Times-Herald from "Washington, says: President McKinley has developed his policy toward Porto Rico and the Phil ippines. There has been much specula tion as to the form of government to be given those islands, and the presi dent has been studying the problem with great earnestness. He has decided to save the country from the blunders of hasty action and will delay the final decision for a year. This statement is on the authority of one of the presi dent's most Intimate advlsers.who gives the following outline of his programme: First There will be no extra session of congress next spring, barring grave emergencies. Second The conquered islands will be continued under a strong military gov ernment. Third All fiduciary positions will be administered by army officers. Fourth The islands will be kept out of politics as much as possible until the American people have had an opportun ity to study them and the national sent iment can crystallize as to the relation they should hold to the United States. Fifth The islands will probably re tain their present systems.but they may be bolstered by decrees which will in sure stability. Sixth Being in effect military colon ies, the conquered islands will have tar iffs of their own, which will be levied on imports from the United States as well as those from other countries. Seventh The United States will col lect duties on imports from the islands the same as though they still belonged to a foreign sovereignty. The president's programme is said to be based on the ground that the Ameri can people are nut sufficiently informed about Porto Rico and the Philippines to decide offhand whether they should be treated as territories or as colonies somewhat after the British system. Many Americans believe the natives of the conquered islands are not suited to be taken into full membership in Uncle Sam's family. The president has held that position, at least toward the Filipinos and his reluctance to take all the Philippines was based on the var ious stages of civilization of their in habitants. The president himself is at a loss to say what form of government should be provided for the newly acquired is lands. The habits of centuries of forma tion are not to be uprooted by a mere act of congress, and civilization does not necessarily follow from the use of the ballot box. The government of the is lands presents a tremendous problem and the president wishes to attack its solution intelligently. He wants time for himself and he wants time for the American people. The president's programme is based on the theory that the coming session of congress will be too short and busy to permit legislation for a comprehen sive system of government for the con quered islands. The appropriation bills and other im portant measures will absorb most of the time of the outgoing congress.and the constructive work for the new pos sessions will go over to the next con gress. There is a movement to have the present congress appoint commis sions like that which visited Hawaii. Their mission would be to visit Porto Rico -and the Philippines, study the people and their needs, familiarize them selves with the special conditions that must be considered and on their return recommend to congress forms of gov ernment for those islands. The president wants more light and commissions such as that which visited Hawaii will give an intelligent basis for legislation for Porto Rico, and especially for the Phil ippines. President McKinley has already estab lished a military government in Porto Rico and parts of Cuba and the Philip pines by virtue of his authority as commander-in-chief of the army and navy. It is by that authority that he will coni tinue in control until congress takes the responsibilities of government from his hands. If congress fails to take the nec essary action at the coming short session, the president can continue his military management until December of next year. A military government has the advantage of being flexible and quickly adaptable to special needs. If a change is needed In the laws of Porto Rico in the opinion of the American officers on the ground, the president can order it on a moment's notice. With army officers scattered over the island, all ear nestly studying the needs of the situation and reporting to the president. he can make such adaptations from day to day as may seem desirable, and when congress takes up the problem a year hence it will find the groundwork for a government well laid. The Porto Rlcans will be given a civil government under the general su pervision of the military power, and it will be the aim of the president gradually to shape that government to the system of the United States. NOTHING LIKE IT. "One, Two, Three" Shows Seem to Be Always Sure of a Crowd in Topeka. It was a good natured a"udience that crowded the three floors of the Grand Opera house last night to witness the opening performance of the Redmond company. It laughed and applauded on the slightest provocation, and none of the members of the company had any difficulty in making a "hit," Conse quently the performance was highly satisfactory, and the audience appeared to thoroughly enjoy the vaudeville fea tures between the acts. Standing room was sold on the first floor, and the majority of the seats in the balcony and the space in the gallery was taken. "Davy Croekett" was the piece put on. and Mr. Ed Redmond and several members of the company ap peared to good advantage. The com pany will remain at the house all this week, and tonight "The Mountain Girl" will be presented. THEY FEEL INDIGNANT. State House Officials Accuse Oas Company Employes of Cutting Electric Wires. The new electric light plant at the state house would have been ready to start In a few days had not State House Engineer Robinson discovered yester day afternoon that the electric wire3 in nearly every chandelier in the state house had been cut and that connec tions would have to be made before the plant would be of any service in the offices. An inquiry was started and several clerks in different offices claimed to have seen an employe of the gas com pany cut the wires when he put in Wels bach burners last summer. In some in stances the wires were very difficult to get at and the cutting of them was a case of wanton destruction. The wires were cut in every chandelier examined and in some of the wall lights. It will be a difficult task to repair the dam age. The executive council is indignant $4.50 Hats $3.00 Hats $2.50 Hats At.. $1.90 Just too many of them That's why. T03 Kansas Avenue. T the Knowledge of the Public our success is due it's a fact that is indisputable it's the people's knowledge of quality and value that has made The Palace the greatest, largest and besvt Clothing House in Kansas. HERE ARE REPUTATION MAKING BARGAINS i 1 1 j Underwear at Cut Prices BO doz FINE PERCALE SHIKTS-Slies 14 to 17. 2 detached collars and a pair of cuffs, fast colors are worth $1, on special sale until lC C rVlNE UNbEEWEAK,- j Kifl.fac. flctAPAd -usual 7oC yf k i. quality-our Special Sale only, T uiwvn'R FINEST PURE AUSTRALIAN Wool UNDERWEAR, in 4 shades $1.60 Underwear, on sale here at MEN'S HEAVY FLANNEL SHIRTS Blue and Fancy on Special Sale at $I.OO $I.OO over the matter. When it was reported to State Auditor Morris by Mr. Robin son, Captain Morris said: "Go and tell Secretary of State Bush to immediately notify the gas com pany that the damage must be repaired at once or I will hold up their bill for lights. An employe of the company has just as much right to come in here and destroy a desk as he has to cut those wires. They are the property of the state and not of the electric light or gas company. If I had my way about it the fellow who did that would be arrested for malicious trespass." It is claimed that' the electric light company once injured the gas fixtures and that the gas company was "getting even." There has been a fight between the companies for years over the light ing of the state house, and each com pany has sought to cripple the other. Whether it was done with the knowl edge and consent of the management of the companies is not known. IXDIAS ALLOTMENTS. Rules and Regulations Made in Pur suance of the Curtis BilL Ardmore, I. T., Nov. 15. There has just been received here a copy of the rules governing- the selection and rent ing of prospective allotments of lands in the Indian Territory, prescribed by the secretary of the interior. The rules are important as supplementary to the Curtis bill. These rules affect thous ands in the Indian Territory, and will cause manv to leave the domain. Section 16 of the Curtis bill provides that it shall be unlawful, except as is provided in the act, for any one to re ceive royalty on coal, oil, asphalt, other mineral, or on timber, or to receive rents on any land belonging to one of the tribes. All royalties payable to the tribe are to be paid under regulations provided by the secretary. But where anv citizen shall be in possession of his reasonable share of lands he may con tinue to use them or receive the rents until allotment. Section 17 provides that no member of a tribe shall hold a greater amount of land than would be the fair share of himself and family. Section IS provides penalties for the violation for the two previous sections. Section 23 provides that all leases for agricultural or grazing lands made af ter January 1, 189S, shall be absolutely void, and all grazing leases made prior to that date shall terminate April 1, 1899, and all agricultural leases Janu ary 1, 1900; but this shall not prevent individuals from leasing their allot ments when made to them as provided in this act, nor from occupying them or renting their proportionate share until the allotments are made. The rules say that it is the intention of the law to require every member of any tribe holding lands in excess of his reasonable share to relinquish posses sion thereof in order that other mem bers of the tribe may enter thereon and make homes preparatory to the allot ments so contemplated. Section 16, therefore.prohlblts any one from claiming, demanding, receiving, as also any person from paying to any in dividual, rents on any such excess of lands after the date of such act; and section 17 forbids any one to inclose or in any manner by himself, or through another, directly or Indirectly, to hold possession of any greater amount of lands than that which would be his ap proximate share, after the expiration of nine months after the passage of the act. No one can, therefore, either re ceive or pay rents to any individual on any excess "after the passage of the act or retain possession of any excess after March 28, 1899, without incurring the penalties. Under other sections, it is clear that no member is authorized prior to allot ment to rent his share of the land, and that of his family, unless he be in pos session and occupying the same as his homestead, or the same be selected by him in good faith as the land to be al lotted to him. No lease or contract of lands executed since January 1, 1898, can have any force. All grazing leases expire on April 1, 1899, and all agricultural leases on Jan uary 1. 1900. The last proviso in section 16 permits any member of a tribe to dispose of any timber contained on his allotment, but this privilege can not be exercised until after final allotment. In order, therefore, to give effect to the provisions of the law and to enable every member of a tribe to select the lands to be alloted in his approximate share the commission to the five civiliz ed tribes is Instructed to proceed as early as practicable to establish an of fice within the territory of each tribe, provided with proper and suitable rec ords, including a copy of the United States survey, for the purpose of regis tering each and every selection of land nlmi in in ii "'''""f 1 t' Alter bach. MEN'S OVERCOATS o wool patent Beaver and fine Kerseys blue, black and brown, lined with leather cloth; also heavy Covert Top Coats, cut very stylish fio would be a reasonable price for them on Special Sale now at MEN'S STYLISH SUITS of all wool Casslmeres and Cheviots; also fine black Clay all pure wool Diagonals, cut in neat, stylish manner, trimmed in best wearing lin ings, in sack and frock styles; as good as any $10 Suit sold elsewhere. On special sale here at MEN'S FINE OVERCOATS-Beginnlng Monday we offer on special sale a special value in fine Overcoats, made of best American Kerseys in blue, black, brown shades lined with leather cloth, plush pockets, velvet collars, lapped seams and raw edges a splendid $15 gar ment, on special sale at Boys' Clothing Bargains BOYS' SUITS-all wool Che viots, cut stylish, ages 6 to 14, double seat and knees, were $2.75 On special sale tomorrow at-. BOYS' REEFERS of blue smootn Melton, ages 3 to 8, with sailor collar; ages 9 to IS Btorm collars; $4 values tomorrow at TOUNO MEN'S SUITS, 14 to 19 yrs, all wool, stylishly made, $6.60 values, on sale now at A FINE CAMERA FREE Overcoat or Reefer This Camera made by any member of a tribe for his allotment; and in order to make such selection effective and valid each head of a family shall be required to appear in person at the office within his tribe and to make application to one of the members of the said commission or to some one authorized to act by the said commission, stating on oath that he has in person actually been upon the lands so selected by him and is fully informed as to the location of the same and the character of the soil; that the land is suitable for a home; that he has in good faith settled such land, and that no part of the same is lawfully held by any member of the tribe, and thereafter he may occupy, control and rent the same for any period not exceeding one year by any one contract until the lands are allotted to him under terms of said act. Selection may be made for orphans, etc., by guardians and relatives. Any lease made for longer than one year shall be void. The commission shall give due notice of the time and place when and where applications for selections may be re ceived. Contest for any tract so selected may be made by any member of the tribe claiming right thereto at any time with in 90 days from the date of such notice of the time and place for receiving ap plication, and not thereafter, by filing in the office in which selection was made a complaint duly verified therein, plaintiff stating the facts upon which his claim is based. All contests shall be determined by said commission subject to appeal to the commissioner of Indian affairs, and from him to the secretary of the interior. No contract for rent of any selection so made shall be valid or binding unless for an adequate consideration and made in writing in duplicate and deposited in the office of said commission in which the selection was made. Said commis sion, after investigation, shall forward the same to the secretary of the inter ior for his approval, and when approved it shall be returned to such office of the commission, to be by it delivered to the parties, one copy to each. Said commission is authorized and empowered to employ sufficient clerical force to promptly and correctly prepare all such applications, and to record the same, and to furnish each applicant with a certificate of hi3 selection. No applicant shall be required to pay any fees for or expense of the work of preparing or recording such application or certificate therefor, except a fee of 25 cents to the officer before whom the affidavit is made. Selections of land may be so made by members of the several tribes in quantities not to ex ceed 160 acres to each Creek, SO acres to each Cherokee, 240 acres to each Choctaw and Chickasaw and 40 acres to each Choctaw and Chickasaw freed man. And the balance of the land be longing to each tribe shall be left un inclosed for the common use of all until final allotment. After the 1st of April, 1899, any mem ber of any tribe may enter upon and occupy any lands which have not al ready been selected and occupied by any other member of the tribe.whether such lands be improved or inclosed or not, and where a member has, prior to said date, held possession of land of the tribe in excess of the amount of land he may be entitled to select for allotment as aforesaid, and has not made such selec tion, he will be deemed to have selected the lands upon which he and his family then reside, and lands outside and in excess of the same may be selected and occupied by other members of the tribe for their allotment, but all leases that My little str-months old girl had Eczema. We used all kinds c X remedies, but she kept getting worse. I used to wrap her hands up, and to dre3s her, had to put her on the table. I could not hold her, she would kick and scream, and, when she could, she would tear her face and arms almost to pieces. Four boxes of Ccticuba (ointment), two cakes of Cuticuba Soap, and Ccticcra Resolvbst cured her, and no traces are left. Veb.l.'W. Mrs. G. A. COXRAD, Lisbon, N.H. Brmr Crrtm TA-nrEirr. Warm batha with Cptn era Soap. rnt)c.nointlnra wf.th CUTicL-KAfialmuBt ad mll& deaeaof Cgticuka Kesoltsvt. BoM emtscknatOMVorH. PomE t)i Cmc. Oer, tropaBouoa. HowtoCuraBfaaDuaaina, tta ON J2)Ml2) U Trouser Sale Men's heavy Trou sers, all wool, fine Cassimere,' in stripes and neat check $3 value and quality, on iu ijuainj via $1.95 special sale GuetteL now at with every Boys' Suit. of $2.50 or more. is complete. do not expire before January 1, 1900, may be held by the lessees until the last mentioned date, but no longer. All lands and other property now held for religious or educational purposes in the territory will be protected from in trusion until allotments, and until the right of occupancy to hold the same has been determined by the allotment com mission. This department will observe the de sire to have prepared a correct roll, thus settling the question of citizenship, and the further purpose of the government is to release all excessive holdings of land, so that members of the tribe may occupy the same, and will leave nothing undone to enforce all laws enacted by congress, and will give a fair interpre tation thereof. HE PREFERRED DEATH To Service in the Asiatic Naval Sta tion. Baltimore, Nov. 15. Lieutenant Her man G. Dressel of the United States navy committed suicide in the Carrol ton hotel by shooting himself In the head. From papers found on his body it Is surmised that he killed himself because he had been ordered to Manila to Join the United States steamer Seaflro. Lieut. Dressel soon after reaching this city went to the Carrolton toilet room and locked the door behind him. Al most immediately thereafter a pitol shot alarmed the employes of the house and a search showed that Dressel was dead. In one of his pockets was found an order from Secretary Long, dated No vember 11, detaching Dressel from the Kssex and ordering him to Manila to Join the Seafiro. A telegram addressed to Lieut. C. H. Fales, in Washington and signed by Dressel was found on the dead man requesting Fales to ex change orders with the writer and It was evidently the intention of Dressel to have sent this. Lieut. Dressel was well known at the navy pay office in the custom house here. No one could assign any cause for the act except his un willingness to go to Manila. Washington, Nov. 15. News of the suicide of Lieutenant Dressel came to the navy department in a telegram from Commodore McNair. The department officials feel quite blameless in the mat ter, and the suicide is attributed to melancholia. For some time the officer has been importuning the depart ment to relieve him from duty on the Essex. He had been for about a month on this vessel, which was a training ship. He was on the Puritan during the war. 'X ne department was disposed to grant the request and had been casting about to secure a place for him. A few days ago it became necessary to re lieve Lieutenant McClaln from duty on the Seafiro and Dressel's friends declared that he would be glad to go to the China station, it being understood that he was not to remain permanently on the Seaflro, which was ojTen to the some objection as the Essex, of not be ing a full fledged warship. Admiral Dewey has been given liberty to assign the officers of his fleet at his own will, and it was represented that he would soon provide a better place for Dressel than the one he was to occupy on the Seafiro. The department supposed that the matter was satisfactorily5 arranged so it was with great surprise that a tele gram was received from Dressel in which the officer asked that his order to the Seafiro be cancelled and that he be allowed to remain on the Essex. An order was prepared revoking the objec tionable Seafiro order, but in the or dinary course it would not have been promulgated before nightfall and mean time came notice of the suicide of the unfortunate officer. Chronic Rheumatism Cured. Dr. H. B. Hettinger, Indianapolis, Ind.. says: "For several months after spraining my ankle I was severely afflicted with Rheumatism. I finally tried Detchon's "Mystic Cure' for Rheu matism, and in 4 days could walk with out my cane; two bottles cured me sound and well. I take great pleasure in recommending the 'Mystic Cure' to all who are afflicted with Rheumatism." Sold by Swift Holliday, druggists, 523 Kansas avenue, Topeka. Cards are out announcing the first blj dance of the season at Hamilton ball, Wednesday, Nov. 16th, '98. The Ladies of the English Lutheran church will give a Pennsylvania sui per at 5 o'clock, November 18. tH nfff $1.85 ChincMla and W' S I 1 $2.95 fry $4.05 T

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6 TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAIi. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1898. THE MILLS Black Dress Goods harked down. 50c Brocaded Mohairs 58c Brocaded Mohairs 58c Brocaded Wools 50c Brocaded Ottoman 50c Fancy Bourett Skirtings 75c Fancy Bourett Skirtings 75c Brocaded riohafrs 85c Brocaded Mohairs 65c Plain French Serge 9 pieces of Fancy Brocaded Wool Dress Goods, including the cele brated "Gold Medal" and Priestey's regular $i and $1.25 quality, for ti.50 Drap D'Ete for 98c yd $2.25 Drap D'Ete for $1.49 yd If Black Goods form any part of your dress goods thought, it will be economy for you to make a thorough investigation of these offerings. THE JSI1LLS SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. The largest of the season'3 receptions tvas given Monday afternoon by Mrs. Hampton L. Shirer, Mrs. Harris L. Whiting and Mrs. Homer C. Bowman at the Whiting home on Fillmore street. The rooms were elaborately decorat ed with quantities of palms, potted plants, chrysanthemums and carna tions, and lighted with fancy lamps, shaded to match the decorations. The hall was a mass of luxuriant palms and etationed behind these was Mr. Lawren ce's Mandolin club which played during the afternoon. The library, where the receiving- par ty stood, was in palms and plants with graceful sprays of bittersweet trailing over the windows, doors and pictures. In the sitting room were palms and rreat bowls of fluffy yellow chrysanthe mums and the yellow shaded lamps shed a pretty glow over everything. The parlor was in pink and white car nations and here punch was served by Miss Edith Johnson, Miss Caro Pen field and Miss Lulu McKee. The din ing roim was in red and green; on the table was an exquisite drawn worlt cloth with a rose centerpiece and in the center and at both ends were wrought Iron candelabra, containing red candles; red carnations were also on the table and stands of smilax extended from the corners of the table to the chandelier. In the receiving party besides the hostess were Mrs. Talmage S. Hand of New York City and Mrs. Harry L. King of Trinidad. Mrs. Shirer wore a fancy silk waist trimmed with -white mousse line de soie, with a dark braided skirt. Mrs. Whiting was in a gown of novelty cloth with a front of pink embroidered tissue. Mrs. Bowman wore a pretty frown of plum colored cloth, with a front of white liberty silk. Mrs. King was in a gray silk mousseline, with trimmings of black. Mrs. Hand wore a green and white crepon trimmed with black satin and with a front of point lace. Assisting through the rooms were Mrs. A. B. Whiting, Mrs. Penniman, Mrs. T. E. Bowman, Mrs. M. H. Ja quith, Mrs. G. L. Murdock, Mrs. H. O. Garvey, Mrs..R. B. Ke,jley, Mrs. Frank Hobart, Mrs. J. F. Jarrel, Mrs. Raffen sperger and Mrs. E. Davidson Worden. During the afternoon over three hun dred and fifty guests called. In the evening a seven o'clock dinner was served to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Shirer and children, Mr. and Mrs. Bowman and children, Mr. and Mrs. Whiting and children, Mrs. Hand and little daughter, Mrs. King and two eons, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Whiting, Mrs. Jaquith, Mrs. Raffensperger, Miss John eon, Mrs. Penniman, Mrs. Murdock, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Garvey, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kepley, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart, Mrs. T. E. Bowman, Mrs. Worden, Miss Penfleld, Miss Bair, Miss Lulu McKee and Mr. Earl Williams. For some time there has been qtiite a family reunion at the Whiting home; those from out of town are Mrs. Raff en, eperger and grand daughter. Miss PMith Johnson of Wooster, Ohio; Mrs. Hand and daughter of New York and Mrs. King and sons of Trinidad. Mrs. Raf fensperger and Miss Johnson left today but the others will remain until about the tenth of December. During their stay a round of gayety has been planned. Mrs. T. S. Mason will give a luncheon for them Wednes day noon. Miss Ella Green will enter tain about twenty guests at the Cope land Thursday afternoon, Mrs. R. B. Kspley will entertain at luncheon Fri day and Saturday afternoon Mrs. F. O. Popenoe will entertain at her country home. Monday afternoon Mrs. H. O. Garvey will entertain, Tuesday they will spend the day with Mrs. Hornet Bowman at her country home, Wednes day Mrs. J. F. Jarrel will give a lunch eon, Thursday they will give a family dinner, and on Friday Mrs. George Walp will entertain at a thimble party for them. Tocay is the fortieth wedding anniver sary of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Whiting and Mrs. King's fifteenth anniversary, and at 5 o'clock today there will be a family dinner in their honor. A New Whist Club. A new duplicate trhist club has been organized which will meet every Mon day evening until a series of six games Is plfiyed when a prize will be given to the lady and gentleman holding the highest score for the series. It will be known as the Q. D. club. The first meting was held Monday evening at the home of Miss Clyde Hornaday and next Monday they will meet with Miss Edna Millice. The members are Miss Edna Millice, Miss May Downing, Miss Clyde Horna day, Miss Elizabeth Lee, Miss Kather ine Ernick, Mr. Will Clauser, Mr. Ralph Clauser, Mr. Roy Millice, Mr. Charles Decker, Mr. Al V.fck and. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whitmer. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. W. C. Campbell of Colorado Springs, formerly of Topeka, is in the city soending a few days with Mrs. W. D. Gossett. Mrs. T. S. Stover of Iola is the guest of Mrs. Frank Cope. Mrs. David Palmer returned Monday from a week's visit in Leavenworth, accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. Suy dan and two children, who will spend the week with her. Mrs. R. T. TJpdegraff of Maple Hill Is spending the day shopping in the city. Mrs. G. R. Millice left Monday for a few days visit with relatives and friends n Leavenworth and Atchison. Miss Fay Shreve is in Bucyrus where ho went to attend the Thompsou.i-H.ef JLDAMS CO. 1 I All narked 39c yd 49c yd 69c yd JLDJLMS CO. lebower wedding which takes place Wednesday. The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church will meet Wednesday afternoon at half past two with. Mrs. T. B. Sweet at her home, 231 Topeka avenue. Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Branstrup will leave Wednesday for Indianapolis, Ind., to spend the winter. The Conversation club will meet meet Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Garvey. The Ladies Aid society of the First Methodist church will give a free social Friday evening at the church. An en tertaining musical program will be giv en and light refreshments will be served. Miss Emily Goe will entertain the Aloho Whist club and a few other friends at cards Friday evening.. Miss Mary E Quigley of Colorado Springs is in the city the guest of Mrs. D. H. Forbes. Mr. Arthur Barrett of Emporia has been the guest of S. Hoover and family. Mr. S. Hoover has returned to St. Marys after a few days visit with his family. Mrs. J. H. Rohrer is in St. Louis vis iting her sister. Mrs. Raffensperger and grand daugh ter, Miss Edith Johnson, who have been visiting the family of A. B. Whiting, left today for their home in Wooster, Ohio. Lewis Blankenburg who has been vis iting the family of N. P. Garretson, left today for his home in Philadelphia. The play given by the Dramatic club under the auspices of the Cathedral Guild at the Crawford tomorrow night will be one of the society events of the season. STANDS BY HIS RECORD. General Miles Challenges Anybody to Assail It. New York, Nov. 15. General Miles was interviewed last night relative to the publication in a Washington paper of the statement that, either by accident or design, there was omitted from his report any mention of an order which he issued on May 9, contemplating the sending of all the available army to Cuba at once. General Miles said he had not seen the article. It was handed to him. After he had read it, he said: "I have no comment to make on the report. If they have any such order of mine in Washington let them publish it. My position in the matter of send ing troops to the fever-stricken dis tricts of Cuba is well known, and I am satisfied to stand by my record. "I have been unalterably opposed to sending troops into any of the hot beds of fever, such as Santiago and other infected places and at no time have I deviated from the line of conduct I ad vised. "As to sending such troops into the healthy districts, where they were need ed to assist the native soldiers and insurgents In keeping the country in order, that is another matter. Small detachments might have been sent to the country free of fever and with perfect safety. "If any order from me can be found which changes my position in the mat ter I am willing to see it published." A SPECIAL ACT Proposed to Get Diegnan Into the Naval Academy. Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 15. Congress man A. L. Hager of the Ninth Iowa dis trict, will introduce a bill in congress to admit Osborne Diegnan, one of the Merrimac heroes, to the Irnited States naval academy at Annapolis. The city council of Stuart passed a resolution some weeks ago requesting the secre tary of the navy to admit Diegnan to the naval academy but Secretary Long declined to do so because Diegnan was a trifle over age and the secretary was opposed to establishing such a pre cedent. A special act of congress Is necessary to get him in. DEATH AT 92. Daughter of Aaron Burr's Second in His Duel With Hamilton, is Dead. Paterson, N. J., Nov. 15. Miss Caro line Swartout, 92 .years old, is dead at her home here. Miss Swartout was the last lineal descendent of a family well known in New York and New Jersey. She was the daughter of John Swart out, who was the personal friend of Aaron Burr, and his second in his duel with Alexander Hamilton. After the duel Burr took refuge in the Swartout home. The Swartouts were also con nected with Burr's scheme to form "a new empire of the west," and were im plicated in Burr's trial for treason, which brought forth Wirt's famous "De fense of Blennerhasset." Miss Swart out was an aunt of Judge John S. Backalow, of this city. Social Dance. Topeka Temple No. 2 Rathbone Sis ters, will give a social dance at K. of P. hall, corner 6th and Quincy tomorrow evening, Nov. 16. Invitations must be presented at door. These can be obtain ed at the hall. Colored shirts and waists laundered so that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. Everybody likes to trade at Davies Nicholson. ON THE INCREASE. Drinking Among Young Hen of Good Families Growing Rapidly in Topeka, So It is Said. HOW TO HEAD IT OFF Where the Habit is Formed Medical Treatment Necessary to Get Rid of It, Say the Doctors. Since the discussion of what to do with inebriates has arisen, the state ment that drinking among the younger men of the town has grown rapidly during the last five years, has. been made by many. Many agree that the habit has grown In the younger men about town until it has assumed a degree that threatens to make confirmed drunkards of many of the m&st promising young men of To peka. What steps to take to stop this alarming state of affairs is the question now uppermost in the minds of those whp have the welfare of the young men at heart. The idea that it can be made impossible to obtain liquor in Topeka has been exploded. No matter whether it is sold here or not it will be obtained by those who want it by ordering it from out of town. Prohibition s a means of stopping thedrinking of liquor is a failure. Those who claim that drinking is on the increase among the younger men cite the fact that among the drinking societies in the city the membership is largely made up of the younger men. Prohibition can't and does not reach these societies; and it wouldn't do any good if it did. Reform measures must reach out after the drinker himself who is drinking too much. If he doesn't drink in his society, he will drink with a lit tle coterie in his bedroom or office. The vast amount of drinking in Topeka is done in the privacy of the drinker's own apartments. Here is where the evil lies and the law can't reach it.. People about town are perfectly wil ling to express their views on the sub ject. Rev. John D. Knox says: "Young men who get drunk in this city and un der the present conditions should go to a hospital or insane asylum instead of to jail. Those who have been brought up under bad conditions and those who have not received the bringing up they should receive need treatment in a hos pital instead of being lodged in jail. In my opinion drunks should receive more consideration than a person ar rested for a crime." Capt. J. G. Wafers said: "The first glass of liquor that a young man takes is a crime. The rest work into a dis ease. I think that persons arrested for drunkenness should receive proper treatment in a hospital instead of being placed in jail. The jail sentences do very little good. With the young men starting in hospital treatment would in many cases stop what becomes a dis ease. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.Start the medical treat ment when it will do the most good." T. F. Do ran said: "It is a man's mis fortune to get drunk but when he be comes that way he should receive the proper care. I would have a hospital for inebriates and make the fellows that get drunk and go to the hospital pay for the maintenance of the institution. If they do not have money put them to work on the county roads and let the county pay them for the work, the money to go to the hospital. If young men in society get drunk they should be treated just the same as others. There should be no distinction. Those who would be sent to the hospital could just as well pay the hospital fees as a fine. They must be kept off the street for their own and society's good. Such a hospital as I advocate should be sus tained wholly by the inmates. Inebri ates should be kept by themselves and not with criminals. They should be kept from bad associations and given every moral encouragement to do bet ter." Dr. Eva Harding said: "I always advo cate the whipping post for a person that becomes intoxicated. This has always been my idea of the way to treat such cases. It takes but a short time and does not keep the man away from his family, and the punishment is excellent. If it is true that whipping is good for a child, it is certainly good for a grown person, and while I do not believe in whippir.g children I do think a grown person who becomes drunk should be whipped at a public whipping post, and I believe that in time this will be adopted as the mode of punishing such cases. I do not con sider drunkenness a disease. It is a habit and is in no way a disease and should not be treated as such." Dr. Agnes McKee Wallace said: "Drunk enness is a disease and it should be treated as such. It cannot be handled properly in a jail, and that is not the proper place to send a drunken man to. Drunkenness should be cared for in a hos pital. It cannot be handled in a general hospital, but must be cared for in a hospi tal for inebriates. This does not neces sarily mean that the Keeley A'ure must be used, as there are other forms of medical treatment... The idea of a jail for crim inals is not the proper place for an inebri ate. With an old drunkard, he is suffer ing with a disease in the last stages and a young man starting to drink is suffering from a disease in its incipienev. The old drunkard is incurable, but with the young man it is not. The young man could be treated in a special hospital for inebriates by medical treatment, moral suasion and normal suggestion. Drinking ceases to be a habit and there comes a time when a man must have his stimulant: then it is a disease and should be treated as such." PROHIBITION THE CAUSE. Not the Cure of Drunkenness Says This Man. Horton. Kan.. Nov. 14. To the Editor of the State Journal: "Is the vice of getting drunk on the in crease in Topeka? Those who have been taking notice of it say that more men drink, particularly young men. than did five years ago." This is a statement I have just read in the State Journal. I have been a resident of Kansas for ten years, and after observing the working of the prohibitory law in many of the larger towns and in some of the second class ones, I do not hesitate to say that prohibi tion is responsible for this intemperance and why this law is the cause of a man drinking more is because he cannot go in to a saloon and get a single drink. What does a thirsty fellow do in Topeka? If he does not know the ropes he goes into a drug store and the man behind the coun ter tells him he cannot sell him a drink, but that he can sell him a pint or a quart bottle. The man will buy the quart or pint, and as he cannot drink it on the premises he will take it away. He drinks too much, but he has bought It and will not throw it away. I have seen these con ditions in Topeka and other towns. There is no restriction to prevent young men un der age from buying liquor. Besides the sale of liquor under cover of a drug store is just what the would-be respectable drinker wants. The saloonkeeper in Illi nois must give a bond of SS100, signed by himself and two other respectable liquor dealers and approved by the mayor and city council, that he will not sell liquor to a minor. If he does he forfeits his license and he can be sued on his bond. He must also pay a license of $300 or more. This is much better than the back room, down in the cellar and up in the garret business as conducted in Kansas. I hope to see the time when the law of Kansas on this question will be like other sensible laws that ail can uphold. (Signed) I. H. MITCHELL. OIL TRUST DEFIANT. Absolutely Refuses to Produce Its Books in Court. Cleveland, O., Nov. 14. The Standard Oil investigation was taken up here today before Colonel Allen T. Brinsmade, who was appointed by the state supreme court as a special master commissioner to take testimony in the contempt proceedings broueht against the Standard Oil company in the Ohio supreme court by Attorney General Monett. Mr. Monett is represent ing the state and is assisted by E. B. Kin kaid of Columbus as special counsel. The Standard company is being represented by M. y. Elliott of New York, attorney for the Oil company. The witnesses subpoe naed before Special Master Commissioner Brinsmade were F. B. Squire, secretary, and Martin Snyder, treasurer, of the Standard Oil company. F. B. Squire, secretarv of the Ohio cor poration of the Standard Oil company, had a small memorandum book from which he read the names of the officers and di rectors who have served since the decree of the Ohio supreme court ordering the Standard Oil company out of the Stand ard Oil trust. He testified that on March 17. 1K42. after the order of the court, a i dividend of 92 per cent was declared. amounting to js.zai.wo. Ji mis sum oniy JuO was paid to actual stockholders, the remainder, according to tne construction of Attorney General Monett, going to the trustees of the Standard Oil company. On January 27, 1SSS, a resolution was adopted charging $2,000,000 to the depreciation of the works in Cleveland, wnicn nad Deen partially abandoned. On February 7, 1S95, the sum of S2.3UO.019 was charged to the depreciation of the plant, and on May 13. 1W6. the sum of $1,200,000. making a total of $5,500,501 charged to depreciation. Mr. Squire testified that no dividends had been paid on the stock of the Ohio Standard Oil company since 1892. i Attorney General Monett demanded of I Mr. Squire that he produce the books con taining the records of these transactions. On advice of Attorney Virgil P. Kline. Mr. Squire refused. Mr. Monett appealed to Commissioner Brinsmade, who upheld Mr. Squire. Mr. Kline declared that the i books would not be produced and that no I authoritv could be invoked to compel their production. Mr. Monett then requested Commissioner Brinsmade to cite Mr. Kline to the supreme court for contempt. John U. Jrtocketeller, during nis examin ation in New York, testified that a sur plus of $700,000 had been invested by the company in government bonds. Mr. Squire confirmed this and said the pur chase was made last March and had been deposited in the Euclid Avenue National bank of Cleveland and the City National bank of New York. dowTIprecTpice. A Passenger Falls From a Train to the Rocks 45 Feet Below. Spokane, Wash., Nov. 15. The dead body of Jay H. Adams, one of the prom inent attorneys of the state, was found near the Northern Pacific tracks today In the vicinity of Hope, Idaho, with the skull caved in. Mr. Adams fell from the moving train last night and struck on the rocks 45 feet below the tracks. He was counsel for the Great Northern and Spokane Falls and Northern rail way companies. The body was brought here for burial. THEIR OLD PLACES Will Be Resumed by Generals Mer ritt and Shatter. New Tork, Nov. 15. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: General Merritt will resume command of the department of the east, with headquarters at Governor's Island, when he returns from Europe and Gen eral Shafter will go to San Francisco to command the department of the Pa cific, which he relinquished when the war began, and he was ordered to New Orleans and eventually to Tampa and Cuba. These assignments are to be made whether hostilities are resumed or not, as both the officers concerned are satisfied to make way and give young men an opportunity for active service in the field if occasion requires. General Shafter will reach the retiring age of 64 years on October 16, 1899, and his wish to end his military career in his adopted home on the Pacific slope will be respected. In fact, as much was promised to him when he took tem porary command at Governor's Island. General Merritt can advance no further In rank before his retirement, on June 16, 1900. as his immediate superior, Gen eral Miles, still has five years to serve, NORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left at the Kimball Ptg. Co., before 11 o'clock in the morning. Miss May Glenn of Osage is visiting Miss Bertha Wizer. Born, Sunday, to Mr.' and Mrs. Clar ence Chamberlain of Jackson street, a son. Mrs.-W. H. Hurliss was in St. Joseph yesterday the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mahan. Miss Bertha Rowley will entertain at cards Monday evening at her home on Quincy street. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes of Quincy street will build an addition to their house in the near future. W. S. Hamrick left yesterday for Emporia after a short visit to his family at 823 Monroe street. Miss Annie Heartburg went to Kan sas City todaj' where she will. attend the wedding of a friend. Miss Lillie Hamilton has returned from Kansas City where she attended the Ridenour-Reed wedding. The Junior Christian Endeavor so ciety of the Congregational church will give a social Wednesday evening in the church. Mr. Tobias Ball of Van Buren street is enjoying a visit from his brother of Hiawatha who is here looking for de sirable farm property to purchase. TTnion Thanksgiving services will be held this year in the Baptist church. Rev. A. S. Palmer, pastor of the Con gregational church, will preach the ser mon. Mr. Day of Duncan, Arizona, was the guest last week of his sister-in-law. Mrs. T. B. Reynolds. He is on his way home from New York city and other eastern points. Mr. and Mrs. Mulroy and family have moved from 212 West Gordon street to the south side and are now living on Van Buren street between Third and Fourth. Miss Annie Hanson of Marquette, Kan., Is the guest of Miss Annie Nys trom. Miss Hanson Is on her way home from a visit to friends in Kansas City and Omaha. Mrs. Charles Conkle and daughter Edith of Canon City. Colo., will arrive next Sunday and make an extended visit to Mrs. Conkle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Baker of 1113 Jackson street. The societies, sections one and four of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church, have united and will in the future be known as the western section. This section will be entertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Parkhurst of 1309 Central ave nue. The Ladies' Duplicate Whist club met SANTA FE DAY I SPECIAL PRICES ..AT THE... SATISFACTORY GROCERY. On all orders paid for fcy Santa Fe checks we will allow J of best Granulated Sugar 20 lbs $1.00. Best granulated sugar, 19 lbs.. $1.00 White extra C sugar, 20 lbs.. 1.00 Light brown sugar, 21 lbs 1.00 New country sorghum, per gal. .25 X Sugar table syrup, per gal 20 Sugar table syrup, qt. can 08 New maple syrup, quart can.. .25 New maple syrup, half gallon .40 New maple syrup, gallon can... .75 Fruit preserves, bulk, per lb.. .08 Campbell's jams, best made, can 10 Assorted preserves, per bottle .10 Dill pickles, per dozen 08 Large sour pickles, per gal... .15 Silver skin onions, per pint 15 Condensed mincemeat, 4 pkgs.. .25 a Bulk mincemeat, 3 lbs 25 a Bulk apple-butter, 6 lbs 25 Solifl packed tomatoes, 2 cans.. .15 Red Dragon sweet corn, 2 cans .15 Hart brand sweet peas, 3 cans .25 Big quart bottle fine catsup.. .10 Big pint stone jug mustard 15 Strained honey, per lb 10 Aunt Jemima pancake flour, 3 pkgs 25 Ralston Health pancake flour, 3 packages 25 Vitos wheat food, 2 pkgs 25 Fibre washtubs, each 75 Oak dowel, wire-bound wash- tubs 40 Galvanized Iron washtubs 40 Good parlor brooms, each 10c and .15 Cotton mops, each 25 Model washboards, each 10 Diamond C soap. 12 bars 2 Silk soap. 11 bars 21 Rex soap, 15 bars Scotch bulk oats. 10 lbs Hand-picked beans. 10 lbs .25 .25 .25 Flake hommy, 10 lbs 2o Evaporated apples, per lb 10 Evaporated apricots, per lb 15 Evaporated raspberries, per lb. .15 Horseshoe tobacco, per lb .40 a Star tobacco, per lb 40 Battle Ax tobacco, per lb 32 Soda crackers, per lb, by box .OS3 Shredded wheat biscuit. per pkg .10 Fresh baked gingersnaps, 2 lbs .15 IHMI Mt Santa Fe Day Specials. After 7 o'clock this evening we will sell on orders for delivery to- morrow: Hungarian flour, per cwt $1.60 J Searchlight flour, per cwt 1.S0 X Hand-picked beans, per lb 24 X New York cream cheese, per lb .12 7 Vinton sugar corn, 4 cans 25 J Best sauer kraut, per quart 01 I Large sour pickles, per gallon... .12 i Large package mincemeat, each .05 X Cider vinegar., per gallon 10 T Morning Greeting table syrup, T with porcelain pitcher free .35 J Bulk apple butter, per lb 04 T California prunes, per lb 0-1 T Largest Silver prunes, per lb 10 T Pennsylvania buckwheat, 10 lbs .25 T Best sugar cured hams, per lb .08 T MowM Kemper Faxtons. Sixth and Quincy. yesterday afternoon with Mrs. E. P. Baker and played twelve boards. Mrs. A. M. Petro substituted for Mrs. W. H. Hurliss and Mrs. A. A. Rowley for Mrs. J. C. Fulton. The club will be enter tained next Monday afternoon by Mrs. C. G. Bowman of 309 West Gordon street. TWO BANKS UNITE. Combination of Financial Institutions in Boston. Boston, Nov. 15. The directors of the Manufacturers' National bank and the directors of the Continental National bank determined today to liquidate both institutions and to form in their stead a new bank to be called the Col onial National bank. The new bank will have a capital of $1,000,000 and a surplus of $500,000. It is believed by those who are interested that it will have deposits of between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 to start with. Stockholders' meetings to ratify the ac tion of the directors have been called by both banks. A "Wonderful Medicine "Beggs' Little Giant Pills" for weak stomach, impaired digestion, disordered liver, sick headache, constipation, fe male ailments, are absolutely without a rival. Take no substitute ask for "Beggs." For sale by all druggists. It absolutely has no equal and all others who claim theirs is as good as Beggs' German Salve are imitators. A fair trial will convince any one that there is no preparation yet discovered, that stands even an equal in allaying pain and in its healing qualities. For sale by all druggists. A Skin of Beauty is a Joy Forever." D ,K. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL CREAM, OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIER. Purities as well as Beautifies the Skin Jio other cosmetic will do it. Keinoves Tan, Pimples. Freck les. Moth Patch es. Rash and Skin diseases, and every blem ish on beauty, and defies de tection. It has stood the test of BO years, and is so harmless we taste it to be sure it Is prop erly made. Ac cept no counter feit ot similar name. Ir. I. A. Sayre said to a lady of the haut-ton (a pa- ..Acumi l.iiu ill t.a tlmm T ru..m. mend 'Gouraud's ('ream' as the least harmful of all skin preparations." For sale by all Druggists and Fancy (iuods Dealers in the U. S.. Cauadas, and Kurope. Fi.Kl. T. HOPKINS, Frop'r, SI Great Jones bt, T. NEW MODEL. "The Day We Celebrate t Open Tonight Till 10 O'clock. Santa Fe Day Specials at Stashing the Values in Cloak Department. Ladies' Flush. Cape, lin ed and interlined, JfSV collar edged with Thibet fur, CJ nc if 1 Each Ipl.fU J? s. g- j Ladies' Black Kersey Cloth Cape, high X ripple collar, trimmed down front and J around bottom with, stitching of silk; J 'J loop braid fastening; length, CJQ Rfl ri-A 26 in. Price IpOaUU i'-v" d? Ladies' Black Boucle Cloth aS" SS Cape, plait in back, storm collar, trimmed si with Thibet and down front; lenth, 26 V C'i in.; lined with black twill. CP O Cft f '.v' vl J; 4 Price PO.OU t V 1 Ladies' Silk Plush Cape, Thibet fur t 'xj V around storm collar and down front; j t v- V j S neatly trimmed with braid and jet; two I :i( s. f- box plaits in back; black lining; CN A fQ V j -t f length, 20 in. Price pl.SO TX A A Ladies' fine all wool black Kersey Cloth JT t yf'l t Cloak, lined throughout; box front, neatly M i trimmed with silk soutache braid and II 5 j small, silk-covered buttons; length, 28 in. c Jl -r tt 36 and 38 only. Like cut C! 1 ft ftft z,i "V i Price I. $1U.UU Tonight, Your Choice, Any of Mc CALLS rATTEMS, 10c each Ladies' fine all wool black Kersey Cloak, lined throughout; high slashed velvet inlaid collar; trimmed with three strips of raw jJQ Q F material in front, and over-seams in back; length, 28 in. Price, ptf.u J Misses' heavy black cloth Jacket, storm collar, box front, trimmed with four large black buttons, front lined with red silk; age C0 OQ 12 to 18. Price lj.UO Misses' novelty brown mixed Jacket, high storm collar, box front; collar, pockets, sleeves and front trimmed with brown velvet CJ C C rt piping, front lined with silk; age 12 years only. Price H'UiJU Tonight, Menthol Cough Drops Ic per package. Infants' Cashmere Cloaks, white and tan, with embroidered Q Q cape, fleece-lined. Each Otfw Child's Cotton Eiderdown Cloak, Angora fur-trimmed, fleece- A Q lined, ages 1, 2 and 3 years. Each lUi Ladies' Black Feather Boas worth 40c QCr Each n3K Ladies' Ice Wool Fascinators, black and cream. 0f Each hJm Santa Fc Day Cut Prices in our Ladies' Famishing Dept. Tonight Children's all wool black Mittens, per pair 6c. Ladies' fleece lined fast black cotton Seamless Hose, per pair 10c. Tonight Infants' -fleece lined rib bed Vests, each sc. Ladies' fleece lined cotton Union Suits, each 33c. Children's fleece lined cotton Union Suits, each 23c. The Low Prices and Good Qualities That Make Us Prosperous. Dry Goods Department. Good quality 36-in wide Unbleach ed Muslin, per yd 3is Gray Sanitary Flannel, double napped, regular 7c cloth, yd. ..5c Our regular 5c Unbleached Cotton Flannel, per yd 3 c Cream color Domestic Flannel, our regular 6c auality-double napped. soft and warm, suitable for Un derwear, Nightgowns, etc, per yd 3c Our regular 7c Tennis Flannels, good range of styles, all light ef fects, per yd 4Jc Tonight, Ladies' Gold All wool Henriettas, 36-in wide black and colors, worth 40c, per yard 25c $1.00 quality, 46-in extra fine and heavy Serges, black and colors per yd 73c Fredrich Arnold's German Henri ettas, black and colors,46-in wide and very fine count. No other store sells this number for less than $1 our price per yd 73c Tonight, Talcum Powder, per canister 4c. j The New Model Kemper Paxtons. "Parlor Match" at the Grand. Charles H. Hoyt's breezy farce, "A Parlor Match," w hich raised Evans and Hoey to a towering height among the farce players of America, will be pre sented at the Grand next Monday night. For ten years this piece has been play ing engagements only to return again in a new diess and with "Old Hoss" in a more ludicrous character than before. This year it is said to have undergone another thorough revision. Everything in this farcical conceit is said to be changed from comic mixtures intro duced in the beginning on Captain Kidd's front lawn to the happenings which bring about a peaceful ending iri the doughty captain's best parlor. We will wash your colored shirts and guarantee colors from fading. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. Sth. O NEW MODEL The Busy Corner. our..... Santa Fc Day Cold Weather Benefits. Ready made full Bleached Pillow; Cases, laundried, each 6c. Ready made Sheets, 81x90 inches, worth 50c, each 35c. Gray mixed Cotton Blankets, double napped, fancy borders, each 33c All wool Scarlet Blankets, full size and weight, per pair $1.50. Bates' white Bed Spreads, green tick-; et, $1 the world over Tomorrow each 79c. "Omar Cashmere," a new printed fabric twilled cloth, stylish Col orings and designs,absolutely fast colors, regular 7Jc value, per yard 43c "Stevens" all linen Brown Crash, fast edges, per yd 4c One case Lonsdale Bleached Mus lin, "Hope" brand, per yd 5c 9-4 Unbleached Brown Sheeting, regular 15c quality, per yd. lOJc 36-in wide all. wool Serge, black and all colors, sells for 35c today on the Avenue, per yd 25c Beauty Pins, each 2c. All wool Novelty Dress Goods worth 30c yd, per yd 20c $3 Tapestry Portier Curtains 3 colorings, per pr $1.98 "Cottage Poles," newest for window hangings, complete, each 15c "White Enameled Curtain Poles brass ends and brackets, com plete, each 19c All wool Ingrain Carpetings, Brus sels effects in the verys newest colorings, per yd 65c Supply Store. Sixth and Quincy. X Cheops Council No 2, A. O. of P. Will celebrate the annual feast of Osirus with a free entertainment and oyster supper at 704-706 Kan. Ave., on Wednesday evening, Nov. 16, 1898. All members of the order are expected to be present. By order of the Committee. Picture Sale. Discount on all pictures during bal ance of this month. C. H. Morrison, 505 Kansas avenue. Large and new line to select from. There MayBs Others but there's none like the Gypsy Queen Baking Powder. Go to Davies Nicholson for best grades of Coal and Lumber.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER. 15, 1S98. 7 i.'i II,, K2) I WASHind Dirt of any kind on any thing quickly yield to the easy effort of the housewife wbo nse tnla great cleaner. Largest package greatest economy. Ask the arocer for It. AHTTSEMENTS. Q RAND OPEKA HOUSE The Redmond Company Week beginning' Monday. Nov. 14. in a new and attractive repertoire of plays, SPECIAL. VAUDEVILLE FEATURES, Including Latest Sungs, Dances and Mon ologues. Entire week of modern Drama and Com edy, interpreted by a company of metro politan players. Popular prices, 10, 20 and 30 cents. LA D I KS FREE WON DAY N IG HT Each person purchasing a 30-cent ticket fur Monday nigrht will be allowed to re serve another seat for a lady, free of charge. Ke.erved seats sold by the Sim 1 rugr Co. High class matinee for ladies and children Saturday afternoon. MEW CRAWFORD THEATER Wednesday Eve., Nov. 16. Topeka Dramatic Club, Under the auspices of Grace Cathedral Guild. The Three-Act Comedy, "THE THREE HATS." Popular Prices: 15. 25, 35, 5. MEW CRAWFORD THEATER Tuesday, Nov. 15. Guaranteed Attraction. One Night MR. KOBErFdOWMNG, The Eminent Tragedian, Presenting- three plavs in one night: "FRENCH MARRIAGE. Comedy. "IXGOJ1AR," Romance. "THE GLAWATHK." Tragedv. MR. ROBERT 1X1WX1XG. the eminent tragedian, will produce his unljue and in teresting dramatic novelty appearing in three plays Mor.s. Sangfroid in Charles I)ances comedy. "French Marriage"; "In- fomar"- the Barion In the flower scene rom "Ingomar." ar.d in his great imper sonation of "The Gladiator." in th play that has made him famous. PRICKS 75c, 50c, 26c. 0C00X0X00X0CK00 The Shortest Time Topeka to Los Angeles last year was 54 hours. This year it will be 504 just a little more than 2 days by the Cali fornia Limited, Santa Fe 5 Route. Barber chop and P ladies' observation car have q been added. Reservations 9 T. L. King, Agent, Topeka, 0 Cromwill letters, North To- p peka. XOOO00X00O0OOOOO)O00X 5MOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUQ. 5 cent Ciar A S7.00 BOOK OF EUGENE FIELD'S POEMS Handsotne'y II luscrated by thirty-two of the world's greatest artists GIVEN FREE to each person Interested In subscribing to the lu goDO Field Monument Souvenir Fund. Subscribe any amount desired. Sub scriptions as low as $1.00 will entitle the donor to this hadnseme volume icloth bound. 6x11). as a souvenlrcertlftcateof sub scription to fund. Boole contains a selection of Field's best and most rep resentative works, and is ready for delivery. But for the noble contrl bution of the world's greatest artists this book been manufactured for lest could not hare than ST. 00. 1 he fund created Is divided eaially between the family of the late Kugene Fleitl and the fund for the bunding of a monument to the memory the beloved poet of childhood. Address Eugene Field Monument Souvenir Fund, (A so at book stores) ISO Mod roe St.. Chicago. If you also wish to send postage enclose 10c. fir-Mention State Journal as ad, is Inserted as eur contribution. NATIONAL STABLES. GILCHRIST BROS., Pros. Go4 turnouts delivered to any par ef Li. elty. f BOARDIHO A SPECIALTY. J Pk.M 48. -J08 Jackson 8. Great W estsrn Steam Dye and Cleaning Wcrk3. 117 E. 7th St, near ftutney. Dyeing, Cleaning and Repairing. H. GASES, Proprietor. THE TEMPLE ABANDONED. The National W. C. T. U. Votes by a Large Majority To Leave the Great Structure in Chicago to Its Fate AFTER A DISCUSSION Which Grew so Warm as to Render Necessary The Opening of the Windows and Singing of Hymns. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 15. The W. C. T. U. national convention decided by a vote of 2S5 to 71 to abandon the Temple project as an affiliated Interest. Five hours of animated vigorous and oc casionally bitter and personal debating was necessary before the, vote was reached. The epposition to this action, declared it was an act of repudiation of a moral obligation and fought every Inch of ground but most of the leaders were against them and carried their point. Just before adjourning Mrs. Dunham presented some resolutions on the subject which may precipitate the whole controversy if she calls them up as It Is expected. At the beginning: of the afternoon's session the president announced the Temple as the order of the business. Mrs. Matilda B. Carse of Illinois read her report on the Temple which was a full history of the building and the con nection of the W. C. T. U. with the enterprise. She made a strong plea for the convention to stand by the Temple and criticised sharply the action of the general officers against the Temple. She read letters from Marshall Field dated November 2, 1S98, in which he prom lsed to extend such obligations as he may be interested in and in addition ha will give $50,000 cash to pay obliga tions of interest soon to become due and $50,000 in stock or a total of $100,000. Notwithstanding the rule adopted against applause there was a hearty outburst of hand clapping at this an nouncement. The burden of the report was for the completion of a temple 1 a fitting memorial to Miss Willard. The annual report of the financial secretary, Miss Sarah O. Johnson, was presented, showing receipts of $28,761, expendi tures $11,056; balance $6,632. The recording secretary, Mrs. Hoff man, read the report of the action of the executive committee adverse to the temple and Mrs. Chambers of Pennsyl vania, moved its adoption. As a substitute Mrs. Dunham of Iowa, moved that in view of the 1891 conven tion endorsement of the enterprise, this convention pledged itself to the temple in the matter of retiring trust bonds. It was decided, however, to consider the report Instead of the substitute and the decision waa taken up energetically. Then followed a long parliamentary wrangle, waged mainly over the method in which the vote should be taken. An aye and nay vote was finally decided upon and then the ladies recovered their equanimity by rising and singing "Rock of Ages," after which the affairs of tha Temple came on again. Miss Dowe, of Maine, reported $22,912 paid in on the Temple trust fund, on which interest of $291 has accrued. A few trust bonds have been purchased and the balance of cash now on hand is $22,491, and she also holds $1,800 worth of trust bonds. As an incidental motion the action of the executive board in securing some of those bonds was ratified. The general discussion was again resumed, the mo tion being to adopt the action of the executive committee in declaring the Temple to be no longer an affiliated In terest to the W. C. T. U. The recording secretary, Mrs. Hoff man, made an eloquent argument in support of the executive committee. After she finished the debates were lim ited to three minutes each and a rat tling debate followed in which the memory of Miss Willard was invoked by both sides. The debate was protract ed, and it was several times found nec essary to open the w indows to cool and freshen the air. Finally, after all who wanted to speak had been allowed their limited time. Miss Anna Gordon was permitted to close the debate, speaking against the Temple. The previous question being ordered to follow her remarks, which were unlimited aa to time. Her speech was largely made up of a recitation of what Miss Willard in the last few months of her life had said in regard to the Temple and her hopelessness regarding Its success. There had been some confusion and much excitement during this debate.but Miss Gordon spoke amid Intense silence. At ten minutes before 7. the secre taries began the roll call on the motion to adopt the action of the executive committee in abandoning the Temple. It was a long roll call, lasting forty two minutes, nearly ten minutes more were required for changes and counting. The vote resulted 2S5 to 71, the Temple being dropped as an affiliated body. Mrs. Dunham, of Iowa, presented a resolution endorsing the action of the Boston convention approving the Tem ple but it went over until today. A resolution of thanks to Mrs. Carse for her efforts on behalf of the Temple was adopted. The evening session was delayed in starting and was devoted to rejoicing by North Dakota, Kansas, Ohio, Minne sota, Texas. Southern California and Indiana unions over their increasing five hundred or more each during tha year. Beggs' German Salvo. is used In every house, writes one man from a country town. Entire neighbor hood use it, for Piles, Cuts. Burns, Bruises and all skin diseases. The fame of Its cures necessarily spread from town to town; friends tell friends what Beggs' German Salve has done, and the whole people acknowledges its merit. Its healing qualities and its power of allaying pain. For sale by all drug gists. For Rats, Mice, Roaches. Other &mmsm& Vermin. IT'S A KILLER. After eitlmg. all vermis mk water and the opw air. Hace this ku.r is th. ssost cleanly 09 earth. For Sale by all Dnirrf. Price, 18 Cents. KEWTOH M1K0TACTDBHG CHEYICAL CO., 93 WUikua Street. tUm York. LTJCHENPS FATE. Imprisoned for Life and Doomed to Silence. Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 15. The fate of Luigi Lucheni, the Italian an archist who assassinated Empress Eliz abeth of Austria, will be, for an an archist, the most terrible that can be conceived. It will be total silence. He will not be made a "martyr." He will simply be shut up, set to work aild for bidden to talk. For the first five years he will be confined to his cell and will perform the labor assigned to him there. After five years he will be set to work in a prison shop and may not speak to any of the leaser knaves around him upon pain of being returned to solitary confinement. He is not to be pampered; he may not smoke or read or talk; he does not know what the world is saying about him. He will not even have the privi lege of standing in public on the guil lotine and having; his head cut off a blessed consolation to Valllant and Henry and Santo Cessario. They looked forward to it and gloried in it, and were proud of a chance to go under the knife spitting curses upon society. But there is no such hope for Lucheni. He Is allowed no wine or beer or spirits, and since that one famous cigar, of which so much has been said, was smoked he has not been permitted to touch tobacco. All the prison guards take turns in watching his cell, and he has had little chance of getting special privileges. He is allowed to receive no visits or letters or to communicate with the world. All sorts of letters have been sent to him, but he has seen none of them. These come from all parts of Europe one or two from the United States. All the letters received are not from sympa thizers. In one there came a bit of rope and a rough sketch of a man being hanged. "This is what you ought to suffer," says the writer. The cantonal penitentiary of Geneva, the Eveche, is a gloomy graystone building hard by the famous old Ca thedral church of St. Pierre (the Church of John Calvin) in the Rue de l'Eveche. Some 50 prisoners are confined there at present all males. Of these only one is a life prisoner, a parricide, who bas already passed 16 years in his cell. Here Lucheni will enter never again to come out. He will be put to work at shoemaking. On Sunday mornings there is a service in the penitentiary chapel, which Lucheni may attend if he wishes, but as anarchists scorn religion he may deny himself this comfort. There is al so a prison library from which the pris oners may each take a book every Sun day. They are permitted to read on Sundays and may also read at the din ner hour. Prisoners who have undergone this punishment four or five years have de clared that they would prefer death. Some have begged to be killed. For Lucheni it will be particularly hard. He sees before him a life obso lutelv without hope; the ceaseless talk er will be reduced to everlasting si lence, the preacher of the bad cause will be without an audience and without a public, the idle and noisy anarchist will be forced to work industriously every day of his life from 6 In the morning until 6 at night and cannot even dispose of the fruits of his own enforced labor. If the anarchists have any wit they may see a certain terrible irony in the fate of Luigi Lucheni. ItEYENGE ON NEGROES. Kansas City Republican. Machine is Ousting Negro Officials. Kansas City, Nov. 15. The Republic an city administration is revenging it self on the negroes for their generous support of the Democratic ticket in this city by ousting all the colored men in the employ of the city. ii:ven jNeison Crews, the famous colored orator, It is said, is to be dropped as clerk of the police court, or at least his position will be made so uncomfortable that he wilt be glad to quit. "Out with the negroes! is the slogan, and the colored employe who survives the present onslaught will be battered and bent, if the talk of of ficials count for anything. County Chairman Charles Tost, who Is also city assessor. Is perhaps the sor est man at the City hall. "The negroes be damned," said Yost. "We have filled the hall with them, treated them with every possible consid eration, and now when they are needed they sell themselves at $1 a head. The negroes have placed themselves on the market at so much a head. They have their prices on them and can be bought like a bushel of lettuce, a bushel of po tatoes or a basket of spinach so much for each one. The Republican party owes them nothing from now on. They are not entitled to a thing. Last year Mr. Tost had negroes em ployed for several months at $3 a day making the assessment. He is now se lecting white men to do this year's work. "How many negroes will you employ this year?" he was asked. Mr. Tost raised his hand and with two fingers formed a naught, saying: "Just that many and no more. "White men can do my work from now on."? Superintendent of Streets Sloan laid off his negro clerk, L. TV. Spencer, and every negro street sweeper this morn ing. Their places win De ntiea witn whites. Auditor Cecil has not yet dropped his negro deputy, James Cole, and declares he Is undecided in the matter. But there is no doubt that Cole will have to go, and with him every colored city employe. DISTILLERY IN MEXICO. H. T. Heiligmann Will Invest $3,- 000,000 in the Enterprise. San Antonio. Tex., Nov. 15. H. T. Heiligmann. the millionaire distillery man of California, arrived here today in his private car and met his agents from Mexico in conference, to complete the arrangements for the construction of a three million dollar distillery in Mexico City. A concession for the enterprise has just been granted by the Mexican gov- ernment. Mr. Heiligmann will leave tomorrow for Mexico. He says work on the big distillery will begin in a few weeks. When completed not only the ordinary brands of spirits known to tha American trade will be manufactured. but the distilling of Mexican liquors will be undertaken on a large scale. with a view of introducing the higher grade of Mexican liquors into the Unit ed States. The Direct Lino to Denver, Salt Lake City. San Fran cisco and Portland, is via the Union Pacific. The service of the Union Pacific to all principal western points Is unexcelled by any other line and con sists of Pullman Palace Sleepers, Pull man Tourist Sleepers, Chair Cars, Din ing Cars. (Meals a la carte.) For time table and full information call on F. A. Lewis, City Ticket Agent, J. C. Fulton. Depot Agent. Collars and cuffs laundered to look like new, by Peerless Steam Laundry. Rheumatism Cured. We guarantee Regans Rheumatism Remedy to cure any case of Rheuma tism in 30 days or money refunded. Sold for $1 per bottle by Swift Holliday Drug Co, W. H. Wilson, and Arnold Drug Co. CONFLAGRATION. Sweeps Over Dawson City Caus ing a Loss Of $500,000 in Buildings and Stocks of Goods. A BURNING OIL LAMP Thrown by a Woman at An other in a Saioon. She is the Same Who Started the Big Fire Last Year. Skaguay, Alaska, Nov.7, vit "Victoria, B. C, Nov. 15. Returning Klondikers arriving in this city today bring the news that the city of Dawson bas been visited with a $500,000 fire in which 40 buildings were burned, including the new postoffice building and some of the best buildings in the city. The fire took place on the morning of October 16. It started In the Green Tree saloon as the result of a row between two women of the town. Belle Mitchell threw a lighted lamp at another wo man. The lamp broke, the oil spread and in a few seconds the building was on fire. The fire started at 5:20 a. m. The fire of a year ago was caused by this same woman who threw a lamp at a man with whom she had a quarrel. A month ago she tried to burn her own place in Third avenue in Dawson by throwing a lamp at a woman and near ly caused a conflagration by again los ing her temper and wielding another lighted lamp. The news of the conflagration was brought out by several of the miners, who arrived in this city. The steamer Ora left Dawson October 20 and 20 through passengers reached Bennett yesterday morning. At the time the police gong sounded the fire alarm a light wind was blowing down the Yukon and the people saw that it would require speedy and quick work to save the town from total de struction. The postoffice was the next building south of the Green Tree saloon and the work of getting the mail matter out was quickly done. Although nearly all the mail matter was saved it is in great confusion. All tHat rpmaino n .1 BiivVf H11C1C 101 III- erly 40 buildings stood are a few black- cueu ioks ana tne town was saved from total destruction by the fire engine. If it had not been that about 2.000 men turned out and worked like trojans with wet blankets, buckets of water and axes and nirlfrf in tn nna.nltnn t 1 s vjjc anyju UL Lllt lil t: apparatus, the whole town would have gone up in smoke. The Klondike Nug- fiL naa wiiL me JUSSKS Will De OllTlCUlt to estimate, but the following list is given out: 01 jfictrratn's Jew England saloon, $41XR: Green Tree saloon. $35,000; Empire Johnson, stock and building. $20,000: Van couver hotel, $25,000: John Sargent, saloon. $...000; .New York Store and Ladies' Ka- i-tv 01 A. i i ortoni. Jack Thorn, proprietor, and Nel- .jc ijt. i anu BtvHim omers, -l.j,uoo: iiy- aim siuit1. iio,uj; 1'.. a. butter, jeweler, lost-'evervthing he had: I. h latew, tailor. $16.(n); John McDonald, Uulor. stock and building, $6.00o: George Brewett, tailor. $8,000; Foley, butcher. $5 ooo: Seattle lunch counter. $9,000: restau rants, small stores, etc.. on opposite side of the street, $2!.li00: twelve cabins, furni ture, etc.. $18.0oo; damages to buildings etc.. $30,000; damages to goods and stocks throughout the entire burned district claimed by lowers to be $lo0.000. deducting SO per cent. $50,0o0. Total. $506,000. There Is no insurance at Dawson and the loss falls entirely on the individuals. The mounted police are investigating the origin of the Are. It waa at first thought that the fire was the result of an incen diary, but this suspicion has been entirely dissipated. The miners now In Skaguay left Dawson on the steamer Ora and at White Horse transferred to tha steamer Olive May and came to Bennett. From White Pass they came to his city on the railroad which is operating two trains dailv between this city and the pass. Very little ice was found in the upper river, which is re markable at this time of the year The Vw ir ""'"w "ui ot teneena I Into the Yukon. At Marsh Lake there I was a little te hut it r. I quarter of an inch thick and the steamer had no difficulty in pushing her wav through. The Ora is the last steamer of the season. All the rest are now tied up until the river opens in the spring It is said there Is not enough lumber and window glass In Dawson to rebuild the burned district and that the people are In distress and will have to live in tents for the rest of the winter. Work done on short notice without extra charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. FOREWARNED 1 J l I sna! fe! vcur wife of vou. Frank All right, dear boy, I was prepared for fhat I've explained to i vi uwii mi m ii rut y m 1 1 1 TALK LIKE INDIANS. Filipinos Appeal to the Great Father at Washington. Hong Kong.Nov. 15. The Filipino junta, representatives of General Aguinaldo and the Filipino government here, have drawn up what they designate "an appeal to President McKinley and the American people," but what is in reality rather in the nature of an arraignment of American actions in the Philippines. John Barrett, formerly United States minister to Slam, was asked by the junta to present the memorial to the United States government and people. Mr. Bar rett replied that while he had no official influence regarding the status of the mat ter, he was satisfied that a document which represented the sentiments of the Filipinos would receive at the hands of the Americans all the consideration it merited. The memorial says: "We, the Hong Kong representatives of our countrymen, appeal to the great and good judgment of President McKioley and the spirit of fairness and iustness of the American people as it is always shown in their regard for the petitions of the weak and oppressed. "While the fate of the Islands is still un decided and we are doing all in our power to prevent a conflict Detween tne Ameri cans and Filipinos awaiting patiently the conclusion of the Paris conference we implore the intervention of the president, supported by the will of the people, to end the slights shown our leaders, soldiers and people by some of the American military and naval ofticers. although we do not wish to wrong Admiral Dewey and Gen eral Otis." The memorial then avers that "false re ports are spread broadcast alleging that the Filipinos are responsible for all the friction," points out that the tension is greater every day, and any moment a shot may be fired by an irresponsible American or Filipino soldier, leading to great bloodshed, and beseeches the United States "to help the junta to control our own people by directing the American officials at Manila to temper their actions with friendship, justness and fairness." "From the commencement of hostilities," continues the memorial, "the Filipinos ac ceded to all the American requests: but after bottling up the Spaniards in Manila the Filipinos were completely- ignored when the Americans advanced, and thus deprived us of the fruits of victorv. Now. after months of campaigning, the Filipino troops have been ordered to the suburbs, where they have no quarters and where supplies are difficult to obtain. All our launches have been seized because of fool ish rumors that we would attack the Americans .and when we asked explana tions we were not even answered. The Spaniards, of late the enemies of the Americans, have every consideration, while the Filipinos, their friends and allies, are often treated as enemies." After asserting that the Filipinos uni formly acted upon the advice of the Amer icans and were uniformly recognized by them until Manila was captured, the mem orial goes on to say: "We can only attribute this sudden change to orders from Washington to American officials at Manila to avoid com promising the American government by a recognition of the Filipinos or their gov ernment. The Americans are carrying out these instructions literally, losing sight of the former friendly intercourse and as sistance and of the assurances the Ameri can officials gave General Aguinaldo, which he communicated to his followers." After emphasizing" the junta's "absolute confidence in President McKinley and the people of the great republic." stating that "our protests are not prompted by ani mosity, but are directed against conditions existing at Manila and not against the American government and people." ac knowledging "our gratitude to American arms for destroying Spanish power in the Philippines," and expressing "a hope that the islands are not to be returned to Spain," the memorial concludes thus: "We await the arbitrament of the peace commission with even greater interest than the Americans, because it concerns our land, our happiness and our freedom. In the meantime we shall pray for peace and a perfect understanding with the Americans." SUGAR FOR TYPEWRITER. Young Woman "With the Gov. Grout Party Suepected of Having Eaten $8 Wortn. Montpelier, Vt., Nov. 15. The joint committee appointed from the senate and house to probe the state scandal regarding the unauthorized expenditure of public money for private use by cer tain state officers is now in a condition to do effective work. A joint resolution was passed In both houses today giving this committee power to compel the attendance of wit nesses with papers and to employ a stenographer at the expense of the state. The joint committee has its clerks at work copying for its use records in the state auditor's office of ex-Gov. Josiah Grout, Adjt. Gen. Peck and Quarter master Gen. Gilmore. Among the amusing items of unau thorized expense by Gen. Peck in con nection with the Grant memorial trip are items as follows: Attending Old Guard ball in New Tork, $70. Stenographer for the trip, $8. Maple sugar, $8. Inasmuch as the two last named items are entered the same date it is surmised that the stenographer got the maple sugar. 13 FOREARMED. ui w u i i iuji u covyi loitJic nut IS. ft rVlP0TY,JOMES- blttcfdil-fc dfedfdl-rlje-Way pernor; Ate- filled belecfr c cOfaqf. WVlVfr j dsf 4V6wn a TVAfrighrciirio cf cdA ragfi I r;ad pr-serVed for" feraf'fernirjf bfe-ele-c,rr'i6. f dor'i''JtKe- to foul Willi prbVi JVrpcfc-r ii Wm'i Bents. Situations, Real Estate, Auction Sale o o AND OTHER Classified Idvertisenests. WANTED HELP. WANTED Employment for good office man. iam smitn, city. WANTED A place to work in restaurant or hotel by competent young colored girl. Address 710 Jackson st. WANTED Situation by a white man, to take care of horses and attend furnace, private family preferred. Excellent ref erence. H. F. C.. 1207 N. "Van Buren st. WANTED Girl of 14 wants place with good Christian people to assist with light housework for board while going to school. Address W. T. Martin, general delivery, city. WANTED Position by a young lady stenographer; three years' experience; good reference; salary moderate. Address K. G., care Journal. WANTED Place in private family by German girl. 310 Elm st. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED A good girl at 912 Morris ave. WANTED At the National, two experi enced dining room waitresses. WANTED MALE HELP. TOTJNG MEN, our Illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade in eight weeks, mailed free. Moleis Bar ber College, St. Louis. WANTED A vest maker. Topeka Woolen Mill Company, 701 Kansas ave. WANTED SALESMEN. $25 A WEEK and expenses paid to sell ci gars. Experience unnecessary. Holiday goods. The W. L. Kline Co., St. Louis, Mo. WANTED Salesman; salary paid week ly; experience unnecessary; permanent. Brown Bros. Co., Chicago. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED Roller-top oak office desk. If you have a bargain address H. R., care. Journal. WANTED To rent a typewriter and pay for it by doing the owner's work. Ad dress Typewriter, care Journal. WANTED 3 to 5 year old half Jersey milch cow. Address cow, care Journal. WANTED A partner in a business which has increased so I can't attend to it alone; make from $4 to $10 a day. Ad dress A. T. H., care Journal. WANTED A place to assit with light housework In a small family, with plain people. Address A., care Journal. WANTED Horses to winter; best of stabling. H. W. McAfee, 616 Kansas ave. WANTED Some more roomers and boarders at the Home Board, 120 West Sixth st. TELE. 170 Calls hack day or night. Par ties specialty. Horses and mules bought and sold. W. T. Lawless, 116 West Railroad street. North Topeka. WANTED Everyone to know that Sn 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 Guns to repair, sell, buy or exchange, at the "Golden Rule" Ma china Works, 514 Kansas ave. FOR. SENT ROOMS. FOR RENT A sunny front room, fur nished or unfurnished. 118 East 8th st. FOR RENT Front room, with board, modern conveniences. 621 Van Buren st. FOR RENT Nicely furnished rooms, sin gle or en suite. S35 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Desk room for one or two: very centrally located, first floor. To peka, Trust Co., 634 Kansas ave. FOR RENT Furnished rooms. with board. No. 2 Ross Block, Van Buren st. FOR RENT HOUSES. MulvaneV See Elder, 611 Kansas ave. FOR RENT 3 room house. $5. 1272 Mul vane. See Elder, 611 Kansas ave. LOST AND FOUND. FOUND The umbrella repairer and jew eler. W. S. McCormick, at 813 Kan. ave. FOR SALE --MISCELLANEOUS. FollAL'EA'T'cli ifc quire 814 Kansas ave., North Topeka. De sire to sell at once. FOR SALE 1 Burr Oak stove, 1 monkey stove with oven, kitchen utensils, oak extension table, oak bedroom suite, oak chairs. 1 bookcase and dishes. 609 West Sixth St. Call after 2 p. m. FOR SALE Road wagon suitable for or der wagon, and set of hand-made har ness, cost $50, dirt cheap. 429 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Cheap, horse, harness, two-' seated surrev, 1 bookcase and bedroom set. 1828 Buchanan st. FOR SALE It will pay you to see G. O. ("off man about coal. 312 East Fourth. Phone 683. FOR SALE The best mixed feed in the city at Coff man's, 312 East Fourth. 'Phone 683. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN CO. FOR SALE SEAL ESTATE. FOR SALE 5 room house, 3 lots; will take cow, spring wagon or anything that can be moved. Scott Co., 615 Kan. ave. FOR SALE- Ten R.I.P.A.N.'S for 6 cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE TO SANTA FE SHOPMEN 6 lots 8 blocks east of Santa Fe shops; would build; $200 cash, balance monthly payments. Topeka Trust Co., 634 Kansas ave., main floor. FOR SALE 35 lots near the Santa Fe shops, 35 lots Twenty-first and Madison sts., 60 lots near Shorey, 8 room house and 1 acres near city limits. 80 acres 6 miles north, all on time payments or cheap for cash. M. Heery, 109 East Third. MISCELLANEOUS. THE OFFICE of the Topeka Vitrified Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 118 West Eighth st. A JUVENILE CLASS IN ELOCUTION will be organized Saturday, Nov. 19. at 1:30 p. m.. Institute Hall, 118 West Eighth st. Terms, $5 for twenty le&sona. Caro line Baum. LEAVE your orders for coal, flour, feed and seeds with Van Slyck. 509 W. 10th. MISS MABEL MARTIN, teacher of piano and harmony. 407 Greenwood ave.,Potwln. HOW doctors, dentists, pharmacists. law yers, competent, skillful, undergraduates, can soon graduate. Lock Box 196, Chicago. DO YOU WANT to sell, buy, rent or ex change? We also make a specialty of houses on monthly payments. See the To peka Trust Co., 634 Kansas ave., main floor. WANTED Orders for piano tuning, by J. L. Sheldon. P. O. Box 423. NOTICE To Whom It May Concern: 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 632 Kansas ave nue, in the Second ward, in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of tha same is set for Monday, 9 a. m., the 19th day of December. 1SHS. GEO. W. STANSFIELD. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 12th, lSSiS. SPECIAL attention given to the renting of properties. Topeka Trust Co., 634 Kansas ave., main floor. NOTICE To whom It may concern: 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 4o4 Kansas ave nue, in the Second ward, in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of the "me Is set for Monday, 9 a. m., the 2Sth day of November, 18!N. F. B. WALLACE. Topeka, Kan.. Oct. 27. 1S98. CARPET CLEANING WORKS Does cleaning, scouring refitting, sewing and laying. Haubach, 409 Kansas ave. DOUTHITT PLACE Has been opened. Your choice of lots. $150 to $450. Eugentj Wolfe, 617 Kansas ave. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Med.c.il College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler. Is open dailv exeept Sunday, from 1 to 2 p. rn. E. M. Brockett. M. D. MONET. MONET ON HAND, low rate of Interest. every accommodation to borrower. If you want a loan address EODGliRS. DAVIS CO.. 110 West Sixth st. LOANING Is one of our specialties. To peka Trust Co., 634 Kan. ave., main floor. $50,000,000 CHEAP eastern money for west ern investment. Send for free circular. Investors Directory, N. Y. MONEY LOANED on pianos, organs. sew ing machines, watches, diamonds, bicycles, typewriters, stock, any good security. N. B. Campbell, 605 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 eastern Kansas. Money on hand and every accommodation to bor rower. T. E. BOWMAN CO., Columbian Building. PMYSICIAN AND SURGEONS. DrTP1NX3HOr1371306 TyTerst? Graduate of Stockholm. Sweden. Mass age. Swedish movement electricity and midwife, Svensk Barnmoeska. L. A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence, corner Gordon -t. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Fhona 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painlens treatment for piles, fistula, nshure, ul ceration, etc. S. E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. tc 11 a. m.. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephona 598 residence and 16 office. XOLISTS MRS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves, 817 Kansas ave. 'Phone C02. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. TllE'jTc7"DAlRLTr 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. TCRAOE STORAGE The Topeka Storage .-.nd Warehouse Co. (formerly Topeka Stor age Co., 305 Kas. ave.) store stoves,, house hold goods, etc. On June 1 removed to new fire-proof stone building, 212 and 214 Kas. ave. C. D. Skinner, Prop. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems for rent; repairing of ail kinds. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Op tician.. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Kyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. We'll Do Yonr Hanling Right TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephone 609 Kansas Aye. i f 20 cmice. 305 Hook. F. X. rXACOIT, Prop. t3P"Se me about storage. Consumption Cured. BROUGHT BACK from the grave. Last November Mr. Joseph James, painter, of 325 W. Pearl St., Indianapo lis, Ind., was at death's door with quick consumption. Wasted to a skeleton; hia lungs a mass of ulceration; his death was hourly awaited by his doctor and family. He was kept in a constant stupor with opium. A friend, thinking to relieve his terrible cough, gave him a bottle of Brazilian Balm. Seeing its wonderful effect, the doctor advised its continued use. Mr. James soon after dismissed his doctor, and depended on the Balm alone. His recovery was rapid and complete, and in February he returned to work. His lungs are sou nd, and his weight greater than at any time in his life. His recovery is regarded as almost a miracle. Sj COMMA BACILLUS. In consumption beware of cough mix tures and prescriptions that contain opium. Opium paralizes the nerves, and givea the comma bacillus a good chance to destroy the lungs. It is always fatal. Brazilian Balm does not contain a trace of any opiate, but stimu lates the nerves with new life and power, destroys the microbe, and restores all that ia left of the diseased lungs to a sound and healthy state which no other remedy has ever been known to accom- 0j cv H'5"y& II II HI P III 330" A K C s

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 15, 189S. RAILROADNEWS. Mexican Central Railroad Creates a New Office. Establishes a Bureau For the Purpose of Killing Hosquitos. TOPEKAN IN C1IAHGE. Captain George C. Sperry the ORlcial to Fight the Pest. Recalls the Rock Island "Rain Making" Idea. Captain George C. Sperry, for years a resident railway man of Topeka, but now superintendent of telegraphs for the Mexican Central, has been awarded the portfolio of mosquito commissioner. The railroad company is satisfied that the mosquito can be exterminated and they will engage extensively in the new experiment. A bureau of industry will be formed similar to the plan operated by the Rock Island road in Its efforts to bring rain in western Kansas. Experiments in different parts of the TTnited States, and in New Jersey in particular, have demonstrated the fact that the extermination of the mosquito can be accomplished. The manner in which Mr. Sperry will proceed, it is believed will be primitive and inexpensive but effectual. Scientific investigation has disclosed the fact that a few grains of permanga nate of potash will destroy all the em bryo mosquitoes in a very large area of mosquito swamp. At two cents'an acre all the mosquitoes can be killed off for a space -of 30 days, and as the breeding time is two months, four cents will as sure protection for the entire year. This places it within the possibility of a pro vince, and certainly a city, to entirely rid itself of a great nuisance. April and May are the two months in which mosquitoes breed. They are pure ly local in their habits, and not migra tory, as some suppose, and they seldom move more than 100 feet from the place of their birth. Hence, to exterminate the breed in a certain locality would rid that locality of the pest for that season at least, and the method of extermination is so in expensive that an entire community may be rid of them at a very small ex pense. RAILROAD NOTES. There is a vacancy for a fireman in freight service on the M. M. branch. The oldest man applying on or before November 15 will be assigned. Originally there were six divisions on the Kansas Pacific between Kansas City and Denver. Now there are three. The tendency of railroads is to lengthen divisions. Long divisions give the men a ihance to make more money, and make it easier. The fast mail made a fast run Friday morning from Walton to Newton. The distance is seven miles. The train made the run from Walton to the Santa Fe station in this city including one stop at the Missouri Pacific crossing east of town, in exactly seven and one-half minutes. Train No. 3, the westbound flyer left Newton Friday 23 minutes late and went into Dodge City just six minutes late, making up 17 minutes on this hot run. Engineer Conroe with engine 222 did the deed. The actual running time must have exceeded 60 miles an hour in a great many places. E. F. Higgins, the missing Wellington Rock Island agent, was seen in Gales burg, III., a week ago Tuesday, by two Wellington people, who recognized him. Higgins got off a train at the depot, walked through the depot and disap peared. Augusta surveyors ore at work at the junction preparatory to putting in a "T" which will cut off a sidetrack on the north side of the Frisco track. This will enable the Mulvane local engine to turn there. E. S. Leedy, who has for some time past been employed asclerk in Schwinn's drug store at Wellington, began work this morning as brakeman on the Santa Fe and was sent west to work on the work train on the Medicine Lodge branc. Conductor Mclntyre, who ran out of Junction City on the Union Pacific for years until recently, when he went to the Pittsburg Gulf, was struck bv a train at Kansas City last week and so badly hurt that his left arm had to be amputated. Al Beardsley has been advanced to the position of traveling engineer on the Southern Kansas division, taking in southern Kansas and Oklahoma. Otta wa Republican. E. W. Davis, the locomotive engineer, formerly on the Santa Fe Pacific, now has a run between Las Vegas and Al buquerque. Richard Wright, the foreman of bridge and building on the Santa Fe Pacific, came down from Kansas last night with five carpenters, who are working today at the railroad shops in this city. Mr. Wright continued on to Peach Springs. -Albuquerque Citizen. The small engine from the Rio Grande division are being pressed into service between Las Vegas and Raton. Brakeman Summers of theMagdalena branch, having removed to San Mar tial, Brakeman Garrett has superseded him. Two of the small 17-inch engines, for merly at Las Vegas, are hauling coal and empties from Cerrillos to Albuquer que. Brakeman Johnson fell from a. train, on the Raton mountain, and was very erlouBly and probably dangerously in jured. He was taken to Las Vegas from Raton and put in the hospital. Chief Engineer Randall of the Santa A PURC GRAPC CRCAM OF TARTAR POWDER 1 li'?, HiJ j'OWLiiLi Awarded Highest Honors, World's Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair nAnnr Reappearance of Long Corsets. The short Corsets, which, for so long a time have monopolized femine favor, are now more than sharing their popularity with the long and medium Corsets. The coming-in of the long Corset will be joyfully welcomed by the women with plump figures, to whom the gir dle Corset was a sad trial. We will have with us all this week, in the interest of our patrons, THE CELEBRATED MRS. HICKMAN OF NEW YORK, who will domonstrate to you the importance of wearing a Corset adapted to your figure, and explaining the merits of the "W. B. Corsets To many of our patrons Mrs. Hickman needs no introduction. To those who did not meet her on her former visit we say come and let her talk Corsets to you. W. 33. Corsets are among the first in the land today. The material is the very best. The workmanship just what you would expect from the finest of skilled hands. The styles the very latest. The prices $1.00 to $5.00 a pair will be much less than you would expect all things considered. Hosiery. Ladies' fast black, seamless, double beel, toe, and soles, fine gauge, 20c value for 15c 2 pair for 25 C 25 doz Ladies' Onyx black, full fasbioned foot, me dium beavy weigbt, 25c value, for X9c pr Ladies' fleece-lined Hose at 25, 35, 50c pr Ladies' wool Hose at -.25, 35, 50c pr 25 doz Children's wool Hose, broken. sizes, 15c "Stock ing for IOC pr Tarn O'Shanter Hats Choice of all our 50, 59, and 65c Hats, for 48o Windsor Ties, 25c quality, for 17o Gent's colored border Handkerchiefs, 7c and 8c value, for 5c Gent's Japonette silk initial Handkerchiefs, spe cial at lOc Chimes of Normandie Soap, cake, at X2c 15c flag writing Tablets for lOc 25c flag box Papers 15c 25c Japanese metal Trays for XOc 25c perfumed Ammonia for X5c 25c Florida "Water for XOc 25c Our Queen Soap, 3 cakes for X5c 15c Iris Blanc Soap, 3 cakes for XOc 10c bottle Machine Oil for 5 c 3 spools Brooks soft finish Cotton for XOc 500-yd spools silk substitute for XOc Fe Grand Canyon railroad, has ar rived at Albuquerque and will make up a corps of engineers for immediate work. SANTA FE IMPKOVES. Doing Much. Ballasting and Putting in of Bridges on the S. K. Line. Wellington, Nov. 15. The Santa Fe is making- extensive improvements on the main line of the S. K. division in tha way of ballasting- and putting in bridg es. The company is putting in a large iron bridge over the Pottawatomie and several new bridges near Wellington. A large force of men is ballasting the track. LOST HER POCKETBOOK. A Parsons Woman Misses Her Money but Railroad Officials Recover It Parsons, Nov. IE. Miss Ada Hess, a passenger on Conductor Green's train on the M. K. T. railroad which left this city Tuesday, enroute from Bos. ton to San Antonio, Texas, dropped her pocketbook containing her ticket and money near Atoka. The loss was reported to Conductor Green, who wired Trainmaster Sullivan concerning the matter and a searching party was sent to find the pocketbook. At Dennison the young lady was in formed that her property toad been found and would be turned over to he at Fort Worth. WHY TIPTON QUIT. Lawrence Football Player Returns to Work for the Santa Fe. El Dorado, Nov. 15. A young man named Tipton w-orked on the Santa Fe all last summer as passenger brake man, and saved up enough money to attend the state university during the present school year. He is a large, strong young man, iuiu became center rush of the football team. He bet his money on Kansas In the Kansas-Nebraska game, lost, and is now back at work on the Santa Fe. He made his first trip through here, coming north yesterday morning. INDIANS TO DO GRADING. 35 Full Blood Kaw Indians to Work on a Kansas Railroad. 'Arkansas City, Nov. 15. Last night about 35 full blood Kaw Indians pas sed through here enroute to western Kansas to work on an extension of a branch of the Southwestern railway. There are supposed here to be the first Indians to ever work on a railroad. Each red man had a dinner bucket and a roll of blankets. WATER FROM THE HILLS. Santa Fe Supplying Williams, Ariz., With. More Stand Pipes. Albuquerque.. Nov. 15. The Santa Fe Pacific has a large force of men em ployed laying a new pipe line for an other connection with their mountain reservoir near Williams. Another wa ter tank will be erected which will make two large tanks and a stand pipe at that station. The present flow from the reservoir is not sufficient to supply the engines and water cars, as water is being hauled ta all the stations possible at present from Williams. The Sierra Madre to Be Extended. Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 15. News reached here that the Rio Grande, Sier ra Madre and Pacific Railway company proposes to extend its line from Casaa Grandes to a point near Bacerac in So nora. The line will cross the great Si erra Madre range. The railroad peo ple are investigating the resources of the country through which the proposed line will travel. The mines at Bacerac, which have already produced silver to the amount of $9.",000, coinage value, will be among the heaviest shippers. Santa Fe Earnings. Chicago, Nov. 15. October earnings on the Santa Fe, gauged by the present car movement, will be the largest for any month of the current fiscal year. It is claimed that they will show an in crease in gross of $400,000, as compared with last year. AT 6,000 A FOOT. Potter Palmer to Pay $840,000 for Eighty Years Use of Chicago Real Estate. Chicago, Nov. 15. Wabash avenue be tween Monroe and Adams streets will soon have a fine new business building according to a lease just signed between the Catholic bishop of Chicago and Pot ter Palmer. This lease, negotiated by Cremin Brenan, covers the south half, except the south twenty-five feet, of lot 4, block 3, fractional section 15 addi tion, and the south half of the north half of the same lot, being 35 by 174 feet, east front, on Wabash avenue, 100 feet south of Monroe street. This property is the rear of the State street part of the Palmer House, and is now, in the upper portion of the seven story building, part of the famous hotel. Mr. Palmer holds at present a lease on the ground which does not expire until Devember 1, 1918, yet he was so anxious to retain control of the ground that he made another lease, running eighty years after the termination of the pres ent one, until December 1, 1998, or one hundred years from next December. The contract provides for a gross ground rental of $840,000 for the eighty year period, which is at the rate of $10, 500 per year, a considerable advance over the rate at which the present lease runs. The figure quoted, on a 5 per cent basis, represents a. ground val uation of $210,000. or $6,000 per front foot. Inside property In the same block was valued by the tax commission of 1896 at $5,000 per front foot, so that the terms of the lease Indicate considerable enhancement in value. In its advanced and chronic form a cold in the head is known as Nasal Ca tarrh and is the recognized source of other diseases. Having stood the test of continued successful use. Ely's Cream Balm is recognized as a specific for membranal diseases in the nasal pas sages, and you make a great mistake in not resorting to this treatment in your own case. To test it a trial size for 10 cents or the large for 50 cents is mailed by Kly Brothers, 56 Warren street, New York. Druggists keep it. The Sisters of Saint Francis Clinton; Iowa, write under the date of January 21, 1S98: About six months ago a very reverend clergyman recommended Regan's Rheumatism Remedy to us as one of our sisters was a. severe sufferer from rheumatism of over three years" duration. After she had used one bot tle of the remedy we are pleased to say she was entirely cured. We therefore cheerfully recommend this wonderful remedy to all similarly afflicted and heartily wish it the unlimited success it bo richly deserves. $1 per bottle. Sold by Swift Holliday, Drug Co., W. H. Wilson, Arnold Drus Co. WARREN DUV The Cloak and Suit Department. Is one of the most interesting places in our store, all on account of the great display of ready-to-wear garments at prices that all appreciate. 30-inch Coney Fur Cape S6.98 30-inch French Coney Cape '"11 sweep, fancy lining $10.00 Salt Seal Plush. Cape trimmed with Marten fur around collar and down front, four rows of braid, fancy lining, plaited back $15.00 Plnsh Cape handsomely braided, and ribbon trimmed, impt. bear fur around col lar and down front $15.00 Plush Cape, 20 inches long nicely braided, plaited back, full sweep $10.00 We have never before been so well equipped in the Cloak and Suit Room as now. Come In and see the new Steamer Capes, new Jackets, new Suits and Skirts. Special Table Linen Values 56-inch Cream Damask 58-inch Cream Damask, all linen 73-inch Cream Damask Special lor this week. 56-inch Bleached Damask, all linen 63-inch Bleached Damask Reduced from 60c. 70-inch Bleached Damask 6 good Bleached Napkins for 5-8 Napkins, Special 3-4 Napkins, Special Cloakings54 inch Mixtures. In greens, reds, blacks, browns-and-reds, worth $2.00 for SI ,50 Heavy Scotch knd Kersey Mixtures, $2.25 and $2.50 goods for $1.50 Plain Black and Blue Beavers from $1.00 to $3.50 yd THE NEW "MAINE". The Battleship Will Cost Nearly Three Million Dollars. The accepted plans for the newbattle ship Maine, and her sister ships, the Ohio and the Missouri, call for a ship of approximately 12.150 tons, with a water line length of 388 feet, beam 72 feet, and draught of 24 feet 6 inches, with full stores, supplies, and ammuni tion, and a guaranteed speed of 18 knots, at a cost of $2,885,000. In appearance, according to Harper's Weekly, the Maine. Ohio and Missouri, THE KBW fter a Drawing In Barptr' Weekly. up to the top of the superstructure, and as far as the armament is concerned, are identical with the Illinois, Wiscon sin and Alabama- They will carry four 18-inch breech-lcading rifles, paired in elliptical turrets forward and aft, four teen 6-inch rapid-fire guns in broad side batteries, and twenty-four rapid fire and machine guns in the secondary battery, mounted at various points throughout the ship. For armoring these ships the original 16-inch Harveyized armor plating will be super seded by 10-inch Kruppized plating, which admits of a broader and longer belt for the same weight of steel. WAR TAX WILL STAY. Mr. Nelson Dingley Has Spoken on the Subject Washington, Nov. 15. The Washing ton Post states that the war tax will not be abolished at the coming short session of congress and that there will be no revision of the tariff whatever. It bases this announcement upon the positive statement made by Chairman Dingley, of the ways and means com mittee, who, in an interview, says: "The government will need for some time all the revenue produced by the war taxes. During the month of Oc tober the war expenditures exceeded the- war revenue by some $14,000,000 and this month they will be $10,000,000 In excess. This being the case there will be no changes at' least this fiscal year. The war revenue act will continue in force and unchanged except perhaps In a few minor administrative features for at least a year longer. "It is hardly necessary to add," con tinued Mr. Dingley, "that there will be no revision of the tariff, although I have seen some statements to the effect that such a revision- is contemplated. "The session is limited to three months," he said, "and that shortperiod M.GR0SBY&C?- GOODS 613-615 KANQ. AVE. Mi i urn Collarettes. Electric Seal, satin lined $1.98 Cape Seal, fancy lining $3.95 A full line of all the better Collarettes and Scarfs up to $25.00 Tailored Suits. Very finely made of up-to-date materials, fashioned after the latest designs $8.50 to $25.00. 29c 393 50c 39c 50c 75c -45c $1.00 $1.50 Fine Table 3ets. If you want to dress your table with a fine new set of Linen for Thanksgiving din ner, we would call your attention to our new HEMSTITCHED SETS $5'5 to $10.00. And our Fine Pattern Cloths at $1.25, $1.50, $1.89 and $2.00 a yard. With Napkins to match, $3.50, $4.50, $5.00, and $6.00. will be -mainly occupied in passing the appropriation bills in enacting new laws for the regular army and in de ciding upon the legislation necessary for the government of Hawaii. In addi tion to this important matter, the usual number of routine matters will arise. From the present outlook, the session will be well under way before the treaty of peace with Spain will be laid before the senate and the ratification of that document may not be accomplished long before the fourth of March arrives." "Will that necessitate an extra ses sion?" "It is, of course, impossible," said Mr. MAINE Copyright, 1898, by Harper Brothers. Dingley, "to know what will arise be tween December 4 and the fourth of next March, but so far as the present outlook can form a basis for judgment I should say that no extra session will be necessary or desirable, unless some new question should arise. In the first place, we shall not know until the treaty of peace has been ratified what new possessions we are to have and what legislation is necessary, for them and even then we will be in no position to act intelligently. I think that the mili tary administration ought to be con tinued for at least a year longer. Mil itary administration means the main tenance of order, the establishment of sanitary regulations, the giving of as sistance to those who may need it. It will bring order out of chaos and afford us time to determine the wisest legisla tion. Time always enlightens, and cer tainly when congress meets at its reg ular session, In December of next year, we will be much better equipped to con sider the proper method of dealing with our new possessions." "For my part," added Mr. Dingley, "I hope that the territory to be added will be no larger than is absolutely neces sary. I realize that in some cases it may be easier to hold than it will be to let go, but at the same time I hope that the treaty, when it is presented to the senate will provide for the acquisition of a minimum amount of territory." Rock Island Live Stock Agent. Abilene, Nov. 15. Joseph White, pres ident of the Kansas Cattlemen's asso ciation and for many years the leading dealer of this city, has been appointed general live stock agent for the Rock Island from Salina to Fort Worth, Tex. He started on his first trip today. A Topeka Production. The Gypsy Queen Baking Powder, ab solutely pure, manufactured by Otto Kuehne Sc. Co. Dress Goods Specials. Let Us Help You Increase Your Savings Account by Selling You 35c Wool Novelties for 15o asc Wool Mixtures for 193 50c Fancy Tweed flixtures for 25 a 50c Jamestown Novelties for 25o 50c Colored Crepons for 25o 58c Boucle Plaids for 39o And many others at half price and less. w it We can do you some good on Blankets and Comforters Topeka Woolen Mill Blankets. $4.00 All-Wool Grey for $2 98 $5.00 All-Wool Brown for $3.75 $3.50 AH-Wool Plaid for S2!98 $4.50 All-Wool White for $3.69 $6.00 All-Wool White for $4.50 2 Home-Made Comforters $1.39, $1.50, $1.75, $2.25, $2.50." Extra size White Blankets $2.98, $3.98, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00. Underwear Bargains. i case Ladies Heavy Cotton Ribbed Fleeced Vests, 25c quality, for 19o Ladies' Fine Jersey Ribbed Vests, winter weight, 25c quality, for l5o Ladies' Heavy Union Suits. Ecrue or Jaeger, 50c goods 39c Ecrue or Jaeger, 75c goods 50c Black, $1.00 goods 59o Black, $1.50 goods 98 O Ladies' Fine Heavy Black Wool Tights. 1 1. 00, for 75 o Men's Heavy Ribbed Shirts and Drawers- 50c, for 39c Wright's $1 Health Shirts and Drawers, 59c. Hen's 75c Tan Fleeced Shirts and Drawers 59c Men's 75c Fine Ribbed Shirts and Drawers 59o Children's 25c ribbed fleeced Vests and Pants 15c Boys' heavy ribbed fleeced Shirts and Drawers 25c Children's all-wool Tights .48c SOLDIER BALLOTS ARRIYE. With a Postage Bill of Nearly $7 Due on Them. Secretary of State Bush was surprised yesterday afternoon when he received a notice stating that there was a pack age at the postofflce for him, weighing a little matter of 21 pounds, and on which there was postage due to the amount of $6.86. Secretary Bush 3ent down to discover what the package might be before he received it and agreed to pay the extra postagft--in fact he suspected that it might be a post election joke of some kind, and he didn't want to bite at so expensive a joke. The messenger came back and reported that it was the soldier vote from the Twenty-first Kansas as it was labeled "official business. Abstract of the vote of citizens of Kansas now in the military service of the United States at Fort Leavenworth." It seems that the parties who had counted the votes sealed them up with the abstracts and the poll books, and addressed them to the secretary of state, putting only a 2-cent stamp on the package. There will be two packages to come from the Twentieth regiment, one from Lieutenant Colonel Little's battalion and the other from the two battalions which sailed first, and one package from San Luis de Cuba. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS After an absence of two years Mr. Robert Downing will be seen at the Crawford theater tonight In a triple bill of comedy, romance and tragedy. The performance will open with a condensed version of "The Gladiator," the same that Mr. Downing has been using in vaudeville in the east, followed by the ltower scene from "Ingomar" and "The French Marriage," an 1 entertaining comedy. The prices for the engage ment have been reduced to 75, 50 and 25 cents, and the advance sale indicates a good audience. i The Topeka Dramatic club will make its third appearance before a Topeka audience in the farce comedy "Three Hats" at the Crawford theater tomor row night. The proceeds of the enter tainment will go to the Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal church. The cast select ed for the comedy comprises some of the best amateur talent in the city, and the performance will be enjoyable. According to both the New York "World and the Pittsburg Press, one of the hits of the season in the theatrical field is the farce corned', "Have You Seen Smith?" which will be presented at the Crawford theater on Friday even ing. The piece deals with the matri monial troubles of a quartette of peo ple who have bef-.n divorced from their first states and have each subsequently married the discarded half of the other family. Both families occupy the same house in Harlem, using one room in common, and it is in this room that the trouble starts. The situations are lu dicrous in the extreme. The prices will be 75 and 50 cents for the first floor, 50 and 35 cents for balcony seats, and 25 cents in the gallery. The extravaganza, "1492," which was seen at the Grand Opera House last season, will return to this city for a matinee and evening performance at the Crawford theater on Saturday. New costumes and scenery have been pro vided for the tour this year, and a num ber of new features are introduced. The prices for the matinee will be 50 cents for the first floor and 25 cents for bal cony seats for adults and 25 cents for children in any part of the house. At night the prices will be from $1 down. Blankets. SANTA CLALS' SHIP. Will Carry 4,000 Packages to th-e Soldiers at Manila. San Francisco, Nov. 15. The United States transport steamer St. Paul la den with army supplies and Christmas goods for the soldiers in the Philippines, will leave here on Thursday. There are four thousand packages for the sol dier boys, so Christmas will not be de void of its Santa Claus features to tha boys on the other side of the world. Owing to the great ill health of the New Xork volunteers now encamped at Honolulu, that regiment will be sent home as soon as the method of its transportation can be decided upon. It is expected they will arrive in the city on the 6th and 14th of December, when the steamers Australia and Alameda arrive. Weather Indications. Chicago, Nov. 15. For Kansas: Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer to night; southwest w-ind3. FIVE FAMILIES Discovered the Cause of Their Sickness. Whenever I drink coffee It effects my heart in such a way that I cannot get my breath without gTeat difficulty. My husband has had serious stomach trou ble for some years, which we found by experimenting with leaving off coffee, came from the coffee directly. We have now been using Postum Cereal Food MRS. CHAS. T. WILSON, 80 Elizabeth St., LaFayette, Ind. Coffee for three years, and both hus band and myself are perfectly well. Ve shall never use common coffee again, as long as we can get Postum. The fol lowing people have to my knowledge, been greatlv benefited by the discontin uance of coffee and the use of Postum: Mrs. Laura Quinn, 191 Cincinnati St., LaFavette, Ind. Mr. "and Mrs. John Wilson, West Le banon, Ind. Mrs. O. C. Wilson, Attica, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. M. Killan, Lafayette, Ind. One thing people must remember, ir they expect to get a fine flavor from Postum. 'It must be allowed to boil long enough to bring the flavor out, anil just simply setting the pot on the stove fifteen minutes wont do it, but fifteen minutes must be allowed after the real boiling begins.