The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 24, 1898
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rf rf i rf 9U THIRD EDITI02T. SATURDAY EVENING, TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 24, 1898. SATURDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. fU, i f y GOES TOTHE JURY Collins Case Will Be Given to the Jury Today. So Inkling of How Long It Will Take the Jurymen TO DECIDE THE CASE. May Bring In a Verdict in a Few Hours. Final Speeches Made hy the Lawyers This Morning This is the final day of the trial of John Henry Collins for the murder of his father. The case will go to the Jury some time this afternoon. The result of the deliberations of the twelve jurymen may be known before the end of the next 24 hours. John Col lins' Christmas may be spent as a re stored member of his family in the home where his father was shot to death, or as a convicted murderer in his lonely cell in the county jail. The attorneys for the state are con fident that a verdict of guilty will be returned. The attorneys for the de fense are just as confident that the jury will declare John Collins not guilty of the murder. Many of the spectators who have watched the trial from the start prophesy a disagreement. John Collins and his mother and sis ter have heard the arguments of the attorneys with a show of utmost at tention. During the recesses of the court they have chatted with friends, and are to all appearances just as cheerful today as they have been every day since the commencement of the trial. Mr. A. A. Godard's address to the jury in the Collins murder trial yesterday afternoon was as follows: Gentlemen of the jury, I want you to consider that portion of Johnson Jor dan's testimony which is not corrobor ated hy Juhn Collins. You will see that it is a mass of Impossible fiction. The npgrufs who have given testimony have corroborated Miss Babcock. Miss Ilab cock has not corroborated them. This $7 a day man got Miss Babcock's story and then the story of the negroes re sulted. If John Collins can be sent to the penitentiary for life they are freed from what they have done. I want to call your attention to the fact that the state would have you be lieve this defendant had started the conspiracy to kill his father about April 26. What was the situation then? John Collins, a young man who had worn a blameless reputation, a fond and con siderate son and brother, was then in his third year at the state uni-ersity. It was true, he- was in debt, but the money he had spent was not spent in dissipation, but was spent in buying fruits and confectionery and flowers for his young lady friends and hiring livery rigs for their use. All his debts were honorable debts, and in having them he was not unlike many other young men of his own age. 1 VY'r- X A I i fill MR. A. A. fiODARD. Attorney for the Defense. On the 26th day of April John Col lins owed in bills $62. SO. In addition to that he owed a note of $50 in the bank, which did not fall due until May 1. In addition he owed Mrs. Stormont $r0, which she tells you was more in the light of a gift than a debt. None of his creditors were pressing him. but yet be fore that note in the bank became due they tell you that he started to conspire to kill his father. "They say that the amount of John Collins' debts was not sufficient to force him into gambling. Then, gentlemen cf the jury, if his debts were not sufficient to force him into gambling, assurediy they were not sufficient to force him in to so much more horrible crime, the crime of murdering his father. What motive 1ms the state shown, I ask you, gentlemen? They say that he was in fatuated with Miss Babcock; but. gen tlemen, no infatuation has been shown. Miss Babcock went with other young men and John Collins went with other young ladies. There was no infatuation, grentlemen, and the state is left without a motive for this terrible crime the state's attorneys would fasten on John Henry Collins. "The state says to you that John Col- lins' story is an improbable one. How many men of mature years have you not known to make mistakes of this kind? It is natural that these profes lo.al gamblers should try to bunco this young man out of his money. The story is probable from every phase. The story told by the negroes is the im probable one. "In regard to the testimony of Miss Frances Babcock, I want to say that I lelieve her to be a most estimable young lady. I believe she went on the ptand with the firm intention of telling the truth. There are defects in her testimony, but I do not blame her for them. In the first place she talked freely to Detective Harbaugh, and while I do not believe she would vary her testimony an iota to please Mr. Har baugh, she might unconsciously have taken up some of his suggestions as facts. In the second place, her family is prejudiced against this defendant, and this prejudice may have affected her in what she said. And in the third place, when she heard of this homicide ft m i ff and the suspicion that rested on John Collins her sensitive nature vas cruelly shocked and the excitement and agitation attendant upon the shock swept from her mind the details that might have been favorable to the defendant. So. gentlemen, although thinking Miss Babcock absolutely honest, as you and I do think her, you can not give absolute credence to all she said on the witness stand. Speaks of the Folding Ooors. "In connection with the murder much stress has been laid on the fact that the folding doors would not lock. I want to call your attention right here to one thing. Mrs. Collins went on the stand and told you that she did not know those doors wouldn't stay fastened un til Mr. Hotchkiss went there and show ed her that the doors would not remain fastened. Who is Mr. Hotchkiss? He is the insurance adjuster. What bear ing has this on the case? It may not have any. but Mr. Hotchkiss' proof of loss has been right here every day, in the hands of the attorneys for the de fense. "When it reached the time of intro ducing testimony for the defense we in troduced it along the lines I outlined to you. With the possible exception of proving what Johnson Jordan is said to have stated on the outside. I think we covered every point I touched upon. It is not proper for me at this time to ex plain just why this evidence was not introduced. There have been false statements in the papers, but I take it for granted that you have not read them. The testimony shown you on the part of the defense must have proven to you that the relations of the Collins family were at all times harmonious and affectionate. John Collins was brought up in the city of Topeka and for the greater part of his life lived at If' V SliK. I''-" v m'-$u MR. CHARLES HAYDES, Attorney for the Defense. the house in which the family now re side. The people of this city who know him best have testified that he was a boy of an affectionate and generous nature, fond of his parents and espec ially considerate of his sister. He was that kind of a boy when he went to Lawrence and entered the state univer sity. Here he was thrown into new so ciety, he stepped, as it were, from boy hood to manhood, and it is not strange that he should change his habits and forget to some extent, his religious training. I think every' university student has the same experience. But I believe John Collins stuck to his early training more faithfully than the major ity of young men who enter college life, and committed no serious indiscretions before he engaged in this gambling deal. "John Collins fell. Who has not fallen? Probably not one of us can look back over our lives without finding something we are ashamed of; some thing we would not tell our most inti mate friends, much less the world: and still, circumstances might have shaped themselves with each one of us that we would be compelled to publish this s'omething on the witness stand. And I want to say that if John Collins had not been the highminded young man he has been proven to be. he would have had no hesitancy in telling about this gambling deal when the matter first came up. Instead, he kept the story until the last, telling it first to his at torneys and later on this witness stand. "John Collins wanted to pay his debts. It was a laudable ambition. None of his bills were pressing but he needed money to satisfy them. He was tempted to so into this gambling scheme. Joe Smothers told him that his friendshad a sure game, that they couldn't lose, and unexperienced boy that he was he fell into the trap. "We have introduced before you tes timony to the effect that men were seen around the Collins house on the morn ing of the murder, and this testimony has been bitterly attacked by the state. The state's attorneys have realized that their case depended on attacking this r testimony, and they have made every effort in doing so. W e placed on the stand Mrs. Burnett, the witness who has been so viciously attacked. The evidence showed you that Mr. Hayden and myself heard that she saw a man on the roof and that we saw her and she told us she had. We told her we wanted nothing but the absolute truth, and she said that a colored girl was with her on that morning anil would corroborate her statements. Both went on the stand and both testified. And I want to say right here that the cross examination of Mrs. Burnett by the county attorney was the most brutal thing I ever heard of. A few days la ter this colored girl, Klla Buchanan, came back on the stand and told you that what she had sworn to the few days before was false. The colored girl lied either one time or another, but whichever time it was, I want to say that her actions showed her to be un worthy of belief. I want nothing she said in favor of this defendant taken in to consideration. Mrs. Burnett may not have told the truth about some of the minor details, but I have no reason to disbelieve her statement that she saw a man on the roof. No motive has been shown as to why she should tell any thing but the truth, and in the main point I don't believe she did. As to Sidney Updegraff. "As final testimony we put on the stand this man Sydney Updegraff. We heard of his story and brought him here. All we ask Is that you consider the testimony as it was given. I want to leave to you the question of deciding what his testimony is worth. The strange plot that we heard from Mr. Updegraff is no stranger than the fact of Mr. Collins being in fear of some mysterious person or persons. "In conclusion, gentlemen, we have not attempted to show who killed J. S. Collins; we have not attempted to prove (Continued on Fifth Page TWIN Railroad Bill to be Accompanied by an Insurance Bill Which is to Tax the Insurance Companies S03IE $200,000 OR MOKE This is What the Secret Cau cuses Were Considering. A "Dummy" Railroad Bill to Be "Filled in" Afterward. The Populists caucus held two long sessions yesterday, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening. A new course of procedure was agreed upon which was first to introduce a "dura my"railroad bill in the house this morn ing and at the same time to introduce a bill for the taxation of insurance com panies along with a lot of minor bills. The object of having these measures introduced is to advance both along to the place where they can be put on final passage and when the railroad measure comes up the regular caucus bill which will have been discussed and agreed upon in the meantime will be substituted for the dummy or "fake" railroad bill and passed and the insur ance bill can then be taken up by the caucus. By doing this both measures will be ready for action early in the ses sion. The insurance bill will provide for a tax on all the premiums received by in surance companies in the state and is one of the measures relied upon by the Populists to show the people of the state that this extra session will be of more benefit to the state in the way of revenue than it will cost in taxes. The law may be expected to raise $200,000 or $300,000 in revenues. When the caucus had considered sev eral questions in regard to the railroad bill the plan of introducing the insur ance bill was proposed and it was ex plained to the caucus that owing to the ruling of Speaker Street yesterday it would be necessary to have each bill read on three separate days. It was ar gued that a "dummy"railroad bill could be introduced today (Saturday)and that it could not reach the third reading un til Tuesday of next week. The steering committee informed members of the caucus that they could probably finish the consideration of the caucus railroad measure some time Monday and have it ready to substitute then and that by that time the insurance tax bill would have been read a second time and could be taken up and considered by the cau cus. It was also determined that a rea sonable rfumber of special and minor bills should be introduced this morn ing. One of the members said casually to a 'rlend in a hotel corridor last evening: "I want to see some bill introduced to produce revenue so that the people back home will see that we are doing some thing in regard to raising revenue." The tax to be levied will in all prob ability not be less than 2 per cent, which is about the amount levied by similar laws in other states. Three points In regard to railroad legislation came up before the caucus. They were: Whether the caucus measure-finally to be introduced should pro vide for an attorney for the board, which was not finally decided. Whether the members of the board of railroad com missioners should be elected by districts or at large in the state: this was decid ed in favor of electing them at large. The last proposition was as to what the length of the term and when it should commence. At first it was proposed that the caucus measure should provide sep arate terms and have the commission ers elected in rotation. It was pointed out by party leaders that "off" years were bad ones to the fusion party in this state, and so it was finally agreed by the caucus that the bill to be pre sented should provide for the appoint ment of the board to serve till after the election in 1900. Then a full board should be elected at that election and every four years thereafter, which will always throw the election on presi dential years. No action in regard to giving out re ports of the proceedings of the caucus to the newspaper men was taken. When the caucus met the day before a motion to admit representatives of the press found some support but was defeated. Some members promised yesterday to bring up a measure to instruct the sec retary to give out an expurgated report of the proceedings, that is one in which all "scraps." as one member called it, were eliminated. Nothing of the kind was done. A CHANCE TO DISAGREE Which the Senate Seems Anxious to Improve. The house and senate had a clash today in the caucus held before the two bodies assembled this morning, and the senators came very near withdrawing from the joint meeting. As it was, the senators voted to introduce no railroad bill and may oppose very vigorously such measure as coming from the house, unless the latter body recedes from the position announced today. In the caucus the house committee representatives announced that the ISrown ort Pratt railroad bill, defeated in the house at the last session, would be presented in the house. The senators immediately protested against this bilf and demanded that the Harris bill which Governor Leedy veto ed be presented for passage. To this demand the house committee returned an absolute refusal to consider the proposition and insisted that the Brown railroad bill be taken up. This is a maximum rate bill. The senators then withdrew to at tend the regular session of the senate, and afterwards voted that the senate shall press no railroad bill but will wait upon the action of the house of repre sentatives, the members of which have declared that the bill originating in that body must have the right of way over all other bills. There is some probability that the house bill may meet strong opposition in the senate, and should this emerg ency arise there will be trouble galore for the special session, because the loss of one vote in favor of railroad legisla tion at this time is a serious menace to the proposed law. Every vote in both houses will be needed to pass the bill. NO MORE qATTOUSES NOW. Order of Business When the Members Come Back Monday. There will be'. no further caucusing until Monday night, this understanding being reached today after the two houses adjourned until Monday after noon. A majority of the members will leave town today and spend Christmas at home. When the caucuses are resumed next week the order of business which has been agreed uport is as follows: First Consideration of the railroad bill. Second Taxing gross premiums of in surance companies. Third The billrfixing express rates. Fourth The bill cutting down tele graph rates within the state. Fifth The bill .requiring corporations to pay taxes upori their capital stock. Sixth Bank Commissioner Breiden thal's banking bill. Seventh The bill cutting down the fees of the state printer. Eighth The bill permitting the min ers of the state to elect the state mine inspector, as the state board of agri culture elects its secretary. Ninth The bill to extend the oper ation of the state text book law, which expires by limitation, in two years. There will be no departure from this order of considering business, because the joint caucus has spent several hours fixing up this programme and it has been adopted.' A QUIET .LYNCHING. Insufficient Advertising Results in Light Attendance. Scottsburg, Ihd., Dec. 24. A lynching took place here early today and the pro cedure was so quiet that few of the resi dents knew of the occurrence until this morning. Marion Tyler was the victim. Tyler had been in jail for several weeks, the re sult of an attempt an his part to kill his wife. Shortly after midnight the mob was formed. All were masked. They hur ried to the sheriff's residence in the jail, called him by name and, covering him and his sons with guns, the leader demanded: "Turn over the keys to the jail." The demand was promptly re fused, but the mob became so threaten ing that the sheriff was frightened into telling where the keys could be found. The mob went to the jail and secured their prisoner and hanged him. On November 30 last he shot and se verely wounded hia wife and then made an ineffectual attempt at suicide. His last trial was to have taken place Janu ary It. The coroner's inquest will take place Monday. This Is the first hanging in the history of Scott county, either law ful or by lynchers. Tyler's parents, re siding at MoLeansboro, 111., were notified. CHANGE AT FT. RILEY. Garrison to Be Moved to Ft Meade, s. r. Washington-, Dec. 24. The war de partment has taken steps to strengthen the military forces in the Sioux Indian country. South Dakota. This is merely precautionary, as the officials deem it advisable to be prepared for any pos sible contingency which may arise. The First cavalry, with headquarters at Ft. Riley, Kan., -will be utilized mainly for the purpose and will be removed from the various stations at which it is scat tered in the west, northward to Ft. Meade. S. D., where two companies are now located. The remaining companies are at Ft. Riley, Ft. Robinson, Neb.; Ft. Yates, N. D.; Ft. Washaski, Wyo.; Ft. Keog, Mont,; Ft. Sill, Okla., and Ft. Niobrara, Neb. The movement is expected to begin very soon. The First regiment will be relieved hy the Sixth cavalry, which, with its headquartecs, is now at Hunts ville, Ala. TAR AND FEATHERS Proposed for the Jury in the Rosser Murder Case. Ran Francisco,' Dec. 24. An attempt has been made to arouse the people of this city to violence as a result of the acquittal of Walter Rosser. the Ten nessee soldier who killed Henry Hilde brand. Flaming posters bearing the following inscription were conspicuously displayed on billboards today: "Tar and feathers for the twelve jurors who acquitted Murderer Rosser." Chief of Police Lees does not fear trouble, but he says he will make an effort to have Rosser indicted for the attempted murder of Willie Lynch, whom he fired at when he killed Hnje brand. If the indictment is returned, which seems hardly likely, Rosser will be extradited. MORE IMPROVEMENTS. Otto Kuehne Will Add a Grain Ele vator to Sis Establishment. Otto Kuehne will enlarge his estab lishment in North Topeka next spring. The addition will consist of a grain ele vator and will be used exclusively in his business. He says that he has not yet fully made up his mind about the size or cost of the structure but it will be of size sufficient to provide for any future needs. In speaking of the contemplated im provement Mr. Kuehne said: "I find It necessary to have a place to store grain and malt which is used in my business. I at first thought of using the upper story of the building now in use for that purpose but the increase in business has made it necessary to use that tor other things and next spring I will build an elevator. The new building will be near the boiler room and next to the railroad tracks so that cars can be unloaded di rectly into it." SANTA FE R1YAL. Southern Pacific Puts on a fast Train Prom Prisco to Los Angeles. Los Angeles. Dec. 24. "Everything points to a bie contiict between the Santa Fe and and Southern Pacific," said a well in formed railroad man this morning, "and when the Santa Fe enters San Francisco it will find the Southern Pacific is dis posed to dispute it at every point. It has been aroused, and a circular trfnnounces the first move on the checker board. "Commencing this week, the Southern Pacific puts on a fast train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which makes the journey in 14 hours and 45 minutes. Tie train has a diner and sleepers and will run In direct competition with the Santa Fe's valley line." No Truth in It Berlin. Dec. 24. In official circles here It Is said that there is no truth in the re port tha-t Oermany has proposed to buy the island of Fernando Po. the Spanish penal settlement. In the Bight of Biafra, western Africa. f 1,000 for Doane College. Springfield. Mass.. Dec. 24. The will of Mrs. Harriet C. Doane of this city was filed for probate today. Among other be quests il.om is left to the Doane college at Crete, Neb. IN THESENATE. Got. Leedy's Daughter Elected a Senate Stenographer. The Governor Refuses to Let Her Hold the Place. Then the Senate Elects the Governor's Niece. WHO ALSO DECLINES To Accept the Position, and the Senate Seeks Elsewhere. Senators Still "Chewing the Rag" Orer the "Protest'. Th senate started out in a new direc tion this morning at 9 o'clock, and for the first time this year, and perhaps for the first time in 50 years, the senate chaplain, asked for Divine blessings up on the newspaper reporters. "Guide them, oh Lord," he said, "in the paths of righteousness, and help them to per form their duties faithfully and truth fully." An investigation of senate rec ords and an inquiry among the old pol iticians fails to discover an instance of similar character in the past. Rev, W. K. Loofburrow made the prayer The business was then taken up and on motion of Senator Hanna the ser-geant-at-arms was today instructed to have a telephone put in the senate chamber. Yesterday a resolution was adopted electing Miss Leedy, the governor's daughter, senate stenographer. Gover nor Leedy said his daughter was not a stenographer, and by no means an ap plicant for the place, and would not ac cept it. Then the place was given to Miss Augusta Hayes, the governor's niece, and at present stenographer in the executive office, but she declined and on motion of Senator Lewelling, Miss Edith Coles, of Topeka, was elect ed without opposition. Miss Coles was a stenographer in Governor Lewelling's office. In correcting the journal of yesterday this morning Senator Hessin brought up the Republican protest, mention of which was made in the journal as "cer tain matter," and keeps from the rec ord all reference to the protest, which the Republicans are anxious to have mentioned. In speaking of the inappropriateness of "certain matter," with reference to the journal Mr. Hessin said: "I presume that some massive intel lect wrestled with this all night and finally made those words appear but they do not make the journal correct." "Point out those intellects you refer to," said Senator Cooke. "It's difficult because they are not very plenty on the other side of the house, "retorted Hessin, and senators on both sides laughed. "Perhaps you had better put in uncer tain matter.' said Mr. Lewelling. "If it comes from your side of the house that would fit it exactly," said Hessin. Hessin then said: "The newspaper men are getting up a better journal than the clerks we've got and I think that unless an improve ment is made, we had better adopt the newspaper accounts as the official jour nal." Friday the senate referred Senator Hessin's motion to insert in the journal specific mention of the protest against the assembling of the legislature, to the judiciary committee and a similar mo tion today was sent to the same com mittee. Appointments were announced in the senate today as follows: W. J. Anderson, by Senator Lewelling. clerk of the committee on municipal in debtedness. Gen. R. T. Bradshaw, who is assisting the joint committee in the preparation of the railroad bill was named as clerk of the senate railroad committee, by. Senator King, chairman, and Miss Liz zie Crain, Attorney General Boyle's stenographer, was appointed stenogra pher for the committee. Continue to Appoint Sons and Daughters Senator Mathews of McPherson came in today, for the first time, and ap pointed his son, R. L. Hathews as his private secretary. Senator Zimmer said: "I can't ap point my clerk until I go home tonight, but I suppose he will draw pay from the beginning of the session. There has been nothing for the clerks to do up. to date." "Unless there is a resolution to that effect, the secretary will authorize the payment of clerks only from the time which they were sworn in." The subject was passed without fur ther debate and a proposition to buy 29 sets of revised statutes, one set for each senate committee, was brought up, but was defeated by Senator Hanna who said: "It is folly to buy a great pile of law books, which will never be opened. We don't need them." Senator Campbell then presented a resolution, which was adopted, instruct ing the sergeant-at-arms to brand all books and other property belonging to the state, so the committee clerks and senators will have no excuse for bund ling the books into a trunk and carry them home at the close of the legisla ture. Senate Adjourns Till Monday. During the debate upon the motion to purchase additional statutes. Senator Forney said: "We must stop and think. The people won't stand these expenditures." "If the people had stopped and thought, Forney would not have come to the senate," came from the Republi can side and the senators again all en joyed a laugh. It is considered a great joke in the senate for the members to "gridiron" each other. The senate made an effort this morn ing to take up the consideration of Governor Leedy's message.but was pre vented from doing so. by the fact that the committee on state affairs has not apportioned it and is therefore unable to report back to the senate. It will probably be reached early next week. At 10:15 the senate on motion of Ma jor Tom Anderson adjourned until Mon day afternoon at 4 o'clock. ONE THING MORE Needs to Be Done to the Ceiling of the Senate Chamber After ths Legislature Gets Through. There is one thing more that ought to be done to the senate chamber before it will be perfect. The ceiling should have a coating of French zinc. The large panels which were put on like ordinary plaster have become permeated with gas smoke until they are dark colored clear through. The castings, which were too thick for the smoke to go through, were made white by sand papering off about an eighth of an inch from the outside, "but this is impossible on the large panels, as it would take off the entire finish. The room should also be put in the care of some one who knows how to care for it. R. H. Eddy, the superintendent of work, under whose direction the work of .refinishing the en tire room has been accomplished, says that under one, administration strong lye was used to clean the lacquered pil lars and the marble work, nearly ruin ing them. TO THE JURY. The Collins Case Now Ended Excep t for the Verdict 'At a late hour this afternoon Attorney Jetmore concluded his argument and the case was placed in the handsof the jury. Should an early verdict be given the State Journal will issue an extra covering it. SAGASTA'S DEATH Appears to be Imminent, From Report of .Physician. Madrid, Dec. 24. After the close of the bourse here today Spanish interior securities fell to 53.75 owing to an un favorable bulletin regarding the con dition of the premier, Senor Sagasta, which now causes grave anxiety. Six physicians were in consultation this af ternoon regarding his case and con curred that he Is suffering from, broni chial pneumonia, with, high tempera ture and an unfavorable absence of ex pectoration. The newspapers express great sym pathy. There is no doubt that his ill ness is aggravated by the strain of re cent events. The queen regent twice during the day telephoned inquiries as to his condition, and this evening sent her own physician to attend him. The list of callers at the premier's residence includes all the foreign diplo mats and a host of other distinguished persons. DISHONEST TO THE. LAST. Spaniards Save Done All Possible to Swindle Cubans Out of Their Rights. New York, Dec. 24. The World pub lishes the following interview with Rear Admiral Sampson regarding the work of the Cuban evacuating commission of which he was a member: "Its work is practically complete. We have reached a satisfactory agreement upon all points except one, which I con fess. is likely to lead -UjtJiaQsidejrable future trouble, but will not lead- to a renewal of hostilities. The commission was carefully instructed by the gov ernment to obtain a complete inventory of every piece of crown property upon which just claim could be laid. This was to extend to every province. Not a foot of land that formerly belonged to Spain was to be overlooked. We had our own source of information and im mediately! on arrival took occasion to secure the originals, or authentic copies of certain records. When, however, we asked the Spanish representatives on the commission for such an inventory, we were told that it had been carefully made and sent to the peace congress at Paris. We demanded a copy, which no doubt the Spaniards in Havana could easily have furnished. We waited two weeks but never received it. There is every reason to believe that the Span iards had instructions from Madrid not to give it to us. This was an act of bad faith. Trouble is sure to arise out of this matter, because the United States will never budge an inch." "In what way did they attempt to hide the existence of the crown prop erty?" was asked. "Much of it and many of the build ings have been secretly transferred to private individuals and corporations, especially religious corporations. This underhand work began some time ago, but most of it has been done since the surrender of Santiago. Such sales are not valid." "What were the facts at Santiago?" was then asked. "They were very different from the representations made at the time of the surrender," replied the rear admiral. "For example. General Wood was told that the Spanish government absolutely owned no property in Santiago except the naval hospital. It was asserted that all the other government buildings, even the custom house and the palace of the governor of the province, were leased from private individuals. This was un true. The attempt to swindle the Cu bans out of their just rights was too flimsy to be overlooked by the United States, as the custodians of their inter ests. The commission is in possession of most of the'original records and no fear need be felt that trickery of this kind will succeed." DAKOTA RATE CASE. Is Decided in Favor of the Railroads After a Long Contest. Fargo, N. D. Dec. 24. After many months' work and thousands of dollars expended in searching for testimony, the famous North Dakota railroad cases were decided by United States Judge Amidon today in favor of the railways. The decision In concurred In by United States Judge Thayer. Pur suant to a law enacted by the last leg islature the railway commissioners made a slightly reduced fright tariff. The railroads obtained an Injunction in the United States court preventing the enforcement of the rates. Judge Amidon then appointed Attorney Lovell of Casselton, a special master to take testimony in the case. Attorney Gen eral Cowan and he devoted practically an entire year to the case, assisted by a number of experts. The decision is to the effect that capital has a right to a proper remuneration and North Dakota failed to show that the railway rates do more than yield a proper in come on the capital invested. All the roads in the state had joined in the contest. Stamps Most Be Dated. Washington, Dec. 24. In view of the fact that fraud has been discovered 'n connection with the cancellation of docu mentary and adhesive internal revenue stamps, by which old stamps were re used, the internal revenue bureau today issued a regulation which requires all such stamps to he canceled with the Initial'? of the user, together with the month. day and year written or stamped thereon. Hitherto the month and day of cancellation has not been required. IN THEJOUSE. Thirty-six Bills are Introduced in a Few Minutes Just as if the Session Were Goinsr to Last TWO OK 3 MONTHS. Most of. These Bills Will Serve as Stumbling Blocks To Get in the Way of Leading Legislation. The "Dummy" Railroad Bill Introduced by Rothweiler. The house opened today at 10:20 ar.i immediately after opening exercises Representative Larimer presented a. petition to have the Republican protesc of yesterday entered on the house jour nal, but Speaker Street sent it after the original protest by referring it to th- Judiciary committee. In accordance with the agreement of the Populist caucus last night an oppor tunity was given to introduce bills, and 36 bills were presented. The first bill introduced was by Rep resentative Rothweiler and was a rail road bill. This was followed by Rep resentative Fairchild, who introduce'! an insurance bill, one to abolish the metropolitan police, another to abolish the board of pardons.- another with reference to state veterinarian, and a fifth to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to minors. The Flood of Bills. Representative Wellep introduced a bill to create a court of common plea in Cherokee county and another ftr the regulation of fraternal insurance societies. Representative Cassin introduced sev eral bills which have been prepared by G. C. Clemens, among them one t amend the garnishment laws in ordr to protect employes ,a second to pro hibit the sale of the surplus peniten tiary coal, and another to create a state society of mines, which shall elect w mine inspector. Representative Harbaugh introduced another bill to abolish the metropolitan police. Representative Hackney introduced a bill to amend the assessment laws an. I another with reference to the high school for Sumner county. Johnson of Nehama introduced a bill proviamg ror me eiecirori ui cil auin ney and assessor in cities of the second class, and another to determine elec tion ties. Representatives Keefer introduced a large budget of bills, among which was one to regulate express companies and. place them under the control of the railroad commissioners, another to lim it telegraph and telephone rates, and a third to add a chapter relating to civil service to the general statutes. Representative Rothweiler also intro duced a bill to regulate telegraph charges between points within the stat". The emergency bill to. transfer JSI.'XM to the general revenue, was brought ut for second reading, and Representative Hackney moved a suspension of the rules to pass it oh the third reading, but the motion only had 65 votes, while it needed 83 to pass. A roll call was de manded and again only there were tf. votes in the affirmative, and 32 against the motion. Representative Hackney introduced, a concurrent resolution to submit tii? question of a constitutional convention at the general election in 1900, and Rep resentative Ury followed this with a joint resolution to resubmit the prohib itory amendment at the same time. The house then adjourned till 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon and marly of th? members left for home this afternoon to spend Christmas. EOTHWEILEE'3 BIIX. The One Introduced in the House Known as the "Old Leedy Bill." The railroad bill introduced in the house by .Representative Rothweiler this morning is what is known as thi old Leedy bill and was simply intro duced for the purpose of giving the cau cus bill the first place on the house calendar when it conies from the cau cus next Tuesday. The Rothweiler bill will act a a dummy and when the caucus bill is prepared it will be substituted for the bill now on the calendar. THE CIVIL SERVICE BILL. The One Introduced by Representative Keefer Has Some Good Provisions. The civil service measure which Rep resentative Keefer introduced Into th house this morning "provides for the ap pointment by the governor of three civ il service commissioners, each of whom shall be from a different political party. The bill places under civil service rules all managers, superintendents an i employes of all state penal and charita ble institutions and asylums, and teac h ers in public schools, colleges and uni versities; to police and fire departments, in cities maintaining paid departments, and the rules may be extended at th-? discretion of the governor to any or all appointive state, county or municipal officers, except those which are subject to confirmation by the senate -or a city council, or to the heads of principal de partments in the state or any city. The commissioners are to assist the governor in preparing civil service rules and appointing examination boards. They are given a secretary, who will re ceive a salary of J2.500 per year, and they must maintain their office in the state house. They receive J5 per day for actual services and actual expenses. The regulations set forth in the meas ure follow those of the federal civil ser vice law. FOB A NEW CONSTITUTION. Resolution to Provide for Calling a Constitutional Convention. The full text of Representative Hack ney's resolution submitting the question of a constitutional convention is as fol lows Be it resolved by the house of repre sentatives of the state of Kansas, the senate concurring: Section 1. That it Is necessary to call a convention to revise and amend the (Continued on Fifth Page.)
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL yyyy 'II l IX J Is -s' s fr SiSE-r'i .-.jzrt CHRISTMAS DAWNS IN DARK RUSSIA It Is now certain that it was Tol stoi's influence that persuaded the Czar to issue his famous pronunciamento of peace. For years the Czar and- his famous subject wore kept apart. Polit ical enemies and prejudice kept them from meeting- on the ground upon which they felt the most intensely the Russian peasant. Tolstoi's political friends said, "Send him down the path where his father lies," intending that Tolstoi should go cn writing- in favor of the peasant and that the peasant should go on plotting against the Czar. But Tolstoi's "Tsar Feodor," his wonderful play produced last year at St. Petersburg, had a mighty effect upon the Czar, who read it many times. And there was a visit from the Count ess Tolstoi, who went quietly to the Court of Russia. The result was a great deal of correspondence and the pronunciamento. In no country upon which Christ inas falls is there the utter, dense darkness of human Buffering that is to be found in Russia. The Czar knew it when he sent out his proclamation, and the more highly educated of the Russians knew that it was more for a moral effect at home than for any prob able effect upon the world that His Majesty wrote the document. He THE ADVANCE AGENT OF The first Yankee trader has reach ed the Sulus. He went via the Philip pines where he found a great many ahead of him; but, hearing that there was no American trader in the Sulu Islands, he took a steamer and arrived at the largest of that beautiful little group two weeks ago. His cargo consisted of bright col ored blankets, beads, looking glasses and Yankee notions of all sorts. Get ting a long cart and a lean, but willing horse he started through the islands, stopping at each of the villages en route. He did a thriving business, specially in looking glasses, for they were unknown to the islanders and sold n sight. It was truly beautiful to be I VIEW OB THE --e. Lv I mmm THE RIDE SlIT MADE BY TOLSTOI'S OWN HANDS. wished the peasants to feel that it was for the unholding of her dignity among nations that Russia kept a standing army, not for the subjugation o the peasant and the Nihilist. THE POET AND THE CZAR. The correspondence that passed be tween Tolstoi and the Jzar was re markable.. Here is a plain extract from one of the letters written by the au thor to his ruler. The Czar had writ ten that he feared disarmament lest the people should over-rule the ruler and the peace of the nation should be threatened. Tolstoi wrote back: "What you say of the danger that threatens us is a delusion. All the States say that they want peac9, and all are armed against one another. All men are brothers and it matters not at all whether one belong to one State or another. .Those threats of other States that you write do not frighten us, and are of no importance to us. "The law which is given to us by God prohibits not only murder, but any sort of violence. We cannot be a party to your preparations of murder. We cannot give money for that purpose and cannot enter into the organiza tions that you have formed. In them the reason and the conscience of men are perverted. They become an instru ment of violence, ready to obey any hold the girlish delight with which the Sulu belles seized the looking-glass. With Yankee thrift, on his jour ney, he picked up curiosities and now he has as fine a collection of bric-a-brac and pottery as you would care to see. Sold at auction in this pity his collection would bring thousands of dollars. There is every kind of so called Japanese work, for the indus trious Sulus excel in finger craft, such as enamel and lacquer and inlaid work. But he proposes to do no auction work. He has contracted with a very large firm in New York to receive his shipments and he will send over Sulu Island pottery at the rate of a cargo FIRST TASKED TRASEB UT THE I V y 7 evil-minded person who wishes to wield that instrument." This the Czar pondered long and earnestly. The immediate result was that he made certain very advantageous rules for the peasant. Previously he had abolished the use of the' knout, by wnicti 3,000 peasants have annually perished in Russia. Now he decreed that the land owners should observe certain rights of the peasant, such as the proper drainage of land and the privilege of living in dwellings long occupied by his ancestors. Once he wrote to Tolstoi and asked him what he called the new religion which he had found; and Tolstoi wrote back the single word, "Christianity!" Subsequently in a letter he thus de scribed his own conversion: CONVERSION OF TOLSTOI. "Its ail so lifelike: I might have experienced it yesterday: A beauti ful spring morning, God's birds singing and ri is insects humming in the grass. My horse, tired of the great burden which I, brutelike, imposed upon his back, stood still under the wooden image of Christ at the cross-road one sees from yonder windows. I was so absorbed in the contemplation of na ture that I indulged the beast, allow ing the reins to rest upon his neck while he rummaged for young grass and leaves. By and by a group of mou jik pilgrims intruded upon my resting piace, ana witnout knowing what I was doing I listened to their prayers. It was the most wholesome medicine ever administered to a doubting soul. The simplicity and the ignorance of the moujik, the confiding moujik, the ever hopeful moujik, touched my heart. I came from under that cross a new COMMERCE. every two weeks, which is as often as the trading vessels stop at the islands. This trader is a New Englander, as you may suppose. He is thrifty and will doubtless come home with the dis tinction of having been the first man to make a living in the Sulus. The islands have a population of 75,000 and the area is 950 square miles They are fertile with a number of pretty mountain chains running through them. Other traders will soon follow and we shall soon have an entirely new line of bric-a-brac from, the Colonies. The Dutch originally traded in this way with the Indians, purchasing valuable territory for "fire water." BCLU ISLANDS man. When I led my beast of burden God's creature like myself away, I knew that the Kingdom of God was within us, and that the literal inter pretation of the sermon on the mount should be the crowning rule of a Chris tian's life." This is the more- remarkable com ing from a man who had always been a follower of religion, and the Czar is supposed, after reading it. to have had the-same experience. The Russian-peasant- has heard of the pronunciamentd of the Czar, and to-day Czar Nicholas II.. is stronger in the affections of the people than any tzar who has ever ruled the Rus sians. -Peasants daily "crowd around the country home of Tolstoi and ask him if it is true that their ruler is going to abolish Siberia and give up the great soldiery which in every way oppresses the peasant. To all of this Tolstoi replies that he is. No two men could be at present in greater sympathy with each other than Tolstoi and the Czar. The rumor was circulated, a few months ago that Tolstoi was summoned by the holy synod of Russia, to trial for hetero doxy, but this was found to be a mis take. It was a cousin of Tolstoi and not the Count himself. While the un certainty lasted Tolstoi only said "Czar Nicholas is my friend, J fear noth ing." "ONLY TWENTY-FIVE." Tolstoi was born, according to the almanac, 70 years ago hast September. But according to his own words he was born in 1873, just twenty-five years ago, on the occasion of his conversion. It was then that he retired to the sim ple Country place, which had long be longed to the Tolstoi family and began to live the life of a peasant. He took his family with -him. Count Tolstoi's family at present consists of the Countess and two daughters,- Tatiana and Marie. Tolstoi was married in 1862 to a Jewess, the daughter of a Moscow physician, M. Behr. The Countess Was a girl of only 18, desperately in love with Tolstoi. In the thirty-six years since then she has borne him thirteen children, nine of whom are now living; the youngest is a mere child. The Countess has been most industrious all-her life and has foBtered the property of the Count to such a good purpose that though he accepts no rents and will take nothing for his writings, he is a very rich man or, rather, his family is rich. Ten years ago he called his family and servants together one evening and announced that he was going to di vide his entire property among the poor. His wife swooned. "What!" she exclaimed, "give away everything?" Next day the Count reconsidered his decision to the extent of dividing his property among his wife and chil dren, f that he is now a mere pauper, depending upon the bounty of the Countess, who is, however, a very T11B WAY TOLSTOI TOLSTOI ADVISING THE CZAR. M K.N TO generous giver The home wnere ne nvm i place where he was born-- asnaya, Polyane, which has been in the Tolstoi family for a century. Early in the century Yasnaya i-oiy- ane, or uiearneia, to irausmie jia name, was one of the greatest estates of Russia, and the family mansion of that period had few rivals anywhere in the Empire, but to-day the place reminds one very much of the neglect ed country homes of our own South. But two side wings remain of the old house, the main part having been moved wvcrai vpars aeo in payment of a debt which the Count had contracted. The farm is managed Dy w or her bailiff, and it affords the family a very pleasant living in summer and some revenue in winter. It is situated iiwnT to Sebastopol, about 150 miles due south of Moscow, and one can see the two white remnants of the old mansion from the train. HIS LIFE. Tolstoi's views might be Intoler able to his friends were it not that he Is a cultured man. He is an artisto crat Colonel Tolstoi was born in 1828 on the estate where he now lives in Yasnaya Polyane. His family belong ed to the Russian nobility. Tolstoi received an excellent educa tion at the University of Moscow, and, like his father, who had been a Colonel in the army, he became a soldier. Some years of his life he spent In the Cau cases but when the Crimean War broke out he asked to be transferred to the Danube. In the campaign of 1854 he was on. the staff of Gortsche koff at the storming of the Sebastopol. He acquitted himself with such gallan try that he was placed In command of a division. After the war he became attached ,to the Imperial court of Bt, Petersburg. RATIONAL REFORM. He accidentally saw the misery of the Russian peasant and set to work to remedy it. His wife, to a certain ex tent, sympathizes with him, although she does not go quite to his extreme of simple life. The Tolstoi family really live in simple comfort and dine waited upon by servants, not served by the hands of the Countess as many sup pose. The Count himself dresses in the roughest clothes, for bo feels that he Jfef 5 V 7 iF&i yy hfy ;an understand best the peasant if he lives as he does; so he makes his own boots and puts together his own blue blouse which he wears when working in the field. At first, like all reformers, he car ried his work too far and would write nothing and do nothing except live as a peasant. Soon, through the influence of the Countess, he saw that he could best bring about the good of Russia by devoting himself less to hard work and more to literature. Consequently he stopped work half of aach day and wrote a series of essays which en gaged the entire world and caught the attention of his master, the Czar. Christmas light is certainly break ing over darkest Russia, and the young Czar may be the man who in history will have earned the credit of breaking up Nihilism in Russia, through the sim plest of measures. SNOW IN CHRISTENDOM. It is a singular thing to note the close relationship between ice and Christendom and, incidentally, Santa Claus. Nearly all the Christian coun tries t are covered with snow at this time.' Ireland, the devout, enjoys its winter now. Scotland is bitter cold. England, one of the most pronounc ed of Christian lands, has a snowy Christmas. Russia, the land of, some say, bigotry, but a Christian land, is treated to its deepest snow at Christ mas time; and so through almost all the Christian countries of the earth. One of the exceptions is Australia, which is warm at Christmas time. Heathen, or Pagan, countries, are hot. Turkey, the land which knows no snow, knows no Christ. The great tropical belt of the Indian and Pacific Oceans is the home of most of the heathen countries of the world. The Soudan is unchristianized, and hot, though southern France, where the cli mate is as cold as here. Is as Christian like; and so through most of the coun tries you can mention. The exceptions come in our own southern regions, and in the lower parts of North Amer ica, especially in Mexico, where it is bathed by the Gulf. But here the dif ference is merely climatic and acciden tal, not one of country. As a rule it will be found that there is a singular affinity between ice and snow and Santa Claus. THE YEAR 1899. The prophets who look into the stars and tell you what is coming are predicting a great European war for 1899. This has been forecast by each, individually, since the dawn of the first sign of "99. The war clouds rise in the East of Europe, but culminate in the West, descending in fury upon south western Europe. This might mean France and it might mean Spain. England, all say, will whet her bat- ALWAYS WHITES. iW v u TO ISSUE THE FAMOUS FRONCSCIA. OF PEACE. tie sword, and trail her flag in blood, but, as they prophesy, it will be the blood of victory She need not worry THE LATEST LOSDOS STYLES THE PRINCE fir h 'W -v. W W. -VII IFW fell "kiJ? Uvwr:;J' i CHRISTMAS FASHIONS FOR HEN. Our Own London Correspondent Tells what will Be Worn by Gentlemen who Lead the Styles for the Coming Winter. LONDON, tee. 10. If the women dress for Blaster the men dress for the Holidays. A woman chooses the gala Sunday in April to come out in the new clothes of the year. A man, act ing on the manly order of doing things the other way, selects the last week of the year for his new clothes. The Prinee is in .London in spite of his knee and his years the cor rect thing; the fashion model; the idol of the chappies; the desire of the middle aged men and the envy of the old. When the Prince appears in a new fleur de Us waistcoat, all the Lon don haberdashers get out their designs in fleur de lis; and the factories of Scotland and Ireland, where most of the good old English cloth is turned out, get their orders for the design within a few hours. The Prince is most generous in these matters. He does not come out too often in a new pattern, and he wears one a-long time. A delicately designed little rounding vest, which he will wear Christmas week will also appear upon him during January and February; yes, and on into Easter week he will wear it, and no doubt next summer you will see him with the same waistcoat oji during the height of the London season. The Prince has many clothes, but he alternates them. He loves to wear, to-day, this, and to morrow, that. The latest design of the Prince is a dice-dotted waistcoat, which he has worn on several recent occasions. It is a. pale gray cloth with four black dice dots, inconspicuously and. simply con nected by a trailing line of black. The vest is finished with a treble stitching of black around the neck. When driving the Prince wears a necktie to match. It is of pale gray satin with small dice dots. At home he substitutes a white string tie of satin or lawn. Viceroy-elect Curzon, who is all the rage now, is almost as thoroughly copied as the Prince. He is a little stouter than his former pictures show him, and he dresses a little better for good dressing has never been laid to Mr. Curzon's door up to this time. At a recent public occasion he appear ed in one of the new dress suits with a broad, round satin collar turned over to form a smooth, shiny lapel. His shirt was dead white, polished and though it goes without saying beau tifully laundered; but there was no gloss upon it. His necktie was of white satin, tied in stock fashion, per fectly flat and broad, suggesting Just a little the made-up bow. The London winter overcoat is of heavy dark cheviot, black, Very deep blue or invisible brown, with a prefer ence for the brown. Cheviot is par ticularly a gentleman's cloth, for, be ing rough. It catches lint and re quires the careful hand cf the brusher every time it is worn. A man who keeps no valet, hesitates at sight of the cheviot, unless he be a Londoner of patience who is willing to put in ten minutes himself doing his own brush ing. The double-breasted Prince Albert Is worn under the cheviot, which, in turn, is worn open on mild days. The overcoat of the season is single-breasted, buttoned straight down from the chin, with fouo or five large buttons) When thrown back a large boutonniere Is worn over this as the sign that it is a pleasant day and the Londoner is out enjoying himself. Upon the lapei of the Prince Albert another bouton niere Is worn; and this sign goes to show that the Londoner is very gay Indeed. The very up-to-date Prince Albert Is double-breasted with two rows of buttons, four buttons each. The coat reaches almost to the knees and is three inches shorter than the over coat. Its color is a dense, beautiful black. Men who find the frock coat very becoming to them are having these frock coats made In all colors. One worn by the Earl of Strafford was of pale gray, made to order, of course, with trousers to match. The buttons were smoked pearl that almost match ed the cloth. The Duke of Marlborough, who Is a very correct dresser, wears a frock coat of snuff brown under an overcoat of black cheviot. The London Bilk bat Is high and bell. The bell gives It the appearance of being a little low, but on actual measurement it is higher than last season. Its brim Is broader, but more VOB. FASHIONABLE! HEN, AS SKETCHED BY OIB ARTIST ABROAD. AKO VICEROY ITt THEIR NEWEST KECK WEAR rolling; its band Is worn a little wider and It msy be a "dress band" of cloth; or an afternoon band of corded silk, with a tendency toward the silk. The ever-fashionable derby comes this year in two distinct styles. There Is the low derby and the high derby, and quite a tale hangs to the wearing of the same. Barly last season the London hat ters held a consultation and models were invited to appear before them. In order to test the derby styles for the coming fail. A popular vote was. taken among the hatters with this re sult: That a short man looked better in a low derby and a tall man was more suitably fitted out with a high derby. This is exactly the reverse of the rule of the previous winters, but experiment has proved how true it is. Londoners are generally a little late buying their winter wardrobe: they are so conservative and so afraid to spend their money! But Christmas week will see them all dressed for the winter. CHRISTMAS FEAST OF OLD WORLD RULERS. The Czar of Russia will dine on Christmas Day at'-6 o'clock. At that hour there will stand upon the Rus sian royal table a whole roasted pig. kneeling with a sprig of green in his mouth. He will be stuffed with boiled buckwheat or kasche, which will be mixed with the chopped liver, heart and other edible adjuncts of the ani mal. The royal pig is specially raised and killed for Christmas Day. For years the royal cattleman has raised one strain of pig from which the prize pig is selected every year for the ruler's Christmas dinner. The animal never weighs more than eight pounds and is in color a very dark brown like a Jer sey pig. Out of regard for the Czar's En glish wife there is English roast beef, but the other dishes are essentially Russian. There is the pasca, which is a mixture of cheese, cream, butter, sugar and raisins, and there is the koulische, which is a raisin cake. And then there are the roasted eggs, which are on every Russian table. The Czar drinks a great deal of Koumyss, of which he is very fond, and all the fine wines of the kingdom. He dines long and liberally, and the Russians con sider him a very good eater, and. in deed, he should be, for he descended from a very long line of gentlemen. THE KAISER'S DINNER. The German Emperor is a marvel ous dinner giver. This ruler under stands the art of eating with all Na tions and his Christmas dinners are like his every day life a grand inter national mixture. The Emperor has a Christmas din ner of all Nations, consisting of, amonc other things, roast beef and turkey. He also has sour kraut, Bausages and for a great central dish a goose stuffed with chestnuts. The dessert consists of cheese cake, baked apples and sweets. All the children dine at the Christmas dinner table which is spread at 2 o'clock. FRANZ JOSEF'S FEAST. Franz Josef, though only a few miles from his German cousins, eats decidedly different food. Viennese cooking is more delicate than German, or Is so considered. The goose is roast ed brown and is served with brown potatoes. And then there Is a very nice compote of pears and rice. Very small round sausages, nudles and coffee bread are served as an entree and the dc&sert consists of a marvelous pud ding in which there are nuts of alt kinds, served with hard sauce. The late Empress had a great many private dishes which are now a part of the Austrian cookery. She brought them from Paris, where her sister, the Duch ess d'Alencon, was a noted eqicure. HUMBERT'S RELIGIOUS SPREAD. The King and Queen of Italy go to church on Christmas morning as regu larly as they dine Christmas night. Being the strictest of Roman Catho lics their Christmas Day is spent in worship at a long mass. The great feast day in Italy is observed at 8 o'clock at night with a big Christmas dinner. Here, too, our National bird has travelled, and King Humbert will eat a marvelous turkey stuffed with chestnuts, with eels as a side dish. He will have maccaroni, scollops and tarts of honey and almonds. i i
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENTNG, DECEMBER 24, 189& NEW CRAWFORD THEATER. The only Theater Lighted, Heated, Cooled and Ventilated Without a Fire or Boiler In the Building. To-Night, 8:15, HOYT'S Mon.-Christmas. 5-f:?2 TUES. 27th. Eve. &15 PULE OF COLE JOHNSON, GREATER NEW YORK. naJ"' comedy. Headed by WM. A. LANG, A 1110 10 LOOfltOWll. (Late principal Comedian with Hanlon Bros" Suiierba.) an all-star cast. 35 Colored Artists JJ The Laughing success! iv. BIO siFFriALTIES! ZT. 7" KverythUig New and lp to Date! SAT. Eve7 S-15 OlSt. THURS. EvC 8:15 29th Those Famous Irish Drolls. DnrUet Russia Murray and Hack lWOitt Offering their brand newest roaring com The erat Furoess of 5 vears, interpreted edy jubilee, bv a Varefully selected company, and pro- 4 'FT XX TO AX'S 400." helped along by a riueed with e'verv attention to detail. Pno- bipr bunch of female farce funsters anl a cial scenerv, rich, costuming1, sparkling conclave of clever comedians. lon't over comedy, romance, love and realism. look the Duplex Patrol Hand Parade. A WORD TO SANTA CLAUS. Porto Rico Children Ask for Teachers for Christmas Presents. San Juan, P. R.. Dee. 24. Gen. Guy V. Henry, military governor has ad dressed two letters to the president of the insular cabinet and Its members announcing his future policy. He de clares that so far as possible he wishes to give independence of action to the mayors and council in the various towns and to hold them responsible for the conditions that follow. He lays es pecial stress upon the necessity of cleaning the towns and providing for them an adequate policy. It is his intention he says, to appoint to the council only men who are select ed by the people or recommended by the council itself. In regard to the method of elections, he is as yet in doubt, but intimates that the suffrage will not be restricted to those who can read and write, as only 14 per cent of the people would be able to vote under this rule. A man in office. Gen. Henry announ ces, wiil not be removed except for cause. Should such removal become necessary he expects the council to ef fect it and will act himself only upon the failure of the council to do so. Gen. Henry asks the mayors how many Instructors they can pay who can teach the English language. He thinks that those unable to teach in any other tongue than English can do the work by object lessons. American women for teaching, he says, can be obtained at $50 a month in gold and are well worth it. The general declares it his purpose to Introduce a few American policemen to teach native policemen their duty and to encourage them to exercise some authority "which at present they do not seem desirous of doing." Gen. Henry announces that men Bhould not be put in jail unless charges are brought against them. "The injus tice of holding men in jail without charges.' he says, "or putting them in jail and holding them there without trial which seems to be the custom in this country cannot be too strongly im pressed upon the people and will not be allowed. When civil courts fail to try the cases of bandits and murderers I have organized commissions whose du ties will be to bring these men to trial." The general declares that politics should be discarded until laws are en acted to govern the island and that ar ticles of an incendiary character will not be allowed in the newspapers. Re garding military rule Gen. Henry says: "It is the intention that soldiers so far as possible shall preserve law and order but as the United States soldiers are not needed, so the idea now is to educate the people to take care of themselves. "This of course will take time but every official resorting to violence in or der to protect himself in the perform ance of his duty will be upheld by me. "Soldiers who do not respect the civil authority or try to impose upon police men if reported to the commanding of ficer of a post will be severely dealt w ith." In his second letter, General Henry asks that the mayors and councils of the various towns send delegates each to San Juan to meet him. His purpose, he declares, is "to give the people every latitude consistent with discipline and good order. I wish to know what their views are and to grant their desires as far as possible." It is the opinion of a good many men here that if anything is to be made out of the Porto Itican, if he can ever be taught to become a proper citizen c.f the United States, then General Henrv is on the track which will lead to thi much desired end. The question is clearly one of development and edu cation. To this end he will instruct the young, and this purpose is evidenced in the suggestion of American teachers for that purpose. While in. Ponce, Gen eral Henry attended a meeting of school children who were addressed on the subject of Christmas in the United States and Christmas presents. The children were asked what they would lest like for their Christmas presents. To the surprise of every American present they answered they would pre fer teachers to anything else. This oc currence has so been reported to Mr. Mi Kinley. There is as yet no evidence of opposition to this general idea, but one already begins to hear Porto Rican opinions aeainst the desirability of sub stituting English for Spanish in the schools. There are Porto Ricans, who will strongly object to any measures toward changing the language of the island. General Henry is going to put an American army officer at the San Juan department of street cleaning and city sanitation. The actual work of this de partment will still remain under the Jurisdiction of the San Juan city coun cil, but the American officer will infuse in them new ideas, good methods and above all. energy. This measure is one greatly needed, and the results reason--ably expected therefrom will make San Juan much more agreeable as a resi dence to Americans. General Henry is becoming thorough ly acquainted with the city inspection with some member of his staff. San Juan is an over crowded city It Is surprising to see the large number of poor who infest the dirtv tenements in the upper parts of the city and it is almost impossible to rent for residential purposes second floors that are not directly over people who live in squalor, foul air and confusion. This over crowding of the city makes desirable dwelling houses expensive. San Juan has sever K xv EI-T'S CREAM BALM Is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils, ll is quickly absorbed. 60 eenta at Drustrists or dt mail samples 10c by mail. SXY EROTilEUS, 66 Warrea Su.iiew XoikCiy. COMEDY CO., Matinee 2:15. lOc not been able to accommodate the three or four hundred Americans besides the soldiers who are provided for in bar racks, who during the last two months have come here to live and who attempt to live decently. Army and navy offi cers have had much difficulty in obtain ing good quarters for their families and rents are advancing rapidly and unduly. In the rural districts of Porto Rico Hour costs today about $15 a barrel. General Henry is taking steps to regulate this state of affairs. The reason of this ex cessive price is traceable to duties and high municipal taxation, and it is these latter which the new governor will change. There are many people in the country districts who are literally half starved. They are aenemic, wretchedly nourish ed and consequently unfit for proper mental and physical effort. The main taining of the poorer classes in this debilitated condition seems to have been a part of Spain's governmental policy. General Henry will give relief to these sufferers even if he finds it necessary to issue them rations. A knowledge of this state of affairs would serve to dispel some of our illusions of the fat and happy islander scratching the soil for a bountiful living. 600 "VOLUNTEERS Attend a Sleeting of the Philippine Development Association. Manila, P. I., Deer. 24. The steamer Union, which returned here from Iloilo with native and Spanish soldiers and was refused a landing at this place, has been detained by the American officials. Private advices from the southern provinces say that business is suspended in all the leading towns, that supplies are scarce and that foreigners are only permitted to travel when special per mits have been issued to them. At Malolos, the headquarters of the so-called Philippine government, near here, the native soldiers are levying on the villagers for supplies of food, the people are half starved, and universal dissatisfaction prevails. American volunteers to the number of 60S attended an enthusiastic meeting of the newly formed Philippine develop ment association here yesterday even ing. O. F. Williams, the United States consul at Manila, presided. Definite action on the part of the organization was postponed pending the decision of General Otis on certain matters. ROBBED IN KANSAS CITY. Wichita Doctor Gets in Bad Company and Loses His Money. Kansas City, Dec. 24. Dr. J. A. Hot tell, a specialist on eye, ear, nose and throat, had $f0 when he met a young woman at Ninth street and Baltimore avenue Thursday night about 8 o'clock. The doctor had just arrived in town from Wichita.and proposed a drink. The young woman led him to Sohn's saloon, at Seventh and Wyandotte streets. When they had satisfied their thirst the young woman said: "I know where there is another place in which we can seaure a drink." The doctor was agreeable, and they left Sohn's saloon, going north on Wy andotte street. At the alley between Sixth and Seventh streets they met two men, who shoved the doctor into the al ley and took his pocketbook, containing his money. His watch and diamond stud were not molested. Dr. Hottell reported his loss to the po lice and Officers P. J. Murphy and Quinn arrested J. E. Malloy, E. Wright and T. J. Anderson later in Sohn's saloon. Dr. Hottell identified Malloy and Wright as the men who had robbed him. They were held for inves tigation. The money was not recovered, ered. HOBSON AT SAN FRANCISCO Is Given a Public Reception at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, Dec. 24. Lieutenant Tt. P. Hobson arrived in this city last nicrht and was driven at once to the Palace hotel, where he was given a public re ception, under the auspices of the Union League club. The great courtyard of the building was crowded and hundreds of pontile were unable to gain admiss'on. After the reception lieutenant Hobson was the guest of the Friday Might club at Native Sons' hall. After a cotillon and supper the hero of the Murrimac proceed ed to the University club, which will be his home during his stay in this city. Killed With a Club. Gallopolis, O., Dec. 24. Edward Ear wood, a farmer near Yellowtown, came to Gallopolis and while on his way home he disturbed a literary meeting in a country school house. After making threats to "clean out" the place and us ing bad language, he was hit just'above the left ear with a club and died of a fractured skull in an hour. Queen of Shoplifters in Town. The police have been watching dili gently since the holiday trade com menced, for shop lifters and so far no thefts have been reported. There is one shop lifter of national reputation sup posed to be in town. Grace Johnson, who is known as the "queen of shop lifters'' in Chicago and Kansas City. She has been in town all theweek but the police have been watching"her close ly pnd she has not been able to ply her trade for nothing has been missed. "BullseVes" for Patrolmen. Chief Strauss .wishes to have the pa trolmen supplied with small electric bullseye lanterns. The lanterns are about an inch and a quarter in diameter and eight inches long. One end has a bullseye lens and by pressing a but ton a light of several candle power and enough to light up a room is made. The lanterns can be carried in the pocket and would be useful to patrolmen on duty at night. Chief Strauss will ask the council to supply the force with these lanterns. Carlisle in Police Court New York, Dec. 23. John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary of the treasury, appeared in a police court today as complainant against Richard Leake, a cab driver. Mr. Carlisle accused Leake of stealing a sealskin sacque belonging to Mrs. Carlisle, and valued at $300. Leake was held for trial. ONE MORE LINK In the Chain of American Possessions in the Pacific. Washington, Dec. 24. The govern ment has determined to hoist the flag over an island far out in the Pacific ocean, and orders have been sent out o tajie commander of the Bennington, Capitin Taussig, to proceed at once to take possession in the name of the United States government, of Wake island, lying in latitude 19 north, longi tude 166 east. It is distant about 2,000 miles from Nihau, the westernmost of the Hawaiian islands, and 1,300 miles east from Guam. It is almost in a di rect line between these possessions of the United States and is admirably adapted for use as a station for a Pa cific cable to connect the Philippines with Hawaii and the United States. It is about three miles in length and en closes a lagoon of salt water. The aver age height of the island is eight feet above high tide. It is scarcely capable in itself of sustaining life, but it is exr pected that a cable station can be main tained without difficulty by the erection of a condenser to supply fresh water. Some station in this locality is deem ed to be absolutely necessary to the maintenance of a cable and for that reason the American peace commission ers at Paris endeavored to secure one of the Caroline islands, but without success. Wake island is said to be by right, already American territory, for in 1S51 Admiral Wilkes surveyed the place and asserted title. It is not in habited so far as known at the present time, though in the past some guano gatherers have temporarily lived on the island. The Bennington Is now at Honolulu, and the orders to her will go out by steamer. After hoisting the flag on Wake island she will proceed to Guam and make the survey of the Island, which was ordered some time ago. She has already completed a survey of Pearl harbor, seven miles from Hono lulu, which will form the foundation of j the government plans for the enlarge ment or tne narnor tnere ana tne straightening of the channel connecting the inner harbor with the ocean. A SPLIT IN CAMP. Agninaldo Deserted by a Large Number of His Followers. New York, Dec. 24. A special from Manila says: As the result of Aguinaldo, the in surgent leader, having refused to recog nize the rank of the lower class of the rebel officers, the latter have deserted with large numbers of armed soldiers and have attacked various towns. Several of the native local authorities who had abused their positions and were unpopular in the province, have been murdered and their property has been sequestrated. The town of Caseling, for instance, which was defended by six hundred of Aguinaldo's troops, has been taken and looted by the malcontents. It is reported that the Spaniards in Cebu have capitulated. NEW SANTA FE MOVE. Locates Plant for Manufacturing In terlock Switching Blocks at Emporia. Emporia, Dec. 24. The Union Inter locking Switch company, of Chicago, which is now controlled by the Santa Fe railway, has made Emporia the base of supplies for furnishing the blocks that are used in that system of inter lock switches. The blocks are now be ing manufactured here, in a building at Third avenue and Constitution street. Last Wednesday two car loads were shipped out of here, one to South Den ver and one to Pueblo, where the com pany is putting in towers. An order has just been placed here for 2.000 of the blocks for San Francisco. The ma terial used in making the blocks is com posed of cement and slag, each one weighing 150 pounds. The tower placed in the west part of the Santa Fe yards is completed and has ninety-five blocks in position. All that is necessary to put the new tower In operation at this place is the surfacing gang, which will arrive here in a few days and get everything ready to commence the new system of switching in the Santa Fe yards here. There will be six interlock switches op erated by one man from the tower, who will let all trains in and out on the main line. Mr. Barr. general inspector of the company, has charge of the man ufacturing of the blocks at the works here. COLOR LINE IN COURT. Negro Man and White Woman Sent to Prison for Marrying Each Other. Cumberland, Md Dec. 24. John "W. Bowling, colored, and Martha Craven, the white woman he married, were each sentenced by Judge Boyd today to IS months in the penitentiary, the mini mum penalty for miscegenation. When Judge Boyd asked if they had anything to say why sentence should not be pro nounced. Bowling arose and said he be lieved that the girl had colored blood in her veins and that in marrying her he acted in good faith. The girl said noth ing. The couple came here from Penn sylvania and were married several months ago. Judge Boyd, in passing sentence, said it was the first prosecu tion of the kind in Maryland. A Tour of the World. San Francisco. Cal.. Dec. 24. Thomas H. Watson and his wife, who was Miss Kmma Sprerkles, daughter of the urar king, are completing arrangements for an extended tour of the world. While their trip will be one of pleasure and business combined, the chief object of Mr. Watson's in view is the acquisition of property val ued at 9,000.000 in England. For diarrhoea dysentery, colic, chol era, flux and all summer complaints, nothing is so gentle, soothing and ef fective, as J3eggs' Diarrhoea Balsam. It never fails to give relief and if taken in time will effect a speedy cure. Be sure that you get "Beggs" the only remedy with a national reputation. For 6ale by all druggists. Holiday Excursions. Only one fare for the round trip, via the Rock Island Route. 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Moore, convicted of working the "badger" game on Martin Mahon at the Hotel Grenoble, was to have been sen tenced today, but the trial of his alleg ed wife, Fayne Strahan Moore, accused of complicity in the crime, being still in progress, Recorder Goff announced when court convened that the passage of sentence would be deferred. The cross-examination of Fayne Moore was continued. Assistant Dis trict Attorney Mclntyre sought to elicit admissions that Mrs. Moore came from Atlanta, with a man named Ryan, said to be a gambler; that she introduced Ryan to Moore and that she arranged a gam& of billiards between the two men, in which Ryan lost $1,000 to Moore, but to all the questions put by Mr. Mc lntyre answers were given in the nega tive. Mrs. Moore refused to give the name of the man with whom she went to Europe. She denied that she had ever traveled from Europe to the United States with a confectioner from Mem phis, Tenn. Mrs. Moore also denied various alle gations of immorality implied by ques tions of the cross-examiner. An entry from her diary gave evidence of her intimacy with Ellis, the Cuban, who has been frequently referred to during the trial. Mrs. Moore said she knew there was a woman who traveled with Moore and who claimed to be his wife. Mrs. Moore stated that this woman had told her that she was not Moore's wife. She thought Moore had left this woman in South Africa. Mrs. Moore indignantly denied that she and Moore "badgered" Jules Alexandrovitch out of 15.000 francs in Paris. She also denied that Moore's papers of appointment to the consulate at Durban were cancelled as the result of any complaints made regarding their proceedings in Paris. She said Moore had interests in the great lakes as well as mining interests in South Africa and that she owned a two-story building in Oregon. Moore had a desk in his uncle's office in Cleveland. Airs. Moore repeated her story of the meeting with Mahon on November 4. She again related the details of her con duct with Mahon previous to Moore's sudden entry. She was sure that Moore did not rob Mahon. She avows that Moore did not strike Mahon with the revolver, but with his fist. After a lengthy cross-examination Mrs. Moore was excused and the defense rested its case. A motion to acquit was denied. Mr. Hill the'n began summing up the case for the defense. He told of his professional service in Georgia and said he had at one time resolved never again to take part in criminal proceedings. "In this case," he said, "my sympathy was so profoundly and deeply aroused that I volunteered to come here at the request of her widowed mother to help defend this girl. Every fibre of my nature was fired with indignation at the treatment received by this young de fendant. The great press of this city has raced headlong over the wounded and bleeding body of this girl. The-fle tective force of this city has been busy with her life, and the great powers of the district attorney's office have been brought into play against this woman. Scandal and defamation have been al lowed to run riot over her, and I con fess that I was appalled and thought that the ancient Saxon blood would have congealed in the veins of the as sistant district attorney before he would make all the sweeping charges and by innuendo which he has made against one of his own race." After reviewing the testimony Mr. Hill referred emotionally to the prison er, whom he termed "a weeping child." and made an eloquent plea to the jury to give her the benefit of the doubt and not send her away a convict to repine in a prison cell. After Air. Hill concluded Assistant District Attorney Alclntyre addressed the jury for the prosecution. "I distinguish this woman," said Mr. Alclntyre, scathingly, "from ideal wo manhood. She does not do justice to her sex, for she threw aside the veil of virtue and honor and is not above the commission of crime." He told the jury that it was their duty to render a verdict In accordance with the evidence but that they might temper their verdict with a recom mendation for mercy. "A minister of God." shouted Mr. Alc lntyre, pointing to Fayne Moore, whose face was suffused with tears, "could be lured and inveigled by a designing wo man." Air. Mclntyre spoke for fully three hours, and at the conclusion of his ad dress the recorder said he would not charge the jury until later. J L ill Hakc amS' ASSoa ftoN 'Ji) Con TIM A jfjfr $Mm yaMV- OUTLOOK AT PARIS. Preparations for the Great Show are Being Pushed. New York, Dec. 24. B. D. Woodward, the assistant commissioner general of the United States to the Paris exposi tion of 1900, arrived in this city today on the American liner St. Louis. Mr. Woodward said today: "I have been called over to partici pate in the permanent organization of the commission general's working staff and to familiarize myself with the gen eral plan and scope of procedure in the future, in order that, upon my return, the Paris end will be able to co-operate intelligently with the New York and Chicago offices. "Commissioner General Peck and ev ery member of his staff were at all times most cordially received by the Paris exposition officials and I may say, we were generously treated, so far as acceding to our requests for exhibit space, for it should be known that the limits of the Paris exposition grounds are fixed by inflexible boundaries, boule vards, streets, avenues, business houses and private residences and are located in the center of the city thus making it impossible to extend the grounds in order to secure more space with which to satisfy the demands of a foreign country. So that the additional, allot ments of space made to the United States, after the whole amount had been apportioned out to the various na tions of the earth required more than an ordinary effort upon the part of the French exposition authorities and dem onstrates their generosity and good feeling toward us as a nation. "The work of constructing the differ ent exposition palaces, the great Alex ander bridge and the quays that are to line the banks of the river Seine is be ing generously prosecuted w7hile all other indications point to that success which the French always give to their expositions." BIG SANTA FE DEAL. Gives Contract For 160,000 Tons of Steel Rails To Cost $3,000,000. The Santa Re railroad has contracted for probably the largest order for steel rails given since the building of the Union Pacific railway. For the year 1S99 exactly 160,000 tons of steel rails have been ordered, that amount being sufficient, approximately, to lay 1,500 miles of road. Out of this the Colorado Fuel and Iron company secures a con tract for 15,000 tons an order thatwill keep the works busy for a period of nearly a month at the present rate of rolling 600 tons per day. The rails will be delivered early in the year. The new rails are to be of the 72 pound class and the 160,000 tons will cost close to $3,000,000, even at the spec ial rates secured by the railroad com pany from the mills. Old and unused rails of another weight will be returned and credit given, but the order to the Colorado Fuel and Iron company will amount to considerably over $200,000. The decision was reached at the re cent meeting of the officers and board of directors in this city, but has just now leaked out. It is to the effect that the entire line from Chicago to San Francisco will bear new rail. 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Druggists. CONSULAR REFORM. Measures to Be Urged on Congress by Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Washington, Dec. 24. Harry A. Gar field, president erf the Cleveland cham ber of commerce, has been in Washing ton for the past few days in connection with consular reform measures which the Cleveland chamber of commerce and other commercial institutions through out the country intend to urge upon congress. They will ask for a hearing before the foreign relations committee of the senate and the foreign affairs committee of the house, unless, so far as the house is concerned, the Adams bill as favorably reported at the last session of congress, is deemed to be a satisfactory basis. Commercial organ izations both east and west are co operating in the movement. "TAKE ILOILO." ThatIs the Order Cabled to General Otis. New York, Dec. 24. A special to the World from Washington says: Secretary Alger has cabled General Otis at Manila to take possession of Iloilo immediately. Plans for so doing are left to the general. This step is taken in advance of form al relinquishment of sovereignty of Spain on account of the gravity of the situation there, it is supposed. Iloilo is the only point in the Philippines now under Spanish control, and it has been one constant fight with the insurgents to retain control. Admiral Dewey re ported recently that the Spaniards were holding Iloilo with 800 soldiers and that citizens had asked him for war ships to protect them. General Otis will probably send two regiments and Admiral Dewey is ex pected to detail the Charleston and Con cord to aid the troops. The Spaniards will willingly re linquish authority over TIoilo.it Is under stood, as they know they must evacu ate soon. What the insurgents will do remains' to be seen, but there is little fear in Washington of a serious clash, though our soldiers will be prepared for any emergency. The war department has no confirma tion of the rumor that the Insurgents have captured Iloilo. Should it prove true Gen. Otis may find some difficulty in dislodging them. It is hoped that the report is false, as this government wants to occupy that position before the rebels get a foothold. Secretary Alger has issued no orders for taking any other point in the Phil ippines, and he intimates no further step toward occupying the group will be taken until the treaty is ratified. The proclamation to be issued then has been mailed to Gen. Otis, but if it becomes necessary to assume control of the whole archipelago before treaty ratification the proclamation will be ca bled for earlier promulgation. This proclamation, Secretary Alger says, contains nothing not embraced in proclamations issued for Santiago and Porto Rico.- When asked if it referred to autonomy, he said with emphasis, that it does not. SPANISH JUNK In Large Quantities at the Washing, ton Navy Yard. Washington, Dec. 24. There is now at the Washington navy yard a quantity of marine machinery wrecked from the Cervera fleet after it was sunk around Santiago. This includes launch boilers, torpedo boat engines, hand pumps and a mass of other matter from the Colon and Maria Teresa, that would be classed as junk but for its historic associations. The best of the machinery has been or dered shipped to the naval academy at Annapolis, where it will serve as souve nirs and some of it may be put in suffi cient repair to act as working models for the engineering classes. The re mainder will be broken up or sold at auction. Bryan Says He Saw Carnegie. Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 24. Col. W. J. Bryan was asked today about the inter view appearing under a St. Louis date in regard to his seeing Mr. Andrew Carnegie at New York. He said: "I told the reporter that I did not go to New York on purpose to see Mr. Car negie, but that I went on other busi ness. He quotes me as saying that I did not see Mr. Carnegie. That is an error; I did see him for a tew, moments." THE TREATY TO GO. Clayton-Bulwer Instrument Certain to Be Abrogated. London, Dec. 23. There seems to be little doubt that Great Britain wiil agree to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The temper of the cabinet and public opinion which largely influences the government's policy points to suc h action, though no definite understand ing with the United States has yet been reached. Great Britain desires that the Nicaraguan canal be constructed anl is willing that the United States should control it if the United States guaran tees Its neutrality and safeguards Brit ish interests. The reports from Washington that the British ambassador there. Sir Julian Pauncefote, has been instructed to negotiate the abrogation of the treaty, are incorrect, though it is likely he will soon receive instructions to that effect. The impression here is that the Brit ish foreign office and the United States charge d'affaires, Mr. Henry White, in cidental to his visits to cabinet minis ters will arrange the basis of action. Mr. White spent part of the week withi the Alarquis of Salisbury at Hatfield house and he goes today with his fam ily to spend Christmas week with the house, Derbyshire, the country seat of house, Derbyshire, the county seat of the duke, who is lord president of the council. There Mr. White will meet another influential minister.Lord George Hamilton, the secretary of state for India. Anglo-American questions will be discussed. A RICH MARQUIS. Is Made to Hurrah for Cuba by the Natives. Havana, Dec.23. Some Cubans enter ed the residence of the Alarquis de Pi nar del Rio in the Cerro suburb of Ha vana yesterday and compelled hirn to cry "Viva Cuba libre." The marquis, who is one of the richest men in the is land and of a noted family. complaine J to Captain General Castellanos and 3 note on the subject was sent to tne American evacuation commission. Tne Alarquis de Pinar del Rio and oth-r prominent Spaniards are determined to leave Cuba, their friends say, "unless the United States establishes a stronsj government and they are assured am ple protection." The joint evacuation committees hH a meeting this morning. The United States transport Florida arrived at 11a tanzas yesterday. Kansas City Woman Suicides. Chicago, Dec. 23. The body of Miss Desmonia Lawton, who with her broth er and sisters came to Chicago from Kansas City a few weeks ago was found in her room today. She had taken chlo-oform and had apparently been dead for two days. Miss Lawton was supposed to be visiting friends in Evanston. She had been suffering re cently from ill health. Installation of Officers. Orient Lodge No. 51, A. F. A. M gave a public installation of officers last night. The following were the nwiy elected officers who were install!: Worthy master, L. C. F. Lohman: senior warden, W. R. Carrie: Junior warden, Henry Ruppel; treasurer, John E. Moon; secretary, Evan Davis; chap lain, the Jlev. A. E. Wagner; senior deacon, Frank P. Lindsay: Junior deacon, Charles Gardner; senior stew ard, Samuel Zimmerman: junior stew ard, Anton Demuth; tyler. Robert fid wards. After the installation the mem bers and guests sat down to a sumptu ous banquet, at which William B. Robey acted as toastmaster, and ths following toasts were responded to: "The Grand Lodge of Kansas." Charles J. Webb; "The Alasons of Kansas Past and Present," Albert K. Wilson; "Orient Lodge, No. 51." Will C. Chaffee; "First Impressions." D. R. Hite: "Our Guests the Ladies," Frank P. Lindsay; "The Alasonic Design," William M. Shaver; "Patriotism." Capt. Patrick H. Coney; "Free Masonry and Religion," the Rev. A. E Wagner. Brick Thrower Escapes. Washington, Dec. 24. Joseph D. Pear son, the man who created a disturb ance by throwing missiles through the plate glass windows of the British em bassy and was sent to the insane asy lum, escaped from that institution. The police have been looking for him and last night located the man in an alley in the rear of his home in the city, but he eluded their vigilance and is stiil at large. "We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 24. 1898. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRAXK P. MAG LENNAN. VOLUME XXV No. 305 TEHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or Buburbs. or at the same price In any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier fvstpm. By mail, me year ..........3-0 By trail, three months .90 Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. Toneka State Journal Building. 800 ana J02 Kansas avenue, corner o Kith til. JS'KTV TO UK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHTOAOO OFFtCTi. Stork Exchange Building. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street TELEPHONES. Pusiness Office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room Eell 'Phone 5i7 Carnegie and Cleveland! decline to take silver in their Democracy. Carter Harrison's silence on territor ial expansion is ons of the notable things in Chicago. Governor Stanley is reminded that there will be a number of stockings tiung tip in Topeka. The St. Paul Dispatch thinks that to trrant pensions to confederates would be worse even than paying Spain for Islands which we won in a fight, kt the rate the Spaniards are leav ing and the Cubans are dying1, it looks as though there might soon be nobody but Americans on the island. Washington Post: The wise Illinois politician will stop before crossing the gubernatorial track and look out for the Carter B. Harrison locomotive. Somebody has figured out that the distance from New York to Manila by the Suez canal route is 125 miles shorter than it would be by way of Nicaragua. Another millionaire Democrat has started a newspaper in New York city. Mr. Perry Belmont will aid Mr. Hearst and Mr. Pulitzer in caving the coun try. A Buffalo man died the other day while engaged in shoveling the snow off his sidewalk. The warnings of Provi dence often come In a. way not to be misunderstood. The Milwaukee council has burled the plan of Mayor Rose for street car fran chise extensions. The roads were to pay to the city in 25 years two and a quarter millions dollars. Speaker Street seems to think that the business of railroading bills through the house needs some attention as well aa that of railroading wheat and corn out of the state. It Is reported that Col. Bryan, on the occasion of his recent visit to New York, found his fences fearfully out of repair and the premises open to Inroads of the Croker and Harrison herds. Presidential aspirants can well af ford to discuss territorial expansion now, knowing that the question will be settled before 1900. If complications arise in the future it will be easy to say "I opposed it." For the 'steenth time It !s an nounced that the Democratic party is about to go to pieces. The Democratic party is much like the joint snake. Af ter being broken Into fragments, each piece continues to wiggle. Havana seems destined to become the receptacle for a class of citizens that the United States doesn't need. Jim Corbett and the Cherry sisters are list ed among the prospective additions to the society of the Cuban capital. 'Andrew Carnegie and Dr. Parkhurst are said to have announced their inten tion of supporting Mr. Bryan for the presidency in 1900 if he will drop the sil ver Issue. Probably he could have won the support of Grover Cleveland, Sena tor Palmer, General Buckner, W. D. Bynum, Bourke Cockran and other prominent people in 1S96 on the same terms. There Is much discussion In the east ern papers regarding the size of Judge Day's fee for services on the peace commission and some fear is apparent that he will not get enough. Are the commendations of one's fellowmen no longer regarded as of any value? Some things cannot be compensated in mon ey no matter how large the amount. Then why attempt it? There is entirely too much of thi3 estimating: a duty well done in dollars and cents. In addition to operating the telegraph and the telephones in Porto Rico, It looks as though the government might be compelled to conduct the religious training of the inhabitants also. It seems that the title of all the church buildings, convents, parish houses and other religious buildings was in the Spanish government, and by the trans fer the title has passed to the United States, which now owns more than CO good churches and a proportionate number of other structures. CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS. The greatest mystery of some board ing houses is how the boarders stand it. Some people's prospects are so fine that it is almost impossible to find them. The man who always saya exactly what he means is more numerous than popular. The moth Is not a society favorite, even if it does frequently appear In a dress suit. "When a woman, has troubles she con fides in a physician. When a man has troubles he consults a lawyer. You can't judge a wife's love by the kisses she gives her husband when he comes home; she may only be sus picious. Then are times when the average boy would like to assume the role of father to the man for a few brief moments. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.l The more worthless the man, the bet ter his health. Don't give a Christmas present to any one whom you have been talking about. I "Marriage," a man said today, "is an insane desire to pay two weeks' board at once. t Nearly every girl imagines that the people are dying to see her neck, and has a photograph taken to satisfy their curiosity. No girl can become such a clever elo cutionist that she can bring tears to the eyes of those who have been neighbors to her all her life. It makes no difference how much Christmas money a woman has, she feels that if she had a little more it would not be so difficult to get what her friend3 want. This will never be a satisfactory world to the women until a machine is invented which records their suffering, to be shown to husbands when they come home at night. Atchison is waiting with the feeling that overtakes a man who Is standing on the brink of a river ready to plunge in, to hear that some formerly of At chison girl was among the number that pushed Hobson.for a kiss. THE AIR SHAFT. IFrom the Osage City Free Press. A washwoman hangs up lots of stock ings but gets very little out of them. j We put two d's after a preacher's name, but others put them in front of ours. Our idea of a fool is the fellow In the smoker who lets everybody see his bot tle. If the devil should go Into the church the fire department would be needed to put him out. F.xperience is the difference between what you pay for things and what you get for them. I To be real sure of a Christmas pres ent yourself, it is well to send out a lot a week or so before Christmas. Some folks think the Lord didn't tote fair when he recommended charity to us and kept vengeance for himself. "WITNESSES HIDE OUT. Unsuccessful Attempts to Serve Sub poenaes in Standard Oil Case. Cleveland, Deo. 24. Kvklenee has been secured from additional witnesses to show that books and paper belonging to the Standard Oil company had been, destroyed on November 19 and 21. The first witness examined before Notary- Mason today was George fields, who was J claimed to nave sent employes or trie com pany to the general offices after the books that were alleged to have been destroyed. Fields testified that he was an employe In the car shops of the Standard Oil com pany, lie said that he was instructed by telephone to send two men to the gen eral offices. He sent Wm. Morn and Mc Nierny in the morning- and in the after noon Geblin and Schaaf went to help them. The next witness was "William Mo ran, a car repairer. Moran said that he was sent by Fields to the general oflices on Novem ber 19 after the boxes of books and papers. Kdward O'Heam and MeNierny went with him and Henry Geblin and Henry Schaaf came in the afternoon. Moran said that the boxes were about three feet square and weighed about 2o0 pounds. They took a part of them down to the first floor from the sixih floor, but the halway was narrow and they carried them back to the second floor and lowered them to the ground with, a block and tackle through a window. Moran said the boxes were loaded upon a wafion and taken to a storehouse on Independence street. Moran said that on the following Monday morn ing the Broadway office telephone the car Fhops for two men. MeNierny and" him self were sent. On that morning they took some boxs from the storehouse to the river pump house. He did not know whether they were the same boxes that they had got Saturday. They took the boxes to the furnaces, opened them and burned the contents. Moran admitted that he had talked with Attorney S. H. Tolles of the Standa rd yes terday in regard to the destruction of the books. On cross-examination by Attorney Tolles Moran said that he knew a lot of books and papers were burned a year ago, but he did not help burn them. The books were burned Saturday in the car shop and Monday in the pump house. Nobody said anything to him about keep ing the matter secret. Several other witnesses appeared today, but their depositions were not taken. Con stable McMahon was sent to subpoena several clerks employed at the Huclid ave nue offices, but came back with the report that he had been unable to find any of the men he had been looking for. yfl other effort was also made todav to suupoena Secretary Squire of the Standard com pany and Frank Rockefeller, but net r her could be found. The taking of depositions was continued until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. AUGUSTA COTTON STRIKE. Wages of Operatives Throughout the South May Be Affected. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 24. The commitoe authorized to speak for the cotton mill strikers of this city has issued a long statement, in which it reviews the cause of the strike and declares the operatives could no longer retain their positions at the old rate and live. They declare that the cut was unnecessary and that the sal aries of the "bosses" were not reduced. One clause says: "If we return to work on reduced wages it will bring about a reduction in the wages of mill operatives throughout tha entire south, which will force the mills in the New England states to a further re duction of wages in order to compete with the southern laborers, and this in its turn will make it necessary for the Augusta mills to aeain cut wages in the near fu ture." Hood's Coupon Calendar 1899 SSc?" "in .American Girl" One of handsomest pieces of color work issued this year. Lithographed, with border of army and navy emblems embossed in gold. Leave your name with your druggist and ask him to save you a copy, or send 6 cents in stamps for one to C X. HOOD CO., Lowell, Mass. Mention this paper. Eemember Hood's Sarsaparilla is America's Greatest Medicine for the Blood and the Best that Money Can Buy. Hence take only Hood's. KANSASNEWS. Three Tramps Hare a Sorry Experience at Winfield. Nearly Murdered by a Band of Unknown Parties. HOBOES' VENDETTA. Thought to Hare Been Respon sible For a Murder And Friends of the Murdered Man Did the Work. Winfield, Dec 24. Three of the sor riest looking bums that ever swiped a sandwich or begged a hand out are now lying on cots in the jury room at the court house, all of them bruised and bleeding and some of them with broken bones. Two of the men are Smith and Morgan, the two tramps held for the murder of A. W. Burton, but who were released by order of the district court Thursday afternoon. The other man says his name is Frank Martin and that he never saw Smith or Morgan until that night. They tell a strange story, but until it is disproved there is no reason to doubt it. Morgan says after their re lease from jail Thursday, he and Smith got a bottle of whisky and proceeded to get drunk. They made up their minds to go to Wichita and for that purpose went to the Santa Fe bridge across the Walnut at Baden's mill to catch a train. While waiting for a train they noticed a fire down under the bank in the brush and they went down there. By the fire they found the man Martin who was fixing to camp there for the night. While they were sitting around the fire some men, how many he had no idea, suddenly plunged down the bank and commenced to beat the bums. Two licks on the head laid Morgan out and he did not recover consciousness until after midnight. Martin says he was also struck on the head and knocked senseless but re covered in time to see the invaders as they left crossing the railroad bridge going toward the junction and he counted six of them. Smith was In a stupor and his version was not learned but the story he told when first found tallied with those of the other two. Martin was badly bruised on the left leg between the thigh and the knee an3 could scarcely walk but he man aged to make up the fire and roll his companions close to it or they would beyond doubt have died from cold. The attack occurred about nine o'clock and the men were there uncared for until some time yesterday morning. The man McFarland who makes shell novelties and who was a witness at the Burton inquest discovered them and carried them one at a time to his shanty some distance away. He then notified the officers and Marshal Wooden went down after them with a dray and brought them to the county jail where Dr. Jacobus examined them. He found that Smith's left arm was broken below the elbow and there was a hole that looked like a bullet wound. He was badly wounded also on the left ankle and this also looked like a bullet wound but they all say there was no shooting done. Morgan was hurt worst on the head and complained of his side hurting him, but he said he thought no bones were broken. Martin, unless his leg was hurt worse than he thought, was not badly injured. Smith's Injuries it is feared may prove serious. None of the injured men have any idea, .they claim, who the attacking parties were or what prompted them to make the murderous assault. If they had an enemy here they say they did not know it and they also claim to be on good terms with, all the hobo fraternity. The theory that it was some of the friends of the murdered man Burton, who believed Smith and Morgan had something to do with the killing is the one principally adopted by the officers. MINE EXPLOSION. Lyon Eagle Explains a Disaster Caus ed by Dynamite Exploding. Rice County Eagle.l Saturday an explosion of about 25 or SO pounds of powder at the Lyons Rock Salt mine created quite a scare in town and in a very short time a crowd of people were there to learn the particu lars. As we hear it the accident hap pened in this way A boy by the name of Thomas acts as powder boy and had been preparing some 25 or 30 pounds of dynamite for use in exploding and with some one else was in the powder room. Somehow the paper in which the pow der is wrapped caught fire and when it was seen that they could not ex tinguish it, both ran from the room and had probably got some 50 feet away when the explosion occurred. The boy's leg was broken and he sustained some other injuries but fortunately was the only one seriously injured, though quite a number were more or less stunned. The mine was Immediately filled with smke and the men were taken out as fast as the cages could be run up and down. It was at first thought the boy's leg would have to be amputated but the later opinion is that it can be saved. Little or no injury Was done to the mine by the explosion and all felt much relieved when it was found the first re port that several were killed was un true. SCHOOL FOR, KICKAPOOa New Buildings to Be Erected for the Little Indians. Hiawatha, Dec. 24. The new school buildings to be erected at the Kiek'ipeo reservation by James Nesbit of Atchison have been an urgent necessity for many years. At present the children ae cooped up in two little buildings, one of which was used as a relay station for the old Salt Bake stage line which ran out of Atchison. The Tvickapoo Indian children live at the school house, visiting their parents only about once a month. There are new between 40 and 50 children in the school. II. K. Wilson, the reservation agent, who worked for several y.-ars to secure a new building, was transferred to Arizona a few months ago. WANTS EVERYTHING CLOSED. Fort Scott Alderman Proposes Ordi nance Making Unlawful to Do Any thing but Breathe on Sunday. Fort Scott. Dee. 24. For several weeks the journeymen barbers of this city have been attempting to compel all the shops in the city to close on Sunday and soma arrests have been made. As a result of this fight Councilman Da venport, at the regular meeting of the city council introduced a sweeping ordi nance which closes barber shops, bath rooms, railroad repair or construction Fhops, street cars, butcher shops, baker ies, confectioneries, news stands, hack or rarriaea lines, ciear stands, newspapers or newspaper delivery wagons, or electric J light works. It makes it unlawful for any person within the city to be emploved on Sunday as a barber, manager of baths, in railroad construction or repair shops, as a butcher, a preacher receiving com pensation, a motorman, a confectioner, a news dealer, a bootblack, a hack or car riage driver for pay. a cigar merchant or salesman, an electrician, a miller, an en gineer a fireman, a newspaper editor, a proofreader, a newspaper reporter or a domestic servant. The ordinance makes it unlawful for any person to enter the city of Fort Scott on Sunday. The penalty is fixed at $250 or not more than $,ai0. A motion to pas sine ordinance was sec onded, but under the rules it went over until the next meeting, when it will ba called up. WHERE THE COAL WENT. Union Pacific Company Locate Coal Thieves at Manhattan. Manhattan, Dec. 24. The tTnion Pacific railroad company has been losing consid erable coal of late from flat cars as its trains passed through Manhattan. The company was hardly of the Impression that its track was so rough that the mo tion of the train jarred the large lumps from their places upon the cars to fie ground. So Marshal Boler and Deputy Sheriff Dug Finney boarded an outgoing train with the express purpose of locating the trouble. As the train passed slowly through the south part of town men were seen heaving coal from the cars "to beat the band." Levi Pitts was nabbed in the act. Kli Cruise and Jobe Hinton dodged the bullets from the officers' guns and made good their escape. Monday Fli was arrested, but Jobe still roams at large. In police court Tuesday morning the boys were fined $10 and sentenced to 30 days in jail. James Riley Anderson, of police court fame, was also implicated but plead guilty to jumping on a moving train and was fined $5. James is also in jail. HIS HORSELESS CARRIAGE. Salina Man Finds That It Runs Well Through Deep Mud. Salina, Dec. 24. Mr. O. C. Duryea of Peoria. 111., arrived last night and with Mr. Shellabarger, gave Mr. Shellabarger' s horseless carriage a trial trip through the mud and ice. The trial was a very sat isfactory one to Mr. Shellabarger as well as to the expert 'operator. The carriage made trips through the mud and water south of the mill with perfect ease. At times the wheels sank in mud half way to the axle, but went through very nicely. They made a run down Santa Fe avenue as far as Elm street and a good rate of speed was obtained. Mr. Duryea says the carriage has a record of a mile in 2:11, and on a fair track c?n be made to travel at such a speed with perfect safety. HE SOLD LiaUOR. First Conviction of Violating Prohibi tory Law Ever Made in Smith County. Smith Center. Dec. 24. Charles Stock man has been convicted of violating the prohibitory law on two counts, one of maintaining a nuisance and one of selling intoxicating liquor. The penalty will probably ba $200 line and 60 days in the county jail. This is the first conviction for violating the prohibitory law ever ob tained in this county. Stockman's place of business was at Kensington. SUNNY SLOPE SOLD. Cross Ranch and 300 Herefords Sold to C. A. Stannard for $40,000. Emporia, Kan., Dec 24. Sunny Slope farm and the 300 Herefords thereon were sold to C. A. Stannard of Hope, Kan., for $40,000, late yesterday afternoon. The title was conveyed by a Joint deed signed by First National Bank Receiver Jobes, who awhile ago took possession of the farm as an asset of the bank, and Ad ministrator Newman. The court will de cide later whether the proceeds shall go to the Cross estate or the bank. Stannard will consolidate his Sunrise farm at Hope with Sunny Slope, making Sunny Slope the largest Hereford farm in the world. Ha takes posession next week. New Bank for St Paul. St. Paul. Dec. 24. At the beginning of the new year a new bank will open up for business at St. Paul. It will be a state bank, incorporated undr the laws of Kan sas. L. W. Stilwell of Garnett will be the principal stockholder and the cashier of the new bank. He is a brother of Judge Stilwell of Erie and has served two terms as county superintendent of Anderson county. Vicious Hog Kills a Horse. Eudora. Dec. 24. Recently while in his feed yard a vicious boar attacked Mr. Al Durr. Not thinking very much about it, Mr. Durr climbed into a wagon and began throwing out corn to the hogs. Not to be deprived of prey, the animal turned upon a horse which was feeding near by, and with one stroke of its tusks cut an ar tery in the horse's leg. Before the wound could be attended to the horse bled to death. Pensions for Kansans. Washington. Dec. 24. Pensions have been granted as fololws: Original Sanders R. "Vermillion, Hia watha. $S: Elah S. Shaler. Louisville, $3. Increase Thomas J. Tindall. Lawrence, $6 to $8: Garret Davis, Topeka, $6 to $8. ber 13 John Arnold, Larned, $S to $3. New Xansas Postmasters. Washington. Dec. 24. The following Kansas postoffice appointments have been made: At Donegal, Dickinson county, Fred K. Felber; at Medora. Reno county, Jesse D. Weaver: at Patterson. Harvey county, Edwin R. Nash: at Putnam, Harvey coun ty, S. T. Watts. ARBUCKLES MAKE A CUT. Are Now 3-16 Below the Trust Price on Refined Sugar. Chicago, Dec. 24. The western head quarters of Arbuckle Bros, today an nounced another cut in the price of re fined sugar. Quotations of 5.14 cents per pound were made to retail dealers direct, jobbers being ignored as in yes terday's cut. This is about 3-16 of a cent below the American Sugar Refin ing company's price. The reduction in prices made by the Arbuckles has not been met by the trust. When asked to day the reason for selling to retailers direct instead of dealing with jobbers, Arbuckle company representatives said that their prices had not been recog nized in the trust form combine. There was a strong feeling as far as jobbers were concerned, but whether the prac tice of dealing with retailers direct would be continued had not been de cided. CURED BY CUTICURA I was troubled several years with chronio Eczema, on my head and face. I took medi cal treatment from two doctors and several lotions, but received little relief. At times, the dreadful itching became almost intoler able. When I was heated, the Eczema became painful, and almost distracted me. I tried CunctJKA Remedies. The Eczema rapidly disappeared, and I am well, with no trace of mny cutaneous disease. J. EMMETT REEVES, Feb. 23, 1593. Box 125, Tborntown, Ind. BfiioT Cfii TiiiTHirr fob Tobttbtwo. Pnrrsw VKING HCHORS.W1TH LOS30T Haib. Warm baths with CuTtrCR 6oap, aentle aQointine viUl CliTlccBA. u4 Solid dOMS Of COTICU.A RrSOLTKST. Bold ererTTrhere. Potts a U.ahdC. Coif., Sole Prwpa.. Season. Horn Is Can Xartaiwg 6kia aJImuw." Hr v? nM. A LIKE ADREAM. Says 11. G. Dun Co., is the History of Iron. In Connection With Easiness Transactions of This Month. WE BEAT THE WORLD. No Competitor Has Been Able to Stand Against Us. Yolume of Business This Year is Beyond Parallel. New Tork, Dec. 24. R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade will say in today's issue: It is a year beyond parallel and goes to its close with the biggest volume of business ever seen. Enormous transac tions at the stock exchange makes some difference and heavy railroad earnings, but when all the transporting and speculative interests are eliminated there is still a much larger business than In any other month of any year. Last year the exports were In volume greater than in any previous month In the history of the country, but this year the three weeks' report shows an in crease of 25 per cent against 9 per cent in imports, which would indicate much more than $70,000,000 excess of exports this month. The payments through clearinghouses have been for the week 26.5 per cent greater than last year and 12.4 per cent greater than in 1892 and for the month 17. S per cent larger than in 1892. Until now no greater volume of business has ever been done in the history of this country than in the closing month of this year. Shipments of wheat have been 3,285, 704 bushels, flour included, at Atlantic ports, against 3,698,321 last year, al though western receipts for three weeks have ben 25,088,581 bushels against 10, 308,929 last year. A fact which the be lievers in a small crop may well con sider. From Pacific ports the ship ments have been for tne week 1,316,019 bushels against 956,000 bushels last year. Considering the enormous exports from July 1 to date, exceeding last year's, one can only wonder that the outgo this year has been so large and the price has risen during the week a cent and a half. Corn exports also have been 3.824,836 bushels against 4,540,613 last year, and for the month thus far 11,012,138 against 10,867,407 last year. The price has advanced about 2 cents, but the continued foreign demand is astonishing. If the cotton manufacturer takes a leading place this year it is not merely because cotton is an eighth lower than a year ago, cior because prospects for buyers are so good. The manufacture has been much expanded by increased demand, so that prices- of nearly all the goods quoted In our report have ad vanced more or less, and there is a feel ing that with unreasonable accumula tion of print cloths out of the way there is a brighter prospect for all goods. Sales of wool haye been large, 27,366,100 pounds, against 23,115,200 pounds last year and 21,580,200 pounds in the same week of 3 892, with small as wrell as large manufacturers buying very freely, which indicates a general improvement in the demand for goods, although not enough as yet to lift prices. The story of the iron manufacture is like a dream. With 25,000 tons Besse mer pig sold at Pittsburg for $10.60 and grey forge at $9.40 and Chicago sales limited only by the capacity of the works and eastern sales so numerous and so large as to raise, the price 25 cents, there is a demand for finished products which Includes at Philadelphia 4,000 tons of plates for export to South America, 3,000 tons at Chicago, where works are crowded; 80,000 tons steel rails by the Maryland Steel company for Asiatic Russia, 35,000 tons for Aus tralia against British bids, at Pittsburg, and about 10,000 tons domestic at the east, 6,600 tons structural work at Chi cago and Pittsburg, and 8,000 tons for car builders at Chicago, all the works there being crowded, with- heavy buy ing of sheets and wire rods, and sharp competition at the south in cotton ties a pending contract for 20,000 tons cast pipe for Yokohama and sales of smaller quantities in each class too numerous to mention. Prices of iron and steel products have not materially changed, although the tone is everywhere strong er, and for wire nails quotations have been advanced to $1.30 at Pittsburg. But this country is beating the world in this industry. All this business is done with full be lief that the next year's demand will be greater than ever before, and it is creditable, especially in the iron and steel business, that so little advance in prices of finished products has been made. The range of prices is nearly 20 per cent lower than in 1892, Indicat ing an astonishing increase in the quan tity of products exchanged. How Europe will be able to pay more than $70,000,000 due on merchandise account for the month of December besides the enormous balances due for November and previous months is a question which the country can afford to con sider at its leisure and with comfort. Failures for the week have been 258 against 292 in the United States last year and 31 in Canada, against 33 last year. OVER 50 A DAT. Death Rate in Havana Has Reached Frightful Proportions. New Tork, Dec. 24. A dispatch to the World from Havana says: Havana's death rate is astounding. There are between 55 and 75 deaths here each day, the majority from ma larial fever, typhoid claiming the next largest numberof victims and pernicious fever about the same. The civil register today shows a total of 49 deaths in this city In the last 24 hours and two parishes where the death rate was usually high made no report. The mortality last week was at the rate of 106 in every 1.000 of the population. This week it will be higher. In New York the rate is only 22 deaths per annum for every thousand of popula tion. All the hospitals are overcrowded end no more patients can be received. The municipal hospital, organized as an emergency hospital to care for sick reconcentrados, is taking care of 305 patients with space for only 160. A surgeon in one hospital said today that he had to leave sufferers lying in the streets because there is no place to caro for them. Vile stenches from the indescribable dirtiness of some sections offer ,a herculean task to the engineer officers preparing to clean the city, making the Americans here despair of any immed iate lowering of the frightful death rate. SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES First United Presbyterian, corner of Eighth and Topeka avenue. Rev. M. F. McKirahan, pastor. Preaching tomor row at 11 o'clock on "Angel Chimes at Bethlehem." Gathering of supplies for dinners for the poor. In the evening a song service and exercises by the child ren. Mabel Holmes, will lead the C. E. at 6:30. Third Christian church, corner of Third and Lake streets. F. E. Mallory, the pastor, will preach at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Evening subject, "Scenes at the Manger of Bethlehem." At Lincoln Post, on Sixth street, on Sunday, Dec. 25, at 2:30 p. m., the con ference and fact meeting will take place; at 7:30 p. m. a lecture and tests, with music. English Lutheran Preaching morn ing and evening by the pastor, the Rev. A. E. Wagner. Morning subject, "The Visit of the Wise Men;" in the evening. "The Prince of Peace."' In the morning Mrs. Stockton will sing, "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning;" in the evening, "A Dream of Bethlehem." The Sunday school will render a cantata this evening. Admission free. Preaching at the C. M. E. church, corner Fourteenth and Van Buren streets, by the pastor. Rev. J. M. Brown, at 11 a. m. Subject, "The Birth and Kingdom of Christ." Again at 7:30 p. m., subject, "Gaining and Losing." Sunday school at 2 p. m., Epworth League at 6 p. m. North Topeka Baptist church, corner Laurent and Harrison streets, Rev. W. B. Hutchinson, pastor. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., specially adapted to Christmas. Morning subject, "The Search for Christ;" evening subject, "Immanuel." Christmas music will be rendered by the choir at both services. First Congregational Church Christ mas service at 11 a. m., conducted by the pastor, Rev. L. Blakesley. Special music. Sunday school Christmaas con cert in the evening. Sunday school 9:45 a. m.. Christian Endeavor 6 p. m. Special Christmas services at the First Presbyterian church. Morning, organ prelude, "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow," "Brightest and Best," "Hark! What Means Those Holy Voices," "The Beauteous Morn," "Joy to the World, the Lord Has Come." "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Sermon, "The King Whose Birth We Celebrate." "Christians,. Awake! Salute the Happy Morn." Benediction. Evening, "Look, Ye Saints, the Sight is Glorious$" "Drop Down Ye Heavens," "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning," "Song of Praise the Angels Sing," "By the Waters of Babylon." Sermon, "Irreligious Education. "O, Come All Ye Faithful." Benediction. The choir will be as follows: Mr. E. C. Lewis, organist; Mrs. G. W. Parkhurst, Mrs. F. E. Wear, Mr. II. V. Hinckley and Mr. W. R. Carrie. First Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. E. L. Thorpe, D. D., pastor. 9:30, class meetings; 10, probationer's class; 11 a. m., sermon by Bishon John H. Vincent, D. D. 2:30, Sunday school; 4, junior league; 6:15, Epworth league; 7:30, sermon by the pastor, subject, "A Story for Christmas." Young Women's Christian Associa tion Gospel meeting Sunday 4:15 p. m., topic, "Glad Tidings." Leader, Miss Bertha Elliott? First Unitarian church Services at 11 a. m., with Christmas music by the choir and sermon by the minister, Rev. Abram Wyman. Subject, "The Christ We Reverence." Christmas tree with services for the children at 7:30 in the evening. Mrs. W. G. Todd wiil give a story for the children on "Christmas, Old and New." Miss Akin will sing a solo. Christmas at Grace Cathedral Bish op, the Right Reverend Frank R. Mills paugh, D. D. dean, the Very Reverend John W. Sykes; canon, the Reverend Maurice J. Bywater; 7:30 a. m.. Holy Communion; 9:30 a. m., Sunday school; 11 a. m., choral festival service, with sermon. Offertory, "Nazarette," Gou nod. Hymns, "O Little Town of Beth lehem." Adeste Fideles, "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," the Gloria at close of service, will be from Mozart's xii. Mass. 7:30 festal e.vensong offertory solo by Frank Wakeman with violin, obligato by Professor Beerman Good Shepherd, corner of Laurent and Quinoy, North Topeka 9:30 a. m., Holy Communion and baptisms; 10 a. m., Sunday school; 7:30 p. m., evening prayer. The bishop will preach and confirm a class of candidates. St. Simons, corner Seventh and West ern avenue 7:30 a. m., Holy Commun ion; 9:30 a. m., Sunday school; 4:30 p. m. evening, service (choral), sermon by Rev. Canon Bywater. The Christmas exercises at Westmin ster Presbyterian Sunday school will be held on Monday evening, December 26, at 8 o'clock. The exercises in the main will be by the children of the school who by song and verse wiil commemor ate the birth of our Savior. The even ing will close with the lighting of the Christmas tree and distribution of gifts to the scholars and the receiving from them their gifts for the poor and needy. We most cordially invite all the par ents of the scholars of the school, mem bers of the congregation and friends In the community to attend our exercises. A. M. Reynolds, pastor. There will be a midnight service at the Cathedral on Christmas Eve. The service will commence at 12 p. m. The music will be rendered by the vested choir. The offertory will be the Gloria from the xii Mass by Mozart .The ser mon will be by the Very Rev. Dean Sykes. Sunday school Christmas concert at First Congregational church, Sunday evening, December 25, at 7:30 o'clock. United Brenthren church Services are held in the new church, on the cor ner of Twelfth and Quincy streets. 11 a. m., preaching by the pastor; 10 a. m., Sunday school; 3:30 p. m.. Junior Y. P. C. U.; 6:30 p. m., Y. P. C. U. meeting; 7:30 p. m., preaching by the pastor. Christmas tree and stereopticon enter tainment Saturday evening at 7:30 p. m. S. C. Coblentz, pastor. First Christian church Rev. M. E. Harlan will preach morning and even ing. Morning subject, "Christmas and Its Lessons." Christian Union in the evening, subject being the close of the series of sermons on "The Fundamen tals in the. Apostolic Church." First Church of Christ, Scientist, 210 West Sixth street Services at 11 a. m., subject, "Christian Science." Wednes day evening, meeting at 8 o'clock. North; Congregational church, corner Laurent and Jackson streets Preach ing by the pastor. Dr. Palmer, morning and evening at 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject, "Holidays;" evening, "Time." Especial music has been ar ranged under direction fcf Chas. Mc Kee. The Church of Good Spirit will hold services Sunday morning at 10:30o'clock at Divine Science hall, corner Fourth and Jackson streets. Lecture by Mrs. Laura B. Payne. Subject, "Christmas." Evening services at 7:30 o'clock, lecture by Cyrus Corning, subject, "The Law of Development." At St. John A. M. E. church, the Christmas service will be conducted by the Rev. J. R. Ransom, pastor. Preach ing at 11 a. m., subject, "The Born Christ." At 2:30 p. m., there will be a union service of the Sunday schools p.nl churches. Pastored by Rev.'s G. F. Brown, J. M. Brown, Mr. Wooten, II. H. Lucas, P. Price, Thompson and Ran som. And at 7:30 p m., there will be a Sacred concert, conducted by the choir, assisted by some of Topeka's best tal ent, and at the "close of these services. George Gatten will tell how the boys of Children should always increase in weight. Not to grow, not to increase in flesh, belongs to old age. Present and future health demands that this increase in weight should be steady and never failing. To delicate children, Scott's Emulsion brings richer blood and firmer flesh. Better color comes to the cheeks and stronger muscles to the limbs. The gain in weight is substantial it comes to stay. Vi Joe and $1.00, .11 druggists. SCOTT EOWNE, Chemists, New York, j the Twenty-third Kansas, are getting along In Cuba. Monday night there wiil be an Old Folk's concert, at the church of Seventh and Topeka avenue. J. R. Ransom, pastor. Dr. Thomas will preach at tfce First Baptist church, Sunday morning and evening at 11 a. m., the sermon will be appropriated to Christmas, and at 7:30 p. m. the subject will be "Jesus, the Perfect Man," seventh in the series on "Great Characters of the World." NEW TREATY WITH TERU. Will Provide for Arbitration of Cues Like the McCord Claim. New York. Dec. 24. Captain J. B. Hickey, military attache of the United States legation in Peru, arrived hre today on the Panama liner Allianea. He is on his way to Washington. Speaking of the notification of the abrogation of the commercial treaty be tween the United States and Peru which expires by limitation next Oc tober, Captain Hickey said that it will be followed by a new treaty, one of the principal features of which will pro vide for arbitration of claims of citizens of one country against the other which will do away with the friction attending the McCord and Godfrey claims. About the secret mission of Com mander Carlos Ferryros of the Peruvian navy to France and Spain. Captain Hickey said that the report that he was going to purchase warships was laugh ed at in Lima and that it was there said that if he made such a statement at the Isthmus he was simply romanc ing. In explanation Mr. Hickey said Peru is far too poor at present to in dulge in luxuries like warships. Another passenger on the Alllanca was Victor Fridian who claims to lx an American citizen and says that th Peruvian government confiscated all of his property and that he was compelled to fly to save his life. He said he made his way on a sailing ship to San Fran cisco and there found spies awaiMns him. Next he fled to the .Isthmus and there became a steerage passenger on the Alllanca for New York. Fridian did not go into the details of his trouhles in Peru. Captain Hickey said that he had heard nothing about Fridian before boarding the Allianca. Chronic Rheumatism Cared. Dr. H. B. Hettinger, Indianapolis. Ind., says: "For several months after spraining my ankle I was severely afflicted wUh 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! 623 Kansas avenue, Topeka. Holiday Rates Via the Santa Fe. On Dec. 24, 5. 26, 31 and Jan. 1 and 2 we will sell tickets to all points within 200 miles at one fare for the round trip. Final limit Jan. 4th. See T. L. King, agent, or Cromwell Jeffers, North Topeka. 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. Holiday Rates. The Missouri Pacific will sell tickets on December 24, 25, 26 and 31 and Jan uary 1 and 2, limited to January 4, to points within 200 miles distance, at one fare for the round trip. Minimum rate 50 cents. Overcome evil with good. Overcome your coughs and colds with One Minute Cough Cure. It is so good children cry for it. It cures croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe and all throat and lung diseases. Geo. W. Stansfield, W. H. Wilson. A. J. Arnold Son, A. J. Kane Co., Drug gists. Good Things. x That add a relish to your meal. Silver Leaf Sweet Pickles, Mince Meat, Cat sup, Celery Relish, and Sweet India Chow Chow. OTTO KUEHN'E CO. Manufacturers. It is true that others imitate the methods employed in advertising Beggs' German Salvo, 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 by grateful testimonials Beggs' German Salve actually and permanently cures when other medicines fail to do any good whatever. For sale by all drug gists. Silver Leaf Mince Meat makes the best pies, ask your dealer for It. OTTO KUEHNE CO.. Manufacturers. When you ask for De Witt's Witch Haje". Salve don't accept a counterfeit or im:'? -lion. There are more cases of Piles be. lnir cured by this, than all others com bined. Geo W. Stansheld. W. H. Wll-on-A. J. Arnold Son, A. J. Kane Co., Druggists. For Rats, Mice, Roaches, and Vermin. A KILLHR. After eating, H vermin seek water and the open jr- Hence this luiier is tne most cleanly o m For Sale bv all Druggists. Price, 18 Cents. KEWTON MASDPACTDRISG 4 CEIXICil CO., 95 WUIiua Street. Hw York. IT'S
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TOPEHA STATE JOUEXAL, SATTXRDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 24, 1S9S SEAT 0FP0VER. GoTernor-elect Stanley Holds a LeTee Each Day. CSlce llunters Who Are ot Visiting Topeta IIATJT HIS OFFICE. Henry J. Allen, of Ottawa, Seeks the Secretaryship. It is Thought That Lit Cram Will Be Left Out. Long List of Applicants Troutmau's Chances. Wichita.Dec.-4. Governor-elect Stan ley says he Is not going to do any thing until after the Populists have ljst-d their engagement at Topeka. His time Is being about evenly divided be tween home and office. Yesterday he nas dow n town longer than on any oth er day this week, and during the day he held a consultation behind closed Cuors with H. J. Alien of Ottawa, who lias been mentioned as a possibility for ih" appointment of private secretary. After the conference between Allen and the guvernor. Mr. Alien was aked by a reporter whether he came to see the governor on a special mission, and he said: I came over today to talk about po litical matters concerning some of lny Keputi.can friends who are applicants for office under Mr. Stanley's adminis tration." Mr. Ailen would not disclose the names of any of his friends who wanted places. Mr. Allen was then asked if he had been offered the appointment of private secretary in case Judge Myatt did not accept. He said Governor Stan ley did not offer him the place or had it ever teen hinted to him that he would. "You can positively state that I have never even dreamed that such an honor would be bestowed upon me, and the first I knew that my name was being nse.j was when I read it in the daily papers." In the office of the governor during the afternoon several ladies wereawait ir.g an audience. One of them was a client: another had a political mission on hand: and as she passed out a dele gation walked into the private office. Thy were srnized as being identified with the Children's home in this city, and It was hinted at that they would ask the governor to recommend in his message an appropriation for the main tenan t of the home. Another caller at the office who had a naif hour's taik with the governor was Syl Dunkin of Argonia. He is going to Topeka and stopped over between trains. When seen shortly after his talk, he said: "I am not an office-seeker. I am out of the race for grain inspector. I just stopped over to tell the governor some things I had learned from the politic ians in the western part of the state." During the day it was pretty general ly discussed and a rumor is guing the rounds of the political wiseacres that the knockers had got in their strongest work, and that Lit Crura had been knocked completely out of the railroad commissionership.A reporter started out to run the rumor down, and found a prominent Republican politician, who said that it was a sure thing that Lit ("rum would be side-tracked in the new d"al that was now being hatched up by the knockers. LIST OF THE HUNGRY. Complete and Revised List of Num ber of Applications for OfSce. Wichita. Dec. 24. There are many slates stii! being made up that it Is said will be more satisfactory to all faction al Interests in the several congressional districts, and a number of applicants w-ho have given up ail hope of getting any of the pie are now rallying around the counter once more. Following is a complete and revised list of the number of applications now before Governor elect Stanley; Janitor, 40. Guar!. "5. Anything. 94. Xeputy grain Inspector. 49. Bandmaster Reform school. L Election commission. L Adjutant general, IS. Coal oil Inspector. 27. Orain inspector. 25. Board of charities. 64. Insurance commissioner, IS. Warden penitentiary, 2. Hutchinson reformatory, 6. Regent university, 5. Regent normal, 4. Regent Agricultural college, 9. Sanitary board (live stock;, 37. State house guide, 8. Stenographer. 13. Commandant Soldiers' home (Dodge), Deputy we!ghmatr, 4, Asylum attendant. 9. Superintendent Reform school, 9. Chaplain Reform school. 1. "Watchman, 21. Asylum physician. S. Steward Deaf and Dumb asylum. 4. Supervisor Insane asylum (Topeka), 1. Matron insane asylum. 6. Superintendent insane asylum (To peka i. 1. Storekeeper penitentiary, 2. Kr.ginetr Hutchinson Reform schooI.L Weighmaster pemtentiary, 7. Fanner at penitentiary, 2. State accountant, 6. Secretary state board of health, 2. Kngineer, 7. Fireman state house. 6. Deputy bank examiner, 1 Ordinance sergeant, 3. a PVRC CREAM or TARTAR POWDER i f. r-'U i h Awarded richest Honor. World's Fair Geld Medal, Midwinter Fair Deputy oil Inspector. 32. Assistant adjutant general. 7. Superintendent state house rround3, 12. Executive clerk. 12. Commissioner forestry station. 4. Director Soldiers' home (Dodge City), 28. Governors' messenger, 16. Fish commissioner, 2. Board of dental examiners, L Board of pardons. 17. Railroad commissioner, 23. Director penitentiary, 1L Steward blind asylum. 2. Chaplain penitentiary. 1. Deputy warden. 10. Assistant superintendent of Reform school. 3. Superintendent asylum (Winfleld), 3. Clerks. 24. Superintendent blind asylum, 6. Farmer. 1. Mine officer at penitentiary, 2. State board of education, 8. State house engineer, 5. Mine inspector, 3. Secretary board, of railroad commis sioners, 3. Asylum nurse. 1. Baker foreman, 1. Superintendent Insane (Osawatomie), o Quartermaster general, 3. Labor commissioner, 6. State librarian, 5. Bond clerk, 2. State boiler inspector. 1. Turnkey at penitentiary, 4. Clerk at penitentiary, 6. Officer at Hutchinson reformatory, 6. Night watchman asylum, 1. Superintendent Hutchinson reforma tory, 2. Matron penitentiary, 3. Clerk in adjutant general's office, 1. Asylum foreman, 1. Farmer Topeka reform school, 2. Secretary board of pardons, 1. Assistant clerk at penitentiary, 1. Officer Topeka reform school, L Clerk Topeka asylum. 1. Physician at penitentiary, 3. Superintendent soldiers orphans' home (Atchison), 3. Teachers. 3. Assistant superintendent Topeka asy lum. 2. Superintendent Topeka reform school, L Board of public works, 2. Messenger at penitentiary, 0. Physician soldiers' home (Dodge Cityj, 3. Chaplain soldiers' home (Dodge City), 1. Assistant Insurance commissioner, 2. Superintendent deaf and dumb, 2. Music teacher blind asylum, 1. Superintendent girls' industrial school (Beloit). 1. Steward Topeka asylum, 2. S'tron deaf and dumb asylum. 2. Medical superintendent of the insane asylum (Topeka), 1. Adjutant soldiers' home, 1. Assistant physician female depart ment (Osawatomie or Topeka), 1. On governor's staff, 3. Blacksmith Osawatomie asylum, 1. Seamstress insane asylum (Topeka). 1. Weighmaster under grain inspector, L Commissioner public buildings, 2. Steward at penitentiary, L State architect, 2. Chief cook. 1. State board of health, 1. Foreman stone quarry, 1. Druggist Topeka insane asylum, 1. Assistant superintendent insane (Os sawatomie), 1. BOARD OF CHARITIES. Kanavel and Gibson Mentioned In surance Commissioner Gossip. Wichita, Dec. 24. There can be little doubt that the state board of charities is shaping. The politicians still insist that Kanavel of Harvey county will get on the board. All guesses end there. R. X. Allen of Chanute, has been here making the hard fight of the sea son for Alf Gibson, whom he wants on the board. Allen has been here twice, once right after the election when he made a long, strong pull for Gibson. Day before yesterday he arrived and had a long conference with Governor elect Stanley and yesterday he had an other talk. In point of championship. Gibson may be said to have had the best of any of the aspirants of the beard of charities so far. The talk for insurance commissioner has died down. although the Milt Brown advocates are confident. Others think that Jim Troutman of Toneka, has the place cinched. The probabilities are that no one at all fcas been decided upon. AFTER, THE KNOCKERS. Will White Strongly Rebukes Smel ser, Riggs and Eastman. Emporia, Dec. 24. The fight In Lyon county still rages. Will White of the Emporia Gazette, rebukes Smelser, the young man who "knocked" Riggs and Eastman. This is what White says: "There is a political condition in Lyon county which ought to insure a har monious party here for twenty years. But that harmony will not be helped by writing "knocking" letters against Republicans and then giving them out to the press. The Gazette was loyal to Mr. Smelser before the election, because he was the Republican candidate, but this paper joins with the majority of Republicans in this community, who think Smelser made a serious mistake by publishing his letter of protest against the appointment of S. B. Riggs and D. W. Eastman. By doing this act, Mr. Smelser has put himself where his friends cannot help him and where his enemies may justly claim that much they have said about his lack of judg ment is justified by the facts. "Harmony is now the chief thing de sired by Republicans in Lyon county, but it cannot be accomplished by nurs ing too long memories. There are sev eral bygones that will have to be by gones. A great big job of forgetting should be accomplished in the next ninety days. And it shouldn't all be done by one side of the house. If it is not done pretty soon, there will be the same old row on hands that there has been world without end. "But if the monkey and the parrot are going to continue their carnival. if Lyon county Republican pontics is to be a series of yowls emitted from one set of Tom cats and then another, the Ixird help the people. If every man who scratches a ticket is to be eternally and everlastingly damned and given no show to repent and believe, the party hell will be full to overflowing and the devil will be to pay. If, on the other hand, the fact that a young man makes a mistake as Smelser has clearly made one and there be no forgiveness for him when he indicates that he is on praying and interceding terms, then the jig is up: the Republicans may as well lock up the house and go home. "The cjuestion before the house Is: Shall the fight that is only a squabble be magnified into a riot? A. vote for the affirmative is a vote for the Popu lists. A vote for the negative, with a little horse sense and Christian charity back of the vote, is a vote for the supremacy of the Republican party in this county. Gentlemen, prepare your ballots." Special music will be rendered at the First Methodist church both mornlnr and evening. Blshcn Vincent will Dreach, 5 GOES TO THE JURY. (Continued From First Page.) who the man was who stood before him that morning in May and fired the fatal shots. It may have been one of the mysterious individuals who Air. Col lins feared or it may have been some one else. But there is one thing sure, no motive has been shown to substanti ate the claim against John Henry Col lins. There is ten times more motive on the part of these negroes who had fleeced this young man out of all he had and thought that by killing his father they would further their pur poses by placing more funds in his hands that they might hope to black mail him out of, than on the part of John Collins, the dutiful son of the de ceased. "Gentlemen of the jury, day after to morrow is Christmas, the most sacred holiday of the year, and I expect that on that Christmas morning while the choirs are singing Peace on earth and good will to men' that there will be gathered in this home over on Van Buren street, a little family, mourning the absence of the lost one. but having in their midst the son, who has been taught a bitter lesson of wrong doing, but who Is guiltless of the horrible crime of killing his own father." Closing Argument by Mr. Hayden. The closing argument of the defense was opened by Attorney Charles Hay den cf Holton, this morning. The clos ing argument for the state is by County Attorney Jetmore this afternoon. In his speech before the jury this morning Mr. Hayden said: "If I could induce myself to believe the story of Johnson Jordan on the wit ness stand I would expect the jury to acquit John Collins on the ground of insanity. That negro thug told you on the witness stand that in discussing the purchase of a bomb he told this de fendant that he would get one that would blow up not only the Collins house and his father and mother and sister within it, but every house in the block and every living person in them, and he says John Collins was pleased and assented. He says John Collins laughed at the idea. Think of it. gen tlemen. John Collins, a mere bey, kind and generous in nature, laughing at the proposition of blowing up an entire block. Why gentlemen, no sane man could have done it, no matter how hardened a criminal he might be. I do not advance this idea for the purpose of having you acquit the defendant on the ground of insanity, but I advance it for the purpose of testing the truth of that negro's testimony. Why, gen tlemen. I dare say it is the most im probable story you have ever heard." "Much stress has been laid by the state on the last portion of the letter written to Johnson Jordan by John Col lins. I refer to that portion which reads. 'Burn this letter at once. I shall expect to hear from you twice before morning. Once by letter and once in a different way.' Gentlemen, I don't be lieve John Collins ever wrote that last portion of the letter. He told you on the witness stand that he believed it to be a forgery. But if he did write it. gentlemen, it can be easily and plausi bly explained in reference to a gambling deal. He expected to hear from him once by letter and once in a different way What different way? By the re turn of his watch or the receipt of the money. That's all it means, gentlemen of the jury, if John Collins wrote it, and has no reference to murder, as the state would have you believe. "Chief Steele has told you on the stand that there were three or four avenues of escape for the man who en tered the house to take J. S. Collins' life. The state says that no one left the house because there were no tracks about the windows, but this is rendered absolutely worthless by the testimony of Albert Heartburg and several other witnesses, who sail that even after Mr. Knowles had walked about outside' the windows they could find no tracks. How the man who killed J. S. Collins left the house that morning we do not know. But even the state has no hope of a conviction on the circumstances, as they were found at the Collins home on the morning of the murder. "There has been an insinuation by the attorneys of the other side that Mrs. Collins knows more of the murder than she has testified to. Suppose this to be a fact. Fasten on Mrs. Collins for the sake of argument, this monstrous sug gestion, and then try to reconcile the circumstance on the morning of the murder with it. Gentlemen, you can't do it. If Mrs. Collins had seen John Collins fire the fatal shots and wished to shield him. do you suppose for a moment things would have been left in the Collins home as they were found that morning? Do you suppose that if Mrs. Collins had entered into a con spiracy with John Collins for the mur der of her husband, the doors and win dows would have been found shut on that morning and the gm found lyrhg in the hall at the bottom of the stairs? Had Mrs. Collins seen John Collins standing at the foot of the bed in the act of murdering his father, do you suppose for a moment she could have acted toward that boy as it has been shown she did on the fatal morning? Gentlemen of the jury, such conduct on the part of Mrs. Collins in such an event would be incompatible with hu man nature. "Gentlemen of the jury, had that old colored man who has worked for the Collins family for years, been in the house the morning of the murder no one would even have suspected John Col lins, the loving and dutiful son. of com mitting the crime. Had Mrs. Helen Collins not had shot in her back that morning, the state, gentlemen, would have a much stronger case against her than they have against the defendant in this case. "The court has told you that each and every circumstance in this case must be inconsistent with the theory of innocence before you can return a ver dict of guilty. Let us see what kind of a man this defendant must have been to murder his own father. He must have been a man of selfish, cruel nature, of cold blooded and deliberate disposition, an absolute brute: and such a man. gentlemen of the jury, John Collins is not and never has been, and there i4 not one of your number who believes to the contrary. How, then, can you say A Skin of Beauty is a Joy ForeTer." rR- T. FELIX GOURAUD S ORIENTAL CREAM, OS MAGICAL BEAUTIFIES. FurLEM as well as Beautifies the Skin other cosmetic wni da it. Femors Tan. Fimpie. Freck les, ilotli Patch es. Rash aod .rkin diseases, aoderery blem ish en beauty, and defies de tection. It has stood the test of BO years, and Is so harmless we tasto u to be sure it Is prop erly made. Ac cept Do counter feit ot s mi.ar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady ef the haut-ton (a pa tieot): "As tou ladies will use them. I recom mend 'Gouraud s Cream' as tbe least harmful of all skin preparations." For sale by ail IruEgi' and Fancy Goods Ieaiors Ui the U. fiu Caaadaa. and Europe. aX. tThoFKIXS. rron'r. K ftraat J oat fcfc. 2. T. Ouq Uncle Sammy: -Well. Santa Claus, yOU CERTAINLV VVEPE GOOD TO ME:. on your oaths that the circumstances are inconsistent with the theory of in nocence?" Scores the Prosecution's Witnesses. "What does the state ask you to do in order to return a verdict of guilty. It asks you to cast aside the testimony of Mrs. Collins and Grace Collins and every reputable witness the defense has i introduced in this case and believe the testimony of these negro thugs and con victs, men whom you would not trust with the small sum of of ten cents, men who are criminals by nature, men to whom the truth is a stranger. Think of that, gentlemen of the jury, think ot what the state asks you to do. And then decide whether you will accept the testimony of such an innocent girl as Grace Collins, who states absolutely that she knows John Collins is not guilty of the murder, or Johnson Jor dan, the negro thug, the, gambler, th convict, the born criminal and liar. "Gentlemen of the jury, we believe this circumstantial evidence against the defendant has been shaped and manufactured Ty this man Harbaugh. He is one of the shrewdest and most un scrupulous members of his profession that I ever knew. He is engaged in a business in which lying Is a necessity. now natural it is mat ne worKea upon these ignorant negro thugs as a potter works upon the clay, and bolstered uo a story which he hopes will send this young man to the penitentiary for life. I ence heard a lawyer speak of a 'damn able scheme, born of satan and bred in the darkest pit of hell. but. gentle men. I don't want to insult Satan by comparing him to this man Dell Har baugh. It would be an imposition on the hospitalities of hell to offer the soul of such a man for admission there. "Had I power to summon back from the other shore James S. Collins, and impart to that form the power of speech. I would be willing standing in that awful presence, propound the question of whether his own son was guilty or innocent of this horrible and unnatural crime. And in the answer, gentlemen of the iurv. T would he will- ing to stake the result of this trial. "I believe I am talking to sensible, God fearing men, men w ho have feeling, men who are willing to condone the foolishness of a boy. men who will not render a verdict that because a boy errs he is guilty of the unnatural crime of killing his father. As conscientious men I know you can not." Jetmore Begins His Speech. County Attorney Aaron P. Jetmore com menced the closine argument of the Col Pns case at half past 1 o'clock this after noon. At that time the court room floor and balcony were crowded with specta tors. NO LIMIT TO THE ARMY Under the Hull Bill Reported by the Majority of the Committee. Pashington, Dec. 24. Representative Hull, chairman of the military commit tee of the house, today filed with the clerk his report on the bill for the in crease of the regular army. After de tailing the amendments adopted in com mittee, the report says: The bill fixes no maximum strength for the entire army. Assuming that the government will require about 100,000 for defense of the frontier, for coast defense and to maintain our authority in the islands for w hose good order and government this nation is now respon sible together with a reasonable re serve force, the bill provides for the regiments of cavalry and infantry to provide the number required for each arm of the service and a corps of ar tillery for our seacoast batteries with two regiments of artillery for field bat teries. The committee believe the organiza tion as provided for in this bill will make the most efficient military or ganization at th? lowest cost to the tax payers, of any organization proposed by any bill before congress. Kan Off With the Japanese. Portland, Ore., Dec. 24. A special to the Oregonian from Astoria. Ore., says: A report has reached here that a mob of 20 men attacked the bunkhouse of the A. C. railroad at Clatskanie, and overpowered the foreman in charge of the newly imported Japanese section hands and started toward Maygers with them. The foreman telegraphed to Superintendent McGuire for help. The mob is supposed to consist of the fisher men who have been working on the road and who have been supplanted by the Japanese. We win wash your colored shirts anr eruaxantee colors from fading. Peerles Steam Lauodry. 112 and 114, W. 8th. 71 "T jv." i Vnr PAYE THE ASYLUM 110 AD. The State Should Provide a Good Thoroughfare to the Institution. A movement has been started by peo ple living on the West Sixth street road to have the street paved or macada mized from the city limits to the asy lum. George H. Whitcomb and other people who have residences in that portion of the city have found it exceedingly dfHi cult during the muddy weather this fall to reach their homes. The street car line to Auburndale used to run to the hill near the H. C. Linn home but that was long ago abandoned and it left the people without any means of reach ing their homes. It is the plan of Mr. Whitcomb and others who live near him to ask the legislature to make an appropriation to pave the road to the asylum. They argue there should be a good road lead ing to the state insane asylum because it is necessary to transport inmates back and forth and that is a serious problem during very muddy weather. The paving of this road with vitrified brick would not be expensive and there is no other way to reach it but by a.i act of the legislature. HOBSOFi SAILS AWAY. Leaves San Francisco For Ma nila ou the Gaelic. San Francisco, Dec. 24. Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson sailed for the Philippines on the steamer Gaelic. He will report to Admiral Dewey on his arrival and will undertake the work of raising and preparing for service under the flag of the L'nited States, the ves sels of Admiral Montejo, which suffered so severely from the attack of Admiral Dewey's squadron. An immense crowd gathered at the dock to witness his departure. Hob son's carriage had great difficulty in getting through the throngs of people, who simply would not let him pass in quiet. Cheers upon cheers were given for him and he was compelled at several points to say a few words to the people. Escorted by friends, Hobson finally managed to reach the vessel's side and as he emerged from the carriage the cheers were renewed. Cries for a speech were ignored for some time, but they became so frequent and prolonged that Hobson was again compelled to speak to the people. His remarks could hardly be heard save by a few people who stood very close to him. He told of his sorrow at having to leave his own country, but spoke in glowing anticipa tion of the work which required his presence in the Philippines and express ed his gratitude to the people for the honors showered upon him. When the vessel got under way all the steam whistles on the water front were given full play and the noise was terrific. The vessels in the harbor were decorated for the occasion and flags dipped in Hobson's honor as the Gaelic passed up th harbor to the Golden Gate. A public reception was held in Golden Gate park in the morning and Lieuten ant Hobson addressed the people from the pedestal of the Francis Scott Key monument. A fine band discoursed patriotic airs. After the open air reception Lieuten ant 'Hobson and his party visited the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association. Goodyear Stays Out. Columbus. O.. Dpc. 24. An Akron. O.f Fpeeial says: The Goodyear Rubber com pany will not b? in the mechanical i-nbbr combine which is engineered by Charles R. FJint. The Akron company was ap proached, but refused to enter the com bine. The piant ia tiae largest of its kind In the country. To Send Spaniards Home. Madrid. Iec. 24. General Rios, the Spanish commander at Iioilo. Island of Panay. cables that he is goinr to Manila, in order to arrange for the repatriation of the Spanish troops. Confesses to Perjury. Omaha. Dec. 24. "Edward Brlxis has made a written confession admitting That he perjured hims-eif in swearing that his former empiover. Joseph Kiroff. a restau rant kef-Der, wa guiltv of settine fire to the building at l'"-T Nor:h Ninth street rn the morning of November 12. Brixis came here from Denver several weeks ago. where he said he was formerly a deputy herlif and policeman. NORTH TOPEKA. Items intended for this column should be left at the Kimball Ptg. Co., before 11 o'clock In the morning. Henry Unhulta has returned from Chi cago. Fiert Vanway went to Atchison today to visit friends. Robert Priddy of Elmont was a North side visitor today. Miss Jane Norris of Monroe street went to Mayetta today to spend Christmas. Mrs. Page of Rochester has been very ill for the past two weeks with erysipelas. Miss Carrie Summer? and brother "Wal ter went to Wamego today to visit frierds. Mrs. E. N. Gunn is ill at her home on Jackson street with inflammation of the stomach. Harry Small came in from DelavanPark, Jackson county, to visit his parents over Sunday. At the Christian church tomorrow Mr. J. H. Speer will preach at II a. m. and 7:30 p. m. V. B. Kistler came up from Oklahoma City last evening to visit his family at 1117 Van Buren strt-et. Misses Effie and Mabel Wright are in Lyndon, where thev will be the guests of their grandmother for a week. Word has been received from Iola an nouncing the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Burgen of that place. Mr. John Holliday came In this morn ing from Herineton to spend the holidays visitfng his family at S25 Madison street. The funeral of the infant child of Charles Zurek of 6"S Van Burn s-trcet. who died this morning, was held this aft ternooa. The interment was in Roches ter. The children of the Sunday school of the Church of the Good Shepherd will hold their Christmas feast this evening at half past 7. in the church. A Fer-is wheel has been provided which will be hung with gifts for the pupils. Ther will be a celebration of the holy communion at the Church of the Cood Shepherd tomorrow morning at half past f. Evening prayer with sermon at 7 Bishop Millspaugh will be present at this ser"ice and contirrn a class of candidates. The Christmas entertainment at the Baptist Sunday school will be held this evening at half past 7 o'clock and will consist of songs, recitations and dialogues. A large Christmas tree over 14 ft hich has been provided by the committee a"d the distribution of gifts from this will be the principal feature of the evening. A Christmas service will be held at the Congregational church this evening, bo ginning at half past 7. The service will consist of "Th3 Bible Story of Jesus." in three parts, which will be eiven by the members of the Sunday school. The en tertainment will close "with a visit from Santa Claus and distribution of presents. Golden Rule lodge No. S0 elected and in stalled the following offict-rs at the meet ing Thursday evening: Grand Master. II. A. Barnes: senior warden. C. E. Suit; junior warden, J. E. Brown: treasurer. J. S. Stansnek secretary. H. C. Bown: senior deacun. W. M. Clime; junior dea f on, W. A. Rofff senior steward. T. N. fvTidH: 1iin!or steward. T T. writi-cnn I tyler. S. H. Ogden. The installation was j done by Past Master V. S. Burgundthal. j MONDAY TO BE OBSERVED. Most Places of Business Will be Closed Monday Afternoon or All Say. The city and county offices will close this evening and not open until Tuesday. The banks will be closed and the post office will not be open for business after noon on Monday. Barber shops will be open Monday morning, but closed in the afternoon. While Sunday is Christmas In fact. Mon day is the legal holiday and the people who are entitled to Christmas as a holi day will not miss the rest because that day happens to fall on Sunday. The Christ mas tree will be 'unveiled" thi? evening in the various churches and in many homes. P. S. The postoffice will be kopt oren tomorrow from 12 to 1: to accommodate the Christmas rush. Monday morning there will be two deliveries in the business district and one in the residence part. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, Dec. 4. CATTLE Receipts, 7w. Market strong, unchanged. HOCiS Receipts. Market stror to l'jc higher. Bulk of sales. 2"T3 .45: heavies. $3.43.5S: packers. tl.Vi 'Vi mixed. $a.fi3.4.i: lights. 3.1-g 3. 3o y or It ers S3.3M'a3.&: pies. :;i3 2u. SHEEP Receipts. l.i. Market firm. Lambs, S-Z.'Zyi.ZZ: muttons, H-lfr'ai. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Pec. 24. HOOS Receipts, 16 000; left over. 3-X: Market S to 1c hieher. Lieht. n.iV'rt.Jo; mixed. S3.3&(3.90: heavy. $3.j03.$5; rough. $.s.T.e: yorKers. CATTLE Receiots. 2A SHEEP Receipts. Stead v. Steady. Native sheep. :.uofx4.2a; westerns. o;M.u; tamos. Ytsterdavs ofiicia!: HOOP Receipts, 24.74i: shipments. 1.285. CATTLE Receipts. 2.93; shipments, 1,- BOS. SHEEP Receipts. 52S: shipments. f,v-". Estimated receipts ot hogs tor Monday, Si.trti. II! THEH0USE. '(Continued From First Fagre.f constitution of tha etata of Kansas; therefore Be it resolved that at the general elec tion in 1900 there be submitted to the voters of the state of Kansas in the manner by law provided, the following proposition: For a constitutional convention. Yes, No. Section 2. The votes cast on this pro position shall be certified by the county clerks of the various counties to the secretary of state, in the manner by law provided for in the certification of the votes on governor and other state officers shall be canvassed in the same manner. TELEGRAPH CHARGES. Two Bills "Regulating" Them Intro duced in the Hous e. There are two bills to regulate te'egra-h charges already before the house. K'i h weilers bill makes a maximum rate of cents for a day message of t points within the state and a maximum rate of lu cents on a ritilit mes-u:2e 'f the same length. An e.i'Jitiomil 2 oerr1 per word can be charged on 3a- TT.es-;:.-' on all in excess of 10 words, and 1 cent a-i-dit'.onal on nijjht msures. Reefer's bill makes a maximum rate r.f 15 cents on all messages between po'nrs not more than 1X miles apart and 5 '-en: additional for each ail.li'i.Ti.il m;.i. It also makes a press rate one-third of a cent per word for iiav mes-aees and one sixth cent for night mts;a;is. ARRESTED FOR MURDER Dead Babs Found Under a Door step and .Mrs. Jewell Take n Into Custody Mrs. Belle Jewell was arrested this afternoon on a warrant charging h-r with murdering her babe. About noon the police received w r 1 that the body of a newly born child had been found tinker the doorstep of the house at 28 Quincy street. Officer Pj vey and Pereeants Owens and I -novan went to the house. It is occupied by the family of Georpe Yat-s. an employe i f the Southwestern Kuel c-mpany. and Mrs. Jewell and her boy about 7 years old. A boy by the name of William Hilde brock was playing with the Yates chil dren and while playinsr under the frur.i porch he discovered the body of th child. He told on- of the nei2hr rs about it before telling- thi?e in t i house and the police w ere summne i. The body of the child was lyinsr on a pile of leaves in a pool of bl.od. Tr- umbilical cord was tied around its nee:. There was not a parti le of i.,thinu n identify it and it lay there totally un covered. Coroner Westerfield was summoned and said he believed the child had b-T killed after bfdner born. Those in the house disclaimed any Knowldze of it. it, whatever. While the crficers wer there someone informed them that th child's mother was Mrs. Jewell and th.it she was in the house. eSrp'eant win and Officer Pavy commenced a sear h of the house while Sergeant Donovaa questioned the woman. "Was that child alive vhen it nas born?" he asked. "I do not know anything about it, Eaid Mrs. Jewell. The officers who had been searchin? the house found some blood-stained cluthinr in the cellar and Mrs. Jewel! thtn admitted that the chiid was h:s and said it was born last M"nday n!?ot and that it was dead. That she ii.il placed it under the door step at mid nicht. The officers doubt this as to al appearances the child had not been un der the step since Monday. The woman wa.s arrested on a char.se of rmir.i-r. The warrant was sworn out by Ser jeant Donovan and she was taken to the city jail. She is in a feetde condi tion, and needs a physician's best care. TO KILL JACK JI'AULIFFE. Man Who Once Lost Money On the Pugilist Attacks Him in a Hotel Cafe New York.. Dec. 24. Jack MoAu!iff. the former champion lipht weight pug ilist, was drinking with a party oT friends in the cafe of the Vanderbi.c hotel. Forty-second street and Lexing ton avenue, at 9 o'clock last night, when the door opened and Larkin Laeomia of 420 Fourth avenue rushed in. As h-? reached McAuliffe he drew back hia ripht arm and struck the pugilist in the face, stasperins him. "I'll kiil you, damn you:" shouted La eomia, and running over to a sot of scales that was standing- aeainst the wall, he seized a two-pound v.-jeht and threw it at McAuliffe's head. JlcAuliK-i dodged the weight, which was well aim ed, and it struck the bar, knocking a piece out of it. P.efore anybody ccuM interfere, he seized another weieht an 1 threw it also at the pusr.iist. Again Mc Auliffe dodged, and the weight i.t over the bar among the glassware, smashing J10 worth. Then the crowd closed In on Lacomil and McAufiffe. who reached him first, gave him a good drubbing. He knocked him down several times. and by the time the rest of the crowd seized hir.i. Laeomia was bleeding in several piacv-s. and there was one especially ba d w iun i in the neck. Laeomia was pushi ty the crowd toward the door, protesting and resisting every step of the way. "I lost S3.0"0 on that cur once." shout ed Laeomia. just as they reached the door, "and I'll kill him yet. Lend ma your gun, Dick, and 111 blow huies ia the dog." "Dick" kept In the background, how ever, and Laeomia was thrown out on the sidewalk. Then "Mattie" Clur.'. proprietor of the house, appeared, and. taking hold of Lacomia'e collar, un declared his intention of having him arrested. McAuliffe shouted fr m tr. saloon that he was willing to let th? fellow go provided he would pay for the damage he had cause.!. "1 don't want to see the house quit loser just because I came into the place," McAuliffe explained. "I'll pay t2o gladly if you let me rt Inside where I can get at MeAuhiTe again," said Laeomia. "You'll settie right here on the side walk or you'll go to the lockup," de clared Clune. "Pay up and be good. Larkin." shott ed the crowd, but Laeomia only had about t3 with him. H was arrest" and locked up in the East Fifty-first station on a charge of malicious mis chief. J. K. Lyons, the lessee of the cafe privileges, was the complainant against him. Stop-Over Privileges at Washington- mav- be enjoyed on Philadelphia and New York tickets via Vandai:a-Penr-sylvania Short Lines on and after Christmas, Ii'S, at no increase in fare. Fast through trains leave St. Louf Vnion Station every day over this s"i:d route to Washington and the east. For particular information address W. F. Brunner, A. G. P. Agt.. St. Louis, Mov Pell Throngh a Hatch. Dubuque, la., Dec. 14. A cablegram from Havana states that Henry Backer of Dubuque, member of company A. 0th Iowa volunteers, fell through a hatch while disembarking aai waa k.U-ed.
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Book contains a selection of Field's best and most rep resentative works, and is ready for delivery. But for the noble contri bution of the world's greatest artists this book Handsomely It lustrated by tluriy-two of the world's greatest artists could Dot have been manufactured tor less than $7.00. The fund created Is divided equally between the family of the late F.ugene FieiU and the fund for the building of a monument to the memory the beloved poet of chi. dhood. Addres9 Eugene Field Monument Souvenir Fund, lAlso at book stores) 180 Monroe St.. Chicago. If you also wish to send postage enclose 16c fUr-Mection Stats Journal as ad. is inserted M our contribution. AMUSEMENTS Q HAN II OPERA HOUSE Wednesday, Deo. 28th. Engagement of the Favorite American Char acter Comedian, TIM MURPHY, IN "The Carpetbagger.' A new Political, Romantic Comedy by Opie Head and Frank S. Pixiey. The. greatest American Comedy of recent years. An excellent cast. Special scenery. Prices: 50, 75, and $1.00. peats on sale Mon., Dec. its. at Sim's Drug Store. C03IIXG DRAMATIC EVENTS "The Pulse of Greater New York" will be the Christmas attraction at the Crawford theater on Monday. A mati nee performance will be given in the afternoon in addition to the evening performance. The company is headed by Mr. 'William A. Lang, Miss Fannie !ranjrer and Miss Helen Chandler, the female baritone wonder. The "Pulse" is described as full of singing, dancing and rapid tire hits of the day. Of the various attractions of its class now tourinsr there are few that iiave met with the success of this play. The colored comedians. Cole and Johnson, will be the attraction at the Crawford theater next Tuesday even in?, in their play "A Trip to Coon Town." There are few more deservedly popular colored comedians than these co-stars of clever specialties. Their humor is said to be of that spontaneous k.nd and never fails to provoke laughter, line of the secrets of their success is originality. Their work is surrounded "by an atmosphere of newness and cre ativeness that in these days of song situation and play piracy is positively refreshing. The price will be 75, 50, 35 and 25 cents. The Wheeling. (XT. Va.,) "Intelli gencer" of Nov. 1. had the following to pay of "Iarkest Kussia," the attraction at the Crawford theater next Thursday evening: "Darkest Russia" was pro duced in Wheeling at the Grand Opera House last night. The story of the play, dealing as it does with, many phases of life in the realm of the czar, was well enacted by the company, which in strength is above the average. There is not a single weak point in the cast. The other requirements of an artistic production, special scenery and appropriate costumes, are all met in a satisfactory way. "Darkest Russia" is In every respect a first class and very interesting performance. Tim Murphy's new play, "The Carpet bagger," in which he will be seen at the ?rand Optra House next "Wednesday evening, is described as a political, ro mantic comedy. It is the joint product of Opie Reed, the well known novelist, jind Frank S. Pixiey. It has been pre sented in a few of the large cities of the eastern and western states, and has made a genuine success. The title "The Carpetbagger." will be sufficiently sug gestive to anyone who remembers the Ftirring days in the south, shortly after the civil war. Mr. Murphy imperson ates a carpetbagger governor of a southern state, and claims to have found a congenial role which gives him mple scone for fine character delinea tion. He will be surrounded by an or ganization that includes Miss Dorothy Shfrrod, and a number of other well and favorably known actors and actresses. A complete equipment of special scenery Is engaged in the production of "The Carpetbagger." Murray and Mack In Flnnegan's 400." is the attraction booked for the Crawford next Saturday. Good Enough to Take. The finest quality of loaf sugar is used In the manufacture of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and the roots used in Its preparation give it a flavor similar to that of maple syrup, making it very Ileasant to take. As a medecine for the cure of coughs, colds, la grippe, croup and whooping cough 4t is un equaled by any other. It always cures, and cures quickly. For sale by all tirug- RAILR0AD NEWS. Fort Worth DenTer City Road to Build North. To Connect With the Frisco at Oklahoma City. AIR LINE TO ST. LOUIS Kansas City Railroad Man Sues For 20,000 Damages. Charges Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific With False Arrest, Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 24. 'A corps of Denver and Fort Worth civil engineers left here this morning for Quanah. Tex., for the purpose of making a survey for a line to Oklahoma City. The project is to connect with the 'Frisco, giving direct communication with St. Louis. It is reported that the Fort Worth. Denver City Railway company la fos tering the scheme. SUES FOR FALSE ARKEST. Kansas City Man Wants 20,000 From Santa Fe and Missouri Pacifiic Kansas City, Dec. 24. Harry E. Mil ton, one of the men arrested on sus picion of being implicated in the Leeds train robbery last October, but who was released froni custody after being held four days, has filed suit for $20,000 damages in the circuit court against the Missouri Pacific and Atchison, To peka Santa Fe Railway companies. Milton claims in his petition that he was arrested just after the robbery and taken to No. 2 police station. He says he was in his shirt sleeves at the time of his arrest and was not allowed to get a coat. After being held four days he was released, as there was no evidence to connect him with the train holdup. Detectives of the two roads sued made the arrest. Milton is in the employ of the Maple Leaf. TELEGRAPHERS GRATIFIED. Reached a Satisfactory Agreement With the M. K. T. Officials. St. Louis, Dec. 24. After negotiations covering over two months the grievance committee of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers of North America, whose members have been in St. Louis since October 14. has succeeded in obtaining an agreement with the Missouri, Kan sas Texas Railroad company, and the committeemen will return to their homes in the three states covered by fhe system with which they have been dealing. The committee has acted under the guidance of Charles E. Bruce, of Peoria. 111., acting first assistant grand chief of the telegraphers' order. The com mittee was headed by F. S. Werner, of Lockhart, Tex., and the other members were C. E. Stillwell, of Waco, Tex.; E. B. Hill. Dallas, Tex.; J. T. Clapper, Atoka, I. T. L. D. McCoy. Selma, Kan., and T. E. Evans, Portland. Mo. This committee represented every division on the Missouri, Kansas Texas sys tem, and about 400 telegraph operators. The committee first asked for an agreement with the company carrying with it a set of rules governing hours of work, etc., and a schedule of wages, which embraced an advance. The men wanted an allowance for overtime and rules governing their hours of work. All the officials of the system, from General Manager Allen down, were at times in conference with the committee, and the agreement arrived at places the operators on the "Katy" system on a par with employes in the other branches of the service, the conductors, trainmen and engineers, who already had contracts with the management. The life of the agreement is indefinite, and in order to change it thirty days' notice must be given by either side. KANSAS RAILROADS. Interesting Report of the Railroad Commissioners. The biennial report of the state board of railroad commissioners, which is now in the hands of the state printer, will show a number of interesting facts con cerning Kansas railroads. There were killed in Kansas by rail road casualties 111 persons, and 609 were injured. On the entire lines there were 531 killed and 2.208 injured. Of the number killed 180 were employes, 19 were passengers, 261 were trespassers, and 71 were persons not trespassers. Of the injured 1.480 were employes, 281 were passengers, 332 were trespassers, and 115 were others, not trespassers. The total mileage operated in the state is 8.889.28 miles, a decrease of 53.5 miles during the year. The gross earnings from operation were $33,017,240.54. while the operating expenses were $21,600,121.36, leaving an income from operation of $10,417,119.18. The total number of persons employed in Kansas in operating the railroads was 24,094, and their average wages was $1.92 per day. The number of passengers carried during the year was 4,619,690, and the average distance they rode was 57.44 miles. There were 16.817,561 tons of freight carried during the year which paid revenue, and the average revenue re ceived from each ton was $1.36. The Kansas locomotives consumed during the year 1.937.078 tons of coal while running 45.782,334 miles, or 84.61 pounds to the mile. On the entire, systems of all railroads which run through Kansas there are 91.339 persons employed, who receive an average compensation of $1.84 per day. WHAT BECAME OF THE TURKEY Tale of Early Railroading in Kansas With a Snuff User. "Did you ever try to live with a per son that was a habitual snuff user?" asked the depot master of a group cf trainmen who were waiting for their call. "No," answered one, "did you?" "Yes. I never want to again. It was when I first started my railroad career and before I was put on the retired list from active service as a depot master." and he looked at his stiff knee received in an accident that relegated him to platform duty instead of train service. "Where and when was it?" asked an other member of the group. "It was during the time that the San ta Fe was being built through Kansas. I was with a tracklaying outfit as boss but bosses and men all had to sleep in the same boxcar boarding house. There was an old Scotchman in the gang who used snuff and I'll tell you without get ting far from the truth that if there was an engine on the road that did not draw well one pinch of that snuff would clear out her flues so well that she would, draw chunks of coal right up through the stack. You can laugh but what I am telling you is gospel truth, yes sir. "That old son of Bobby Burnsland would spill some of that snuff every time he took a. pinch and there was snuff scattered all around the boxcar we lived in and all along the track. Why, one day a poor fellow lying in one of those two by twice bunks got a whiff of that snuff and sneezed so hard that tie nearly beat his brains out on the bot tom of the bunk over him. We finally got used to sneezing. "That's not the story I. was going o tell. It was a Christmas story I had in rnind. We were working way out in the short grass country 20, yes 30 miles from even a place that would be called a town. We had a handcar and the day before Christmas we sent four of the boys into the town to get a turkey.They got the turkey and what's more they got several jugs of whisky. Back they came singing "The Wrearing of the Green" as only a car load of whisky soaked Irishmen can. Old Scotchy was not far behind in the coaking business when the stuff arrived and he took his full share along with his snuff. A drink of whisky and, 'kerchew' he would go as soon as he could take some snuff, "That was the drunkest gang I ever saw. They kept it up all night and even the cook was loaded. The next morning they brought the turkey out to be slaughtered. The crowd was so full of whisky they walked all over the right of way and the turkey was the only so ber one in the crowd. One big Irishman got the axe out and sharpened it ready to do the headsman's act on Sir Turk. The turkey's head was laid on a tie and the man raised the axe to strike. Just as the axe came down the turkey got a whiff of Scotchie's snuff and sneezed so hard that the axe was buried several inches in the tie but never touched him. The crowd thought that was pretty good and all took a drink on the strength of the Turkey's lucky sneeze. "The turkey kept sneezing and they kept drinking and kept missing the tur key's head. Every time the axe was raised to strike the turkey sneezed and the crowd took another drink and the turkey's life was saved. There wasn't a one in that crowd sober enough to hit that sneezing turkey's head, for it bob bed all over the tie when the turkey sneezed. The snuff that had been scat tered by the four winds of Heaven sav ed its head from that axe. We didn t have any Christmas dinner that day. The last man to drink that nignt was the old Soctchman. All the rest were fast asleep and he wandered over to the jug and took a long pull. Then he opened his box for a pinch of snuff. He was too drunk to close the box and had it open in his hand when he dropped off to sleep. "The next morning When the crowd came to, there lay the urkey dead. Its head could not be found." The old man stopped and moved away. "What became of the head?" asked one. "Why, it got its beak in the snuff box and sneezed its head off." BRYAN REACHES HOME Is Tendered a Reception by the Woman's Bimetallic League. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 24. Colonel W. J. Bryan returned to Lincoln this after noon and was tonight tendered a recep tion at the Oliver theater by the Wo man's Bimetallic league. The house was crowded and Colonel Bryan, received an ovation. He was intro duced by Governor Holcomb, who form ally welcomed him home and compli mented him for his patriotism in en listing in the army. After thanking his neighbors for their cordial welcome and complimenting the members of his regiment and Colonel Viefiquin, in whose charge he left them, he justified his resignation as follows: "I had five months of peace in the army and resigned in order to take a part in a fight. I am as much interest ed in the people of the United States as I am in the people of Cuba and un less I am mistaken in judging, we are called upon to meet more important problems in the United States just now than will confront our army in Cuba. "Some of these problems were under discussion before hostilities began; others have been thrust upon us as a result of the war. Let me improve this, my first opportunity, to assure you that my zeal for the reforms advocated a few months ago has not in the least abated. Vital questions can not be killed or be buried for we were dealing with vital questions when the call to arms resounded through the land. "The American people have not ac cepted the gold standard as final. It haswrought -more injustice in our coun try during the last twenty-five years than Spain has wrought in all her colonies, and opposition to it will grow until the gold and silver coinage of the constitution is fully restored. The trusts which now flourish in defiance of law are more merciless than Weyler was, and the new trust the paper money trust which is seeking to obtain control of all the paper money of the nation is a greater menace to the coun try's welfare than any foreign foe. "There are, however, two new ques tions which demand immediate atten tion, because congress is asked to act upon them at once. The president re commends that the regular army be permanently increased to one hundred thousand men. This question must be met now or not at all." Taking up the subject of imperialism, Mr. Bryan said that the president has misinterpreted the sentiment of the peo ple. They are opposed to giving the Philippine islands back to Spain, but they have not as yet declared in favor of embarking upon a colonial policy. So great a change, he said, could not be undertaken without more investigation and deliberation than the people had given yet to the subject. The principal part of Mr. Bryan's speech was devoted to the Philippine question. In this con nection he referred to President Mc Kinley's inquiry, "Who will haul down the flag?" and replied: "The flag is a national emblem and is obedient to he national will. It is made for the people, not the people for the flag. When the American people want the flag raised they raise it: when they want it hauled down they haul it down. The flag was raised upon Canadian soil during the war of 1812 and it was hauled down when peace was restored. The flag was planted up on Chapultepec during the war with Mexico, and it was hauled down when the war was over. The morning papers announce that General Lee ordered the flag hauled down in Cuba yesterday, because it was raised too soon. The flag will be raised in Cuba again on the first of January, but the president declares in his message that it will be hauled down as soon as a stable government is established. Who will deny to the people the right to haul the flag down in the Philippines, if they so desire, when a stable government is establish ed there? "Our flag stands for an indissoluble union of indestructible states. Every state is represented by a star, and every territory sees in the constitution a star of hope that will some day takes its place in the constellation. What is there in the flag to awaken the zeal or reflect the aspirations of vassal colonies which are too good to cast away, but not big enough to be admitted to the sisterhood of states? "Shall we keep the Philippines and amend our flag? Shall we add a new star, the blood star Mars to indicate that we have entered upon a career of conquest? Or shall we borrow the yel low, which in 1896 was the badge of gold and greed, and paint Saturn and his rings, to suggest a carpetbag gov ernment, with its schemes of spolia tion? Or shall we adorn our flag with a milky way composed of a multitude of minor stars representing remote and in significant dependencies? "No, a'thousand times better to haul down the stars and stripes and substi tute the flag of an independent republic than to surrender the doctrines that give glory to 'Old Glory.' It was the flag of our fathers in the years that are gone; it is the flag of a reunited coun try today; let it be the flag of our na tion in the years that, are to come. Its stripes of red tell of the blood that was shed to purchase liberty; its stripes of white proclaim the pure and heaven born purpose of a government which derived its just powers from the consent of the governed. The mission of that flag is to float, not over a conglomera tion of commonwealths, but over the land of the free and the home of the brave,' and to that mission it must re main 'forever forever true." Colonel Bryan's speech was the only one of length at the reception. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Marshall's band concert will probably be held in February. Lieutenant Governor Harvey once taught school at Auburn. The State Farmers' alliance will meet in Topeka January 5: The Hillmon case mav be tried in Febru ary and it may not be tried at all. The First Christian church will have an old fashioned Christmas tree tonight. Ootwity Treasurer Phillips and his office force are busy checking up the tax rolls. Otto Kuehne says that his business has been $25,000 larger this year than ever be fore. The price of turkeys ranges from 10 to 13 cents per pound in different parts of town. Major T. J. Anderson has made a dona tion of money to the Tecumseh G. A. R. post. Detective Dell Harbaugh left Friday for St. Louis to spend Christmas with his family. It is to be hoped that the legislature will make provisions to complete the state house dome. The letter carriers will make one de livery only on Monday, and that will be early in the morning. j juiii xli. Xjoru is acnievuig a repuictnuii at the Athletic club as one of the best bowlers in the city. j The lumber dealers wish that the habit J of giving houses as Christmas presents j would come into style. Frank Grimes has appointed Roy Ritchie I to be bond clerk in the state treasury dur i:"g the next two years. There has been but one Santa Claus on the streets of Topeka this season and his make-up is sadly out of joint. Colonel A. B. Jetmore has gone to Wash ington and it is hinted that he has his eye on the federal judgeship. Commissioner of Elections Yount says that he has no fears that his office will be abolished by this legislature. Young men in natty military uniforms are now a common sight on the streets. They are at home from school. A lunch stand sign in the west corridor of the state house near the entrance to Representative hall reads "Lunh." Lieutenant Governor-elect H. E. Richter is watching the proceedings in the senate. He once served as a member of that body. Oscar Swayze is growing a Pefferian beard and he says that it is to protect his face from a premature discharge of fire works. Simon Greenspan is still kept confined at the county jail. He will be removed to the asylum as soon as room can be made for him. "Nethersole" bracelets and "Nethersolc" kisses were the fashion. The bracelets are yet, but the kisses have been suc ceeded. A vonng man who sent a five pound hor. of candv bv express spent an hour tying it with a string to keep the express mes senger out of it. The aroma of coffee and of the ham sandwich permeates the corridors of the state house a good share of the time. They I come trora tne luncn stands. Mnior Wm. Sims, president of the First I National bank, keeps up his membership in the farmers' societies to which he be- j longed when he lived on a farm. 1 Governor I.eedv went to Lawrence last night to spend Christmas with his family. I As he left the state house he wished every 1 one whom he saw "a merry Christmas." The Kansas Academy of Science will meet in Topeka on December 2.4. The meet inirs will be held in the rooms of the State Horticultural society at the state house. A Topeka man was called to the postcf fice to pav extra postage on a package. He refused. His wife went to the office, paid the charges and kept the package. It was a box of cigars. T. S. Davis, representative from Wilson countv. is known as "the gentleman from Klondike." He went to the Alaskan gold regions a "year ago last summer and re turned to Kansas last August. Mike McKenna, who has made out several thousand notarial commissions during the past two years for other peo ple has just issued one to himself for use in his home county. Rooks county. If Dave Leahy looked like his little boy when he was the same age it is no wonder the Empress of Austria picked him up and kissed him. Little Dan. who is a page, will soon be the pet of the house. Capital lodge No. F.S. Order of Select Friends, has elected the following officers: Chief protector. Mrs. Theresa Shultz: vice protector. Miss Dixon: secretary. Miss Flora Sherry; treasurer, alias Lydia C. De Long. Representatives Irwin. Hollenbeak and Johnson of Nemaha, on the Republican side, voted with the Populists on the emer gency proposition to appropriate $31,000 from the uate university fund for the use of the legislature. Assistant Secretary of State Ross has been compelled to give up his desk to the clerk of the wavs and means oommitfee of the senate. The latter had to have a roller-top desk, even if the governor him self had to give it up. The Salvation Army authorities have not made up their minds to submit to the or der of the city council and move their hos pital. The Salvation Army should not get the reputation of stubbornly oppopsing every order of the city government, if it intends to solicit support from the city. John MacDonald. president of the State Teachers' association, says the evil effects of the special session are already notice able. "Our association has to give tip Representative hall this year to the spe cial session." he says, "and the hotels are so crowded that we cannot enpage rooms for the teachers who are writing for them, ll hpraupp this legislature is in session. i The teachers will have to go to private houses. As soo nas Dave Leahy's little son Dan had been elected as one of the pages in (he house Wednesday. Dave telegraphed Mrs. Leahy to send the boy up from Wichita. On the same train he came on was T.y man Naugle's boy. Roy.who had also been elected as a page in the house. Although the two bovs had never seen nor hear.l of one another before they had not been on the same train three minutes until, by some intuitive manner known only to boy hood, each knew the other's destination and purposes and they had become fast chums. Philadelphia to Borrow Millions. Philadelphia, Dec. 24. Judges Sulz berger and Pennypacker today dismiss ed the bill in equity brought by Messrs. Barr and Yoeum to restrain the issue of the new loan of $11,200,000, to be de voted to city improvements, including nearly $5,000,000 for a better water sup ply and $1,000,000 for the public library. This decision establishes the legality of the loan and it will be negotiated at once. 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. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. As the new year comes in on Sunday, Monday will be observed; the receiving parties while not very numerous are nearly all quite large and elaborate preparations are being made. The largest party is at Library hall and is composed of Mrs. W. A. Johns ton, Mrs. P. I. Bonehrake, Mrs. Albert Latham, Mrs. J. K. Hudson, Mrs. Allen, Miss Hillis, Mrs. Eugene F Ware, Mrs. C. C. Baker, Mrs. J. L. Shellabarger, Mrs. William Macferran, Mrs. H. O. Garvey, Mrs. C. F. spencer, Mrs. C. J. Brown, Mrs. John Bradley, Mrs. Rich ard Gundry, Mrs. Willard Hall, Miss Greer, Mrs. W. A. Morton, Mrs. Robert Pierce, Mrs. Henry Keeler, Mrs. Morse, Mrs. H. W. Seery, Mrs. George W. Crane, Mrs. James L. King, Mrs. H. V. Hinckley, Mrs. A. B. Quinton, Mrs. P. H. Adams, Mrs. E. H. Crosby, Mrs. George F. Sharitt, Mrs. Avery Turner, Mrs. D. J. Harding, Mrs. M. O'Brien, Mrs. S. K. Bear, Mrs. F. E. Nipps, Mrs. A. R. Lingafelt, Mrs. James P. Rowley, Miss Ruby Roarke, Mrs. W. H. Johns ton, Mrs. Charles Holliday, Mrs. Her rick, Mrs. I. W. Doolittle, Mrs. W. W. Manspeaker, Miss Edith Guibor, Miss Myrtle Jetmore, Mrs. A. Zahner, Mrs. W. H. Eastman, Mrs. F. P. Mac.Lennan, Mrs. A. Marburg, Miss Keim of Johns town, Penn., Miss Dennis, Miss Bessie West, Mrs. J. R. Hankla, Mrs. F. J. Shubert, Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Guibor, Miss I Lida Bergen and Mrs. West, j The ladies will give a dance in the I evening when they will be joined by j the Bachelor Girls club. I At Mrs. Jarrell's. I The following ladies will receive with I Mrs. Jarrell: Mrs. Harold Chase, Mrs. I Willis Norton, Mrs. Arthur Capper, j Mrs. Eugene Quinton, Mrs. Herbert I Armstrong. Mrs. T. E. Pounds, Mrs. i Theodore Hammatt, Mrs. George Craw ford, Mrs. Frank Thomas, Miss Mary Nickerson Lakin, Mrs. H. L. Bert of Quincy, 111., and Mrs. W. Lyle 'Dickey of Omaha, Neb. At Mrs Hayden's. Fr3m 2:30 until 6 Mrs. James B. Hay den will keep open house. The receiving party will consist of Mrs. Hayden, Mrs. Willacd Davis, Mrs. A. H. Connelly and Mrs. Conway Holmes of Kansas City, Miss O'Connor of San Francisco, Miss Willis of Lexington, Ky., Miss Lou Neely and Miss Mattie Jones of Leaven worth, Mrs. Frank Wear, Mrs. Charles Hudson, Mrs. Armin Fassler, Mrs. Belle Hall Small, Mrs. W. J. Black, Mrs. Charles Blood Smith, Mrs. R. K. Jami son, Mrs. Dell Keizer, Mrs. W. T. Cros by, Miss Ella Scovill of Seneca, Miss Rossington, Miss Madge Johnson, Miss Lillian Tefft, Miss Lois Tefft, Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Lucile Mulvane and Miss Bessie Hayden. In the evening they will give a danc ing party. At Judge Horton's. At the home of Judge A. H. Horton the Douze Whist club and the Modern Literature club will receive. The mem bers of the clubs that will be present are: Mrs. David Palmer, Mrs. Fred Cole, Mrs. Harrison Morgan. Mrs. J. B. Furry, Mrs. W. N. West, Mrs. Chas. Haines of Sabetha, Mrs. Solomon Stod daid of Kansas City, Miss Arlie Ewart, Miss Mary Thompson, Miss Priscilla Alexander, Miss Rosamond Horton, Miss Alice Prescott, Miss Mabel Wilson, Miss Kate Gunther, Miss Wrilla Rogers, Miss Maude Ranney, Miss Lotta Ran ney. Miss Helen Moon, Miss Glenna Cross and Miss Caro Penfield. At the Bishop's House. 'At the Bishop's House the following party will receive from three until ten: Bishop and Mrs. Millspaugh, Dean and Mrs! Sykes. Mrs. Charles Thomas, Miss Nellie McClintock, Miss Margaret Dud ley, Miss Jeannette Weaver of Leaven worth, Miss Hambleton and Miss Mamie Hambleton. -v At the Manse. From two until five and from seven until ten the following party will re ceive at the manse: Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Countermine, Mrs. J. T. Clark, Mrs. W. W. Mills. Mrs. M. L. Millspaugh, Mrs. J. A. McGiffen, Mrs. G. M. Chase. Mrs. J. B. Larimer, Mrs. Alexander Laird, Mrs. N. W. Laubach. Miss Margaret Weiss, Miss Mary E. Frost, Miss Mary E. .Walker and Miss Helen D. Walker. At Miss Lord's. The following young ladies of the Bachelor club will receive at Miss Jean nette Lord's: Miss Florence Rossington, Miss Edna Crane, Miss Myrtle Davis, Miss Ivah Davis, Miss Susie Gay, Miss Gertrude Devereux, Miss Jeannette Lord, Miss Metta Robinson, Miss Helen Thompson, Miss Lillian Whitelock, Miss Daisy Sherman, Miss Sarah Horner, Miss Flossie Moon and Miss Margaret Bear. At T. W. Harrison's. At the home of T. W. Harrison on Western avenue the following party will receive: Mrs. Charles Holman, Mrs. Charles McCabe, Mrs. Will Whit ton, Mrs. Lewis Greenwood, Mrs. Geo. Harrison, Mrs. W. B. Swan. Mrs. Robt. Merrick, Miss Georgiana Wasson, Miss Jean Frost, Miss Eleanor Work, Miss Birdena Crandell. Miss Martha Brad-shaw-, Miss Elsie Valentine, Miss Mabel Barnes, Miss Maud Barnes, Miss Effie Neil, Miss Margaret Sawyer, Miss Mol lie Magill, Miss Laura Davies, Miss Johnson, Miss Vanderpool and Miss Mary Harrison. They will give a dance in the evening. At Y. M. C. A. Rooms. Abouth thirty prominent ladies, as sisted by a number of young girls, wili receive at the Y. M. C. A. rooms in the afternoon and in the evening an inform al reception will be held at the Y. W. C. A. rooms. A few other parties are being talked of but have not been definitely decided upon yet. A number of visiting girls are expected to receive with the party at Library hall with the Douze Whist club and the Modern Literature club and also with the Bachelor Girls. The Imperial Party. The attendance at the Imperial party Friday evening was very large and it was one of the most pleasant parties of the series. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith, Mr. and Mrs. ,W. J. Black, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Sutton, Mr. and Airs. F. A. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Rankin, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Downing, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Eagle, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hudson of the City of Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. George Stoker, Mrs. James Lelson of Menominee, Alien., Aliss O'Connor of San Francisco, Aliss Gertrude Bough ton of Lawrence, Aliss Glenna Cross, Aliss Rosamond Horton, Aliss Nellie AlcClintock, Aliss Rossington, Aliss Florence Rossington, Aliss Lotta Ran ney, Aliss Edna Crane, Miss Lillian Tefft, Aliss Flossie Aloon, Miss Vera Low, Aliss Ray Alartin, Aliss Hazel Fassler, Miss Alabel Wilson, Aliss Helen Wilson, Aliss Gertrude Devereux, AIi3s Susie Gay, Miss Edna AlcClintock, Aliss Daisy Sherman, Aiss AlyTtle Alitchell. Aliss Alyrtle Davis.AIiss Jeannette Lord, Aliss Ruth AIcClintock.AIiss Lucile Alul vane, Aliss Spivey, Miss Alartha Brad sha.w. Miss Alyrtle Jetmore, Aliss Lillian Whitelock, Aliss Ruby Roark, Mr. Thos. L. King, Mr. Galen Nichols, Mr. Archie Williams. Mr. Dean Low, Mr. Burr La kin, Air. David Lakin, Air. Geo. Esterly, Air. W. J. Burgess, Air. Pierre Allaire, Mr. Will Wikidal, Air. Clarence Young, Mr. Everett Dallas, Mr. Fred McGif- ben Spivey, Air. Joe Alorgan, Air. Paul Torrington, Air. Spellman of Kansas City, Air. A. L. Davis, Air. Frank Davis, Air. Clyde Grubbs, Mr. Frank Bennett. J Air. Gilford Dudley, Air. Dana AlcVicar, air. ma jHcuriae, Air. junus vveianng, fin, Air. Charles Lagerstrom, Mr. Reu Alr. Leslie Guild, Air. Robert Ruggles, Air. John Boston, Mr. Walter Cust, Air. Albert Patton, Mr. Lew Graham, Air. Ellsworth Weaver, Mr. Burton Aludge, Air. Jake Mohler, and Mr. W .S. Alat thews of St. Louis. The Nautilus Clubi The Nautilus 'club held a very pleas ant meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Bishop and an entertain ing Christmas programme was given. The responses to roll call were quota tions about Christmas, and several pa pers, on Christmas and how it is ob served in different countries were read; Airs. L. D. Whittemore read a paper on art and the art committee presented each one present with a dainty souv enir. The club will give Its annual enter tainment, which will be a 7 o'clock tea. New Year's Eve at the home of Airs. L. W. Wilson on Dillon street. Only the members and their husbands will be present. Notes and Persona! Mention. Engraved visiting cards and wedding invitations, Jaccard's productions, at Adams Bros., Topeka agents. Airs. Bell Hall Small spent a couple of days in Chicago this week. Aliss Gertrude Boughton of Lawrence attended the Imperial party Friday ev ening; she was the guest of Mrs. C. B. Samson. Air. and Airs. Arthur Turner of Quin cy, III., are in the city visiting Air. Tur ner's brother and wife. Air. and Airs. Avery Turner. Dr. and Airs. E. W. Stevens and Air. and Airs. William AIoss Jones and daughter Genevieve of Cameron, Mo., arrived today to spend the holidays with Air. and Airs. D. O. McCray. Aliss Carrie Titus of Kansas City will arrive next week to visit Airs. W. H. Johnston. Aliss Ona AlcFadden of Chicago is in Topeka to spend the holidays with her father. Airs. A. A. Hurd spent Friday in Kan sas City. Aliss Elizabeth Davidson went to her home in Yates Center today to spend a Allan Phillips, son of H. M. Phillips, has taken a position with the dry goods company of Warren Al. Crosby. Mrs. Will Aloore and daughter, Alarion, went to Kansas City Wednes day to spend the holidays. Miss Kathleen Moreland went to Hia watha today to spend the holidays. Mr. and Airs. S. V. Derrah and son, Robert, of Kansas City, are spending the holidays in Topeka with Airs. Der rah's sister. Airs. Avery Turner. Miss Anna MeGrath of Lawrence, and Wallace Lea of Kansas City, are ex pected next week to visit their cousin, Wallace Thompson. Air. and Mrs. J. J. Frey are going to entertain at a family dinner on Christ mas; there will be about eighteen pres ent. Air. Frank Alileham of Arizona is go ing to spend Christmas in Topeka with his wife. Air. and Airs. George AlcClelland will spend Christmas in Kansas City with Airs. McClelland's parents. Professor and Airs. L. if. Whittemore and children are going to in Hiawatha a few days next week. Air. and Airs. AfcAIahan of Troy, Kan., are going to spend Christmas in Topeka with Airs. AIcAlahan's mother, Mrs. J. A. Davis. Airs. John Poindexter and sister, Aliss Addie Ritter, will spend Christmas in Kansas City. Professor and Airs. Hyde are going to spend next week in Hiawatha. Air. A. E. Smith, formerly of the auditor's office of the Santa Fe, but now with the Colorado Midland at Den ver, arrived today to spend the holidays. Afr. and Airs. C. G. Alalm and little son, Ignaee, of Herington. arrived to day to spend the holidays with rela tives. Aliss Ruth Olson returned today from a five months' visit with her sister, Airs. Alalm in Herington. Airs. Harry Baer of Kansas City is up to spend the holidays with her cousin, Aliss ATaria Bromich. Ed. Cartlidge of the City of Alexico, is in Topeka for the holidays. Aliss Bessie Campbell of Horton, who has been attending school in Fulton, AIo., is spending a few days with Air. and Airs. N. B. Campbell; they, together with Aliss Adabelle Campbell, will ac company her to her home to spend Christmas. Aliss Edith Guibor entertained her club Friday evening. Aliss Effie Trader, who attends school in Abilene, is home to spend the holi days with her parents. Aliss Helen Small returned to her home in Atchison today, accompanied by Air. and Airs. Dan Small, who will spend Christmas there. Aliss Bessie Budlong of Kansas City is going to spend Christmas with Aliss Mabel Knowles. H. K. Weems will leave this evening for a two days' visit at his home in Aloberly, Alo. Howard Knowles is coming up from Kansas City this evening to spend Christmas with his parents. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Constant is quite ill. E. D. Swayze of Pomona, Kansas, is visiting relatives in the city. Air. and Airs.' Henry Hull have gone to Kansas City to spend the holidays with friends. Airs. Alary H. Cornelius, author of "Uncle Nathan's Farm," will occupy their house during their absence. RESIGNED IN TIME. To Have Governor Leedy Appoint a Populist as His Successor. Governor Leedy has appointed George M. Bradley to be sheriff of Sherman coun ty to succeed W. E. Dustin, who resigns because he intends to move out of the county. Both are Populists. By re signing now Mr. Dustin had a Populist appointed as his successor, whereas, if he had waited three weeks longer the ap pointment would have devolved upon Gov ernor Stanley, and it would have fallen upon a Republican. Mr. Dustin has purchased a farm just south of Topeka and intends to move here in a short time. INSURANCE COMPANIES Continue to Come Into the State in Spite of Webb McNall's Rulings. "This is the way we are driving insur ance companies out of the state," re marked Superintendent of Insurance Alc Nall last evening, as he opened his even ing mail and came across two requests from insurance companies to be admitted into the state. The requests came from the Rockford Fire Insurance company of Rockford, 111., and the Fort Wayne Insurance comp-iny of Fort Wayne. Ind. Both will be sup plied with the blanks necessary for com pliance with the law before they are admitted. Hundreds Frozen to Death. London, Dec. 24. The Vienna corre- spondent of the Daily Telegrapn, says: "Several hundred Alontenegren soldiers who were recently overtaken by a snow storm in the Lana pass, were frozen to death. The expedition sent to the rescue found the snow drifts so heavy that it was impossible to save them." 135,000,000 NEEDED To Dig the Big Ditch Across the Nic araguan Isthmus. New York, Dec. 24. The preliminary report of the Nicaragua canal commis sion consisting of Gen. Haines, Admiral Walker and Prof. Haupt has been com pleted and will be read before the sen ate committee either during the Christ mas recess of congress or immediately afterward. This report will give many details of construction in regard to the proposed route and will give a close figure on the entire cost of the undertaking as far as human ingenuity can foresee. A summary of these costs has been made out in sections and without goin into the details of curves and levels, they are as follows: The eastern har bor and jetties will require about 9,0. 000 cubic yards of soft excavation. Tli jetties themselves require about 400.LM 0 cubic yards of rip rap stone. The Greytown section of the canal, that is the section beginning at the har bor and reaching to the east divide, will require 16,000,000 cubic yards of earth and ciay excavations. The three locks in this section will cost in the neighbor hood of ten millions dollars, complete with three million yard excavation. This section is about 13 miles in length and runs through the jungle country near the coast. There will be 700 acres i f clearing and grubbing also in this sec tion. The incidental expenses will amount to little besides those above enumerated; therefore they are omi' ted. The divide section reaches from here through the high rocky range of hills t 24 miles further. Ther are seven an 1 one half million cubic yards of rock in this cut and about five million yards of earth and clay. The depth of this cut will be mitigated by the height of the canal which is here 11 feet above th sea. The sctual cutting will be about 200 feet in the deepest part. From here begins the Ochoa section which runs through the San Francisco basin and Florida lagoon. This is low country anj the cutting which will reach to the Ochoa dam, 3iy2 miles from the Carib bean sea will only add ten million yards to the figures, making a trifle over 40,000,000 cubic yards to the dam. From here a summary of the cut through the San Juan river will aggre gate 34,000,000 cubic yards, with about 5,000,000 more for curve widening and 2,000,000 acres clearing and grubbing. This will not include any of the dams or embankments, but simply the chan nel cutting in the bed of the San Juan river. This makes 75.000,000 cubic yards of all grades of cutting to Lake Nicara gua. The cost of the Ochoa dam. upon which rests the entire feasibility of the route, has not been accurately com puted, as the undertaking is of so colossal a nature as to be beyond figur ing within a unit or even more. The dam will be over 1.500 feet in length, its foundation over 130 feet. As the river will have to be turned from its course during its construction, it will be seen that many details will have to be takn into consideration for an estimate of its cost. The San Carlos embankment will cost several million dollars, and the esti mates are being made. The cuts in trie shallow part of the lake will aggregate 10.000.000 yards, making a total of 5. 000,000 to the western division of the canal. The estimates for the western division have not been made yet. They are under the direction of Ad miral Walker's son. V. W. G. Walker, and they will amount to not less than 30,000,000 cubic yards more, making a total of 115.000,000 cubic yards of all kinds of excavation to the harbor at Brito and allowing S.OoO.OOO cubic yards for dredging here, the total estimate will come to nearly 125.000,0") yards, ex clusive of all dams and embankments. It will be seen that $135,000,000 will be a conservative estimate of the entire cost of the canal, and this almost agrees with that of General W. Ludow's re port of 1896. THE TREATY IS HERE. Commissioners Land at New York and Leave for Washington. New York, Dec. 24. Judge William P.. Day, Senator C. K. Davis. Senator Geo. Gray,Senator W. P. Frye and Whitelaw Reid, the United States commissioners to arrange a treaty of peace with Spain reached home today on board the steamer St. Louis. Holding that the rules governing their diplomatic mis sion are still in force, none of the gen tlemen named would speak regarding the work at Paris. They took the first train to Washington carrying the treaty of peace with them. J. Bassett Moore, secretary and counsel of the commis sion and Arthur W. Ferguson, transla tor were with the commissioners. STUDENTS MUTILATE A BOY Use Crude Methods in Performing; an Operation on a Subject. St. Loui.s, Dec. 24. K. J. Bmatiie, R. Moore and J. A. Walker, Ftii'lfnts ;i t t hi St. Iouis Homeopathic Medical collie, operated on 34-year-old Klijnh Rice in a back room at their boarding hous 2Tw Btoddfird street. The hny in a son of the woman who conducts the board ins? houso. He was so mutilated that a surgeon had to be called in to complete the operation, and it is feared that blood poisoning will set in and cause death. With an old trunk as an operating table the students undressed the lad. applied anaesthetics and by the lii;ht of an oil lamp did the job. Old raps and old pap r were used to catch the escaping biood. n i a newspaper was placed over the boy's face to prevent him from seeing wh;-t was point? on. With knives, scissors an 1 forceps they performed a painful opera tion. Airs. Rice rushed into the room b-for the job was finished and rescued hf-r so-j from the terrible ordeal. She was craz- 1 when she learned what had occurred. ai:i declares she wi 11 proseru te the stud-nT, one of whom has left the city. The stu dents claim that the boy consented to the operation, but he denies this. 11 ILL SAYS IT'S DEPEW. Who Will Be Murphy's Successor in the U. S. Senate. Buffalo. N. Y., Dec. 24 The TmlependfTit club had as its guest this evening 'haun cey M. IJepew. the occasion beinir its 'hristmas dinner in the banquet hah of the F.lliott club. When the cierars and ctTee had been reached C B. Oibbs. president of the In dependent club. r-a'1 a letter of rer.-t from Senator D. B. Hill, in which he re ferred to the guest of the tveem? as oJr mutual friend, soon to be United State senator from the -Umpire state." Mr. Hill's letter was received with hearty applause. Begg'a German Salve Is an Invaluable remedy for cut3, burns, bruises, scalds, chapped hands, sore nipples, sore lips, eczema, ulcers, chron ic sores, skin eruptions, fever sores, and all skin diseases.; For sale by all drug gists. Colored shirts' and waists laundered so that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry. H- and 114 West Eighth street.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1898. A GREAT DECLINE In Importation of British Man ufac tures Shown This Year. "Washington, Dec. 24. Importations of manufactures from Great Britain to the United States seem likely to show an unusual small total in the year 1898. The November statement of exports from Great Britain to the United States which has just reached the treasury bureau of statistics shows in nearly every case that the exportation of man ufactures in the eleven months ended November 30, were less than in the cor responding months of earlier year3. Imports of manufactures in the early part of the year 1S97 were abnormally great and a comparison of the eleven months of 1S9S with the corresponding months of 1897 would in many cases be misleading:. A comparison, however, with the corresponding month of 1S96 and 193 shov in nearly all cases small imports In ls9S than In either of the earlier years. The Imports of the eleven months of 1896 were the smallest with a single exception since 1S90 and those of 1893 were less than in the three years which preceded it. In nearly all cases of manufactured articles the figures of the eleven months of 1898 show a reduc tion as compared with 1896 and 1893 and a very large reduction as compared with 1597. In jute manufactures, the imports of the eleven months of 1893 were 95,287,300 yards against 143,9S4.3(0 in the corre sponding months of 1897; in woolen yarns the drop was from 55,000 pounds to 6.100 pounds in 1898. In woolen tissues from 8.046,100 yards in eleven months of 1S97 to 1.47S.300 in eleven months of l'Sf'S. and in worsted tissues from 40, 67.700 yards in eleven months of 1897 to 12.706.400 in the corresponding months of 1898. Look Out for Germany. Tondnn, rec. 24. The Washington rov ernment, according to a dispatch from Auckland, has instructed the United States consul at Samoa to act with greater vig ilance and not entrust the duties to Jiis British and German colleagues. It ap pears that the German agent has taken advantage, of his colleagues' confidence to lrtnd guns and munitions of war without their knowledge and also to obtain im portant advantage for German firms. Straight to Manila. Washington, Dec. 24. An order by the FiTclary of the navy directs the distil ling ship Iris, now accompanying the bat tleships Oregon and Iowu in their voyage aruund the Horn, to leave Callao, Peru, on her arrival there this week, and make a course across the Pacific to Manila, where her services are needed by the ships of Admiral Dewey's fleet. WANTED HELP. WANTED Job as porter or other inside work by colored ex-soldier. Address 1331 Jackson st. WANTED A position in a store or In an office by an industrious young man of 21; iiave had experience. Address A. R. S., room 5. 9o. East Sixth St., upstairs. WANTED Position by white woman in need of work; experienced in hotel work. Address A. D., care Journal. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED A good white girl for general housework after Christmas. Mrs. Poole, 122S Clay st. WANTED A competent girl for general housework, German preferred. 1101 Ty ler st. WANTED MALE HELP GOVERNMENT POSITIONS Don't pre pare for any civil service examination without seeing our illustrated catalogue of information, sent free. Columbian Corre spondence College, Washington, D. C. WANTED Men to learn the barber trade; 8 weeks completes. We furnish capital to start graduates in business or give oo sitions at $15 weeklv. Be vour own boss. Have locations for 300 men. Write before openings are filled. Moler Barber Col lege, St. Louis. CANVASSERS of ability and intelligence can make at least $30 weekly. Some thing entirely new. and needed by every one. Address Co-Operative Distributing Co., 5tra Broome St., New York. BUSINESS CHANCES. $15 TO $.10 a week and expenses paid men to sell cigars: experience unnecessary; extra Inducements. The W. L. Kline Co.. St. Louis, Mo. HOW undergraduate doctors. dentists, pharmacists, lawvers, can soon gradu ate. Box 196, Chicago. s WANTED AGENTS. S7 DAILY selling specialty soap: sample ouiin iree. i-ease coap uo., Cincinnati, u. ONLY perfect bath cabinet; latest patent; greatest seller. R. M. Irwin, Nashville. Tenn. TOT" can make money quick with small risk in wheat, stocks and cotton. We have never lost a cent for a customer, nor called for additional margin. Profits paid on demand. Open an account with us now and double your monev In a week. Write f ir free advice. C. E. Mackey Co., 9 Wall street. New York. nT WANTED SALESME SALESMEN WANTED With practical road experience: give age. references; permanent position. New England Jew elry Co., Iowa City, la. WANTED Salesman: faJarr cald ly: experience unnecessary; permanent. Brown Bros. Co., Chicago. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To buy all kinds of house hold goods. Jones Son, 320 Kansas ave. WANTED To buv. cheap for cash, resi dence renting for $25 per month. Call at once. T. J. Nichols. 509 Kansas ave. WANTED To sell you Christmas books at cost. Bruner, 413 Kansas ave. WANTED A party with some capital to locate agents and superintend manufac turer's Interest in this state. Party can obtain an interest and permanent position right man can clear fcso monthly. Call or address room 4. 631 Kansas ave. WANTED 3 houses between Jefferson and Kansas ave. and between 10th and 4th. Topeka Trust Co., 534 Kansas ave. WANTED Boarders at 523 Western ave. Hacks and livery at all hours: horses end mules bought and sold. Tel. 17d W. T. Lawless. WANTED Everyone to know that n re plying to an advertisement which reads to address "Care Journal" ftie reply must be made In wilting and sent through tha mail postpaid, or left at this office. It Wl'i then De Placed in one of the boxes set side for replies to classified advertise ments. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Subscriptions to all Amerl-rinT.a-.nf!.TjOI"ign publications. BKL.NER, News Dealer, 413 Kansas av. FOR SALE Two milk cows, giving 3 and 4 gallons milk per day. 204 Greenwood ave., Potwin. OR SALE Household goods. Jones Son, o-0 Kansas ave. FOR SALE At B16 Harrison st.. boarding bouse furnishings complete. FOB. SALE MISCELLANEOUS. A FEW STUNNERS 12 heating stoves at $2.50. 12 heating stoves at- $3. 8 heating stoves at $5. 6 hard coal stoves at $6, $8 and $10. 6 air-tight wood heaters. $2.50 to $4 50. 50 cook stoves. $3, $3. $6, $8, $10. 51 bedroom suites, $8 up. Wardrobes, $3 up. Sideboards. $6 up. Chairs, rockers and all other household goods at reduced prices. J. W. JONES SON, 320 Kansas ave. FOR SALE My entire stock of bound books at cost. C. A. Bruner, 413 Kan. av. FOR SALE Organ, good condition, cheap, cash or time; one guitar and two w.atches. N. B. Campbell, 605 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Span of horses, cheap, cash or time. E. M. Brockett, 6o5 Kansas ave. FOR SALE A fine Berkshire boar. Call at 1710 Madison St. FOR SALE Bedroom suites below cost this week. Jones Son, 320 Kansas ave. FOR SALE A fine $125 organ, with sheet music, or will trade for stock. Mrs. Doris Stander, 701 West Tenth. FOR SALE A good gentle, sound pony and colt at 308 Monroe st. We have Just received a CAR-LOAD Of bedroom suites, mattresses, iron beds, carpets and furniture FROM OMAHA. Used in a lodging house during the ex position all new and not worn or dam aged in fact, as good as new. These goods are now in stock and are offered at special bargain prices. AVe purchased them at a "snap" price, and are giving our patrons a "snap" on every purchase. We have three floors filled and piled to the ceiling with goods of every description and in every line. JONES SON, 'Phone 707. 320 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Gentle horse, cheap. 132 North Van Buren st. 1P.ON BED. springs and mattress, $4.50. Jones Son, 320 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Very fine young Black Lang, shan roosters. 421 Quincy st. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN CO. FOB KENT BOOMS. FOR RENT Furnished rooms and board, 2!4 blocks of the capitol, 1256 Van Buren. FOR RENT Furnished or unfurnished front suite and other rooms, modern, with board. 713 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Nicely furnished front par lor and back room, en suite, first Poor: suitable for four gentlemen. 118 West Sixth st. FOR RENT Furnished room3. with or without board. 301 West Twelfth. FOR RENT Furnished front room. 1109 Jackson st., 14 blocks south of capitol. FOR RENT Furnished room for one or two gentlemen. 615 Monroe St. FOR RENT Part of a store on Kansas ave., between Seventh and Eighth. In quire at 72u Kansas ave. FOR RENT Furnished rooms and board. 120 West Sixth. FOB BENT HOUSES. RENT LIST 3018 Fillmore St., cottage $16. 3019 Fillmore St., modern house, $25. 200 Clay St., modern house, $27. 915 West 8th St., $18. 927 Fillmore st., cottage, $12.50. 1114 West 10th St., $8. 634 Taylor st., modern, $30. 418 West 10th St.. modern, $40. 921 Clay st., modern, $25. 324 Greenwood ave., Potwin, $25. 337 Woodlawn ave., Potwin, $20. See S. M. WOOD CO., 534 Kansas ave. S. M. WOOD CO. have several farms for rent. WE HAVE two nicely furnished houses can rent to right kind of tenants. S. M. WOOD CO., 534 Kansas ave. FOR RENT A 4 room house. 4th and Bu chanan; a 6 room house, 303 Tyler; a 6 room house. Twenty-third and Adams. Immigration, Land Loan Co., 600 Kan sas ave. FOR RENT 8 acres and 6 room house, 3 miles west of Kansas ave., f75. 11 acres. 3 room house, 3 miles south on Topeka ave., $100. A 9 room modern residence, west side. 9ol Fillmore st., 6 room cottage, barn, bath and furnace heat. Store room. 415 Kansas ave., offices and living rooms second and third floor?. PAYNE THOMPSON. 627 Kansas ave. FOR RENT 8 room residence, 12T7 Western ave. 11 room residence, 1254 Fillmore. 6 room residence, 12O0 Fillmore. 7 room residence, 1231 Fillmore. 6 rotm residence, 310 West First st. 7 room residence, 209 Harrison st. 9 Toom residence, Potwin, 337 Woodlawn ave. 8 room residence, 2"0 Clay st. 4 room residence. 413 East Third st. 4 room residence, 1112 West Fourth st. 7 room residence, corner Huntoon and Tyler, and many other residence; also, sev eral farms and small garden tracts. See us for anything vou want. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO., Phone 202. 113 W. Fifth St. FOR RENT House No. 1119 Polk St., $13. House No. 512 Van Buren ,$8. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR RENT Six room house, 1241 Tyler bath, closet. Inquire 1107 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Several houses from $7.50 to $30 per month. 320 acre farm near citv for cash rent. EMMETT E. ROUDEBU3H, 115 West Sixth. 'Phone ?67. (Successor to J. S. Collins Co.) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN- 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 124 East Fourth street, in the Second ward, in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of the same is set for Tuesday, 9 a. m the 10th day of January, 1899. M. A. FUNCHESS. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 10. 1898. FOB SALE BE AX ESTATE. FOR SALE 2 lots. 7 room house, barn, not far from shops, XI. 000. 2 small cottage homes east of Santa Fe shops, very cheap. 14 lots, extra good 5 room house, Bran ner st. near Third. 1H lots, 7 room house, Madison St., big bargain. 2 nice cottage homes. Western ave. small cash payment. 2 5 room houses. Western ave. near th. Several eood properties In Martin Den nis addition, easv terms. J. E. TORRINGTON. 109 W. 6th St. FOR SALE A good location for lumber and coal yard, very cheap: also. Seevral houses to sell on payment plan or exchange for good farms; also. Good business property on Eighth ave. for sale at a bargain. For these and other snaps see W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE Cottage of 4 rooms, good well, trees, on Washburn car line. $4). J. E. TORRINGTON. 109 W. 6th St. FOR SALE On payments, 34 acres on East Sixth st. car line. $450. a bargain. F. J. Brown. 17 Columbian Bidg. FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. CHRISTMAS GREETING At this time of the year, when every one's thoughts are centered on being happy and making others happy, we only want to intrude long enough to say that when it is all over and your thoughts turn to purchasing a home we wp.nt you to call and see us. Our business is to obtain your wants and satisfy them if possible. If unable to find what you desire we may be able to have a dwelling built to suit you. Be your own landlord next year. Yours truly, TOPEKA TRUST CO., 534 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Bv W. C. Stephenson Co.: mt lets between 6th and 7th on Monroe, 7-room house, city and cistern water.sewer connection, barn; $l,oOO takes it. 1 lot and 3 room cottage on Chandler st. between 3rd and 4th; $500, $100 cash, bal ance monthly payments. 7-room house, 2 lots, east front, nice shade, well, cistern and barn, on Locust between 4th and 5th; $1,000, $100 cash, bal ance monthly payments. This is a bar gain. l1 lots on Jefferson St., between 4th and 5th. nice 5-room cottage, large cellar, well and cistern, sewer connection, shade and blue grass. Price $1,700, or will exchange for a larger home and pay difference. 1,4 lots on East 8th St., west bf track, 7-robm house, modern architecture, hard oil finish. Also a 4-room cottage on roar of same lots. Price $2.6u0. The rentals of this property pay 12 per cent on the in vestment. Or will exchange for a larger home and pay cash difference. 3 lots, large S-room brick house on Quin cy south of 11th, good barn, shade and blue grass. Will offer for a- few days at $2,600. Small payment down or in monthly payments if desired. This is a bargain. 1 lots, east front, 4th and Western ave., 5 room cottage, furnace heat, well and cis tern water, sewer connection. Price $1,250; $150 cash, balance monthly payments. 60 feet front, 150 feet deep, between 5th and 6th on Tavlor, 7 room house, well and cistern, barn. Price, $2,000. Part cash, bal ance time to suit. 4 room cottage between 6th and 7th on Western ave., in nice condition, city and cistern water in kitchen, sink and sewer connection. Price $1,050; $150 cash, balance monthly payments. 5- room house on Polk near 13th, c'ty water and cistern, good neighborhood. Price $1,200. Make me an offer: it must be sold. $loo cash, and the balance in month ly payments. A new 7 room house, 14th and Harrison, east front, everything nice and new and up to date. Price $2,500; $1,000 cash, bal ance time to suit. This is a bargain. l1 lots on Topeka ave. and 14th. Will of fer for a few days at $750. There will bo 11 modern residences in the block across the street completed with in the next s'x months. This will be the last opportun ity to get a building site in the most pro gressive neighborhood in the city. For further particulars call on W. C. STEPHENSON CO.. 609 Kansas ave. FOR SALE By Walter T. Noble, Craw ford Building, Topeka, Kansas: A 23 Three corner lots and a large 14 room house in Miller's Cottage Park ad dition to Topeka. I am very anxious to sell this prpoperty and will make the rrice accordingly. A 22 A lot and one-half and an eight room house in good repair, on Throop st. A 20 Six room frame cottage.large yard, good shade trees, on Gordon St., North Topeka. A 2ti Lot O, Mulvane subdivision, 5 acres bottom land, stone house and good outbuildings. A 29 Four lots on South Kansas ave., 5 room frame house and small store build ing, also barn and other outbuildirgs. A 30 Two story brick front business building on West Fifth St., will sell very cheap. A 47 Three lots and an eight room house on Jackson St. This property is particularly cheap, as we are very anxious to dispose of it. A 72 A first class property In every re spect, finished in hard wood throughout, bath, furnace and all other modern con veniences, good barn, thoroughly desirable in every respect, located on Fillmore st. A 9 room two story house on Topoka ave., in very best location, all modern conveniences and first class repair. All these properties can be sold very cheap and on easy terms. WALTER T. NOBLF., Crawford Building. FOR SALE By M. D. Henderson Co., Ill West Seventh st.: 5 room house on Van Buren, $50 cash, balance monthly, $450. 4 room house. South Lincoln St., $550. 8 room house, south of 10th on Van Buren. modern, $4,500. 8 room house, south oT Clay, fine condi tion, $1,600. 7 room house. South Fillmore, 2 lots, $1,000. 7 room house near 12th on Fillmore,$2.500. 10 room house, modern, 3 lots, on Har rison, $5,800. 10 room house, modern, 4 lots on Quincy, $5,000. 4 room cottage on Polk. $900. 7 room house on, East 8th. corner, $2,C50. 6 room house on Buchanan, $2,000. 6 room house on Jefferson. $750. 6 room house on Monroe, $l,6o0. 5 room house on Klein St., $550. 5 room house on East 18th, 3 lots, month ly, $5o0. M. D. HENDERSON CO., Ill West Seventh St. FOR SALE SNAP NO. 1. 82 acre farm, well improved, 3 miles east of Kansas ave., $2,600. SNAP NO. 2. 2"4 acres, 7 room house, barn, ch'cken house, well and cistern, $650; one-half cash, balance time. SNAP NO. 3. 7 room house and 2 room cottage, 4 lots, near shops, west of tracks, $2,200. SNAP NO. 4. W lots, Topeka ave., near corner 6th, $1,500. Go to Payne Thompson. 627 Kansas ave. for snaps and bargains. FOR SALE 4 room cottage, Jefferson St., $475. 4 room cottage. Errufiett. $275. 7 room house. .2 lots.x Jefferson, $600. Modern residence. West 6th; want offer. 1315 Taylor, fine new home. East front cottage. Polk St., bargain. Property Jefferson St., $2,750: rents $2. Corner Fourth and Van Buren sts, $4,200; rents $43. Harrison st. residence, very low price. Two bargains. Tyler st. residences. 6 corner lots. West St., all $400. Fine lots, Huntoon st, $125. Lots. West 6th. near paving, $123. Many new snap bargains. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO.. Phone 262. 113 W. Fifth st. FOR SALE FARMS 136 acres 4 miles out, improved. $3,600. 80 acres 6 miles out, improved, $2.5oO. 80 acres 3 miles out, improved, $3.2o0. 80 acres 9 miles out, improved, $1,700. 4 acres 2 miles out, improved. $700. 15 acres 2 miles out, improved, $1,500. 5 acres 1 mile out, improved, $1,500. 27H acres 1 mile out, improved. $2,000. 10 acres 1 mile out, improved, $750. 33 acres 1 mile out, $1,300. And many others, all on terms to suit purchaser. Several hotels for sale or exchange. Farms to trade for city property. City property to trade for farms. M. D. HENDERSON CO., Ill West Seventh St. FOR SALE 1254 Clay St., 8 rooms 2 lots, barn, etc. Eastern owner anxious to sell. Make us an offer. Come in and see us or sit down and write us about that farm you want. We are sure we can suit you. TOPEKA TRUST CO., 534 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 8 room house. 2 lots, barn, shade, east front, $2,500; one-third cash, balance time. Modern 7 room house, $2,750. 9 room house, modern, $3,000. 5 room house, rents $15. $1,600. 5 room cottaee, rents $13, $1,150. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. FOR SALE A lot and a half on the southeast corner Topeka ave and West 6th St. Price $1,500. A snap. PAINE THOMPSON. 627 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 35 lots near the Santa Fe shops, 35 lots Twenty-first and Madison sts., 60 lots near Shorey, 8 room house and 1H acres near city limits, 80 acres 6 miles north., all on time payments or cheap for cash. M. Heery, 109 East Third. FOR SALE An 8 room house and good bam, 14 east front lots, near car line, fine location, at i a great bargain, bv 1 W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. S. M. WOOD CO. have 2 fine lots, good 2 story house 6 rooms, etc., 716 Taylor St., sell cheap or exchange for Chicago property. Have a good Kansas ave. lot between 10th and 11th sts., put in with the above on a trade. Do not forget we are headquarters for ranches or grass lands. See that 2,000 acre ranch in Greenwood county, fine grass, w-ater, fences, 1,800 plow land on it. House stabling, etc., all at $12.50. Aiso another 2.000 acre pasture, same county, fenced,, good water, grass, half of it plow land; $7.50. Fine 2.400 acre ranch in Reno county, well improved, half bottom, river front, buildings all kinds; a bargain at $15. 4.000 acres in Harper county at $5; fenced, water, 200 acres broke. Have good calls 20 to 40 acre homes. A $25.0o0 St. Louis rental property to trade for Topeka property. Topeka property to trade for Chicago property. If you want anything see S. M. WOOD CO., 534 Kansas ave. FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE S. M. Wood Co. have a 4,000 acre ranch in Wabaunsee county at $9. Have a fine, large, modern home, close in to business, sell or exchange for south ern California property. Have 15,700 acres Arkansas river land in Finney county at $1.25. See that new home of 7 or 8 rooms, nicelv finished, 14 lots, barn, etc., etc, all for $2,000. in the old part of the city. Have a large, fine, modern, east front 3 lot home on Clay st. to sell at a bargain. Have 9 room east front home on Monroe St. between 6th and 7th for $2,250. See that bargain of 3 fine east front lots, 3 good houses. In 5 blocks of Kansas ave, west side, cost $6,500, all for $4,200, and pay over 12 per cent rent. Have fine Kaw Valley farm near city; will sell or trade for good grass land in southwest Reno county or near there; re port. Have money to loan. Several good stocks of goods of different kinds for sale or trade. We have the largest list of farms, ranches, grass lands, suburban homes and city property of all kinds of any agency in the city to select from. If you want a home of any kind see us. S. M. WOOD CO.. 534 Kansas ave. S. M. WOOD CO. have a fine little banking business to sell, well located, do ing well and can be sold satisfactory terms to right party; poor health is only cause for selling; must be party with rep utation for business and integrity. Have several other business chances to sell or exchange. We are selling property and lots of it now and if you have your eye on any place better come soon. S. M. WOOD CO., 534 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Business house, 60 feet front, heated by steam: rent $l,8o0 per year, for $20,000, easy terms. 3 story business house on Kansas ave., $7,500, foreclosure price. 100 acre farm, clear, and $1,600 cash for a stock of dry goods and notions; must be good. 210 acre bottom farm in Illinois, 70 miles from Chicago, for a Kansas farm. A $6,000 stock of clothing and furnishing goods for a farm and some cash. 4 lots on Washburn ave,, $200, cash. 36 lots'in Highland Park, $12.50 each. 10 choice lots in Oakland, $;j0 each. 2 lots on Kansas ave. near 11th, $1,000. on terms, $100 cash, balance to suit 6 per cent. $2,500 house, with 2 lots, on Van Buren St., for $1,950; terms cash, balance 6 per cent. 80 acre river bottom farm, one mile from station Silver Lake, splendid improve ments, $4,500; terms cash, balance to BARTHOLOMEW.601 Kan. av. (1st floor). FOR SALE 320 acres good land, fenced, good springs, $4,200; terms. $1,200 cash and balance long time as desired at 7 per cent. This is a bargain. BARTHOLOMEW, 601 Kan. av. (1st floor). FOR SALE 190 acre farm 7 miles from the city; good improvements, 60 acres in cultivation, 15 acres timber, everlasting water. $3,200. Terms, $1,200 cash, balance time, 6 per cent. This is foreclosure price. BARTHOLOMEW.601 Kan. av. (1st floor). FOR SALE 40 acres fine river bottom, near town, $2,600: only $600 cash required, balance lo years 6 per cent, or pay when you please, $100 or more any time. 80 acre river bottom farm 3 mile from Rossville, all in cultivation, $3,200; terms cash. 80 acre river bottom 2 miles from the city, $4,800. 60 acre river bottom farm near town, highly improved. $4,000; terms, 14 cash, balance 6 per cent. 40 acre well Improved farm near Grant ville, $1,600, only cash required. 160 acre farm 3 miles from Silver Lake, $3,200. 320 acre farm 3 miles from Silver Lake, $2,160. 160 acre tract, 30 acres timber, 2V4 miles from Grantville, $3,300. 40 acre tarm, iseosno river bottom, near town, $1,200. only V, cash. 3 houses $500 each .eft, rent for 12 per cent interest. 50 houses all parts of the city, from $500 up to $10,000. 300 lots In all parts of the city, $50 up to $500. 100 farms and ranches, very low prices. 320 acres pasture land to exchange for small tract and pay some cash. 80 acres highly Improved, 10 acres tim ber, $3.2o0; Vs cash; choice land, only 3 miles from town. BARTHOLOMEW.601 Kan. av. (1st floor). FOR SALE 2S0 acre stock farm, well im- proved, $4,000, easy terms. 160 acre farm, 100 acres under plow. $3. 200, easy terms, or part city property. Can give a good trade in this. 960 acres near Rossville, $15 per acre, easy payments, good land, well watered. 140 acre bottom farm, well improved, joins good railroad town, 20 miles from Topeka, $40 per acre, easy terms, or a part city property. 440 acre stock farm, well located, only $5,000: 1-3 cash, balance 7 per cent. 5 acres one mile from this city, very good improvements. $850: terms cash. 30 acres river bottom, suburban, fair house, stable, etc., $1,350, easy terms. 32 acres, good Improvements. bottom land. 1'4 miles from the city, $2,100 15 acres suburban, fine place, good build ings, only $2,500: terms, 6 per cent. BARTHOLOMEW.601 Kan. av. (1st floor). REAL ESTATE ROUDEBUSH For Sale Cottage on Lane, $550. Cottage on Quincy, $750. Cottage on Lane. $850, close in. Cottage on Polk. H4 lots, $1,000. Houses from $350 up, on payments. 2 lots, Kansas ave. near Tenth, cheap. 7 room house on Western ave., close, in, $1,500. New S room house, modern, bath and all conveniences, first class shape, 1V4 lots, west side, $2,100. Several bargains in fine houses from $3, 500 to $10,000. Farms for sale In all parts of this coun ty. 10, 20, 40. 80 and 160 acre tracts. Fine improved 400 acre farm near Wa mego for sale. Western Kansas lands and ranches for sale very, cheap. For Trade Fine 8 room modern house on Lincoln for small house closer In. New 7 room house on Lane for house close in or east of avenue. Highly Improved half section of land 7 miles from city for Kansas ave. or resi dence property close in. Houses for farm property. If you wish to buy, sell, Insure or ex change property see EMMETT E. ROUDEBUSH. 115 West Sixth. 'Phone 267. (Successor to J. S. Collins Co.) FOR SALE 725 acre farm on the Kaw bottom, improved, running water, $25 per acre; $8o0 cash, balance to suit purchaser. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Ten R.I.F.A.N.'S for 6 cent at druggists; one gives relief. THE EASTERN OWNERS of the follow ing properties have asked us to sell them at low prices and on reasonable terms of payment. We have neither time nor fa cilities for attending to this line of busi ness and wish to wind it up in short or der. Very nearly all of these properties have been taken in by our clients on loans made by other companies and are fo"r sale cheap. T. E. BOWMAN CO. LIST OF TOPEKA-CITY PROPERTIES BY STREETS. KANSAS AVENUE. Lot No. 30, Lynn, Kansas ave.. north, being house No. 128 North Kansas ave., two-story structure with good basement, floored. The first floor being an excellent FOB SALE REAL ESTATEv room for grocery or other mercantile pur poses. Second floor partitioned oft for liv ing rooms. Has good freight elevator run ning from first floor to basement. This building is 85 feet long, lot 340 feet. For price apply to T. E. Bowman Co. No. 3.170 Lots 14 and 36 Kansas ave., being street No. 3301j! and 314 Kansas ave.. improved with three one-story brick and stone store buildings in first class condi tion and occupied bv thrifty tenants. This property is located directly opposite Park hurst Davis wholesale grocery store. Price $2,000. No. 5184 Lots Nos. 10 and 12, No. Kan sas ave., ground being 40x150 feet and improved with two one-story brick and stone stores, occupied by thrifty tenants and directly oposite Parkhurst-Davis wholesale grocerv store. Price $1,600. Street No. 133 Kansas ave., ground 25x140 feet, improved with a thoroughly con structed two-story brick and stone build ing, occupied by a good merchant and in excellent location for retail or wholesale business, being handy to the Rock Island and Santa Fe railroads. Price $5,000. No. 5,071 Street No. 310 Kansas ave., lot No. 84, two blocks from business center, nearly opposite Hotel Throop. a two story cut-stone front, plate glass, nicest building in the block, in first class repair. Price $6.0o0. No. 4.276 Lots 100 and 102, street Nos. 326 and 328. This property is improved with a building 50 feet by about 80 feet deep and consists of three store rooms on the first floor and living apartments on the second floor and rents so as to pay a 10 per cent rental on the price asked. Price $7,000. No. 4.174-44 lot. No. 224. street No. 70G Kansas ave. This property is located in the very center of business, is occupied by permanent tenants, the first floor a grocery, the second floor offices, and the third floor by a lodge. This is one of the best constructed buildings in our city. Price $15,000. No. 2,210 Lots Nos. 321 and 323 Kansas ave., being the northwest corner of Tenth and Kansas ave. and improved with two two-story stores, each 25x80 feet. One of the most desirable properties for business on Kansas ave. Price $10,000. No. 2,213 Lot No. 395 Kansas ave.. be ing the northwest comer of 12th and Kan sas ave., improved with a two-story store building and well occupied by permanent tenants. Price, $3,500. No. 9,620 Street No. 1211 Kansas ave., 1 story house, 6 rooms. Price $1,200. Street No. 1213 Kansas ave., a two-story brick and stone structure, pressed brick front. Price $2,200. House No. 1217 Kansas ave., 14 story frame house, 5 rooms with good base ment. Price $1,300. House No. 1219 Kansas ave., a one-story frame building, three rooms. Price $850. House No. 1221 Kansas ave., frame resi dence, 6 rooms, good repair. Price $l,3a0. JACKSON STREET. No. 4060 House No. 1321 Jackson St., tract 75x90 feet, east front. 3V2 blocks south of state house, frame house of six rooms, food cistern, city water, sewer connection, rice $1,600. VAN BUREN STREET. No. 5329 Lots 104 and 106 and 108 Van Buren St., being the northeast corner of Fourth and Van Buren. This property is improved with a two-story frame house of 8 rooms, building on the rear of the lots, facing south on 4th st. A centrally located and valuable -piece of property. Price $2,100. House No. 307 Huntoon St., being 50 feet of lots 433, 5, 7, 9. 41 and 43 Van Buren St., Huntoon's addition, a five room cottage, l'z story, centrally located. Price $1,300. HARRISON STREET. Lots Nos. 115. 117 and 119 Harrison St., house No. 409, being one of the nicest lo cations in Topeka, in a first class neigh borhood. The house consists of 13 com modious rooms, furnace, city water, a good, large barn, one of the best homes in Topeka. Price $6,000. No. 3358 Lot 80 and north half of 82 Harrison St., house No. 304, a 1 story building, frame, of 6 rooms, city water, and in excellent location. Price $1,800. TOPEKA AVENUE. No. 21S0 Lots Nos. 223, 225, 227 Topeka ave., house No. 709, a large two-story house, 8 rooms on the first floor and nine rooms on the second floor, finished base ment, city water, cistern. This property is in one of the best resident portions of the city, carried $5,000 insurance. Price $6,000. No. 2078 Lot No. 181, street No. 601, a two-tory brick and stone building, pressed brick front, plate glass windows, first floor occupied by a permannet grocer and the second floor by a business college, and on one of the best corners, centrally lo cated. Price. $7,500. Lot No. 1S3. house No. 603. is a two story stone residence, 6 rooms, city water, three blocks from business center. Price $1,800. Lot No. 185. house No. 605, frame, five room house, cistern and city water. Three blocks from business center. Price $1,800. No. 4149 Lots 134 to 144 inclusive on To peka ave., House No. 426, a large ten room, two-story modern residence, finely finished with mantels, grates, has hot wa ter heat, bath, city water, good barn and is one of the choicest residence corners in Topeka. Price. $11,000. TYLER STREET. No. 5077 Lots Nos. 134 and 136, house No. 426. This is a desirable residence property, centrally located, only four blocks from business center and in a fine neighborhood. The house is thoroughly constructed, commodious, consisting of 8 rooms, 6 closets, bathroom with hot and cold water, well and cistern, good barn. Price $4,300. POLK STREET. No. 2225 Lots 46 and 48 6th ave. west, being the northeast corner of 6th and Polk. These lots are improved with a good two-story frame house, 7 rooms with cellar, mantel and grates, also with a brick store 16x40, one story. Price $2,700. No. 3169 This property Is situated on the northwest corner of 1st and Polk sts. and consists of one acre of ground, a good 7 room house, good well, just the place for some Santa Fe or Rock Island employe who wants to raise poultry. This is a bargain. Price $soo. TAYLOR STREET. No. 545 House Nos. 218 and 220, two lots, improved with a double house in a first elas location. Price $1,000. CLAY STREET. No. 706 Lots 3o8 and 360 Clay St., being the northeast corner of 11th and Clay, on electric car line, a well constructed house of 5 rooms with cemented cellar, a good large barn, shade trees, well and cistern. Price $1,900. No. 5532 Lot No. 371 and south half of 369 Clay st., street No. 1147 Clay, a two story house of six rooms, with shade trees, one-half block from car line. Price $1,300. No. 4193 House No. 221 Clay St., lot 70x 170 feet, a two-story house of seven rooms, large barn, well, cistern and ciijr water, sewer connection. The location is very desirable, being surrounded by attractive homes. Price $2.S00. No. 1258 Clay St., a thoroughly well built two-story, modern house of 8 rooms, with every convenience, city water, bath, gas, a good barn, on the electric car line. Price $2 500. BUCHANAN STREET. No. 3161 Lots 102 and 104 Troop street. This is a short street just south of Hun toon, running oft of Buchanan st. Price $600. LINCOLN STREET. No. 8080't Lots Nos. 398, 400, 402, 404 Lin coln St., being the northeast corner of Lincoln and 12th St.. a small one-story frame house. Price $450. No. 9097V2 Lots Nos. 221 and 223 6th ave. west, street No. 1405. This property is sit uated in one of the best residence portions of the city, has city water and bath, 7 large rooms, good stable and well and cistern. Price $3,500. No. 4045 Lot No. 36, 8th ave. west, house No. 610 West 8th, between Tyler and Polk, a two-story frame house In good condition with frame barn, well and cistern. Price $1,600. MORRIS AVENUE. House No. 941, being lot No. 507 and south half of No. 305 Morris ave.. West Park addition to city of Topeka. This is a thoroughly constructed frame house, good cellar. 2 stories, having 8 good rooms, well and cistern, and in one of the most desirable neighborhoods In Topeka. Price $1,260. POTWIN PLACE. No. 722 North 61 feet of lot 4, Green wood ave., house No. 422, an 8 room 2 story house with all modern improve ments and a good furnace. Price $4,000. No. 4057 North naif of lot ,8 Woodlawn ave., Potwin, being the south east corner of Ashland and Woodlawn, 6214 feet by 220. One of the nicest residence properties in Potwin Place, consisting of a large 9 room thoroughly constructed house with all modern conveniences. Price $4,500. No. 3183 A tract of land 40x140 feet on Willow ave.. house No. 320. improved with a large 8 room nouse witn modern con veniences, bathroom, closets, mantels and grate, city water, gas and sewer connec tion. Improvements cost $400. Price $3,000. No. 5157 Being a tract 40x205 feet on Elmwood ave., being house No. 426, good FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. six room house, closets, pantry, cistern and sewer connection. Price $2,300. No. 4239 North half of lot 26 Woodlawn ave., being 62x205 feet, improved with a large, two-story, modern house with all conveniences, a good barn. Price $3,000. AUBURN DALE. No. 716 Lots 16: 17 and 18, block 11, Au burndale. house No. 260. Stevens st. .known as the Littlefleld property, an 8 room, two story house. Price $1,700. THE MARTIN TRACT. As agents for the owners of this land, consisting of 115 acres directly adjoining the city limits on the west and lying be tween 6th and loth avenues and" subdivid ed into Quincy's subdivision (plat on rec ord), we offer this, land for sale in lots ranging from one acre to five acres and at prices ranging from $200 to $300 per acre. This property all lays high, is es pecially well located, within four blocks from the electric car line, has city water extended to the east line of this land and already some very desirable homes have been built upon this land. We offer for sale the southwest corner of Sixth ave. and Summit ave. Land consisting of one acre and improved with a thoroughly well built brick house, two stories with a base ment finished, fruit trees, and is one of the most desirable suburban homes in To peka. Price $2,501). QUINCY STREET. No. E109 Lot 107 and south 15 feet of 165 Quincy St., known as the Odd Fellows' building, being three stories, a thoroughly well constructed building in the very cen ter of business, well occupied and paying 8 per cent on the price asked. Price $15,000. Street Nos. 424 and 426 Quincy St., lots Nos. 134 and 136. This consists of a two story brick and stone wagon and paint shop, also a one-story repair shop. Price $2,500. No. 8026 Lots Nos. 266, 268, 270. 272. 274 and 276 Quincy St.. being located just south of the allev on the east side of Quincy st. between 8th and 9th sts. Five of these lots are vacant and are among the most desirable inside lots in our city for resi dence purposes. Oi.e lot is improved with a stone, two-story house. For prices, apply to T. E. Bowman Co. MONROE STREET. No. 1125 Being lots 74, 6 and 8 Monroe St., Crane's addition. Property located on the corner of 3rd and Monroe sts., two facing on Monroe and two facing on Third St. These houses are all large, two-story, 5 to 8 rooms, modern in style and thor oughly well built. They are all occupied and at a good rental, as they are in the call district. This property can be sold separately if desired. Price for the en tire property, $5,500. No. 5199 Lots 151 and 153 and 155 Monroe St., being house No'. 509, two blocks from postoffice and two blocks from business center, in a very desirable residence por tion, a large, two-story, ten room house, also a large barn. Price $3,800. MADISON STREET. No. 3211 Lots 14 and 16 Madison St., house Nos. 114 and 116 Madison st. This Eroperty is located almost adjoining the anta Fe shops and consists of two three room houses which have recently been remodeled and are in very nice condition. Price $l,2o0. KLINE STREET. No. 695 Being lot No. 23 North Kline St., being house No. 123 North Kline, li story, five room house, situated adjoining the car repair shops. Just the place for a Santa Fe employe, good well, shade trees and good neighborhood. Price $650. PARKDALE. No. 4092 Being lot No. 245 and: south 2 feet of 243, Lime st. and house No. 723. 1V4 story house with small barn, good well. Price $500. No. 9640 Lots 205, 7 and 9 Lime St., house No. 625 Lime St., a one-story, three room house, good well. Price $350. No. 4134 Lots 133. 5, 7. 9, Lake St., house No. 612, four east front lots In one of the best locations in Parkdale, being be tween 6th and 7th sts., three room house, fruit and shade trees, walks and well and handy to Santa Fe shops. Price $1,000. No. 1139 Lot 16 and the south half of 14, in block 8, Mulvane's addition to the city of Topeka; street No. 1016 Lawrence St., small 3 room house, but in a very nice neighborhood. Price $400. House No. 812 Eeast 12th St., small cot tage of four rooms, good well. Price $400. KEITH' S ADDITION. No. 1165 Lot 206 and east half of 204. be ing house No. 510 East lth St., three room house, good well, good neighborhood. Price $550. No. 3133 Lot 428 and west half of 430 on 18th St., house No. 430 East 18th St., l'i story, 5 room house, good well, shade trees, good location. Price $700. No. 2125 Lots 423 and 425 Euclid ave., Keith's addition, house No. 425 East 37th St., a two-story residence of 8 rooms, a good well, cistern, large stable. This property is exceptionally well built and is close to the Missouri Pacific shops. Price $1,200. No. 9042 Two and one-half acres on To peka ave.. In south part of town, and im proved with a modern two-story, ten room house, frame, heated by a furnace, gas and modern in every way. and a good, substantial barn, a small orchard, one of the choicest bargains in the city. Price $700. NORTH TOPEKA. No. 5072 Lot No. 54 and the east half of 56 Morse St.. North Topeka. being house No. 807, a good cottage of four rooms, good well, near Grant school and Davis eleva tor. Price $450. No. 2152 Being the east half of lots 165-7-9, 71. 73, 75 and 77 Harrison St., North Topeka, being a tract 85x 50 on the south west corner of Railroad and Harrison sts. There is a good 12 room house with two pantries, closets, cellar, shade trees, also well and cistern. Price $2, 000. No. 4197 Lots 2S3. 6. 7 Harrison St., house No. 921, an 8 room house which has re cently been remodeled and in excellent condition, good well and cistern, shade trees and in good location. Price $2,000. No. 581 North half of lot 370. all of lot 372 and the south half of 374 Tyler St., be ing house No. 1122. a good two-story frame house, good barn, cellar, well and cistern. Comfortable home. Price $1,500. No. 2216 Lots 433 and 435 Polk St., house No. 1315 Polk St.. two-story, six rooms, which has recently been remodeled, being in nice condition, a small barn and cistern and well. Price $800. No. 3192 The north ten feet of lot 169 and the south twenty feet of lot 171 Tyler st., North Topeka, house No. 627. This is improved with a story house con venient to the Rock Island and Union Fa. cific yards. Price $400. No. 3193 Lot No. 173 and the north five feet of 171, house No. 629. Improved with a 1 stort, east front house, convenient to Rock Island and Union Pacific yards. Price $400. No. 1191 Lots 137 and 139 Monroe St., be ing house Nos. 215 and 217 Fairehild st. and llO1 Monroe st. This property con sists of a very desirable 6 room cottage facing on Monroe st. and two five room houses built on the rear of the lots facing on Falrchald st. This entire property has recently been overhauled and is now In nice condition, both on the inside and outside, and Is a very desirable property, well located and in a nice neighborhood and occupied by good tenants. Price $2, 300. No. 8653 Street No. 1310 Quincy st. This property consists of a good 8 room house with all modern conveniences, furnace, bath, city water. This property is lo cated in the best resident portion of North Topeka and cost almost double the amount asked. Price $2,500. FARMS. SHAWNEE COUNTY. No. 602 Lots P and Q in Mulvane's sub division, consisting of a ten acre tract, a fruit and vegetable farm, one-half mile from the city limits on the east side In the Kansas river bottoms, improved with a good farm house, barn, outbuildings, quite an amount of small fruit. Price $2, 600. No. 58013 acres In Reserve No. 2, be ing located one mile west of North To peka on the Silver Lake road in the Kan sas river bottoms. Especially suited for gardening purposes. Price $1,500. No. 1172 North half of the northeast quarter of 25-12-16. containing 86. acres, 50 acres in cultivation, nice orchard of about 100 trees, small stone house, good frame barn. This land is located in a first rate section of Shawnee county and the land is all rich and tillable, running water on the farm and very cheap at $20 per acre. No. 1168 Northwest quarter of 12-13-14, located one mile north of Auburn in the southwest part of Shawnee county. This farm is finely Improved with good, sub stantial buildings, good, large house and large barn, nice orchard of 200 trees, 100 acres in cultivation. Never failing water. A very desirable place, both as regards lo cation and soil. Price $3,500. Southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of 35-11-15. This property con sists of 40 acres, all tillable land, situated directly west of Sach's greenhouse on 10th st. about one mile west of the c'ty limits. Has a 6 room house in good shape, good barn and splendid well. No better loca tion can be found for a suburban resi dence which will more than pay for itself In fruit and vegetables. Land rich and a thoroughly desirable location. Price $5,000. T. E. BOWMAN CO., Columbian Building. JATTINO THE OFFICE of the Topeka Vitrified Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 118 West Eighth st. MISCELLANEOUS. SAY, I have a choice farm close to Leav enworth, Kan., to exchange for Top kn property. I also have some 365 o:h.-r farms and ranches and 29 stocks of mer chandise, flour mills, hotels, etc., etc.. for sale and exchange. None but honest val ues and deals considered. Frank Gee. Val ley Falls. Kan. LADIES' fine dresses cleaned, bour, 115 W. 7th st. Tel. 152. A. H;r- RHEUMATISM. cold feet. Why unVr with pain when you can be cured for 50 cents; send forparticulars. Shinene Co., P O. box 182, Waltham. Mass. OVERCOATS, suits and single garments dyed, cleaned and repaired. C. F. Roe diger's Dye and Cleaning Works, H20 Kan sas ave., formerly 117 East Seventh st. ARE you seeking a situation? If so wr'te to Business Manager, postoffice box 27' l3. New York city. BOOKS AT COST My entire stock of bound books at cost. Bruner, 413 Kan sas ave. SEVENTY-FIVE styles of rockers at Warren's. Just the thing in style and price. LADIES' fine dresses cleaned. A. Hir bour, 115 W. 7th st. Tel. 152. RED CROSS STOVES, hard and soft coa!. Warren. SUBSCRIPTIONS received for all kinds of papers and periodicals at Bruner's News Stand. 413 Kansas ave. AT COST for cash. Red Cross hard coal stoves. Warren. TAKE ADVANTAGE of a nice day 7r have your overcoat cleaned and repaired. A. Hirbour, 115 W. 7th st. Tel. 152. NEW STOVES at Warren's. LADIES' garments dyed, cleaned or re modeled. C. F. Roediger's Dye nd Cleaning Works. 820 Kansas ave., former ly 117 East Seventh st. HARD COAL STOVES at cost. Warren. DOUTHITT PLACE Has been opened. Your choice of lots. $150 to $j0. .ugeae Wolfe, 517 Kansas ave. ROCKERS, at Warren's. TAKE ADVANTAGE of a nice day to have your overcoat cleaned and repaired, A. Hirbour, 115 W. 7th st. Tel. 152. BUY that hard coal stove at Warren's. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Med,e3l College, -corner of Twelfth and Tyler, is open daily except Sunday, from 1 to 2 p. m. E. M. Brockett, M. D. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Lewelling setter pup (female) t months old: white, with black ears and black-and-tan ticks. Return to 425 Lincoln st. Reward. LOST Child's white fur collarette be tween Ninth and Quincy and Capital barber shop. Reward for return to 5v3 Kansas ave. FOUND Where watches or clocks are cleaned for 50c, 813 Kansas ave., upstairs. MONEY. WE can loan you money. The Topeka Trust Co., 634 Kansas ave. MONEY, MONEY, to ioan on farms in eastern Kansas at 6H per cent. F. J. Brown, 17 Columbian BIi aiag., aopeka. FIFTY MILLION cheap eastern money for western investment. Responsible agents wanted. Investors Directory, N. Y. MONEY LOANED on pianos, organs sew ing machines, watches, diamonds, bicycies, 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. 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, 12 Kan. ave. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. 8th st Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems fox rent: repairing of all kind. JOUSICAL MISS MATTE KNOX, teacher of voice and piano. North Potwin. MISS PEARLADE PRESCOTT, teacher of violin. Studio 1104 Taylor st- Student of Jacobson. WILLEBALD C. STENGER, teacher of violin. 323 West 10th st. MISS MABEL MARTIN, teacher of piano and harmony. 407 Greenwood ave.. Pot win. L. A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence, cornel Gordon nt. and Central ave.. North Topeka. Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, nshure. ui ceratlon. etc. 8. 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. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 598 residence and 16 office. JFXOKISTS MRS. J. R. HAGUE.Florist, successor to R. J. Groves. 817 Kansas ave. 'Phone 002. BTORAOB. STORAGE The Topeka Storage r.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. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Op tician. Complete stoca or watcnes. a,a. monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. 8TAMFS. SEALS AND STENCILS. TIU3'jrcDARLl9?G High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work, low price. Catalogue free. 'Phone 292. NATIONAL STABLES. OIXCHRIST fcOS.. Prop. Geed turnouts ue.iveraa to aay ai J f the city. J OARDISQ A SPECIALTY. Plios 4,6. IOS lm.ok.Bon. St.
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Dr. Edward "Walsh, formerly Chicago's leading specialist, is a graduate of Hush and Bennett medical Colleges, and was formerly President of St. Anthony's Hospital. consumption, bronchitis, asthma, RESTS IN AN OIL WELL. Fate of Rosie Redpath's Slayer Hangs Upon Sis Father's Ventura. New York, Dec. 24. On the slope of a Pennsylvania hillside stands these days a man with a weary face, nervous, and intent only upon the labor of workmen in a hollow below. Above him towers a gaunt pyramid of timbers and steel, where a heavy drill bores through earth and rock for hidden wealth upon which depends a human life. This man is William Koerner, father of William J. Koerner, the artist, who shot and killed Iiosie Redpath in a jealous rage, and now is in Sing Sing prison serving a life sentence. He had known Kosie for years. Her family opposed tier love for him, and finally she said he must leave her. He was tried and the jury disagreed. He was tried again and convicted. Now he is merely life convict No. 333. While there is life there is hope. Koerner still hopes. The law allows one year in which to appeal. To make this appeal will cost $1,000. If not suc cessful, it means that the boy artist will die, for already the prison has set the death mark upon him. His father in the two trials spent every penny he had saved. After the trial he went back to Pennsylvania broken hearted. Lawyer Abe Levy told him what the appeal would cost, and he grit his teeth. "I'll get it," vowed the old man. After wandering here and there in Pennsylvania he settled down in Enon. in the middle of the oil fields. He got enough money to start a drill, and al ready sees hope. With feverish haste the old man put up the drill frame, hired his men and set the tools boring down through the hillside. Foot by foot the steel bit. into the hard rock, and with each new foot the old man's hopes bounded. At 450 feet the drill struck oil and gas. The old man's heart burned with elation. But there came a sudden end to his joy. The steel probe stuck in the rock, and all the force of steam could not move it for days. To begin anew would mean so much time lost. Only two months remain of the allotted year in which to take an appeal. Then there is the time required to print the papers. Once again the drill has started, and new hope has come to the Koerners. The old man says he knows that oil and gas lie deep down in the rock, for the drill has told this already. But how far down? He tells nis friends that he will bore for 1,500 feet betore giving up. So hour by hour William Koerner stands out in the snow and rain, his eyes fixed upon the clanking drill, his sight aching for the first gush of oil that may mean the life of his beloved boy. FORGETS HIS NAME. Tall Young Man Appeals to the Police of Jersey City. New York, Dec. 24. There is a tall young man in the city hospital of Jer sey City whose name and identity the police are trying to find for him. He has forgotten both, although on many other subjects he seems to have a sound recollection. It was suggested today that the young man might have read the newspaper accounts of a similar lapse of memory on the part of Mrs. Lupton of this city, who called up police headquarters by telephone early Saturday morning to find out her name, which she had for gotten. The young man had nearly 24 hours" start, however, for he walked into the Ocean avenue station in Jersey City at half past 10 o'clock last Friday njght. He is a man of education and refine ment, neatly dressed and has none of the marks of the tramp or the hospital beat. OLD TOWN FEUD. Result In a Tramp Being Sent Back and Forth Six Times. Atlanta, Ga., Dec 24. An interesting game of checkers, with a colored tramp as the king, is being played between the cities of Atlanta and Conyers, the latter about 30 miles distant. His name is Andy Minter, and he has been rail roaded between the two towns with reg ularity find dispatch for the last two months. Conyers originally sent him to Atlanta, and the Recorder, on findirg out the benevolent action of that mu nicipality, ordered that Andy be im mediately shipped back there. Two days after bis arrival the Conyers authori ties discovered his presence, and he has since oscillated between the two pkiees six times, and the treasuries oi bcth cities have been mulcted of quite a little sum to gratify their respective desires for retaliation. Minter does not mind It at all. He declares that he is willing to ride on the railroad as long as Conyers and Atlanta are willing and able to pay the freight. James Shephard, the patrol man who arrested Minster for the sixth time yesterday, declared that he had married in Conyers, and ever since had been striving to get even with the town. He also added that his mother-in-law still lived there, and that he was de termined Minter should abide in the tame town with her. BELMONTS PAPER Rich New Yorker Launches a Journalistic Enterprise. It Favors Income Tax and Fights the Trusts. AGAINST FKEE SILVER 'The Terdict" is Patterned Af ter Puck and Judge. Declares Bryan Himself to Be a Worthy Man. New York, Dec 24 Oliver II. P. Bel mont is the latest Richmond to enter the field of journalism. He comes with sword unsheathed, and his mission is partly social, as will be seen later on. Mr. Belmont is the proprietor and editor of a new weekly illustrated pa per, patterned after Puck and Judge, called "The Verdict," the first number of which has just been issued. The real power behind the throne, however, is Airs. Belmont, who, it will be remembered, obtained a divorce from William K. Vanderbilt several years ago under sensational circumstances. The attitude of The Verdict toward the Vanderbilt family is evidenced by the leading cartoon in the first number of the paper. This cartoon shows Cor nelius Vanderbilt as an organ grinder with J. Pierpont Morgan standing along side with a tambourine in one hand and a string in the other. Attached to the string is a monkey, bearing the face of Chauncey M. Depew. The monkey is looking up at Thomas C. Piatt, who leans from a window with a penny in his hand labeled "Senatorship." Referring editorially to the Vander bilts and Dr. Depew, the paper says: "As becomes wealth that is wide awake and aware of itself, the Vander biltian treasure enlisted an army of footmen, butlers and valets. Among its front rank door-slammers was and is Depew, the candidate for senatorial honors." Mr. Belmont is a member of the bank ing firm of August Belmont Co. Al fred Henry Lewis is the active editor of The Verdict, but the salutatory is the handiwork of the owner. The fol lowing declaration of policy is made: "In politics The Verdict will stand for the principles of Democracy, as it understands them, and for truth, as the latter finds display. It will, before an election, care more for a man than a measure. It will read a list of candi dates twice before it reads your plat form once. The Verdict will be a Dem ocrat. But no one need construe that to mean that it will support a bad man for place. "This paper is against free silver 16 to 1; put a pin there against free silver at any ratio. It is not for Bryan in 1900. It will do all that truth and honor may to prevent the selection of either the man or the issue in the next na tional convention. But there are worse things than free silver 16 to 1; and worse men than Bryan, who is himself worthy enough and comes only to be a menace as the exponent of free silver: and the Verdict is free to say. as it stands on the threshold of an existence which shall at the worst be an honest one, that should Bryan and free silver again find Democratic adoption, it will support them both. "The Verdict favors an income tax, as a measure at once honest, fair equal and just to all. An income tax is as direct as a bullet. "Those trade deadfalls and dollar traps, the trusts, The Verdict believes, should be smashed. They make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The locusts of Kgypt were a mouthless brood to thenj On half the stneets of New York city the citizen is no better than a tolerated trespasser, while the tele phone and telegraph and street railway companies are the true, real lords of the soil. Such should have their claws cut and the manicuring should be short and sharp and gone about at once." COLONIZE CRUSOE'S LAND. Chilians Will Settle Where Defoe's Hero Sad So Many Adventures. London, Dec. 24. The island on which Robinson Crusoe was wrecked, and which now belongs to the Chilian government, is about to be turned into a settlement. Al most everyone knows that when Defoe drew his story of Crusoe is was the story of Alexander Selkirk, and it is remark able how closely Defoe kept to the facts of Selkirk's existence on the isle. Even tlie story of Crusoe's man Friday has a foundation of truth in the fact that Selkirk found and adopted a stray Indian. This man had become separated from a The wolf of starvation howls at the doors of thou sands of men are well d sur d by 111- irdV&'il, health, in the yy A J1 tion, pure and V w4simple. It W".- ',r. 7 means that tft&ir' '1 i u body, brain, LSj- nerve, bon "N? and sinew are improperly or insufficiently nourished. Improper, insuf ficient nourishment is starvation. When a man's head aches it is because the tissues of the brain do not receive sufficient nourishment from the blood, or re ceive impure and unhealthy nourishment. When a man gets nervous and sleepless, it means that the blood is not properly nour ishing the nerves. When his skin breaks out with blotches and pimples and erup tions, it means that the skin is being fed upon the impurities of the blood. Almost every known disease is primarily due to improper nourishment through the blood, which is the life -stream. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the greatest of all blood-makers and purifiers. It gives edge to the appetite, corrects all disorders of the digestion, makes the assimilation of the life-giving elements of the food per fect, invigorates the liver, promotes secre tion and excretion, and vitalizes the whole body. It makes firm, muscular flesh, but does not make corpulent people more cor pulent. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and kindred affections, which, if neglected, lead up to consumption. It is the best of all nerve tonics and restoratives. Kept by all medicine dealers. I was taken ill in February. 182, with head ache and pain in my back," writes H. Gaddis, Esq., of 313 South J Street. Tacoms, Wash. I called in a doctor and he came three times. He said I was bilious but I kept getting worse I took a cough so that I could not sleep, only by being propped up in bed. Mv lungs hurt me, and I got so poor that I was just slcin and bone. I thought I was going to die. I used two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and it made me sound and well. It saved my life." No remedy relieves constipation so quickly and effectively as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They never gripe Sim r'C A -Tf1 J? w who party of Indians who had landed on the Island, and, having lost himself in tiio woods, was left behind by' his people. The death of Selkirk's solitary companion dut not occur in such a dramatic manner, how ever, as did that of Crusoe's Friday, for Selkirk's retainer was drowned while fish ing for his master's dinner. Barren as the place seemed to Selkirk when he was first marooned upon it, it now contains many flourishing spot3. The fruit trees which he planted more than 2K) years ago have reproduced themselves. an. I peaches, pears, quinces and grapes are to be had in abundance. A man who had a. stock farm on the island for some reason abandoned the undertaking several years ago and turned his livestock loose. The result is that cattle, sheep, goats and pigs are now found there in a wild state, .so that the new colonists are likely to have some good sport if they have a turn fox hunting. In addition -to this the sea swarms with codfish, which should provide pleasant occupation for the anglers. The settlers, therefore are likely to be abundantly sup plied with meat, fish and fruit. tip to the present time the island, which is in the middle of the Pacific ocean, has been occupied by a few German and Chil ian families, numbering about 35 persons in all. It is now proposed by the Chilian government to turn the island into a reg ular colony, and about 150 hardv Chilians will form the nucleus of the new settle ment, which it is proposed to christen "Crusoe Island." PINGREE SCORES BURROWS Michigan Governor Declares the Senator Unfit for Office. Detroit, Mich., .Dec.24. Governor Pin gree has issued a proclamation address ed to the people of the state of Michi gan, in which he says he feels it his duty as a citizen of the state to place himself on record as opposing the elec tion of Julius Caesar Burrows of the United States senate. The governor then enumerates his reasons. The first is as follows: "During the 20 years that Mr. Bur rows has served in the congress of th United States diligent search and in quiry fail to reveal the record of a sin gle disinterested act of any importance whatever performed by him for the benefit of the state of Michigan. Of the men who have seen 20 years' service in congress his alone is the only name I can recall which has been identified on ly with mediocrities and peanut poli tics." The second is the governor's opposi tion to the Atkinson bill, which Gover nor Pingree says he helped to defeat through his federal patronage. Supported by Tax Dodgers. The third and fourth are that the senator during the state campaign stumped the state and said that nation al issues alone should be considered when the issue was that of equal taxa tion and that tax dodgers are Senator Burrows' supporters. The fifth reason is in part as follows: "I am opposed to the re-election of Senator Burrows because almost his entire effort as a member of the senate has been directed towards the promo tion of the interests of monopolies and trusts. "As a member of the finance commit tee he assisted in preparing the bill that exempted the telegraph monopoly from the payment of all manner of taxes for the support and maintenance of the United States army in the war with Spain, notwithstanding the fact that the company was receiving millions o dollars from the government, from the newspapers and from individuals as a direct consequence of this war. "By his vote and by his work he has been a partner to the payment of exces sive tolls t railroad companies for the carrying of United States mail.the com panies receiving from the government six times as much for such services as they receive from the express compa nies for similar services on the same trains. Hurts Industry to Aid Trusts. "As a member of the conference com mittee on the Dirgley bill he manipu lated the tariff on plate glass so the furniture manufacturers in Grand Rapids, Mich., and all others who are obliged to buy their mirrors of the plate glass trust, pay that concern a tribute of 20 per cent thereon. "As a member of the same commit tee he assisted in ruining half of the lumber business of Michigan in the in terest of millionaire lumbermen whose holdings consist almost entirely of southern and western pine, but who, nevertheless, pay Senator Burrows' election expenses in exchange for his legislative services, while the farmers and lumber consumers are taxed for the benefit of this unholy alliance." The sixth reason is the use of the senator of telegraph franks and rail road passes. The seventh deals with the senator's intimacy with Kfat Mc Kay. In the eighth clause of the proc lamation the governor accuses Senator Burrows of being a traitor to the Re publican party in the following lang uage: "I am opposed to the re-election of Senator Burrows because he and his chief supporters during the recent cam paign proved themselves traitors to the Republican party. Called Traitor to His Party. "While Senator Burrows was making a hypocritical pretense of supporting the entire Republican ticket, his con fidential advisers and personal ap pointees were openly supporting the Democratic candidate for governor.con tributing to his cause not only sym pathy, but money. Inspired by personal pique, they entered upon a campaign which, if it had been successful, would have resulted not only in the defeat of the Republican candidate for governor, but the defeat of the Republican state ticket in its entirety and the loss of a part of the delegation to congress. "After Burrows and his friends had accomplished their purpose, not only would the scant Republican majority in the Fifty-sixth congress have been jeopardized, but the entire executive force of the state, numbering some hun dreds of offices, would have been turn ed over to the Democratic opopsition to assist them in carrying Michigan for the Democratic presidential nominee in 1900." The closing clause states that there is already a stain upon the senator's title through votes in his previous elec tion, and the governor askif with these facts before them the people of Michigan can wish to have him elected. THE SLOANES SEPARATE. A Wealthy Couple Belonging to New York's Exclusive Social Set New York, Dec. 24. The following authorized statement in regard to the affairs of Mr. Henry T. Sloane and his wife has been made public by the Sloane family: "Mr. Henry T. Sloane and his wife have separated. Mr. Sloane has left his home. No. 9 East Seventy-second street, and is now living at the Buckingham hotel. Mrs. Sloane is still at the Sloane mansion. On Oct. 1. 1898, Mr. Sloane transferred to his wife tha Sloane resi dence in East Seventy-second street. This he did not as a peace offering, but as an Indication of his wish that Mrs. Sloane might maintain her status in society. Mr. Sloane has retained A. C. Brown, of the Equitable Life building, as his legal adviser to take charge of his legal interests. Mr. Sloane's child ren are living with their mother pending a legal decision in regard to them. Mrs. Sloane is confined to her room with a severe attack of the grip." The Seventy-second street mansion of the Sloanes was built only a few years ago, and Is considered to be one of the finest houses in a neighborhood of fine houses. Dwelling near by are Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, James Abercrombie Burden, Colonel Jay, Mr. Tiffany, Rob ert W. Tailer and William H. Taller. There are few families in this city which have exerted such an influence upon New York society as have the Sloanes. Mrs. Sloane and Mrs. Ogden Mills are considered to be the leaders of the set which began as "400" in the days of Ward McAllister, and is now held to be seventy-five almost. Mrs. Sloane was Miss Jessie A. Bobbins, who was a beauty in her youth, and has become a woman of queenly presence in her maturity. Her wealth is pro verbial. The Sloanes are distantly related to the Vanderbilt family by marriage. Mr. Sloane is a member of the well known carpet house. His brother married one of the late William H. Vanderbilfs daughters. Mr. Sloane is a handsome man, and of known liberality. While not a club man in the strict sense of the word, he is a member of a number of well known organizations and an officer in several societies. In establishing themselves in the social vanguard there was need of a place fit for entertainment on the scale that they planned. Then the house in East Seventy-second street was built. It was accounted the finest house in that district of fine homes. The family's social prestige had grown to great magnitude when the Bradley Martins of lavish memory gave their historic ball. That event, at which the members of what Ward McAllister had fixed as the elite of New York, danced at gigantic expense, was a turning point in the life of Mrs. Sloane. One incident, small in itself, was the cause, in fact, of her advent to the position from which she has lately looked down upon all society save one, and has dictated the fates of hundreds of aspirants for place. It was simple merely a tiff over a hair dresser whom she lent to Mrs. Ogden Mills, but the long time which the artist devoted to Mrs. Mills made Mrs. Sloane late for the entrance. From that day there was anger be tween the two women until at Newport they were brought into close contact and in ambition decided to overturn the social schedule that McAllister and Mrs. Astor had drawn up with such jealous and polite care. They blue penciled the names of peo ple who up to that time had been held paramount and put them henceforth in the outer courts. On the ruins of the "400" they built the seventy-five. Such was the oligarchy the leadership of which Airs. Sloane shared with Mrs. Ogden Mills. Entertainment at the Reefs, the Sloane home, went on with all the splendor which had marked it, and then, somehow, there was a shiver, a little cloud over the sunshine. Sometime in early August Henry T. Sloane left his splendid cottage of the Reefs to run down to New York. But he did not come to New York. Instead he called at the Commercial hotel at the foot of Thames street and registered under a name not his own. But it would seem the hotel accommodations were not all he had hoped. By 11 o'clock he had decided his own jewel of a place was better shelter after all. So he returned to the Reefs. It "was late and there was a guest there to whose presence he objected. About the manner and the vigor of the objection there are two versions of the story. One says he was calm and made his protest with dignity. Another draws a different picture a picture of a rich man hurt to the heart and rag ing at the hurt. THE GROUND FLOOR Is Presenting Unusual Attractions for Promoters in Cuba. Washington, Dec. 24 Information has reached the administration that the local governments of cities and large towns in Cuba and Porto Rico are con stantly being besieged by capitalists and promoters with a view to securing valuable railroad and other franchises and concessions at figures below their value. The matter was discussed at to day's cabinet meeting and instructions will be sent at once to the military gov ernors to exercise extreme care in ap proving such grants and if any grants found not to be in the interests of the people or if secured at a figure below their real value to veto them forth with. Since the close of the war numerous schemes to secure the monopoly of street lighting, street railroads, etc.. have been started on the assumption that when the United States took the control of affairs, large sums of money would seek investment there and that fortunes could be easily made. The local governments, it is said, have been disposed to grant these monopolies very freely upon the payment down of a considerable sum, but from this time forward each case will be carefully scrutinized and all wild cat schemes will be promptly vetoed. BOY GIANT DIES. James S. Mclndoo, 18 Years Old and Seven Feet Two Inches TalL Madelia, Minn., Dec. 24. James S. Mclndoo, the "Minnesota giant," died here today of hemorrhage of the brain. Mclndoo was an Illinoisan by birth, coming into the world at Crescent, Iroquois county, July 5, 1SS0. At the time of his death he had not attained full grow-th, but was already 7 feet 2 inches tall, 2 feet 3 Inches around the head, 4 feet 8 inches around the shoulders, 4 feet 6 inches around the chest, 4 feet 1 inch around the waist, and weighed 308 pounds. He wore No. 24 shoes and aNo. 9 hat. Mclndoo was of Scotch-Irish parent age. His size was normal at bifth and remained so up to his seventh year. Since then he had developed with start ling rapidity. He recently concluded a trip with the Forepaugh circus. Ohio's Contribution. Columbus, O., Dec. 24 The report of the state school commissioner of the collection of funds from the school pupils of Ohio for the Lafayette monu ment fund has been filed with the gov ernor. It shows that there were con tributions from 84? schools in the state, the total contributed being $4,397.41. He sent out 4,750 letters calHng attention to the movement and. the total expenses In this work were $121.88. He has now in bank, subject to the order of the treasurer of the fund, the sum of $4, 275.53. True It is far wiser to keep disease away than to fight it after Wisdom it comes. An o c c a s i onal dose of H os- tetter's Stomach Bitters makes peo ple hungry at meal time, and gives the digestive apparatus power to get full nutrition out of food. srens7 HOStCttCr'S maintained, the blood kept tOITlclCn pure, and dis- ease can't find rSlTTffQ a foothold. 3 rlOlE Get a Suit or a Pair of Sunflower Pants. The Topeka Woolen fflill Co., 701 KAEJS E. O. DE MOSS. Odd Fellows Building, 523 Quinc Street. Undertakers 5 Finest ambulance in the wesfc FREE te tbe public Day and OIK PRICES IRE RElSOJlRLE.r DE MOSS PEN WELL J 4 Phone 192. "A HANDFUL OF DIRT MAY BE A HOUSE FUL OF SHAME." CLEAN HOUSE WITH ELEVEN SUCCESSFUL YEARS. A large high grade institution. Superior system. Individual Instruction. Actual experience: the pupils receiving their own earnings. Day and night sessions. Posi tions guaranteed graduates. Lessons by mail a specialty. ANNA E. CAN AN, 628 and 630 Kanaas Avenua. ALL CHICAGO SNEEZING. Grip So Prevalent That Health De partment Issues a Special Bulletin. Chicago, Dec. 24. Influenza is tight ening its grip on Chicago. So prevalent has the malady become in this city that the commissioner of health has is sued a bulletin warning the public against habits of living which conduce to the epidemic. Cold weather, followed by rains and a rising temperature, are held responsible for the colds, sore throats, and influenza. Health authorities agree that Chicago has not experienced conditions so favor able to the grip since 1891, when 27,754 deaths were recorded, an increase in mortality of one-fifth over the preceding year. "I am satisfied that Influenza is epi demic in Chicago," said Dr. Reynolds yesterday, "but the people may prevent a great deal of mortality if they take the proper precautions. Where strict isolation has been possible, the disease, which is caused by germs, has seldom appeared. The greatest danger lies in frequenting poorly-ventilated rooms of any sort, street railway cars or railway coaches with closed windows are not excepted. "People should also avoid close con tact with those suffering, from the dis ease. My advice would be, do not sleep in the same room, still less in the same bed, with a sufferer from influenza, and do not use any utensil or article used by persons who have the grip. "It should also be noted that all kinds of excesses in living, as well as expo sure and fatigue, invite the disease. Persons addicted to the alcoholic habit, and those who are overworked and fatigued are also likely to fall prey to influenza. It is the worst kind of folly for a man or woman to continue work after having been attacked by the dis ease. This warning is of especial im portance to those who are beyond mid dle life and have weak hearts and kid neys." Dr. Reynolds delares that in many respects influenza resembles consump tion in its.mode of propagation; there fore, he says, the same precautions should be taken as with that disease. Dwelling rooms, bedding and clothing should be thoroughly disinfected, and the health department stands ready to assist in the work whenever notified. In his official bulletin Dr. Reynolds says: "Against the coming of influenza the preventive measures of sanitation and public hygiene on the part of cities are powerless. As a recent writer says, 'We can see it afar and trace its pro gress, but can do nothing to stop it; and it smites the sanitarily pure with a severity on the whole as great as that which it shows the rest of the world." FRANCE LOSES A PRIZE. Famous Bust of Jeanne d'Ara to Go to Washington Museum. Paris, Dec. 24. France has lost an op portunity of keeping a remarkable art work, and as usual America has seized It. Mr3. Phoebe Hearst has bought Prosper d'Epinay's marble bust of Jeanne d'Arc, her intention being to present it to the Washington Museum after it has been publicly exhibited in New York for a short time. During the last month the most dis tinguished personalities in Paris have admired unreservedly the bust, where M. d'Epinay has realized the marvel ously strange union of mysticism and martial ardor that makes the Maid of Orleans one of the most attractive and enigmatical figures in French history. The Grand Dukes Vladimir and Alexis paid more than one visit. A SECOND POISONING. Matron and Inmates of Orphan Home Attacked by Strange Malady. Versailles. Ky., Dec. 34. 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